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ohsocynical wrote:On Twitter. What we were discussing the other week about right winger's brains being wired differently. Sorry I can't transfer the photo....
Clarence!!! What are you doing with that pig!!!???
I shall go to My Room...
One evening in October
When I was about one-third sober
And was taking home a load with manly pride
My poor feet began to stutter
So I lay down in the gutter
And a pig came up and lay down by my side
Then we sang "It's All Fair Weather"
And "Good Fellows Get Together"
Till a lady passing by was heard to say
She says, "You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses"
And the pig got up and slowly walked away
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Chris Bryant retweeted
Chris Williamson @ChriswMP · 2h 2 hours ago
On the way to Rochester with @PaulBlomfieldMP & @ChrisBryantMP to campaign for Labour's brilliant candidate @naushabahkhan
I still don't quite get why people are saying Khan's not being supported by other Labour MPs and frontbenchers ... there seems to be a steady stream of them going down to Rochester & Strood to help.
"This kind of governing structure may be exactly what we'd expect in Cuba or North Korea, but it is at odds with good governance practices here," Bill Dempsey, chief financial officer of the New York-based Nathan Cummings Foundation, told Mr Murdoch at Friday's meeting.
...and at the 'Sun Six' trial...
lisa o'carroll @lisaocarroll · 44m 44 minutes ago
Wright: What grates is company shopped you? Pharo:No, what really grates me is co, has provided a fraction of the evidence in this case
Pharo: I would suggest that others have had a great deal of fortune in that there are incomplete trails of evidence to the police.
I wonder who the 'others' are...more
Proud to be 1 of the 76% - Solidarity...because PODEMOS
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 40s 40 seconds ago
Sir John Randall has given witness statement saying Andrew Mitchell told him he "could not recall" what was said at the gate #plebgate
Tom Newton Dunn retweeted
Jack of Kent @JackofKent · 20m 20 minutes ago
It would appear a distinction is being made at #plebgate hearing between "an enormous shitstorm" and "a massive shitstrom".
James Plunkett retweeted
Peter Styles @pstymail · Nov 15
Blog about man sanctioned by DWP gets 25,000 hits in 4 days. Latest entry herehttp://bit.ly/1x4s0n6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; @pollytoynbee @hilarypepper @tianran
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 12m 12 minutes ago
Desmond Browne QC: "Why not be frank with your own deputy chief whip, who is going to come to give evidence to this court?" #plebgate
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 14m 14 minutes ago
Another Tory MP, Michael Fabricant, has also given similar statement, court hears. "They were not on my side", Mitchell says #plebgate
Gemma Doyle @GemmaWDMP 4m4 minutes ago
Tory Reservists policy falling apart in the chamber. Severe criticism coming from their own back benches...
For a horrible moment I read that as reservists being recruited for the Tories .... what a ghastly prospect - but possible the only way they could increase their numbers / strength now is to pay people for joining up.
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 29s29 seconds ago
For the first time for a month LAB moves into the lead in the Ashcroft National Poll
LAB 30+1
CON 29-1
LD 9-1
UKIP 16=
GRN 7=
Seems to me they've only been asked to account for their actions the same as they've been demanding from the NHS.
They want complete openness and accountability but if they're taking on the big players, need to be totally on the ball with their own affairs.
Or to put it another way. People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Little bit messy isn't it? Breitbart have a piece on about the same subject apparently, it could though of course just be a wheeze to get the Tories looking better, you do though get the impression there's too many gargantuan egos in Ukip?
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 29s29 seconds ago
For the first time for a month LAB moves into the lead in the Ashcroft National Poll
LAB 30+1
CON 29-1
LD 9-1
UKIP 16=
GRN 7=
So, the last 4 polls have Labour back in the lead, albeit a small one. I expect Notso was doing his usual "this isn't a story" line Over There today.
Job seeker threatened with sanctions for joining a demonstration.
This is fascism.
No other words are necessary.
Very dangerous times indeed.The culture of an organisation and the expected behaviour required comes from the top.Denying a distressed person the use of an easily available toilet (remember IDS used a disabled toilet causing a waiting person such distress,and didn't even bother to flush)in these terms is quite acceptable.Systematically targeting people for sanctions is not only acceptable but excepted,by any means.The advocating of illegality and propagation of the view of the disabled as not worthy of full citizenship is not only acceptable,when called out on it derives sympathy for holding such a position.Today,the dismissing of any contribution of people coming from abroad as a silly irrelevance because they will cost the State in their later days.
