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'Many MPs are convinced the union is in true peril, with some expressing dismay that the Conservative party has become such a dissuasive voice for the union in Scotland. "The Better Together campaign is just ramshackle. It would not matter if it was just crap, but it is nasty. All the threatening from Whitehall has been counterproductive," one said.
Inside the Labour wing of the no campaign, if the polls narrow, the disagreements will sharpen between those who want to focus on what is best for Britain and those such as Gordon Brown who say the campaign must concentrate on the options for Scotland.
A vote for secession would probably lead to a parliamentary inquest as long as the seven-year trial of Warren Hastings in the wake of the collapse of the East India Company. In the short term, as custodians of the English elite, Ed Miliband and Cameron would take the bullets. Cameron would be vilified as the prime minister who allowed the union to be lost. Miliband would be attacked for breaking Labour's connection to the Scottish working class.'
http://tinyurl.com/l9pfzqg
The best backed horses in this race with Ladbrokes have been;
Mair (3/1)
Kuenssberg (Evs)
Robinson (20/1)
It would be funny if Paul Mason got the job. Some of the PB Tories™ would spontaneously combust.
To buy a box of Frosites for the first time in about 12 years!
Rayhāna bint Zayd (Arabic: ريحانة بنت زيد) was a Jewish woman from the Banu Qurayza tribe.
Rayhana was originally a member of the Banu Nadir tribe who married a man from the Banu Qurayza. After the Banu Qurayza were defeated by the armies of Muhammad in the Siege of the Banu Qurayza neighborhood, Rayhana was among those enslaved, while the men were executed for treason.
According to Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad took her as a maiden slave and offered her the status of becoming his wife if she accepted Islam, but she refused. According to his account, even though Rayhana is said to have later converted to Islam, she died as a slave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayhana
Food for thought.
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/between-myself-and-cameron-i-am-the-one-with-much-more-intellectual-selfconfidence-ed-miliband-on-why-hes-ready-to-be-pm-9325924.html
He is no Paxman, although they both can be a little too rude when no call for it .
If Kirsty Wark wants the job then it should be hers imo. She comes across always as a tough, fair, intelligent (both academically and emotionally) interviewer
"and I think to myself, I’m the one with the intellectual self-confidence because I actually know what I believe and I don’t need [election strategist] Lynton Crosby to tell me.”
and then
"The splashiest news about the Labour election campaign so far has been the hiring of President Obama’s election strategist David Axelrod. . . . . . . . He is there primarily for ideas, "
now if that's not rank hypocrisy . . . . .
Mr. Away, Wark had a rather bonkers comment a month or two ago, claiming it was likelier that a woman would get a job hosting a car programme in Saudi Arabia than on Top Gear.
I'm surprised at how few posts there are on this - when we had a dead heat the other day you couldn't move for them!!!
Or is he just another politician saying what he thinks "Generation Rent" wants to hear so that he can get elected?
And now for some more work (grumbles into his compiler)
lefties always like to parade intellect over common sense and experience. Problem for Ed is that if he pulls out his O level certifcates Dave will have better ones as will Ed Balls.
Carnyx said:
"Oh, that's interesting - WW2? Anything in particular?
Unless it counts as aftertiming, I was going to mention the Norman church too - but a monastery? I didn't know that. My main reason was because I thought James Lind of lemon juice and scurvy was buried there, but on reflection I held fire on the matter till I had checked which generation he was. Indeed it is the vitamin-C-but-he-didn't-know-it chappie -
http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/illustrating/articles/the-strange-disappearances-of-james-lind
Must go back there. I have promised to take my partner (for whom Lind is a hero) to see it and Fishbourne Roman Palace, as well as the usual new-fangled stuff like Priddy's Hard armament depot (Gosport) and Fort Nelson (one of the Palmerstn forts, on the hill above Portchester).
[Mr Jessop takes up the thread]
Done all of those, and they're all good. Priddy's Hard (it was called Explosion! when I visited) has a large number of weapons. Even the relatively pacifist Mrs J enjoyed Fort Nelson, and especially the beautifully engraved Chinese and Japanese cannon.
