Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March 2015

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:02 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:Oh no!

What?

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:04 pm

I was momentarily the Devil.

Eric_WLothian · Post by **Eric_WLothian** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:04 pm

yahyah wrote:Lib Dems have spotted the mugs:

...and are hoping they'll vote LibDem.

Sorry, couldn't resist it. Apologies to any remaining LibDem supporters.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:06 pm

Can't view behind the paywall but managed to cut & paste -

Police ‘target the homeless’

Mark Macaskill Published: 29 March 2015
Comment (0) Print
Stop and search is increasingly being used against people living on the streets, say several Scottish charities
SIR STEPHEN HOUSE, chief constable of Police Scotland, is facing fresh criticism over the force’s use of stop and search after several charities raised fears that homeless people are being treated as soft targets.

The Marie Trust made a complaint in January over what it regarded as “heavy-handed” use of the power by officers outside its Glasgow centre. Others, including Simon Community Scotland, said staff had challenged police after receiving complaints from people living on the street.

Senior officers insist the measure is intelligence-led, but the apparent targeting of homeless people has prompted new concern that the power has been misused.''

SNP cultists can't blame Labour or the Tories, policing is devolved.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:20 pm

The next debate takes place on Thursday when Cameron will be under the cosh to restore confidence among Tory ranks after Miliband’s strong showing last week. (Guardian)

How times change . . .

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:24 pm

As you may have already noticed I am back here regularly now, so have removed the sig

Let battle commence!

Swarthlander · Post by **Swarthlander** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:27 pm

PorFavor wrote:
The next debate takes place on Thursday when Cameron will be under the cosh to restore confidence among Tory ranks after Miliband’s strong showing last week. (Guardian)
How times change . . .

A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.

Post by **refitman** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:28 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:As you may have already noticed I am back here regularly now, so have removed the sig

Let battle commence!

w00t! Your analysis and positive demeanour are always appreciated.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:29 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:As you may have already noticed I am back here regularly now, so have removed the sig

Let battle commence!

That's the spirit.

I have a feeling in my bones that Labour are going to pip to the post.
[Someone remind me next time I get down.]

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:37 pm

yahyah wrote:More Hitchens, the man is on the button:

''Keen-eyed viewers will have noted the Prime Minister twice giving his nose a jolly good wipe with the back of his hand, as he chopped away at his groceries.

It's a pity we don't have a still of that. We could caption it -

"Would you buy a bacon sandwich from this man?"

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:45 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:I was momentarily the Devil.

Quick thinking, you! Posting a short but effective, Oh no!. Congratulations for getting the hell out of here.

Post by **refitman** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:49 pm

citizenJA wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:I was momentarily the Devil.
Quick thinking, you! Posting a short but effective, Oh no!. Congratulations for getting the hell out of here.

Definitely one of the funniest things Adam set up on the old site.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:53 pm

RobertSnozers wrote:Sorry to hear about the car Yahyah. Mine is in a similar state - 12 years old, effectively worthless, and I have a feeling about due for a very big bill. Worse, I've just discovered that my spare wheel, a matching alloy with a medium profile tyre on it has been stolen by one garage or another and replaced with a cheap steel wheel that doesn't fit. Not only have I been ripped off, I could have been left stranded. There are some scum out there.

Forgive me for not posting sooner, RobertSnozers, I hope you're feeling better now. I missed you.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 4:10 pm

Oh dear, that didn't go so well...

David Cameron would serve 'essentially a full term', says Iain Duncan Smith

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ncan-smith

Iain Duncan Smith has appeared to confirm that David Cameron will have to step down before a 2020 general election, in an intervention that could damage the Tories’ general election campaign.

The welfare secretary agreed under questioning on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show that there would have to be a leadership contest before the next parliamentary term finishes if the prime minister leads the party to victory in May.

His words appear to contradict Cameron’s insistence that he would serve a second full term in office before stepping down.

For all of his famed PR skills, Cameron really is politically inept and doesn't think through the implications of anything. I have to say for all of the soft soap, that was a good question by Landale who was probably surprised that he got such an answer.

