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yahyah wrote:Plaid have dug up something our Labour candidate said about English football fans when he was 20.

This is in an attempt to try and hit back after at their recent embarrassment when their candidate had headlines nationally about past scribblings about 'nazi' BNP English incomers.

Interesting though that Plaid have time to take a swipe at Huw Thomas, makes me wonder if they may be getting some positive feedback about Labour on the doorsteps.

letsskiptotheleft wrote:Hodges is bad, very.

But **** me, I read something earlier by Atul Atwel(?) another of the Unhinged brigade and I am not sure who is the worst. Please, advise anyone to save 10 minutes of their life and not bother with such vomit inducing dross.

refitman wrote:

danesclose wrote:The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself:

This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going
Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... going.html

Umm...1997, 2001, 2005?

Or am I missing something (I haven't read the article).

Portsmouth #libdems gone beyond meltdown - demanding signed pledges of support for @geraldvjuk from local election candidates

letsskiptotheleft wrote:Hodges is bad, very.

But **** me, I read something earlier by Atul Atwel(?) another of the Unhinged brigade and I am not sure who is the worst. Please, advise anyone to save 10 minutes of their life and not bother with such vomit inducing dross.

ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 10 mins10 minutes ago

YouGov/C4 Scottish polling finds 53% of Tories & 36% of LAB voters ready to switch to LD if they thought that would stop SNP in their seat

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Won't these extra volunteers need security checking? That'll take a while.

PorFavor wrote:

citizenJA wrote:I've got to go out for awhile
Wish me luck
I'll return soon
love
cJA

Mind 'ow yer go! (Dixon of Dock Green)

ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PorFavor wrote:I know you're all anxious to get word on the latest so, as I happened upon it as the Guardian website ricocheted about:

NicholasB
10m ago
1 2

Populus also have a 2% Labour Lead (31:33:8:16:6). The underlying position (Clipped Weighted Moving Average) seems to be a 1% Labour Lead but the short term trend since April 1 for the Labour Lead to increase is looking statistically very convincing (R^2=0.82 on 16 observations).

I would expect this to reverse as people get back from holiday next week and serious consideration of economic reality sets in. Previous Labour Bounces have all done this. But right now Labour seems to be on a real bounce, and with the election so close it will need a big correction in the next 3 weeks or so. We shall see... Guardian Election Blog - my emphasis)

yahyah wrote:Oh dear....

Election 2015: Candidate suggested cars be damaged
By BBC News (UK) @BBCNews
Labour's Ceredigion election candidate apologises "wholeheartedly" for once suggesting Tippex could be thrown over cars displaying English flags.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-wales-32249455" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's the problem with nationalism....

Labour leafleting has been cancelled for the duration.
So, who will benefit here now ? Lib Dems & UKIP.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

PorFavor wrote:@ pk1

This -

That said, there is still time, let’s not forget that in 1992 the Conservatives pretty much junked their whole election campaign blueprint a third of the way in and John Major got out his soap box…. will Cameron take to his trusty stead[sic] to tour the Shires?

I'm not sure that there is still time, though. This is surely a much shorter election campaign and I don't think the Conservatives have the luxury of being able to rip it up and start again - at least not to any great effect.

Still four weeks to go (nearly)

The difference, surely, is that back in 1992 CCHQ still had reasonably competent people in charge. Not to mention a "front man" who was much better liked than Cameron is, *and* much stronger organisation on the ground. Not many tales of them having to pay people to deliver leaflets back then......

citizenJA wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Holy mackerel.
I don't know if that's a good thing to do at all.
I think it's best to vote your party.
I'll have to ponder it.

danesclose wrote:The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself:

This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going
Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... going.html

ErnstRemarx wrote:

danesclose wrote:The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself:

This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going
Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... going.html

Danny boy's an arsehole's arsehole, and I have nothing but contempt for him. I just wish he'd do the obvious and come out as a full on Tory - as we know he is. His man love for David is painful to watch. He needs help.

Labour calls for public apology after senior SNP politicians 'encourage abuse' of TV debate youngster

http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/ ... .122836546

ohsocynical wrote:

citizenJA wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Holy mackerel.
I don't know if that's a good thing to do at all.
I think it's best to vote your party.
I'll have to ponder it.

Scotland though is the decider and the danger to us getting the Tories right out. I have vowed I'd stick to my party of choice regardless from now on, but after watching the Scottish debates, I'm suddenly hoping the Scots vote tactically. I hear they're going to suffer financially [badly] if they allow Sturgeon free rein and she gets any sort of hold over English Labour. And seeing as they lost the Indy vote, it's sort of weird that SNP now have so much power over Scotland's fate and want to catapult them into all sorts of change that the ones that won the Indy vote didn't necessarily want.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Cuddly hedge funder, Crispin Odey, back to Tories from UKIP. And helping Rees Mogg.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/crispin-odey-ukip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Crispin Odey who part-owns Circle.

letsskiptotheleft wrote:I am at a loss to understand how Karren Brady supposedly carries so much clout?

A porn peddlers side kick, that's all she is.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ky-economy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

danesclose wrote:

letsskiptotheleft wrote:I am at a loss to understand how Karren Brady supposedly carries so much clout?