But I can also recommend Buckler's Hard, a short distance away in the New Forest. A small village that has hardly changed from when they built wooden warships there, and in a beautiful setting. There's a good footpath there from Beaulieu, although the motor museum deserves a day on its own."
For WW2 stuff in Porchester you need do no more than look in the Graveyard of St. Mary's church. Porchester was also used for other stuff, special forces training and the like. There are also some WWI graves that are of interest, well they are interest to me as I found one of Mrs. Llama relatives buried there, which came a as bit of a shock.
If you are going down that way and are interested in history then I would say the Roman Palace at Fishbourne is a must. I went back there last year for the first time since the early eighties and was amazed at what they had done - leave half a day just for the palace and associated museum.
Priddy's hard and Fort Nelson are well worth the visit, as recommended by Mr. Jessop. Get a water taxi pass and enjoy a putter round the harbour at the same time. What you really ought to visit though the the Submarine Museum at Gosport. I know am going to be biased, but it really is very, very good. Then of course there is the RN Dockyard itself with Victory, Warrior, the RN museum (dumbed down these days) and lots of other stuff.
All told, I think one could profitably spend three of four days just in Portsmouth, Gosport and the immediate surrounds just doing RN stuff. That's without Fishbourne and places like Bucklers Hard (read up on it before you go, then yo'll understand it and enjoy it more).
Oh, if you do get into Portsmouth centre, go the pub "The Ship Anson" just down from the dock yard gates. Get a drink and raise it in a silent toast, "To those who never came back", let me know how you get on.
Gove is appointing a bunch of toadies group of up-standing citizens as "Regional Schools Commissioners", and he has thus defined eight regions to divide England into.
Bizarrely, he has managed to divide both London and Yorkshire between three different regions each, with just two regions - the South-West and the West Midlands - not containing either a piece of Yorkshire or a piece of London.
It's hard to see what the logic is behind these regions, unless it's all just divide and rule.
Not long before kippers like yourself find out by letting ed in through the back door.
Reckon ed would resist eurocreep and measures such as a financial transaction tax for the 5 years you let him rule while you tried desperately to supplant the tories??
You're right that it's not full-blown rent control - but surely this is a classic example of the thin end of the wedge. As we saw with his energy-price stuff, you can do a lot of damage simply by shaking confidence - in building houses for rent, as in building power stations, why invest in the UK if you think politicians will be tempted to try to buy votes with your (or your clients') money?
Worth noting that the head honcho at Newsnight is a former Guardian journalist. I wouldn't mind seeing another former Guardian journalist - Glenn Greenwald - get the job. He was refreshingly direct talking when he was interviewed on Newsnight.
The truth is that, far from being individualistic and free-thinking, London's metropolitan elites are profoundly sheep-like, while retaining a view of the people "outside" as being unable to understand issues in the way they can"
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/whittles-london-may-14-metropolitan-sheep-peter-whittle-westminster
New Populus VI: Lab 36 (+1); Cons 33 (-1); LD 8 (-1); UKIP 14 (=); Oth 9 (+1) Tables http://popu.lu/s_140506
Hands up to you Mr Bobafett, initial attempts to brand Ed a dangerous communist lunatic seem to be having little impact so far. He is still doing OK.
What's more; labour are not leaking to UKIP, it seems.
The posts simply ooze with intellectual self-confidence
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/conference/2007/09/labour-majority-increase
' As far as I understand the policy right now, it's that rent controls will only be for three year periods. So you won't be able to put up rent prices much for those three years, and then you'll have a big jump at the end. So it sounds like it won't be actively destructive, it just won't achieve much.'
Apparently at the beginning of a tenancy you can ask for whatever rent you want,thereafter, increases will be pegged to inflation, so at the end of the 3 year period whopping increases.(Just like the 70's prices and incomes policies).
As buy-to-let mortgages are not tied to the inflation rate,many will probably be forced to sell up and exit the rental market, leading to a decline in property available in the rental sector.
The above is thought-provoking on why the tories aren;t doing better with a booming economy
Homework is indeed vital as one never knows if a museum bookshop is going to have any grown-up stuff these days. English Heritage do great books on docks, naval bases, explosives, ammo depots, etc., but don't advertise them well even in the EH magazine. Much appreciated presents for Xmas or birthdays from my partner but they take a little finding. There is a nice little one on the Brunel blockmaking production line machinery, for instance.
