Saturday 9th January 2016

[PorFavor]

Some of them have had their motives questioned.

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Fair point.

[rebeccariots2]

Danczuk Corbyn Book Dishonesty
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2016/ ... nesty.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... The article continues “SHAMED Simon Danczuk has been publicly criticising Jeremy Corbyn so he can write a book boasting how he toppled the Labour leader … The Rochdale MP, 49, began working on it in October, weeks after Corbyn got the top job … Danczuk aims to cash in by publishing as soon as Corbyn goes … He has told pals this could be at May’s local elections”. Do go on. ...

... So if Danczuk and Baker use that title, they are admitting that the MP’s ranting had no real effect on the course of events - not the strongest of sales pitches. And it gets worse: as I also mentioned recently, Danczuk had been attending Parliamentary Labour Party meetings rather more regularly, partly to pick up information and gossip to feed to Baker and include in his Mail on Sunday and Sun columns. But now he can’t do that.

This is because, as a result of the “sexting” controversy, Danczuk has been suspended from the Labour Party, and therefore cannot attend PLP meetings. The longer this goes on, the less goss he gets for Baker’s ghosted columns. And today, neither MoS, nor Sun, is running a Danczuk column. Until and unless those papers do run more of his columns, there will be no more material for the book...

[citizenJA]

London Underground train drivers are set to strike for three days over a
long-running dispute about pay and plans for an all-night tube service.

Leaders of the Aslef union will meet on Monday to decide whether to go
ahead with strikes that would cripple tube services in the capital. If the
union’s executive agrees, there will be a 24-hour strike from 9.14pm on
27 January, followed by further 24-hour strikes from the same time on
15 February and 17 February.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016 ... -continues" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How many industrial actions during current Tory government's stewardship
does this make? How many professions?

It's the Mayor who's the player here. Johnson was supposed to negotiate a no strike deal with the unions. I don't think he's ever met them.

You know more of the details than I know. The fact remains Westminster has power over every country (region) in the UK. Local authorities,
departments and mayors are operating under rules Tory government have created over close to six years. Please don't mistake me. I'm not
suggesting councillors, department heads, staff and mayors aren't responsible for their actions and decisions within their remit. They are.
Tory government has spent years decimating budgets, foisting unrealistic constraints as well as obligations on people left trying to do
their job. I don't need to tell you about that. You know as well as I do the changes Tory government has wrought is all around us.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More from Hopkins. For some reason leftwing Eurosceptics get my goat.

The process has been continuing by degrees
and occasional leaps since and even
before the 1957 Treaty of Rome established
the original Common Market. Yes, the clue
is in the title. Its objective has been to roll
back the democratic socialist and social
democratic world established across Western
Europe after 1945. Marketisation, liberalisation
and privatisation are what the
Common Market, the EEC and now the EU
have been about.

How broad brush is that?

The people setting up the EC and Western European social democracy were... the same people.

[PorFavor]

More from Hopkins. For some reason leftwing Eurosceptics get my goat.

The process has been continuing by degrees
and occasional leaps since and even
before the 1957 Treaty of Rome established
the original Common Market. Yes, the clue
is in the title. Its objective has been to roll
back the democratic socialist and social
democratic world established across Western
Europe after 1945. Marketisation, liberalisation
and privatisation are what the
Common Market, the EEC and now the EU
have been about.

How broad brush is that?

The people setting up the EC and Western European social democracy were... the same people.

"After 1945" and "since and even before 1957"? What an odd time-frame to cite. Doesn't make a whole load of sense, does it?

[rebeccariots2]

Ukip's Caerphilly clowning masks serious contender at assembly elections
In birthplace of Tommy Cooper, some accuse party of tackiness. But opinion on doorsteps and in polls suggest it can strike back from general election failure
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -elections" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... According to the latest figures, the party could rocket from zero assembly seats to nine in the election in May, three seats behind the second biggest party, the Conservatives, and only one behind the Welsh nationalists, Plaid Cymru. Labour – which currently leads the Welsh government with 30 of the 60 seats – would be down to 27 and having to root around for a coalition partner to hold on to power.

