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- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 526
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Well, that clip just shows that Lucy is OK.
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 526
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Good morefternoon, all.
Tooth is worse again.
Tooth is worse again.
- Wed 14 Feb, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th February 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 422
Re: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Many of them will still do emergencies in fairly short order. As I said I'm not there yet, but....
- Wed 14 Feb, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th February 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 422
Re: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Tooth is a bit better, for anyone who is interested. Still think the dreaded visit to the dentist isn't that far off though
- Tue 13 Feb, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th February 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 646
Re: Tuesday 13th February 2024
The local Labour party in Hyndburn is a bin fire, in no small part thanks to him. That may be another reason why they acted so quick.
(plus of course it is easier to suspend a PPC than someone already on a ballot paper)
(plus of course it is easier to suspend a PPC than someone already on a ballot paper)
- Tue 13 Feb, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th February 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 646
Re: Tuesday 13th February 2024
I wonder if the US media will give this as much coverage as Biden's age related shortcomings?
- Tue 13 Feb, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th February 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 646
Re: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Dillow is intelligent enough to know Starmer didn't pick Ali personally.
- Mon 12 Feb, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 12th February 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 453
- Mon 12 Feb, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 12th February 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 453
Re: Monday 12th February 2024
Labour have "withdrawn support" for their Rochdale candidate, though he will still appear as such on the ballot paper.
- Mon 12 Feb, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 12th February 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 453
Re: Monday 12th February 2024
Good morefternoon, all.
Tooth pain is no fun is it?
Tooth pain is no fun is it?
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1041
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Labour's candidate - sigh.
They really should have picked Paul Waugh shouldn't they.
They really should have picked Paul Waugh shouldn't they.
- Sat 10 Feb, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1041
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
I'm going on what was actually voted on at the time. You prefer a BBC summary (no actual quote, you will notice) of what Starmer supposedly said. OK then, but being permanently outraged will do you no good. The reality is that a UK opposition party has next to no power to change anything in this con...
- Sat 10 Feb, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1041
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
You do know that collective responsibility applies in these things, if you look at the motion Labour proposed for that debate it was totally reasonable. Starmer understood a few front benchers wouldn't feel able to vote for it, and accepted their departures totally amicably. It was all a stunt by th...
- Sat 10 Feb, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1041
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
The leadership line has been "a *sustainable* ceasefire" for a while now.
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th February 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 355
Re: Friday 9th February 2024
The fact it is Evan Davis as well, neither personally or politically is he the sort you would expect to go full attack dog on government ministers.
(but maybe that made it all the more effective, as she was less prepared for it)
(but maybe that made it all the more effective, as she was less prepared for it)
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th February 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 355
Re: Friday 9th February 2024
Its a shame his personal issues derailed what seemed to be a politician with genuine potential.
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
And......James Daly has a combover?
Must admit I have always noticed more his truly incredible forehead, which gives Brendan O'Neill a run for his money.
Must admit I have always noticed more his truly incredible forehead, which gives Brendan O'Neill a run for his money.
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
I presume you mean Daisy Cooper there, Sky?
Rosie Cooper is a now retired Labour MP (though she was previously a LibDem)
Rosie Cooper is a now retired Labour MP (though she was previously a LibDem)
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Yes, that was definitely not something I would have recommended. But as I said, its how a lot of people think!
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Taking a more optimistic view (yes, I know) this might actually be a case of one side getting a headline "win" (formally dropping the £28 bn figure) but most of the actual substance behind it being retained. And somebody did make the point many voters will relate more easily to smaller (th...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Ah, good to see Streeting on the TV - that so rarely happens after all.
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Sunak won't apologise for yesterday, but at the same time he keeps referring to Brianna as "she/her".
If he really meant what he said, he would be using "he/him".
If he really meant what he said, he would be using "he/him".
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 614
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
I think it may be possible to be too cynical about today - it might just be this depressing saga's "Sir, have you really no sense of decency?" moment. Let's hope so but from what I can see all it seems to have done, outside of a few honourable exceptions, is entrench both sides. One thing...
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 614
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
I think it may be possible to be too cynical about today - it might just be this depressing saga's "Sir, have you really no sense of decency?" moment.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 614
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
He's trying to have it both ways and annoying everybody. Which is very typical of him.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 614
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Oh dear, Sunak excelled himself at PMQs.
- Tue 06 Feb, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 725
Re: Tuesday 6th February 2024
In today's £28 billion news, Starmer appears to still be sticking with it as at least an "aspiration". Deliberate pushback against the Treasury team?
