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The rain is pouring down here. Goody. Means I can go to the Co-op for some milk without having to bother washing my hair, as everyone's will be a mess! #LAZYDAY

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Answering a question about Manchester:

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I'm "going" with this. Has Labour lost its way on the NHS?

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StephenDolan wrote:What are we expecting Hunt to say in his Savile statement to the Commons?

Mid-Staffs ...

(Sorry, don't mean to demean the subject matter, just Hunt).

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@Ernst "Weird. I report back a council meeting the same night and so few people comment on it." Sorry I'd gone to bed. Thanks for good work and for keeping the mad cap tory's down. When I read they wanted to borrow/take from reserves 8000k to change the bin dates I thought "you're lo...

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Any NHS experts around because I need to know what to make of this tweet, where she says it's good in the first tweet yet agrees it's not to Willshome in her second tweet? 2015-02-26_095401.jpg I think that McKinsey, KPMG, and ex-United Health's (ex for now) Simon Stevens have played a blinder on th...

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Barry Sheerman MP ‏@BarrySheerman 6m6 minutes ago Deeply upset that this weekend marks end of @eastcoast which had shown how well a publicly owned railway can work! @BBCLeeds @Examiner 2n It's also the fact that it's gone to Branson (TaxHaven) Virgin that pisses me off. Anything Virgin is a "N...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:R.I.P. Musica

Heartbreak in the Riots home this evening.

Been dreading hearing your sad news Rebecca and Mr Riots. You were Musica's good friends and she knew it. Tears for now for all of you.

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"Osborne was helped by an anti-Balls heckling operation that was excessive even by Commons standards. But mainly he won because he engaged with Balls’ points, and answered them with partisan ruthlessness. He took the five questions Balls posed in a public letter to him and went through them, e...

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Heh TechnicalEphemera and others re the Lenovo debacle. I bought a Z50-70 in the John Lewis sale after Christmas, having returned a Tosh I just couldn't get on with. Apart from this ghastly W8, I'm really happy with it - having thrown all the garbage out and put most of my own stuff on. I followed y...

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Well said over there Tubby: :clap: Chris Manners 23rd Feb '15 - 10:00pm Wow. Terrible. Rumour of politicians not getting on. cf your lot chucking out two leaders via Parliamentary plots. Chris Manners 23rd Feb '15 - 10:03pm By the way, that seems to be two politicians disagreeing. Where are the “fac...

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Right, a brief distraction to look at the world of aviation accidents. If Simon Calder can pontificate on this stuff, so can I. We have recently had two accidents, Air Asia which was an Airbus lost in cruise, and TransAsia which was an ATR lost on takeoff. We don't yet know what happened to Air Asi...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:I've been out since just after the Oborne story broke and it occurs to me...will all the usual suspects who like to shriek about Leveson being the biggest threat to a free press now admit that there might be a bigger threat -that of corporate vested interests?

BANG ON!

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I read the Oborne article and, other than the controversy, I'm sitting here nearly vomiting at the "other planet" attitude of his "class". How bloody patronising. Sorry. Well, yeah, Giselle, I agree, for goodness' sake, the man is a Tory. He's probably not given that up for sure...

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I am finding it very hard to know exactly what is meant by Labour swimming in bits and pieces of policies. There was impatience last year. Ed said, he wasn't going to promise anything until it was costed it and they knew it worked. We were impatient, but could see the sense of waiting until they be...

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PorFavor wrote:
ephemerid wrote:Whoops - sorry about the double post. Dunno what happened there....
Send me a Private Message if you want any coaching.

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/17/lucy-glennon-disability-activist-real-effects-of-cuts Lucy Glennon: what her life tells us about the real effects of cuts for disabled people The writer and disability activist has died at the age of 29, having faced the excrutiating pain of her condit...

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Ignoring Frankie Howard, I can't think of any other no-bodies to match Ant and Dec in the comedy stakes (IMHO - but I don't "do" comedy excepting the divine BM, Victoria Wood and, what's her name, the Vicar lady?) and I don't know what I could say about the Gallagher "musicians" ...

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I think this from Ephemerid is surely an FTN tweet:

Not only is Cameron's Britannia waiving the rules, Britons will ever be slaves.

And mbc1955 is another candidate:

Because the plebs are finally going to learn their place, and they're never going to get above themselves again.

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I read the Oborne article and, other than the controversy, I'm sitting here nearly vomiting at the "other planet" attitude of his "class". How bloody patronising. Sorry.

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Not half - if gets any honest answers from Osborne, frankly I'll probably die of shock. He's asked all of the right questions (and there's certainly more than 5 there). But it's incendiary stuff that'll have the government squirming. I'm glad it is public, although I expect the meeja (the finest on...

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George Eaton @georgeeaton · 2h 2 hours ago Labour keeping up HSBC pressure on Tories: Balls writes to Osborne with five questions. http://bit.ly/1AzOQa8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It's quite a letter. Not half - if gets any honest answers from Osborne, frankly I'll pro...

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The next ONS Public Sector Finances release is in three days 20 Feb 2015. That's the really important one since it'll have income tax receipts from self-assessment and will indicate whether the deficit will be lower than last year or not. I would hazard a guess that if receipts are disappointing th...

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Hi all - been lurking as fed up with politics - thank goodness for FTN. :) Tish, RogerOThornhill and TubbyIsaacs commented on Daley's DT article reference NHS Property Services yesterday. ROT : She was a bit puzzled as to why NHS property Services was a private limited company owned by the Sec of S...