A porn peddlers side kick, that's all she is.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ky-economy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There is a story that soon after she was appointed Chair of Birmingham City she met Ron Atkinson (who was Aston Villa manager at the time) and asked him if Dalian Atkinson was his son.

Thanks for contacting us about our coverage of the letter from senior health professionals to the Guardian.

We reported on the letter in question during BBC News Health Editor Hugh Pym’s report for the ‘News at Ten’ on 7 April, and on the BBC News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32206814" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On the day the letter was published, BBC News widely reported on criticisms of the government’s management of the health service over the past 5 years – which was the crux of the letter. Our main BBC One bulletins looked at recent figures which showed that A&E waiting times in England are the worst since a four hour target was introduced. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was challenged directly on this point, on the government’s overall management of the NHS and on future spending commitments should the Conservatives win the election during the Radio 4’s ‘The World at One’. The programme also heard from Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham. He was given time to echo the concerns outlined by the doctors in their letter and put forward the Labour Party’s future vision for the NHS.

We believe we have reported on the Coalition’s legacy on health in an impartial and accurate manner. We have reflected the wide of range of opinion and allowed our audience to make up their own minds in their own time.

Thanks again for contacting us.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

yahyah wrote:Plaid have dug up something our Labour candidate said about English football fans when he was 20.

This is in an attempt to try and hit back after at their recent embarrassment when their candidate had headlines nationally about past scribblings about 'nazi' BNP English incomers.

Interesting though that Plaid have time to take a swipe at Huw Thomas, makes me wonder if they may be getting some positive feedback about Labour on the doorsteps.

Are Plaid still convinced Labour was somehow responsible for the emergence of the story about their candidate calling incomers right wingers etc? Have they produced any evidence - or are they just spending their time looking for dirt to throw?

yahyah wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

yahyah wrote:Plaid have dug up something our Labour candidate said about English football fans when he was 20.

This is in an attempt to try and hit back after at their recent embarrassment when their candidate had headlines nationally about past scribblings about 'nazi' BNP English incomers.

Interesting though that Plaid have time to take a swipe at Huw Thomas, makes me wonder if they may be getting some positive feedback about Labour on the doorsteps.

Are Plaid still convinced Labour was somehow responsible for the emergence of the story about their candidate calling incomers right wingers etc? Have they produced any evidence - or are they just spending their time looking for dirt to throw?

Apparently the reason one of the Plaid nats spent hours scouring online for dirt on Huw is because they were angry that Huw [& Peter Hain] were so publicly critical of Mike Parker.
They found the dirt in the form of the online post on a Welsh speaking forum that is years old, and written when Huw was a student.

Cui bono ? The Lib Dems benefit as both Plaid [the original story about Parker was published by a Lib Dem leaning local paper] & now Labour get negative headlines & Welsh TV reports.
Huw is, I believe filming a response and wholehearted apology for TV.

If I were Miss Marple I'd be suspecting a trail directly from the Libs to the Cambrian News, the editor is widely regarded locally as being a Mark Williams fan. He is desperate to win.

yahyah wrote:Just to add Rebecca, someone I know who attended the hustings said both Williams and Parker spent more time attacking Huw than each other, which is surprising unless they both see Labour as a threat.

Last year's European elections had the Lib Dems only about 220 votes less than the Labour here, whereas in 2009 the Libs got 3642 and Labour got 1329, not sure if that would get replicated for Westminster though.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

I complained that you gave MASSIVE coverage to a letter from businessmen supporting Tory economic policy, (which is NOT a subject in which they are experts), and then giving no coverage to a letter from senior health professionals expressing concern about the effects of Coalition policy on the NHS, (a subject in which they ARE experts).

Your reply, (which was very swift in fairness), notes that it was mentioned by Hugh Pym in the ten o' clock news and there was an item on your website, (yes, tucked away in Health not Politics). The rest of your reply is utterly irrelevant as it concerns other matters that I did not complain about.

So, that's a 'hidden' website mention and a passing reference on the ten pm news. In other words you are admitting that you scarcely covered it at all. But should you have? That is the crux of my complaint. The three most important topics for voters as evidenced by many opinion polls are NHS, Economy and Immigration. So a letter from 100 businessmen gets massive coverage and leads the bulletins for over 24 hours. Meanwhile, a letter on the NHS from leading healthcare professionals gets virtually NO coverage. What strange logic makes you think that your completely different treatment of these two important issues is unbiased, impartial or in any way acceptable? The simple fact of the matter is that it is completely unacceptable and you should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing a once great institution to plumb such depths!

Mark Ferguson @Markfergusonuk · 2h 2 hours ago
Very best of luck to @Mike_Fabricant on battling skin cancer. Differences aside, he is one of the real vibrant characters of our politics

The Daily Rupert ‏@TheMurdochTimes 20 mins20 minutes ago

So Cameron's @Conservatives need to stage the best Tory recovery in 60 years now to keep Miliband out of No 10? Is that true?

ohsocynical wrote:Peter A. Russell ‏@Planet_Pedro 23 hrs23 hours ago Glasgow, Scotland

YouGov says 33 SNP/@scottishlabour battleground seats now "too close to call" (their description)

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/04/09/nu ... wly-ahead/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …