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Sad news about Terry Pratchett; a nice bloke in a world where there aren't enough of them.

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Half tempted to watch QT tonight, Lucy Powell, Soubry, Charles Kennedy, Natalie Bennett and the insufferable bore that goes by the name of Ian Hislop. Still, no doubt Clarkson will dominate, major concern of the day as it is. Btw, someone wants to tell Noel Edmonds that his opinions stopped being i...

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ohsocynical wrote:Clare Hepworth OBE retweeted
Ian ‏@Mancman10 8 mins8 minutes ago @Xlibris1

Labour bounce back & lead this week now with Populus, YouGov & IpsosMORi "Tory Cross Over"

I've seen the YouGov figures, but not the other two - anyone got them?

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Any news on absent friends? (I'm thinking of rebeccariots2 .) Edited to make bold Just to let you, Ohso and everyone else know, I emailed her yesterday and received a reply. Basically she's been a little downcast at the arguing going on here and hasn't wnated to log in to FTN. Instead she's going t...

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Apparently 400,000 people have signed a petition demanding Jeremy Clarkson be reinstated. Wonder what they would be saying if it had the been the show's producer that was alleged to have punched Clarkson. Rather suspect those same people would have been demanding the producer was sacked. I suspect ...

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Labour has dug out a quote from Lord Grade earlier this year saying no party leader has a right to veto a TV debate. Stewart Wood @StewartWood Follow Lord Grade in Jan: "no leader of any party has the right to veto a debate" Lord Grade in March: "no divine right to have election deba...

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ohsocynical wrote:If Dan, Ernst or Paul are around, I did ask late last night but not sure if you read it.

If you have RebeccaRiots email address, could you check she and Mr Riots are okay? It's been five days now since she posted.....

Shall do, Ohso.

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I'm also going to say something else. Everyone on here is concerned about the upcoming election and perhaps even the greens splitting the left wing vote or the damage that can be done to Labour's election chances. Indeed it is often so bitter I no longer post here. I know of at least two green cons...

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Someone starts to try and be realistic about a Labour/SNP coalition/pact: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-what-would-a-labour--snp-coalition-look-like-10096132.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Opinions? I'm all for it....

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Someone starts to try and be realistic about a Labour/SNP coalition/pact: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-what-would-a-labour--snp-coalition-look-like-10096132.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Opinions? Lots of overlap...

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Well done :) It's suggested in her first post https://www.facebook.com/lvanzyl2/posts/10153118774094561?comment_id=10153126863274561" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; These kind of lies make my blood boil! Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7 ) seems to have deleted his tweet-link to ...

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Someone starts to try and be realistic about a Labour/SNP coalition/pact: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-what-would-a-labour--snp-coalition-look-like-10096132.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Opinions? Big fat No. I w...

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Someone starts to try and be realistic about a Labour/SNP coalition/pact:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 96132.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Opinions?

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Regarding assessment levels at primary school. As yet nobody has said how, if every school comes up with their own system of assessment, league tables are supposed to work given (i) progress between KS1 and KS2 is measured by levels and (ii) it will make comparability between schools impossible. Pe...

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From Warwick Davis (not really, my idea of a joke). https://www.gov.uk/government/news/members-of-new-commission-on-assessment-without-levels-announced" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Levels taken away from primary schools. Government commission set up to guide schools on a...

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A bit of light laughter Nigel Farage Tweeted A Simple Question And People Unsurprisingly Took The Piss http://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/nigel-farage-tweeted-a-question-and-people-took-the-piss#.rq4QmJo232" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Very funny indeed. Nice to see so...

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Feck me I was only joking :o debates.jpg B_hrUqpXEAAZoYb.jpg They better not. Empty chair the bastard. He's shown his contempt for the electorate and the broadcasters - it's about time he was shown equal contempt. Edited to add the "chair", without which this post very little sense...

