rebeccariots2 wrote:I think she may need a blast of the FTN Home Secretary's water cannon. But sadly ... no one has imported the wonderful water cannon smiley from yesterday. Sniff.Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson · 53m 53 minutes ago
Is time catching up with the longest-serving Home Secretary for more than 50 years? Theresa suddenly doesn't look so Teflon.
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Thank you, thank you refit. I promise you your next passport renewal will receive priority treatment without you having to pay the optional extra charge. Just a click of my kitten heels and it will be done.refitman wrote:rebeccariots2 wrote:I think she may need a blast of the FTN Home Secretary's water cannon. But sadly ... no one has imported the wonderful water cannon smiley from yesterday. Sniff.Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson · 53m 53 minutes ago
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I don't think so - I'm voting for Dodgy Daves capacity for unremitting vapid arrogant smarmy omnishambolic frackwitted out-of-touchery - he couldn't effectively think a whole thought...surely time for Cobra...or another fish-pointing photoshoot...something - anythingyahyah wrote:frightful_oik wrote:I dunno about that Tizme. Another couple of months delay so it puts back the date when anything damaging emerges from it.Tizme1 wrote: This day just keeps getting better and better.
Not sure that wasn't part of the intention when she was chosen.
I shan't be going (my off-the-shoulder boiler suit will be in for alterations on that day) but I'll try to plant a few questions\suggestions with someone who is going, just in case they get the chance to ask\make them.This is a reminder that Portsmouth Labour Party is holding its annual Xmas Dinner on December 16, as a social event and fund-raiser.
All members are welcome!
This year our speaker is Rachel Reeves, Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions.
Please find details attached.
Massive congratulations on your victory, Tizme! I remember how excited and relieved we were when we finally got a guarantee that applications to build on ours would not be countenanced, quite a few years back. Probably helped that we had had a heavy wet winter followed by mostly raining all year and another wet winter so the allotments were (mostly) under two feet of water. Why so badly flooded, the inspectors asked. Well, it is the lowest part of the old water-meadows – and, after all, this is what water-meadows are for...Tizme1 wrote:Thanks PorFavor,PorFavor wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... es-housingLandmark legal victory for allotments over redevelopment
Farm Terrace plot-holders in Watford quash decision by Eric Pickles to turn site into housing and car park (Guardian)
Edited to, hopefully, get quote right,
I've been trying to get a chance to let you all know since this morning but as you might imagine, I've got 'phone calls, texts and emails flying at me left right and centre! Pity poor Sara Jane - she also has to deal with all the press and twitter etc. Twice we've won now but no doubt the Dotty Mare will still try to get her own way. Anyway, I'll read through the rest of today's comments in a moment but first I need to do yet another celebratory 'jig'.
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 24m 24 minutes ago
CORRECTION. CON up 2 in latest Rochester poll not down 2.
CON 33% (+2), LAB 16% (-9), LD 1% (-2), UKIP 48% (+8), GRE 2% (+2)
Tom Watson, MP and author
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There are many people in Westminster who would be happy to see the #CSA inquiry derailed. Theresa May is not one of them. Stay focused team.
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Frances Crook @francescrook · 58m 58 minutes ago
I have never had dinner with Leon Brittan
Tom Swarbrick
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LBC EXCL: Michael Mansfield QC tells @IainDale that "yes, absolutely" he would take on the #CSAinquiry if asked " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … @LBC
That's good to hear. Well done him.RobertSnozers wrote:I hope he won't mind me saying here, but I heard from Temulkar earlier and he's had a fantastically positive advance review from a prominent source on his historical novel manuscript. Any more novelists here? We'll be able to have a FTN literary festival before long.
Congratulations from me too. I am also a novellist, of primarily comic fiction, albeit a self-published writer. Still, I have a half dozen books in our local library in Stockport.Tney've even been borrowed...RobertSnozers wrote:I hope he won't mind me saying here, but I heard from Temulkar earlier and he's had a fantastically positive advance review from a prominent source on his historical novel manuscript. Any more novelists here? We'll be able to have a FTN literary festival before long.
Night PF.PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.
(By the way - where's ohsocynical? Has anyone heard from her? I hope she's ok.)