After a disappointing general election showing, Ukip’s Welsh assembly campaign offer a way for it to strike back. Because there is a form of proportional representation in the voting system, the party has a much better chance of winning seats and causing the sort of sea change in politics in Wales it tried, but failed to do in Westminster.

Make no mistake, Ukip – which once called for the abolition of the Welsh assembly – is taking this election seriously. It is planning to fight every seat. It is holding its spring conference in Llandudno, north Wales. Its former head of media, Alexandra Phillips, has relocated to Cardiff to mastermind the press side of the campaign.

Makes me feel sick at the prospect. Hope it doesn't pan out like the chart in the article ... but fear it could. Don't like the thought of another coalition with Plaid - we will be straight back to horribly regressive rural affairs policies. The prospect of the Tories (12) and Ukip (9) and Plaid (10) coalition is even worse. And not even one Green AM on that prediction. Lib Dems pretty much expunged (2).

[ohsocynical]

London Underground train drivers are set to strike for three days over a
long-running dispute about pay and plans for an all-night tube service.

Leaders of the Aslef union will meet on Monday to decide whether to go
ahead with strikes that would cripple tube services in the capital. If the
union’s executive agrees, there will be a 24-hour strike from 9.14pm on
27 January, followed by further 24-hour strikes from the same time on
15 February and 17 February.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016 ... -continues" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How many industrial actions during current Tory government's stewardship
does this make? How many professions?

It's the Mayor who's the player here. Johnson was supposed to negotiate a no strike deal with the unions. I don't think he's ever met them.

Lawyers, [protest marches] firemen, doctors. Not the professions you'd normally associate with strike action.

[ohsocynical]

Danczuk Corbyn Book Dishonesty
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2016/ ... nesty.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... The article continues “SHAMED Simon Danczuk has been publicly criticising Jeremy Corbyn so he can write a book boasting how he toppled the Labour leader … The Rochdale MP, 49, began working on it in October, weeks after Corbyn got the top job … Danczuk aims to cash in by publishing as soon as Corbyn goes … He has told pals this could be at May’s local elections”. Do go on. ...

... So if Danczuk and Baker use that title, they are admitting that the MP’s ranting had no real effect on the course of events - not the strongest of sales pitches. And it gets worse: as I also mentioned recently, Danczuk had been attending Parliamentary Labour Party meetings rather more regularly, partly to pick up information and gossip to feed to Baker and include in his Mail on Sunday and Sun columns. But now he can’t do that.

This is because, as a result of the “sexting” controversy, Danczuk has been suspended from the Labour Party, and therefore cannot attend PLP meetings. The longer this goes on, the less goss he gets for Baker’s ghosted columns. And today, neither MoS, nor Sun, is running a Danczuk column. Until and unless those papers do run more of his columns, there will be no more material for the book...

Danczuk doesn't actually write. He goes halves? with another bloke who puts it on paper. He supplies the info. They did split but are back together again.
It's an unholy alliance if ever there was one.

[rebeccariots2]

Jon Snow ‏@jonsnowC4 23h23 hours ago Lambeth, London
The remarkable Mhairi Black, youngest MP, runs rings round Parliament yet again: " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

She was very good. (As was Andrew Gwynne by all accounts - and many other Labour MPs.)

Worth a watch.

[ohsocynical]

Michael Dugher MPVerified account
‏@MichaelDugher

My column today: Labour must be in touch with working class Britain + some lighthearted reflections on the past week

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... years.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Um? Something not right with this statement?

[rebeccariots2]

Michael Dugher MPVerified account
‏@MichaelDugher

My column today: Labour must be in touch with working class Britain + some lighthearted reflections on the past week

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... years.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Um? Something not right with this statement?

