Thursday 1st March 2018
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The quality of critique of Tusk's intervention from the Hard Brexit bunch seems to be marginally less constructive than 'Up Yours Delors'
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Yes - and it doesn't even rhyme!PaulfromYorkshire wrote:The quality of critique of Tusk's intervention from the Hard Brexit bunch seems to be marginally less constructive than 'Up Yours Delors'
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BrilliantPorFavor wrote:Yes - and it doesn't even rhyme!PaulfromYorkshire wrote:The quality of critique of Tusk's intervention from the Hard Brexit bunch seems to be marginally less constructive than 'Up Yours Delors'
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No periods of intermittent sunshine today, just blizzard conditions for several hours now
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Hardly any snow today (so far) but as cold as I can ever recall it being. For once, that familiar media cliche "Arctic conditions" is fully justified.
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The BBC says Nigel Farage’s Question Time appearance will be unaffected by the weather, as he travels with the studio equipment.
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The BBC says Nigel Farage’s Question Time appearance will be unaffected by the weather, as he travels with the studio equipment.
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"NHS staff have been commended for going the extra mile to ensure they can treat patients, with some sleeping at hospitals overnight. The BBC reported that one cancer surgeon walked for two hours and 50 minutes to operate on a patient.
NHS Million called for people to recognise the efforts made by staff who worked double and triple shifts, slept in hospitals overnight and walked for hours to get to work."
NHS Million called for people to recognise the efforts made by staff who worked double and triple shifts, slept in hospitals overnight and walked for hours to get to work."
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Linked to in The Spectator from the graun live blog
Given that there is a pre-rejection of anything of than a binding commitment to align in all areas we want agreements in (in other words, all areas) I'm not sure this should be the main story here.The Cabinet met earlier today to discuss Theresa May’s big speech on Brexit tomorrow. I understand that in a lengthy meeting most ministers applauded the speech. But there is one particular area of controversy, I hear. Both David Davis and Boris Johnson pushed back against the idea that the UK should make a ‘binding commitment’ to align with EU rules and regulations in certain sectors
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Thanks for "Tusk" - I've been itching to link to that all day!
Thanks for "Tusk" - I've been itching to link to that all day!
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Council tax rises to boost bills by £81 in England
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And I expect the snow is keeping all them immigrants off the Great British highways and byways (which have been treated with red, white, and blue grit to facilitate his journey).gilsey wrote:Have I Got News For You
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I'm wearing nearly everything I typically wear outside during winter inside the house
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the road clearing crews have some non-UK citizens staffing operationsPorFavor wrote:And I expect the snow is keeping all them immigrants off the Great British highways and byways (which have been treated with red, white, and blue grit to facilitate his journey).gilsey wrote:Have I Got News For You
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Tories got a small majority with this manifesto. A manifesto promise. Some promises are more important than other promises, I guess."We will complete the electoral register, by working to include more of the five million Britons who live abroad.
We will introduce votes for life, scrapping the rule that bars British citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years from voting."
- Tory Manifesto 2015
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Actually, forget that, they're Tories, they'll do whatever they want.
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Oops.
The Sun’s ‘Brexit bargains’ retweeted by Jacob Rees-Mogg has been deleted because it’s nonsense
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Even if you didn't understand the intricacies of tariffs the basic glaring error in the gross v net calculation could be picked up by a kid at KS2 or younger.
The Sun’s ‘Brexit bargains’ retweeted by Jacob Rees-Mogg has been deleted because it’s nonsense
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Even if you didn't understand the intricacies of tariffs the basic glaring error in the gross v net calculation could be picked up by a kid at KS2 or younger.
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In some places including suspected cancers . WTF ?
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In some places including suspected cancers . WTF ?
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Crace -- mar/01/boris-blusters-his-way-around-his-40m-garden-bridge-fiasco
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I almost feel sorry for Theresa May
She's got to give another of these impossible speeches about sunlit uplands while people are literally freezing to death around the country.
I said I almost feel sorry, but of course it's largely her fault. The White Witch presiding over her very own Narnia.
She's got to give another of these impossible speeches about sunlit uplands while people are literally freezing to death around the country.
I said I almost feel sorry, but of course it's largely her fault. The White Witch presiding over her very own Narnia.
