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- Mon 01 Dec, 2014 11:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 1st December 2014
- Replies: 172
- Views: 50950
Re: Monday 1st December 2014
George Eaton @georgeeaton · 1m 1 minute ago Notable leader in The Economist endorsing Labour's stance on the deficit over the Tories': http://econ.st/1waAjim" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Morning He can take a jump with this "Britain’s fiscal problems are partly the ...
- Sat 29 Nov, 2014 1:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th November 2014
- Replies: 286
- Views: 86703
Re: Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th November 2014
Imo, if immigration from the EU is too high it's because economic growth on the continent is stagnant.
Merkel and the ECB need to get their fingers out and channel Keynes.
Labour's proposed reforms are necessary but not sufficient.
Merkel and the ECB need to get their fingers out and channel Keynes.
Labour's proposed reforms are necessary but not sufficient.
- Fri 28 Nov, 2014 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 28th November 2014
- Replies: 158
- Views: 61087
Re: Friday 28th November 2014
Isabel Hardman @IsabelHardman · 3h 3 hours ago Oh dear. Just done a ring-around of the really hardcore eurosceptics. They’re not happy and threatening trouble http://specc.ie/1xZyWCs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They were never going to be happy were they ... surely ever...
- Wed 26 Nov, 2014 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 26th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 66601
Re: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Apropos of nothing, a letter to the G. Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Tractatus of talkative Geordies “Geordies like to talk … allow at least 10 minutes just to buy a newspaper,” advises Harry Pearson (The UK’s best city: in praise of Newcastle upon Tyne, theguardian.com, 22 November). Wittgenstein wor...
- Wed 26 Nov, 2014 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 26th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 66601
Re: Wednesday 26th November 2014
In contrast to the BTL comments on the LL article about #cameronmust go the BLT comments about the same topic in the Telegraph really surprised me :o CameronMustGo: How worried should David Cameron be about Twitter bullies? A Twitter hashtag, #CameronMustGo, has been trending for five days on the s...
- Wed 26 Nov, 2014 3:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 26th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 66601
Re: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Rachel Reeves: Tory MPs apologised to me over "incredibly rude" Duncan Smith Shadow work and pensions secretary says Conservative MPs apologised to her over Duncan Smith's claim that she had not bothered to vote http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/rachel-reeves-tory-mps-apologise...
- Wed 26 Nov, 2014 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 26th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 66601
Re: Wednesday 26th November 2014
@RO'T
Thanks for posting the Nick Drake vid last night, I did enjoy.
Thanks for posting the Nick Drake vid last night, I did enjoy.
- Tue 25 Nov, 2014 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 25th November 2014
- Replies: 257
- Views: 80262
Re: Tuesday 25th November 2014
It will be interesting to see the National Audit Office's "assessment" of Universal Credit tomorrow. The following exchange between a Tory backbencher and IDS is so telling of how well scrutinised policies are under this administration: "Philip Hollobone, a Conservative, asks what ev...
- Mon 24 Nov, 2014 11:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 24th November 2014
- Replies: 210
- Views: 82646
Re: Monday 24th November 2014
AS at the G has highlighted this by Alistair Darling, FT has a paywall so I'll repeat AS' extract. You can get 8 articles a month on the FT free for registering. Plans to give Scotland full power over income tax would increase borrowing costs for the entire UK and end in “floods of tears”, Alistair ...
- Mon 24 Nov, 2014 11:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 24th November 2014
- Replies: 210
- Views: 82646
Re: Monday 24th November 2014
Not sure huffpost have quite understood #cameronmustgo though. Him 'stepping down' isn't what we're looking for.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11 ... 10222.html
david-cameron-nhs-strikes-twitter_n_6210222
Maybe wilful misunderstanding.
- Mon 24 Nov, 2014 11:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 24th November 2014
- Replies: 210
- Views: 82646
Re: Monday 24th November 2014
Another thing on the economy. I just reread Osborne's Mais Lecture, where he said he would cut the bulk of the structural deficit over the course of the Parliament and maintain the AAA rating. Well, I note that when rubbishing Labour, he focused on GDP per capita rather than simple GDP. So, entirel...
- Sun 23 Nov, 2014 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 22st & Sunday 23rd November 2014
- Replies: 291
- Views: 90482
Re: Saturday 22st & Sunday 23rd November 2014
Martin Rowson @MartinRowson · 46 secs47 seconds ago I could get used to not filing a Graun toon on a Sunday so my soul'd be unsullied by the gallimaufry of these ludicrous cunts in the "news" Rowson was on brilliant form on twitter yesterday, brain worm cartoon was great too. http://www....
