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He's one of a few Lib Dem MPs I would be pleased to see re elected. He's a stalwart campaigner against the monstrous badger cull and has rebelled on several occasions.Lib Dem MP: there will not be another coalition with the Conservatives
Andrew George, MP for marginal seat of St Ives, told a public meeting there would be no repeat of 2010 deal
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... servatives" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Blimey - are things that bad? Gidiot's getting the CMP from...oh sorry - not that sort of 'line'...mea culpa!utopiandreams wrote:Good Morning. Lynton Crosby has finally succombed to George's requests for another line. After Ed's success with the ladies and his rising approval ratings since the Leaders' Debate, secret discussions have taken place between Lynton and a fellow compatriate. Dave shall now appear for a photo-shoot with the Sun's Page Three girls.
Reluctant to appear with Andrew Neil, Dave also agreed to an interview with Jo Coburn and was told to be especially nice, even to flirt a little. The recording is believed to have come to an abrupt and disorderly end when he was heard telling Jo he knew what colour panties she was wearing.
Lonewolfie wrote:Blimey - are things that bad? Gidiot's getting the CMP from...oh sorry - not that sort of 'line'...mea culpa!utopiandreams wrote:Good Morning. Lynton Crosby has finally succombed to George's requests for another line. After Ed's success with the ladies and his rising approval ratings since the Leaders' Debate, secret discussions have taken place between Lynton and a fellow compatriate. Dave shall now appear for a photo-shoot with the Sun's Page Three girls.
Reluctant to appear with Andrew Neil, Dave also agreed to an interview with Jo Coburn and was told to be especially nice, even to flirt a little. The recording is believed to have come to an abrupt and disorderly end when he was heard telling Jo he knew what colour panties she was wearing.
Edit for apostrophe - is the correct term 'bumboils'?
I admire Andrew George & his stance on the NHS. He spoke at the TUC's Save our NHS Rally in 2012.rebeccariots2 wrote:He's one of a few Lib Dem MPs I would be pleased to see re elected. He's a stalwart campaigner against the monstrous badger cull and has rebelled on several occasions.Lib Dem MP: there will not be another coalition with the Conservatives
Andrew George, MP for marginal seat of St Ives, told a public meeting there would be no repeat of 2010 deal
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... servatives" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But I'm not sure I would be as confident about him re no further coalition with the Tories. I think that will very much depend on whether Clegg is ousted or not.
Morning all.
EXCLUSIVE YOUGOV POLLING
Third of Labour supporters backed other parties in 2010
Where are Labour gaining their votes? YouGov has a group of over 30,000 voters whose voting intention we sought during the 2010 general election: we have re-interviewed them in the past few weeks (Stephan Shakespeare writes). It gives us a very reliable and precise view of how votes have switched over the five years.
As the chart shows, 67 per cent of Labour’s current support base voted for the party five years ago. Bear in mind that this study does not include the younger voters who have joined the electoral register since 2010 - a group that has a higher likelihood of voting Labour.
While Labour has lost 8.6 per cent of its 2010 vote to other parties and “don't know”, it has gained 10 per cent of the vote from others.
http://labourlist.org/2015/04/too-many- ... ed-people/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Invite disabled people to work with ministers on a cross-governmental committee to improve disability policy.
Meanwhile in Scotland, Ed Miliband will be addressing the Scottish TUC, who he will tell that the only guarantee of a Labour government comes from electing Labour MPs. I'm not sure this should even need to be said - but this is where Scottish politics is now. Scottish Trade Unionists are not universally pro-UK, so this may be a tougher audience than some that Miliband has faced on the campaign trail. But it could also be an opportunity to win hearts and minds too.
Elsewhere in Scotland, the SNP are launching their manifesto today. We're told that they're going to make an appeal to Northern England and Labour MPs, but lets remember that they didn't give a toss about Northern England when they were trying to leave the UK and set up Scotland as a tax-haven with corporation tax permanently below that of the rest of the UK. That was intended to poach northern jobs. Sturgeon's shtick won't work this time, because the north remembers.
This from the man that thinks he could be PM one day. What an enormous fucking twat ! I abhor the c-word but if I was ever to use it, it would be about the current Mayor of London.You wouldn’t get Herod to run a baby farm, would you? It would not normally occur to you to interview a convicted jewel thief for the post of custodian of the Tower of London.
You would not dream of asking a fox to look after the henhouse or a temperance campaigner to run a brewery or Attila the Hun to work as a doorkeeper for the Roman senate – and no one in their right mind would enter into a contract with a bunch of voracious weevils to protect the lovely old timbers in the tower of the local church. Would they?
Any such course of action would be totally nuts. So can someone tell me why in the name of all that is holy there are some apparently rational people who are even contemplating the elevation of the Scottish Nationalist Party to a position of effective dominance in the government of the United Kingdom – an entity that they are sworn to destroy?
