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Two Tory MPs have admitted starting a relationship after being photographed canoodling on a train platform.
Andrea Jenkyns, a former beauty queen who defeated Ed Balls at May’s election, and Jack Lopresti, a married father-of-three, were pictured holding hands at Doncaster station.
The pair at first said they were just "good friends” after being confronted but later admitted through a statement from Tory HQ that they were dating.
Mr Lopresti has reportedly been seen leaving his house in Bristol carrying bags and a packed black bin liner.

rebeccariots2 wrote: Nowadays the fling indulger leaves the marital home with a packed black bin liner.

One of England’s largest academy chains will be stripped of three of its schools with the future of three more in doubt following intervention by the government.

East Midlands and the Humber regional schools commissioner Jennifer Bexon-Smith (pictured) wrote to the School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA) describing performance concerns over 13 of its academies and outlining plans to move three “isolated” schools in Nottinghamshire to another sponsor by next September.

According to the Yorkshire Post, the leadership of three of the trust’s schools in Doncaster will also be reviewed, along with other schools in the area.

In her letter, the regional commissioner said three Nottinghamshire schools would transfer to other sponsors: Queen Elizabeth Academy and Wainwright Primary Academy, both rated as inadequate, and Leamington Primary and Nursery Academy, which is rated as requires improvement.

The “isolation” described in the letter is believed to be connected to the fact the trust’s remaining schools are mainly located in Yorkshire.

Escaped reindeer makes early Christmas dash round houses

Warren Porter, 23, from Sherwood, said: “It was one of the weirdest unexpected sights I will ever witness. I was driving down Carlton Hill and saw what I thought was a massive dog running up the pavement.

“I locked my doors and thought ‘you’re not getting in here, I’ve got carrots in my boot’. (Guardian)

Tally ho for foxhunting
One day this noble sport will be wrested from the coalition of anti-rural snobs and animal rights activists who banned it
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PorFavor wrote:

Escaped reindeer makes early Christmas dash round houses

Warren Porter, 23, from Sherwood, said: “It was one of the weirdest unexpected sights I will ever witness. I was driving down Carlton Hill and saw what I thought was a massive dog running up the pavement.

“I locked my doors and thought ‘you’re not getting in here, I’ve got carrots in my boot’. (Guardian)

Er, Warren Porter is probably a very nice chap, and all that. But - what?

citizenJA wrote:

PorFavor wrote:

Escaped reindeer makes early Christmas dash round houses

Warren Porter, 23, from Sherwood, said: “It was one of the weirdest unexpected sights I will ever witness. I was driving down Carlton Hill and saw what I thought was a massive dog running up the pavement.

“I locked my doors and thought ‘you’re not getting in here, I’ve got carrots in my boot’. (Guardian)

Er, Warren Porter is probably a very nice chap, and all that. But - what?

The punch line isn't strong, in my opinion, however, I may not understand the joke.

yahyah wrote:It works better in a Scottish accent ' Ya nae gettin' in tharr, ah've got carrats in ma boot'.
Apologies to EricWLothian.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Two Tory MPs have admitted starting a relationship after being photographed canoodling on a train platform.
Andrea Jenkyns, a former beauty queen who defeated Ed Balls at May’s election, and Jack Lopresti, a married father-of-three, were pictured holding hands at Doncaster station.
The pair at first said they were just "good friends” after being confronted but later admitted through a statement from Tory HQ that they were dating.
Mr Lopresti has reportedly been seen leaving his house in Bristol carrying bags and a packed black bin liner.

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How times have changed. Remember David Mellor and his cringemaking extra marital fling wearing his Chelsea strip? That awful staged photo with his wife and children at the gates of his home - publicly and literally standing by him.

Nowadays the fling indulger leaves the marital home with a packed black bin liner.

Sadiq Khan MP ‏@SadiqKhan 4m4 minutes ago
No one will take Zac Goldsmith’s warm words on rough sleeping seriously. Under 5 years of Tory Government rough sleeping has almost doubled.

RogerOThornhill wrote:I;m sure that "canoodling" is one of those words that you only see in newspapers - does anyone really talk like that in real life?

rebeccariots2 wrote:

yahyah wrote:It works better in a Scottish accent ' Ya nae gettin' in tharr, ah've got carrats in ma boot'.
Apologies to EricWLothian.

That's so bad it's hysterical.

RogerOThornhill wrote:I;m sure that "canoodling" is one of those words that you only see in newspapers - does anyone really talk like that in real life?

Otto English ‏@Otto_English 3h3 hours ago
Who's your favourite Brexiter? #Brexit #EU

Tommy Robinson

Nick Griffin

Paul Golding

Katie Hopkins

Paul
‏@Paul1Singh
@Otto_English none of them

Otto English ‏@Otto_English 3h3 hours ago
Otto English Retweeted Paul
It's like choosing between different strands of diarrhea isn't it.

