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Monday 17th November 2014

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Morning.

Reposting from last night.

http://press.labour.org.uk/post/1028270 ... an-planned" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Social security spending by the Department for Work & Pensions has been £25 billion higher than George Osborne planned in this Parliament, according to new analysis.


Given in full as all prior experience of media coverage distorts/edits to misrepresent.
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... hol-crimes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Tories plan sobriety bracelet punishment for alcohol-related crimes


Of course they do know non medically supervised withdrawal is rather ghastly (as some of us are acutely aware))and may result in a rather awful death,silly question of course they do.
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A farm in East Yorkshire has been isolated after an outbreak of bird-flu. It is not H5N1 but DEFRA are currently carrying out tests to identify the exact strain of the disease. As a result 6,000 ducks are being destroyed - and a six-mile exclusion restriction-zone is in place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30076961

Much as I abhor factory/intensive farming, and it is heart-breaking to contemplate the loss of so many birds (and possibly many more) I do feel terribly saddened for all the poultry-farmers up there who will be dreadfully worried for their own flocks and their livelihoods. And, of course, for the farm that has been struck with it.

It has also broken out in the Netherlands and Germany, so they are facing the same trials. Just awful.

Edit because DEFRA wish to correct the misconception that its an exclusion-zone
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That man (IDS) is in the Guardian again, telling us that:
non-English-speaking children are changing the character of British schools,

and that:
an academic report setting out the billions of pounds that EU migrants had added to the economy was “silly” because it only looks at immigration in terms of the financial benefits to the economy.
Recently he said on Radio 5Live:
I thought there was a silly report, recently, in the last couple of weeks, that said: ‘Oh look in tax terms they have contributed more.’ First of all you have to take them all the way through to when they get older and they actually start taking from the state.
and he goes on – but I wo'n't quote him any further...

If you can bear it, the article is here:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... s-changing

I'll tell you something, though. When I was a kid my mother, alongside her main role as a primary school teacher, was a specialist teacher of what was then called Remedial English and went on to become Head of Remedial Services for the area. There was a time when children arriving in the UK who had limited or no knowledge of English went, for around six months, to an education centre where they were taught English, both formally and through immersion in the language, so that they were fairly comfortable with it by the time they went into the local schools.

At some point that stopped and children just went straight into schools. Maman taught hundreds of children to speak English, over the years; sometimes one-to-one, sometimes in small groups. She used drawing, singing, playing instruments, dancing, all sorts of things as a way of drawing the child out into confidence in using the language. She encouraged word sharing, thus learning a smattering of many, many other languages; and spread the practise out into our school and others in the area. Through the teams of teachers spread across the borough, which she led, they must have guided thousands of children towards fluency in English – many of them already bi- or tri-lingual in their own local languages and dialects. And, recently, I have read about (and seen on television) schools which are doing much the same with great success.

But it is time-intensive and needs well-trained, well-supported, and well-funded, teachers to guide the kids through to confidence and fluency. It needs the whole school to get involved in language swapping (which we loved and kids still do) and for everyone from the youngest pupils right up to the head-teacher to be willing to help a child find new words and to make the newcomers welcome into the community of their school.

And of course it changes schools. It always has done all the way back through the history of education – certainly in the last hundred years. In some times, and in some places, it is and has been a struggle; in other places it has been hard work but a great success. But where there have been struggles it has usually been because of a lack of funding and resources and understanding. And any failures or difficulties cannot be laid on the children or on the families who brought, or sent, their children here. The blame, if there is any to be laid, must be laid at the feet of the Government of the day, and through it to the local authority and to the LEA.

Remember that, for a very long time, a British education has been held as the Gold Standard in much of the world. People strive to come here so that their children will have that opportunity. Some children come here already very well educated in their own languages (and perhaps with another language or three) but little English but come here as refugees with nothing – such as in 1972 when one of my girl-friends arrived here from Uganda. K hardly spoke English but had excellent French, thanks to her school back there. We all helped her, she taught us bits and pieces of Gujurati, and she had supplementary English lessons. She arrived in 1972, part-way through the autumn term, and by the time that school year ended her English was excellent; and we had learned that she was way ahead of us in most subjects. We started the O-level syllabus the following year. K took four GCEs that year and another 6 the year after, when we all sat them. She (and the others who arrived from all over the world) were an inspiration to most of us and spurred us to make greater efforts, ourselves.

