Considering they put the names of those found guilty of underpaying their workers online which at the most totals a few thousands one wonders what HMG are so shy about.Regarding HSBC and the government's complicity -
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@Ernst:
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Me too. I don't like grapes.ErnstRemarx wrote:I believe that's what passes for self restraint in some circles. I've never been to one. I'd have been a hopeless Roman.ohsocynical wrote:Only four? GoodnessEx-IMF chief Dominque Strass-Kahn insists he 'only went to four orgies a year'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/557 ... gies-court
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No.ohsocynical wrote:Nah. Dave's in thick with a whole bunch of American right wingers who run the US. He'll come out of it whiter than white.citizenJA wrote:Ah. The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Goodbye, Dave, & your government with you.Lonewolfie wrote: They might not have a 'record' but others will have - and there's some noise from across the pond
“The new allegations that HSBC colluded to help wealthy people and rich corporations hide money and avoid taxes are very serious, and, if true, the Department of Justice should reconsider the earlier deferred prosecution agreement it entered into with HSBC and prosecute the new violations to the full extent of the law.”
Warren’s intervention will further stoke the scandal in Washington, where members of the Senate banking committee are preparing to grill a representative of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday over how much regulators knew about US tax evasion connected to HSBC Switzerland.
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Be grateful for small mercies.Toby Latimer wrote:I think so.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Labour definitely got the better ex-TV presenter!!
I'm old enough to remember Austin Mitchell presenting Calendar on regional Yorkshire TV . Never saw him in a swimming costume though
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Yep. I remembered from yesterday's post.ohsocynical wrote:Well, he's following me on Twitter so he'll be getting plenty of tipscitizenJA wrote:Your Tory MP may be lurking here, hoping to find out something to save what's left of his Tory career.ohsocynical wrote: That's my Tory MP. He doesn't use Twitter much, but posted that remark yesterday. Couldn't believe my eyes.
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And for ..... sake - don't give Toby any more photo ideas. Todays have been truly eye-blistering.letsskiptotheleft wrote:Be grateful for small mercies.Toby Latimer wrote:I think so.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Labour definitely got the better ex-TV presenter!!
I'm old enough to remember Austin Mitchell presenting Calendar on regional Yorkshire TV . Never saw him in a swimming costume though
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For a lighter look at TV presenter objectifying ....
Some of the tweets he gets are very funny:'Men often tweet pictures to female BBC presenters of their genitals. By contrast, I get off lightly’: Robert Peston on being objectified
His tousled tresses and sexy new specs have made fans of the BBC’s economics editor hot under the collar. Robert Peston tells us what it’s like to be objectified
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lon ... 35771.html
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The article mentioned Genocide, which made me sit back in shock. But then I checked the dictionary. And it is...How many deaths have Tory evidence-free policies caused?
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/02/1 ... es-caused/
The murder of a whole group of people, especially a whole nation, race, or religious group:
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Oi - Carsy - at least Harriet's Woman To Woman pink van (I admit it's a bit barf making) doesn't tell people to 'Go Home'. There's dubious taste and there's offensive.Douglas Carswell MP @DouglasCarswell 8m8 minutes ago
What is it with the Labour Party and vans?
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Indeed. That's what I thought catching him speaking after Toynbee. Weapons grade arsehole.refitman wrote:Digby Jones is an arse. That is all.
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Ooh ! I've just had a blistering idea !rebeccariots2 wrote:And for ..... sake - don't give Toby any more photo ideas. Todays have been truly eye-blistering.letsskiptotheleft wrote:Be grateful for small mercies.Toby Latimer wrote: I think so.
I'm old enough to remember Austin Mitchell presenting Calendar on regional Yorkshire TV . Never saw him in a swimming costume though
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Toby Latimer wrote:Ooh ! I've just had a blistering idea !rebeccariots2 wrote:And for ..... sake - don't give Toby any more photo ideas. Todays have been truly eye-blistering.letsskiptotheleft wrote: Be grateful for small mercies.