- Sat 22 Nov, 2014 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 22st & Sunday 23rd November 2014
- Replies: 291
- Views: 90482
Re: Saturday 22st & Sunday 23rd November 2014
Tin hat time, but I don't think Hardman is as bad as a lot of them - she does show traces of self-awareness at least. I don't mind her either. She's in the image of Fraser Nelson, rightwing but often perceptive and does attack her own side sometimes. I watched the Dispatches on C4 mainly out of cur...
- Fri 21 Nov, 2014 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st November 2014
- Replies: 223
- Views: 79559
Re: Friday 21st November 2014
About 30 years ago I thought citizen's income was a great idea.
Now I really don't think it would work here, because of housing costs, you'd still need housing benefit. I think getting that under control would have to come first. Not going to happen, is it.
Now I really don't think it would work here, because of housing costs, you'd still need housing benefit. I think getting that under control would have to come first. Not going to happen, is it.
- Fri 21 Nov, 2014 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st November 2014
- Replies: 223
- Views: 79559
Re: Friday 21st November 2014
What I do know is that the purchaser provider split is a bloody good thing, and it has already been broken by Lansley. You do not want the commissioner providing the services. Shall we go with A, B or my crappy in house service C. (Option C is being favoured by certain GPs). Don't forget option D -...
- Fri 21 Nov, 2014 3:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st November 2014
- Replies: 223
- Views: 79559
Re: Friday 21st November 2014
I'd hoped for more discussion on whether or not the NHS thing (sorry, cannot recall the name of the proposer) would be helpful or not. Though many support it in principle a brief reading reveals its weaknesses. There's a petition out there about its flaws, would love to know what people here think ...
- Fri 21 Nov, 2014 11:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st November 2014
- Replies: 223
- Views: 79559
Re: Friday 21st November 2014
I know most here avoid the G but I'm not, yet anyway. AS regarding Cameron's reaction to the tweet. He was asked if he would have fired one of his frontbenchers out for sending out the picture that Emily Thornberry posted, and saying what she said. He could have said: “Well, she says she did not int...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 68731
Re: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Sorry to be a pedant, but Rogers was Stockton North - Ian Wrigglesworth, now Lord Wrigglesworth, Lib Dem Treasurer, was Stockton South (not surprised you forgot him :) ) Me- I went to St Georges & then, via that stupid 13+ transfer they had, St Mary's College. How about you? Kirby Grammar, merg...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 10:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 68731
Re: Wednesday 19th November 2014
So, people in Stockton South will like that about Ms Baldock? A fondness for Ingleby Barwick? I'm serious. I don't know. No, I didn't mean that. I meant, maybe they - some/most of the people in Ingleby Barwick - aspire to be middle class and think voting tory is part of it. And it's a shame, becaus...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 10:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 68731
Re: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Link from btl on Steve Bell's cartoon. Hunt, Gove, Osborne and IDS - have wasted £34 Billion in total of our taxes. £34,000,000,000.00. Thirty-four billion pounds sterling. Wasted. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvPxCSAhNlENdDNqV2o2bFpnWlI3cGNEOV9yeVRGOUE&gid=0" onclick="...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 9:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 68731
Re: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Louise Baldock Standing up for Stockton South http://www.louise-baldock4stocktonsouth.org.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I've not had the pleasure of meeting Ms Baldock, the Labour party candidate standing against the Tory MP, Wharton, in Stockton South. I've found som...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 9:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 68731
Re: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Link from btl on Steve Bell's cartoon. Hunt, Gove, Osborne and IDS - have wasted £34 Billion in total of our taxes. £34,000,000,000.00. Thirty-four billion pounds sterling. Wasted. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvPxCSAhNlENdDNqV2o2bFpnWlI3cGNEOV9yeVRGOUE&gid=0" onclick="...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th November 2014
- Replies: 221
- Views: 68731
Re: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Only one poll, but do not like this, a bit. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/why-labour-losing-tories-ultra-marginal-stockton-south" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Wharton is one of my Portillo moments, hopefully. Louise Baldock Standing up for Stockton South ht...
- Wed 19 Nov, 2014 1:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th November 2014
- Replies: 198
- Views: 55141
Re: Tuesday 18th November 2014
It has been said to be very difficult to get minor problems fixed, as they would have to go up the NHS chain of command and then down the contractor's I worked in places where they outsource everything but the core business, and you didn't really notice anything. I think you're a 'bit' younger than...
- Tue 18 Nov, 2014 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th November 2014
- Replies: 198
- Views: 55141
Re: Tuesday 18th November 2014
Problems with PFI. One is the effective privatisation of the hospital infrastructure, so the clinical management had no control over maintenance etc. It has been said to be very difficult to get minor problems fixed, as they would have to go up the NHS chain of command and then down the contractor's...
