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Ayes 306, Noes 231 - the Government have been defeated by 75 votes!!

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Populus: Lab 38 (+2) Con 32 (nc) LD 8 (-1) UKIP 14 (-1) Oth 8 (nc). Most unusual lately for a Friday Populus to be so favourable to Labour so enjoy but bear in mind that it might well be a sampling error. Labour lead went up on Friday a few weeks ago as well. Indeed. Which is odd, because Populus a...

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That one always annoys me - "Labour can't complain about the Bedroom Tax, they started it". Mike Sivier shoots that fox comprehensively. http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2014/09/05/its-time-to-kill-off-claims-that-labour-started-the-bedroom-tax/" onclick="window.open(this.href);retu...

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Happy Birthday Roger,enjoy your trip. Andrew George's Bill being debated now on Parliament channel.Tories have already attempted to have the debate in private. Happy Birthday to Roger from me, too. Watching the debate on Andrew George's Bill and I was rather p'd to see the motion to hear in private...

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Happy Birthday Rog. Say "Ciao" to Salvo Montalbano if you see him.

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Knowing Londoners it wouldn't surprise me if Eddie Izzard won, couldn't be worse than the clown they have got at the moment. Izzard has said if he stands it will be in 2020, so not this time around. Again, like Christian, he doesn't carry a mass of baggage and is well informed, so could be an emine...

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David Lammy putting his name into the hat for London mayor must be pretty underwhelming, for Londoners? Most of that list are underwhelming. Sadiq will be better in Cabinet, my personal preference is Christian, who knows his stuff (he has written extensively on London, especially the transport issu...

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Gawd bless Shiny Dave, he really doesn't have a clue, does he? This is also the right place to discuss defence. Wales has more castles, medieval castles per head than anywhere else in the world, around 640 of them, and I hope that will be something you’ll get to visit while you’re in Wales at this c...

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https://mobile.twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/507462720242073600 I may join twitter come May just to watch the meltdown :lol: Our best buddy spinning Hugo in there too I see. Blimey, Havisham really has lost the plot hasn't he. I note he is using Nicky's methods of calculations "If A=C then B al...

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(Adjusts tin-foil hat) - I think they're waiting for the 'powder keg' - I think they've been aiming at that all along - a fixed-term parliament with civil unrest in the months going into the election, thereby enabling emergency legislation and cancelling/postponing future elections ... Have to admi...

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No problem. Mind you, I'm not saying they won't try and pass some "emergency" legislation, wouldn't put anything past them; they would be daft if they did try though, as I suspect that might be the spark that sets off the powder keg.

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And as for postponing the General Election: the Scottish Referendum is hardly an unforeseen emergency so there is no justification (or, I think, legal basis) for doing so. It would require primary legislation, as the 1911 Parliament Act fixed the maximum term at five years and, in that respect, has...

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yahyah wrote:Ed's up in Scotland today. Hope he's wearing a teflon coated suit, some eggs are likely to be lobbed at him.

As he showed on East Street Market last year, he can take that in his stride; bacon may present a problem but, apparently, eggs don't worry him.

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:
Exactly, Ford and Godwin are having a tidy little living at the moment through Ukip.....

Somehow that typo, when discussing UKIP, seems so apt.

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Good morning. Did anyone else see the news item yesterday evening (re the little boy, currently in Spain, with the brain tumour)? It featured David Cameron oozing sympathy\empathy for the parents since he'd had personal experience of having, and nursing, a gravely sick child. The news item (possibl...

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StephenDolan wrote: I've decided to ignore him. Troll needs a diet.

Same here. Although he's been steering clear of me for a while, he tends not to come out of our encounters too well!

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If I said this over on the Graun I would be modded, but I thought the trick was not to feed the trolls.

Are people adopting the Mr Creosote approach with RingPiece, trying to feed him so much that eventually he explodes? Sadly all it will do is encourage him enough to grow yet another new head.

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refitman wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 30s
Clapton (sic.) by-election date fixed for October 9th
That's Call-me's birthday. What a present that'll be.

Call-Me has a birthday? I always thought Tories reproduced through binary fission.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I think that only made a point or so's difference - they have tended to produce higher Tory figures than many other pollsters for a while now.

Agreed. Some of their weighting has been a little odd; you don't think YouKnowWho has got a job with them do you?

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Curious that YouGov seems to be giving smaller Labour leads than several other pollsters at the minute.

Could it be connected with the revision to their methodology that they announced last week? That would certainly account for some of the UKIP increases on the pre-Carswell polls.

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Does Planet of the Apes count as a 'space movie' given that it's on Earth? I think so, it certainly merits its place in that list. The only real issue I have with it is ....... 2001, top, again!!! I loathe that film, think it is vastly overrated but, apparently, I am the only person in the universe...