Congratulations to @Temulkar from me, too!RobertSnozers wrote:I hope he won't mind me saying here, but I heard from Temulkar earlier and he's had a fantastically positive advance review from a prominent source on his historical novel manuscript. Any more novelists here? We'll be able to have a FTN literary festival before long.
Thanks Lady C. I've just poured my celebratory glass of wine. Glad to hear your allotments are safe. The Farm Terrace win is a huge boost for allotment holders all over the Country and something of a bench mark case. The crazy thing is, a large part of the area that the Dotty Mare wants to build on, is a flood plain. Large parts of it were flooded earlier this year including the area where the new link road will go. Getting rid of the allotments is insane. If these plans go ahead as they are, we will have flooding right through the high street in the future. Still, for tonight I'm going to just enjoy our victory.LadyCentauria wrote:Massive congratulations on your victory, Tizme! I remember how excited and relieved we were when we finally got a guarantee that applications to build on ours would not be countenanced, quite a few years back. Probably helped that we had had a heavy wet winter followed by mostly raining all year and another wet winter so the allotments were (mostly) under two feet of water. Why so badly flooded, the inspectors asked. Well, it is the lowest part of the old water-meadows – and, after all, this is what water-meadows are for...Tizme1 wrote:Thanks PorFavor,PorFavor wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... es-housing
Edited to, hopefully, get quote right,
I've been trying to get a chance to let you all know since this morning but as you might imagine, I've got 'phone calls, texts and emails flying at me left right and centre! Pity poor Sara Jane - she also has to deal with all the press and twitter etc. Twice we've won now but no doubt the Dotty Mare will still try to get her own way. Anyway, I'll read through the rest of today's comments in a moment but first I need to do yet another celebratory 'jig'.
Enjoy your celebrations!
Happy to agree to differ...RobertSnozers wrote:I disagree, I think he's one of the good guys. I accept he can be a bit cerebral sometimes, and leave a yawning gap between the ideas and 'truths' he has identified and meaningful action to build on them, but in this case there is real, hard policy to the communitarian idealism - local investment banks, more local planning control over high streets etc. He's a proper lefty, or the closest we get to them these days, and he has an impact on policy.AngryAsWell wrote:I'm not a fan of Jon Cruddas, but this leaves me in like...what? pardon? say again ?.. mode. I just wish he would put a sock in it, or speak clearly, or get out. (Probably very unfair but I really don't like his pretentious manors).
"Jon Cruddas: Ed Miliband faces a dilemma as the political ground shifts
The head of Labour’s policy review discussed the way forward for the party, as the English regional cabinet committee met in Manchester"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... icy-review" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
AngryAsWell wrote:I'm not a fan of Jon Cruddas, but this leaves me in like...what? pardon? say again ?.. mode. I just wish he would put a sock in it, or speak clearly, or get out. (Probably very unfair but I really don't like his pretentious manors).
"Jon Cruddas: Ed Miliband faces a dilemma as the political ground shifts
The head of Labour’s policy review discussed the way forward for the party, as the English regional cabinet committee met in Manchester"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... icy-review" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
How about "can you please just keep your criticisms to yourself, at least until after the election?"giselle97 wrote:AngryAsWell wrote:I'm not a fan of Jon Cruddas, but this leaves me in like...what? pardon? say again ?.. mode. I just wish he would put a sock in it, or speak clearly, or get out. (Probably very unfair but I really don't like his pretentious manors).
"Jon Cruddas: Ed Miliband faces a dilemma as the political ground shifts
The head of Labour’s policy review discussed the way forward for the party, as the English regional cabinet committee met in Manchester"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... icy-review" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Get out would be my preferred option AAW!
That reminds me ......... Tom Watson is coming to our Fund Raiser for Lisa Forbes in Peterborough.
Would anyone on FTN like to give me some questions for him?
I can't be trusted to put mine in words without embarrassing Lisa who is actually a lovely and very dedicated lady with fabulous kids and a good, supportive husband. She's out canvassing in all weathers most days and nights and really takes "helping people" very, very seriously. She has some really lively spats with Jackson - just as I do, but her stories get published in the Peterborough ToryGraph!
)Lovely photo and the children seem to be content and cheerful in his presence. Actually, on second glance, the young lady on the front row with the gorgeous coloured hair has an expression on her face which I think possibly matches the one on mine (with wrinkles) when I see Ed close up.AngryAsWell wrote:Crispin Flintoff
@Fruitandvegdon Great picture of the charming @Ed_Miliband.
