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Canadian MP blames tight underpants for exit from parliament
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31547073

... A Canadian MP offered one of the most original excuses ever heard for leaving parliament in a hurry - tight underpants.

His cut-price and, as it turned out, overly tight underpants made it difficult for him to sit through a one-by-one vote, opposition MP Pat Martin told the bewildered Speaker...
Mr Martin drew applause and laughter from the chamber when he explained his temporary absence.

"They had men's underwear on for half price and I bought a bunch that was clearly too small for me. I find it difficult to sit for any length of time."...

rebeccariots2 wrote: "They had men's underwear on for half price and I bought a bunch that was clearly too small for me. I find it difficult to sit for any length of time."...

rebeccariots2 wrote:Sorry to lower the tone. (I need some light relief from our sick animal situation here.)

Canadian MP blames tight underpants for exit from parliament
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31547073

... A Canadian MP offered one of the most original excuses ever heard for leaving parliament in a hurry - tight underpants.

His cut-price and, as it turned out, overly tight underpants made it difficult for him to sit through a one-by-one vote, opposition MP Pat Martin told the bewildered Speaker...
Mr Martin drew applause and laughter from the chamber when he explained his temporary absence.

"They had men's underwear on for half price and I bought a bunch that was clearly too small for me. I find it difficult to sit for any length of time."...

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:How to destroy your brand in a single week. What the hell were the Barclay brothers thinking?

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ohsocynical wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:Sorry to lower the tone. (I need some light relief from our sick animal situation here.)

Canadian MP blames tight underpants for exit from parliament
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31547073

... A Canadian MP offered one of the most original excuses ever heard for leaving parliament in a hurry - tight underpants.

His cut-price and, as it turned out, overly tight underpants made it difficult for him to sit through a one-by-one vote, opposition MP Pat Martin told the bewildered Speaker...
Mr Martin drew applause and laughter from the chamber when he explained his temporary absence.

"They had men's underwear on for half price and I bought a bunch that was clearly too small for me. I find it difficult to sit for any length of time."...

Waste not want not?

If there was a gold medal for brass neck, Nicola Sturgeon would have been on the rostrum this week for her breathtaking demand that David Cameron should intervene to keep Scotland’s lights on.
Fortunately, there is no early likelihood of Scotland’s lights going out. Due to the sagacity of the Labour government in which I was energy minister, we have GB-wide trading arrangements which mean that the infrastructure exists to import power from the rest of Britain.

It’s all a far cry from that giddy day in 2007 when Alex Salmond took office as First Minister. Having tied up his deal with the Tories – hell having presumably frozen over – he bustled off to Longannet for his first public engagement in the role. A curious choice, some thought.
Bombast was already in the air. “Coal is king,” declared Salmond. Scotland was to have a deep-mining renaissance and Scottish Power’s owners, Iberdrola, were to fund “a £1 billion upgrade” at Longannet and Cockenzie. The Iberdrola chairman, Ignacio Galan, was on hand to brief Salmond on these exciting proposals.

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A history lesson from 1979: when the SNP voted with the Tories to bring down Labour...
http://siareachruadh.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... p.html?m=1

All eleven parliamentary members of the SNP voted with Margaret Thatcher that night, ensuring the motion was carried by just one vote (311-310), and so precipitating a general election in which 9 of the 11 duplicitous, naive SNP members lost their seats. All, bar only Margaret Ewing and George Reid, lost their seats to the Conservative candidates. The Tories, buoyed in part by their new seats in Scotland of course, swept to power, thereby heralding 18 years of unbroken Conservative rule in Scotland.

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ohsocynical wrote:I'm wondering what the winter death figures will be this year. High I've no doubt, but there will be thousands of people who have developed health problems due to the cold.

I thought I'd managed to keep fairly warm although my hands have been colder than usual. In unheated rooms, everything you touch is icy cold. It's impossible to keep them warm.
Until a few weeks ago I only had arthritis in the top joint of my right index finger. Now both hands are killing me. Left hand is particularly painful.