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 4:13 pm

Swarthlander wrote:
PorFavor wrote:
The next debate takes place on Thursday when Cameron will be under the cosh to restore confidence among Tory ranks after Miliband’s strong showing last week. (Guardian)
How times change . . .
A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.

I imagine the right wing narrative will be Cameron stages a magnificent comeback. I think we can also expect the media to swoon over the SNP and the Greens. The debate will just be a mess so I doubt any individual will emerge as a winner to contradict the Tory media.

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 4:17 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh dear, that didn't go so well...

David Cameron would serve 'essentially a full term', says Iain Duncan Smith

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ncan-smith

Iain Duncan Smith has appeared to confirm that David Cameron will have to step down before a 2020 general election, in an intervention that could damage the Tories’ general election campaign.

The welfare secretary agreed under questioning on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show that there would have to be a leadership contest before the next parliamentary term finishes if the prime minister leads the party to victory in May.

His words appear to contradict Cameron’s insistence that he would serve a second full term in office before stepping down.

For all of his famed PR skills, Cameron really is politically inept and doesn't think through the implications of anything. I have to say for all of the soft soap, that was a good question by Landale who was probably surprised that he got such an answer.

Those "famed PR skills" exist only in his head. As I've pointed out before his big PR project at Carlton, the promotion of OnDigital/ITVDigital, damaged the company's finances so much that they were taken over by Granada (officially it was a merger, but nobody believes that). I wouldn't trust the man to run a whelk stall, let alone an economy.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 4:19 pm

RobertSnozers wrote:Sorry to hear about the car Yahyah. Mine is in a similar state - 12 years old, effectively worthless, and I have a feeling about due for a very big bill. Worse, I've just discovered that my spare wheel, a matching alloy with a medium profile tyre on it has been stolen by one garage or another and replaced with a cheap steel wheel that doesn't fit. Not only have I been ripped off, I could have been left stranded. There are some scum out there.

Oh blimey. Similar to what we had happen last year.

We have an 09 Nissan which we got from new when there were such good deals going around after the crash. Nothing needed doing until last year when they said back brakes for the MOT. That cost a few bob. Three weeks later we were driving along on duel carriageway doing 65 and could hear bumping.
We limped back home, called the mobile mechanic our son uses, and he found none of the four wheels had been tightened up. One of the front wheels was just about to come right off.
We put in a report to Standards but as it only cost the £20 I slipped the mobile mechanic we personally didn't take it any further. Were just glad to be alive.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 4:29 pm

TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Swarthlander wrote:
PorFavor wrote: How times change . . .
A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.
I imagine the right wing narrative will be Cameron stages a magnificent comeback. I think we can also expect the media to swoon over the SNP and the Greens. The debate will just be a mess so I doubt any individual will emerge as a winner to contradict the Tory media.

Oh, yes - I'm sure the immediate reaction will be that he triumphed. But the immediate reaction last time was that he had "won". As for the SNP and the Greens - I can't see Natalie Bennett coming out of it too well, to be honest, but Nicola Sturgeon might as she is a good performer; and, importantly, she isn't Alex Salmond, who tends to rub a lot of people up the wrong way.

As an aside, I suspect that Nicola Sturgeon is more genuinely left wing than Alex Salmond (not difficult, I know).

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 4:33 pm

PorFavor wrote:
TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Swarthlander wrote: A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.
I imagine the right wing narrative will be Cameron stages a magnificent comeback. I think we can also expect the media to swoon over the SNP and the Greens. The debate will just be a mess so I doubt any individual will emerge as a winner to contradict the Tory media.
Oh, yes - I'm sure the immediate reaction will be that he triumphed. But the immediate reaction last time was that he had "won". As for the SNP and the Greens - I can't see Natalie Bennett coming out of it too well, to be honest, but Nicola Sturgeon might as she is a good performer; and, importantly, she isn't Alex Salmond, who tends to rub a lot of people up the wrong way.