Has he always written for the Sun or is this a first?

[ohsocynical]

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil 35 secs36 seconds ago

Six years after Conservatives inherited a budget deficit of circa £150bn, it is still £70bn. Some might say progress has been passing slow

Ha. I've just had a mental picture of the Beeb saying to Andrew Neil...Quick! Go on Twitter and do a bit of anti-government Tweeting for Gods sake, otherwise they'll have our guts for garters.

[Willow904]

Cameron's latest mutterings on housing policy is based on a 2013 Policy Exchange report "Create Streets". This is a good example of the influence of right wing think tanks on policy formation and the way in which they root out often flimsy evidence to support an idea they already want to push.

Anyway, this is RIBA's response to the report at the time:
https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Conta ... eport.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

At the end of the day, if tower block living is so detrimental to health and wellbeing, how come so many well-heeled people are desperate to live in them?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/prop ... hours.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Homes worth a total of £140m in east London’s latest residential tower block sold out in less than five hours – and it’s not even built yet.

[ohsocynical]

Michael Dugher MPVerified account
‏@MichaelDugher

My column today: Labour must be in touch with working class Britain + some lighthearted reflections on the past week

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... years.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Um? Something not right with this statement?

Has he always written for the Sun or is this a first?

A first I thought, but could be mistaken.

[rebeccariots2]

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil 35 secs36 seconds ago

Six years after Conservatives inherited a budget deficit of circa £150bn, it is still £70bn. Some might say progress has been passing slow

Ha. I've just had a mental picture of the Beeb saying to Andrew Neil...Quick! Go on Twitter and do a bit of anti-government Tweeting for Gods sake, otherwise they'll have our guts for garters.

And still no twitter activity from Kuenssberg.

[rebeccariots2]

Cameron's latest mutterings on housing policy is based on a 2013 Policy Exchange report "Create Streets". This is a good example of the influence of right wing think tanks on policy formation and the way in which they root out often flimsy evidence to support an idea they already want to push.

Anyway, this is RIBA's response to the report at the time:
https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Conta ... eport.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

At the end of the day, if tower block living is so detrimental to health and wellbeing, how come so many well-heeled people are desperate to live in them?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/prop ... hours.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Homes worth a total of £140m in east London’s latest residential tower block sold out in less than five hours – and it’s not even built yet.

Cameron is an ass ... I'm very suspicious of this being all about shipping people out of prime development locations - sticking another nail in the coffin of social housing - and helping a trailing Zac Goldsmith with flagging up their desire to help more people to buy homes.

[rebeccariots2]

Um? Something not right with this statement?

Has he always written for the Sun or is this a first?

A first I thought, but could be mistaken.

It's just that 'My column today:' - makes it sound regular. Do you think he might be Danczuk's replacement?

[rebeccariots2]

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil 35 secs36 seconds ago

Six years after Conservatives inherited a budget deficit of circa £150bn, it is still £70bn. Some might say progress has been passing slow

Ha. I've just had a mental picture of the Beeb saying to Andrew Neil...Quick! Go on Twitter and do a bit of anti-government Tweeting for Gods sake, otherwise they'll have our guts for garters.

The annoying thing about Andrew Neil is that he can be such a good interviewer and presenter - armed with forensic research - and then he goes and spoils it all by saying more than something stupid - I'm referring to the awfully ham and sometimes completely vacant stuff that he facilitates on This Week. And I can't forget and will probably never forgive that awful 2010 election coverage on a boat in the Thames swilling drinks with lots of people whose views were of no interest at all - if they had any. Excruciating. Why did he ever agree to that?

[ohsocynical]

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil 35 secs36 seconds ago

Six years after Conservatives inherited a budget deficit of circa £150bn, it is still £70bn. Some might say progress has been passing slow

Ha. I've just had a mental picture of the Beeb saying to Andrew Neil...Quick! Go on Twitter and do a bit of anti-government Tweeting for Gods sake, otherwise they'll have our guts for garters.

