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Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Morning all.
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Good morfternoon.
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Good morning.

I assume Johnson has to turn up for PMQs, so we finally get to see him again.

Plenty of more or less hilarious suggestions on twitter about Carrie giving him a black eye, etc.

If you didn't laugh you'd cry.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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gilsey wrote:Good morning.

I assume Johnson has to turn up for PMQs, so we finally get to see him again.

Plenty of more or less hilarious suggestions on twitter about Carrie giving him a black eye, etc.

If you didn't laugh you'd cry.
His not showing up yesterday was astonishing.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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I'm not on twitter, But I'd also thought of that black eye !
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Did he turn up, then?
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Is it this evening that the Labour Party Deputy Leader hustings take place? I can't see any mention of them anywhere - so maybe (probably) I'm misremembering.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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It was this morning, according to the G.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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@gilsey

Thanks. I haven't seen any reports of how it went. Have you?
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No, nothing.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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The "hustings" for the PLP was yesterday I think?
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Leadership yesterday evening, plenty of reports of that.
Here is the agenda for the day.

10am: Candidates for the Labour party deputy leadership take part in a private hustings for Labour MPs in the Commons.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Looks like those rumours about Mr and Mrs Hewitt were actually true then.......
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Good afterning ;-)
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Deranged granary birder enters Labour leadership contest (5,8).
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Deranged granary birder enters Labour leadership contest (5,8).
Narendra Modi amongst the nominators? ;)
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Garry Bardiner?
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:rofl:
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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I've missed the granmaas! (Yes, I know - too many "a"s. But it was the best that I could manage.)
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Misguided fluorspar rhyme oik makes a return (4,4,9).
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Misguided fluorspar rhyme oik makes a return (4,4,9).

Every time I think I've nearly got it, I haven't. Clue, please?
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HindleA wrote:Deleted
It didn't go unnoticed.
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. . . .[Dave] Prentis said his union would back Angela Rayner to be the deputy leader, cementing her status as the favourite to win that role. (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... leadership
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Scientists give cuttlefish 3D glasses and shrimp films for vision study

Researchers use 3D glasses, films and food to test whether cuttlefish use stereopsis to find prey
(Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... sion-study
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John McDonnell backs Richard Burgon for Labour deputy leader

Move to nominate shadow justice secretary dubbed ‘slap in face’ for Rebecca Long Bailey, who backs Angela Rayner (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... uty-leader
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Slightly disappointing from him tbh.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Am reading Lionel Asbo.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Suit yourselves
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Slightly disappointing from him tbh.
Slightly more than slightly!
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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I appear to have lost the ability to be disappointed.
Presumably because to be disappointed one needs to have had some kind of hope.
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tinyclanger2 wrote:Am reading Lionel Asbo.
I had to look it up since I'd not heard of it. Is it any good? The reviews (for what they're worth) are mixed, apparently. Must confess that I'm not big on Martin Amis but is it worth a read, d'you reckon?
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Cuttlefish, anyone?
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Not sure. My own views are also mixed.
(This is on Lionel Asbo rather than cuttlefish I should add).
I find it kind of viciously funny and expect that that makes me a bad person.
These days.
I liked Money.
Am not a fan of the man.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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I bet Constance will give it a run for its money.
Cuttlefish that is - not Lionel Asbo.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Continuity issues.
Sorry.
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Am currently looking better in me avatar than I do in real life.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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In case anyone was thinking of suing me for misrepresentation.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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It's absolutely peeing it down here.
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Re: Wednesday 8th January 2020

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Night night.
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