FlyTheNest

Morning

And Happy May Day to all

On the Cambridge Analytica Labour story I'm not sure I'm getting it.

It appears on the face of it to be Ian Warren who is the guilty party. Labour probably deserve some serious interrogation about data protection policies, but is the implication that Labour as a party deliberately passed data to Vote Leave? I don't see any evidence of that.

In other words, it seems to be more skulduggery around Vote Leave that is the story. And some questions as to why Labour thought it was a good idea to call on Warren's services in the first place.

The sun's even come out (although it's still very cold here).

Yes same here - bitterly cold for May!

This thread got me chuckling

https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/sta ... 6712242178

https://www.leighday.co.uk/News/News-20 ... Credit-sch


First High Court challenge of Universal Credit scheme to begin


Under the previous benefits system, both TP and AR were in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) and Enhanced Disability Premium (EDP), which were specifically aimed at meeting the additional care needs of severely disabled people living alone with no carer.

Look there is absolutely nothing fascistic about this totally targeted unintended consequence

Simplification

Bring back supposed complexity,it really fucking wasn't,the,worst of both World's removal of the bespoke specific,complexify the simple.

You are getting it. Leave.eu appears to have used Labour Party data on Labour voters to target them with personalised messaging in the referendum campaign, potentially with unregulated attack ads via social media. They potentially broke data protection laws because the data was collated in a way that could identify individuals. They also secretly worked in unison with other leave campaigns, potentially breaking spending limits.

Yes, how Leave.eu got the data is a worrying question. Were Labour sloppy with data they should have been protecting, did Ian Warren steal this data, or did Labour Leave, who could potentially have legitimate access to this data, give it to them? As you say, it's not clear, but none of it is very good for our democracy, is it?

The Information Commissioner is investigating, the Electoral Commission is investigating.....

52/48

This skulduggery could well have swung the referendum. It's just really depressing. Our country is run by a bunch of spivs.

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Thanks and yes

Good-afternoon, everyone

Ian Warren has an "interesting" record, it is fair to say.

Another defeat for the Government. Margaret Hodge introduced an amendment, to compel Overseas Territories to compile a list of ownership of registered companies. The government tabled 3 amendments themselves, to block the vote, but Bercow ruled they submitted them too late.

Alan Duncan has just announced the government will not vote against Hodge's amendment.

http://newsthump.com/2018/04/30/amber-r ... l-manager/

amber-rudd-named-as-new-arsenal-manager

Amber has problems with hitting targets and is ideal for the job

Excellent piece

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/b ... bled-under

how-welfare-trap-research-championed-toby-young-crumbled-under

Toby Young chatting s***, you say??

Re that vote fraud report - is this the day set aside for "no s*** Sherlock" stories??

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Another early night
goodnight, everyone
love,
cJA

Here's a bit more on the story mentioned, this morning, by PaulfromYorkshire -



They really have turned into Ukip (Paul Nuttall's brand), haven't they?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/01/tories-latest-campaign-tactic-blaming-labour-hepatitis

Meanwhile Sir Roger Gale is trending on that twitter....apparently his interview on C4 news didn't go that well...
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About a dozen Tory council candidates have been suspended now, compared to (I think) two Labour.

Just watched it on 4+.

It's difficult trying to use only words which don't contain the letters "c", and\or "a".




Edited - typo

funnily enough I have sticky key syndrome on the letter 'v'

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And to that we must add this, from the politics blog in the graun



So May is determined to keep two options, both of which have been rejected by the EU, on the table as our only two options, in order to avoid making a decision now that might damage the Conservative Party now.

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She really gets it Angela

@AngelaRayner

So dismayed as the local MP to hear that RBS branch on Stamford Street in Ashton Town Centre is to be closed at the end of July. We are seeing so many high street banks closing branches. My constituents helped bail the banks out in the banking crisis but now are being let down

The banks were happy to take taxpayers' money so that they could carry on coining it in- but are oblivious to the concept of providing any sort of civic service as their part of the deal.

Please forgive my stilted posts - trying to minimise the typing!

Wonder what this is about?

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Our government clearly know what they're doing. Oh yes. No worries about them being in charge of a simple little thing like Brexit.....

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/e ... sm?ocid=st

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Bullying by Bercow. Allegedly. But a nice pay off to keep his mouth shut tells its own story. Possibly.

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Seems to be a story about John Bercow allegedly bullying a member of his staff (which JB denies having done).

Whoops.

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Ok drunk Mr Sky has just got home from talking to a Yorkshire barmaid.

She was 20 years old and funny as fuck, she was hoping to go into marketing so I told her to watch "How to get ahead in advertising".

She'd never heard of Withnail and I.

It would seem our day is passed.