Sue @English_Woman

Norman Tebbit: Michael Heseltine is an unprincipled egotist

http://bit.ly/22lcCBT

MichaelWhite ‏@MichaelWhite 1 min1 minute ago

This is fun, a pair of seasoned Tory thespians hitting each other with their man bags and screaming about egos MichaelWhite added,

ephemerid wrote:If you are on Universal Credit, and lose out due to the work allowance cuts, you would actually have to work more than double the 200 hours stated by IDS - even when/if the new "living wage" comes in.

The clawback for UC is between 65% and 85% depending on whether you claim the Housing Element and other bits and bobs like childcare (for which UC covers only 75% of the actual cost)

Someone on £7.20/hour working the extra 200 hours gets £1,440 before tax and NI. They would need to work for 500 hours or more to get that £1,400. Given that many people are losing much more (up to £3,000 in some cases) it will be impossible for them to work enough hours to make up the shortfall.

In a sick sort of way, I'm glad IDS has said this - it might just get people thinking about what is going to happen.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:I;m sure that "canoodling" is one of those words that you only see in newspapers - does anyone really talk like that in real life?

It would probably go more like 'they were all over each other' and so on.

Drivers in Wales warned about ignoring flood road signs
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Morning Star ‏@M_Star_Online 22m22 minutes ago
NHS choir takes early lead in race for Xmas No 1 | http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b2e9-N ... nhRr_EzTm0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Conservative MP Lucy Allan apologises for voicemail messages
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rebeccariots2 wrote:For those of us bemoaning the weather forecast ... take a look at the video which is part of this article. It's not far from us. Gives you an idea of just how much rain there has been - and continues to be.

Drivers in Wales warned about ignoring flood road signs
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I am worried for a lot of people if the rain is as bad as they are currently forecasting for Christmas Eve and Christmas day itself. We've ordered three huge bags of gravel to be delivered tomorrow because we simply can't carry on with mud slopes everywhere as soon as we step outside the house. Going to be doing a lot of raking out tomorrow. Our elderly neighbour slipped on mud by our post boxes today ... carried on driving to the shop anyway (suspect she was determined to get a bottle of wine in, and why not) ... but a couple of hours later rang us to say her knee has ballooned up and she can barely walk. We'll be gravelling for her too I think.

The surprise and delight is that our new dog from Spain - Paloma - is a really game girl. She plunges through mud - has been in the sea - splashes happily through ditches and mega puddles. She is all round lovely - very easy going - and able to put up with the foul UK weather even though she's come from Almeria. Dogs are often a lesson in adaptability.

Warwick Mansell ‏@warwickmansell 5 hrs5 hours ago

Want to do a list of the detailed "freedoms" given to academies. Any thoughts/refs gratefully received. Realise what time of year it is!

Retail sales show worrying signs for UK economy
UK retail sales were weaker than expected in December

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 81861.html

The Procedure Committee in the last Parliament was asked by the
Speaker in January 2015 to consider the practice of the House in
requiring the Speaker to report the arrest of a member when
notified by the arresting authority.

The Committee was unable to complete its inquiry before
Dissolution, and passed the matter to us in its legacy report.

Our predecessors discussed the matter with the Clerk and
with a number of Members who had been arrested in the
last Parliament and whose arrest had been notified.

We have in addition sought the views of the Metropolitan
Police Service on the practice.

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The Procedure Committee recommends that the procedure
whereby police forces notify the House when a Member is
arrested should continue, but it recommends changes to
the House’s current procedure.

If adopted, the proposed changes will mean that Members of
Parliament subject to arrest will not automatically have details
of that arrest published by the House. This will give them the
same rights to privacy as any other citizen.

In accordance with standard police practice and privacy law,
names of arrested Members will not be put into the public domain
by the House unless the Member consents.

The exception will be in cases where the Speaker is advised by the
Clerk of the House that a Member has been detained for reasons
connected to his or her role as a Member of Parliament.

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rebeccariots2 wrote:

Morning Star ‏@M_Star_Online 22m22 minutes ago
NHS choir takes early lead in race for Xmas No 1 | http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b2e9-N ... nhRr_EzTm0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Good.

ohsocynical wrote:

Retail sales show worrying signs for UK economy
UK retail sales were weaker than expected in December

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 81861.html

What always gets me is the sentence 'Weaker than expected'. Who 'expected' they'd be good or on the up?

I didn't. Nor did a lot of other people.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Conservative MP Lucy Allan apologises for voicemail messages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sh ... e-35152299" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The article says Lucy Allan says she has apologised. It doesn't have a fulsome feel about it. Wonder if someone somewhere has finally told her to say sorry and then shut up. Strange timing given the disappearing Facebook post ...

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Conservative MP Lucy Allan apologises for voicemail messages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sh ... e-35152299" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The article says Lucy Allan says she has apologised. It doesn't have a fulsome feel about it. Wonder if someone somewhere has finally told her to say sorry and then shut up. Strange timing given the disappearing Facebook post ...

She has undoubtedly been in the wrong, but there is also an argument she needs help as much as punishment.

I am also basing this on what some Tories have told me in confidence. Suffice it to say that she is a troubled individual.

ephemerid wrote:If you are on Universal Credit, and lose out due to the work allowance cuts, you would actually have to work more than double the 200 hours stated by IDS - even when/if the new "living wage" comes in.

