I see that Grant Shapps is trying to blame Labour for Wikipedia catching him trying to manufacture a new reality.
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Wikipedia tracked a range of IP addresses used by Contribsx to a web hosting service regularly employed by internet spammers. The same service had been used by an anonymous user in 2013 to remove material from Wikipedia related to How To Corp, to Michael Green and to Shapps’ past sockpuppetry.
Senior editors at Wikipedia became exasperated by this anonymous amending with one responding on 20 July 2013 by saying: “Dear Grant Shapps, clearly your and your supporter’s dodgy behaviour knows no bounds.”
Another 171,466 people benefiting from the longtermeconomicplan.The latest figures from the Trussell Trust, which coordinates a network of food banks in the UK, show a 19% year-on-year increase in food bank users, demonstrating that hunger, debt and poverty are continuing to affect large numbers of low-income families and individuals.
Nearly 1.1 million people received at least three days of emergency food from the trust’s 445 food banks in 2014-15 – up from 913,000 the previous year.
Back in 2009-10, before the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition took power, the then little-known charity fed 41,000 people from its 56 food banks.
Andrew Neil tweeted last night that a major Tory donor told him the party’s campaign was “useless”, believing that David Cameron’s “heart is not in it”.
Doesn't want to win, doesn't want anyone else to either. What a man-child.— Tim Montgomerie ن (@montie)
April 21, 2015
@afneil DC has wanted out for a while. He has just wanted to go out on some sort of high and hasn't been able to find that high.
Cameron is a massive egotist, he is also bone idle and has no grasp of strategy. He is pretty decent at tactics and good at improvising but while that will get you by in the boardroom (for a while) it doesn't cut it in politics.mikems wrote:Andrew Neil tweeted last night that a major Tory donor told him the party’s campaign was “useless”, believing that David Cameron’s “heart is not in it”.Doesn't want to win, doesn't want anyone else to either. What a man-child.— Tim Montgomerie ن (@montie)
April 21, 2015
@afneil DC has wanted out for a while. He has just wanted to go out on some sort of high and hasn't been able to find that high.
It depends entirely on the sample. Students at Durham and Newcastle uni for example, are hardly representative.rearofthestore wrote:As I suggested last night re 'exiting' YouGov poll, look at the detail and it doesn't stack up.
Voting Intention Age Group 18-24 Conservative 32% Labour 30% (Yes really!)
Voting Intention Midlands /Wales Conservative 40% Labour 32% (Seems Unlikely)
Bullshit poll I think.
Morning all. According to Nicky Morgan its because of the success of the Tory attacks over the Labour/SNP "links"Spacedone wrote:Morning all.
I see that Grant Shapps is trying to blame Labour for Wikipedia catching him trying to manufacture a new reality.
You are exactly right but taking YouGov's specific 18-24 polling it is as follows:55DegreesNorth wrote:It depends entirely on the sample. Students at Durham and Newcastle uni for example, are hardly representative.rearofthestore wrote:As I suggested last night re 'exiting' YouGov poll, look at the detail and it doesn't stack up.
Voting Intention Age Group 18-24 Conservative 32% Labour 30% (Yes really!)
Voting Intention Midlands /Wales Conservative 40% Labour 32% (Seems Unlikely)
Bullshit poll I think.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/majority-no ... ts-9075428
It might be worth white-listing FTN in adblock (we won't have any).55DegreesNorth wrote:Edited to remove double post. This site is doing my bonce. Every time I post, it logs me out, or tells me I'm not logged in but posts anyway. I'm using Adblockweb on an iPad.
ben goldacre @bengoldacre 18m18 minutes ago
ben goldacre retweeted Shane Richmond
Oh god it's all so seedy and crass. Here's another time Shapps's account was "hacked" http://www.libdemvoice.org/grant-shapps ... ment-22605" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
That's a browser isn't it ?55DegreesNorth wrote:Edited to remove double post. This site is doing my bonce. Every time I post, it logs me out, or tells me I'm not logged in but posts anyway. I'm using Adblockweb on an iPad.