And that man denigrates all the Ks of today, and all those who might never even have owned their own pencil before; he has the temerity to say ...you have to take them all the way through to when they get older and they actually start taking from the state. He tars children with the brush of scrounger by his words. How dare he !? :fire: :fight:
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Looking at the hustings on Radio Kent this one beggars belief...and not only because someone could have made a very obvious point afterwards.
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Q: What have you failed to do?

Reckless said that, when the Medway hospital went into special measures, he complained that no one was in overall charge.
Yeah, it was them Tories that put this system in place...oh...
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"What will the housing market look like in 2040"

JRF report.

http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/what ... -look-2040" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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David Cameron may seek only short-term EU migration limits, says Major
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 64306.html
The Tory output has been especially 'silly' in the last few days. Do they really think this will pacify the Ukippers? Is a one year restriction going to be the lynchpin of Dave's negotiated new terms of EU membership ...? Desperate.

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Morning all...stayed away over the weekend in the vain hope of being able to avoid thinking about the implications of the latest allegations (well...allegations that have been around for 30 odd years, but ignored :fire: ) wrt child abuse - it didn't work - found myself talking to incredulous listeners and gently pointing them to verified information, all the while with a feeling of trepidation and nagging dread in the pit of my stomach.

OGRFG is happily pointing at Australian fish, surrounded by 'really important people' so feeling quite important himself, whilst feigning concern about the next global financial crash (which will, of course, be 'all Labours fault', 'cos they didn't sort out the last one properly) and pretending he actually understands what the big long words mean, and acting 'shocked and horrified' at the latest murder by ISIS. As everybody knows (apologies for taking the name of one of our new members in vain) these issues are 'big' and 'important' and make one look like a serious person (Lynton (Crosby, not Blair) said so, so it must be true).

Meanwhile, our MSM continue to hunt out those pesky Shiny Squirrels because to confront their complicity in the secrecy would bring the whole house of cards crashing down around their detritus-filled heads.

Some are reporting some aspects - BBC this morning running with the selective nature of topics for So-viles progams/Heil with some details, but buried inside the paper...but it isn't going away...Huff Post has this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11 ... _hp_ref=tw

...and all the while the secrecy continues, the shining light of Western Democracy continues its' unreported war on its' own citizens...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/ ... um=twitter

Conspiracy theory? It's looking more like it all the time - wrt to 'D' notices - 100 years of secrecy...but someone with the right clearance can view them, surely? Someone who also could sit with the Heads of Secret Services, Home Office, Law etc...and if there's nothing to report, tell us that. It would almost appear Prime Ministerial to do so...you might feel it would be in the public interest to do so.

The nature of 'Hope' (just north of Peterborough) seems to have changed. I used to live in Hope that the Thatch :sick: ite-Raygunite-Murkydochian Banskter con trick would be revealed and reversed - I now live in Hope that reflects the comment of Ian McFadyean...nothing will help him (or other survivors) to wipe the memories of what was done to them, but they continue to fight to protect the children currently being treated in the same way. (Hope is still just north of Peterborough though)

...and I apologise, as I know how difficult this sh1t is and how it can trigger deeply unpleasant memories.
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an Dunt retweeted
Merry Catmas @kilkenny_cat · 14h 14 hours ago
There is no food that can't be ruined by posh people serving it as a foam.
Nice little follow on to our late night political food chat from yesterday's thread.

I've never had a foodie 'foam'. They always remind me rather too much of coloured cat sick when I see them on Masterchef. Foams should be in the bathroom - or on a storm whipped sea - or quickly wiped up.
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rebeccariots2 wrote:
an Dunt retweeted
Merry Catmas @kilkenny_cat · 14h 14 hours ago
There is no food that can't be ruined by posh people serving it as a foam.
Nice little follow on to our late night political food chat from yesterday's thread.