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Hi all - been lurking as fed up with politics - thank goodness for FTN. :) Tish, RogerOThornhill and TubbyIsaacs commented on Daley's DT article reference NHS Property Services yesterday. ROT : She was a bit puzzled as to why NHS property Services was a private limited company owned by the Sec of St...

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pk1 wrote:I don't 'do' Instagram but followed a link to EM's account & saw this (imo) great photo so thought I'd better share with PF & AAW

And me!

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frightful_oik wrote:That Mail front page is disgraceful.

Yes, it is. And will Nick Robinson still be in a job at the BBC tomorrow?

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I'm clearly in a minority here, but I still think we should give more time to Sturgeon. It's not like I'm a big fan, BUT we've discussed before the psychopathic tendencies of Tories - I don't think Sturgeon is a psychopath. She's a politician who has defined herself in an arena where Labour is the ...

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I'm clearly in a minority here, but I still think we should give more time to Sturgeon. It's not like I'm a big fan, BUT we've discussed before the psychopathic tendencies of Tories - I don't think Sturgeon is a psychopath. She's a politician who has defined herself in an arena where Labour is the ...

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Hello GetYou... Good to see you. And the good news keeps on coming. Dave Williams ‏@realdavedoubleu 17 mins17 minutes ago #nigelfarage now saying #ukip breakthrough in 2020 - no earthquake this year - making excuses early to save his job? I don't think he wants to be an MP, to be frank. He's probab...

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Ooh Jaffa Cakes, that's a nice welcome, thanks everyone. I've been off GU for a week and I'm certainly not missing the random coloured rectangles or the troll-infested comments. This place has an alltogether warmer ambience. It's fair to say the reaction to IDS' latest masterpiece from the handful ...

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Toby Latimer wrote:Oops ! too late. Sorry ephie

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Naughty boy Toby! I saw what you saved that *.jpg as!

(EstherMcVeyMassuerRequired)

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Interesting piece on ID cards being used in Scotland http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/02/10/comment-buried-in-a-minor-consultation-scotland-s-id-cards-p" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I had my first ID card at the age of 12 and was very disappointed when it ...

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The game changer: US health group eyes up NHS contracts

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 34872.html

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Ha, ha, ha!

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Morning! Well, this is the rumour I've been expecting .... and no doubt it will be true by the time of the GE so that nothing can be done to find out about the taxpayer owned properties within a fully commercial environment where perhaps 1 shareholder will not be the SoS for Health. This will be, IM...

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I can't explain why but I've never "taken" to Jack Straw (that's my shorthand for "I can't stand him, the pompous pr..k and the sooner he retires from politics and travels to some foreign country, the better". But I also can't stand Norman (LibDem) Baker so this time ..... 2015-0...

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Shale Fracking. What's happening here?

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I miss my garden, the birds. Now I'm sadly looking out on tarmac, pavements, little patches of green grass and cultured shrubs in front of mixed houses in that rusty/grey mix of bricks. I no longer have snowdrops, crocus, tulips and daffodils. I am also missing my conservatory and patio doors. But t...

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EDITED to delete as Stephen had answered PK1's question about what Robinson had "said". Reminder too Giselle - read all before posting!

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Some news from 4 February 2015 on TTIP: http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/french-senate-tells-ttip-negotiators-abolish-isds-311823 This seems to be the direction the EU is moving on TTIP. I believe the negotiations on ISDS have been suspended, as it is looking less and less likely TTIP...

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Some news from 4 February 2015 on TTIP:

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade- ... sds-311823

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Where are voluntary services heading and what can be done to stop this? The fortunes of voluntary services now hang on the coat tails of privatisation, the shrinking of collective responsibility for social protection and the future for public services. The future is looking bleak http://www.indepen...

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Morning all. I see David Gauke's taking after his boss's tactics of pointing the finger at Ed balls for anything that happened. Never mind the fact that Balls was in Education by June 2007....wait...of course...he controlled the Treasury from there too. And HSBC! Just makes them look silly I reckon...

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There's a fabulous e-mail from Roy Lilley arrived in my InBox just now. So much to agree with. About the NHS for England and Chris Ham of King's Fund Coalition Report. The best summary of what happened I think. http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=42307b19-d6b5-4c98-ae45-107f9e9d1ae3&am...

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Morning!

A brief glance at scrolling news bar and all there is are 4 letter words for me.

HSBC. TORY. BALLS. SICK. F**K.

Edited to clarify that BALLS refers to TORY calling Ed Balls to account for what he knew about HSBC as CIty MInister at the time.

Can the Labour Party recover?

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Hiyah Tubby! Bus from Miraflores, Costa Mijas to Fuengirola Train Station Train from Fuengirola to Malaga Train Station (and walk over road to Malaga Bus Station) Altos Coach (luxury, leather single seat, wi-fi, music) from Malaga to Alicante Bus Station (because I like the trip through the countrys...

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That's tell the SNP to shut up or put the Tories in territory. Actually that is more Labour /Lib Dem or Labour /SNP coalition territory. Tory Party doesn't have a shot at forming a government. I have often wondered if a post Clegg Lib Dem party would manage to work with Labour. Since the majority o...

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HSBC bank 'helped clients dodge millions in tax' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31248913 Britain's biggest bank helped wealthy clients cheat the UK out of millions of pounds in tax, the BBC has learned. Panorama has seen thousands of accounts from HSBC's private bank in Switzerland leaked by a ...

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And RebeccaRiots2 that b..........d bully in the red jacket on the horse should have been arrested for attempted murder because that's what he had in his head I bet .. to do that woman harm.

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