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Thanks, TR'sGhost, you've more or less stated my usual thoughts on the matter, maybe the greater furore and media coverage of late has got to me. I was even attacked at the G a few days ago for suggesting many complaints are overreaction. Regarding security, there are no 100% secure systems online, ...

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Personally I think men get as much abuse as women, moreso face to face. Nevertheless I agree that it needs to be tackled on social media and although it goes against the grain it may require real names. Personally I favour greater freedom to speak with part hidden identities, but if that's what it t...

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@ephe.

At least I got the BS bit right.

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I do not approve or condone of much that is posted on social media but find it hard to take offence. Perhaps I'd feel differently if I were in the public eye. I was going to add 'and met open hostility' something I did in the past, but thankfully not nowadays.

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Are Ms. Philips' words more appreciated when they cannot be heard?

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Forgive me if I'm wrong but doesn't Barry Smith shout a lot about household cleaning materials?

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I gather it is misogyny to threaten a lady with rape. I also gather it is to ask how.

I'll get my coat.... literally, it looks like rain.

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While I'm in such a fine mood I shall just have a chunter about accommodation these days. Diagonally across the road from me is a two year old building that is rented out at considerably higher rents than my flat. It's nearly the size of my old house so I'd assumed two properties, but no it is four....

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Sorry to interject again but the more I hear of anti-Corbyn shenanigans the more unlikely I am to lend my vote to Labour.

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That Alison McGovern piece alludes to what I was referring to earlier, Anatoly. Younger folk see little hope in Britain today and moreso after Brexit. Home ownership has become a wild fantasy for many, even those securing half decent jobs. Many of those I know are off to Aussie, my eldest is looking...

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Excuse my aside but having seen the headline, US police mistake icing from Krispy Kreme doughnuts for crystal meth, at the G I could not resist. Many moons ago I was forewarned of a likely visit, time enough for a tidy up but too late to reverse the effects of the A we'd already dropped so things ma...

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Assuming I'm still in these parts at the next GE, I shall most likely be voting Labour whoever wins the leadership election. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be if I were younger, the drip, drip of younger friends leaving the country is becoming a torrent since the referendum, well already seeking work ov...

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I looked in yesterday and wondered wtf was going on. Whatever it were, I'll just add that when I woke I was in a foul mood and feeling excessively short-tempered. It was so pronounced and unlike me that I was able to warn others and at least try to repress any outburst. Then guess what... I was land...

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Oh yeah, I saw something on Hinkley on the Beeb a few hours ago and the 20,000 job figure was repeated several times and implied they were local, as opposed to the more likely 5,000. For a little context let's not forget that 12,000, with another 8,000 or more threatened, have already been lost to t...

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The Hinkley delay or rethink was unexpected. Even though I'm largely against I cannot help but feel the government showed enormous disrespect for EDF, a supposed partner in the venture. Why wait until after EDF's deliberations yesterday? It makes me wonder whether hope and wishful thinking have beco...

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... Funny how health and education were both subject to massive structural changes over the past 6 years to make them more market responsive and end up with very similar issues.. Indeed, Roger. On a somewhat parallel note, one, or should that be I, does wonder at quite a few of our parliamentarians...

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... Once the campaign was lost, Corbyn's first response on BBC Radio 4 the next morning was to suggest that Brexit meant Brexit and article 50 should be invoked immediately. This was a giveaway sign of his general attitude... This is not a giveaway sign of his general attitude from the outside with...

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... Corbyn didn't discuss the EU referendum outcome with his Labour colleagues - the MPs and the MEPs - when the results came in or before he spoke in the House Friday morning. That is what I suspected, which begs the question was one called. Albeit disheartening, Corbyn's reaction to Cameron's acq...

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I listened, not too intently I may add, to Owen's speech and felt that he lacked economic reality by failing to delineate day-to-day expenditure from infrastructure spending. Both seemed funded from the same pot. That shall not play well to the broader electorate.

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It must have slipped me by, but does anybody know or have a link to whatever shadow cabinet meeting took place immediately after the referendum result? I only seem to have gleaned events from Cameron's resignation at the dispatch box and beyond.

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I almost feel for poor Owen. I suspect kicking Theresa between the legs wouldn't pass either.

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I cannot help but feel that whatever rights and wrongs may or may not exist, the PLP were wrong to engage in internecine warfare when they did. Corbyn's leadership was announced on 12 September 2015, one week before conference. Surely he deserved another, politically as well as on the personal level.

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HindleA wrote:Apparently ,I am in exactly the middle of England.

Meriden?

