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- Tue 07 Feb, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th February 2017
- Replies: 297
- Views: 60502
Re: Tuesday 7th February 2017
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- Tue 07 Feb, 2017 12:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th February 2017
- Replies: 297
- Views: 60502
Re: Tuesday 7th February 2017
Happy birthday PK. Hope you have a lovely day. X
- Sun 05 Feb, 2017 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Thanks Refitman, but it was a bagpipe video I tried to post - but trombones drone a bit too !
- Sun 05 Feb, 2017 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
But does it mean a cult made up of whining Corbyn zealots, or anti-Corbyn whining by people who are less than enamoured by his performance ?
edited - confused myself
edited - confused myself
- Sun 05 Feb, 2017 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
We might need Por Favor to adjudicate on 'anti corbyn cult whine' to clarify its meaning :lol: Meanwhile, to save us having to drone on incessantly, here's some help from the experts. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?[/youtube] oops, that link didn't work.....bagpipes - use your imaginations a...
- Sun 05 Feb, 2017 2:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Well, if us whiners (with agendas or without) are wrong, and it turns out that Corbyn is a master tactician, I'm sure we'll be more than happy to eat humble pie. I'll bake a vegetarian version.
- Sun 05 Feb, 2017 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
@Por Favor.
Much better thanks. Have been able to walk today.
Spring has sprung while we've been 'whining' about Article 50.
Catkins, hellebores, banks of snowdrops, daffodils in bud.
Even some lambs about. One peered down at us from the top of a grassy 12th century motte and bleated hello.
Much better thanks. Have been able to walk today.
Spring has sprung while we've been 'whining' about Article 50.
Catkins, hellebores, banks of snowdrops, daffodils in bud.
Even some lambs about. One peered down at us from the top of a grassy 12th century motte and bleated hello.
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
AngryAsWell@ You mentioned you were thinking of doing an OU course. Did you know about Yale University's free online courses ? I've started one on Dante in Translation, wanting to get to grips with The Divine Comedy before I pop my clogs. You need to click 'department' to get to see the second list ...
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 3:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/03/labour-explores-alliance-with-lib-dems-and-greens-in-stoke" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-paul-nuttall-collaboration-liberal-democrats-in-upcoming-stoke-on-tr...
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Did the umpire tell the bees to buzz off ?
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
AngryAsWell@ This resonates with the Trump aide/news conference link you posted. In this case it wasn't just that the reporter was told to 'get out of my country', he was imprisoned and then kicked out. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/04/revealed-hero-telegraph-reporter-first-kicked-nazi-ger...
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
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Clarke probably isn't wrong.
This is from YouGov in 2015.
edited to remove image, it came out too big even after removing 'large' from the url
Clarke probably isn't wrong.
This is from YouGov in 2015.
edited to remove image, it came out too big even after removing 'large' from the url
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 12:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Good grief Kiera @KieraGorden What happens when #Trump doesn’t like a question from a journalist. This needs to trend… #TrumpsAmerica #TrumpBan https://twitter.com/KieraGorden/status/826859811564171264" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ''get out of my country'' from one of T...
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 9:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Profits from the book go to a mental health charity, so it's in a good cause.
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 9:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Morning HA. You like cryptic crosswords I believe. Have you seen the GCHQ Quiz Book ? It's brilliant, gets the mind working overtime. Anyone who loves the sort of questions on Only Connect will enjoy it. I solved one that our Cambridge Maths and Statistics Ph.d friend couldn't. He was not a happy bu...
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 9:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Owen Jones uses the c word about some of Corbyn's supporters. ''looks cult-like''. Good job he didn't post that on FTN before the great exodus. He'd have got his ears soundly boxed for that and likely some abuse too. :lol: He'd back a younger leader, says he would find it difficult to vote for Corby...
- Sat 04 Feb, 2017 9:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72701
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February 2017
Morning. Lovely blue sky and sun, hope others have such a lovely morning where they are. Apologies if this was covered last night but I've not caught up with things yet. https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/827408001061433344" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://twitt...
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
No shortage of lettuces when I went shopping earlier. No lack of curved bananas either. I popped into the Principality building society to ask if they had any better interest rates <laughs hysterically> on any of their savings accounts or bonds. The young man said sadly not. He then asked if I had c...
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Latest from YouGov in hindsight do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote leave the EU ? All respondents 45% right [-1] 42% wrong Women 41% right 46% wrong Men 50% right 38% wrong Kippers 94% right 3% wrong Cons 64% right 28% wrong Labour 29% right 64% wrong Lib Dems 16% right 78% wrong
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 1:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Heating oil's gone up 12p a litre since we topped up our tank in September.
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Well done TC.
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Looks like big electricity price rises on their way.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38852517" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 1:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
RHETORIC evidence citation spin etc I like to be allowed to think without proving that someone else has already thought it, and that if they haven't then I am obliged to assume my thinking is automatically invalid. As if one's own thinking cannot be relevant unless someone else has got there first....
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Though that was always a far smaller group than some now like to imply.NonOxCol wrote:Difficult not to be furious at the "she's just as bad" crew...
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what evidence backs that up ?
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 9:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Thanks Paul.
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 9:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
But I'm not bitter.
