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Wednesday 5th December 2018

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Morning all.
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Managed payments to mortgage lenders – information for lenders

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/rudy- ... ernet/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Rudy Giuliani, a Trump cybersecurity adviser, doesn’t understand the internet"
Basically he mistyped a tweet making it appear as an hypertext link, someone noticed, saw the resulting website address wasn't registered, so nabbed it & put an anti trump message on it....

I probably shouldn't mock others struggles with technology. The other day I asked 'Alexa' (aka Amazon Web device thingy) to play a song, which it heard wrongly, resulting in me forgetting 'Alexa''s name & unable to stop resulting racket (apart from pulling plug out).
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tinybgoat wrote:https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/rudy- ... ernet/amp/
"Rudy Giuliani, a Trump cybersecurity adviser, doesn’t understand the internet"
Basically he mistyped a tweet making it appear as an hypertext link, someone noticed, saw the resulting website address wasn't registered, so nabbed it & put an anti trump message on it....

I probably shouldn't mock others struggles with technology. The other day I asked 'Alexa' (aka Amazon Web device thingy) to play a song, which it heard wrongly, resulting in me forgetting 'Alexa''s name & unable to stop resulting racket (apart from pulling plug out).
I still open cupboard doors and wait for the light to come on (as it does with the 'frig').
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HindleA wrote:Relieving the State is presented as taking from the State.
Although I don't agree with it, spending less money on welfare is at least a genuine political choice. Spending more money on providing less welfare, as we are currently seeing, propped up by spurious claims such as less money helps people more than more money and very dubious claims of "fairness" is just pure evil. And the excuses people invent to absolve themselves of this evil get more unconvincing and convoluted the more the holes in their idea of "fairness" grow. Tory voters have no problem with socialism when it's a case of everyone's taxes being used to build flood defences to protect the houses they knowingly bought on flood plains but when a person has the misfortune to become ill their claiming the sickness benefits they thought they were entitled to via their many years of NI contributions is somehow unacceptable. We all vote in our own interests, of course, but wanting more of our taxes spent than would be otherwise on endless assessments to deny extremely ill and disabled people benefits our politicians have already deemed they qualify for doesn't seem to be in anyone's interests but those pocketing the cash for doing the assessments. Seeing how self-evidently obvious this is, it can only be assumed that Tory voters are either very spiteful, very stupid or all work for Atos, Capita, G4S, Maximus etc.
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Re: Wednesday 5th December 2018

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I suppose it will be a bit "after the mayor's show" in the Commons today - anything notable happening (apart from PMQs of course)?
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I declare shenanigans!

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General Election talk at PMQs?

Dreadful woman. Dreadful Party.
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#FBPE types predictably whining that Corbyn went on something other than Brexit at PMQs today.

Its not like parliament isn't discussing the latter non-stop into next week or anything? :roll:
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Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, is speaking now. She started her speech with a tribute to Tony Benn. (Politics Live, Guardian)
I didn't hear the speech, so know know no more about it than the above. Can anyone else here shed any light, please?
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@Willow

Did I not suggest yesterday that there may not have been any legal advice?!
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:@Willow

Did I not suggest yesterday that there may not have been any legal advice?!

I'm unashamedly eavesdropping and butting in here.

Yes, you did.


(Well, I am a bit ashamed . . . )
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Grant Shapps is in (at least) two minds . . .
40s ago 15:41

In the Commons Grant Shapps, the former Conservative chairman, told MPs that he was still “contemplating” how to vote on Tuesday and that he was “currently minded to vote against”.
Politics Live, Guardian)
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I've just looked up to find that Sky TV news has gone from covering Theresa May's "Brexit" deal, and is now covering a funeral (George HW Bush's).

No wonder I'm confused.
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Pants graph deconvoluted reveals indecisive pseudonym-using former Minister.
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As usual I didn't watch Newsnight yesterday (same as almost everybody else, then) but from what I have gathered it was something of a new low even for them?
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:As usual I didn't watch Newsnight yesterday (same as almost everybody else, then) but from what I have gathered it was something of a new low even for them?
Why?

(I didn't watch it, either.)
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A combination of dumbed down gimmicks and an underlying narrative close to "actually, the PM had something of a triumph today" :lol:

(if you want to know more, social media is your friend)
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HindleA wrote:"Available for sponsorship"
this ad on a sign stuck on the village green
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Good-afternoon, everyone
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I'm unable to to give you information regarding Abbott's speech today, PorFavor. I didn't watch or see it.
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Mr citizen and I saw Peterloo recently
It's an important film; it's timely

Leigh's films are exceptionally fine and Peterloo is good. It's not Mike Leigh's best work, in my opinion.
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Looked like more than eighteen or twenty dead on the ground following the carnage scene
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The film didn't seem historical to me. The divide between rich and not rich remains. That hasn't changed. The desperation of regular working class people living through bad government legislation and policy remains.
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PorFavor wrote:
Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, is speaking now. She started her speech with a tribute to Tony Benn. (Politics Live, Guardian)
I didn't hear the speech, so know know no more about it than the above. Can anyone else here shed any light, please?
The link below has Abbott's contributions, she's regularly interrupted and the Hansard thread is an interesting read. I attempted to form a summary but couldn't do it justice.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2 ... opeanUnion(Withdrawal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Unite leader warns Labour against backing second EU referendum

The Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, has privately told Labour MPs the party should have severe reservations about backing a second referendum on leaving the European Union, write the Guardian’s Jessica Elgot and Rajeev Syal (Politics Live, Guardian)
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:A combination of dumbed down gimmicks and an underlying narrative close to "actually, the PM had something of a triumph today" :lol:

(if you want to know more, social media is your friend)
Apparently, according to (t)Watt, it was a "rather good day in the office". :roll: " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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'Parliamentary elections every year'
Yes, please. It'll concentrate representatives' hearts and minds. Any government doing right by the electorate gets returned.
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Mr citizen expressed concern about possible disruption caused by high annual representative turnover
Said it like it's a bad thing
Disruption by unaccountable entrenched bastards causes greater worries
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I disagree with the Chartists ,I am with Mr Citizen on this one for numerous reasons.
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Diane Abbott's contributions in the House today emphasised decades of security infrastructure cooperatively integrated will leave UK security compromised by the act of leaving the EU. She didn't say it like that. The UK's treaties with EU nations as an EU nation will be gone; there's nothing in May's EU Withdrawal notes about this and more. J Hunt just assured the House the UK will be secure. I'm not reassured.
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HindleA wrote:I disagree with the Chartists ,I am with Mr Citizen on this one for numerous reasons.
Please explain why.
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I've thought about it. Annual Parliamentary elections. Other electoral and press reform would have to exist. A string of bastards in every year otherwise.
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Goodnight, everyone
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