It is therefore obvious to every serious political analyst that [Ed Miliband] would be in many ways the plaything of the SNP. Unless he has the support of that 40-plus bloc of Scottish secessionists, he will be stymied. If Miliband somehow manages to form a minority government, he will be peeping from Alec Salmond’s sporran like a baffled baby kangaroo. He would be the vacillating Macbeth, pushed hither and yon by Lady Macbeth, in the form of Nicola Sturgeon.
Did you see her the other night, telling him to man up, to screw his courage to the sticking place – to do what she told him to do because “you are not strong enough on your own”? The awful truth is that she is right. Without her help and her say-so, and without the support of Salmond and his troops in the Commons, there is not a single bill that Labour could get through.
How does that buffoon know all this? Has he had a sneak preview of the election results?pk1 wrote:I refuse to pay Johnson for clicks to his hyperbole so happily Andrew Sparrow has quoted from it:
This from the man that thinks he could be PM one day. What an enormous fucking twat ! I abhor the c-word but if I was ever to use it, it would be about the current Mayor of London.You wouldn’t get Herod to run a baby farm, would you? It would not normally occur to you to interview a convicted jewel thief for the post of custodian of the Tower of London.
You would not dream of asking a fox to look after the henhouse or a temperance campaigner to run a brewery or Attila the Hun to work as a doorkeeper for the Roman senate – and no one in their right mind would enter into a contract with a bunch of voracious weevils to protect the lovely old timbers in the tower of the local church. Would they?
Any such course of action would be totally nuts. So can someone tell me why in the name of all that is holy there are some apparently rational people who are even contemplating the elevation of the Scottish Nationalist Party to a position of effective dominance in the government of the United Kingdom – an entity that they are sworn to destroy?
It is therefore obvious to every serious political analyst that [Ed Miliband] would be in many ways the plaything of the SNP. Unless he has the support of that 40-plus bloc of Scottish secessionists, he will be stymied. If Miliband somehow manages to form a minority government, he will be peeping from Alec Salmond’s sporran like a baffled baby kangaroo. He would be the vacillating Macbeth, pushed hither and yon by Lady Macbeth, in the form of Nicola Sturgeon.
Did you see her the other night, telling him to man up, to screw his courage to the sticking place – to do what she told him to do because “you are not strong enough on your own”? The awful truth is that she is right. Without her help and her say-so, and without the support of Salmond and his troops in the Commons, there is not a single bill that Labour could get through.
It was good hearing from a friend I'd not read in awhile.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Morning and thanks Lady C
I just wanted to flag up some great stuff late yesterday evening here - not to be missed
We have a great ground rule for this, which Robert you've just followed to the letterRobertSnozers wrote:Sorry you deleted your post yahyah, I thought you spoke a lot of sense. And not just for quoting me, of courseyahyah wrote:Have deleted my second post too, if anyone thinks they are going mad and seeing things.
Going to spend the day in the garden tending seedlings etc. as I know I will end up offending someone otherwise.
I too will be brief for fear of giving offence, but I would like people to try and remember the excitement and hope there was around the LibDems last time, and for that reason try to see objectively those parties who seem to offer an old-style leftwing vision. I don't want to tell people who to vote for or not vote for - just to ask that they make sure they examine the reality of the party and vote with both heart and head. I wish someone had told me some home truths about the LibDems last time - but more than that I wish I'd had the sense to look for myself and not simply see what I wanted to see.
I love your voice here, Yahyah, & you're a beautiful friend. Enjoy your day.yahyah wrote:Have deleted my second post too, if anyone thinks they are going mad and seeing things.
Going to spend the day in the garden tending seedlings etc. as I know I will end up offending someone otherwise.
And I've just found out mine arrived on Saturday. Hell yes!!!!Swarthlander wrote:Good afternoon.![]()
Just to let those who are even remotely interestedmy Labour Party "Hell Yes" T-shirt arrived in todays post.
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 2m2 minutes ago
LAB moves to 2% lead with Populus
Lab 34 (nc) Con 32 (-1) LD 9 (nc) UKIP 15 (+1)
I voted LibDem last time...Read all the manifestos made sure I tuned in to listen to all sides. The LibDems made the most sense personally. Was very impressed with Cable's economic outlines.RobertSnozers wrote:Sorry you deleted your post yahyah, I thought you spoke a lot of sense. And not just for quoting me, of courseyahyah wrote:Have deleted my second post too, if anyone thinks they are going mad and seeing things.
Going to spend the day in the garden tending seedlings etc. as I know I will end up offending someone otherwise.
I too will be brief for fear of giving offence, but I would like people to try and remember the excitement and hope there was around the LibDems last time, and for that reason try to see objectively those parties who seem to offer an old-style leftwing vision. I don't want to tell people who to vote for or not vote for - just to ask that they make sure they examine the reality of the party and vote with both heart and head. I wish someone had told me some home truths about the LibDems last time - but more than that I wish I'd had the sense to look for myself and not simply see what I wanted to see.
