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frog222

Think of the most cringeworthy events in one's own life , and multiply by the millions of suckers who were taken in by him . You need two parties to maintain the continued fiction of a functioning democracy, so in this time of national emergency both parties might agree to cooperate . The CIA could ...

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yahyah wrote:Hard not to think Trump is some form of performance art.

Fiction trumping reality !

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Thanks to CitizenJA for this michael-moore-donald-trump-does-not-want-to-be-president https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/17/michael-moore-donald-trump-does-not-want-to-be-president" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Several weeks ago I had the odd thought that Trump woul...

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This is a far better trailer than the last " My greatest achievement -- Tony Blair and New Labour ." SELL OFF NHS -PRIVATISING THE NHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLkq8UERgKPYuLmqOFozJ8qkgVNq7UGJoE&v=aitInZgQdY8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Weather br...

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Crikey. Is knowing who Ant and Dec are important to your politics? Once more I have to side with Corbyn. I saw them once. Didn't like them, thought they were a poor imitation of Morecombe and Wise and have been successful in avoiding them ever since. Ohso , having been out of the Uk for nearly 40 y...

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disability-benefits-motabililty-rule-change-disabled-people-vehicles-dwp-a7191636.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; To qualify for a vehicle under the new Personal Independent Payments (Pip) system, a person must not be able ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nyht8oNBM0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Published on 11 Oct 2014 Corporate interests rather than patient care is driving reform in today's NHS and will divert money away from YOU. And the media are failing to tell you this. This film is ra...

frog222

The structure of many of the questions in that poll is really, really lousy making it worthless. They're extraordinarily leading. I thought pollsters were meant to be good at avoiding this sort of thing? I'm number ignorant...Figures mean very little to me and I've never been able to read graphs, b...

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Morning all. Dearie me, there's an awful lot of right wing screeching about Smith's comments about the NHS. Two comments: 1. Banging on about "But Labour did it more" are pointless since both are dead set against the "public sector reform"-ers that are closer to the Tories than ...

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The blogger Phil BC has an interesting account of last night's Stoke Central meeting. From that and reports from elsewhere I have seen, it seems that when even Smith supporters are a small minority they are treated respectfully by the dissenting majority. Generally no booing, no heckling, no demand...

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MsChin --- don't get cross, get even !

( It's not good for us either ....)

Off to market for the closing cheap offers xx

frog222

" He argues that rules on the use of postal votes, which have previously been identified as ripe for fraud, should be toughened up – with party activists no longer allowed to handle them, for example, and an end to the possibility of applying for a permanent postal vote." https://www.theg...

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" He argues that rules on the use of postal votes, which have previously been identified as ripe for fraud, should be toughened up – with party activists no longer allowed to handle them, for example, and an end to the possibility of applying for a permanent postal vote." https://www.theg...

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On another subject - it's Show's birthday today! There's chocolate cake for tea (with cream for him). He is dining this evening on homemade chicken curry with lots of trimmings. He is, I have to say, lucky to have me. Happy Birthday, Showmaster! Homemade chickens are much better than shop ones :)

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From CitizenJA 12.43 "" "There have been some incidents of antisemitic behaviour," Baroness Royall writes. "Some Jewish members do not feel comfortable attending the [OULC] meetings, let alone participating," she added"" BTW that WAS a quote of, a quote , not ...

frog222

From the NS article On the prospect of a progressive alliance, the latest polls show that the Conservative and Ukip support, added together, reaches over 50 per cent. So anyone wishing for proportional representation is hoping for a Tory-Ukip government. They are also projecting their own wishes on ...

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yahyah wrote:Glad to see that sense of humour is still intact Toby.

In other news young girl tells truth. I ask a female shop assistant for help and my grandaughter interjects to tell her that "Grandad loves ladies."

UD gets my vote for Quote of the Day

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Rebecca 9.52 " Has Corbyn said similar things about Smith?About anti-semitism etc? Have missed that,but agree that it is wrong.Totally. " As far as i can see the Corbyn party have been attacking Smith in a fairly restrained fashion, tho fun that Guido began the Pfizer Publicity . My poorly...

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Rebecca 8.51 " Owen Smith has said that anti-semitism and misogyny have risen since Corbyn became leader.He has no evidence of this,especially since Shami Chakrabati found this was not the case.In a review swiftly carried out at Corbyns' request. Smith must be an intelligent man,he wouldn't hav...

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yahyah 7.35 "It would help if the Labour party issued stricter rules about what is allowable during times like this. That might help, strong guidelines would stop the gap widening between the different groups as insults and silly photoshops are used to pour scorn on a potential Labour leader, b...

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https://walkersrambles.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/ive-been-a-guardian-reader-for-40-years-but-no-longer-heres-why/ I've been a Guardian reader for 40 years, but no longer. Here’s why. " The paper’s campaigning work is well known and rightly so." He obviously missed the infamous exchange a v...

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I'm old enough to remember when some of us** used this term to refer to the 'usual suspects' at political demos in the Sixties --- ( **I was one of them ...) Invented by Peter Simple at the Torygraph, now a reality in USUK ! The Polar opposite of the YesMen . http://www.rentacrowduk.co.uk/home/londo...

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CozETn-XgAErQvA.jpg John Millington ‏@johnjournalist 16m16 minutes ago 105 yrs ago since Tom Mann (TU leader and Keir Hardie campaign manager) spoke in Liverpool. Today it is for Corbyn Transcript of Tom Mann speech A hundred thousand people have come to the centre of Liverpool this afternoon. The ...

