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Good morning.

Any Succession fans here, I haven't watched much of it but I know what he means.

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Sat 25 Nov, 2023 1:26 pm Anyone else got ice? My birdbath is frozen and there's still crunchy frost where the sun hasn't got to it. Looks like Winter has arrived a little early.

A bit icy here this am, and we had a few minutes of snow.

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Peter Apps @PeteApps "A senior source in the Labour leader's office stressed that Labour's fiscal rules were more important than any policy." We are not being given the chance to vote for investment, only who can better manage underinvestment. Remember, the state built social housing, the...

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Good morning.

Oh look, Labour are disappointing us again.

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Be nice if he'd thought of that before the referendum.

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Hard not to conclude that the tories have worked out that Labour won't push back on any of this, thereby setting them* up for a pretty disastrous 5 years.

Go on Starmer & Reeves, surprise us.

* and us

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Rishi Sunak’s personal ratings fall almost as short as his trouser legs. Like it. "Mr Hunt is, by the narrowest of tiny margins, still on course to meet his (poorly designed) fiscal rule that debt as a fraction of national income should be falling in the last year of the forecast period. In re...

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• Tax burden will be highest level since Second World War History of recent tory govts tells us that they tend to cut income tax, which benefits the pensioners, and raise NI, which doesn't affect them. But it seems the cut will apply from January, not April. This is possible for NI but not for inco...

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Not really. This is the start of an interesting thread, as with everything Israel/Palestine related, no way to know the truth. Can't see an unroll at present. https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1727165394904137940 https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1727165530539454963 Includes the line &qu...

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Good morning. John Glen finding a mechanism to try and ration that [the winter fuel payment] is very difficult because our HMRC system will look at household incomes. These are the sorts of mechanics of government you’ve got to look at. Is it better if we spent more of that money on child poverty? I...

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Nearly 884,000 internally displaced persons are sheltering in 154 UNRWA installations across all five governorates of the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees announced on Sunday.

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But disbelieve them when they're telling us the truth.

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Apparently Hamas HQ is in Khan Younis now.

It seems we're supposed to believe the Israeli govt/IDF when they're lying to us.

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I think we should stop listening to Sue Ellen. Has she heard of habeus corpus?

Those arriving here illegally must be detained
Legal challenges to detention must be excluded to avoid burdening the courts, making it clear that detention is mandated until removal.

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RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Fri 17 Nov, 2023 8:48 am Morning.

From the former head of the Government Legal Service.

He's done a piece for the Institute for Govt.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... k-response

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I have a problem with them not realising they are utterly powerless to prevent it. If every single Labour councillor and party member resigned "in disgust at Starmer" tomorrow, it would not save the life of a single Gazan child. The letter specifically says they that they know nothing wou...

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Jess Phillips tho? That'll be a sight for sore eyes.

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Sunak just isn't very good at politics.

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I think Labour were clear for once, they wouldn't implement it.

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Leave the ECHR, you say? The principle of non-refoulement is therefore given effect not only by the ECHR but also by other international conventions to which the United Kingdom is party. It is a core principle of international law, to which the United Kingdom government has repeatedly committed itse...

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The central issue in the present case is therefore not the good faith of the government of Rwanda at the political level, but its practical ability to fulfil its assurances, at least in the short term, in the light of the present deficiencies of the Rwandan asylum system, the past and continuing pr...

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Supreme court concludes Rwanda policy unlawful because of risks to asylum seekers being sent there Reed says, given this evidence, the court of appeal concluded that there were good grounds for thinking asylum seekers going to Rwanda were at risk. He says the supreme court is unanimously of the vie...

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I'm going to tell you something that may shock you, but still - literally nothing that anyone does in the UK parliament on this is going to make any difference. All the more reason to be on the right side of history imo. Same applies here preparing the party for how it will be in government - when,...

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As if he hadn't caused enough trouble already.

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Freedman is disappointed in the JC?

Where's he been?

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Downing Street has disowned the Suella Braverman article in the Times. At the No 10 lobby briefing, which has just ended, the PM’s spokesperson said the article was “not cleared by No 10”. Will Sunak surprise us all by finally sacking her. Tbf, it seems to be what she wants. Article is reproduced i...

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Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_ On the 6th October 2023 I shared a link on X to a Mail Online article entitled ‘Militant union leader at the heart of doctors strikes is a Labour activist who boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift. I accept that my words were misleading as the subject ...

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Listen to your body, rest up.

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Good morning.

Our Home Secretary. How low can she go?

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Not sure what Ed Balls said to precipitate this, but I found it amusing anyway

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I'll take pity on the nesters who complain about AK's cryptic comments, here you go Gary Neville @GNev2 In the last 4 days we’ve seen right in front of our eyes where you end up with over a decade of awful decisions. Fortunes wasted, anger turned to apathy, our reputation destroyed at home and in Eu...

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Gary Neville's tweet this morning is a genuine cracker. It is, though if you look at the replies it's clearly too clever for some of his followers, who appear a tad confused. Re football, I wonder how many Boro fans thought it would be a good idea to take the family camping in Devon for half term s...

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@sky, sorry to hear you've got the 'rona, how many others at that wedding have it too, I wonder. Hopefully not the bride and groom.

Here's a review of 'Party Marty' at the inquiry.

The fog of bores

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Starmer says he is not suprised by the level of support for a ceasefire. People want to alleviate the suffering. But he says he has asked if a ceasefire would be right if it would allow Hamas to carry out further attacks, and if it would not bring back the hostages. And so that is he s not calling ...

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Good morning. This morning Richard Holden, a transport minister, was doing the broadcast round for No 10 and he had to defend the government’s handling of Covid in the light of the evidence revealed at the inquiry. He argued that the WhatsApp revelations were just “tittle tattle” When you're in a ho...

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I'm sure you've seen this by now but

Starlink will support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza.

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'Very serious plagiarism scandal' seems a bit OTT tho. It's only a book.

Crispin Blunt, otoh.

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Wed 25 Oct, 2023 3:37 pm Honestly what's the point of voting for these clowns? Absolutely fucking useless. You simply cannot believe a single word they say.

Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England

Only a matter of time before the cancellation of the badger cull goes the same way.

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Sky last night Yes Israel is our ally, hence the recent support of our security services in ratifying their account of the hospital bombing, but it's not an ally so beloved that it can murder thousands of civilians without revulsion despite what Tim and the freaks around him might think. "The E...

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The King.

Of course you don't have to look far for the context, Netanyahu and his reprehensible allies would like the Palestinians in the West Bank to go to Jordan, just as he'd like the Gazans to move to Egypt.

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Good morning.

There's always a tweet.

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Curtice on Toady it was reasonable to argue 24 hours ago – that the Conservative party faces the serious prospect of losing the next general election heavily, and maybe even more heavily than they did in 1997. Let me just give you one illustration as to why one might say that. I’ve got in front of m...

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That graphic was originally meant as satire when I saw it a while ago, calling out the performative cruelty.

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Congrats to Scotland, but the sporting story of the day surely is the rugby.
Who'd have predicted the only European team in the semis would be England.

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Good morning. I, for one, didn't know about Blunt's pro-Palestinian views. Don't know if anyone else reads Chris Dillow's blog, I recommend it to you not least for his description of current affairs programmes as poshcuntstalkshitshows . ON REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM The Tories might have learned from t...

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