Leave it with me folks
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Have we had this one.....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 37157.html
The contagion is starting to spread out from the Guardian, via the States to the Indy and then to the heart of the Conservative party.
Nobody can tell me that those senior HSBC pro-austerity Tory donors didn't know about the banks tax evasion schemes.
Did they not read their marketing blurb?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 37157.html
The contagion is starting to spread out from the Guardian, via the States to the Indy and then to the heart of the Conservative party.
Nobody can tell me that those senior HSBC pro-austerity Tory donors didn't know about the banks tax evasion schemes.
Did they not read their marketing blurb?
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I bet this hurt the Guardian?
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Lightweight.ohsocynical wrote:Only four? GoodnessEx-IMF chief Dominque Strass-Kahn insists he 'only went to four orgies a year'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/557 ... gies-court
Four - in a week surely.
If you are going to do excess do excess - which in my case might involve a third beer.
Joking aside there is no excuse if it is true, as reported today, that a degree of coercion was used.
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Be afraid, be very afraid .......ohsocynical wrote:Toby Latimer wrote:Ooh ! I've just had a blistering idea !rebeccariots2 wrote: And for ..... sake - don't give Toby any more photo ideas. Todays have been truly eye-blistering.
Leave it with me folks
I don't know if it is just me, but I have never found McVile attractive for much the same reason I don't find Karen Danczuk attractive; they are both superficially pretty ladies but that is the point ..... they are both superficial and, I suspect, beneath the surface not particularly likeable. It is why I think Miliband is beginning to attract a bit of a fan club on Twitter; he can be, undeniably, a little awkward but under that slightly gawky exterior there is a man of honesty & integrity, and that cannot help to be attractive in the eyes of the discerning.
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MsRemarx actually once got interviewed on Today (R4) as the counter to Jones. uite a few years back, when he was still pretending to be pro-Labour.StephenDolan wrote:Indeed. That's what I thought catching him speaking after Toynbee. Weapons grade arsehole.refitman wrote:Digby Jones is an arse. That is all.
She wiped the floor with him.
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Me tooToby Latimer wrote:I think so.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Labour definitely got the better ex-TV presenter!!
I'm old enough to remember Austin Mitchell presenting Calendar on regional Yorkshire TV . Never saw him in a swimming costume though
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Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson 3m3 minutes ago
Not sure I can take another ‘Apprenticeship’ radio advert from the gvt. The ad is bad, but knowing I’m funding election campaigning is worse
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Craig Whittaker MP @CraigWhi2kermp 16m16 minutes ago
Conservative MP takes to the roof of Calderdale school to protest DfE decision not to fund repairs - Yorkshire Post: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mai ... yg.twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 4 hrs4 hours ago
New post.
Labour moves to its best ever position in YouGov’s “blame for cuts” tracker – now just 3% behind http://bit.ly/1CQAfr3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
New post.
Labour moves to its best ever position in YouGov’s “blame for cuts” tracker – now just 3% behind http://bit.ly/1CQAfr3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Lightweight.TechnicalEphemera wrote:ohsocynical wrote:Only four? GoodnessEx-IMF chief Dominque Strass-Kahn insists he 'only went to four orgies a year'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/557 ... gies-court
Four - in a week surely.
If you are going to do excess do excess - which in my case might involve a third beer.
They'd get far more sympathy if they just put their hands up and said, 'it was me guv. I done it.'
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He's on the Education Select Committee - revenge for them being not exactly overwhelmed with the government's reforms...rebeccariots2 wrote:Craig Whittaker MP @CraigWhi2kermp 16m16 minutes ago
Conservative MP takes to the roof of Calderdale school to protest DfE decision not to fund repairs - Yorkshire Post: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mai ... yg.twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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I read that the French had the disc in 2011 and used it to prosecute their evaders...No one can tell me our lot didn't hear about it on the grapevine.
And the guy that nicked the disc says what we're hearing now is just the tip of the iceburg. The Swiss want him for the theft, but the French have refused to hand him over.
