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Also, I am disappointed it's been so long since a Rob Ford story was making headway.
I have a terrible admission re 21. I watched the Sherlock Pilot and didn't like it. Sherlock Holmes as a character is understandably a bit of a dick at first glance, his mannerisms demand that, but from the pilot I had no investment in him as anything other than a dick, I saw no reason to care about this Holmes, or understand why people might still put up with him. Given the critical praise it gets, I assume all the characterization stuff somes later.
Just as the old thread was getting lively!
Sherlock is awesome, has wonderful nuance.
Is now link 22 (had an initial formatting error)
My biggest gripe really was simply that there was not enough depth to the character in the pilot (according to my spotty recollection) that would explain why people would put up with this man. One very good move of the american 'Elementary' (a fun enough procedural), was in explaining it as it being Watson's job to hand around Holmes even though his being a dick made their relationship antagonistic at first.
Sherlock's pretty good, but this series was the weakest so far by some distance. If I were writing it I'd kill the wife off sharpish.
Edit: And Lansley is leader. (Leader of the House, so that counts)
Just for fun
1. Ed Millibands polling is already factored in to the Labour score, therefore his bad personal polling is not a cause for despair for Labour. Not sure how much this will stand up to an election campaign. - Partly agree
2. Labour doesn't need a polling lead to win - Agree
3. Labour doing better in marginals - Probably Agree
4. 2010 LibDem to Labour shifters are now solid Labour - Not sure. True now, true in 18 months?
5. UKIP rise will disproportionally hit Tories - Probably Agree. Let's wait for Wythenshawe and Euros.
6. Tories can't better 2010 score - there is nowhere for the voters to come from - Don't agree
7. There will be no swingback - Labour's current poll supporters are solidly anti-Tory - Don't agree
8. Don;t compare polls to 1997 - Historical analogies don;t apply - Partly Agree
Which, of course, he did anyway.
Hold on isn't he predicting a conservative win too ?
6. I cannot envisage a way for the Tories to do that, but fair play to them if they manage that miracle.
7. Probably the weakest of the articles points, but taken with the others it doesn;t matter.
Carefully rephrased to avoid being rolled on by Pork?
On the other side we have OGH and tim who think it will be Labour biggest party.
Choose your side!
But that's one hell of a prediction by Rod, I'm the sure the party that survived Jeremy Thorpe, Paddy Pantsdown, Charles Kennedy, Mark Oaten, Chris Huhne can survive this.
Point 7 - The Tories fought the 2010 election not just against Gordon Brown, but against Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson. Ed Milliband hasn't got a Peter Mandelson (and it shows)
Let's see if he's as skillful as Seth was!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9azv0uAog_k
Rickman's a fantastic villain. He's probably even better as Hans Gruber.
Mr. Eagles, never seen Dogma.
http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/MP-challenges-Alex-Salmond-to-TV-showdown-21012014.htm
I am going to assume nationalists will say there is practically no-one worse than Alexander to put the Unionist case, being not only a Lib Dem - whose vote has collapsed and will probably never recover in Scotland - but a Lib Dem who is seen as Tory friendly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/10587296/Guardian-Media-Group-gets-600m-for-AutoTrader-stake.html
Eck wanted it to be an all Scottish affair. He can't change his mind now...
"The First Minister will happily debate with members of the UK Government but by starting at the very top and working his way down," said a spokesman. "Of course, he’ll have to go quite far down before he gets to Danny Alexander."
If that is the end of the challenge, Danny has already won his debate.
Vicky Pryce, who was jailed for falsely accepting the speeding points of her former husband Chris Huhne, has quietly returned to an official role advising the Government.
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has approved the decision to appoint Dr Pryce to a panel of economists, it was confirmed last night. She was sentenced last March to eight months in jail for perverting the course of justice, and served 62 days
Well, who could have predicted that...
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The SNP are really quite bizarre in their attempts to ban Fracking "Before it's too late" thay say...too late for what?
I've read a report from McSporran University that they're afraid the underground tremors will effect the mating grounds of the Haggis, and cause a worldwide glut on Scotland main export.
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Reference please? I can't find it - are you thinking of the Green Party?
Given that AFAIK the Scottish Government and the Scots get none of the revenue (there is no Barnett formula for income), and have to bear all the costs of planning, monitoring, pollution, etc., even without any disasters, and given that they are already net exporters of energy as electricity and as oil, it would not be surprising if the Scots are reluctant to be guinea-pigs yet again for the benefit of the London Government.
I would in any case be very wary of supporting introducing fracking into densely populated synclinal sedimentary basins riddled with 300 years + of old mines, including into oilshale and ironstone and fireclay as well as coal. I would like to see independent analyses not commissioned by the London Government.
However I'm sure some other lesser title may be available should some personage feel they have merited consideration.
Vice-Toty is also unavailable as this prestigious preferment is a life title for Peter the Punter.
LAB 310
CON 278
LD 35
Can't find the old one but I don't think it was far off that...
We'll leave it to the always hilarious scottish tory surgers and out of touch twit spinners on here to not understand just how panicked the coward Cammie looks. Being forced to put up the likes of wee Danny as a human shield also speaks for itself.
Will the incompetent fop Cammie be begging for Clegg to debate with Farage to save him from that as well?
LOL
Now he is quibbling about the order. He already looks weak.
Regarding your point 22 about Sherlock - I have to confess I'm not a fan.
