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You don't go out for months and, when you do venture forth, you choose Luton?JonnyT1234 wrote:Fear not. Something much more important has turned up:PorFavor wrote:Is Jeremy Corbyn sitting on the floor of a Virgin train the only "important" thing that's happening in the (Guardian) world of politics and UK news? And I don't even support the man.
"Live updates as Will and Kate visit Luton in first appearance for a month - Mirror Online"
I'll spare you an URL.
So who were those (of course) anonymous "Labour MPs" quoted recently, then?SpinningHugo wrote:AnatolyKasparov wrote:Never knew before that she was politically active.JonnyT1234 wrote:Bearing in mind the source is originally the Shit, former Corrie Street actor Tracy Brabin is purportedly standing for Jo Cox's seat in Batley and Spen.
Anyone know anything about it?
She does, of course, have the inestimable advantage of not being David Miliband - another Bitterite fantasy bites the dust
Nobody rational thinks David Miliband is returning. It is a piece of silliness that is not spread by Blairites. Quite the opposite.
Blairites. Ergo, not rational.AnatolyKasparov wrote:So who were those (of course) anonymous "Labour MPs" quoted recently, then?
AnatolyKasparov wrote:So who were those (of course) anonymous "Labour MPs" quoted recently, then?SpinningHugo wrote:AnatolyKasparov wrote: Never knew before that she was politically active.
She does, of course, have the inestimable advantage of not being David Miliband - another Bitterite fantasy bites the dust
Nobody rational thinks David Miliband is returning. It is a piece of silliness that is not spread by Blairites. Quite the opposite.
JonnyT1234 wrote:Urgent live update: She's wearing a dress everyone.
It's a piece of clothing typically but not exclusively worn by females. More riveting news later. She has shoes too.PorFavor wrote:JonnyT1234 wrote:Urgent live update: She's wearing a dress everyone.
You tease, you. Details?
I read that first bit in an Airplane-stylee voice with an "but that's not important right now" at the end.JonnyT1234 wrote:It's a piece of clothing typically but not exclusively worn by females. More riveting news later. She has shoes too.PorFavor wrote:JonnyT1234 wrote:Urgent live update: She's wearing a dress everyone.
You tease, you. Details?
Don't call me Shirley.RogerOThornhill wrote:I read that first bit in an Airplane-stylee voice with an "but that's not important right now" at the end.
JonnyT1234 wrote:Labour conference could be cancelled over security row, says Unite - the guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... says-unite" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Well, this is going to do wonders for people's perception of the Labour Party.
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Ed never wanted Iain McNicol as General Secretary, of course. Looking ever more likely that in this - as with so much else - he was right.
#NewsVirgin Trains faces investigation by data protection watchdog
My colleague Damien Gayle has more on Virgin potentially being in hot water with the information commissioner:
Virgin Trains faces an investigation by the data protection watchdog after releasing footage of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, looking for seats on its London to Newcastle service.
Officials at the information commissioner’s office are making inquiries over whether the train operator, owned by Sir Richard Branson, breached the Data Protection Act, which governs the release of such data.
Bailiffs.HindleA wrote:Which other organisations get such unfettered access to a person’s home?
Well it at least had the effect of cheering me up, albeit briefly.Jeremy Hunt weekend NHS death claims unhelpful, say civil servants (Guardian)
"unhelpful" in civil service-speak normally means "he was lying".PorFavor wrote:Well it at least had the effect of cheering me up, albeit briefly.Jeremy Hunt weekend NHS death claims unhelpful, say civil servants (Guardian)
The first 5 words?PorFavor wrote:Well it at least had the effect of cheering me up, albeit briefly.Jeremy Hunt weekend NHS death claims unhelpful, say civil servants (Guardian)
I was about to say, 'good job it isn't being held in a brewery' but now I'm not so sure.howsillyofme1 wrote:Labour conference oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
Affirmative.JonnyT1234 wrote:The first 5 words?PorFavor wrote:Well it at least had the effect of cheering me up, albeit briefly.Jeremy Hunt weekend NHS death claims unhelpful, say civil servants (Guardian)
Thanks for the link. Interesting read.HindleA wrote:https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016 ... nly+macro)
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Why Corbyn’s Brexit campaign matters
The problem I have with this is twofold. Firstly, Osborne and Cameron had hammed it up in the run up to the Scottish referendum. When it came to the EU referendum, there was a pinch of salt taken with whatever they uttered. Fallon joined in until it was portrayed as likely to immediately cause WWIII.HindleA wrote:https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016 ... nly+macro)
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It's also based on a completely bogus premise. Corbyn's team didn't rubbish the economic case for Remain, they rubbished the absurdly and completely overblown way in which Osborne presented it. Because that was what was damaging the Remain campaign. Not the economics.StephenDolan wrote:The problem I have with this is twofold.HindleA wrote:https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016 ... tters.html
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Why Corbyn’s Brexit campaign matters
Good. Shame he had to be forced to resign rather than trying to hang on though.Education secretary moved quickly after David Hoare's claims that the island was a poor, white, 'ghetto'
Justine Greening called in David Hoare to ask him to resign from his position as the chair of Ofsted, TES understands.
