Tuesday 1st March 2016

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 5:34 pm

Thanks for that Gilsey, good news indeed.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 6:15 pm

Pauline Lane ‏@Antonineone1 4 mins4 minutes ago

Tuned in to watch @tombrady on ITV News
Can only get ITV from Jersey
Boats with refugees being turned back
Anything on BBC or Sky?

Is this right? Terrifying if it is with the wind getting up.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 6:26 pm

'boat of migrants believed to be bound for Channel Islands stopped'
http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2016-03 ... s-stopped/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 6:44 pm

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NHS Leaders in "The Thick Of It"

Vordy · Post by **Vordy** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:04 pm

Evening All,

A interesting article here.

Fascism and the Establishment
Britain: For King and Country

http://www.struggle.ws/freeearth/fe1_britain.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:10 pm

Kisses for that gilsey.

Who would there have been to actually do anything on behalf of wildlife and against wildlife crime if they had been scrapped - given the RSPCA and other active charities are increasingly being pushed and pressurised towards being passive?

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:11 pm

'Festering arsepipe' is going to be added to my essential political vocabulary.

Thank you for that Robert Snozers.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:15 pm

A Conservative Cabinet minister has been accused of using “smears and insinuation” to attack Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London on account of his Muslim faith.

Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, claimed that Mr Khan had dealt with “extremists” – despite the Labour MP having in fact dedicated years to fighting radicalisation...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 05686.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Fallon wheels himself out to be chief smear-monger again. He's repellent. Rent a slur.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:38 pm

: Owen Smith Gets It.jpg (65.05 KiB) Viewed 6734 times

Paul Rutherford ‏@PaulRutherford8 1h1 hour ago
Was good to have @OwenSmith_MP take the time to show support & buy us a coffee after our day in #SupremeCourt yest.

Thank you to everyone around that table.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:43 pm

Vincent Moss ‏@vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor

He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:48 pm

Anna Turley MPVerified account
‏@annaturley
Even local Tories slam Osborne's 2% levy for social care: 'we believe central government should pay for social care' http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/143 ... um=twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 7:56 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:
Vincent Moss ‏@vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.

If memory serves (and it does sometimes) it's quite in order for him to provide the postal vote application form but I'm fairly sure the bit about having the completed form sent back to him (for onward transmission, of course!) isn't. And if it isn't, it should be.

Edited

Does that make sense (my post)?

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:04 pm

PorFavor wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:
Vincent Moss ‏@vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.
If memory serves (and it does sometimes) it's quite in order for him to provide the postal vote application form but I'm fairly sure the bit about having the completed form sent back to him (for onward transmission, of course!) isn't. And if it isn't, it should be.

Edited

Does that make sense (my post)?

Yes - that sums up what I - in my limited experience - thought I knew about postal vote protocols. I was told it was a no no for any political party rep to handle / process someone's postal vote.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:08 pm

CPS Think Tank ‏@CPSThinkTank 7m7 minutes ago
Spare room subsidy reform has improved social housing allocation - @danielmCPS http://bit.ly/1nb5IOZ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Read it just so you know what the 'other side' thinks their argument is - and just how bare their cupboard is. That's what I did.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:14 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:
CPS Think Tank ‏@CPSThinkTank 7m7 minutes ago
Spare room subsidy reform has improved social housing allocation - @danielmCPS http://bit.ly/1nb5IOZ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Read it just so you know what the 'other side' thinks their argument is - and just how bare their cupboard is. That's what I did.

I know what I'd suggest to him . . . .

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:25 pm

PorFavor wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:
Vincent Moss ‏@vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.
If memory serves (and it does sometimes) it's quite in order for him to provide the postal vote application form but I'm fairly sure the bit about having the completed form sent back to him (for onward transmission, of course!) isn't. And if it isn't, it should be.

Edited

Does that make sense (my post)?

Hah. That's open to all sorts of fiddles...

