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Thanks for that Gilsey, good news indeed.
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Is this right? Terrifying if it is with the wind getting up.Pauline Lane @Antonineone1 4 mins4 minutes ago
Tuned in to watch @tombrady on ITV News
Can only get ITV from Jersey
Boats with refugees being turned back
Anything on BBC or Sky?
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'boat of migrants believed to be bound for Channel Islands stopped'
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NHS Leaders in "The Thick Of It"
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Evening All,
A interesting article here.
Fascism and the Establishment
Britain: For King and Country
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A interesting article here.
Fascism and the Establishment
Britain: For King and Country
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Kisses for that gilsey.
Who would there have been to actually do anything on behalf of wildlife and against wildlife crime if they had been scrapped - given the RSPCA and other active charities are increasingly being pushed and pressurised towards being passive?
Who would there have been to actually do anything on behalf of wildlife and against wildlife crime if they had been scrapped - given the RSPCA and other active charities are increasingly being pushed and pressurised towards being passive?
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'Festering arsepipe' is going to be added to my essential political vocabulary.
Thank you for that Robert Snozers.
Thank you for that Robert Snozers.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 05686.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;A Conservative Cabinet minister has been accused of using “smears and insinuation” to attack Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London on account of his Muslim faith.
Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, claimed that Mr Khan had dealt with “extremists” – despite the Labour MP having in fact dedicated years to fighting radicalisation...
Fallon wheels himself out to be chief smear-monger again. He's repellent. Rent a slur.
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Thank you to everyone around that table.Paul Rutherford @PaulRutherford8 1h1 hour ago
Was good to have @OwenSmith_MP take the time to show support & buy us a coffee after our day in #SupremeCourt yest.
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He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.Vincent Moss @vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
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If memory serves (and it does sometimes) it's quite in order for him to provide the postal vote application form but I'm fairly sure the bit about having the completed form sent back to him (for onward transmission, of course!) isn't. And if it isn't, it should be.rebeccariots2 wrote:He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.Vincent Moss @vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
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Does that make sense (my post)?
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Yes - that sums up what I - in my limited experience - thought I knew about postal vote protocols. I was told it was a no no for any political party rep to handle / process someone's postal vote.PorFavor wrote:If memory serves (and it does sometimes) it's quite in order for him to provide the postal vote application form but I'm fairly sure the bit about having the completed form sent back to him (for onward transmission, of course!) isn't. And if it isn't, it should be.rebeccariots2 wrote:He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.Vincent Moss @vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
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Does that make sense (my post)?
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Read it just so you know what the 'other side' thinks their argument is - and just how bare their cupboard is. That's what I did.CPS Think Tank @CPSThinkTank 7m7 minutes ago
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I know what I'd suggest to him . . . .rebeccariots2 wrote:Read it just so you know what the 'other side' thinks their argument is - and just how bare their cupboard is. That's what I did.CPS Think Tank @CPSThinkTank 7m7 minutes ago
Spare room subsidy reform has improved social housing allocation - @danielmCPS http://bit.ly/1nb5IOZ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Hah. That's open to all sorts of fiddles...PorFavor wrote:If memory serves (and it does sometimes) it's quite in order for him to provide the postal vote application form but I'm fairly sure the bit about having the completed form sent back to him (for onward transmission, of course!) isn't. And if it isn't, it should be.rebeccariots2 wrote:He's kidding - surely? Please tell me he is.Vincent Moss @vincentmoss 10m10 minutes ago
So @ZacGoldsmith letter arrives with postal vote application & reply paid env to him. He'll forward to Elec. Services #LondonMayor
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Does that make sense (my post)?
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Equalities watchdog criticises planned cuts to work support allowance
Equalities and Human Rights Commission says cutting £30 a week from ESA benefits will disproportionately hit disabled people
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... The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHCR) says the proposed cuts will disproportionately affect disabled people, widen inequalities, and undermine the UK’s human rights obligations.
Separately, a scathing letter by the head of the EHCR warns that official assessments of the cut’s impact on disabled people “contain very little in the way of evidence” and “limited analysis” of the consequences for claimants...
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How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
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Monsieur HindleA with these pork pies you are spoiling us. Yum, yum.HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x
How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
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24%. I was let down my my love of rugby and whisky, I think.HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x
How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
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17% - probably because I went to a Technical High. Passed my 11+ as I was clever in them days.HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x
How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
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I'M 27% posh. Let down by inability to be able to answer 'all of them' to several questions. Very itinerant and chaotic upbringing.
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I got 29%. I think that was because I went to boarding school (abroad - armed forces), named tennis as my favourite sport (mild interest!) and have been to a horse track once (the Derby was on my birthday one year so my mother took us on a coach trip to the Derby - mainly as a present for herself!)
Oh - and the Home Counties question - Dagenham? Really?
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Oh - and Grammar School before abroad (and for a very short time on return) and after Dagenham.
Oh - and the Home Counties question - Dagenham? Really?
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Oh - and Grammar School before abroad (and for a very short time on return) and after Dagenham.
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Yes, me too.rebeccariots2 wrote:I'M 27% posh. Let down by inability to be able to answer 'all of them' to several questions. Very itinerant and chaotic upbringing.
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Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.
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14%HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x
How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
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The Stones are playing Cuba
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ohsocynical wrote:14%HindleA wrote:http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/what ... aaAGGMOK9x
How posh are you? I got 6%,which was s bit high I thought.
The Home Counties my beauties. And passed my eleven plus.
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I passed my eleven plus,took it when I was ten,it didn't make any difference as I then went to Scotland and an "extra" year before Secondary School it was called an Academy,funnilly enough through strictly comprehensive.