- Tue 06 Feb, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 725
Re: Tuesday 6th February 2024
And he is today trying to row back on it. saying "I'm not a betting man" - it then emerges he spread bet on cricket matches back in 2005.
Why is Sunak so bad at this stuff?
Why is Sunak so bad at this stuff?
- Mon 05 Feb, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 5th February 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 550
Re: Monday 5th February 2024
I deplore media trivia about the royals as much as the next guy, but this is a big story and there is no point pretending otherwise.
- Mon 05 Feb, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 5th February 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 550
Re: Monday 5th February 2024
Whatever you think of that sentiment.....really? Most people are fairly pragmatically pro-business, as long as its not bad business.
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Anyway.....who are this Man United who are scoring goals for fun - do you recognise them Sky?? Finally getting most of the first team back fit has obviously made a difference, Martinez especially so let's hope his knee isn't another long term injury. I'm really happy for Hojlund, he's been busting ...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Not just unfeasible, but illegal - standing in multiple constituencies simultaneously was outlawed a while ago.
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Anyway.....who are this Man United who are scoring goals for fun - do you recognise them Sky??
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Purely as a matter of record, the only country other than Turkey that explicitly *denies* the Armenian Genocide is Pakistan. Israel has not recognised it as such, but several groups in the country have urged the government to do so. Strangely enough, that is also the UK government's position (the US...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Did you believe every press rumour during the Corbyn years as well? Just saying. I can imagine it will be a manifesto that front benchers feel comfortable defending and the Tories have trouble convincingly attacking. That's not the same as saying it won't contain anything substantive. Think of the d...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
They have suspended MPs for using (whether deliberately or not) inflammatory language. I mean, can even passionately pro-Palestinian people not see that DIRECTLY COMPARING Israel's current actions to the Holocaust is deeply, profoundly offensive to 99.9% of Jews - regardless of their views on the wa...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
So she would have remembered him from a random encounter five years earlier? OK then.
Oh and Labour have done plenty of criticising Israeli actions. Just because they don't use the simplistic phrase "ceasefire now" doesn't alter that.
Oh and Labour have done plenty of criticising Israeli actions. Just because they don't use the simplistic phrase "ceasefire now" doesn't alter that.
- Sat 03 Feb, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
I think your closing assumption there is correct, and likely applies across the political spectrum. They just aren't in a mood to take chances right now.
- Sat 03 Feb, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
England almost getting ambushed by Italy (who they have never lost to) as well.
- Sat 03 Feb, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
The fact remains, they had no idea who he was and so could not presume he did not mean harm.
- Sat 03 Feb, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
I dunno, there might be reasons why politicians are currently a bit jumpy about people invading their gatherings unannounced.
But who cares about that eh?
But who cares about that eh?
- Sat 03 Feb, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2923
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
I mean its not an actual political party is it, rather a vanity project (and rarely has that term been more appropriate) for Fox.
Bankrolled by one shady individual to boot.
Bankrolled by one shady individual to boot.
- Fri 02 Feb, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 2nd February 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1026
Re: Friday 2nd February 2024
Though the BBC say that about Hamas partly because their reporting regularly shows Israel in a bad light.
- Fri 02 Feb, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 2nd February 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1026
Re: Friday 2nd February 2024
Good morefternoon to anybody who is here.
- Thu 01 Feb, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 1st February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1204
Re: Thursday 1st February 2024
Brexit won the referendum in large part due to being all things to all people.
A strength in the short term, but it has meant almost everybody being unsatisfied as the reality becomes ever clearer.
A strength in the short term, but it has meant almost everybody being unsatisfied as the reality becomes ever clearer.
- Thu 01 Feb, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 1st February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1204
Re: Thursday 1st February 2024
That's a pretty dreadful panel all round, are you going to dare to watch it?
- Wed 31 Jan, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 31st January 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1085
Re: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Yes, credit for him there at least - seeing Bridgen as an idiot is one of the few areas where he agrees with us tbf
- Wed 31 Jan, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 31st January 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1085
Re: Wednesday 31st January 2024
PMQs not as bad for Sunak as last week, that isn't saying much though.
- Tue 30 Jan, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th January 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1552
Re: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Oh, one more thing. I'm no great fan of Streeting as even you would admit, but that was a short clip from a much longer interview - when he placed things in a wider context; both calling out the Tories for scapegoating trans people, and making clear this was a minor issue compared to NHS problems mo...
- Tue 30 Jan, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th January 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1552
Re: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Yes I do - and unlike you, I was actually around for that. And do you know how that was overcome? By campaigning organisations, over time, taking people with them. Not saying - as much of the pro-trans lobby has done - "we are right and if you don't agree with us tough". In particular the ...