Daily Mail/Sun/Express/Times/Metro/etc.. won't use it.
Please RT!
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Why aren't the taxpayers alliance up in arms about 'our money' being wasted like this ... and, worse, going to housing benefit scroungers (AKA buy to let mega landlords)?Councils forced to sell houses cheaply to tenants then rent them back
Councils are selling off their already limited supplies of housing stock and allowing former council tenants to become buy-to-let landlords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/pro ... -back.html
... At least 32 councils now rent or pay out housing benefit to tenants living in homes sold since the Government revamped the Right to Buy scheme in 2012, Freedom of Information requests show.
Although there are rules to deter the immediate sale of properties bought under Right to Buy, renting is unregulated, so the Government’s generous discounts on sales have created a new breed of right-to-buy landlords, branded a “national scandal” by council leaders...
Hope it's OK.....giselle97 wrote:Right .... off now to find out why my tablet case is boiling hot - because it also keeps freezing up. Seeyah!
I heard a segment on Radio 4 re the Woolf resignation earlier which was prefaced with something like - Wanted ... new head of child abuse panel - key requirements include ability to write own letters ....RogerOThornhill wrote:OK, back now from (i) internet misbehaving earlier and (i)listening to a post-grad seminar lecture.
Woolf? Thought the killer blow was that letter which had to be (i) written for her the first time and then (ii) constantly having to be rewritten. From her background in law she didn't seem the right person anyway. Get Mansfield to do it - definitely not part of the establishment with the cases he's taken on before.
Great result in the PCC. Now Labour need to commit to removing hem post-election (assuming etc). They were, as someone put it, the answer to a question nobody had asked.
It'd be interesting to see whether elected school commissioners would get a higher turnout - I think maybe they would since no-one really cares about the police until something happens to them personally...but the majority of people have kids and care about what happens in their local schools.
But Mansfield still has one of the problems that Woolf had, which is that he has no background in family law at all. I don't doubt his eminence or (otherwise) his suitability for a second, but I suspect it would be a cold day in hell before the tories appointed him to head an investigation.RogerOThornhill wrote:. Get Mansfield to do it - definitely not part of the establishment with the cases he's taken on before.
This doesn't need an expert in family law, it arguably doesn't need any sort of judge. It needs a forensic and analytic investigator prepared to start digging and to follow ever lead fearlessly.adam wrote:But Mansfield still has one of the problems that Woolf had, which is that he has no background in family law at all. I don't doubt his eminence or (otherwise) his suitability for a second, but I suspect it would be a cold day in hell before the tories appointed him to head an investigation.RogerOThornhill wrote:. Get Mansfield to do it - definitely not part of the establishment with the cases he's taken on before.
*shrug* Get someone from a related jurisdiction, who has all of the seniority but none of the connections. Get someone from Scotland/Australia/New Zealand ... or someone senior from the bar here but not yet on the bench. I was going to say David Hershman, who wrote the definitive book on The Children Act and modern children's law, but I've looked him up and sadly he died some time ago.
I don't have much time for John Pinaar but his interview with Woolf earlier today was good. She was incredibly evasive about those letters because it pretty much ended all pretense at independence on her part.rebeccariots2 wrote:I heard a segment on Radio 4 re the Woolf resignation earlier which was prefaced with something like - Wanted ... new head of child abuse panel - key requirements include ability to write own letters ....RogerOThornhill wrote:OK, back now from (i) internet misbehaving earlier and (i)listening to a post-grad seminar lecture.
Woolf? Thought the killer blow was that letter which had to be (i) written for her the first time and then (ii) constantly having to be rewritten. From her background in law she didn't seem the right person anyway. Get Mansfield to do it - definitely not part of the establishment with the cases he's taken on before.
Great result in the PCC. Now Labour need to commit to removing hem post-election (assuming etc). They were, as someone put it, the answer to a question nobody had asked.
It'd be interesting to see whether elected school commissioners would get a higher turnout - I think maybe they would since no-one really cares about the police until something happens to them personally...but the majority of people have kids and care about what happens in their local schools.
Agree with you - an absolute killer blow. Since when did it become acceptable for the institution which should be checking out an individual to write the reference for said individual so that they could then check it out?
