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- Fri 08 Dec, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 8th December 2023
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1935
Re: Friday 8th December 2023
Good morning. Thanks for the QT review, sky. I wonder if the Labour powers-that-be had a word with Dodds, to be a bit more animated after her previous showing. Unfortunately there's sfa in the Labour prospectus to be enthusiastic about and it showed. As for Monbiot It was hard to disagree with anyth...
- Thu 07 Dec, 2023 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2239
Re: Thursday 7th December 2023
RIP Benjamin Zephaniah.
- Thu 07 Dec, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2239
Re: Thursday 7th December 2023
In his LBC interview this morning Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, played down the significance of Robert Jenrick’s resignation last night as immigration minister over the Rwanda bill. He said: I don’t think it’s as big a story as is being made. I generally don’t like anybody re...
- Thu 07 Dec, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2239
- Thu 07 Dec, 2023 10:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2239
Re: Thursday 7th December 2023
I wonder how widely it'll be reported.
- Tue 05 Dec, 2023 9:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th December 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1976
Re: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Tim Stanley as well, yesterday. Leopards, faces.
- Mon 04 Dec, 2023 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1643
Re: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
We are not amazed.
- Mon 04 Dec, 2023 10:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1643
Re: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
'the voice of a handful of cranks'
- Mon 04 Dec, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1643
Re: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
McTernan's got out of the right (left) side of the bed today though. James Meadway @meadwaj Starting the week agreeing with ex Blair adviser @johnmcternan : “Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher in the Sunday Telegraph… wins over no wavering voters but risks losing the goodwill of a wide range...
- Mon 04 Dec, 2023 9:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1643
Re: Monday 4th Decemeber 2023
Sure he was.McFadden insisted that Starmer was paying tribute to her effectiveness, not her policies.
- Sat 02 Dec, 2023 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd December 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2565
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd December 2023
Did that change? Serious in Kendal & Ambleside apparently, plenty of stranded day-trippers I expect.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Sat 02 Dec, 2023 2:43 pm Snowing here today, though it isn't settling too much.
Just f***ing freezing here.
- Sat 02 Dec, 2023 10:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd December 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2565
- Sat 02 Dec, 2023 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd December 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2565
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd December 2023
We knew that from the beginning, when she did that embarrassing scripted Q&A with Johnson. Yes-woman.
- Fri 01 Dec, 2023 10:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st December 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1455
Re: Friday 1st December 2023
Good morning.
Thanks for the QT review, sky.
For me, Layla Moran couldn't outweigh McVey & Neil so I didn't watch at all, you've confirmed that was the right decision.
Of course irl Moran is worth at least 100 of the two of them combined.
Thanks for the QT review, sky.
For me, Layla Moran couldn't outweigh McVey & Neil so I didn't watch at all, you've confirmed that was the right decision.
Of course irl Moran is worth at least 100 of the two of them combined.
- Thu 30 Nov, 2023 11:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th November 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2166
- Tue 28 Nov, 2023 10:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th November 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2214
Re: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Good morning.
Any Succession fans here, I haven't watched much of it but I know what he means.
Any Succession fans here, I haven't watched much of it but I know what he means.
- Sat 25 Nov, 2023 10:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3591
Re: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November 2023
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.
- Sat 25 Nov, 2023 10:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3591
Re: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November 2023
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...
- Sat 25 Nov, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3591
Re: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November 2023
Good morning.
Oh look, Labour are disappointing us again.
Oh look, Labour are disappointing us again.
- Thu 23 Nov, 2023 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd November 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3049
Re: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Be nice if he'd thought of that before the referendum.
- Thu 23 Nov, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd November 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3049
Re: Thursday 23rd November 2023
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
Go on Starmer & Reeves, surprise us.
* and us
- Thu 23 Nov, 2023 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd November 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3049
Re: Thursday 23rd November 2023
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...
- Thu 23 Nov, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd November 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3049
Re: Thursday 23rd November 2023
• 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...
- Wed 22 Nov, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1606
Re: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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...
- Mon 20 Nov, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 20th November 2023
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1078
Re: Monday 20th November 2023
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...
- Sun 19 Nov, 2023 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2641
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
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.
- Fri 17 Nov, 2023 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th November 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1444
Re: Friday 17th November 2023
But disbelieve them when they're telling us the truth.
- Fri 17 Nov, 2023 9:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th November 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1444
Re: Friday 17th November 2023
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.
It seems we're supposed to believe the Israeli govt/IDF when they're lying to us.
- Fri 17 Nov, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th November 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1444
Re: Friday 17th November 2023
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.
- Fri 17 Nov, 2023 11:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th November 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1444
Re: Friday 17th November 2023
He's done a piece for the Institute for Govt.RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Fri 17 Nov, 2023 8:48 am Morning.
From the former head of the Government Legal Service.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... k-response
- Thu 16 Nov, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th November 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1570
Re: Thursday 16th November 2023
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...
- Wed 15 Nov, 2023 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2738
Re: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Jess Phillips tho? That'll be a sight for sore eyes.
- Wed 15 Nov, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2738
Re: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Sunak just isn't very good at politics.
- Wed 15 Nov, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2738
Re: Wednesday 15th November 2023
I think Labour were clear for once, they wouldn't implement it.
- Wed 15 Nov, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2738
Re: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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...
- Wed 15 Nov, 2023 10:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2738
Re: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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...
- Wed 15 Nov, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2738
Re: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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...
- Tue 14 Nov, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th November 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1834
Re: Tuesday 14th November 2023
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,...
- Mon 13 Nov, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 13th November 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2598
- Mon 13 Nov, 2023 10:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 13th November 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2598
- Mon 13 Nov, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 13th November 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2598
Re: Monday 13th November 2023
As if he hadn't caused enough trouble already.
- Fri 10 Nov, 2023 12:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 10th November 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1231
Re: Friday 10th November 2023
Freedman is disappointed in the JC?
Where's he been?
Where's he been?
- Thu 09 Nov, 2023 12:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th November 2023
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1688
Re: Thursday 9th November 2023
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...
- Sun 05 Nov, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1840
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
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 ...
- Sun 05 Nov, 2023 11:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1840
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
Listen to your body, rest up.
- Sat 04 Nov, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1840
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
Good morning.
Our Home Secretary. How low can she go?
Our Home Secretary. How low can she go?
- Fri 03 Nov, 2023 10:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: friday 3rd November 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1180
Re: friday 3rd November 2023
Not sure what Ed Balls said to precipitate this, but I found it amusing anyway
- Thu 02 Nov, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd November 2023
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2394
Re: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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...
- Thu 02 Nov, 2023 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd November 2023
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2394
Re: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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...
- Wed 01 Nov, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st November 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1596
Re: Wednesday 1st November 2023
@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
Here's a review of 'Party Marty' at the inquiry.
The fog of bores