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Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 9:38 pm
by TheGrimSqueaker
danesclose wrote:Good news on Twitter for the natives of Peterborough:
Chris Michaels @cmichaels97 28 mins28 minutes ago
Good News - Nasty Tory MP Stewart Jackson likely to lose Peterborough to Labour. Majority only 4,861. Huge Lib Dem vote to squeeze. #LabGain
Peterborough is an odd place. When I moved there, in the late 80s, I came across open racism and general intolerance of the sort that had vanished from London 15 or so years earlier; if you went to any of the city's nightclubs at some point during the evening they would play "Time Warp" (from the Rocky Horror Show), something I always found ironic and apt. So Jackson was the perfect match for a swathe of the population, an unrepentantly bigoted homophobe.
Problem for him is that those people have now found UKIP, so his vote is being split; his predecessor was Blair Babe (according to the press) Helen Brinton (later Clark), so there is already a natural Labour vote on the ground which can only benefit from the Right vote fighting amongst themselves.
Night all.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 9:39 pm
by citizenJA
Steve Bell's latest - wonderful
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... cs-cartoon" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:00 pm
by ErnstRemarx
Quick message to Paul (the Tyke). This adopted Lancastrian got all the leaflets and targeted mail out, despite hail storms and freezing temperatures (didn't even wear my furry Russian hat).
So, nah nah, nayaah naaaah...!
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:02 pm
by danesclose
Not sure if this is meant as an early April Fool gag:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 46513.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:21 pm
by TechnicalEphemera
Always look at the date.
Doesn't say 1st April.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:22 pm
by LadyCentauria
Tubby Isaacs wrote:http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/econo ... did-ids-do
Duncan Smith was the first secretary of state with responsibility for welfare ever to be appointed to the job actually to have a proper background in the subject. He arrived in Whitehall with a clear vision and a determination to put it through. David Cameron tried to move him from the job, but Duncan Smith was committed to the task and stayed with it. He understood, like his lieutenant David Freud, that this is extraordinarily important. Getting a million and more people into jobs means that they feel better, are better off, more secure, more independent, happier and literally healthier. They are also more likely to be good citizens.
This transformation has surely been the greatest improvement to have been made by a British government in the last 30 years. Duncan Smith and Freud are doubtless aware of what they have achieved. But they also know that after the election, they are probably going to be moved aside. The question then will be the following: will those who take over at the DWP understand what has been achieved and how? Will they take unemployment to even lower levels or will they—as politicians in the 1960s and 1970s did—gradually ruin what they have inherited?
Is this satirical?
Well, he's under the impression that sanctions are for a week – or sometimes more. I think he really believes it – IDS wrote it... And he's the author of The Welfare State We're In, is a former international banker-turned-journalist, and a fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and, also, a fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. (garnered from
http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/about
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:25 pm
by danesclose
TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Always look at the date.
Doesn't say 1st April.
Bloody hell - he must seriously think this will do him some good
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:30 pm
by TechnicalEphemera
danesclose wrote:TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Always look at the date.
Doesn't say 1st April.
Bloody hell - he must seriously think this will do him some good
This stuff is hardly projecting gravitas. He is all over the place like a cheap suit.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:32 pm
by adam
YouGov/The Sun
Lab 36 (+1)
Con 35 (-1)
UKIP 12 (-)
LibDem 7 (-1)
Green 5 (-)
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:39 pm
by TechnicalEphemera
adam wrote:YouGov/The Sun
Lab 36 (+1)
Con 35 (-1)
UKIP 12 (-)
LibDem 7 (-1)
Green 5 (-)
So margins of error, everybody is guessing. I suspect that UKIP vote is at base, the Green vote maybe squeezable by another point and the Lib Dems must now be at their absolute floor. I think we are heading into Labour just short of a majority land, and I am not sure much will change in five weeks.
Or maybe it will.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:45 pm
by RogerOThornhill
I see someone has rounded up the usual suspects in the business world to claim that the world will end if Labour get in (DT front page tomorrow).
I'm shocked, shocked etc...
Two in one post? I'm good at this...
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:50 pm
by adam
Also from the telegraph
Britons are so ill at ease with levels of immigration in their towns that their children do not play football with their neighbours in the streets, Nigel Farage has said.
You spiteful shit-for-brains deluded lying cunt. Someone arrest the fucker.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:53 pm
by AngryAsWell
Back to Peterborough :
Peterborough candidate Stewart Jackson criticised over 'stupid' email exchange
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca ... e-32128877" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Minor on the scale of things, but indicative of tory mentality
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:56 pm
by RogerOThornhill
Watching Matt Hancock...he really is hopeless.
Have you noticed how their spending plans includes saving on tax avoidance...isn't that on the tax side though? Yeah...
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:58 pm
by adam
There is so much absurdity on the different news website front pages that I really, honestly, couldn't guess what their 'april fool' stories are.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 10:58 pm
by TechnicalEphemera
Presumably the business people are going to have kittens at this.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... r-3-months
It will also give me a list of companies to avoid.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 11:27 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
RogerOThornhill wrote:I see someone has rounded up the usual suspects in the business world to claim that the world will end if Labour get in (DT front page tomorrow).
I'm shocked, shocked etc...
Two in one post? I'm good at this...
Obviously not prompted by Miliband claiming business support for his EU policy.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 11:33 pm
by RogerOThornhill
Tubby Isaacs wrote:RogerOThornhill wrote:I see someone has rounded up the usual suspects in the business world to claim that the world will end if Labour get in (DT front page tomorrow).
I'm shocked, shocked etc...
Two in one post? I'm good at this...
Obviously not prompted by Miliband claiming business support for his EU policy.
I'd say this came out rather sooner than they would have wished. Still over a month until the vote - people will have forgotten about this by then.
And guess what - lead story over at the BBC website.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 11:44 pm
by LadyCentauria
Spin on Labour's "If you are on a zero-hours contract and work regular hours for three months your employer will have to give you a proper contract" seems to be (from papers) "After three months on a zero-hour contract bosses will have to give you a full-time job and contract." Do they (the papers, certain commentators) not know that there are such things as proper part-time contracts?
:spit:
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 11:47 pm
by LadyCentauria
@ephie: get well soon
@Ohso: hope Mr. Ohso's tablets help – especially after today's clusterfuck at surgery and chemists.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Tue 31 Mar, 2015 11:53 pm
by citizenJA
goodnight, friends
please care for yourselves & people
I love you
cJA
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Wed 01 Apr, 2015 12:10 am
by RogerOThornhill
Sam Freedman
@Samfr
The Tories 2010 letter from "business leaders" also appeared on the evening of 31st March. Talk about a playbook.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/electio ... -cuts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Wed 01 Apr, 2015 12:20 am
by TechnicalEphemera
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Wed 01 Apr, 2015 12:21 am
by TechnicalEphemera
Fighting the last war to the previous timetable should at least make it easy to deal with.
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Wed 01 Apr, 2015 3:44 am
by LadyCentauria
citizenJA wrote:goodnight, friends
please care for yourselves & people
I love you
cJA
Aargh! So sorry to be late saying goodnight – I fell asleep in the wheelchair which is definitely not a comfy place to sleep
Re: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Posted: Wed 01 Apr, 2015 3:45 am
by LadyCentauria
Superbly done