The education secretary had just returned from holiday and wanted to speak to Mr Hoare in person to let him know that she did not think he could carry on in his role at the inspectorate.
A source close to Ms Greening said: “The secretary of state requested his resignation. She believed that it was in the best interests of Ofsted and that it would help maintain the confidence of the education and care sectors."
HindleA wrote:https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016 ... nly+macro)
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Why Corbyn’s Brexit campaign matters
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Anyway, I have voted - and the opposite way to Paul upthread. My more general analysis of things, though, chimes quite a lot with his.
Though he didn't mention one rather important individual in getting us to where we are today - H Harman
And who, in all honesty, that travels relatively regularly on any train service in the UK has not found themselves or other fellow passengers in exactly the same situation as Corbyn? It's happened to me on many different occasions on many different services. Right across the country, not just in London.FridayWaits
24 August 2016 2:29pm
So in short Virgin have -
a. Potentially broken data protection law
b. Shone a huge light on their shoddy service
c. Aggravated hundreds of thousands of very vocal Corbyn supporters that by demographic tend to be very active on social media.
Someone in their PR department really is doing a bang up job.
howsillyofme1 wrote:HindleA wrote:https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016 ... nly+macro)
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Why Corbyn’s Brexit campaign matters
Hmm difficult to argue against the economic argument made in the article - what there is of it - but not so sure about the political message he is taking out of it, and looking at the political side you have to look at who he supports in the election.
His political viewpoint, to be honest, is no more relevant than mine or anyone else on here
There are a couple of things - yes Corbyn downplayed some of the economic effects but did this at all influence the result? I am not sure the economic argument did anything to convert the 'undecided' - in fact the way it was delivered may have turned people off - from some polling I have seen suggests that voters voted out despite the economic impact
Whether he could or should have said things differently is a matter for debate - perhaps he could have been more clear about the chronic economic impact - but I am not at all convinced it had any material effect at all on the vote - there is no evidence to base this assertion on
The problem Wren-Lewis has as well is that he seems to fully back Osborne's apolcalyptic assertion of economic impact....the problem is the voters voted out and 2 months later Armageddon has not yet come to pass......whatever happened to the desperately needed emergency budget after an out vote?
The economic effect will be real but will be chronic and at the moment the overplaying of the hand as to the acute effects in the lag measures makes any attempt to pull back on the vote very problematic
I personally found the Armageddon scenarios off-putting and it was interesting none of my friends who voted Leave ever showed any interest - it was all about immigration and sovereignty to them (anecdote alert!).
As mentioned above the Yes campaign expected a repeat of Scotland and it just didn't work out that
As before I will repeat - the referendum was lost due to the Tories and their CBE'd and beknighted failures in the Remain campaign!
The criticism of Corbyn is fine, but the extrapolation to the impact is very weak in my view
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I mean, how much use would going on about that have been anyway, if it's a technicality (even if an important one)?The EAC certainly did not say that Corbyn should discount economists claims about economic costs, or that the likely exchange rate depreciation should not be mentioned. Some of us may have said that talk of some kind of financial crisis similar to 2008 was going over the top, but that is completely different. (A substantial depreciation is not a financial crisis.)
Ah Robert Crumb - I always preferred Gilert Shelton or Dave Sheridan for comic books, but Crumb's posters always hit the spot.JonnyT1234 wrote:32 degrees and climbing... Bloody hell.
One comment (at time of posting}Westminster sources told The Independent civil servants are looking to see if there is any loophole, clause or issue in contracts yet to be signed that allow the Government to pull back without huge loss and while also saving face.
Ministers are acutely aware of the potential damage a withdrawal could do to relations with China, which is committed to pouring billions of pounds into the controversial project.
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" . . . civil servants are looking to see if there is any loophole, clause or issue in contracts yet to be signed . . ."
Err, just don't sign them. That'll give you all the get-out clauses you need.
The boldest option on the table — and that favored by the hardliners — is for an immediate snap Brexit, dubbed “unilateral continuity” by Tory MPs. Under this proposal the U.K. simply informs Brussels that it has left the EU and does not impose trade tariffs unless the rest of the EU does so first.
The radical plan, which veteran Euroskeptics believe is being studied seriously in Whitehall, would see May trigger Article 50 and then pass an act of parliament to annul the 1972 European Communities Act, unilaterally taking the U.K. out of the EU.
Brussels insiders dismiss the plan, insisting that it is illegal and would see the EU taking Britain to court.
and the bit that really is totally unsurprising...A local authority has taken responsibility for dealing with the aftermath of a fire, which destroyed part of an academy in its area, despite the school now being operated by an academy trust.
Selsey academy in Sussex was victim to a major fire on Sunday which saw up to 100 firefighters tackle the blaze ahead of the new academic year in just two weeks.
West Sussex county council has a statutory duty to provide emergency assistance to safeguard children, however it is unclear if the authority must cover the cost of new accommodation or buses for students to attend another school while the site is rebuilt.
Shame the council leader didn't tell Gibb and Co to fuck right off with that idea.The Department for Education confirmed to Schools Week that it expects councils to handle emergencies of this kind, irrespective of its push to eradicate local authority involvement in schools through its academies expansion.