Also The Guardian are getting lawyers letters warning them about what they print.
Rushbugger or whatever his name is, Tweeted the lawyers letterheads....
And the guy that nicked the disc says what we're hearing now is just the tip of the iceburg. The Swiss want him for the theft, but the French have refused to hand him over.
Also The Guardian are getting lawyers letters warning them about what they print.
Rushbugger or whatever his name is, Tweeted the lawyers letterheads....
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No, you're quite wrong about this.ohsocynical wrote:I read that the French had the disc in 2011 and used it to prosecute their evaders...No one can tell me our lot didn't hear about it on the grapevine.
No-one knew a single thing about this until yesterday. Apart from Ed Balls. He knew everything, and could have prevented it.
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The Guardian view on the right to march: protest must be beyond price
Editorial
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Not just us cynical souls that find the Heathrow couple story unbelievable......
http://www.newstatesman.com/martin-robb ... od-be-true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I had my first ID card at the age of 12 and was very disappointed when it had to be given up when we left Singapore!pk1 wrote:Interesting piece on ID cards being used in Scotland
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analy ... id-cards-p" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I was quite looking forward to having another one but the system was scrapped - something about civil liberties? I still say ID cards are a good idea.
P.S. I was everso pleased when photo driving licences were brought in and I've got a new one, having changed my address, with "fancy bits" on it like my passport. They both go where I go.
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No, I didn't believe it either. It was the bit where they took out a £170k mortgage to buy a house for £265k. After all those years as a successful PR man, he couldn't rustle up more than that? What about the sale of their previous property - I couldn't believe that at that age they weren't already mortgage-free.pk1 wrote:Not just us cynical souls that find the Heathrow couple story unbelievable......
http://www.newstatesman.com/martin-robb ... od-be-true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Even if it is 'true' ... their choices make it difficult for me to have much patience with or sympathy for them. They've got an income now of £1400 pcm which should make it perfectly possible to rent somewhere OK to live. I simply can't understand why a couple in their position wouldn't do that. It just seems very very strange.pk1 wrote:Not just us cynical souls that find the Heathrow couple story unbelievable......
http://www.newstatesman.com/martin-robb ... od-be-true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Iain Dale @IainDale 7h7 hours ago
If @Ed_Miliband had told UK businesses to pay their staff more, I suspect that he'd have been slaughtered. Why wasn't the PM? @LBC at 5.
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Ooh goody - Brenda's family are now on Facebook
Cue the brown envelopes from central office getting them to click the 'like' button on the Tory page
Cue the brown envelopes from central office getting them to click the 'like' button on the Tory page
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Beats putting HSBC and all on the front.
Johnson's also made it, for "EU referendum by end of next year". God knows what the logic to that is, beyond positioning for after Cameron.
Johnson's also made it, for "EU referendum by end of next year". God knows what the logic to that is, beyond positioning for after Cameron.
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I checked the Telegraph earlier. One line right down the bottom of the page along with the other financial news.Tubby Isaacs wrote:Beats putting HSBC and all on the front.
Johnson's also made it, for "EU referendum by end of next year". God knows what the logic to that is, beyond positioning for after Cameron.
I'd bet a weeks wages the Tories are going to do what they always do. Ignore it and eventually other things - in this case the election - will distract us, and it'll all be neatly brushed under the carpet.
I'm thinking specifically of Mrs Blurts emails, and Dave's Big Society Fund. Lots of dodgy doings with the latter but apart from the Independent featuring it a couple of times there's been nothing said or done.
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What's suddenly occurred to me:
All those evaders knew what they were doing with the aid of the HSBC.
So, when the news broke about the theft of the disc in 2010? what did HSBC do?
Did they help move the evader's money to another haven?
Did they do a bit of abracadabra tell their customers to cough up and legitimise the accounts?
Or did they leave it to the cheats to move their money, in which case, where is the money now and other banks must be involved?
