Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Re: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Is there a problem with the sound in the BBC's coverage of the Labour Party Conference? It only ever sounds as if one or two people are applauding. It makes it sound a lack-lustre affair. Or is this common to all of their conference coverage? I can't rightly remember (other than to say that I do remember that it was the same for the last Labour Party Conference).
Re: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
BBC Parliament has flipped to covering the Scottish Parliament. So I assume Ed Miliband's speech is to be broadcast on BBC News24 (which means there's no escape from Andrew Neil). I'm confused.
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oh god. Neil, Robinson and Falconer on one screen. I think I may see my breakfast again.
Wot? no vomit icon? I want one and I'm going to stamp my feet until we get one.
Wot? no vomit icon? I want one and I'm going to stamp my feet until we get one.
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Ye are many - they are few."
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
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DLT guilty!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many - they are few."
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many - they are few."
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PorFavor wrote:BBC Parliament has flipped to covering the Scottish Parliament. So I assume Ed Miliband's speech is to be broadcast on BBC News24 (which means there's no escape from Andrew Neil). I'm confused.
BBC2, but still no escape from Andrew Neil I'm afraid.
He hasn't been as bad as Jo Coburn so far.
Did any FTNers take up the Labour email asking for their pics to put up behind Ed today ?
Will wave anyway.
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If I recall correctly, the same happened last year with the energy companies - didn't affect them for long & certainly hasn't put any of them out of business.Before the details were made clear in Miliband’s speech, shares in British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco were down by around 1.5%, underperforming the rest of the market.
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BBC miss the start of EM speech for DLT.
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Re: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
£21.5 billion from VAT receipts & income taxUK public finances show no improvement
The latest UK public finances are out, and they show that Britain borrowed more last month than in August 2013, despite the strong growth over the last year.
VAT receipts increased by £0.3 billion, or 3.2% to £10.2 billion
income tax related payments increased by £0.3 billion, or 2.4% to £11.3 billion
stamp duties (on shares, land & property) increased by £0.2 billion, or 24.1% to £1.3 billion
corporation tax increased by £0.2 billion, or 17.2% to £1.5 billion
http://www.theguardian.com/business/liv ... a19dddfb9f
£2.8 billion from stamp duties (shares, land & property) & corporation tax
You Tory sonsofbiscuits
Revenue taken off workers through PAYE &
VAT - those on smaller incomes lose a greater proportion of their income than those with greater incomes
Over 88.5% of total government revenue comes from these regressive tax measure
While corporations & unearned income generate 11.5% of government revenue
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yahyah wrote:PorFavor wrote:BBC Parliament has flipped to covering the Scottish Parliament. So I assume Ed Miliband's speech is to be broadcast on BBC News24 (which means there's no escape from Andrew Neil). I'm confused.
BBC2, but still no escape from Andrew Neil I'm afraid.
He hasn't been as bad as Jo Coburn so far.
Did any FTNers take up the Labour email asking for their pics to put up behind Ed today ?
Will wave anyway.
Thanks for the information. So I've missed the beginning (as did BBC News24).
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He's going to be talking for 80 minutes, if I heard Neil correctly, so there'll be plenty more to hear.
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I pointed that out to MichaelSylvain on Twitter. He was saying there's nothing to choose between them. I asked him were Labour and Coalition the same on Saving the NHS? Surely it was worth voting Labour for that alone?citizenJA wrote:Tish wrote:As well as the damage another Tory government would do to the country as a whole, I think the left wing critics pushing the "Labour are just the same, there's no point voting for them" line need to face up to what will happen to Labour if they do lose this election.
I get the feeling the nay-sayers don't think so, which I find appalling. If we can't rescue our health service, the lower and middle classes are going to be forking out appalling sums for decent health care if not going bankrupt. The slightly younger generation have been spoilt when it comes to their free healthcare. Some of them really have no idea. I daresay when it comes to polling day they'll vote for Labour, but the negative and snide comments aren't doing much to get the don't-knowers on board.
A few pennies extra on taxes or even dare I say it capped family allowance for a bit is less than peanuts if we don't get the Tories out. We've all spoken about the huge sums the Tories have wasted, but the public don't really know about it because of the lies. There will be some huge black holes of debt in many of the departments.
Negativity helps no-one.