I've never had a foodie 'foam'. They always remind me rather too much of coloured cat sick when I see them on Masterchef. Foams should be in the bathroom - or on a storm whipped sea - or quickly wiped up.
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I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Damn, me too. Right where's my purple tie gone....
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Yes - one of my favourites, too.
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StephenDolan wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Damn, me too. Right where's my purple tie gone....
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
But somehow I don't have a vision of you reading Auto Express and listening to Cliff Richard in your leeesure time? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Simon Danczuk ‏@SimonDanczuk 7m7 minutes ago
Pleased to see police presence at our boys school this morning following parent's concern about 'stranger danger' last week. Thanks.
He's over egging this IMO.
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Oh dear! Scottish Labour leader candidate putting forward a policy he hasn't a hope of delivering:
LABOUR leadership candidate Neil Findlay has said the party in Scotland could shift to the left of its Westminster counterpart and pursue radically different policies such as the scrapping of Trident, public ownership of rail and the end of private finance contracts in the NHS.
Mr Findlay said the left-wing stances were now “mainstream” in Scotland as he stated he agreed with the SNP about the need for the removal of Trident nuclear submarines at Faslane.
Rail and NHS, fair enough - they're devolved matters - but he's playing into SNP hands with the relocation/scrapping of Trident.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/t ... -1-3606980
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Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick · 39m 39 minutes ago
Andrew Mitchell libel trial starts shortly at Royal Courts of Justice - famous court 13, same court as for 1987 Jeffrey Archer libel trial
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Eric_WLothian wrote:Oh dear! Scottish Labour leader candidate putting forward a policy he hasn't a hope of delivering:
LABOUR leadership candidate Neil Findlay has said the party in Scotland could shift to the left of its Westminster counterpart and pursue radically different policies such as the scrapping of Trident, public ownership of rail and the end of private finance contracts in the NHS.
Mr Findlay said the left-wing stances were now “mainstream” in Scotland as he stated he agreed with the SNP about the need for the removal of Trident nuclear submarines at Faslane.
Rail and NHS, fair enough - they're devolved matters - but he's playing into SNP hands with the relocation/scrapping of Trident.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/t ... -1-3606980
I imagine Sturgeon will be all over that. Miliband probably won't be saying anything - won't want to be perceived as telling Scottish Labour what to do.
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The Yougov profiles of "people who like the National Housing Federation"


https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/National ... mographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Not keen on kidneys...Have made steak and stilton. Very tasty, but I had severe heartburn for weeks....
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HindleA wrote:The Yougov profiles of "people who like the National Housing Federation"


https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/National ... mographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Demis Roussos - drives a Jaguar - shops at Lidl - £1000 spare a month. These are real hogwash aren't they?! :lol:
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ohsocynical wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Not keen on kidneys...Have made steak and stilton. Very tasty, but I had severe heartburn for weeks....
Liver and bacon, steak and kidney pudding style, is absolutely delicious. Honestly!
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LadyCentauria wrote:That man (IDS) is in the Guardian again, telling us that:
non-English-speaking children are changing the character of British schools,

and that:
an academic report setting out the billions of pounds that EU migrants had added to the economy was “silly” because it only looks at immigration in terms of the financial benefits to the economy.
Recently he said on Radio 5Live:
I thought there was a silly report, recently, in the last couple of weeks, that said: ‘Oh look in tax terms they have contributed more.’ First of all you have to take them all the way through to when they get older and they actually start taking from the state.
and he goes on – but I wo'n't quote him any further...

If you can bear it, the article is here:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... s-changing

I'll tell you something, though. When I was a kid my mother, alongside her main role as a primary school teacher, was a specialist teacher of what was then called Remedial English and went on to become Head of Remedial Services for the area. There was a time when children arriving in the UK who had limited or no knowledge of English went, for around six months, to an education centre where they were taught English, both formally and through immersion in the language, so that they were fairly comfortable with it by the time they went into the local schools.

At some point that stopped and children just went straight into schools. Maman taught hundreds of children to speak English, over the years; sometimes one-to-one, sometimes in small groups. She used drawing, singing, playing instruments, dancing, all sorts of things as a way of drawing the child out into confidence in using the language. She encouraged word sharing, thus learning a smattering of many, many other languages; and spread the practise out into our school and others in the area. Through the teams of teachers spread across the borough, which she led, they must have guided thousands of children towards fluency in English – many of them already bi- or tri-lingual in their own local languages and dialects. And, recently, I have read about (and seen on television) schools which are doing much the same with great success.

