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HindleA wrote:England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour Government,the voters have a lot to answer for.
I have a glut of tomatoes(different sizes,varieties,I think they are tomatoes,some are rather large))any recipies,ideas(keep it clean please)what to do with them,beyond "on toast"would be appreciated.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

SNP prepare for tough by-election in Thomson’s seat
Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/t ... z3naRAYbL2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and

SNP selection under fire over second MP
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/t ... -1-3906656" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not sure how tough a by-election would actually be if they have a good, untarnished new candidate. No knowledge of the local context in Edinburgh West but assume the SNP had a massive majority there. And doesn't Thomson have to decide to resign - or be charged / convicted of an offence - before there is a seat to be contested?

HindleA wrote:England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour Government,the voters have a lot to answer for.
I have a glut of tomatoes(different sizes,varieties,I think they are tomatoes,some are rather large))any recipies,ideas(keep it clean please)what to do with them,beyond "on toast"would be appreciated.

500g tomatoes, halved
2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and black pepper

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F gas mark 4. Lay the tomatoes cut side up in a roasting tin, place a slice of garlic on each, pour over the oil, season well and roast for 30 - 45 minutes, until soft and slightly charred. Rub through a sieve into a bowl.

ephemerid wrote:Still, at least the Wallabies beat England. The reason why I am pleased about this is because it means Wales goes through to the next stage; and because Ben Youngs' arrogant assumption that the Wallabies wouldn't care when England beat them as they'd only have to beat Wales to stay in the championship. Robshaw was magnanimous in defeat, and is a gent - the rest of them have behaved like total dicks, IMHO.

LadyCentauria wrote:@Tubby's link, above, led me to this:

More than half of teachers in England (53%) are thinking of quitting in the next two years, a survey has suggested.
The survey, conducted by the National Union of Teachers, found 61% of those wanting to leave blamed workload and 57% desired a better work/life balance.
Two thirds of the 1,020 primary and secondary school teachers questioned felt morale in the profession had declined over the past five years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34426598
Deeply worrying. Have a look, too, at the levels of doubt expressed in the forced-Academisation, Free Schools, and pre-school baseline-testing, policies of this Tory Government...

Joe Watts ‏@JoeWatts_ 14m14 minutes ago
If anyone bought jeans in a charity shop recently, you may be wearing trousers that George Osborne was squeezed into

Willow904 wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34433313

A Conservative spokesman said there was "growing concern over militant actions of left-wing councils, spurred on by trade unions and the Labour leadership".

If the Conservatives feel so strongly about this issue, perhaps they should get themselves democratically elected to these councils in order to impose more Tory values on the local residents. Of course, if local voters are happy with the actions of their democratically elected Labour council.....

Frances Perraudin ‏@fperraudin 30m30 minutes ago
You shouldn't play politics with childcare, says Priti Patel when @SkyMurnaghan says her grandparent leave policy was 1st proposed by Harman

BBC Politics ‏@BBCPolitics 31m31 minutes ago
David Cameron resists calls to rethink cuts to tax credits for working families amid warning millions will lose out. http://bbc.in/1iVF7Uc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Frances Perraudin ‏@fperraudin 30m30 minutes ago
You shouldn't play politics with childcare, says Priti Patel when @SkyMurnaghan says her grandparent leave policy was 1st proposed by Harman

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Frances Perraudin ‏@fperraudin 30m30 minutes ago
You shouldn't play politics with childcare, says Priti Patel when @SkyMurnaghan says her grandparent leave policy was 1st proposed by Harman

HindleA wrote:England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour Government,the voters have a lot to answer for.
I have a glut of tomatoes(different sizes,varieties,I think they are tomatoes,some are rather large))any recipies,ideas(keep it clean please)what to do with them,beyond "on toast"would be appreciated.

yahyah wrote:David CameronVerified account ‏@David_Cameron 17m17 minutes ago
I can announce we will double our drone fleet and increase funding for special forces to combat the terrorist threat.

