Friday 13th November 2015
Posted: Fri 13 Nov, 2015 7:11 am
Morning all.
I haven't read it beyond the headline yet. But isn't that pretty damning ... sort of number one requirement failed?New research suggests why general election polls were so inaccurate
Study conducted immediately after vote indicates that sampling in earlier polls may not have been random enough
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... inaccurate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Mail headline on the same is hard hitting:More than 46,000 older people seen their "meals on wheels" axed in the last three years, according to an analysis of official data.
''The study by the Malnutrition Task Force found that the number of people receiving the meals in England has fallen from 75,885 in 2010/2011 to 29,605 in 2013/14 - a 61% decrease.
Spending on meals on wheels for people aged 65 and over has fallen 47%, from £42.1 million in 2010/11 to £22.3 million in 2013/14.
The falls have all come amid shrinking social services budgets.''
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Yes - agree with that last sentence. Who wants a pet jihadi?TobyLatimer wrote:Cameron preparing a statement to be given later on the drone strike on Mohammed Emwazi. I hate the tabloid glamourising by giving him a pet name so i won't use it.
I heard from somewhere else that Paris Lees was quite good.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
adding:Paul Flynn @PaulFlynnMP 2h2 hours ago Newport, Wales
Dimbleby vainly tries to protect SUN's Stig from fierce skewering by man in a hat armed with common sense http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11 ... 49018.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
BBC Question Time Audience Member Lambasts 'The Sun' For Hypocrisy Over Corbyn Coverage
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She was - and I think she'll get better - by that I mean a little more formed / thought through in her responses as she gets more experience of such things.refitman wrote:I heard from somewhere else that Paris Lees was quite good.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
Poor Paris, stuck between UKIP's Paul Nutjob, I mean Nuttall, and the obnoxious former Deutsche Bank employee turned Tory MP Sajid Javid. She's got a good technique though for making them go quiet when they're talking over her, namely putting her hand on their arm. It was surprisingly effective.rebeccariots2 wrote:She was - and I think she'll get better - by that I mean a little more formed / thought through in her responses as she gets more experience of such things.refitman wrote:I heard from somewhere else that Paris Lees was quite good.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
yahyah wrote:Any Questions tonight is from Basingstoke.
On the panel; businessman and UKIP donor Arron Banks, Shadow Chancellor and Justice Secretary Lord Falconer, SNP MP John Nicolson, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Amber Rudd MP.
Rudd's awful. And what makes her even more so is the fact that she's more intelligent than most of her colleagues and should know better, but instead she doggedly and dogmatically sticks to the party line.StephenDolan wrote:yahyah wrote:Any Questions tonight is from Basingstoke.
On the panel; businessman and UKIP donor Arron Banks, Shadow Chancellor and Justice Secretary Lord Falconer, SNP MP John Nicolson, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Amber Rudd MP.
I might try catching up with this and any answers during the weekend painting exploits. Rudd on renewables could be interesting.
The dogmatic sticking to the line is painful when pointed out with decent interviewing. JoJo and PriPa for example.nickyinnorfolk wrote:Rudd's awful. And what makes her even more so is the fact that she's more intelligent than most of her colleagues and should know better, but instead she doggedly and dogmatically sticks to the party line.StephenDolan wrote:yahyah wrote:Any Questions tonight is from Basingstoke.
On the panel; businessman and UKIP donor Arron Banks, Shadow Chancellor and Justice Secretary Lord Falconer, SNP MP John Nicolson, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Amber Rudd MP.
I might try catching up with this and any answers during the weekend painting exploits. Rudd on renewables could be interesting.
So much for vote blue, go green.
I wish Cameron had gone the whole hog and dropped out, ending up living on Ibiza or Thailand as a pot smoking Trustafarian. He might have been a waste of space and outraged his parents, but paradoxically his life would have been more worthwhile - certainly less destructive.TobyLatimer wrote:I won't skirt around the issue.
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... And NiMo! ... although that's usually some child stumping her with a times table question.StephenDolan wrote:The dogmatic sticking to the line is painful when pointed out with decent interviewing. JoJo and PriPa for example.nickyinnorfolk wrote:Rudd's awful. And what makes her even more so is the fact that she's more intelligent than most of her colleagues and should know better, but instead she doggedly and dogmatically sticks to the party line.StephenDolan wrote:
I might try catching up with this and any answers during the weekend painting exploits. Rudd on renewables could be interesting.
So much for vote blue, go green.
Lees is an LGBT campaigner (has had a few columns in the Graun), so I would class her as the 'amateur' on the panel.frightful_oik wrote:I heard QT on Radio5 last night. Very biased panel and, given there was a kipper on it, questions were designed to be suitable for him to answer; so two on immigration and he managed to turn every other question onto immigration. I'd never heard of Paris Lees before and, (sorry if not everyone agrees), found her completely ineffectual, just mouthing glib platitudes. Lucy Powell did well despite being outnumbered and continually heckled by the four men.
Every week they seem to feel the need to have a question along the lines of 'Is this yet another reason why JC is crap?' Heartily sick of it.