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Oh looky, knives out chaps!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 93587.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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His claim seems to be that Ed's winning ended David's political career (which it did), when the converse would not have been true (which is also true). But so what? Is it alright to point out that Andy Burnham, Diane Abbot and Ed Balls also stood, and they're not only still in politics, but two of ...

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ALL politicians - and I include Ed in this - are willing to be ruthless to get into office and to influence the politics of the day. That's why they're politicians. It seems to me that David Miliband made assumptions and Ed Miliband didn't. Cheeky sod - I was elected because I showed the people the...

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Morning, Toby. The only thing in that article that hasn't been published elsewhere is the word "knifing" - an expression that I doubt Miliband would use. The Heil faithful BTL have picked up on the word, though - the comments are full of it. What the Mail has done is cherry-pick quotes fr...

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Is this even legal ? From Dacre's rag, the use of the word "says" implies this is a direct quote surely ? 'Knifing David was worse than I expected, says Ed Miliband' Ed Miliband last night admitted his decision to knife brother David in the Labour leadership race led to a worse deteriorat...

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Hodges truly is a loathsome slug of a creature isn't he. No evidence anywhere to support his claims yet he declares his own opinion as if was representative of the country at large. :toss: Well Hodges is a complete arsewipe, so why is he being quoted? He's a Tory. Just wait, come May 5-6th, he'll p...

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David Lindsay ‏@davidaslindsay 7m7 minutes ago So, three anti-@Ed_Miliband, anti-@UKLabour panellists out of three on #newsnight. @Dannythefink @PCollinsTimes @greenmiranda One of their journos got shirty with me when I said he wouldn't have said "tortous debates about TV debates" if Mili...

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The 'left wing' Purnell banging the drum for welfare reform and David (now Lord) Freud in 2008, preparing the groundwork, and laying the foundations for IDS misery project http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jul/30/welfare.labour" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Sc...

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Required reading for the PM. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ladybird-Tales-Chicken-Vera-Southgate/dp/0718193423/ref=pd_cp_b_0/275-5286019-4299924" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; * * I do like chickens tho, in my head I sometimes play fantasy small holdings, what animals I would ha...

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The Scottish National party has dramatically increased its use of crowdfunding to raise money for the general election, launching a new campaign on a second site and doubling the number of appeals. The SNP – on paper one of the UK’s and most cash-rich wealthiest parties – has started using the site...

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Breaking news on the BBC - The debates will go ahead as planned. Over to you, Dave . . . Edited to remove an extra "n" So they've decided to call his bluff eh? Excellent. If he debates, he'll come out badly and Miliband can hardly fail to change more than a few minds as to what he's like ...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:Is this a council result?

Britain Elects ‏@britainelects 35m35 minutes ago
St Pancras & Somers Town (Camden) result:
LAB - 72.8% (+4.7)
CON - 12.0% (+2.0)
GRN - 10.5% (-4.8)
LDEM - 4.7% (-1.9)
Hope it bodes well for Keir Starmer in the general election.

I think 'slam dunk' is the phrase.

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refitman wrote:
StephenDolan wrote:
danesclose wrote: James O'Brien hosting Newsnight interviewing Grant Shapps
The 'safe pair of hands' comes out.
Has Shapps pulled out the plug at his end?

Euw, I initially read that as "out of his end".

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Michael Nixon ‏@michaelnixon70 4 mins4 minutes ago YouGov poll of young people for the British Youth Council. Under 25s shows voting intentions of LAB 36%, CON 22%, GRN 19% UKIP 12%, LDEM 5%, Hmm. The standard YouGov polls of the last few days have shown the Tories leading among younger age groups;...

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Bless my soul. Just read it! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/professor-brian-cox-brands-astrologybelieving-tory-mp-david-tredinnick-an-outlier-on-the-spectrum-of-reason-10088421.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; What's this (the bit I've bolded) about, do you th...

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Bless my soul. Just read it! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/professor-brian-cox-brands-astrologybelieving-tory-mp-david-tredinnick-an-outlier-on-the-spectrum-of-reason-10088421.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Odd that they didn't predict Cox would respond in ...