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That Jeremy Hunt Assessment I referred to earlier: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539167/Annual_Assessment_of_NHS_England.pdf . Your organisation has performed well by balancing its budget and delivering against its full range of financial duties this finan...

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Tim Farron: Theresa May did nothing to prevent Brexit (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ent-brexit).

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I'm sorry I had meant to restrict my comments to the government today, not forgetting Dave of course, who I blame for... Well, take your pick.

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On hearing Owen Smith speak of patriotism this morning I imagined him draped in the Union Jack with his toy sub in the bath, pressing his big red button. Not a pretty sight.

It seems my memory is not what it was... it was of course accompanied by the National Anthem.

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Sorry I seem to have lost both the link and my copied extracts from this morning. Anyway I also read some Rhyming Slang's NHS Report, largely a review of NHS England's Annual Report. Let's just say his words seem almost patronising, probably not helped by knowing who say them and in some cases factu...

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Perusing government publications, as you do, I came across an addition to Porcine semen collection centres; David's Stock of Holland Park, formerly known as PM Holdings.

Do not believe everything you see on the internet.

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Taxpayers fund large wages and lavish perks of academy school chiefs ( https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/23/education-academies-funding-expenses ) The Department for Education says that such transactions “can save money” but that they investigate and will take “swift action” where there...

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That pic doesn't show his legs, clanger. Bet he's never worn denim cut-offs.

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For the avoidance of doubt I, myself, am sitting comfortably. Although sympathetic I remember a chap for other things too, but going back to the little four-0, he'd talk about his problem to everybody he encountered.

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I wish I hadn't left my Anusol in the office.

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Morning, ephe. Not that I can't sleep but have been out and about since 4. Don't ask. Anyway just turned telly on for the morning news and there it is the Beeb going on about that very same office. Well I'm calling it office, intimidation and denials was their slant. Who to believe? Just looked back...

utopiandreams · Re: Friday 22 July 2016 I blame Max Bygraves myself.

I blame Max Bygraves myself.

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Question, can anyone in the last 6 odd years think of anything good happening politically, socially, that feeling oh-so-fleeting feeling of good being done, justice being served, Hillsborough is the only thing to my tired mind I can think of... Albeit ambivalent, partly because I've never considere...

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Come on people. I'm not sure but think I told you my daughter thinks he's a very nice man.

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http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/seven-year-old-upset-brexit-11652011 where's the "speechless with a range of emotions I cannot possibly even begin to identify never mind articulate and certainly not in public" emoticon? Dismay indeed, tinyclanger. One thing that did str...

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There was a guy I've seen named by a fan on this very site that I took a particular dislike to when he repeatedly put himself above the other members of the band. Truth is he did go on to far greater success than they, but his vanity never quite left me. Sorry, I don't know what prompted that. If i...

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There was a guy I've seen named by a fan on this very site that I took a particular dislike to when he repeatedly put himself above the other members of the band. Truth is he did go on to far greater success than they, but his vanity never quite left me.

Sorry, I don't know what prompted that.

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I once had my photo taken with Edwina. I didn't ask for a signed copy though. Honest.

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I'd have to kill you if I commented on Len McCluskey's latest outburst.

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I'm sorry, Willow, but I've known or met many that sign photos. Some not all are egotists.

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Speaking of Twitter, ohso, I saw Owen speaking earlier of his Twitter feed and blaming Corbyn.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:... Indeed, it took someone as arrogantly stupid as Dave to attempt it.

Quite, Paul, indicative of a man who has not had to suffer the consequences of his actions.

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As I said at the other place, I cannot put my finger on it but Owen Smith has reminded me of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Every time I see or hear him he seems somehow diminished. Perhaps this following post I made earlier gets to the heart of the matter... I once had a job interview where all thre...

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Incidentally, "alright" should really be rendered as "all right", I believe. But I've always spelled it "alright" and it's never been corrected nor has it been questioned all the time I've done so (even at school). So I'll carry on in my own sweet way. Alright? I once ...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:Solvents not solutions!
Substrates not solvents!
Catalysts not substrates!
Reagents not catalysts!
Solutions not reagents!

I believe that's what is called spin, Jonny.

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Thanks, yahyah. My staying schtum had more to do with my family than anything else. My youngest still lives with me and my eldest and his daughter have moved in next door, more for their benefit than mine I reckon. Anyway I have to consider they lost their mother relatively young. Sadly my youngest ...

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"I have quite a dilemma. Do I call you [forename] or Dr. [6 syllable tongue twister]?" Yep, just back from the docs and what a three days it has been; two examinations at different hospital departments and today the results of a blood test partly because I chuntered about the side effects ...

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