AngryAsWell wrote:There is no end to their idiocy is there?
Outrage as Ukip use a Nazi SWASTIKA to attack rivals in 'abhorrent' Facebook post

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Morning all
(Healing thoughts to Pk and RR's dogs, hugs and empathy to their owners xx)

rebeccariots2 wrote:

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Chris Bryant ‏@ChrisBryantMP 6m6 minutes ago
I explained #bedroomtax to a voter on #labourdoorstep today. He’s so incensed he says he’ll never vote Tory again. Labour will abolish it.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:I'm wondering what the winter death figures will be this year. High I've no doubt, but there will be thousands of people who have developed health problems due to the cold.

I thought I'd managed to keep fairly warm although my hands have been colder than usual. In unheated rooms, everything you touch is icy cold. It's impossible to keep them warm.
Until a few weeks ago I only had arthritis in the top joint of my right index finger. Now both hands are killing me. Left hand is particularly painful.

My sympathies Ohso - it's very painful and more or less constant. I got a bout of reactive arthritis in one of my hands after a virus about 18 months ago and it was horrible - used to wake me up in the night. Hope we get a bit of warmer weather in your area asap. Do you take anything for it?

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Chris Bryant ‏@ChrisBryantMP 6m6 minutes ago
I explained #bedroomtax to a voter on #labourdoorstep today. He’s so incensed he says he’ll never vote Tory again. Labour will abolish it.

ohsocynical wrote:I'm wondering what the winter death figures will be this year. High I've no doubt, but there will be thousands of people who have developed health problems due to the cold.

Mr Ohso and I have been experimenting with keeping just one room heated. On the coldest days it was unbearable and we had leave a heater switched on in the hall.
My hands have frequently been cold. In unheated rooms, everything you touch is icy cold. It's impossible to keep them warm and I drew the line at wearing gloves indoors. I'm clumsy enough as it is.
Until a few weeks ago I only had arthritis in the top joint of my right index finger. Now both hands are killing me. Left hand is particularly painful.

How does someone with health problems but is still having to work cope?

HindleA wrote:@ohsocynical sorry to hear that, look after yourself.

AngryAsWell wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:I'm wondering what the winter death figures will be this year. High I've no doubt, but there will be thousands of people who have developed health problems due to the cold.

Mr Ohso and I have been experimenting with keeping just one room heated. On the coldest days it was unbearable and we had leave a heater switched on in the hall.
My hands have frequently been cold. In unheated rooms, everything you touch is icy cold. It's impossible to keep them warm and I drew the line at wearing gloves indoors. I'm clumsy enough as it is.
Until a few weeks ago I only had arthritis in the top joint of my right index finger. Now both hands are killing me. Left hand is particularly painful.

How does someone with health problems but is still having to work cope?

Sorry to hear that Ohso
Turmeric & Ginger Tea can be helpful as can increasing magnesium.
Hope the warm weather helps as well (when it arrives)

AngryAsWell wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Chris Bryant ‏@ChrisBryantMP 6m6 minutes ago
I explained #bedroomtax to a voter on #labourdoorstep today. He’s so incensed he says he’ll never vote Tory again. Labour will abolish it.

I'm just stunned that there are people around who did not know about the BT ?

AngryAsWell wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Chris Bryant ‏@ChrisBryantMP 6m6 minutes ago
I explained #bedroomtax to a voter on #labourdoorstep today. He’s so incensed he says he’ll never vote Tory again. Labour will abolish it.

I'm just stunned that there are people around who did not know about the BT ?

ohsocynical wrote:I'm wondering what the winter death figures will be this year. High I've no doubt, but there will be thousands of people who have developed health problems due to the cold.

Mr Ohso and I have been experimenting with keeping just one room heated. On the coldest days it was unbearable and we had leave a heater switched on in the hall.
My hands have frequently been cold. In unheated rooms, everything you touch is icy cold. It's impossible to keep them warm and I drew the line at wearing gloves indoors. I'm clumsy enough as it is.
Until a few weeks ago I only had arthritis in the top joint of my right index finger. Now both hands are killing me. Left hand is particularly painful.