And still no twitter activity from Kuenssberg.

She's dropped out of sight apparently.

[ohsocynical]

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil 35 secs36 seconds ago

Six years after Conservatives inherited a budget deficit of circa £150bn, it is still £70bn. Some might say progress has been passing slow

Ha. I've just had a mental picture of the Beeb saying to Andrew Neil...Quick! Go on Twitter and do a bit of anti-government Tweeting for Gods sake, otherwise they'll have our guts for garters.

The annoying thing about Andrew Neil is that he can be such a good interviewer and presenter - armed with forensic research - and then he goes and spoils it all by saying more than something stupid - I'm referring to the awfully ham and sometimes completely vacant stuff that he facilitates on This Week. And I can't forget and will probably never forgive that awful 2010 election coverage on a boat in the Thames swilling drinks with lots of people whose views were of no interest at all - if they had any. Excruciating. Why did he ever agree to that?

Once again ... ££££££££££££££

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm now seriously worried Ukraine might come back on the UK agenda.

http://paulocanning.blogspot.co.uk/2015 ... retty.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[rebeccariots2]

I'd like to think that a lot of junior doctors are not going to vote Tory in the near future ... and that many of their parents, siblings, other family and friends might also have a rethink now if they were so inclined before.

[ohsocynical]

Mhairi Doyle Retweeted

SKroatia ‏@SKroatia 40 mins40 minutes ago

@afneil @paultoleary Very anti-Tory today Andrew. That petition seems to have rattled you.

My thought exactly.

[Vordy]

War by media and the triumph of propaganda.

John Pilger on good form re propaganda.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-m ... propaganda" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Tubby Isaacs]

“Within these so-called sink estates, behind front doors, families build warm and welcoming homes. But step outside in the worst estates and you’re confronted by concrete slabs dropped from on high, brutal high-rise towers and dark alleyways that are a gift to criminals and drug dealers.
“Decades of neglect have led to gangs and antisocial behaviour. Poverty has become entrenched, because those who could afford to move have understandably done so.”

WTF?

This sounds like about 20 years ago. And how often do concrete slabs get dropped on people?

Brutal towers? Christ.

Loads of people would love to move into these estates.

[Tubby Isaacs]

War by media and the triumph of propaganda.

John Pilger on good form re propaganda.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-m ... propaganda" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Shame he likes to spout Putin propaganda, like making out that the US and EU organized the coup, and that the coup was carried out by fascists.

Apparently Putin is " is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe."

[rebeccariots2]

Cameron must have been reading the Guardian ...

Let’s move to Tottenham, north London
It’s affordable – for London – and gentrification is creeping into this most ethnically diverse area
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/d ... rth-london" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It won't be 'affordable' once he's had his hands on it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cameron must have been reading the Guardian ...

Let’s move to Tottenham, north London
It’s affordable – for London – and gentrification is creeping into this most ethnically diverse area
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/d ... rth-london" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It won't be 'affordable' once he's had his hands on it.

It's suggested that Cameron wants to knock down Broadwater Farm.

It's mostly low rise.

They'll be delighted to see Hestletine turn up there- it really kicked off when Hestletine was in government before.

[rebeccariots2]

The Guardian view on starter homes: stop them now
Editorial
A policy supposed to spread house ownership more widely will end up bribing the rich with taxes on the poor
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... p-them-now" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... Under the policy, all new homes priced at £450,000 in London, or £250,000 in the rest of England, will be classed as affordable. Buyers under 40 will enjoy a 20% discount paid for by the taxpayer; after five years they will be able to sell on the properties at full price and pocket that 20%. Mr Cameron is betting a lot on this policy. It was the key pledge of his speech at the last party conference, and the story briefed by his troops ahead of the housing bill as MPs in the Commons consider it. The government is giving public land to be carpeted with starter homes and even commissioning some building – imagine the taunts of central planning that would be hurled at Jeremy Corbyn for even suggesting such ideas. Mr Osborne is bankrolling the policy with £2.3bn in direct grants, as part of an overall package worth nearly £20bn.