There's another updated Holmes show on called Elementary, which I've not seen.
When an Englishman refuses to join a Scottish debate, that is not a defeat for the Englishman.
Nick Sutton @suttonnick 2m
Wednesday's Daily Telegraph (Scotland) front page -
"Clegg's wife told him he 'let down' women" #tomorrowspaperstoday
pic.twitter.com/pix2ynYWgH
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/petition-to-deselect-libdem-candidate.html
I saw a few Jesus and Mo cartoons a while ago (months, maybe years). I think t-shirts depicting them were verboten at a university. It's really rather worrying.
... always hilarious ... tory surgers ... out of touch ... twit spinners ... panicked ... coward ...Cammie ... wee Danny ... incompetent fop ... Cammie ... Clegg ... Farage ... LOL
Evening, Pork.
"Gullible" appears to be missing.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead drops to four points: CON 34%, LAB 38%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%
It's a vote in Scotland, by Scots, on Scottish independence. Cameron doesn't live there. He isn't Scottish. He doesn't vote there.
Ask yourself how neutral it would be if Yorkshire were having an independence debate, with Geoff Boycott representating Yes and a Lancastrian representing No. It'd be palpable nonsense. So it is with Salmond's daft debate request.
Evening, Seth O Logue.
Still playing the out of touch twit spinner I see. You will remind everyone when we are supposed to take anything you say seriously won't you?
And (as someone pointed out) it is not whether you are Scottish or English (I'm not even sure there is a legal definition at present) but whether one has a vote. In which case, why does Better Together have so much funding from outwith the country? Why is Mr Cameron allowing this but refusing to let us know what the PM of the UK thinks? Why is Mr Hague coming in to lecture us? And so on.
I've seen this type of witch-hunt at first hand, and it isn't pretty. People lose their minds over it and become infected with malice. Court orders even can mean nothing to them. It becomes a personal war. At some point some may even think the only way to cure the cancer is to actively work covertly or overtly for the organization's destruction. At a minimum the wounds will never heal.
Anyway, I am off for the night.
Easily the weakest Indiana Jones movie. Yes I am including Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I didn't mind the kid when I was a kid, which I guess is the point, but when have precocious kids ever helped a movie? It was part of what made Iron Man 3 so bad.
http://politicalbetting.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/202197/#Comment_202197
What he should have done is said one of his deputies will debate Alexander.
Now we understand.
It's toothache.
Why ever didn't your tell us upfront?
I am still getting my head around the assertion on a previous thread that in the event of a Yes vote Mr Alexander would be denied leadership of the LDs in Westminster even if he was an EWNI subject, whether by parentage or naturalisation, just because he is Scottish by birth. If this is true (and I am not suggesting for a moment that it was the personal sentiment of the posters in question) then the countries have diverged even more than I had realised.
47% of Lib Dem voters think Lord Rennard should leave the party, while 32% think he should stay
One of the 5 candidates Terry Williams is listed as No Party Description but there is a curious note from Birmingham City Council
" Please note Terry Williams did not fill in the description section of the nomination form meaning his party description is not listed . We can confirm that he is a registered candidate for the National Front Party . The City's election office did contact Mr Williams and his election agent to raise this matter but his nomination paper was not re-submitted before the deadline " and finally even more curious and I am not sure of the legality ...
" The National Front logo will appear on election documentation and he will be referred to as a candidate for National Front when the results are declared etc . "
•Paul Ryan 13% {9%} [10%] (17%)
•Rand Paul 13% {14%} [17%] (15%)
•Chris Christie 12% {17%} [13%] (14%)
•Jeb Bush 11% {11%} [11%] (10%)
•Ted Cruz 9% {13%} [10%]
•Marco Rubio 8% {7%} [12%] (19%)
•Scott Walker 6% {5%} [4%] (2%)
•Bobby Jindal 3% {3%} [3%] (3%)
•John Kasich 2% {2%}
•Don’t know 22% {17%} [19%] (18%)
While Rasmussen suggests the Dems could take the House
•Democrats 41% 41% 40% 40% (39%) 40% (38%) (38%) (41%) (39%) (41%) (43%) (43%) (43%) (45%) (42%) (40%)
•Republicans 35% 37% 38% 40% (42%) 40% (43%) (43%) (40%) (40%) (39%) (37%) (37%) (36%) (38%) (38%) (37%)
Salmond demanded that the debate be between Scots, in Scotland.
Cameron isn't on that list, never mind at the top.
Cameron also isn't the top of lots of other things too. A Cybernat elsewhere tried to claim he was head of the UK. That's the Queen. So he tried head of the UK Government. That's the Queen.
Cameron is the leader of the largest party in a Parliament Salmond shunned. He is perfectly entitled, by the rules Eck set himself, to tell Salmond where he can stick his debate
But then I'm someone who'll stick up for the Star Wars prequels, which is blasphemy on the internet (yes they were poorly written, inconsistently at best acted, and full of dumb contrivances, but they really were not as terrible - worst movie ever terrible - as legend has made them out to be. It's fun to trash them, but they're watchable. George Lucas should be a cinematographer and let other people handle the writing and plotting, other than the broad strokes), so my opinion is clearly suspect.
Another winner from the Nats.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/21/donald-trump-2016-president_n_4638292.html
To be fair, to both, any offer to send in Mr A's oppo may not have been reported (or omitted by the LDs). We'll see what other coverage we get.