As an aside, I suspect that Nicola Sturgeon is more genuinely left wing than Alex Salmond (not difficult, I know).

perhaps not always :
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotla ... y-1.739795" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:07 pm

RobertSnozers wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:
RobertSnozers wrote:Sorry to hear about the car Yahyah. Mine is in a similar state - 12 years old, effectively worthless, and I have a feeling about due for a very big bill. Worse, I've just discovered that my spare wheel, a matching alloy with a medium profile tyre on it has been stolen by one garage or another and replaced with a cheap steel wheel that doesn't fit. Not only have I been ripped off, I could have been left stranded. There are some scum out there.
Oh blimey. Similar to what we had happen last year.

We have an 09 Nissan which we got from new when there were such good deals going around after the crash. Nothing needed doing until last year when they said back brakes for the MOT. That cost a few bob. Three weeks later we were driving along on duel carriageway doing 65 and could hear bumping.
We limped back home, called the mobile mechanic our son uses, and he found none of the four wheels had been tightened up. One of the front wheels was just about to come right off.
We put in a report to Standards but as it only cost the £20 I slipped the mobile mechanic we personally didn't take it any further. Were just glad to be alive.
Crikey! If you can't trust a garage to do something as basic as tighten the wheelnuts...

Our knees were decidedly shaky when the mechanic turned the wheel nuts with his fingers....And the bit of carriageway we were driving along had thick pine trees at the bottom of an embankment...It's the nearest I've ever come to being mashed.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:32 pm

Has anyone else been able to access comments posted on today's live political blog? I had contributed to it earlier but the thread displays no comments though 517 are supposed to be there. All the other threads are okay & functional.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv ... h#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:37 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... from-no-10" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Nichola Sturgeon calls on Labour to work with SNP to keep Tories from no 10."

Yeah Nichola, there's a relatively simple solution to that, and here's the clue:

: scottish polls 2.jpg (21.92 KiB) Viewed 7144 times

Seethe (again).

Post by **refitman** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:41 pm

citizenJA wrote:Has anyone else been able to access comments posted on today's live political blog? I had contributed to it earlier but the thread displays no comments though 517 are supposed to be there. All the other threads are okay & functional.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv ... h#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nope. It looks like when they closed the blog, they turned off and hid the comments. I did tweet Mark Tran & the Graun but have heard nowt.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:45 pm

yahyah wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Sunday Times report Police Scotland stopping and searching homeless people to make targets.

In the Scottish socialist SNP paradise ?
Surely not.

Sadly Labout believe in the same sort of stuff basically.

Might be able to make a few points though.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:46 pm

citizenJA wrote:Has anyone else been able to access comments posted on today's live political blog? I had contributed to it earlier but the thread displays no comments though 517 are supposed to be there. All the other threads are okay & functional.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv ... h#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Took me ages to find the damn blog again, and I now don't see any comments at the bottom. However, I am technically illiterate so please regard this as an approximation of reality.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:56 pm

Neil Findlay ‏@Neil_FindlayMSP Mar 28
Sturgeon says SNP reps will have backbone and guts not one of their MSPs has had backbone or guts to break the whip at Holyrood since 2007!

Two did show backbone over the NATO thing- albeit by walking out of the SNP completely.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 5:59 pm

SNP now supporting 50p tax rate.

Doubtless this is progressive politics, not "Tory sell-outs" trying to con people.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:10 pm

Roderick Cooper retweeted
linda smith ‏@LabLinda75 Mar 27

Anyone notice Stonehenge, Dover Castle & other Eng Heritage properties were privatised yesterday? Sneaky parting shot from this vile Govt.

utopiandreams · Post by **utopiandreams** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:13 pm

RobertSnozers wrote:Sorry to hear about the car Yahyah. Mine is in a similar state - 12 years old, effectively worthless, and I have a feeling about due for a very big bill. Worse, I've just discovered that my spare wheel, a matching alloy with a medium profile tyre on it has been stolen by one garage or another and replaced with a cheap steel wheel that doesn't fit. Not only have I been ripped off, I could have been left stranded. There are some scum out there.

Same age as mine Robert. Albeit false economy not to keep it fully serviced there does reach a time when things can become expensive. Anyway last year I found myself needing the spare for the first time. Although I have a compressor the damage was too great. All the tools and everything were neatly packaged as expected but unfortunately the wheel brace did not fit the nuts. A kindly soul did stop to help but his did not fit either. Thank God for mobile phones (and the AA). At least I didn't have the embarrassment of being too weak to undo them.