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Welcome to the club that most of us would have preferred to not join.RobertSnozers wrote:I apologise for my language earlier, but basically that does it. The Graun is officially dead to me. I had been largely boycotting the paper since I stopped commenting, but somehow I always thought things would get better and I would go back. I now know that was foolish, there is no way back and it feels a bit like leaving the country of my birth. It's been the paper my father read back as long as I can remember, and certainly before I was born. For most of my adult life I have considered myself a Guardian reader, in the same way that for most of my adult life I've seen myself as a Labour supporter, a motorsport nut, a history buff, a words person rather than a numbers person. It's been part of my DNA, so forgive my self indulgence when I say that today a little bit of me has died. If I ever meet Alan Rusbridger, a little bit of him will die too.
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Michael White is an irrelevance, has been for years. All this internet here was fields the last time he wrote something worth reading.PorFavor wrote:RobertSnozers wrote:This is the story bar on the Labour conference on the homepage of the Guardian website:
Fuck off Guardian. Just fuck off. That's the last time I visit your website ever.Labour conference
Welcome to the political future
John Harris video: Britain after the referendum.
John Harris visits Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester and meets people engaged, fired-up – and disconnected from the big parties, not least Labour
Dearth of big Labour beasts at conference bodes ill for party's future
Michael White
Ed Miliband phrase generator
Use our random phrase generator to rearrange Ed Miliband's words into exciting new political quotes
Why personal ratings may not matter
Miliband joins Instagram, is offered biscuit
Hello.
I can't be bothered to read the Michael White article which you mention above. But that doesn't stop me from wondering who Michael White considers to be the "big beasts". I'd take a guess that he means super-annuated "Blairites", though.
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Sound synch seems to have glitched - strangely, so it makes Ed seem slightly off.
BBC should be able to get that right.
BBC should be able to get that right.
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Ha! I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound quite like that . . . .ErnstRemarx wrote:
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Watching Ed talking without a script to a massive room filled with people & finding it hard to reconcile the person I'm watching with the common perception of him being awkward, inept & unable to lead a country.
What he's doing takes balls far bigger than any of his detractors possess.
What he's doing takes balls far bigger than any of his detractors possess.
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Btl at the other place is predictably trollish at the minute
Ed is doing fine, though.
Ed is doing fine, though.
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From the AS blog re Ed''s speech
For a party conference speech, this has an unusually coherent and logical structure.
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The better the speech, the harder they troll.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Btl at the other place is predictably trollish at the minute
Ed is doing fine, though.
I'm real sorry some people think rubbishing someone who wants more people in this country to have access to greater prosperity, health & stability is a good way to spend their time.
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@RobertSnozers:
It's been part of my DNA, so forgive my self indulgence when I say that today a little bit of me has died. If I ever meet Alan Rusbridger, a little bit of him will die too.
You'll get trampled in the rush...
It's been part of my DNA, so forgive my self indulgence when I say that today a little bit of me has died. If I ever meet Alan Rusbridger, a little bit of him will die too.
You'll get trampled in the rush...
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jesus, don't act so surprised, Sparrowdanesclose wrote:From the AS blog re Ed''s speech
For a party conference speech, this has an unusually coherent and logical structure.
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pk1 wrote:Watching Ed talking without a script to a massive room filled with people & finding it hard to reconcile the person I'm watching with the common perception of him being awkward, inept & unable to lead a country.
What he's doing takes balls far bigger than any of his detractors possess.
Agree
Also hard to reconcile what I see with the media spin that he is ugly or weird.
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That twit Sunny whatever his name is. He twittered or in his case bleated that there wasn't much substance to Eds speech.
So I asked him what didn't he understand about Ed saying he wouldn't make promises unless he was certain he could keep them... Twat. - except I didn't add twat. I didn't think of it at the time.
So I asked him what didn't he understand about Ed saying he wouldn't make promises unless he was certain he could keep them... Twat. - except I didn't add twat. I didn't think of it at the time.
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Whoops he just lost the Yorkshire vote
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Hurrah for Ed articulating the principles of Socialist Internationalism. I could have written that for him!
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This is fantastically strong stuff on the EU.
Brave in the extreme.
Brave in the extreme.
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As an aside to the Labour conference, an interesting article from today's Telegraph
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I picture them hunched over a table in a cafe or over their desks, sniggering because they're being clever and upsetting the regulars...They probably won't even lift their sorry asses off a chair and vote.citizenJA wrote:The better the speech, the harder they troll.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Btl at the other place is predictably trollish at the minute
Ed is doing fine, though.
I'm real sorry some people think rubbishing someone who wants more people in this country to have access to greater prosperity, health & stability is a good way to spend their time.
If it didn't mean the innocent would suffer I'd say serves em right when they are on the phone arguing with the insurance company because they can't afford test strips for their diabetes or have a handicapped child and have to hold a fund raising event in the neighbourhood in order to get a correct diagnoses and assessment. Or getting in a drunken rage in A&E because they don't think they should pay for their self inflicted injuries. And chances are they're well educated if not well brought up.