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After Squeaker's "Dave pointing" by Alex Andreou this morning, I have to say I'm rather liking Mr Andreou. This piece makes some excellent points about jumping to conclusions. Don’t blame the parents of the Foxtons child cleaner Corporations have a choice when it comes to choosing employe...

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For some light relief. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/10435797/The-top-20-space-movies.html Not a bad effort, I might have been tempted to move Star Trek 2 into the top 10, but other than that... Disappointed to see Star Wars The Phantom Menace was just pipped to top spo...

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Nice guy. Champion of women. World leader? His promises of free nursery care, cheaper university tuition and a Cabinet that has 50% women get our vote, even if he’s not as smooth as the opposition. But, as Janice Turner discovers, Ed Miliband’s ‘charisma of imperfection’ might just be his secret we...

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RogerOThornhill wrote: There's a few others missing too -critias/mona4/whatever, yourhavingalaugh/something with three words. Maybe they've just given up.

The latter stuck it's head above the parapet, very briefly, this morning and was swiftly cut down by the mods.

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pk1 wrote:You should just have to ask for them to remove your moniker from the conversation & most will remove it without any problem.

I always do that is asked ...oh, apart from the occasion where a few of us were winding up the pompous ex-Mail on Sinday hack, that was fun!!

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PorFavor wrote:Francis Maude got advice? The woman must be a genius, so I can quite understand the appointment.

Expect a series of BBC programmes, probably hosted by Dom Littlewood, about what to do with all those jerrycans you have in your garage.

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New YouGov/Sunday Times poll Labour lead 4 [up 2 from last weekend] Con 32 [-2] , Lab 36 [-], LD 7 [-1], UKIP 16 [+2] govt approval -25 I'm guessing neither that one, nor the Observer/Opinium poll, will form part of the Legendary Five Polls. Mind you, the Observer haven't mentioned the Opinium poll...

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New YouGov/Sunday Times poll Labour lead 4 [up 2 from last weekend] Con 32 [-2] , Lab 36 [-], LD 7 [-1], UKIP 16 [+2] govt approval -25 I'm guessing neither that one, nor the Observer/Opinium poll, will form part of the Legendary Five Polls. Mind you, the Observer haven't mentioned the Opinium poll...

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Blimey Mr Snozers, it was in the way of being light hearted banter. I shall refrain from expressing any comments of a humorous nature in future. ;-) Sorry, you must have caught me at a bad moment. Tell you what, tell me where you're from and I'll make a crack about how everyone there has extra digi...

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Blimey Mr Snozers, it was in the way of being light hearted banter. I shall refrain from expressing any comments of a humorous nature in future.

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MI5 warning of dangerous terrorist threat from the East (aka Frinton) With their webbed feet they can get into places inaccessible to the rest of us. Frinton won't put up with that sort of thing at all. They have form in fighting back you know. Proper is a word that suits Frinton. A small town on t...

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MI5 warning of dangerous terrorist threat from the East (aka Frinton)

With their webbed feet they can get into places inaccessible to the rest of us.

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Normal service resumed at Populus then, after last Friday. Yep, I'm sure Nicky will like that one, the rest of us will sensible ignore it (and the rest of their widely varying polling).

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I heard on the Today programme just before I got to work that Ukip is saying the National Exec Committee has approved Carswell. Nick Robinson, in his rather Tory-friendly analysis, seemed to think that Lord would be shut down in fairly short order and forgotten by next week. There certainly seems t...

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As they say, you'd need a heart of stone not to laugh! :lol!:

@refitman, I'm guessing that one won't be part of the Five Polls either?

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Doesn't look faked. The profile info reads: Parliamentary candidate for UKIP in Clacton. We shall fight them on the beaches and in the sweet shops. Parodia Spucatum tauri Never having studied Latin at my South London comprehensive I was reliant on translation software but, as far as I can tell &quo...

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Why else would his company have a subscription to the online HSJ? No other reason but for making money out of private health. Because he is working for Jeremy Hunt at the moment? To me the clincher was Wreathgate; he not only published that Guido-linked tweet with suspicious speed (if the timings o...

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Oh dear, someone over at the DT just pointed about... Very interesting Clacton UKIP branch has already selected a candidate by democratic vote Roger Lord. I know he hasn't resigned so How can Mr Carswell stand for the same party unelected What does that say about his view of localism I would imagin...

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So I'm not the only one to have noted how quickly any criticism of him, however reasonable and factual, gets deleted! It is a reliable indication that somebody has defeated his argument, when their post vanishes. I do hope, though, that yesterday was a "tipping point" and he won't be allo...

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pk1 wrote:Welcome, took you long enough - typical bloke

I was following your directions and missed the turning!

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JohnnyT1234 is a little frustrated by the Graun's tolerance of Rustinpeace Johnny is doing great work there, expressing the frustration that (obviously) quite a few feel about that loathsome piece of pond scum & his alter ego. Rusty's constant trolling and twitchy reporting finger is shutting d...

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