Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Re: Wednesday 28th January 2015
Last word on this (promise), as there is a serious point behind it all, and Peter Griffin has done a better job than most of nailing it:
http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideg ... t-46782222" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Can this be the "FTN Pick" please?
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Can this be the "FTN Pick" please?
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https://tompride.wordpress.com/2015/01/ ... nemployed/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Daily Mail has been caught red-handed using an actor in its ongoing mission to demonise benefit claimants.
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With the odd notable exception. If the Mirror has started writing moving pieces like this I may have to check it out more often.ohsocynical wrote:rebeccariots2 wrote:Ian Lucas retweeted
Michael Savage @michaelsavage 14m14 minutes ago
In tomorrow's Times - Lord Kinnock warns Ed Miliband will receive worse treatment in this election campaign than he received in 1992.
I fear he's right.
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Poll signals MP Doyle will retain local seat
http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news ... ocal-seat/
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He knows.rebeccariots2 wrote:Ian Lucas retweeted
Michael Savage @michaelsavage 14m14 minutes ago
In tomorrow's Times - Lord Kinnock warns Ed Miliband will receive worse treatment in this election campaign than he received in 1992.
Miliband knows.
I take consolation in the fact Ed Miliband has prepared himself, the party for the worst.
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Yep.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:With the odd notable exception. If the Mirror has started writing moving pieces like this I may have to check it out more often.ohsocynical wrote:rebeccariots2 wrote:
I fear he's right.
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I've just read that. It is, as you say, very moving. Perhaps the constant hints and digs at Ed's jewish heritage aren't going to be the bombshells that the right wing press - and their chosen parties - have hoped in this year when the Holocaust features so much. They might actually remind people of the importance of the qualities of resilience and courage.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:With the odd notable exception. If the Mirror has started writing moving pieces like this I may have to check it out more often.ohsocynical wrote:rebeccariots2 wrote:
I fear he's right.
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Oi, lay off the insults to us southerners chaps !he learned to be a tweedy southerner
I may be a North of Scotland gal at birth but still take insults to my choice of home seriously !
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Earthquake in Winchester yesterday and another tonight in Leicester.
Just as well fracking has been made subject to a near impossible list of demands !
Just as well fracking has been made subject to a near impossible list of demands !
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Really? What's going on seismically? I'm unfamiliar with the geology of the area. Is that normal? I'll look it up.pk1 wrote:Earthquake in Winchester yesterday and another tonight in Leicester.
Just as well fracking has been made subject to a near impossible list of demands !
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FFS. How many more of these are there going to be? It's like an infestation of cockroaches ... open a cupboard door and they keep on coming.
Editing to add:UKIP candidate shares race hate article on Facebook branding mixed-race couples a ''plague''
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk ... ar_twitter
Farage must have a special swivel unit in his neck he's doing so many 360 degree turns ... utterly shameless.Mr Farage dismissed them as jokey remarks.
Tonight a UKIP spokesman said: “UKIP is non-racist, non-sectarian. Mark Walker will not be selected as we believe his comments show he is unsuitable.”
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I have never knowingly worn tweed in my life!
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Very cheeky.Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick · 2h 2 hours ago
Lord Ashcroft: "We are writing the obit - er biography - of Cameron."
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Re: Wednesday 28th January 2015
Complete with SNP "£30bn cuts" liar.rebeccariots2 wrote:Poll signals MP Doyle will retain local seat
http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news ... ocal-seat/
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Evening all!rebeccariots2 wrote:I've just read that. It is, as you say, very moving. Perhaps the constant hints and digs at Ed's jewish heritage aren't going to be the bombshells that the right wing press - and their chosen parties - have hoped in this year when the Holocaust features so much. They might actually remind people of the importance of the qualities of resilience and courage.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:With the odd notable exception. If the Mirror has started writing moving pieces like this I may have to check it out more often.ohsocynical wrote:
I fear he's right.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ed ... ar_twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Am I being overly cynical, and I'm quite prepared to accept that I am, to think that Callme's decision not to go to Auschwitz on the actual anniversary of the liberation might be viewed as deliberate in the context of the apparent Lynton bacon/weird looking/dog whistle campaign?
*edit* Had a moments word blindness, so checked up "overly" on google. Amazing what google auto-suggested. I'll never cease to be amazed/puzzled by people. And I still have a funny feeling about "overly". Doesn't seem right. Hey-ho.
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Re: Wednesday 28th January 2015
Hurrah! Let's hope there's something he can get his teeth intorebeccariots2 wrote:Newsnight might actually be worth watching tonight ... or tomorrow ... which is it?
James O'Brien @mrjamesob · 8h 8 hours ago
I'm presenting Newsnight again tomorrow. Unleash the trolls!
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Re: Wednesday 28th January 2015
Earthquakes around the British Isles in the last 50 days
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He makes lots of excellent points. Shame the Graun doesn't have many journalists who are as coherent and persuasive.NonOxCol wrote:Last word on this (promise), as there is a serious point behind it all, and Peter Griffin has done a better job than most of nailing it:
http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideg ... t-46782222" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Can this be the "FTN Pick" please?
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Re: Wednesday 28th January 2015
Right at my new home The Indy this little gem has appeared.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 06278.html
You could not make this shit up.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 06278.html
You could not make this shit up.
Release the Guardvarks.
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Lib Dem Voice BTL comments on their Open Doors PPB ....