RogerOThornhill wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Frances Perraudin ‏@fperraudin 30m30 minutes ago
You shouldn't play politics with childcare, says Priti Patel when @SkyMurnaghan says her grandparent leave policy was 1st proposed by Harman

What does that even mean - so are MPs not allowed to say "Actually we thought of that a while ago"?

She really is an appalling human being. One of those that can't acknowledge that anybody else might be right occasionally.

On the Andrew Marr Show David Cameron said he had met the TUC to discuss the trade union bill. Frances O’Grady, the TUC general secretary, says that is not true.

Frances O'Grady @FrancesOGrady

. @David_Cameron said @The_TUC met Number 10 on the #TUbill. Not true. I wrote to him just after the election, but still no reply. #Marr
10:13 AM - 4 Oct 2015

291 291 Retweets (Politics Live, Guardian)

ephemerid wrote:... A £2BN cash crisis in the NHS covered up so as not to spoil the conference. Where's that £8BN you promised, Porky? Oh. That's for 2020. Maybe...

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

SNP prepare for tough by-election in Thomson’s seat
Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/t ... z3naRAYbL2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and

SNP selection under fire over second MP
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/t ... -1-3906656" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not sure how tough a by-election would actually be if they have a good, untarnished new candidate. No knowledge of the local context in Edinburgh West but assume the SNP had a massive majority there. And doesn't Thomson have to decide to resign - or be charged / convicted of an offence - before there is a seat to be contested?

It was relatively marginal IIRC - a traditional LibDem/Tory battleground and somewhere where the SNP had no electoral presence to speak of prior to 2011/15.

The likelihood is that they would lose a by-election - one reason why some Nats are advocating getting it over with as soon as possible if it becomes unavoidable.

SNP candidate Michelle Thomson, described by the party as “one of the new breed of SNP challengers”, was a professional pianist and worked in IT at Standard Life – where she was Mr Crockart’s line manager – before setting up her own property business. She also spent two years in the run-up to the referendum as 
managing director of Business for Scotland.

Isabel Hardman ‏@IsabelHardman 7m7 minutes ago
David Cameron says the Tories won’t alter their tax credit cuts. Here’s what might make them change their mind http://specc.ie/1WFCTHn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The revolt is growing, but I suspect that it won’t reach its peak until letters are sent out to claimants explaining how much money they are going to lose. Those letters start going out in December, at which point MPs may start to be unsettled by the number of people coming to their surgeries in a panic.

The Conservatives are pushing ahead with this because they feel they have the time and political capital to make the cut now and still be forgiven by voters in 2020. But the question is whether they are basing this assumption on previous cuts, such as those to child benefit that caused a row in 2010, which didn’t hit people in a way that they’d really be smarting still in 2015. The child benefit cuts hit those on higher incomes, whereas these tax credit cuts hit Sun readers, people for whom even small changes in their financial situation can be devastating. Will they still be furious with the Conservatives in 2020? The answer to that question will have a lot to do with whether Cameron and Osborne do end up making changes to their current plan.

LadyCentauria wrote:Sajid Javid is really crap (and A.N. has been hammering at him) because, amongst other crap he's spouting, he uttered the sentence, "For every Public Sector worker who lost their job, millions more jobs were created by the Private Sector!"

Manchester News MEN ‏@MENnewsdesk 5h5 hours ago
Roads closed, buses diverted and trams stopped as 80,000 protesters hit Manchester http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... d-10179661" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

LadyCentauria wrote:Sajid Javid is really crap (and A.N. has been hammering at him) because, amongst other crap he's spouting, he uttered the sentence, "For every Public Sector worker who lost their job, millions more jobs were created by the Private Sector!"

Here’s my colleague Nicholas Watt’s story about David Cameron’s Andrew Marr interview. And here is how it starts.