Frances Crook @francescrook 10m10 minutes ago
Election campaign going for 3 weeks. Has anyone seen or heard from Chris Grayling? Apparently he was spotted in a side street in Finchley
Chris Bryant 2015 @ChrisBryant4MP 4m4 minutes ago
Tory peer, when asked about Tory campaign told me, ‘I despair. Do they want the Union to survive or not?'
Well, all parties have a grid with their campaign plans on it. I understand that the Tory one has a lot of crossings out on it; and also that for early May there's something about 'scweam and scweam 'til I make myself sick'.StephenDolan wrote:Morning all.
Are we expecting any fresh attacks in the next couple of weeks or more of the same? Have the rwp held anything back?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv ... -diagnosis" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Q: You say Labour cannot lecture you on poverty. But today’s food bank figures are embarrassing. You don’t have a good record on this, do you?
Cameron says he does not accept this. Poverty is down, and pensioner poverty is down too.
Labour Press Team retweeted
Ben Glaze @benglaze 3m3 minutes ago
#Cameron dodges "full confidence" question over Grant #Shapps #GE2015 #Tory
He's left that rather too late I think.rearofthestore wrote:I thought he might start to distance himself from ShappsLabour Press Team retweeted
Ben Glaze @benglaze 3m3 minutes ago
#Cameron dodges "full confidence" question over Grant #Shapps #GE2015 #Tory
The figures for 18-24 are clearly wrong. However I hear persistent suggestions that Labour is finding the Midlands hard going, this is a bit of an issue to say the least.rearofthestore wrote:You are exactly right but taking YouGov's specific 18-24 polling it is as follows:55DegreesNorth wrote:It depends entirely on the sample. Students at Durham and Newcastle uni for example, are hardly representative.rearofthestore wrote:As I suggested last night re 'exiting' YouGov poll, look at the detail and it doesn't stack up.
Voting Intention Age Group 18-24 Conservative 32% Labour 30% (Yes really!)
Voting Intention Midlands /Wales Conservative 40% Labour 32% (Seems Unlikely)
Bullshit poll I think.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/majority-no ... ts-9075428
March 2015 CONS 23% LAB 34%
Feb 2015 CONS 21% LAB 33%
Jan 2015 CONS 21% LAB 32%
(source YouGov
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/d ... ebsite.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32400271" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The PM said the decision to end the Mare Nostrum operation had been taken in Europe "to change the approach, because at that time it seemed that more lives were being lost because of what the Italian navy was doing".
"More people were taking to the sea, more people were dying."
Add in those who died on the weekend and there have been 100 times as many deaths.Fears of an unprecedented wave of lethal Mediterranean crossings are being realised, with refugee organisations declaring that death rates had soared by 50-fold since the end of Italy’s dedicated Mare Nostrum search and rescue mission.
With just the EU’s limited Frontex rescue system to replace it, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Amnesty International said they were “deeply shocked” by the loss of 400 lives following the latest migrant shipwreck, which brought the death toll to almost 900 so far this year, since 1 January. This compares to just 17 during the same period in 2014, or more than 50 times as many deaths, said the UN agency.
so it would be natural for our disability specialist (you) to be involved.Invite disabled people to work with ministers on a cross-governmental committee to improve disability policy.
I don't think that the Ashcroft marginals polling has Labour doing notably worse in the Midlands than elsewhere, tbh.TechnicalEphemera wrote:The figures for 18-24 are clearly wrong. However I hear persistent suggestions that Labour is finding the Midlands hard going, this is a bit of an issue to say the least.rearofthestore wrote:You are exactly right but taking YouGov's specific 18-24 polling it is as follows:55DegreesNorth wrote: It depends entirely on the sample. Students at Durham and Newcastle uni for example, are hardly representative.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/majority-no ... ts-9075428
March 2015 CONS 23% LAB 34%
Feb 2015 CONS 21% LAB 33%
Jan 2015 CONS 21% LAB 32%
(source YouGov
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/d ... ebsite.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Given a 10 point lead in 2010 in England for the Tories that figure would suggest a small swing to Labour (but a very small swing). So worryingly it may be not too far out (if the Midlands dominates the sample).
