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I'd have more time for Jeremy Corbyn if he ploughed on and came out with something positive on the EU debacle. And put up a fight (on the mess we're in and on the leadership front). Instead we've got what to me seems like a mulish refusal to engage with anything. A bit like the PM & Chancellor ...

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Project Fear eh? Barclays and RBS shares suspended from trading after tanking more than 8% http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/barclays-rbs-halts-trading-eu-referendum-brexit-ftse-100-stock-market-a7105196.html Trading in Barclays and RBS shares was suspended on Monday morning following...

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List of appointments to the Shadow Cabinet:

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On a lighter note, The Daily Mash has this take on the Referendum Vote:

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So Osborne's not going anywhere. Another Atlantic Bridger, no doubt the plan is, if the UK is going out, to take down the rest of the EU with us on our way out. Signalling definite uncertainty until at least the Autumn seems guaranteed to cause the remaining 27 countries as much instability as poss...

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Good evening all, been up in Manchester over the weekend visiting family & collecting junior from Uni. Whilst searching on line for places n Britain to collect Irish passport application forms for my nieces, I saw that Ian Paisley jr has recommended that people in NI should apply for Irish passp...

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For a bit of light relief. Give that cameraman a knighthood!

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On the other hand, maybe they understand why Labour's message is failing because they're at the sharp end. Corbyn seems to be in a pretty safe Labour seat. Bradshaw had his work cut out holding on to Exeter. It's the only non-Tory constituency south west of Bristol. I can't just ignore that. We nee...

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Tim Farron is a rude piece of work But in this case entirely right (well apart from the Lib Dem bit at the end). You only get to lose one election as Labour leader, Corbyn has lost his. 63% of Labour voters voted to stay in the EU. Can you (& others like Peter Mandelson) please just leave your ...

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Wonder what Theresa Villiers has planned for the island of Ireland single energy market, and how that will continue now that Northern Ireland is outside the EU

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Hey, the PLP can't actually depose him. No but their utter, utter stupidity is the final straw. We need every decent politician there is, finding out what's going to happen and trying to do what they can to avert disaster. We're reeling. The countries reeling and what are they doing? They're still ...

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PorFavor wrote:Motion of No Confidence in Jeremy Corbyn issued. (BBC)

Margaret Hodge & Ann Coffey have tabled it apparently. Could be a vote on Tuesday

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For some reason Stanley Johnson is on TV now. I bet that every time he looks at Boris he wishes he'd committed the solitary sin of Onan instead.

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People voted for this thinking there wouldn't be any bad consequences. They are about to learn their lesson. Indeed. And it will be hard not to highlight this to them in emotive language. What's the point? It's not going to change anything. Why waste your breath? Apologies but I am really, really p...

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Clegg and his Orange Bookers have a lot to answer for too. They helped Tory austerity, cheered it on at budgets. Austerity and recession led to problems in areas like the North and NE, and people see quitting the EU as an answer to their pay, rent and other problems. It all goes back to 2010. How m...

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Farage backtracking on £350 million a week for NHS. Who'd have thunk it?

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Apologies if this has been posted, but Das Bild (the German equivalent of "The Sun" apparently) posted the following on its front page today: Dear Britain, if you stay in the EU... We will acknowledge the Wembley goal. We won't make any more jokes about Prince Charles' ears. We won't wear ...

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Good evening all. Just back from a training course in Cambridge. Was worried I wouldn't be back in time to vote, so managed to get my wife to vote by proxy for me. Picked up the following email from comedian Daniel Kitson (whom I mentioned on here a couple of days ago.) Hello. So, perhaps predictabl...

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The latest YouGov survey, taken after last night's televised debate, gives remain a one point lead. Hope it proves to be a bit more conclusive than that, still a remain is a remain however small. There should also be an understanding that the result is final for at least a generation. I am to be ho...

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If Remain win (and maybe even if they don't) Gove is finished as a politician. Unbelievable. http://i68.tinypic.com/21dipu9.jpg Good morning all. Had a tremendous evening yesterday, watching the very wonderful Daniel Kitson perform his one man (and 15 ipod) play "Polyphony". If you are in...

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Morning everybody.
Meanwhile Steve Hilton provides the Leave campaign with tomorrow's front page in the Express:

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UKIP's latest campaigning effort on YouTube.
Truly Bizarre

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The Guardian is endorsing Remain. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/20/the-guardian-view-on-the-eu-referendum-keep-connected-and-inclusive-not-angry-and-isolated" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Good article I was enjoying it too until I got to "shonky&...

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I'm also unsure of the wisdom of an uncontested election. What are Tory voters in Batley supposed to do? Vote for an MP standing for a party they don't agree with? Not vote? And on the other side, there will still a need to select a candidate for Labour. So the Labour party members in Batley essent...

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This is actually real. https://twitter.com/MatofKilburnia/status/743739901129039872" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Or not. https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/743745449429893121" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Still, it was so easy to believe a...