But it is time-intensive and needs well-trained, well-supported, and well-funded, teachers to guide the kids through to confidence and fluency. It needs the whole school to get involved in language swapping (which we loved and kids still do) and for everyone from the youngest pupils right up to the head-teacher to be willing to help a child find new words and to make the newcomers welcome into the community of their school.

And of course it changes schools. It always has done all the way back through the history of education – certainly in the last hundred years. In some times, and in some places, it is and has been a struggle; in other places it has been hard work but a great success. But where there have been struggles it has usually been because of a lack of funding and resources and understanding. And any failures or difficulties cannot be laid on the children or on the families who brought, or sent, their children here. The blame, if there is any to be laid, must be laid at the feet of the Government of the day, and through it to the local authority and to the LEA.

Remember that, for a very long time, a British education has been held as the Gold Standard in much of the world. People strive to come here so that their children will have that opportunity. Some children come here already very well educated in their own languages (and perhaps with another language or three) but little English but come here as refugees with nothing – such as in 1972 when one of my girl-friends arrived here from Uganda. K hardly spoke English but had excellent French, thanks to her school back there. We all helped her, she taught us bits and pieces of Gujurati, and she had supplementary English lessons. She arrived in 1972, part-way through the autumn term, and by the time that school year ended her English was excellent; and we had learned that she was way ahead of us in most subjects. We started the O-level syllabus the following year. K took four GCEs that year and another 6 the year after, when we all sat them. She (and the others who arrived from all over the world) were an inspiration to most of us and spurred us to make greater efforts, ourselves.

And that man denigrates all the Ks of today, and all those who might never even have owned their own pencil before; he has the temerity to say ...you have to take them all the way through to when they get older and they actually start taking from the state. He tars children with the brush of scrounger by his words. How dare he !? :fire: :fight:
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The death of a diabetic former soldier after his benefits were slashed sparked a DWP select committee inquiry. More than 210,000 people signed a petition calling for the inquiry.

David, 59, was found dead at his home in Hertfordshire in July 2013. Penniless, he could not afford money for electric to keep his insulin refrigerated and died of fatal diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication caused by lack of insulin.

At the inquiry held last week, Labour’s Debbie Abrahams MP told work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith: “Hundreds of thousands of people have had their benefits stopped for a minimum of four weeks and then approximately a quarter of these people, from the research that I’ve seen, are disappearing.

“They are leaving and we don’t know where they are going. That’s an absolute indictment of this policy and it’s a little bit worrying if we’re trying to tout this internationally as a real success story.”

Duncan Smith responded: “Well I don’t agree with any of that. I actually believe the sanctions regime as applied is fair, we always get the odd case of …”
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Me too. I was going to recommend the Dog & Gun in Keswick to fellow steak & kidney pud lovers, theirs was sublime.

But I just checked I'd got the right name and to my horror it's changed hands and been 'refurbished'. :cry:
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PorFavor wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Not keen on kidneys...Have made steak and stilton. Very tasty, but I had severe heartburn for weeks....
Liver and bacon, steak and kidney pudding style, is absolutely delicious. Honestly!
Can I just say how offal that sounds? (I'll get my coat....)
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UKIP always talk about an "Australian-based points system" but each Australian state has its own rules. I looked at relocating to Sydney, for example, and although the increased wages were tempting, I would be expected to pay for ALL school fees for my K-16 children - an average of 8K a year per child plus extras.