The clawback for UC is between 65% and 85% depending on whether you claim the Housing Element and other bits and bobs like childcare (for which UC covers only 75% of the actual cost)

Someone on £7.20/hour working the extra 200 hours gets £1,440 before tax and NI. They would need to work for 500 hours or more to get that £1,400. Given that many people are losing much more (up to £3,000 in some cases) it will be impossible for them to work enough hours to make up the shortfall.

In a sick sort of way, I'm glad IDS has said this - it might just get people thinking about what is going to happen.

yahyah wrote:It works better in a Scottish accent ' Ya nae gettin' in tharr, ah've got carrats in ma boot'.
Apologies to EricWLothian.

rebeccariots2 wrote:Bit of a glaring error in this article ... wishful thinking perhaps? Strange no sub ed spotted and corrected it (no, I agree, it's not at all strange these days).

... 3. He’s had decent wins which should be celebrated more

His strategy of asking “people’s questions” at PMQs has had Cameron on the back foot on more than one occasion. He forced a U-turn over the British contract with Saudi Arabian prisons. Labour’s strong opposition to the tax-credit cuts was responsible for Osborne rescinding them in the Autumn Statement. Labour saw an increased share of the votes in the Rochdale by-election. No other leader would achieve this in 100 days and still see his leadership questioned.

4. He and his supporters need to start taking the polarisation in the party seriously

Whether you put the infighting down to Blairites boo-hooing or not, the fact remains that the visible splits within the party are threatening Labour and its chances of future success. As Leader, Corbyn is responsible for and capable of creating and maintaining party harmony and dealing with dissent. The Rochdale by-election was won by activists from Progress to Momentum working together, and both sides need to be made to understand that future wins will only happen in similar circumstances...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:

Tally ho for foxhunting
One day this noble sport will be wrested from the coalition of anti-rural snobs and animal rights activists who banned it
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Apparently fox hunting is thriving since the hunting ban ... so this ghastly ban must be removed. Get that?

And anyone opposing the cruel killing of foxes for 'sport' is 'anti rural' and a 'snob'. So there. Get that?

Telegraph fined over 'vote Conservative' election day email

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35152295

ohsocynical wrote:

Telegraph fined over 'vote Conservative' election day email

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35152295

Tory chairman Lord Feldman 'admits directing donors to pro-EU campaign', MP claims
Steve Baker, the chairman of Conservatives for Britain, tells the Telegraph that Lord Feldman has conceded to him that he has been assisting wealthy Tory donors hoping to help the pro-EU campaign.
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... The disclosure will deepen divisions in the Tory Party ahead of the in-out referendum and comes as eurosceptic MPs accuse the Prime Minister of pre-judging the result of his renegotiation with Brussels by openly saying that he wants Britain to remain in the EU.
The Conservative Party has pledged to stay neutral in the lead-up to the referendum, which David Cameron has indicated will be held next year.
Mr Baker writes for the Telegraph (below) that Lord Feldman has confirmed to him that he has “directed donors to give money to the pro-EU BSE [Britain Stronger in Europe] campaign”.
The Tory MP says that Lord Feldman has told him he is also referring donors to the Leave campaign.
However, the anti-EU campaign is “yet to receive a referral from our Party Chairman”, Mr Baker says...

The Sun told to put apology to Jeremy Corbyn on front page
Exclusive: New press standards watchdog shows its teeth over tabloid slur
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“IPSO is an improvement on the PCC if only because they have courteous complaints officers whose aim is to try to mediate a satisfactory conclusion for both parties,” Rose Brocklehurst said. “In this case, the mediation failed because I became even more determined when the Sun were rude to me while I extended all courtesy to them in correspondence. The front page story was in my view completely spurious, nasty and wrong. My whole IPSO experience showed that an individual needs determination and courage to enter the complaints process.” IPSO is currently investigating more than 2,600 complaints about a separate Sun front page last month claiming that one in five British Muslims are sympathetic to jihadis.

ATHERSTONE HUNT SUPPORTER LAURA CAINES FOUND GUILTY OF TWO COUNTS OF ASSAULT BY BEATING

Today Atherstone Hunt supporter Laura Caines was found guilty of two counts of assault by beating at Loughbourgh Magistrates Court. The incident happened on the 28th February 2015 after a fox was chased and illegally hunted by hounds in front of huntsman Stuart Barton and Hunt Saboteurs. Barton immediately rides his horse into the nearest saboteur pinning them against a wall. Caines then attacks the same saboteur from behind by putting them in a head lock, hitting them over the head and then attempting to steal their camcorder. She then moved on to the other sab who was filming, grabbed her and then dug her nails into the sabs check causing it to bleed. She again tried to steal the camcorder that had filmed the incident. Magistrates found her guilty in her absence after offering no defence. A warrant has been issued for her arrest so that she can be sentenced.

People living in the countryside to be at the heart of Government policy making
A new rural 'ambassador' and a ministerial task force to work across Whitehall will ensure that departments are putting the countryside first.
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