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 9:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
I hope someone's keeping a list of reasons to Brexit. 1. I went to the supermarket and the bananas were straight. 2. The EU were nasty to Greece, vote Leave to punish them and give Merkel a headache. 3. Immigration. Too many foreigners. Not the right kind of foreigners. I'm not racist but I don't li...
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 9:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Have just watched NonOxCol's link. Where are all these straight bananas ? Seriously. Where are they ? All the bananas I buy bend up at least one end if not both ends. There are bunches of the little devils that look like a gorilla's hand, fingers curled up. Last year I heard a middle class woman on ...
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 8:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
At least bananas are edible. Coal scuttle and custard or top of the milk ?
- Fri 03 Feb, 2017 8:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd February 2017
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39182
Re: Friday 3rd February 2017
Morning. Thanks to SH for providing the background to yet another big Lib Dem gain, this time in Rotherham. The fact that the outgoing Labour man was convicted of sexual assault obviously didn't help them keep the seat. But it won't stop the Lib Dems crowing. Some comfort in seeing Ukip down 16%. Th...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Here's a cheering story from my local paper. A group in Aberystwyth has raised enough money to resettle a Syrian refugee family to the area. :clap: http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=111796&headline=Refugee%20family%20to%20come%20to%20Aber%20thanks%20to%20fundraisers§ionIs=new...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Not hard to imagine you dressed like Carmen Miranda and singing that PF.
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
This was from yesterday.
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
seconded.AngryAsWell wrote:Waves at MsChin, nice to see you around.
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Polls consistently show that Trump is highly unpopular here. The attempt by some elements of the right wing press to sanitise him will fail. Please don't take "vox pops" as indicative of anything whatsoever. I took that attitude when I heard similar reports where people expressed a liking...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Meanwhile away from A50 and Brexit, Yvette Cooper's latest brilliant and inspirational idea is to call for a "debate on immigration" :roll: As if we haven't been already talking about it for years and years now! Some people here voted for her as leader, didn't they ? ;) Wasn't your first ...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Channel 4 [or was it Sky News ?] showed a vox pop from Stoke. Two women expressed support for what Trump was doing. One linked Paul Nuttall to Trump [she said something like 'he knows him doesn't he ?] and sounded enthusiastic because of that. This is genuinely scary. Only two people expressing tho...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Labour lost its overall majority on a major London borough today as a councillor defected to the Liberal Democrats over Europe. Tower Hamlets councillor Andrew Cregan revealed his decision exclusively to the Evening Standard and said Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to support the Government on triggering ...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Hi Hanny ! Welcome.
Have just caught up with some of last night's thread and saw your post. Much appreciated to see you brave a response to what you have seen.
Hope you like cakes ! Look forward to hearing more from you.
Have just caught up with some of last night's thread and saw your post. Much appreciated to see you brave a response to what you have seen.
Hope you like cakes ! Look forward to hearing more from you.
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 9:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Thanks Stephen. 22% sounds a lot, only actually two MPs
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 9:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Interesting to see that two Lib Dems voted with most of Labour and the Tories. My MP Mark Williams was one of the 114. Morning yahyah. I thought they'd abstained ? (edit- too slow again ) Morning LS. Aah, That makes sense. Caught it on Radio 4, must have misheard. Not voting for doesn't mean they n...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 9:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Channel 4 [or was it Sky News ?] showed a vox pop from Stoke. Two women expressed support for what Trump was doing. One linked Paul Nuttall to Trump [she said something like 'he knows him doesn't he ?] and sounded enthusiastic because of that. This is genuinely scary. Only two people expressing thos...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 9:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 9:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Interesting to see that two Lib Dems voted with most of Labour and the Tories.
My MP Mark Williams was one of the 114 who voted against.
edited to correct. Informed further down the thread the two Libs abstained.
My MP Mark Williams was one of the 114 who voted against.
edited to correct. Informed further down the thread the two Libs abstained.
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 8:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Haven't had time to read last night, was it full throated and frank ? Can't help thinking Brexit is like my fall on the pavement. I was aching last night, but this morning pain and bruising has started in areas that didn't hurt yesterday, places where no direct contact was made with the ground. Brex...
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 8:46 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Morning. And Happy Thursday to Lexiters everywhere. Here is a more temperate but no less passionate version of the thread from last night, actually posted over three months ago as a warning to US electors: https://twitter.com/ORachaelO/status/787728250634178560" onclick="window.open(this....
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 8:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Diane Abbott wasn't well enough to turn up to vote last night ?
- Thu 02 Feb, 2017 8:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd February 2017
- Replies: 232
- Views: 57001
Re: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Morning. It was interesting to see the way a certain word was used in the latest episode of the American TV drama 'This Is Us'. Scene: Olivia flounces out of a house after words with the latest man she is toying with. She leaves with a f*** you attitude. Her would-be boyfriend is asked by his sister...
- Wed 01 Feb, 2017 6:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st February 2017
- Replies: 215
- Views: 50826
Re: Wednesday 1st February 2017
Yes, if the bill is passed then Article 50 can be triggered. That's more than a debate.
Can't help wondering if some of the language is deliberate obfuscation.
Can't help wondering if some of the language is deliberate obfuscation.
- Wed 01 Feb, 2017 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st February 2017
- Replies: 215
- Views: 50826
Re: Wednesday 1st February 2017
Rachel Maskell's resigned from the front bench after meeting with Corbyn.