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:25 pm

Equalities watchdog criticises planned cuts to work support allowance
Equalities and Human Rights Commission says cutting £30 a week from ESA benefits will disproportionately hit disabled people
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -allowance" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHCR) says the proposed cuts will disproportionately affect disabled people, widen inequalities, and undermine the UK’s human rights obligations.

Separately, a scathing letter by the head of the EHCR warns that official assessments of the cut’s impact on disabled people “contain very little in the way of evidence” and “limited analysis” of the consequences for claimants...

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:40 pm

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:44 pm

HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x

How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.

Monsieur HindleA with these pork pies you are spoiling us. Yum, yum.

Post by **refitman** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:48 pm

HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x

How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.

24%. I was let down my my love of rugby and whisky, I think.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 8:56 pm

HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x

How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.

17% - probably because I went to a Technical High. Passed my 11+ as I was clever in them days.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:00 pm

I'M 27% posh. Let down by inability to be able to answer 'all of them' to several questions. Very itinerant and chaotic upbringing.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:00 pm

Snobs

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:43 pm

I got 29%. I think that was because I went to boarding school (abroad - armed forces), named tennis as my favourite sport (mild interest!) and have been to a horse track once (the Derby was on my birthday one year so my mother took us on a coach trip to the Derby - mainly as a present for herself!)

Oh - and the Home Counties question - Dagenham? Really?

Edited to add

Oh - and Grammar School before abroad (and for a very short time on return) and after Dagenham.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:44 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:I'M 27% posh. Let down by inability to be able to answer 'all of them' to several questions. Very itinerant and chaotic upbringing.

Yes, me too.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:50 pm

Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:51 pm

HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x

How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.

14%

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:52 pm

The Stones are playing Cuba

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:54 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x

How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
14%

The Home Counties my beauties. And passed my eleven plus.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:57 pm

I passed my eleven plus,took it when I was ten,it didn't make any difference as I then went to Scotland and an "extra" year before Secondary School it was called an Academy,funnilly enough through strictly comprehensive.

frightful_oik · Post by **frightful_oik** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 9:58 pm

15% posh. I blame it on going to a grammar school and going to opera. Useless quiz asks you what type of school you went to and then says you probably went to the local comp.

mbc1955 · Post by **mbc1955** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:01 pm

14%. But I did go to a Grammar School, albeit one in Manchester.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:15 pm

I was schooled by with a strap right across my back,but it's all right now.

Eric_WLothian · Post by **Eric_WLothian** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:17 pm

HindleA wrote:Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.

Well, a cloth cap goes awfully well with the green wellies and a shotgun doncha know.

Bunch of f*****g plebs. Me? 32%.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:19 pm

The Chronicle ‏@EveningChron 8m8 minutes ago
Newcastle @LibDems pledge to invest millions in roads and cut council tax http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... t-10972691" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Do I need to say anything?

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:20 pm

Eric_WLothian wrote:
HindleA wrote:Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.
Well, a cloth cap goes awfully well with the green wellies and a shotgun doncha know.

Bunch of f*****g plebs. Me? 32%.

I feel like we're in an episode of Monty Python.

Eric_WLothian · Post by **Eric_WLothian** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:24 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:
Eric_WLothian wrote:
HindleA wrote:Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.
Well, a cloth cap goes awfully well with the green wellies and a shotgun doncha know.

Bunch of f*****g plebs. Me? 32%.
I feel like we're in an episode of Monty Python.

...but in reverse?

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:39 pm

I see The Times is allocating blame fairly on the shoulders of the person responsible for this problem.

203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.

All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:46 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:I see The Times is allocating blame fairly on the shoulders of the person responsible for this problem.

203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.

All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!

I used profanity after reading what the Times has written.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 10:50 pm

citizenJA wrote:
RogerOThornhill wrote:I see The Times is allocating blame fairly on the shoulders of the person responsible for this problem.

203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.

All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!