How does someone with health problems but is still having to work cope?

Roy Lilley ‏@RoyLilley Feb 19
I'm hearing the #CQC report on Whipps Cross is a stinkler but the DH are blocking it's publication? Surely not; the CQC are independent?

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Anyone else think it's a bit sad when the Chancellor proudly announces that in January 2015 he met the deficit target set in December 2014?

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 28m28 minutes ago
I've discovered that last weekend ICM carried out fieldwork for 2 polls. One had 4% CON lead. Other, for @LordAshcroft had LAB 1% ahead

rebeccariots2 wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Anyone else think it's a bit sad when the Chancellor proudly announces that in January 2015 he met the deficit target set in December 2014?

It does sound rather comparable to me being pleased with myself for managing to get the things I wrote down on the shopping list last night ...

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Roy Lilley ‏@RoyLilley Feb 19
I'm hearing the #CQC report on Whipps Cross is a stinkler but the DH are blocking it's publication? Surely not; the CQC are independent?

pk1 wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Roy Lilley ‏@RoyLilley Feb 19
I'm hearing the #CQC report on Whipps Cross is a stinkler but the DH are blocking it's publication? Surely not; the CQC are independent?

Just went to look at that tweet & discovered Lilley has blocked me, presumably for pointing out he was giving out incorrect information when he claimed the satisfaction with the NHS is at it's highest ever level.

I think it's utterly pathetic to be blocked by an establishment figure for challenging their incorrect statements. I could understand it if I had been rude & offensive but I most certainly was not either of those.

StephenDolan wrote:Morning all.

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' Here lies an absolutely key consideration and, now, a tricky one. The political landscape has changed so much since 2010 that it’s anyone’s guess as to who’s in contention. We do have constituency-specific polling, as well as local election data, the result from 2010 and other information. The problem for the voter is that much of this will be contradictory and that parties will put out the data that suits their cause. As mentioned, one of the main reasons that LD-Lab tactical voting peaked in 2001 was because of the stability of the system at the time. Vote shares have been anything but stable since 2010. There’s only a need to vote tactically if your first choice isn’t in the top two or near to it. '

tinyclanger2 wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Anyone else think it's a bit sad when the Chancellor proudly announces that in January 2015 he met the deficit target set in December 2014?

It does sound rather comparable to me being pleased with myself for managing to get the things I wrote down on the shopping list last night ...

Personally I always start a major "to do" list with a few things I've already done so I can feel smug and effective as I immediately cross them off.

pk1 wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Roy Lilley ‏@RoyLilley Feb 19
I'm hearing the #CQC report on Whipps Cross is a stinkler but the DH are blocking it's publication? Surely not; the CQC are independent?

Just went to look at that tweet & discovered Lilley has blocked me, presumably for pointing out he was giving out incorrect information when he claimed the satisfaction with the NHS is at it's highest ever level.

I think it's utterly pathetic to be blocked by an establishment figure for challenging their incorrect statements. I could understand it if I had been rude & offensive but I most certainly was not either of those.

I've found I'm blocked by several tory's even though I've never contacted them, think it must be the #cameronmustgo hashtag twitter storms, they must see "labour supporter" and block. Very un democratic.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Anyone been watching the BBC's Inside The Commons series?

Just finished ep.3 - Steve Rotherham comes across as someone really interested in trying to make life better (as did the LibDem MP trying to get a bill through about affordable housing in ep.2...and was thwarted by that self-satisfied twerp Rees-Mogg. Rees-Mogg even goes to the extent of checking everything Hansard has on his speeches and correcting minor details.

I did like the bit where Carswell and Reckless put their prayer notes in spaces on the Labour bench which left Rotherham bewildered and who said something like "I haven't got anything in common with either of them so why are they planning to sit here?"