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Maybe all the people saying Mair wasn't political don't understand what right wing ideology is ? Just because he wasn't an activist for a mainstream political party doesn't mean he wasn't political. His alleged contact with extremist racist libertarians shows he was. Best tweet I've seen on this: 2...

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From the paper that initially called Anders Breivik's mass murdering spree "Norway's 9/11"

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Full Tooting result. Thankfully UKIP came 5th & lost their deposit

Britain Elects
‏@britainelects

Tooting, result:
LAB: 55.9% (+8.7)
CON: 36.1% (-5.8)
GRN: 2.6% (-1.5)
LDEM: 2.6% (-1.4)
UKIP: 1.6% (-1.3)

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I would also like to say, as someone who suffers mental health problems, as do many people, it is not synonymous with having such issues to research and further becoming a right wing terrorist. Or to learn about making explosive devices and weapons. Or to want to murder people. @yahyah, many thanks...

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Neil Kinnock just given a very moving interview on BBC Breakfast regarding Jo Cox. She was a long standing family friend & he said they considered her like a niece. Poor guy was in tears

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From Twitter:

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Morning all.
More evidence of how unelectable Labour have become under Corbyn.

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Already started. Tim Montgomerie has started the "lone nutter" narrative: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/jo-cox-mp-everything-we-know-so-far-about-thomas-mair/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I wouldn't be surp...

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so when will news break about motive....I am sure the papers will know all about him by now! Already started. Tim Montgomerie has started the "lone nutter" narrative: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/jo-cox-mp-everything-we-know-so-far-about-thomas-mair/?utm_source=dlvr.it&u...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:
Fiona Trott ‏@bbcfionatrott 11m11 minutes ago
#Birstall: Man arrested being named locally as Tommy Mair. More on @BBCNews @bbc5live #JoCox
Almost definitely not a Muslim, then. That will disappoint some.

Someone tweeted this exchange:

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Apologies. When I posted the gag earlier, I hadn't seen the posts, nor heard the news about Jo Cox.

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Watching the England Wales match I'm reminded of the old Max Boyce joke from the '70's about a Welshman with no ticket stood outside Twickenham for the England Wales game. After 10 minutes there's an enormous shout from the crowd "What's happened?" yells the Welshman. "14 Welsh player...

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I just read my hubby the Paddy Power odds, and they had Leave at 13/8, which is worse isn't it ? Worse for remain supporter's hopes that is. No, 13/8 is *longer* odds than 11/8. I've always found this stuff a bit confusing as well tbf ;) Think of it as a vulgar fraction (if you can think back to sc...

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As I suspected, despite the evidence to the contrary, the "It's all Labour's fault" articles have started:

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Did anyone read Suzanne Moore's latest in The Graun?

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Having had my blood pressure raised by Michael Howard blatantly lying whilst being interviewed on BBC TV this morning I'm afraid that I may go into full
GAAAAAH! mode if I read it.

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Emily Ashton ‏@elashton 41m41 minutes ago It's Tooting by-election day! Tory Dan Watkins reckons it'll be "incredibly close - within a thousand votes" Tooting’s Tory Candidate Says He Won’t Be Playing Zac Goldsmith-Style Politics Dan Watkins tells BuzzFeed News his campaign in south Londo...

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HindleA wrote:Because she is a gobby shite?

Because she's Murdoch's representative on earth

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The Male Online's latest:

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Michael Crick ‏@MichaelLCrick 3h3 hours ago RTE say Irish PM Enda Kenny to campaign among Irish voters in Manchester on Friday & plans for Cameron to join him dropped, as too unpopular He must long for those hug a husky days. How unpopular must Cameron be? Not too long ago, people from Ireland ...

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yahyah wrote:

Interesting pic posted by Mike Smithson. It is his grandfather Charles campaigning with his battle cart in the 1920s.

Not much changes apart from the technology.

Yes but did he declare the costs as local or national?

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rebeccariots2 wrote:Not sure which paper / website this was published on ... seemed rather apposite after the Jonathan Pie clip - and discussions here yesterday.

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Peter Brookes. Pretty sure he works for The Times

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There's a great clip of Eagle on the attack on a Telegraph tweet on Peter Juke's timeline. Not sure how to link it. Johnson tries the poor me puppy dog look that might have worked on Matron at public school. Hi yahyah Is this the clip you're thinking of? https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/7409959...

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I'm out tonight but I'd advise against watching QT.... David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Folkestone. Panellists include Conservative leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling MP, Labour's shadow soreign secretary Hilary Benn MP, leader of UKIP Nigel Farage MEP, comedian and campaigner...

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Oh FFS. Now someone's saying we won't have an NHS if we stay in the EU on Twitter. And another moron has said when Turkey joins the NHS will collapse. Given that Greece & Cyprus are members of the EU, and have a veto on others joining, does anyone really believe that Turkey will ever join the EU?

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I can't get my mind to process the idea that, in the event of an "Out" vote, there will be no tightening of border controls, customs etc between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Surely it goes against everything the "Out" side says it wants to achieve - ie tighter controls ove...

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