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15% posh. I blame it on going to a grammar school and going to opera. Useless quiz asks you what type of school you went to and then says you probably went to the local comp.
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14%. But I did go to a Grammar School, albeit one in Manchester.
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I was schooled by with a strap right across my back,but it's all right now.
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Well, a cloth cap goes awfully well with the green wellies and a shotgun doncha know.HindleA wrote:Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.
Bunch of f*****g plebs. Me? 32%.
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Do I need to say anything?The Chronicle @EveningChron 8m8 minutes ago
Newcastle @LibDems pledge to invest millions in roads and cut council tax http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... t-10972691" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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I feel like we're in an episode of Monty Python.Eric_WLothian wrote:Well, a cloth cap goes awfully well with the green wellies and a shotgun doncha know.HindleA wrote:Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.
Bunch of f*****g plebs. Me? 32%.
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...but in reverse?rebeccariots2 wrote:I feel like we're in an episode of Monty Python.Eric_WLothian wrote:Well, a cloth cap goes awfully well with the green wellies and a shotgun doncha know.HindleA wrote:Amateurs,I wear my cloth cap at all times.
Bunch of f*****g plebs. Me? 32%.
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I see The Times is allocating blame fairly on the shoulders of the person responsible for this problem.
203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.
All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!
203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.
All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!
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I used profanity after reading what the Times has written.RogerOThornhill wrote:I see The Times is allocating blame fairly on the shoulders of the person responsible for this problem.
203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.
All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!
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Can't blame Gove - that wouldn't do at all!citizenJA wrote:I used profanity after reading what the Times has written.RogerOThornhill wrote:I see The Times is allocating blame fairly on the shoulders of the person responsible for this problem.
203 opened before the 2010 election
5,133 open now.
All Blair's fault. In fact it's worse than that - by the time that Blair left office there were only 46 open!
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
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21%
Grammar school - Christian Brothers (ouch!)
Wagamamas
Skiing, horse racing and opera
I'll have to settle for that. Not proud of it though, 'me mum and dad wouldn't be pleased'.
Good night everyone see you tomorra.
Grammar school - Christian Brothers (ouch!)
Wagamamas
Skiing, horse racing and opera
I'll have to settle for that. Not proud of it though, 'me mum and dad wouldn't be pleased'.
Good night everyone see you tomorra.
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Former Conservative shadow minister crashed car after getting drunk on Prosecco while on 'fasting diet'
David Ruffley, 53, was found slumped over the wheel of his black Volkswagen Golf
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Is it just me ... or does his 'defence' somewhat lack consistency?... Ruffley, former MP for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, told police he thought he could drive on four glasses of the Italian white wine and added: "I do it regularly". ...
Ruffley, once a shadow policing minister, stood down from his Parliamentary seat after being cautioned for assaulting a former girlfriend in 2014.
He also notoriously used MP expenses in 2009 to purchase a £1,774 sofa and £2,175 television. ...
Yvette Kresner, representing Ruffley, told the court the former MP was currently undergoing treatment for depression linked to his alcohol use.
She said: "He has sought out help himself, and is paying privately for the treatment.
"This is a man of 53 years of age who is of good character.
"He has let himself down and is thoroughly ashamed.'
Ms Kresner argued that he should be fined rather than given a community order because "Giving something back to the community is what he does on a daily basis". ...
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Eh?rebeccariots2 wrote:Former Conservative shadow minister crashed car after getting drunk on Prosecco while on 'fasting diet'
David Ruffley, 53, was found slumped over the wheel of his black Volkswagen Golf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -diet.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Is it just me ... or does his 'defence' somewhat lack consistency?... Ruffley, former MP for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, told police he thought he could drive on four glasses of the Italian white wine and added: "I do it regularly". ...
Ruffley, once a shadow policing minister, stood down from his Parliamentary seat after being cautioned for assaulting a former girlfriend in 2014.
He also notoriously used MP expenses in 2009 to purchase a £1,774 sofa and £2,175 television. ...
Yvette Kresner, representing Ruffley, told the court the former MP was currently undergoing treatment for depression linked to his alcohol use.
She said: "He has sought out help himself, and is paying privately for the treatment.
"This is a man of 53 years of age who is of good character.
"He has let himself down and is thoroughly ashamed.'
Ms Kresner argued that he should be fined rather than given a community order because "Giving something back to the community is what he does on a daily basis". ...
He's an MP and gets paid a decent salary!
"Giving something back to the community" implies that you're volunteering - like being a school governor or helping out at the local old people's home.
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44%, despite the comprehensive school education. Maybe the whole horse riding thing is useful for something. Happy to report never been hunting in my life and never will, unless it becomes open season on Tory Eurosceptic MPs.
Big night in North America, could see Clinton effectively nominated, if Trump has a good night (taking Florida and Texas, the latter unlikely) the GOP will implode.
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Mind you Trump will do well to win Florida tonight, in fact he might actually be cheating if he does that.
Big night in North America, could see Clinton effectively nominated, if Trump has a good night (taking Florida and Texas, the latter unlikely) the GOP will implode.
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Mind you Trump will do well to win Florida tonight, in fact he might actually be cheating if he does that.
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Changes to benefit system will halt income growth for poorest, says report
Planned cuts to welfare bill will also push thousands of children back into poverty, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies
Changes to benefit system will halt income growth for poorest, says report
Planned cuts to welfare bill will also push thousands of children back into poverty, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies
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I am following via this:-
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I am talking rubbish. Meds urgently needed. 24% posh, had to choose a sport, I hate em all, boarding school cured me of them. Put tennis, and heigh ho it makes one posh. Along with the evening dinner, I can't help it if we are nocturnal. Co-ed school, about half on scholarship of some kind or another. Wasn't too bad for the girls.
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