A schoolfriend's father was on the Glorious - sent ashore (I seem to recall) to deal with admin as she sailed for her meeting with the Kriegsmarine. I remember him telling me how he lost many friends that day.
As for the Saxon Shore, another holiday idea is Pevensey and the Cinque Ports. Rye, perhaps, for a base? I've only ever seen Dover with its lighthouse, and Burgh Castle in a swede field on the Broads. But to return to Mr Antifrank's original theme, Dover, and of course Portchester also, seem slightly ironic in a UKIP context simply because they were built by Romans and Normans ...
Unfortunately all parties seem to have the same answer: tax them some more!
I suppose they could be to give Yorkies the impression they've been abroad if they've travelled from Sheffield to Scarborough.
" tickets and passports please we're approaching the North Yorkshire border "
Good spot Mike, but does he have the all important left-leaning credentials?
'But presumably you'll just ask for more than you would have otherwise done up front, anticipating rental inflation.'
Yes, higher rents to start with and larger increases at the end of the 3 year term.
Disagree with you about exodus.After the crash of private pensions many people went into buy-to-let as an alternative,often with rental income barely covering mortgage costs but looking at longer term capital appreciation and in the knowledge that rents could be increased to cover mortgage increases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether
1/4 Cons
3/1 UKIP
20/1 LD
Surely the true sign of intellectual self-confidence is not claiming to have more of it than someone else!
What Ed is describing is 'arrogance'.
SNP ministers have finally admitted carrying out research into their flagship childcare policy - but say it would be against “the public interest” to publish it.
http://scottishpol.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/secrecy-is-good-for-you.html
I think it is time for a relaunch myself and the retirement of Paxo is an obvious opportunity.
Wonder if he went to Dundee High (Andrew Marr, Glasgow, old boy)?
It’s amazing how people’s behaviour towards UKIP is the very same behaviour which they claim to oppose: ignorance, intolerance & aggression.
My wife's family are Lancastrian; I"m given to understand "quarantined" would be more appropriate than "independent" for Yorkshire!
Now we will be subject to endless self-important posts about "God's Own County" etc etc
You could, of course if you are feeling brave, go over the border into Kent. Beware though! The people speak funny and smell. But Dover Castle is well worth a day on its own and some of the inland scenery and towns are glorious. Try Tenterden, Hawkhurst and that place just down from Beneden School the name of which I can't remember but has two super pubs a church that is stunning and a fantastic fish and chip van. All that said, remember we are talking about Kent and they are funny over there.
LOL. Check out 35-35 Monday. Hilarious.
"56% say the government should introduce rent controls – and the majority say governments should be more willing to intervene in markets generally"
Clever really. Old Labour trying to improve life for the average person ended up making them more conservative whereas New Labour allying with big business to destroy any kind of financial security at all let alone prosperity will successfully revive commiedom.
Labour's bombardment of the Lib Dems shows it is going all out for a majority
Rather than preparing for another hung parliament, Labour is focused on "crushing" Clegg's party.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/labours-bombardment-lib-dems-shows-it-going-all-out-majority
If they want a tory party that is even largely committed to campaigning for "in" ticking off Osborne in this way is a really bad move. The conspiracy theorist would of course assume that this is one of the "concessions" Dave is going to achieve in due course but you do have to wonder.
Constituency Member of Parliament (MP)
Beverley and Holderness Mr Graham Stuart
Brigg and Goole Mr Andrew Percy
East Yorkshire The Rt. Hon. Greg Knight, FCA
Haltemprice and Howden The Rt. Hon. David Davis
Hull West and Hessle
The Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson
http://www2.eastriding.gov.uk/
Plus we have the limp wristed weakness of the words that Osborne uses that are so infuriating, and such a boon to UKIP . Words like ''entitled'' and ''challenge''
The time for words like this with Europe are long gone, surely.
http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/Roger-Helmer-selected-as-UKIP-choice
The article has been removed, but the URL lingers on.....