Tuesday 10th April 2018
Posted: Tue 10 Apr, 2018 7:26 am
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Hard to understand why other councils wouldn't be interested in exploring an approach so demonstrably successful. Depressing really.How one Norfolk council has cut its housing waiting list by 95%
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FACT: Hillary Clinton’s lawyer’s office was not raided today.
My jaw literally dropped when I heard the Secretary State for Wales had apparently unilaterally and quite arbitrary renamed the Second Severn Crossing, seemingly without any consultation or consideration of the opinions of those communities served by it.Prince of Wales Bridge name: Labour 'took eye off the ball'
The re-naming is atrociousWillow904 wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-43703169
My jaw literally dropped when I heard the Secretary State for Wales had apparently unilaterally and quite arbitrary renamed the Second Severn Crossing, seemingly without any consultation or consideration of the opinions of those communities served by it.Prince of Wales Bridge name: Labour 'took eye off the ball'
I'm surprised Carwyn Jones nodded it through without any real grasp at just how unpopular it would be with a sizeable chunk of the Welsh (not to mention West Country) population. It's our bridge, paid for out of our pockets with every crossing (of which I've made many over the years). Prince Charles can sod off. It's still the Second Severn Crossing to me.
(often unsure whether something's worth posting or not, then invariably make wrong decision ...)It might not be the perfect day out for 48 per cent of the country…
As the second anniversary of the Brexit referendum approaches, Leave campaigners have outlined their next ambitious project. Plans are afoot to establish a 'Museum of Brexit' that will recall for future generations "the story of the struggle for the United Kingdom’s independence".
Its good to be reminded of the sheer scale of the confidence trick the Blairites tried to pull on a shell-shocked Labour party in the days immediately after the 2015 GEfrog222 wrote:The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
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Meanwhile organisers are hoping that that the infamous Brexit campaign bus promising £350m a week for the NHS will be parked in the museum’s forecourt.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/ ... xit-museum’
"Nigel Farage and other Brexiteers to be celebrated in new ‘Brexit Museum’"(often unsure whether something's worth posting or not, then invariably make wrong decision ...)It might not be the perfect day out for 48 per cent of the country…
As the second anniversary of the Brexit referendum approaches, Leave campaigners have outlined their next ambitious project. Plans are afoot to establish a 'Museum of Brexit' that will recall for future generations "the story of the struggle for the United Kingdom’s independence".
I think the main reason for the slow pace here is that the Government is doing literally nothing except trying to trap and smear Corbyn and Labour.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Can we beat yesterday's 22 posts today, I wonder......
I do hope that things pick up here as the local elections get closer.
Theresa May will need political support for whatever she does in reaction to the vile use of chemical weapons in Syria. If she gets it wrong, she will pay a heavy political price. However, any call for a Commons vote on the matter prior to any such military strike against Assad would both risk losing – as happened to David Cameron in very similar circumstances in 2013 – and would also abdicate the heavy responsibility for taking that kind of decision which ultimately must be hers and hers alone.
TBG -- interestingly it was from a Tory MP today that we heard another Tomahawking or whatever described as gesture politics .tinybgoat wrote:https://www.conservativehome.com/platfo ... -vote.html
"James Gray: Syria – and why May should act without a Commons vote"Theresa May will need political support for whatever she does in reaction to the vile use of chemical weapons in Syria. If she gets it wrong, she will pay a heavy political price. However, any call for a Commons vote on the matter prior to any such military strike against Assad would both risk losing – as happened to David Cameron in very similar circumstances in 2013 – and would also abdicate the heavy responsibility for taking that kind of decision which ultimately must be hers and hers alone.
We don't have any local elections in Bath & North East Somerset this year, so it's all a bit remote for me.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Can we beat yesterday's 22 posts today, I wonder......
I do hope that things pick up here as the local elections get closer.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says President Trump "certainly believes he has the power" to fire special counsel Robert Mueller (link: https://snpy.tv/2Hcs7cN" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) snpy.tv/2Hcs7cN
Sadly, despite having stared out at it from Highcliffe beach once a month for 10 years, I had to resort to Google to work out IOW, was Isle Of Wight, (other half new instantly, obv.)frog222 wrote:TBG -- interestingly it was from a Tory MP today that we heard another Tomahawking or whatever described as gesture politics .tinybgoat wrote:https://www.conservativehome.com/platfo ... -vote.html
"James Gray: Syria – and why May should act without a Commons vote"
( The MP for the IOW iirc.)
Labour Friends of Israel really ought to have a think about whether they should support someone with views like that.The leader of Israel's main opposition party, Labour chair Avi Gabbay, is currently making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Yesterday, Gabbay told Israeli television that he opposed discussing the removal of even the most isolated illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The remarks came a day after Gabbay told a meeting of party activists that “the Arabs have to be afraid of us”. He added: “They fire one missile – you fire 20. That’s all they understand in the Middle East”.
On Saturday, meanwhile, Gabbay vowed to never enter into a coalition with the Joint List, a Knesset group dominated by parties representing Palestinian citizens.
Indeed - I was reading the Indy article and then refreshed this page and saw your post.frog222 wrote:RoT -- Snap ?
The LFI and Friends may well be overplaying their hand with these unceasing attacks ?RogerOThornhill wrote:Indeed - I was reading the Indy article and then refreshed this page and saw your post.frog222 wrote:RoT -- Snap ?
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Rupert Murdoch’s offices in London has been raided and documents and computer records have been seized
This is the European Commission over competition laws?RogerOThornhill wrote:Gosh!
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Rupert Murdoch’s offices in London has been raided and documents and computer records have been seized
Or at the request of the FBI , ie Bob Mueller ... ?Willow904 wrote:This is the European Commission over competition laws?RogerOThornhill wrote:Gosh!
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Rupert Murdoch’s offices in London has been raided and documents and computer records have been seized
Brexit didn't come quite soon enough for Murdoch, did it.
Lord Mandelson the 'financier' is in there in the background companies ...adam wrote:The Neoliberal Democrats are claiming to have Blair father and son behind them - although they both appear to be denying this.