Is this the system that UKIP are thinking of bringing to the UK; and if it is, why haven't they been singing its praises?
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William Bain ‏@William_Bain 3m3 minutes ago
Coalition failure to tackle private rent costs/falls in pay mean higher than expected tax credit/housing benefit bill http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/7447" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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Good morning all.
Apologies if this was previously posted, but Peter Hitchens is having another go at Our Glorious Leader

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What's that you say....30 years? What could have happened 30 years ago, I wonder? From June/July, so may well have been linked already...I would put money in it not having made it into the MSM, though :o

http://rt.com/uk/167008-poverty-doubles-uk-economy/

“The Coalition government aimed to eradicate poverty by tackling the causes of poverty,”said Professor David Gordon, from the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol. “Their strategy has clearly failed. The available high quality scientific evidence shows that poverty and deprivation have increased since 2010, the poor are suffering from deeper poverty and the gap between the rich and poor is widening.”
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Mr Cameron stressed that while the British economy was the fastest-growing in the G7, the reality of an interconnected world meant it would not be possible to "insulate ourselves completely".
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So. Two Christmas cakes in the oven. Threw everything bar the kitchen sink into them. They smell good.
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Having dipped my toe in commenting in the Guardian ,my posts summarily removed for reasons I have no idea.I'm a good boy,or so I thought.

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Phew. We can rest easy in our beds. Dave's chairing another Cobra meeting when he returns from the G20.
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danesclose wrote:Phew. We can rest easy in our beds. Dave's chairing another Cobra meeting when he returns from the G20.
Aren't we lucky to have such a clever important man in charge
What about?
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Re: Monday 17th November 2014

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Oh, the execution.

As we've said before this just plays into their hands. What can possibly be said at this COBRA that wasn't said at previous ones on the same issue?
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Re: Monday 17th November 2014

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Is this fair?
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rearofthestore wrote:
StephenDolan wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear :)
Damn, me too. Right where's my purple tie gone....
Hollands of Baxenden only please, not Pukka!
I'm lucky, one of my local butchers does a more than decent S & K pie/pud; not to Hollands or Pieminister standard, but for a couple of quid you can't go wrong.

Today's Populus is interesting, possibly and outlier?

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB
· 2h 2 hours ago
UKIP drop to 11% in today's Populus online poll
: Lab 36 (+1), Con 35 (+2), LD 7 (-2), UKIP 11 (-2),
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
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Re: Monday 17th November 2014

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danesclose wrote:Good morning all.
Apologies if this was previously posted, but Peter Hitchens is having another go at Our Glorious Leader

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ ... blood.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I liked this:
Presumably, this article is an early attempt to shift the blame. It s no longer possibe to say that it is Labour's falt, Labour having let office almost five years ago. So the rest of the world must take the blame.
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Oh, Good Morning folks.
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Re: Monday 17th November 2014

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Even if Populus is accurate, I expect UKIP will get a boost this week for some reason or other......
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
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Hannah Snow retweeted
Jack of Kent ‏@JackofKent 4h4 hours ago
So, at last, the #plebgate libel trial starts today.
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diana smith ‏@mulberrybush 3m3 minutes ago
Fascinating YouGov pages on the characteristics of people who like David Cameron https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/David_Ca ... mographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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BTW apologies I haven't yet read all the weekend stuff so may be repeating stuff :oops: if so ;-)
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:diana smith ‏@mulberrybush 3m3 minutes ago
Fascinating YouGov pages on the characteristics of people who like David Cameron https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/David_Ca ... mographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Can I bear to look? Should I put on my heavy duty winceproof gear first?
Working on the wild side.
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Labour Coalition With Lib Dems 'Impossible' With Nick Clegg, Says Shadow Minister

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11 ... 69878.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Afternoon all
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rebeccariots2 wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:diana smith ‏@mulberrybush 3m3 minutes ago
Fascinating YouGov pages on the characteristics of people who like David Cameron https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/David_Ca ... mographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Can I bear to look? Should I put on my heavy duty winceproof gear first?


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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:diana smith ‏@mulberrybush 3m3 minutes ago
Fascinating YouGov pages on the characteristics of people who like David Cameron https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/David_Ca ... mographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Having looked at it now ... all I feel I can do is issue a warning about the likelihood of deadly bad breath if you get up close enough to any of these coves ... far too much pongy fish at the top of their menu.

But then I hope none of us want to get up that close anyway.
Working on the wild side.
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Re: Monday 17th November 2014

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https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Ed_Miliband/demographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ed_Miliband/demographics
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https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Nick_Clegg/demographics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nick_Clegg/demographics
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