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Re: Thursday 9th April 2015

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Following on from today's "Miliband can't be trusted with the security of the country" bullshit, here's the front page of tomorrow's Telegraph.
breath-taking hypocrisy doesn't come into it. :fire: :evil:
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Paul Waugh ‏@paulwaugh 4m4 minutes ago
Big story coming up.
be scared, be very scared ...

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danesclose wrote:Following on from today's "Miliband can't be trusted with the security of the country" bullshit, here's the front page of tomorrow's Telegraph.
breath-taking hypocrisy doesn't come into it. :fire: :evil:
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I thought (despite fudging about a bit with the figures) that David Cameron had stated a week or so ago that he was committed to this level of spending.
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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Paul Waugh ‏@paulwaugh 4m4 minutes ago
Big story coming up.
be scared, be very scared ...

Editing to say apols to AAW - for snap posting. I never take offence at these snaps, so I hope you don't either.
The one about Tories promising to freeze rail fares?

Too little, too late.
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Crabb on BBC Wales news saying the no 1 issue on the doorstep is the NHS in Wales and the issues caused by the Labour government stripping millions of pounds of funding out of it ................... I kid you not. Well that line didn't go down at all well at the hustings in Haverfordwest.

I haven't found that the NHS in Wales is the no 1 issue on the doorsteps I've been on. Yes, people are worried about cuts and changes - but they are equally or more worried about jobs, opportunities for young people and the really poor wages and employment conditions.
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RogerOThornhill wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:
Paul Waugh ‏@paulwaugh 4m4 minutes ago
Big story coming up.
be scared, be very scared ...

Editing to say apols to AAW - for snap posting. I never take offence at these snaps, so I hope you don't either.
The one about Tories promising to freeze rail fares?

Too little, too late.
Not sure yet.... {worried emoticon}
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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Paul Waugh ‏@paulwaugh 4m4 minutes ago
Big story coming up.
be scared, be very scared ...

Editing to say apols to AAW - for snap posting. I never take offence at these snaps, so I hope you don't either.
Not at all, sometimes post come in so fast its easy to miss one or 2
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This is the real #newsnight sex scandal.
Eh?
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David Schneider ‏@davidschneider 5h5 hours ago
"First they came for the energy companies…" A poem for the general election.
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Dog owners warned about toxic sausages found in East #Sussex http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... ham-sussex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

(just in case we have anyone from there - and to help spread the word)

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@ rebeccariots2

It seems to be the day for gnomic utterances which I'm incapable of understanding. First the LibDem candidate loyalty thing and now this.
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TechnicalEphemera wrote:YouGov have form in Scotland, so I am not hugely convinced. I would like to see a poll from a more reputable polling organisation up there. I think it is going to take time for the realisation of SNP policy insanity to filter through (if it does).
YouGov had the Libdems on 31% in April 2010 post-debates. Others as high as 32% (that I've found so far). It suddenly seems so long ago and I don't really remember the Libdems being quite that popular. They ended up on 23%. Anyway, even if you knock 8 points off for the newbie "Libdem effect", the SNP could still be polling 40+ which means Labour really does have to trounce the Tories everywhere else.
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How and why do Tories think that Miliband's ability to pull women more attractive than he is, before he was married, reflects badly on him?

Bizarre.

Not only bizarre, but incompetent. Their campaign is shockingly bad. These people are useless. It never ceases to amaze.

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Matthew Lawrence ‏@xMATTxLAWx · 5s5 seconds ago
.@trussliz…out of her depth in a puddle. #bbcqt

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@ danesclose

I can't get to the thanks button. So - thanks.
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Watching QT against my better judgement...

1st question about the Fallon shit.

Truss - "Fallon absolutely right" - stony silence.
Alexander - "Fallon absolute rubbish" - loud applause
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SpinningHugo wrote:How and why do Tories think that Miliband's ability to pull women more attractive than he is, before he was married, reflects badly on him?

Bizarre.

Not only bizarre, but incompetent. Their campaign is shockingly bad. These people are useless. It never ceases to amaze.

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Oy! Less of that !
Lots of us find him very attractive :)
Agree - shockingly bad campaign by the tory's
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PorFavor wrote:@ danesclose

I can't get to the thanks button. So - thanks.
You're welcome
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Night all
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The Truss can only keep a permanent bemused expression and do a lot of shaking her head from side to side. The audience - and other panel members - are not buying the terrible spin porkies from the Tory dossier subtitled Get Miliband.

meanwhile
Jane Merrick ‏@janemerrick23 8m8 minutes ago
Rachel Sylvester says Times letters page tomorrow full of letters saying how much they didn't like Fallon article #newsnight
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AngryAsWell wrote:
SpinningHugo wrote:How and why do Tories think that Miliband's ability to pull women more attractive than he is, before he was married, reflects badly on him?

Bizarre.