I didn't see that bit.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
Stoke is a bit of a UKIP hotspot (and before that, of course, the BNP) so not a huge surprise tbh.gilsey wrote:I didn't see that bit.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
I watched 10 mins of it when they were discussing the NHS. Too much applause for Nuttall for my liking, strange audience.
Paris Lees seemed to be making Nuttall and Javid feel rather uncomfortable.
I think that might be some prejudices seeping through...gilsey wrote:I didn't see that bit.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
I watched 10 mins of it when they were discussing the NHS. Too much applause for Nuttall for my liking, strange audience.
Paris Lees seemed to be making Nuttall and Javid feel rather uncomfortable.
Yes, this.PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
I'm uncomfortable with the photo' montage thing showing a terrorist as a child. I feel that it's a subliminal way of telling us that killing foreign children isn't such a terrible thing, "Because, after all, you never know what they'll develop into, do you? Take this one, for instance . . . ".
I'm glad the murdering bastard (if it really was Emwazi) is no more. Cameron however is using this as a Falklands moment, grandstanding about it for all he's worth. He's probably hoping Corbyn is going to say something which the tabloids can twist.ephemerid wrote:Yes, this.PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
I'm uncomfortable with the photo' montage thing showing a terrorist as a child. I feel that it's a subliminal way of telling us that killing foreign children isn't such a terrible thing, "Because, after all, you never know what they'll develop into, do you? Take this one, for instance . . . ".
Imagine! All those little brown kids from Syria that the Communistas want to let in! Jihadis in the making, they are.....
It's very poor.
I am genuinely shocked.seeingclearly wrote:Tory cure all doesnt work, according to research.
Computer aided CBT offers little or no aid for depression.
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/ ... epression/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
You had me going there for a minute.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am genuinely shocked.seeingclearly wrote:Tory cure all doesnt work, according to research.
Computer aided CBT offers little or no aid for depression.
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/ ... epression/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
No, not really.
Its pretty thin gruel compared to the Falklands, though.nickyinnorfolk wrote:I'm glad the murdering bastard (if it really was Emwazi) is no more. Cameron however is using this as a Falklands moment, grandstanding about it for all he's worth. He's probably hoping Corbyn is going to say something which the tabloids can twist.ephemerid wrote:Yes, this.PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
I'm uncomfortable with the photo' montage thing showing a terrorist as a child. I feel that it's a subliminal way of telling us that killing foreign children isn't such a terrible thing, "Because, after all, you never know what they'll develop into, do you? Take this one, for instance . . . ".
Imagine! All those little brown kids from Syria that the Communistas want to let in! Jihadis in the making, they are.....
It's very poor.
Yes, it is but Nuttall is Bury North's Tory MP, not Stoke's. [Only 378 votes more than Labour's James Frith, that's an aside]AnatolyKasparov wrote:Stoke is a bit of a UKIP hotspot (and before that, of course, the BNP) so not a huge surprise tbh.gilsey wrote:I didn't see that bit.rebeccariots2 wrote:Question Time last night was livelier than usual. The government not getting an easy ride. Jeremy Hunt and the Tory management of the NHS getting a particularly rough and straight talking ride from the audience.
My favourite moment - during a discussion about whether Corbyn was being bullied re the not bowing low enough crap - was the bloke in the back row telling Stig Abell of the Sun 'I'm talking pal so shut up'. Big applause.
I watched 10 mins of it when they were discussing the NHS. Too much applause for Nuttall for my liking, strange audience.
Paris Lees seemed to be making Nuttall and Javid feel rather uncomfortable.
Why not just pack the whole thing in and stop it all to anyone, Tories, what the hell.StephenDolan wrote:' An option BBC News revealed in the summer - a four-year residency test for all benefit claimants - has now been fully costed and is being considered by Treasury officials.
It would mean Britons, even if they had lived in the UK all their lives, would be ineligible for in-work benefits for four years from their 18th birthday.
If implemented, some unemployed British families who failed the test could be thousands of pounds worse off if one of them found a job.
"They would be much better off staying on out-of-work benefits," said a Whitehall official familiar with the proposals.'
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I liked this bit.At least 17 academy trusts handed a slice of £7.2 million to take over struggling schools have yet to do so — more than a year later.
A freedom of information request by Schools Week has revealed the government handed out one-off payments of up to £100,000 to 144 organisations in the 2013-14 financial year to help prepare for the takeover of new schools.
However, an analysis of the trusts shows several are yet to take over a single school, although they have been given cash totalling at least £850,000.
Couldn't find easy pickings.A DfE source said all of the organisations were assessed and found to have the potential to be great sponsors, but some had not found the right school to make a match.
I think there might be a few who agree.seeingclearly wrote:Former military commander backs Corbyns opposition to Trident.
http://www.thecanary.co/2015/11/12/form ... n-trident/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I've just seen it and agree. Get the picture of the kid off the news immediately - we don't need to see that, what the hell is it doing there. In a biography, a research publication, fine, not now.PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
I'm uncomfortable with the photo' montage thing showing a terrorist as a child. I feel that it's a subliminal way of telling us that killing foreign children isn't such a terrible thing, "Because, after all, you never know what they'll develop into, do you? Take this one, for instance . . . ".