Seems to me they've only been asked to account for their actions the same as they've been demanding from the NHS.
They want complete openness and accountability but if they're taking on the big players, need to be totally on the ball with their own affairs.
Or to put it another way. People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.
Yes - it seems that way to me too.
And I don't get why they complain that some complaints about them are politically motivated (and show a couple of tweets from a prospective parliamentary candidate which merely say there are questions to answer if certain things have happened). They have made political points and targets as part of their campaign - and are saying now that they need to stay as a campaign group because what they can do as a charity would be too restricted ...
ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 37s38 seconds ago
From today's polls the CON+LAB aggregate:
Ashcroft = 59%
Populus = 71%
That's some difference
Excuse my ignorance. What does this mean?
The polling percentages of Labour and Conservatives added together in each poll. Quite what Smithson is trying to "say" here I dunno.
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 13m 13 minutes ago
Court hears author Robert Harris gave Andrew Mitchell advice writing resignation statement and Sunday Times News Review article #plebgate
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 26m 26 minutes ago
"Mr Fabricant has campaigned against me through out this period," says Andrew Mitchell. Mud flying between Tory MPs now at #plebgate trial
What with this Tory mud slinging fest, and the UKIP split (left wing Ukip smear now there's a term to cause a splutter, eh!) - there will have to be a massive slew of articles and media on a shitstorm for Ed Miliband any moment now ...
Gemma Doyle @GemmaWDMP 4m4 minutes ago
Tory Reservists policy falling apart in the chamber. Severe criticism coming from their own back benches...
For a horrible moment I read that as reservists being recruited for the Tories .... what a ghastly prospect - but possible the only way they could increase their numbers / strength now is to pay people for joining up.
I think it was fantasy from the start. Make the headline cuts quickly and cross the other bridge when they came to it.
One item- Blunkett's successor in his seat... works for him. He's also the Deputy Leader of the Council and a former miner. Gee, sounds like a terrible candidate! But apparently it means Blunkett is "keeping his hand in".
Tower Hamlets- quote of histrionics from Pickles at the top of the page, with section of bad old Lutfur underneath. There's a point- the report doesn't clear him of fraud because it didn't investigate it, but on the other hand he has been accused of it all the time. So you'd expect him to seize on one bit of a report and make a lot of it. This is what every government department does, every day, when the NAO or whoever criticize them. "We're pleased to see that the report says..."
Private Eye, who've done no work except write up Ted Jeory's stuff, now say the council were left open to fraud. Sure, but not quite what's been thrown at Tower Hamlets, is it?
Ben Gummer @ben4ipswich 3h3 hours ago
Very poor form for @BBCWorldatOne to introduce serially wrong David Blanchflower as impartial "economist" when in fact Labour cheerleader.
Danny Blanchflower @D_Blanchflower 19m19 minutes ago
@ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne are you joking tory spinmeister
Alastair Stewart @alstewitn 9m9 minutes ago
@D_Blanchflower @ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne I am a fan, Danny, as you know, but 'impartial' is immersing the lily in a vat of 24 carat gold.
Karl Turner MP retweeted
Danny Blanchflower @D_Blanchflower 6m6 minutes ago New Hampshire, US
@alstewitn @ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne who said i was impartial i am opposed to the economic policies that produced worst recovery in 300yrs
Oh yes, another item. Guardian hypocrisy! It apparently has a spread betting thing, while also campaigning against.... something differerent, ie fixed odds betting terminals.
After the £25bn Osborne overspend on social security I'm wondering where is a) the continual referencing on news 24 and b) the TPA press release and spokesperson to discuss this in the studios? Hmm.
Jon Dalladay @jondalladay 7h7 hours ago
@AdamBienkov That is the single scariest thing I have seen for a LONG time...
"People who like Boris Johnson" https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Martin Rowson
@MartinRowson
@jondalladay @AdamBienkov Still, men over 60 who enjoy motorsports & watching Kylie while eating game sausages must have low life expectancy
Ben Gummer @ben4ipswich 3h3 hours ago
Very poor form for @BBCWorldatOne to introduce serially wrong David Blanchflower as impartial "economist" when in fact Labour cheerleader.