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CozETn-XgAErQvA.jpg John Millington ‏@johnjournalist 16m16 minutes ago 105 yrs ago since Tom Mann (TU leader and Keir Hardie campaign manager) spoke in Liverpool. Today it is for Corbyn Transcript of Tom Mann speech A hundred thousand people have come to the centre of Liverpool this afternoon. The ...

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http://www.ukauthority.com/news/6387/dwp-plans-to-take-pip-process-online DWP plans to take PIP process online Digital team aims to speed up applications for support for terminally ill people The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) is planning an online service for the submission of applicatio...

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More from Wren-Lewis today for those who didn't understand the first post https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Posted at the top of page2 by maeght , yesterday . Liked this bit What makes me really sad is the contempt that some members seem to...

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ChrisDean wrote:It's getting late/early, so goodnight to all and as Mr Dean often says, "life is NOT a bowl of cherries"....

But may your tomorrow be one.

Off to pick some currants for breakfast!

Bonjour all.

frog222

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/30/theresa-may-delayed-hinkley-point-chinese-beijing-vince-cable Theresa May raised objections to the Hinkley Point nuclear power deal during the coalition government, the former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has claimed in remarks that will throw f...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:Some excellent if not extremely obvious news for once.

Plastic bag use drops 85% since introduction of 5p charge

The only downside to it being, why the flipping hell it took so long to happen?

It wasn't "business friendly" ?

frog222

Tbh, Beckett was the Yvette Cooper of her day. Competent but not exactly inspiring. Hence the parallel with Clinton. Maybe just me but I find Clinton distinctly uninspiring. She may be good at politics but she doesn't have anything that makes me sit up and listen. You are certainly not alone there....

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and the popularity of Corbyn has been mirrored to some extent in the US remember Sanders has all the same issues Corbyn has - lack of charisma, policies outside mainstream, been around for years but limited power etc etc and he would have been the democratic nominee if it was not for the archaic el...

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What the? Hinkley Point: New hitch for UK nuclear plant deal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36903904 Plans to build the first new UK nuclear plant in 20 years have suffered an unexpected delay after the government postponed a final decision until the early autumn. French firm EDF, which is fina...

frog222 · Re: Thursday 28 July 2016 North of Watford then ...

North of Watford then ...

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I watched these again . Prefer him, any (fucking) day , to Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMWKJBQsflk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJQPR0YwnE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; edited -- to amend with 'fucking...

frog222 · Re: Thursday 28 July 2016 Bardo ?

Bardo ?

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I watched these again .

Prefer him, any day , to Smith

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frog222

Ohso 8.01 I posted his 20 points yesterday, but they were a right ragbag with no detail .

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Plenty of this kind of thing in the SNP/Ukip social media world as well of course, but this reflects my perception http://www.newstatesman.com/2016/07/jeremy-corbyn-and-paranoid-style" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Though the author doesn't know what 'disinterest' means a...

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(The FT used to let you subscribe for free and get a few freebie articles per month, does it not do that any longer?) I couldn't see an option to do so. Woohoo ! I found my very old Free Registration password , and it still works . In the beginnning it was 30 free reads, then shrank, and I don't kn...

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This is where the bulk of the PLP went so wrong, first of all in instituting the foul WCA and then in not admitting their error Can you pick up a pen? You are fit for work - and never mind your chemo-induced vomiting, your immuno-suppression, your weakness. Could you "mobilise" for 50 metr...

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Ephe 8.16-- the simplest way not to post is not to post .

Any concern about absence can be replied to, also very simply.

Now off to see if you've been busy at the G, where we first met years ago, on the Disability threads .

frog222

Posted upstream by accident . TC2 -- response to your link last night http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/27/corbyn-ally-suggests-labour-could-form-pacts-with-parties-across-left" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Lewis is a likable performer and – as might be ex...

frog222 · Re: Thursday 28 July 2016 error post .

error post .

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Hehe, exactly my sentiment, but I didn't want to seem aggressive towards mbc. Back for a few days and I've seen several flounces already.

Back to bizness.

frog222

I confess to being somewhat surprised that nobody seems interested in Smith's 20 point plan (or anything he said today). That may tell us something of interest of course. Still digesting it, but I didn't feel there was a lot of substance there. I agreed with most of your assessment tbh. ' Wealth ta...

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Rebecca -- you missed the analysis of the expenses , see 12.18 post .

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From a quick shufti at the Live thread " During the Labour leadership campaign last year Corbyn produced a dozen or so policy papers that were reasonably substantial. But since then, in most areas, the party has done almost nothing to develop those proposals, as the tax campaigner Richard Murph...

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CitizenJA 10.54 On that c.25% total of lost income growth in the UK The OECD "This may be linked to the growth in jobs with low-hours and intermittent work." You bet ! I've become very tired of politicians quoting or rather parroting headline figures which are so far away from any reality ...

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One of the early comments in the article continues the nautical theme

The naval gazing should end, and the ideology should be the basis, but Labour needs attack dogs, not reasonable people, that is not who we are fighting against.

That's twice in one month that I've seen that gem

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Morning all Hindle's link from last night -- https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/27/uk-joins-greece-at-bottom-of-wage-growth-league-tuc-oecd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Somewhat of a contradiction to the much-repeated insistence that the UK has been the fastest gr...

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