These are not “affordable’”homes. They are worth up to 17 times the national average wage. For the government claiming “there is no money left” then to find billions to hand over to developers to knock up such expensive homes is an outrage. At a stroke, ministers have redefined affordable so that in the capital it now means nearly half a million quid. As the Highbury Group of housing specialists points out, that will enable big building firms to ride roughshod over the needs of local communities and the demands of local councils, and just throw up the most expensive flats they can get away with.

This is terrible policy and stupid politics...

[citizenJA]

How many industrial actions during current Tory government's stewardship
does this make? How many professions?

It's the Mayor who's the player here. Johnson was supposed to negotiate a no strike deal with the unions. I don't think he's ever met them.

Lawyers, [protest marches] firemen, doctors. Not the professions you'd normally associate with strike action.

Exactly!

[rebeccariots2]

Cameron must have been reading the Guardian ...

Let’s move to Tottenham, north London
It’s affordable – for London – and gentrification is creeping into this most ethnically diverse area
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/d ... rth-london" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It won't be 'affordable' once he's had his hands on it.

It's suggested that Cameron wants to knock down Broadwater Farm.

It's mostly low rise.

They'll be delighted to see Hestletine turn up there- it really kicked off when Hestletine was in government before.

I know Haringey and Tottenham in particular pretty well. I worked there for quite a while (based in Tottenham Town Hall) late 80s and then again in the 90s and early 00s. I wrote last night that I think they might find demolishing Broadwater Farm ain't going to be as easy peasy as they seem to think.

[citizenJA]

Jeremy Hunt's 'dangerous' battle with doctors condemned by ex-minister
Norman Lamb hits out at government as BMA’s junior doctors prepare for 24-hour
industrial action at English hospitals

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016 ... ors-strike" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"As the British Medical Association (BMA) hit back at Jeremy Hunt for warning that patients
would be put at risk when junior doctors embark on their first industrial action since 1975,
Lamb called on ministers to rebuild trust with medical staff.

Junior doctors in England will provide only emergency cover for 24 hours from 8am on Tuesday,
significantly reducing operational resources. They will stage the same withdrawal of labour for
48 hours from 8am on 26 January and then stage one all-out strike between 8am and 5pm on
Wednesday 10 February.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Hunt said: “The withdrawal of elective care for the
first two strike periods will be something that causes enormous frustration to patients who have
their operations cancelled. Indeed, there will be people who need to have an operation for cancer
– it will be difficult to guarantee that every patient will be kept safe.”'

(my emphasis)

You could stop it from happening, JHunt, you're the one endangering the working conditions junior doctors
are offered by your government, it's you causing every single frustration and pain patients would endure
so you can have it all your way. Jeremy Hunt is causing this avoidable sorrow. Jeremy Hunt will be held
responsible.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Has McGovern changed her story here?

Unbeknownst to me, as I sat in John’s office waiting for him to arrive, he was touring the media studios telling anyone who would listen that Progress, the group of Labour activists I chair, is a ‘hard right’ organisation that follows a ‘conservative agenda’.

Didn't she say before it was because two "working class MPs" were sacked?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Actually to be fair she did say both.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 04026.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Tubby Isaacs]

More localism then.

Cameron doesn't like your estate- it gets knocked down.

[RogerOThornhill]

I see that there was a "PC gone mad" story in the DM and DT about a new GSCE History course on migration. I know not the rights and wrongs but...

GCSE pupils to be taught that the nation's earliest inhabitants were Africans who were in Britain before the English

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... glish.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

GCSE students are to be taught that some of our nation’s earliest inhabitants were Africans who arrived here long before the English.

The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the extraordinary rewriting of our island’s history – the politically correct work of a Marxist academic – will be offered to thousands of history students throughout England from September.