Talking of mobiles I felt rather shaken this morning after seeing the aftermath of an accident. A car had hit a lamppost and I thought I saw a motor-cycle helmet on the road. I explained to my son that since several others had already stopped at the scene there seemed no need to join them and remarked on the benefit of mobiles these days. Thankfully when going by later I saw that it had been the lamp and not a helmet.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:20 pm

These are the Coalition's broken promises

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/t ... lJxMHNR9Rl

@UtopianDreams...

Don't know if you already have this or if it helps.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:27 pm

Call Cameron’s ‘gaffe’ anything but guileless
BY MARC CHAMPION
BLOOMBERG

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/201 ... Rg1L_nF-_E

So nice to read a piece about Cameron that doesn't come straight from our right wing press.

utopiandreams · Post by **utopiandreams** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:33 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:... For all of his famed PR skills, Cameron really is politically inept and doesn't think through the implications of anything. I have to say for all of the soft soap, that was a good question by Landale who was probably surprised that he got such an answer.

I have to say that for all his supposed skills, knowledge or whatever you want to call it and unless he payed someone else for his university work, hard though it is to accept, he presumably is intelligent. Yet his ineptness and apparent lack of nouse is more than a little alarming. To be absolutely fair to the chillaxing one though, something I find remarkably hard to be, it is not a job that I would like to take on.

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:38 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
Call Cameron’s ‘gaffe’ anything but guileless
BY MARC CHAMPION
BLOOMBERG

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/201 ... Rg1L_nF-_E
So nice to read a piece about Cameron that doesn't come straight from our right wing press.

I thought this bit was particularly insightful.

The more compelling argument, though, is that Cameron has a record of making shortsighted tactical decisions to solve problems he faces in his fractious party, with a poor understanding of the wider effects this may have.

utopiandreams · Post by **utopiandreams** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:40 pm

citizenJA wrote:Has anyone else been able to access comments posted on today's live political blog? I had contributed to it earlier but the thread displays no comments though 517 are supposed to be there. All the other threads are okay & functional.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv ... h#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Had a recent look, горожанка, I hope you don't mind my calling you that. At least I guessed your gender correctly if I didn't know (can't remember). Anyway I'm guessing today's contributor isn't familiar with closing a blog. I did find my earlier comments in my profile page but am still unable to see others.

Edit: I meant гражданка, citizenJA,(grajdanka not sure how to write in Roman characters). I confess I used Google Translate rather than Character Map.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:41 pm

@Utopiandreams

David Cameron tells Scottish nationalists to put up or shut up on independence
Jan 9th 2012, 19:27 BY BAGEHOT

http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/ ... e-scotland

By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent 9:40PM BST 25 Apr 2012
David Cameron's five secret meetings with Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday night disclosed that he had met the Prime Minister on at least five more occasions than David Cameron has previously admitted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rdoch.html

15 March 2012
David Cameron Washington visit leaves US media unmoved

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17392896

David Cameron has promised to use the "global drama" of the Olympics and "glory" of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to help get Britain "up to strength".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16378577

David Cameron has pledged to cut back the health and safety legislation "monster" by capping lawyers referral fees for personal injury claims against employers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... nster.html

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:45 pm

Full transcript | David Cameron | Speech on "moral capitalism" | New Zealand House, London | 19 January 2012

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics ... ism-market

If you can stomach it.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:47 pm

utopiandreams wrote:
citizenJA wrote:Has anyone else been able to access comments posted on today's live political blog? I had contributed to it earlier but the thread displays no comments though 517 are supposed to be there. All the other threads are okay & functional.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv ... h#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Had a recent look, горожанка, I hope you don't mind my calling you that. At least I guessed your gender correctly if I didn't know (can't remember). Anyway I'm guessing today's contributor isn't familiar with closing a blog. I did find my earlier comments in my profile page but am still unable to see others.

