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TechnicalEphemera wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

HindleA wrote:Corbyn sounds too much like a well known trouser press to be leader,never mind a PM.Other trouser press manufacturers are available.

Careful there, HindleA. We don't want to go that far backwards, do we? (Do they still manufacture them?)

I have often encountered them, but always assumed the sale of such useless items to hotels was some vast money laundering scheme, or else an American plot to ensure all UK conferences were conducted in crumpled clothes.

ChrisDean wrote:Meanwhile, back in the good old Forest of Dean, it seems we may well have yet another fight on our hands. this time re fracking. Our MP, Mark Harper is all for it in principle, but according to him, the FOD has no shale gas to be exploited, so no worries. Wonder why the area is included in the latest map of areas to potentially, be
granted licences then ?

Tom Newton Dunn ‏@tnewtondunn 51s51 seconds ago
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rebeccariots2 wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Chloe Smith, who I was expecting to see the back of in May, pops up in my rail magazine. Some rail plans in East Anglia, she opined, "would have gone backwards if Labour had won the election".

Hmmm, I thought. Turns out that the rail company are closely involved with the plans, but their franchise is coming up. So they want the franchise extended automatically. Labour and (I think) the Lib Dems both oppose this (called "refranchising").

How can this even be legal? It amounts to winning a new franchise without even bidding for one. But, hey, Chloe Smith will get a photo op by the new stuff. Given how full of herself she is in the article, this hardly bears thinking about.

Unfortunately, I reckon Chloe and all are in for a good stint in Parliament. I think she's laughing her socks off at Corbyn being elected.

It does seem incredible that she's back ... please don't tell me she got an increased majority. That would be too much to bear.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Chloe Smith, who I was expecting to see the back of in May, pops up in my rail magazine. Some rail plans in East Anglia, she opined, "would have gone backwards if Labour had won the election".

Hmmm, I thought. Turns out that the rail company are closely involved with the plans, but their franchise is coming up. So they want the franchise extended automatically. Labour and (I think) the Lib Dems both oppose this (called "refranchising").

How can this even be legal? It amounts to winning a new franchise without even bidding for one. But, hey, Chloe Smith will get a photo op by the new stuff. Given how full of herself she is in the article, this hardly bears thinking about.

Unfortunately, I reckon Chloe and all are in for a good stint in Parliament. I think she's laughing her socks off at Corbyn being elected.

It does seem incredible that she's back ... please don't tell me she got an increased majority. That would be too much to bear.

I think she was really scared before the election, but indeed got an increase. Up to 4600+.

I don't know if this deal with the franchise is going to happen- looks like the current franchise up in Dec next year. Wonder if Osborne is going to prefer getting full whack instead?

rebeccariots2 wrote:Dear me ... Kirsty Wark is wearing a dress that makes her look like she's been partially fried on a piece of trellis patterned fencing - or run into it and been flattened. (Or perhaps a Corbyn dress press has been used on her?)

Sorry to be personal ... but that's some truly awful frock.

ChrisDean wrote:I don't log in very often, as you know, but I do read here everyday. Much love to you all and particularly to those of you who have health problems, of your own, or of your loved ones
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... creativity

“Due to unprecedented demand ‘the UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction’ is currently unable to process online ticket sales.”

A man is in a critical condition after being shot by police following a siege lasting seven hours in south London.
The Met Police said the incident happened at a residential address in Tilson Gardens in south Brixton.

tinyclanger2 wrote:News from Banksy's Dismaland:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... creativity

“Due to unprecedented demand ‘the UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction’ is currently unable to process online ticket sales.”

Class.

LadyCentauria wrote:

ChrisDean wrote:I don't log in very often, as you know, but I do read here everyday. Much love to you all and particularly to those of you who have health problems, of your own, or of your loved ones
.

Glad to know you're still with us, Chris. Hope that the Forest of Dean will remain free from fracking – indeed, that it can be prevented altogether!