Its creators claim the course addresses the ‘white male-dominated’ view of history – but it has outraged some of Britain’s most eminent thinkers.

Oh?

V.S.Naipaul - author. Not a historian
Sir Roy Strong - Art historian, museum curator
Antony Beevor - military historian (20th century)
Professor Alan Smithers - education specialist i.e. not a historian

and inevitably, the one on speed-dial...

Campaign for Real Education chairman Chris McGovern

So not a single early British historian or specialist in the field of migration.

Smithers said:

Professor Alan Smithers, of Buckingham University, a specialist adviser to the Commons Education Committee, said: ‘This seems to be aimed more at indoctrination than education. It is dangerous because a cohesive society depends on an authentic shared view of history.’

Really? In which case historians might as well pack up and go home since you can't possibly change the accepted narrative can you?

[PorFavor]

More localism then.

Cameron doesn't like your estate- it gets knocked down.

I can't help thinking that it's more a case of Cameron having associates who do like your estate - it gets knocked down.

[ohsocynical]

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I found this on Twitter. Haven't investigated further, but as someone has posted about them....

[rebeccariots2]

The Matthew D'Ancona article on Hunt taking on the junior doctors and winning on behalf of patient safety (serious coughing fit) is going down a storm (of the shit variety) BTL.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... octors-nhs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[citizenJA]

The Matthew D'Ancona article on Hunt taking on the junior doctors and winning on behalf of patient safety (serious coughing fit) is going down a storm (of the shit variety) BTL.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... octors-nhs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I bet!

Hang on, hang on, the opening line of D'Ancona's piece linked above:

“I worry about everything,” the prime minister told the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday. “That’s my job.”

[rebeccariots2]

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 6m6 minutes ago
fuck trident
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Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 6m6 minutes ago
davey cameron is a pie

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 7m7 minutes ago
Here we... here we... here we fucking go!!!

Has someone hacked his twitter account - or is this a parody?

[RogerOThornhill]

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 6m6 minutes ago
fuck trident
\]

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 6m6 minutes ago
davey cameron is a pie

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 7m7 minutes ago
Here we... here we... here we fucking go!!!

Has someone hacked his twitter account - or is this a parody?

Parody.

This is the official one.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[rebeccariots2]

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 11m11 minutes ago
Straya cunts

It's appearing on the tweetminster labour feed ...... how has that happened?

[rebeccariots2]

Patrick Wintour ‏@patrickwintour 6m6 minutes ago
Patrick Wintour Retweeted
Jeremy Corbyn Twitter feed just got hacked by someone that was not very subtle. " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

[Tubby Isaacs]

GCSE students are to be taught that some of our nation’s earliest inhabitants were Africans who arrived here long before the English.

Which would seem to be the opinion of archaeologists.

What's the problem?

[ohsocynical]

GCSE students are to be taught that some of our nation’s earliest inhabitants were Africans who arrived here long before the English.

Which would seem to be the opinion of archaeologists.

What's the problem?

Considering we all came out of Africa originally. With a good dollop of Neanderthal too!

[HindleA]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... union-bill" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Labour expecting £6m loss in funding through trade union bill

[RogerOThornhill]

GCSE students are to be taught that some of our nation’s earliest inhabitants were Africans who arrived here long before the English.

Which would seem to be the opinion of archaeologists.

What's the problem?

Well, it's clearly wrong as the English have been here forever!

Talking of which...that piece I did on the curriculum

http://flythenest.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=650" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Play the video to where they start questions from the audience - 30' 40"

Guess who gets asked first?

[rebeccariots2]

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Paul Waugh Retweeted
Stefan Simanowitz ‏@StefSimanowitz 7m7 minutes ago
Cameron is a pie goes viral #cameronisapie

[citizenJA]

"For those unburdened by anti- Tory prejudice ..."

- Matthew d’Ancona

'Embrace your inner Tory - you will be healed.'