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Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th January 2020

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Morning all.
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Have to say, good opening pitch from Nandy last night.

She's probably not going to win - indeed, might well not get on the ballot - but it can't do her any harm.
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David Lammy rules himself out of Labour leadership race

Tottenham MP says party needs candidate best placed to unite factions and win UK’s trust
(Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... leadership
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Well, I'm pleased somebody else is about.

Anybody out there?
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Pompeo: European response to Suleimani killing 'not helpful enough'

US secretary of state unfavourably compares European reaction with ‘partners in the region’
(Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ni-killing
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Came across this the other day, a good read.

How Labour increased its vote share in the Isle of Wight against the odds
The “othering” of Corbyn had long extended past him alone to encompass the entire party. To support Corbyn’s Labour was, according to most of our national media, somehow beyond common decency. We knew this had happened before the campaign started, and one of our earliest priorities was to create a safe space for supporters.
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Yes, a very interesting article.

Can't help noticing that quite a few Labour MPs who lost their seats had spent the previous 3/4 years non-stop criticising the leadership. That isn't exactly going to motivate lots of party members to campaign for them, is it.....
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Good morning, everyone.
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gilsey wrote:Came across this the other day, a good read.

How Labour increased its vote share in the Isle of Wight against the odds
The “othering” of Corbyn had long extended past him alone to encompass the entire party. To support Corbyn’s Labour was, according to most of our national media, somehow beyond common decency. We knew this had happened before the campaign started, and one of our earliest priorities was to create a safe space for supporters.
Yes, it's a good read.
There was unprecedented intimidation, abuse (and destruction of signage) in this election.
Yes, this is our experience too. Most people don't want trouble or contention and I think the hostility turned people away.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Yes, a very interesting article.

Can't help noticing that quite a few Labour MPs who lost their seats had spent the previous 3/4 years non-stop criticising the leadership. That isn't exactly going to motivate lots of party members to campaign for them, is it.....
They should've known better than undermine other team members.
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I've been looking at various housing floor plans in different UK counties. On property sites great quantities of valuable space is often given over to the storage of motor vehicles rather than the rooms people live in.
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Transportation infrastructure policies are political choices.
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Good morfternoon.

Speaking of transportation -
HS2: parliament misled about true cost, says Labour peer

Deputy chair of government review into project claims HS2 chiefs ‘fiddled the figures’
(Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... abour-peer
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I wondered what Christian Wolmar thought about HS2 , one minute 15 into this

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BOJO 's appointing a previous chairman of HS2 Ltd to enquire into whether it should continue was er very odd ?
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Didn't see Marr this morning, but a fairly disinterested observer tells me that Starmer was almost on a different planet to Phillips.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Didn't see Marr this morning, but a fairly disinterested observer tells me that Starmer was almost on a different planet to Phillips.
I didn't realise that it was on. I thought it was still on the festive break until next weekend.
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Who was on what planet?
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Starmer was on the planet most of us inhabit, one presumes.
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This is why , ACE VID BTW ---

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We're all somewhat aware of the psychological analyses of the Trump , but I havent seen any yet for Ms Phillips

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I was at that Wapping demo btw, hairy (and scary) stuff.

In a phenomenon that would become all too familiar, the subsequent BBC "reporting" bore little or no resemblance to what had actually happened.
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On second thoughts , I'm not so sure about associating myself with sociopath elements
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frog222 wrote:sociopath elements
We all have the ability to ignore distress and become accustomed to weirdness.

The difference I guess is whether it's a process or a natural inclination.
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Because trust me, sitting listening to your mother with late stage Alzheimer's repeating a handful of phrases for hours on end, day in day out does make you eventually begin ignoring any distress she's incapable of expressing while accustomising you to the weirdness.

And that's my Dads life now. My Brother and I were nearly crying when we left.

But we're big hard northern fellows.

So nothing will be done until it all goes catastrophically wrong.
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Anyway...lighten the mood dude...so this evening I had my friend around and we watch Only Connect every Sunday.

Some people like doing crosswords, others enjoy another challenge.

We reckon half a bottle of red is the optimum alcohol limit for Victoria Coren's brain teasers.
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If this was a Marx brothers film you'd be expecting Groucho to stand up and say "This means war!"
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RogerOThornhill wrote:If this was a Marx brothers film you'd be expecting Groucho to stand up and say "This means war!"
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If this was a Marx brothers film you'd be expecting Groucho to stand up and say "This means war!"
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You have to listen.
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