I can't see working class kids bothering to waste their time trolling...I think they'd feel it's a bit childish.
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Who would have thought he would have thought he would turn Better Together into his slogan?
Quite remarkable really.
Quite remarkable really.
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Who would have thought he would have thought he would turn Better Together into his slogan?
Quite remarkable really.
It'll be a red rag to some though.
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Have to pop back to say
Wow just wow.
How can anyone say he's odd - he looked and sounded (speech wise) gorgeous to me
Wow just wow.
How can anyone say he's odd - he looked and sounded (speech wise) gorgeous to me
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Blimey, it's a proper trollfest BTL. Not that CCHQ are worried, Miliband is weak after all.
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Well, I'm very impressed (as if I weren't already)! Ed Miliband has lifted my spirits. And so much ground covered.
I've had to switch off the TV, though. Bloody Andrew Neil.
I've had to switch off the TV, though. Bloody Andrew Neil.
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I'm happy I'm with you here.AngryAsWell wrote:Have to pop back to say
Wow just wow.
How can anyone say he's odd - he looked and sounded (speech wise) gorgeous to me
That speech was wonderful.
Thank you.
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Ed Balls
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JackPranker wrote:Ed Balls
Part of your post is missing.
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JackPranker wrote:Ed Balls
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Have I missed something?JackPranker wrote:Ed Balls
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Twitter is also predictably trollish, sadly the people doing it are the "We Are More Socialist Than You" badge wearers. Trying to remain polite, but .....AnatolyKasparov wrote:Btl at the other place is predictably trollish at the minute
Ed is doing fine, though.
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Not bad at all.
Andrew Neil must have agreed, because he is busy haranguing Burnham over ISIS instead
Andrew Neil must have agreed, because he is busy haranguing Burnham over ISIS instead
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@JackPranker
Well, at least you can be happy in the knowledge that some of us are hanging on your every word. All two of them, in this instance . . .
Well, at least you can be happy in the knowledge that some of us are hanging on your every word. All two of them, in this instance . . .
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I thought it was brave how he defended both the Union and the EU from an internationalist standpoint. He more or less explicitly told Murdoch and the rest to bugger off and I admire him for it.yahyah wrote:PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Who would have thought he would have thought he would turn Better Together into his slogan?
Quite remarkable really.
It'll be a red rag to some though.
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I was reminded of Ed Ball's self-referential foray on Twitter. PaulfromYorkshire remembers it too, by the look of it.PorFavor wrote:@JackPranker
Well, at least you can be happy in the knowledge that some of us are hanging on your every word. All two of them, in this instance . . .
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Where, where?JackPranker wrote:Ed Balls
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Trying to get Nick Robinson involved in a game of football...ohsocynical wrote:Where, where?JackPranker wrote:Ed Balls
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JackPranker wrote:Trying to get Nick Robinson involved in a game of football...ohsocynical wrote:Where, where?JackPranker wrote:Ed Balls
That would be worth watching.
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The Tories respond to Ed's speech by highlighting the mansion tax
They then say
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Andrew Sparrow (Guardian), in his "Snap Verdict" has rated Ed Miliband's speech as "tedious". Is that like the Guardianspeak word "poignant"?
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How dare they respond that way? After the bedroom tax evacuations?PaulfromYorkshire
The Tories respond to Ed's speech by highlighting the mansion tax
& (the images you've posted)
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Possibly best I don't give my opinion of Mr Sylvain.ohsocynical wrote:I pointed that out to MichaelSylvain on Twitter. He was saying there's nothing to choose between them. I asked him were Labour and Coalition the same on Saving the NHS? Surely it was worth voting Labour for that alone?citizenJA wrote:Tish wrote:As well as the damage another Tory government would do to the country as a whole, I think the left wing critics pushing the "Labour are just the same, there's no point voting for them" line need to face up to what will happen to Labour if they do lose this election.
I get the feeling the nay-sayers don't think so, which I find appalling. If we can't rescue our health service, the lower and middle classes are going to be forking out appalling sums for decent health care if not going bankrupt. The slightly younger generation have been spoilt when it comes to their free healthcare. Some of them really have no idea. I daresay when it comes to polling day they'll vote for Labour, but the negative and snide comments aren't doing much to get the don't-knowers on board.
A few pennies extra on taxes or even dare I say it capped family allowance for a bit is less than peanuts if we don't get the Tories out. We've all spoken about the huge sums the Tories have wasted, but the public don't really know about it because of the lies. There will be some huge black holes of debt in many of the departments.
Negativity helps no-one.
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