Thank you!

cJA

utopiandreams · Post by **utopiandreams** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:48 pm

ohsocynical wrote:@Utopiandreams

David Cameron tells Scottish nationalists to put up or shut up on independence
Jan 9th 2012, 19:27 BY BAGEHOT

http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/ ... e-scotland

By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent 9:40PM BST 25 Apr 2012
David Cameron's five secret meetings with Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday night disclosed that he had met the Prime Minister on at least five more occasions than David Cameron has previously admitted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rdoch.html

15 March 2012
David Cameron Washington visit leaves US media unmoved

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17392896

David Cameron has promised to use the "global drama" of the Olympics and "glory" of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to help get Britain "up to strength".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16378577

David Cameron has pledged to cut back the health and safety legislation "monster" by capping lawyers referral fees for personal injury claims against employers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... nster.html

Sorry, ohso, I nearly removed my thanks instead of quoting. Anyway I am going to make some sort of start tomorrow but am beginning to be frightened by the sheer scale of the task. 'And Dave has the cheek to offer us competence. My flabber is absofuckinglutely gasted!

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 6:57 pm

Dave comes a cropper in the council elections, and without a change of course he's finished

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ourse.html

David Cameron's top ten lies about the NHS
02:00, 21 February 2012 By Tom McTague
He said: We’ll ensure waiting times are kept low. Reality: Patients waiting longer than 18-week guarantee up by 34%

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/da ... ies-692469

30 Apr 2012 David Cameron tells Dennis Skinner to resign
The Prime Minister tells Labour MP Dennis Skinner, 80, to "take his pension" during heated questioning in the Commons over Jeremy Hunt's relationship with the Murdoch family.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... esign.html

Cameron's war on feckless families: PM attacks the human rights laws and backs national service
David Cameron declares 'all-out war' on gangs behind looting sprees
Announces plans to rewrite European human rights rules
Re-launches plan for 'national citizen service' for 30,000 16-year-olds
Critics ask where the money will come from
By TIM SHIPMAN and KIRSTY WALKER
UPDATED: 11:17, 16 August 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z3VnZFKvXn

13 Mar 2012 Horsegate: Questions about whether Rebekah Brooks, not Charlie, is David Cameron's real friend
“Let me shed some light on it. I have known Charlie Brooks, the husband of Rebekah Brooks for over 30 years, and he is a good friend. Before the election I did go riding with him. He has a number of different horses and yes one of them was this former police horse Raisa, which I did ride.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... riend.html

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 7:15 pm

In a sort of FTN death match two of our most disliked people are engaged in a fight to the digital death.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... -sex-abuse

Danczuk has done well here. Hopkins repeatedly crosses the line, time she did some jail time.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 7:21 pm

David Cameron attacks Labour's handling of NHS Wales

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-16947484

David Cameron: there is no going back on austerity
David Cameron is to declare that there is “no going back” on harsh spending cuts after seeing the leaders of France and Greece swept from power by public anger at austerity.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... erity.html

Jeremy Hunt and the secret BSkyB memo to David Cameron
Telegraph.co.uk-24 May 2012
Last month, Mr Hunt told the House of Commons that he “made absolutely no interventions seeking to influence” the decision on whether to refer the bid to ...

Sorry but the Telegraph has this hidden in their archives and I can't get it to work

Cameron's 'secret meetings with Rebekah Brooks': First was two days after Coulson quit No10
Updated biography of PM said Cameron messaged Brooks days before she quit News International
Contact between the two friends came to 'abrupt halt' after her resignation
But PM sent a messenger to apologise for his sudden coldness - to say that Ed Miliband had him on the run
Brooks is due to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry on Friday
By TIM SHIPMAN
PUBLISHED: 09:54, 9 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:47, 13 May 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z3VnebL8Gv

David Cameron: Conservatives are for strivers not skivers
16 Apr 2012
http://metro.co.uk/2012/04/16/david-cam ... rs-390621/

Cameron speech on dementia in full

Monday, 26 March 2012

http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analy ... ia-in-full

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 7:26 pm

@Utopiandreams

Sorry, ohso, I nearly removed my thanks instead of quoting. Anyway I am going to make some sort of start tomorrow but am beginning to be frightened by the sheer scale of the task. 'And Dave has the cheek to offer us competence. My flabber is absofuckinglutely gasted!

There is page after page after page.