All those evaders knew what they were doing with the aid of the HSBC.
So, when the news broke about the theft of the disc in 2010? what did HSBC do?
Did they help move the evader's money to another haven?
Did they do a bit of abracadabra tell their customers to cough up and legitimise the accounts?
Or did they leave it to the cheats to move their money, in which case, where is the money now and other banks must be involved?
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Latest YouGov poll (09 - 10 Feb):
LAB - 35% (+2)
CON - 33% (-1)
UKIP - 13% (-1)
GRN - 8% (+1)
LDEM - 6% (-1)
LAB - 35% (+2)
CON - 33% (-1)
UKIP - 13% (-1)
GRN - 8% (+1)
LDEM - 6% (-1)
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HindleA wrote:Latest YouGov poll (09 - 10 Feb):
LAB - 35% (+2)
CON - 33% (-1)
UKIP - 13% (-1)
GRN - 8% (+1)
LDEM - 6% (-1)
Anyone else noticed UKIP seem to be flatlining if not dropping a little?
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My identification documents don't bother me either.giselle97 wrote:I had my first ID card at the age of 12 and was very disappointed when it had to be given up when we left Singapore!pk1 wrote:Interesting piece on ID cards being used in Scotland
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analy ... id-cards-p" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I was quite looking forward to having another one but the system was scrapped - something about civil liberties? I still say ID cards are a good idea.
P.S. I was everso pleased when photo driving licences were brought in and I've got a new one, having changed my address, with "fancy bits" on it like my passport. They both go where I go.
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Yeah we had Queen joins Twitter recently too didn't we?RobertSnozers wrote:Funny, I looked at that front page and all I saw was LOOK!A SQUIRREL
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Watching Matt Hancock trying to squirm his way round Cameron pleading for businesses to give pay rises but failed to talk about productivity gains..
Apparently, productivity is "technocratic terminology".
Apparently, productivity is "technocratic terminology".
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Sorry I haven't mastered pasting photos from Twitter, but just posted:
One of the ways the Tories have raised money for the election is to arrange a party to shoot 500 pheasants...
One of the ways the Tories have raised money for the election is to arrange a party to shoot 500 pheasants...
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Oh yes wasn't that around the time of the European extra bill and not rebate fiasco?
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Matthew Hancock - "I didn't know anything at all"
A truer word you never spoke...
A truer word you never spoke...
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Labour won't let this go. This one won't go away.ohsocynical wrote:I checked the Telegraph earlier. One line right down the bottom of the page along with the other financial news.Tubby Isaacs wrote:Beats putting HSBC and all on the front.
Johnson's also made it, for "EU referendum by end of next year". God knows what the logic to that is, beyond positioning for after Cameron.
I'd bet a weeks wages the Tories are going to do what they always do. Ignore it and eventually other things - in this case the election - will distract us, and it'll all be neatly brushed under the carpet.
I'm thinking specifically of Mrs Blurts emails, and Dave's Big Society Fund. Lots of dodgy doings with the latter but apart from the Independent featuring it a couple of times there's been nothing said or done.
Text of the letter from Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition, to heads of government in these Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies:
Dear xxx
More than 18 months ago, David Cameron announced that you and he had reached agreement on increasing transparency around the ownership of companies based in your jurisdictions. This was to reduce the opportunity for them to be used for tax avoidance, evasion and other illegal activity.
He said that you and he would focus on beneficial ownership, and that you would publish the true owners of shell companies based in your jurisdictions. He claimed that this was a “very positive step forward” ahead of the G8 meeting in June 2013, and followed it up with a letter saying that
“Beneficial ownership and public access to a central register is key to improving the transparency of company ownership and vital to meeting the urgent challenges of illicit finance and tax evasion”.
However, since then no Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency has produced a publicly accessible central register of beneficial ownership. And, despite his initial enthusiasm, David Cameron has done nothing to ensure that they are produced.