Not only bizarre, but incompetent. Their campaign is shockingly bad. These people are useless. It never ceases to amaze.

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Oy! Less of that !
Lots of us find him very attractive :)
Agree - shockingly bad campaign by the tory's
Ha! True. But I think the press is trying to play it both ways and they're getting themselves tied in knots with all their contradictions. They're all over the shop.
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Apparently there was a Tory speech on education yesterday - this must be the one that Gove trailed on Newsnight the other night.

It seems to have vanished without trace - unless that "pupil resits KS2 in year 7" was it, Maybe that's all they have.
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@ AngryAsWell

Goodnight.
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Goodnight, everyone.
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Willow904 wrote:
TechnicalEphemera wrote:YouGov have form in Scotland, so I am not hugely convinced. I would like to see a poll from a more reputable polling organisation up there. I think it is going to take time for the realisation of SNP policy insanity to filter through (if it does).
YouGov had the Libdems on 31% in April 2010 post-debates. Others as high as 32% (that I've found so far). It suddenly seems so long ago and I don't really remember the Libdems being quite that popular. They ended up on 23%. Anyway, even if you knock 8 points off for the newbie "Libdem effect", the SNP could still be polling 40+ which means Labour really does have to trounce the Tories everywhere else.
I think we can be fairly sure the SNP are going to win a shed load of seats. Question is can Labour deliver another ten seats on the doomsday scenario.
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Oh look it's not just the Telegraph digging up an old non-story, it's the Mail too.

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So that means it's being coordinated by the Tories. Again.
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AngryAsWell wrote:Night all
Goodnight, AAW. Sleep well :)
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Who's the shill on QT tonight - don't know if he's UKIP or Tax Payers Alliance, but he's definitely a :toss:
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PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.
Goodnight PF – sleep well :)
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danesclose wrote:Who's the shill on QT tonight - don't know if he's UKIP or Tax Payers Alliance, but he's definitely a :toss:
Tim Stanley of the Daily Telegraph, also contributes to History Today.
Stanley joined the British Labour Party at the age of 15. He was Chair of Cambridge University Labour Club in 2003-4, and stood as the Labour candidate for his home constituency of Sevenoaks at the 2005 general election, where he came third. He has since distanced himself from the Labour Party,[11] and has been arguing in support of the US Republican Party.
from his rather short Wikipedia entry.
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LadyCentauria wrote:
danesclose wrote:Who's the shill on QT tonight - don't know if he's UKIP or Tax Payers Alliance, but he's definitely a :toss:
Tim Stanley of the Daily Telegraph, also contributes to History Today.
Stanley joined the British Labour Party at the age of 15. He was Chair of Cambridge University Labour Club in 2003-4, and stood as the Labour candidate for his home constituency of Sevenoaks at the 2005 general election, where he came third. He has since distanced himself from the Labour Party,[11] and has been arguing in support of the US Republican Party.
from his rather short Wikipedia entry.
Thank you. So in other words a UK Tea Party proponent
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Stanley pens arguments along this sort of line:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timst ... -51-years/

I think hes a complete tool tbh. His appearance today did nothing to persuade me otherwise.
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Tim Stanley what a plonker
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Richie Benaud RIP :(
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Well, I've had a hell of a week, could it be any worse with added QT?

Lets find out....


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RogerOThornhill wrote:Reading that Labour education manifesto, I'd say the days of academization is over...
Thanks for the link earlier, Roger, which I still have open in another tab. I haven't read it yet but shall download now for later.
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PorFavor wrote:... You may well ask. ('Phone canvassing - largely a waste of time, in my opinion; but I do what I can.)
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Christ, Louise Mensch is fucking annoying.

Time for bed...
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Ed was pretty good on The Agenda, as was Katy Brand. It's a very gentle programme with a lot of humour to it – so not one to look to for heated, or in-depth, debate.
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LadyCentauria wrote:Ed was pretty good on The Agenda, as was Katy Brand. It's a very gentle programme with a lot of humour to it – so not one to look to for heated, or in-depth, debate.
Understated but nice, whether that was what was needed who knows.

However thanks to Fallon and the papers today he got to look cool.

The Scots Nat - Non Dom was a bit of an arse, but at least polite.
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TechnicalEphemera wrote:
LadyCentauria wrote:Ed was pretty good on The Agenda, as was Katy Brand. It's a very gentle programme with a lot of humour to it – so not one to look to for heated, or in-depth, debate.
Understated but nice, whether that was what was needed who knows.

However thanks to Fallon and the papers today he got to look cool.

The Scots Nat - Non Dom was a bit of an arse, but at least polite.
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Early night for me, so goodnight all :)
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LadyCentauria wrote:Early night for me, so goodnight all :)
Night LC :sleep:
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At this rate, all Ed M, ruthless bastard and sex-god, has to do is go on holiday and let the Tories run the rest of his campaign.
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