It's fascinating reading. My reaction is has it only been five years. Seems like a lot longer.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 7:40 pm

Cameron outlines changes to NHS reforms after criticism
7 June 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13675619

Tory MPs round on David Cameron and George Osborne
Conservative MPs warn the Prime Minister he must make major changes in the way he runs his Government and his party to reconnect with voters and retain public confidence.

01 Apr 201

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... borne.html

David Cameron: 'taxpayers will not pay for new Queen jubilee yacht'
David Cameron has ruled out Education Secretary Michael Gove's suggestion that public money be used to pay for a new royal yacht to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
16 Jan 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... yacht.html

David Cameron: This is no nanny state
The Prime Minister says new Government-commissioned videos giving advice on parenting will provide parents with vital support.

18 May 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... state.html

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 7:44 pm

3 MAY, 2012
Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks "a dozen" times a day
The PM's text exchanges with Brooks could soon be published.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/polit ... -times-day

Were they ever published?

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 7:57 pm

coincidentally:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/20 ... esnt-exist" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

new statesman wrote:There is a great myth that Scotland is bursting with left-wingers. 45 per cent of its population plumped for independence from England because it is a nicer and more generous country. Scotland’s political views are why it could never elect a right-wing government.

It is certainly a seductive notion. But there is nothing exceptional about Scotland: the political views of the Scots are remarkably similar to those of the English, as the British Social Attitudes Survey makes clear.

So, Nichola. Get off your moral high ground, forget your personal quest for fame, and if you really are remotely concerned about the people of Scotland, WORK WITH LABOUR to keep the Tories out of number 10.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 8:01 pm

Goodnight, everyone.

utopiandreams · Post by **utopiandreams** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 8:10 pm

@ohsocynical

You're doing a remarkable job of coming up with material, especially considering you've lost your old computer. On that score, do you still have the hard-drive and if so what size is it? (Laptop or desktop may be sufficient clue - typically 2½" or 3½"). The reason I ask is that a hard-drive caddy is only a few pounds and will enable you access via a USB port. You may even be able to borrow one from somewhere if you ask your family. That's assuming it's not the hard drive at fault and is something else.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 8:12 pm

Steve Hilton, one of Prime Minister David Cameron's closest aides, is taking a year's break from Downing Street, Number 10 has announced.
He will take an unpaid academic sabbatical at Stanford University in the US, a spokesman said.
The PM's strategy chief, known for his "blue-sky thinking", was one of the driving forces behind Mr Cameron's flagship "Big Society" project.
2 March 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17239573

Did he ever come back? Given there was an investigation by the Indepenent into The Big Society funding?

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 8:23 pm

utopiandreams wrote:@ohsocynical

You're doing a remarkable job of coming up with material, especially considering you've lost your old computer. On that score, do you still have the hard-drive and if so what size is it? (Laptop or desktop may be sufficient clue - typically 2½" or 3½"). The reason I ask is that a hard-drive caddy is only a few pounds and will enable you access via a USB port. You may even be able to borrow one from somewhere if you ask your family. That's assuming it's not the hard drive at fault and is something else.

I'm just Googling. You put a time period in which helps make it slightly easier to sort out the ones that look more interesting.

I had lots of quirky off the cuff bits of scandal and news about the Cons stored in my computer. I expect I'd eventually find them in regular news stories but it would take forever.

I'm using the same computer. It's a Sony Vaio and not very old. It had a fatal error but did have a rescue programme. I had to buy an outside memory box? which copied all the files, but I failed to tell it to save photographs and documents as well.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 29 Mar, 2015 8:25 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
Steve Hilton, one of Prime Minister David Cameron's closest aides, is taking a year's break from Downing Street, Number 10 has announced.
He will take an unpaid academic sabbatical at Stanford University in the US, a spokesman said.
The PM's strategy chief, known for his "blue-sky thinking", was one of the driving forces behind Mr Cameron's flagship "Big Society" project.
2 March 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17239573
Did he ever come back? Given there was an investigation by the Indepenent into The Big Society funding?

Not according to his wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hilton" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Steve Hilton (born 25 August 1969)[1] is a former director of strategy for David Cameron, Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. He is currently a lecturer and visiting scholar at Stanford University.