No problem - if Ephie wants to.pk1 wrote:Labour are launching a manifesto for disabled people.
As part of it, they want tohttp://labourlist.org/2015/04/too-many- ... ed-people/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Invite disabled people to work with ministers on a cross-governmental committee to improve disability policy.
We have a disability specialist within our midst (as well as disabled FTNers) so what a brilliant opportunity to get involved![]()
@Ephe - Would you be interested in getting involved ?
@Ernst - if Ephe is interested, would you contact Rachel Reeves & lobby for her please ?
Why no Greens included on this?Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 1h1 hour ago
LAB moves to 2% lead with Populus
Lab 34 (nc) Con 32 (-1) LD 9 (nc) UKIP 15 (+1)
Todd Foreman is miffed about this and rightly so...The “Coalition for Marriage”, an anti-same sex marriage group, has distributed in North East Somerset a leaflet praising the Tory candidate, Jacob Rees-Mogg, for voting against same-sex marriage in Parliament. The leaflet says that Jacob Rees-Mogg “courageously” voted against same-sex marriage and says “Remember this when you vote on 7 May.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg should confirm whether he endorses this leaflet which is being distributed in North East Somerset which a view to encouraging people to vote for him.
http://www.todd4nesomerset.com/north_ea ... ty_leaflet
They are unchanged from the last Populus poll (on 4)ohsocynical wrote:Why no Greens included on this?Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 1h1 hour ago
LAB moves to 2% lead with Populus
Lab 34 (nc) Con 32 (-1) LD 9 (nc) UKIP 15 (+1)
Blocks like that usually have a bell marked 'Trade' which allows access to all before a specific time - midday seems to be the norm round this way. Royal Mail must be granted permission to deliver letters (since tampering with mail is a criminal offence) hence the 'trade' access.ohsocynical wrote:Delivered my leaflets today. Couldn't get into a block of flats though, no main letter box.
Local party funds don't run to having the Royal Mail deliver, so unfortunately that'll be a whole bunch of prospective voters who think Labour can't be bothered.
I thought that one wasn't due out until around 4pm. Good news though. They had to increase the lead they had last time in order to be in seat winning mode. But it's shrunkFuriousGeorge wrote:Latest ICM poll
hah that didnt work.
CON lead down to 2% in latest ICM poll
@Conservatives 34% @UKLabour 32% @LibDems 10% @UKIP 11% @TheGreenParty 5% Others
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2015/04/t ... ors-claim/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Henry Smith had stated in leaflets that Crawley Hospital “has over 200 new doctors and nurses since 2010″ but the local NHS trust have since stated that the 200 increase claim is actually, errrr, higher than the total number of doctors and nurses working there full stop — let alone any increase.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/? ... 8.3#g709.7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Jeremy Hunt The Secretary of State for Health
I congratulate my hon. Friend on his campaigning for Crawley hospital and pay tribute to staff at the hospital, which was rated “good” by the Care Quality Commission last year as part of the new inspection regime. He will welcome the fact that since
2010 the number of doctors at the hospital has increased by 97 and the number of nurses by 107. Of course, we will always consider ways to improve services for his constituents.
Election 2015: Blow to Tories as poll puts Labour ahead on immigration and three more of the six main issues
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics ... 89336.html
Jsuknews.com @jsuknewsfeed 3 hrs3 hours ago
Age Concern Lancashire boast about sending over 55s on Workfare.
If we can target these companies it will stop...
http://fb.me/1TCOcH1EZ
To be fair to the BBC, one of their bods has pointed this out, too.chimanimani
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All this Conservative alarmism about SNP rather assumes that the Conservatives wouldn't support Labour policy in order to deliver the lesser (as they would see it?) of evils. Thus on Trident, would they vote against it and so enable the SNP to get its policy through?
If so then clearly it would be the Conservatives that were responsible, not Labour!
Go in the morning, and press the 'trade' button if there is one - this should give you access (a trick I learned a few years back).ohsocynical wrote:Delivered my leaflets today. Couldn't get into a block of flats though, no main letter box.
Local party funds don't run to having the Royal Mail deliver, so unfortunately that'll be a whole bunch of prospective voters who think Labour can't be bothered.
Yep.ohsocynical wrote:Cllr Matt Clifton @MatthewSClifton 10 mins10 minutes ago
Cllr Matt Clifton retweeted Guardian politics
ICM adjusts for Tories' higher propensity to vote but not for Lab's superior ground campaign. Unadjusted ICM is tied Cllr Matt Clifton added,
Guardian politics @GdnPolitics
Tories still ahead of Labour in latest Guardian/ICM poll http://d.gu.com/9T80pk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Am I right in thinking that the American running the Labour campaign ran Obama's for the Democrats, and did exactly the same over there. Got feet on the ground.
Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound 1m1 minute ago
Ed Miliband now favourite to be PM with @paddypower for the first time since Oct 2014. Miliband 5/6. Cameron 10/11