Danny Blanchflower @D_Blanchflower 19m19 minutes ago
@ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne are you joking tory spinmeister
Alastair Stewart @alstewitn 9m9 minutes ago
@D_Blanchflower @ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne I am a fan, Danny, as you know, but 'impartial' is immersing the lily in a vat of 24 carat gold.
Karl Turner MP retweeted
Danny Blanchflower @D_Blanchflower 6m6 minutes ago New Hampshire, US
@alstewitn @ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne who said i was impartial i am opposed to the economic policies that produced worst recovery in 300yrs
The verbal Ping-Pong match between Gummer and Blanchflower is hilarious, if Gummer loses his seat next May expect no mercy from Blanchflower.
Ben Gummer @ben4ipswich 3h3 hours ago
Very poor form for @BBCWorldatOne to introduce serially wrong David Blanchflower as impartial "economist" when in fact Labour cheerleader.
Danny Blanchflower @D_Blanchflower 19m19 minutes ago
@ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne are you joking tory spinmeister
Alastair Stewart @alstewitn 9m9 minutes ago
@D_Blanchflower @ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne I am a fan, Danny, as you know, but 'impartial' is immersing the lily in a vat of 24 carat gold.
Karl Turner MP retweeted
Danny Blanchflower @D_Blanchflower 6m6 minutes ago New Hampshire, US
@alstewitn @ben4ipswich @BBCWorldatOne who said i was impartial i am opposed to the economic policies that produced worst recovery in 300yrs
I suspect Gummer thinks Blanchflower predicted 5m unemployed with austerity.
He didn't- he predicted it if no fiscal or monetary stimulus.
Remembering a conversation with my son not many years ago. We were talking politics and I was agonising over whether to convert to LibDem. My son said 'What about UKIP? I pooh poohed them. At that time they were:
A small political party more known for its European MPs. Not much else.
And then battles in Tory party over Europe leaves an opening for UKIP
Farage decides to move directly into mainstream UK politics.
Appeals to baser instincts of man on the street.
Simplistic policies.
Lots of leg work and organising done at grass roots by that same man on the street.
Farage takes money from big business.
Tory MPs start to eye UKIP up.
More chance of them rising above the ranks.
Bigger fish in smaller pond.
As Tory and City influence increases, the grass roots are disregarded and discarded.
UKIP becomes even more right wing.
Are still only a small political party.
Haven't put down nearly enough roots to weather too many scandals or coups.
Are beginning to alienate their grass roots.
It took the LibDems over twenty years to gain any sort of power.
UKIP are aiming for the same in a quarter of the time.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 37s38 seconds ago
From today's polls the CON+LAB aggregate:
Ashcroft = 59%
Populus = 71%
That's some difference
Excuse my ignorance. What does this mean?
The polling percentages of Labour and Conservatives added together in each poll. Quite what Smithson is trying to "say" here I dunno.
Oh well that makes two of us....Thanks.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Seems to me they've only been asked to account for their actions the same as they've been demanding from the NHS.
They want complete openness and accountability but if they're taking on the big players, need to be totally on the ball with their own affairs.
Or to put it another way. People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.
Yes - it seems that way to me too.
And I don't get why they complain that some complaints about them are politically motivated (and show a couple of tweets from a prospective parliamentary candidate which merely say there are questions to answer if certain things have happened). They have made political points and targets as part of their campaign - and are saying now that they need to stay as a campaign group because what they can do as a charity would be too restricted ...
It all reads as rather alarmist ...
They are certainly disorganised, to say the least. Along with the, um, explanation of how the paperwork got all messed up, they say they have had to remove their address from the web-site because of threats (removing personal address is sensible, threats of violence are always wrong and illegal, please note!) but then illustrate the type of threat by including an image of a tweet in which the tweeter makes a threat and publishes the address which has just been removed from elsewhere on the site...
This time, I'm gonna be stronger I'm not giving in...
Thurrock council has CCTV footage of the attack so Mr Le-Surf said he hopes it is only a matter of time before the offenders are brought to justice. We’ll know then if they really are UKIP members. http://voxpoliticalonline.com/
I’m very happy to defend and take some credit for what is happening in the British economy - growing at 3%, the biggest fall in unemployment on record, 400,000 new businesses.
Because of the difficult decisions that we took, the British economy is doing well.