I used profanity after reading what the Times has written.

Can't blame Gove - that wouldn't do at all!

martinson · Post by **martinson** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:15 pm

21%
Grammar school - Christian Brothers (ouch!)
Wagamamas
Skiing, horse racing and opera

I'll have to settle for that. Not proud of it though, 'me mum and dad wouldn't be pleased'.

Good night everyone see you tomorra.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:40 pm

I got an error message.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:40 pm

goodnight, everyone
love,
cJA

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:46 pm

Former Conservative shadow minister crashed car after getting drunk on Prosecco while on 'fasting diet'
David Ruffley, 53, was found slumped over the wheel of his black Volkswagen Golf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -diet.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... Ruffley, former MP for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, told police he thought he could drive on four glasses of the Italian white wine and added: "I do it regularly". ...

Ruffley, once a shadow policing minister, stood down from his Parliamentary seat after being cautioned for assaulting a former girlfriend in 2014.

He also notoriously used MP expenses in 2009 to purchase a £1,774 sofa and £2,175 television. ...

Yvette Kresner, representing Ruffley, told the court the former MP was currently undergoing treatment for depression linked to his alcohol use.

She said: "He has sought out help himself, and is paying privately for the treatment.

"This is a man of 53 years of age who is of good character.

"He has let himself down and is thoroughly ashamed.'

Ms Kresner argued that he should be fined rather than given a community order because "Giving something back to the community is what he does on a daily basis". ...

Is it just me ... or does his 'defence' somewhat lack consistency?

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:46 pm

Night citizen.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:57 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:
Former Conservative shadow minister crashed car after getting drunk on Prosecco while on 'fasting diet'
David Ruffley, 53, was found slumped over the wheel of his black Volkswagen Golf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -diet.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... Ruffley, former MP for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, told police he thought he could drive on four glasses of the Italian white wine and added: "I do it regularly". ...

Ruffley, once a shadow policing minister, stood down from his Parliamentary seat after being cautioned for assaulting a former girlfriend in 2014.

He also notoriously used MP expenses in 2009 to purchase a £1,774 sofa and £2,175 television. ...

Yvette Kresner, representing Ruffley, told the court the former MP was currently undergoing treatment for depression linked to his alcohol use.

She said: "He has sought out help himself, and is paying privately for the treatment.

"This is a man of 53 years of age who is of good character.

"He has let himself down and is thoroughly ashamed.'

Ms Kresner argued that he should be fined rather than given a community order because "Giving something back to the community is what he does on a daily basis". ...
Is it just me ... or does his 'defence' somewhat lack consistency?

Eh?

He's an MP and gets paid a decent salary!

"Giving something back to the community" implies that you're volunteering - like being a school governor or helping out at the local old people's home.

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Wed 02 Mar, 2016 12:18 am

44%, despite the comprehensive school education. Maybe the whole horse riding thing is useful for something. Happy to report never been hunting in my life and never will, unless it becomes open season on Tory Eurosceptic MPs.

Big night in North America, could see Clinton effectively nominated, if Trump has a good night (taking Florida and Texas, the latter unlikely) the GOP will implode.

Edited to add

Mind you Trump will do well to win Florida tonight, in fact he might actually be cheating if he does that.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 02 Mar, 2016 12:25 am

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016 ... are_btn_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Changes to benefit system will halt income growth for poorest, says report
Planned cuts to welfare bill will also push thousands of children back into poverty, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 02 Mar, 2016 12:40 am

I am following via this:-

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live ... l-election" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

seeingclearly · Post by **seeingclearly** » Wed 02 Mar, 2016 1:54 am

I am talking rubbish. Meds urgently needed. 24% posh, had to choose a sport, I hate em all, boarding school cured me of them. Put tennis, and heigh ho it makes one posh. Along with the evening dinner, I can't help it if we are nocturnal. Co-ed school, about half on scholarship of some kind or another. Wasn't too bad for the girls.