Shapps is the best he's got though....old 'real' Tories were either sacked or wouldn't touch Chicken Dave with a barge pole - Nicky Morgan? Fallon? Rhyming Slang? Not a shred of logic or ability between them - over-promoted and over-hyped - any challenge from a real person with honesty and integrity would have shown them for what they really are....and there's nowhere for them to hide any more.rebeccariots2 wrote:He's left that rather too late I think.rearofthestore wrote:I thought he might start to distance himself from ShappsLabour Press Team retweeted
Ben Glaze @benglaze 3m3 minutes ago
#Cameron dodges "full confidence" question over Grant #Shapps #GE2015 #Tory
Both of them synthetic to the core.
Affirmativerebeccariots2 wrote:Thank you refit re investigating the access issues.
I'm now experiencing slow down and lock out and general error every day. Seems to happen from about 3.30pm our time on .... have wondered if it's the great big server in the sky time for doing something to itself. But then, this didn't happen before.
Zero sighting of Tory failure to show on planned debate. Has anyone else seen anything? The Mirror has an article.PorFavor wrote:Goodmorfternoon.
Last night I dreamt that the Conservatives were 8 points ahead (I blame rearofthestore).
Thank the lord that's over.
Has anyone here who still posts over at the Guardian called attention to last night's Newsnight welfare item retreat?
Might be an idea to mention it. A lot. It doesn't appear to get a mention above the line.
I've never read a more complete & clear description of the differences between ill &/or disabled, the classifications of WCA. Thank you.Example - I am ill due to COPD, arthritis, and a few other things. This is the constant. Sometimes I am debilitated to the extent that I cannot physically manage the basic activities of daily living unassisted. That makes me disabled too when that happens, if not all the time.
The reason why I am incapable of work is illness, which give rise to disability on occasion - but the illness is key.
Someone who is visually impaired to the point of functional blindness is disabled. If in otherwise good health, they are not ill.
This is why the WCA is unfit for purpose, as it is based on what Unum/Atos/Maximus et al call "disability analysis".
If someone has an obvious disability, it does not mean they are ill and it does not mean they are incapable of work.
If someone is ill, acutely or chronically, it does not mean they are disabled.
The WCA assumes that having a functional ability means that a person is capable of work; someone vomiting on chemo is thus capable of work because they will pass all the physical descriptors in the test.
Someone who is physically disabled to the point they are wheelchair-dependent may not pas the physical descriptors, and be allowed to claim ESA, even though they would probably not describe themselves as ill.
Doing what, exactly? Or even vaguely - I'll settle for that.Cameron defends Shapps over Wikipedia allegations, saying he 'does a great job'
*cough* - yes, somewhatI apologise if I sound patronising, as I know you are aware of these things;
Entertaining the nation ?PorFavor wrote:Doing what, exactly? Or even vaguely - I'll settle for that.Cameron defends Shapps over Wikipedia allegations, saying he 'does a great job'
Isn't that because Cameron knows he himself won't be in post after May 8th so showing loyalty to his colleagues is no longer necessary, perhaps ?TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Signs of OGRFG beginning to distance himself from Sebastian Shapps-Green? Could be something momentous about to happen (post-election obvs), the first time a sinking ship has left the rat.
Here's the evidence of just how popular it is - yup, the majority oppose it ! Sorry Atul, you've got it wrong - again.Right to buy in particular is so attractive to tenants in social housing, the financial incentive so great, that Labour now runs the real risk of disproportionately boosting the Tory vote if canvassers continue to blitz social housing developments.