Re: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March 2015
Posted: Sun 29 Mar, 2015 3:02 pm
What?tinyclanger2 wrote:Oh no!
What?tinyclanger2 wrote:Oh no!
...and are hoping they'll vote LibDem.yahyah wrote:Lib Dems have spotted the mugs:
How times change . . .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)
A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.PorFavor wrote:How times change . . .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)
w00t! Your analysis and positive demeanour are always appreciated.AnatolyKasparov wrote:As you may have already noticed I am back here regularly now, so have removed the sig
Let battle commence!
AnatolyKasparov wrote:As you may have already noticed I am back here regularly now, so have removed the sig
Let battle commence!
It's a pity we don't have a still of that. We could caption it -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.
Quick thinking, you! Posting a short but effective, Oh no!. Congratulations for getting the hell out of here.tinyclanger2 wrote:I was momentarily the Devil.
Definitely one of the funniest things Adam set up on the old site.citizenJA wrote:Quick thinking, you! Posting a short but effective, Oh no!. Congratulations for getting the hell out of here.tinyclanger2 wrote:I was momentarily the Devil.
Forgive me for not posting sooner, RobertSnozers, I hope you're feeling better now. I missed you.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.
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.
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.Swarthlander wrote:A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.PorFavor wrote:How times change . . .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)
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.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.
Oh blimey. Similar to what we had happen last year.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, 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.TechnicalEphemera wrote: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.Swarthlander wrote:A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.PorFavor wrote: How times change . . .
perhaps not always :PorFavor wrote: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.TechnicalEphemera wrote: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.Swarthlander wrote: A day in politics... The attack dogs are blunting their teeth.
As an aside, I suspect that Nicola Sturgeon is more genuinely left wing than Alex Salmond (not difficult, I know).
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.RobertSnozers wrote:Crikey! If you can't trust a garage to do something as basic as tighten the wheelnuts...ohsocynical wrote:Oh blimey. Similar to what we had happen last year.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.
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.
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.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;
Sadly Labout believe in the same sort of stuff basically.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.
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.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;
Two did show backbone over the NATO thing- albeit by walking out of the SNP completely.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!
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.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.
@UtopianDreams...
So nice to read a piece about Cameron that doesn't come straight from our right wing press.Call Cameron’s ‘gaffe’ anything but guileless
BY MARC CHAMPION
BLOOMBERG
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/201 ... Rg1L_nF-_E
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.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.
ohsocynical wrote:So nice to read a piece about Cameron that doesn't come straight from our right wing press.Call Cameron’s ‘gaffe’ anything but guileless
BY MARC CHAMPION
BLOOMBERG
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/201 ... Rg1L_nF-_E
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.
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.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;
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
If you can stomach it.Full transcript | David Cameron | Speech on "moral capitalism" | New Zealand House, London | 19 January 2012
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics ... ism-market
Thank you!utopiandreams wrote: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.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;
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 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-scotlandBy 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.html15 March 2012
David Cameron Washington visit leaves US media unmoved
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17392896David 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-16378577David 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
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
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
There is page after page after page.@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!
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
Were they ever published?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
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.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.
Did he ever come back? Given there was an investigation by the Indepenent into The Big Society funding?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
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.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.
Not according to his wiki pageohsocynical wrote:Did he ever come back? Given there was an investigation by the Indepenent into The Big Society funding?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
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.