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Oh no, ANOTHER list of dumb oligarch & boneheaded billionaires spending £50k eat with Cameron. Why not just flush it straight down the bog? Bet Dave's table manners are rubbish too, and his small talk must be arse-clenchingly awful. These people need their money confiscated, Ed! Love Martin Row...

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2014/11 ... in-700-yea

Iain Duncan Smith to meet Universal Credit target in 700 years time


Sounds about right.

re Rosetta, brilliant.

Job losses look 'inevitable' as South Tees Hospitals Trust looks to save £91m http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/potential-job-losses-south-tees-8092326 ... Following today’s announcement, the Royal College of Nursing’s operational manager, Peta Clark said: “It is an unprecedented ask ...

I like this bit.

"Robert Devereux says the DWP has to agree the facts in the [NAO UC] report. It does not always agree with the NAO’s opinions."

Wouldn't be much point in the NAO if it did.

Can anyone here take at stab at explaining what he's talking about, please? Debbie Abrahams, a Labour MP, says that 75% of the increase in employment is self-employment, and that the average income for self-employed people is £10,000 a year. The jobs are not out there, she says. Duncan Smith says h...

Was it RR2 who said yesterday that the Labour Press Office should get Mr Ed interviewed by Elle magazine? It's a brilliant idea - as was said, they would take some great photos and interview him when relaxed - I'm reliably informed by sources I trust implicitly, that, in the flesh, Mr Ed is actuall...

Ian Dunt retweeted Jonathan Haynes @JonathanHaynes · 4h 4 hours ago So the 14-year-old girl says Ed Miliband was only man in a suit to stop: and gave her 60p-70p. She only gets £5 a day http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818133/I-live-5-day-says-beggar-aged-14-Miliband-gave-money-Girl-says-La...

PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

'night pf.

Sad, so sad. http://huff.to/1wgGmQC" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Jesus Christ, for 30 quid! Not even going to comment, the result would be unprintable That's been on our local BBC news, I think it may turn out that the guilty party has mental health problems, so it seeme...

I don't watch all of QT, it's intolerable, but I usually flick over to it a couple of times to see if the Labour panelist is allowed to speak. Last night I caught *unt spouting a line I've heard somewhere else recently, to the effect that Lansley's reforms were all about cutting bureaucracy and ther...

Martha Carney was unbelievably rude to Caroline Lucas on WaTO. I don't usually listen to it, that reminds me why.

I bought the Times today, first time ever I think, for the NHS mistake front page. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry.

Get well soon ohso.

https://twitter.com/stridingedge/status ... 4322471936

Come on PM, do the decent thing and answer Maddy

ohsocynical wrote:Has Dave never thought

Fixed that for you.

Martin Rowson @MartinRowson Hang on, hang on. We all know that George Osborne isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but should he really be skipping after IDS into... ..The Valley of the Dolts and be attacking charities when they were to've been the backbone of the Big Society (stop laughing at t...

http://www.fileymercury.co.uk/news/national/miliband-far-too-timid-prescott-1-6878283 Labour veteran Lord Prescott has accused Ed Miliband of showing a severe lack of ambition in a damning assessment of the party leader's "far too timid" strategy and underwhelming party conference perform...

Well, I'm done with Andrew's blog until they get it into a usable format. I'm actually really angry about what they've done and it to a lot to not just post "twat's" repeatedly on the feedback page, last night. Sorry to lower the tone a bit, but the GBBO blog has gone beta as well, it was...

TechnicalEphemera wrote:And to cheer everybody up a little

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... conference

BTL is fun too, although possibly I didn't go far enough down to see the trolls. Not beta, so readable.

Most of us are avoiding Sparrow's beta blog, it hasn't gone unnoticed, his final comment today

That’s all from me for today.

Thanks for the comments (those of you who are left!)

Rant warning. Who are the stupid people who go to the tory conference? Do they listen to the speakers? I hear Osborne say working age benefits will be frozen because they shouldn't rise faster than wages. I hear a massive admission of failure. An admission that sickly economic growth has failed, and...

I sat and watched IDS from start to finish, with my little notebook......he told 25 great big fat porkie pies. Yes, 25 deliberate falsehoods. Those lies were mainly to do with figures, although there were a few on procedural stuff; this demonstrates, and not for the first time, that he is a liar wh...

Re the pensions thing from last night. There will be a lot of people, like me, who have had their pensions converted from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes. You end up with a pot of money. The insurance companies then urge you to put it into a scheme of theirs whereby it sort of gets ...

Mrs TE sent me this link in shock. The Telegraph!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11109845/Why-arent-the-British-middle-classes-staging-a-revolution.html Very, very good. Thanks Mrs TE. You could have read it when I posted it at 4:30 this afternoon ;) (Sorry if I'm sounding arsey but I...

Cute pic of Ed and Justine at the top of AS blog at the G.

How phony would it look if it was CallMe and Sam?

Sorry for the trivia but constitutional matters make my brain hurt.

Hello all. Mind if I join you. BTL on the Guardian seems to have turned into a bash Ed fest. Not sure why a steady and competent campaign by Alastair Darling and a timely, and passionate, last minute intervention by Gordon Brown, all to save David Cameron's ass and win this referendum for the sake ...

ephemerid wrote:the various people here getting annoyed/upset about nationalistic fervour should think about how they post.

I've seen very little antagonism within the Haven, it is very much the exception, and I've appreciated the debate.

It would be very dull here if we were always in perfect agreement.

I have relations living in Scotland, this morning I met up with my neice and her husband in Darlington, they live in Edinburgh. I had a brief conversation with him about the indyref, which led on to another thought. I’ll call him Si, cos that’s his name. Gilsey; You’ll vote no, won’t you. Si: I have...

rebeccariots2 wrote:Hello gilsey, nice to see you here.

I'm always here, appreciating everyone's efforts, but rarely login and comment. Should do better.

@Paul. Yes I know, realised as soon as I turned the laptop off. Had to go to the dentist.

Good morning all, and belated thanks to Paul & refitman for setting up the new haven. Not that I had any problems with the old one, as we don't do mobile tech, no reception at home. Picked up this link from the other place. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots-what-the-he...