David Cameron has rejected calls to soften the impact of planned cuts to tax credits in the face of a cross-party campaign which warns that 3 million of the poorest working families will be worse off by £1,350 a year.

In an interview on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1, in which he said that the Conservatives would now champion the “common ground” as Labour “runs to the hills”, the prime minister defended the cuts on the grounds that the government was having to protect the NHS and schools.

LadyCentauria wrote:Sajid Javid is really crap (and A.N. has been hammering at him) because, amongst other crap he's spouting, he uttered the sentence, "For every Public Sector worker who lost their job, millions more jobs were created by the Private Sector!"

HindleA wrote:Thanks for tips.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Manchester News MEN ‏@MENnewsdesk 5h5 hours ago
Roads closed, buses diverted and trams stopped as 80,000 protesters hit Manchester http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... d-10179661" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Hadn't seen your post when I put this up AAW. Snap and all that. Wonder how much reporting the BBC is going to do on this aspect of the Tory conf?

rebeccariots2 wrote:From Andrew Sparrow's blog:

Here’s my colleague Nicholas Watt’s story about David Cameron’s Andrew Marr interview. And here is how it starts.

David Cameron has rejected calls to soften the impact of planned cuts to tax credits in the face of a cross-party campaign which warns that 3 million of the poorest working families will be worse off by £1,350 a year.

In an interview on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1, in which he said that the Conservatives would now champion the “common ground” as Labour “runs to the hills”, the prime minister defended the cuts on the grounds that the government was having to protect the NHS and schools.

So I hope the interviewer went right back at him about the huge 2bn funding hole in the NHS that undermines everything Cameron and co said and pledged about protecting and increasing resources to the NHS ... and then challenged him on all the additional funds wasted on many free school set ups (especially the ones that have failed spectacularly and closed). No ... of course he didn't.

Libby Wiener ‏@LibbyWienerITV 7m7 minutes ago
Are Tories worried over fallout from tax credit cuts? Osborne won't say - and PM's adviser Craig Oliver storms off #toryconference @itvnews

HindleA wrote:Thanks for tips.

AngryAsWell wrote:Live: Manchester anti-austerity protest rally - Tens of thousands to march through city as Tory conference begins
Around 80,000 demonstrators are expected to descend on the city to protest outside the Conservative party conference’s base at Manchester Central as part of the #TakeBackMCR rally

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... y-10190207" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In an email obtained by the M.E.N, party chairman Lord Feldman stressed it was ‘particularly important’ for activists to remove their Tory-branded badges if they go beyond the ‘secure zone’ over safety concerns. Lord Feldman wrote to members: “For the first time in almost two decades, we have a Conservative Prime Minister at the Cabinet table, surrounded only by Conservative Ministers. I’m delighted that we will have more members and activists with us; with 30% more than the last time we met in Manchester."

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... e-10176748

citizenJA wrote:The huge crowd of people wanting to express disapproval of Tory government aren't allowed near the completely fenced off building Tories are occupying. Mr. citizen cannot confirm that snipers are poised on rooftops protecting Tory overlords in Manchester.

yahyah wrote:

HindleA wrote:Thanks for tips.

Be careful if you follow mine.
I did phrase it to sound like you should sit in boiling water to be skinned, not the tomatoes.

HindleA wrote:Cheers,again.

rebeccariots2 wrote:WATO interview with Justine Greening on the tax credit cuts ... me gnashing teeth. She's just spouting that a 'typical family will be £2,400 a year better off'. That's it ... that's all she's really prepared to say. 'Typical family' - that's really what they are going to hide behind?

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Manchester News MEN ‏@MENnewsdesk 5h5 hours ago
Roads closed, buses diverted and trams stopped as 80,000 protesters hit Manchester http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... d-10179661" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Hadn't seen your post when I put this up AAW. Snap and all that. Wonder how much reporting the BBC is going to do on this aspect of the Tory conf?