Ahead of the General Election in May, I am writing to put you on notice that a Labour government will not allow this situation of delay and secrecy to continue. Labour will act on tax avoidance where the Tories will not.
All UK Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies will have to produce a publicly accessible central register of beneficial ownership within six months of the election of a Labour government. If any Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency does not meet this deadline, we will ask the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to put them on the OECD’s tax haven blacklist.
Yours sincerely,
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Naughty boy Toby! I saw what you saved that *.jpg as!Toby Latimer wrote:Oops ! too late. Sorry ephie
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The business offensive is going well I see.RobertSnozers wrote:They've been holding steady at around 14% for a while IIRC. I reckon they'll get 10-12% at the GE, which was about what I thought a year ago. A bit less if the right wing press can conjure up enough fear of Commandante Mililand and his Politbureau of socialist dogs.ohsocynical wrote:HindleA wrote:Latest YouGov poll (09 - 10 Feb):
LAB - 35% (+2)
CON - 33% (-1)
UKIP - 13% (-1)
GRN - 8% (+1)
LDEM - 6% (-1)
Anyone else noticed UKIP seem to be flatlining if not dropping a little?
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Revolution now, please. Seriously. There's no place left to off-load discontented regulars. We're all home now. Let's have cooperative negotiations about how we're all going to get along with each other is a safe, sustainable, democratic & just society. Thank you.ohsocynical wrote:Sorry I haven't mastered pasting photos from Twitter, but just posted:
One of the ways the Tories have raised money for the election is to arrange a party to shoot 500 pheasants...
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I sincerely believe Ed will put a stop to it. But that will be after May. In the meantime, Dave and his cronies will get away with it.citizenJA wrote:Labour won't let this go. This one won't go away.ohsocynical wrote:I checked the Telegraph earlier. One line right down the bottom of the page along with the other financial news.Tubby Isaacs wrote:Beats putting HSBC and all on the front.
Johnson's also made it, for "EU referendum by end of next year". God knows what the logic to that is, beyond positioning for after Cameron.
I'd bet a weeks wages the Tories are going to do what they always do. Ignore it and eventually other things - in this case the election - will distract us, and it'll all be neatly brushed under the carpet.
I'm thinking specifically of Mrs Blurts emails, and Dave's Big Society Fund. Lots of dodgy doings with the latter but apart from the Independent featuring it a couple of times there's been nothing said or done.Text of the letter from Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition, to heads of government in these Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies:
Dear xxx
More than 18 months ago, David Cameron announced that you and he had reached agreement on increasing transparency around the ownership of companies based in your jurisdictions. This was to reduce the opportunity for them to be used for tax avoidance, evasion and other illegal activity.
He said that you and he would focus on beneficial ownership, and that you would publish the true owners of shell companies based in your jurisdictions. He claimed that this was a “very positive step forward” ahead of the G8 meeting in June 2013, and followed it up with a letter saying that
“Beneficial ownership and public access to a central register is key to improving the transparency of company ownership and vital to meeting the urgent challenges of illicit finance and tax evasion”.
However, since then no Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency has produced a publicly accessible central register of beneficial ownership. And, despite his initial enthusiasm, David Cameron has done nothing to ensure that they are produced.
Ahead of the General Election in May, I am writing to put you on notice that a Labour government will not allow this situation of delay and secrecy to continue. Labour will act on tax avoidance where the Tories will not.
All UK Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies will have to produce a publicly accessible central register of beneficial ownership within six months of the election of a Labour government. If any Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency does not meet this deadline, we will ask the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to put them on the OECD’s tax haven blacklist.
Yours sincerely,
Ed Miliband
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Re: Tuesday 10th February 2015
Eeewwww! How horrid!giselle97 wrote:Naughty boy Toby! I saw what you saved that *.jpg as!Toby Latimer wrote:Oops ! too late. Sorry ephie
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Re: Tuesday 10th February 2015
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But you must not have read my revolution now post! I'm telling 'ya... it's time
But you must not have read my revolution now post! I'm telling 'ya... it's time