Open Doors: All 3 versions of the first Lib Dem broadcast of the year
http://www.libdemvoice.org/open-doors-a ... l#comments
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and who thought this was a good idea ? 60 seconds of nothing happening followed by Nick Clegg. Do we have some special private polling that says that if only people see 60 seconds or Nick Clegg they will vote Lib Dem ? Because all the sensible advice has been promote other people and keep him off the telly, but, like a moth to a light bulb be thinks if he can say one more think people will forget the bad stuff. In his own words, he’s like an ex leaving messages on your phone asking for one more chance...
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Re: Wednesday 28th January 2015
...and in the meantime:Tubby Isaacs wrote:Complete with SNP "£30bn cuts" liar.rebeccariots2 wrote:Poll signals MP Doyle will retain local seat
http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news ... ocal-seat/
Maybe people are re-assessing the "argument" for independence ...and, hopefully, the single-issue party peddling it.Sales of Scotland’s first pro-independence daily paper falls to 15,000 – a quarter that of launch edition – but publishing group remains committed to investing in the title
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/j ... ion-fillip
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From UK Polling Report:
Is this true?MRNAMELESS
A new candidate declared in Sheffield Hallam. Mr Steve Clegg is standing for the English Democrats. That’s kind of him.
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http://www.parliament.uk/business/commi ... people-ev/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Todays select committee on ESA/PIP Mark Harper was one of the witnesses, fudging a lot on whether they should have stuck with DLA instead of PIP. Has he been getting coaching from IDS?
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no offence intended, obvs, I just hate the "everything's ok here, what's meant to be wrong?" I've perceived in visits to thatSouth.pk1 wrote:Oi, lay off the insults to us southerners chaps !he learned to be a tweedy southerner
I may be a North of Scotland gal at birth but still take insults to my choice of home seriously !
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#AskGalloway: Gorgeous George gets hijacked
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More advertising coming soon, apparently.Eric_WLothian wrote:...and in the meantime:Tubby Isaacs wrote:Complete with SNP "£30bn cuts" liar.rebeccariots2 wrote:
Maybe people are re-assessing the "argument" for independence ...and, hopefully, the single-issue party peddling it.Sales of Scotland’s first pro-independence daily paper falls to 15,000 – a quarter that of launch edition – but publishing group remains committed to investing in the title
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/j ... ion-fillip
Not with those sales figures.
I see there's likely money for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link, which the SNP cancelled and tried to sell route of.
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Remember how Ed M was vilified for getting the name of the Lab candidate wrong in (?)Winchester ?
Bet that smug petercs from the Graun won't haev anything to say this time !
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... -nonsense/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bet that smug petercs from the Graun won't haev anything to say this time !
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They did more than 'try to sell' - they sold land back to its original owner at an almost £800,000 cost to the taxpayer. (By pure coincidence, the owner was a 'yes' supporter ... allegedly).Tubby Isaacs wrote:More advertising coming soon, apparently.Eric_WLothian wrote:...and in the meantime:Tubby Isaacs wrote: Complete with SNP "£30bn cuts" liar.
Maybe people are re-assessing the "argument" for independence ...and, hopefully, the single-issue party peddling it.Sales of Scotland’s first pro-independence daily paper falls to 15,000 – a quarter that of launch edition – but publishing group remains committed to investing in the title
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/j ... ion-fillip
Not with those sales figures.
I see there's likely money for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link, which the SNP cancelled and tried to sell route of.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/ ... e.22139481
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If they didn't think he could win they wouldn't be doing it...weak Tory leaders need a helping hand from the tame media.ohsocynical wrote:rebeccariots2 wrote:Ian Lucas retweeted
Michael Savage @michaelsavage 14m14 minutes ago
In tomorrow's Times - Lord Kinnock warns Ed Miliband will receive worse treatment in this election campaign than he received in 1992.
I fear he's right.
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Christ.Eric_WLothian wrote:They did more than 'try to sell' - they sold land back to its original owner at an almost £800,000 cost to the taxpayer. (By pure coincidence, the owner was a 'yes' supporter ... allegedly).Tubby Isaacs wrote:More advertising coming soon, apparently.Eric_WLothian wrote: ...and in the meantime:
Maybe people are re-assessing the "argument" for independence ...and, hopefully, the single-issue party peddling it.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/j ... ion-fillip
Not with those sales figures.
I see there's likely money for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link, which the SNP cancelled and tried to sell route of.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/ ... e.22139481
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We really do need a way to stop newspapers from demonising entire sectors of societythatchersorphan wrote:https://tompride.wordpress.com/2015/01/ ... nemployed/ The Daily Mail has been caught red-handed using an actor in its ongoing mission to demonise benefit claimants.
Mail article - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... egime.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I think Ernst in particular will like this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 09085.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;That is not how the criticism is viewed by the Labour leadership. One party source said: “We don’t think there is a conspiracy to undermine us. The Blairites couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery; they couldn’t get rid of Gordon Brown before the 2010 election. They dip in and out of politics these days and get their facts wrong.”
He dismissed Mr Milburn’s criticism that Labour would not match its extra money for the NHS with reform, citing the shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham’s radical plan to integrate hospital and social care.
The source said: “Alan is vain. He believes the only kind of reform is his reforms, which would lead to marketisation and privatisation. Alan could throw money at the NHS when he was Health Secretary. We won’t have that option. Our reforms will save money.”
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rebeccariots2 wrote:From UK Polling Report:
Is this true?MRNAMELESS
A new candidate declared in Sheffield Hallam. Mr Steve Clegg is standing for the English Democrats. That’s kind of him.
yes