The difference I would say is now while there are problems in the world economy, you can actually see that Britain is outperforming other countries in the world and the figures speak for themselves.
What does that actually mean?
Took over in 2010, it went up till Nov 2011, then fell again.
Labour’s Andy Sawford asks which prime minister turned up to the discussion on climate change: the one who said he wanted to hug a husky, or the one who said he wanted to cut the crap.
Cameron says it was the one who set up the green investment bank, and the one who commissioned a new nuclear power station when Labour did nothing to restart the nuclear programme.
Liar. Utter liar.
In January 2008, the UK government gave the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power stations to be built
On 10 January 2008, Alan Duncan MP issued a response to the Government's announcement on nuclear power, welcoming it and suggesting that the Conservatives supported a level economic playing field for different types of energy generation rather than a preference for one over another
In November 2009, the Government identified ten nuclear sites which could accommodate future reactors: Bradwell in Essex; Braystones in Cumbria; Kirksanton in Cumbria; Sellafield in Cumbria; Hartlepool in County Durham; Heysham in Lancashire; Hinkley Point in Somerset; Oldbury in Gloucestershire; Sizewell in Suffolk; and Wylfa in North Wales[45] Most of these sites already have a nuclear power station; the only new sites are Braystones and Kirksanton.
Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney 9m9 minutes ago
Richard Bacon MP asks how many schools are in 'paused' chains. DfE "can't give" figure. We've had this question before in Ed Ctte too. #PAC
Bacon isn't having it at all.
And he's dead right.
They really don't want to give out any bad info about academy chains. Pathetic.
I’m very happy to defend and take some credit for what is happening in the British economy - growing at 3%, the biggest fall in unemployment on record, 400,000 new businesses.
Because of the difficult decisions that we took, the British economy is doing well.
The difference I would say is now while there are problems in the world economy, you can actually see that Britain is outperforming other countries in the world and the figures speak for themselves.
What does that actually mean?
Took over in 2010, it went up till Nov 2011, then fell again.
I thought it meant that it is only because the outlook is bad for many other countries (particularly the EU countries and Japan) that the UK figures look good, in comparison. And, it is only while that situation continues that our growth figures will look good. And he carefully did not say that we were outperforming all other countries. His statement that the figures speak for themselves translates as, "I do not understand the figures so don't expect me to explain them..."
I think
Edit: apostrophe (Gesundheit)
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This time, I'm gonna be stronger I'm not giving in...
ohsocynical wrote:
Seems to me they've only been asked to account for their actions the same as they've been demanding from the NHS.
They want complete openness and accountability but if they're taking on the big players, need to be totally on the ball with their own affairs.
Or to put it another way. People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.
Yes - it seems that way to me too.
And I don't get why they complain that some complaints about them are politically motivated (and show a couple of tweets from a prospective parliamentary candidate which merely say there are questions to answer if certain things have happened). They have made political points and targets as part of their campaign - and are saying now that they need to stay as a campaign group because what they can do as a charity would be too restricted ...
It all reads as rather alarmist ...
They are certainly disorganised, to say the least. Along with the, um, explanation of how the paperwork got all messed up, they say they have had to remove their address from the web-site because of threats (removing personal address is sensible, threats of violence are always wrong and illegal, please note!) but then illustrate the type of threat by including an image of a tweet in which the tweeter makes a threat and publishes the address which has just been removed from elsewhere on the site...
If you are going to put yourself in the public eye, you have to be very, very sharp and have an even thicker skin. I get the impression she never thought things through and is basically out of her depth.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Ben GummerVerified account
@ben4ipswich
@D_Blanchflower @alstewitn @BBCWorldatOne no, but it looks like I understand basic English a little better than you. Goodbye Danny.
And with that the snide so and so who can't argue his point properly and doesn't even seem to think he should disappeared!
Peter Jukes @peterjukes 3m3 minutes ago
(Possibly) BREAKING: Coulson set to be released from prison on tag next week: wonder how much of his memoirs he's written. #HACKINGTRIAL
So out after less than 5 months of an 18 month sentence. Quelle Surprise!
Peter Jukes @peterjukes 3m3 minutes ago
(Possibly) BREAKING: Coulson set to be released from prison on tag next week: wonder how much of his memoirs he's written. #HACKINGTRIAL
So out after less than 5 months of an 18 month sentence. Quelle Surprise!
Maybe Cameron will give him a third chance in life.