- Tue 18 Nov, 2014 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th November 2014
- Replies: 198
- Views: 55141
Re: Tuesday 18th November 2014
Do you have this one, very good pruning advice, if any of your customers have old roses. And very pretty pictures. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13963295930&searchurl=tn%3Dold+roses%26amp%3Bsts%3Dt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; No I don't - thank ...
- Tue 18 Nov, 2014 5:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th November 2014
- Replies: 198
- Views: 55141
Re: Tuesday 18th November 2014
I use Abebooks too - they're very good. Have found and bought some good out of print gardening 'bibles' via them. And it does make me feel good when they arrive with a nice little card from the independent bookshop tucked inside the book. Do you have this one, very good pruning advice, if any of yo...
- Mon 17 Nov, 2014 11:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th November 2014
- Replies: 186
- Views: 59499
Re: Monday 17th November 2014
Me too. I was going to recommend the Dog & Gun in Keswick to fellow steak & kidney pud lovers, theirs was sublime.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear
But I just checked I'd got the right name and to my horror it's changed hands and been 'refurbished'.
- Thu 13 Nov, 2014 6:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th November 2014
- Replies: 209
- Views: 62965
Re: Thursday 13th November 2014
https://www.facebook.com/edmiliband
I'm here, live, to answer your questions for the next hour or so. Leave a question in the comments below and I'll try to answer as many of them as possible in the next 60 minutes.
- Thu 13 Nov, 2014 6:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th November 2014
- Replies: 209
- Views: 62965
Re: Thursday 13th November 2014
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...
- Wed 12 Nov, 2014 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 12th November 2014
- Replies: 182
- Views: 55197
Re: Wednesday 12th November 2014
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.
Iain Duncan Smith to meet Universal Credit target in 700 years time
Sounds about right.
re Rosetta, brilliant.
- Tue 11 Nov, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th November 2014
- Replies: 218
- Views: 65155
Re: Tuesday 11th November 2014
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 ...
- Wed 05 Nov, 2014 11:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th November 2014
- Replies: 111
- Views: 37846
Re: Wednesday 5th November 2014
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.
"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.
- Wed 05 Nov, 2014 11:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th November 2014
- Replies: 111
- Views: 37846
Re: Wednesday 5th November 2014
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...
- Wed 05 Nov, 2014 10:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th November 2014
- Replies: 111
- Views: 37846
Re: Wednesday 5th November 2014
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...
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 10:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 70947
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
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...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 7:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 73920
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
'night pf.PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.
- Fri 17 Oct, 2014 12:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th October
- Replies: 106
- Views: 48491
Re: Friday 17th October
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...
- Fri 17 Oct, 2014 12:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th October
- Replies: 106
- Views: 48491
Re: Friday 17th October
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...
- Mon 13 Oct, 2014 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 13th October 2014
- Replies: 219
- Views: 83235
Re: Monday 13th October 2014
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.
I bought the Times today, first time ever I think, for the NHS mistake front page. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
- Thu 09 Oct, 2014 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th October 2014 - Dave's bumper birthday
- Replies: 173
- Views: 77503
Re: Thursday 9th October 2014 - Dave's bumper birthday
Get well soon ohso.
- Tue 07 Oct, 2014 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th October 2014
- Replies: 140
- Views: 57485
Re: Tuesday 7th October 2014
https://twitter.com/stridingedge/status ... 4322471936
Come on PM, do the decent thing and answer Maddy
- Sun 05 Oct, 2014 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110510
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
Fixed that for you.ohsocynical wrote:Has Dave never thought
- Sun 05 Oct, 2014 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110510
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
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...
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110510
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
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...
- Thu 02 Oct, 2014 11:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd October
- Replies: 191
- Views: 81975
Re: Thursday 2nd October
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...
- Thu 02 Oct, 2014 11:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd October
- Replies: 191
- Views: 81975
Re: Thursday 2nd October
BTL is fun too, although possibly I didn't go far enough down to see the trolls. Not beta, so readable.TechnicalEphemera wrote:And to cheer everybody up a little
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... conference
- Tue 30 Sep, 2014 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th September 2014
- Replies: 186
- Views: 70093
Re: Tuesday 30th September 2014
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!)
- Tue 30 Sep, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th September 2014
- Replies: 186
- Views: 70093
Re: Tuesday 30th September 2014
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...
- Mon 29 Sep, 2014 5:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 29th September 2014
- Replies: 270
- Views: 99801
Re: Monday 29th September 2014
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...