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Bless my soul. Just read it!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 88421.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Tory trolls are desperate to distract attention from Cameron's refusal of a head to head debate. Hence the frantic nonsense, the incessant tedious point making, the absurd interpretations and assertions...all refusing to look directly at that central fact. Sad it has come to that here. I hope it wo...

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Morning all, as Dan would say if I hadn't just deleted his thread. Soz Dan, but this one looked lovelier. And good morning Ephie - early start for you? Mornin' Ernst. Insomnia. It's a bugger. A relentless bugger. Unlike Our Glorious Ronsealed Fishpointer General. Whose relentlessness is only appare...

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I hope the Mirror are still employing that chicken. What a craven wimp we have for a prime minister. I really don't think he could make it much clearer that he's scared of getting a good stuffing at Miliband's hands. Only one debate, and not head to head? He's a weasel. I mean, if Ed's a weird geek...

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Morning all, as Dan would say if I hadn't just deleted his thread. Soz Dan, but this one looked lovelier. And good morning Ephie - early start for you?

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Quite a nice post from the Graun's article on Cameron ducking the debates - one of my rare visits to the place. This is from SteB1: "It's obvious why Cameron is trying to avoid a debate. David Cameron has now dodged so many necessary questions his actions have raised over the last 5 years, that...

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Well, it sounds like Miliband wiped the floor with Cameron during PMQs and that CMD's pretty much ruled out debating with him on telly.

If that doesn't make the headlines on the BBC this evening then it will confirm in my mind that they're actively working for the government.

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I think ernst said that he didn't know about the NHS part before last week. That was not my understanding, and I apologise if I have made a mistake. Confirmation would be welcome. Here's the confirmation. I knew all about the DevoManc stuff. The NHS stuff was/is new. I should have been much more pr...

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Morning. Osborne crowing on Today - what a horrid breakfast soundtrack. Yes - he concedes - the poorest have suffered from the mistakes made before the 'Great Recession' - he makes it sound as though that's quite understandable and right. And then he goes on to say the IFS report lays the lie to pe...

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Hi Dan, weather improved round your way yet?

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David Lindsay ‏@davidaslindsay 3m3 minutes ago Can you name #Oxfordshire's dominant party? BBC can't. Although its Leader is PM & sits for Oxfordshire constituency: Quite. Noticeably absent from news articles on the subject. I wonder if they'd have mentioned the political slant had it been a La...

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Hi Guys. Been out all day doing 'Work Related Activity Group' things and only just gotten back in. Gosh, quite a lot of replies to my questions from this morning :). Have read through them cursorily and will re read them in full shortly but am literally blown away, not neccesarily by how much homel...

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Evening all First post for a week or so and see things have been getting a bit tetchy Understandable as we are reaching the endgame and we need to ensure this corrupt, venal and basically twattish Government is out on its ear I have been guilty of it myself at times but we need to try and hold our ...

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Apropos of which, when I get unwanted sales calls, I let them do the spiel and wait for the gap where a question has been asked. Then I simply ask them "Have you considered letting Our Lord Jesus into your life?". Works a bloody treat. I did once have some success in a similar vein, by in...

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Matt Chorley ‏@MattChorley 17m17 minutes ago Tories must not look like we want to punish people on benefits, says IDS. Warns against 'finger wagging' at the poor http://dailym.ai/1DPFzsO" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Has taken my breath away .... and not in a good way. Ho...

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At the risk of kicking a hornet's nest, Andy Burnham has written a piece for the Manchester Evening News about the NHS & Greater Manchester. But this is not the deal that I would be offering to Greater Manchester if I am Health Secretary in ten weeks’ time. edited to include URL http://www.manc...

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"Noting the large number of fences that have recently gone missing round here: - Internet forums are poor means of communication, you have no visual or audio signals to aid understanding. - They are not real time so you have a delay factor to contend with. - Everybody has off days (Glenda had ...

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