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"Blusters" could almost be his surname now.frog222 wrote:Crace -- mar/01/boris-blusters-his-way-around-his-40m-garden-bridge-fiasco
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I've had a rather pleasant day today and see no reason to ruin it by indulging a proto-sentient carbuncle like Farage with the attention he so obviously craves so no Question Time for me this evening.
Well maybe a wee glance. Who knows, maybe he's had the guts to face an educated hostile audience?
Oh no wait, it's in Blackpool.
Well maybe a wee glance. Who knows, maybe he's had the guts to face an educated hostile audience?
Oh no wait, it's in Blackpool.
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Oh. Remind me how Farage is on QT again?
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BREAKING: UKIP has lost control of its only council - Thanet District Council. It will now be run by a Conservative minority administration.
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Goodnight, PorFavorPorFavor wrote:Night night.
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Theresa May urges Britain to ‘come back together’
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Goodnight, everyone
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Wow. What a difference an editor makes. The Graun has just washed its hands of Leveson and declares the Tories dropping Part 2 "A good thing".
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Ok couldn't help myself, why is a BBC presenter who I'd never heard of before seeing him presenting the Winter Olympics in the small hours of the morning a guest on a political panel programme?
Oh wait, apparently he was also a Blue Peter presenter.
So that makes sense now.
Oh wait, apparently he was also a Blue Peter presenter.
So that makes sense now.
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That wasn't as bad as I expected.
Let me first admit I really do think Blackpool is a shithole and every person I have ever known who came from Blackpool has been and absolute twat.
Just thought I'd get that out the way.
More interestingly Farage didn't have his own way at all despite Blackpool voting 70% leave. In fact the applause for him amongst his supporters was pretty muted. He blathered on about 'the will of the people' until a question came up about Blackpool council voting against fracking then being overruled by Westminister. Farage supports fracking of course so ended up supporting an anti democratic position and ended up being booed by the audience for being an obvious hypocrite.
To be honest I thought they'd be sacrificing donkeys to him as the brexit god so this came as a pleasant surprise.
As for the rest I've already mentioned the useless BBC presenter who was about 12, and how can I not mention the lovely Michelle Dewberry, a working class lass from Hull who hasn't got where she is today because she's a hot woman from reality TV. And then we're left with Ken Clarke and Owen Smith. They would be the actual politicians. And they both expressed horror at the idea of brexit.
Let me first admit I really do think Blackpool is a shithole and every person I have ever known who came from Blackpool has been and absolute twat.
Just thought I'd get that out the way.
More interestingly Farage didn't have his own way at all despite Blackpool voting 70% leave. In fact the applause for him amongst his supporters was pretty muted. He blathered on about 'the will of the people' until a question came up about Blackpool council voting against fracking then being overruled by Westminister. Farage supports fracking of course so ended up supporting an anti democratic position and ended up being booed by the audience for being an obvious hypocrite.
To be honest I thought they'd be sacrificing donkeys to him as the brexit god so this came as a pleasant surprise.
As for the rest I've already mentioned the useless BBC presenter who was about 12, and how can I not mention the lovely Michelle Dewberry, a working class lass from Hull who hasn't got where she is today because she's a hot woman from reality TV. And then we're left with Ken Clarke and Owen Smith. They would be the actual politicians. And they both expressed horror at the idea of brexit.
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It would appear that it's going to be another pile of nonsense about nothing. Who'd of thought?PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I almost feel sorry for Theresa May
She's got to give another of these impossible speeches about sunlit uplands while people are literally freezing to death around the country.
I said I almost feel sorry, but of course it's largely her fault. The White Witch presiding over her very own Narnia.
You are the person insisting on dividing us further by pandering to your extremes. You are the person setting our red lines that will force us to have a more distant relationship with our neighbours.“We must bring our country back together, taking into account the views of everyone who cares about this issue, from both sides of the debate”, she will say, addressing her own divided party, as well as the public. She will insist that the EU referendum result in 2016 was “not a vote for a distant relationship with our neighbours”.
Tired of arguing with her party and cabinet she now seems to be arguing with herself.
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Mmm...hmm.
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“We must bring our country back together, taking into account the views of everyone who cares about this issue, from both sides of the debate"
...So I propose that on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays we will be a customs union & single market, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays we will be in an independent Sovereign state, Sundays will be as ever a day for rest, Unicorn petting, and simpering on the Andrew Marr show.