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TSE - what's the current position on Suarez vs England goals? If a tie, do you lose?
My unwelcome winnings on SL may yet secure Suarez as a belated spurs player! Will give his agent a bell and see if he bites.
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GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.
"There is no programme of mass surveillance and there is no surveillance state,"
Whatever you say, Theresa, whatever you say. And there's no problem with passport delays either, right?
Not a clue.
A tie is no good.
You're all being very harsh on Luis, all because his goals knocked England out.
At least, he could have hacked a few Italians and Uruguyans !
Ahem.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Mondiali/24-06-2014/italia-prandelli-si-dimette-sono-irrevocabili-abete-vado-via-anch-io-801032712877.shtml
Do the decent thing, Hodgson.
"Don't ask me. I couldn't give a monkey's about any of this rubbish.
If it was up to me Coulson would still be in Downing St and Hacked Off would be told to p*ss off."
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I do not want a government that I support knowingly employing criminals or condoning their activities and frankly neither should you.
Not a good sign.
''Your Prime Minister employed a criminal and brought him into No.10.'
Are you going to tell us which crime Coulson was convicted of prior to being employed by No 10 or is it just another of your idiotic comments?
This will not go down well in the noble house of Saud?
It's not my fault people can't keep up with my pace.
I wanted to check with the experts on obscure betting.
Which is you lot. :-)
The fact is if we allow our sovereignty to be continually eroded on the excuse of economic benefit we've reduced ourselves to head of cattle to be bought and sold by those who know better. Democratic legitimacy and political accountability demand that Parliament be sovereign.
In an ideal world I'd agree with Cameron on renegotiation, but I have the firm belief that the European Union is a cabal of shysters, deluded idealists, fanatical federalists and outright crooks who would sooner eat their own feet than honourably deal with renegotiation. These are the same minds that brought us the economic wonder of the eurozone, and there is nothing to convince me they're any wiser when it comes to democracy and legitimacy.
The merry peacock Juncker received how many votes in this nation?
Mr. Smarmeron, to be fair it is entirely valid to be angered when some lunatics blow up an aeroplane.
Hope they spare a thought for absent friends.
I did get a bit more concerned about the Milly Dowler side of things, but even that turned out to be not as The Guardian had been spinning it...
At least I'm consistent.
I was thinking more in terms of the Sunni/Shiite problem, rather than it being a random target.
It could of course be co-incidental.
"Hope they spare a thought for absent friends. "
David and Samantha?
Yes you are "consistent". Pray that such consistency doesn't cost you dear.
We have a better chance of winning the World Cup
It was summed up quite nicely in Yes Prime Minister
Hacker: Do we ever get our way in negotiations with the French.
Sir Humphrey: Well, sometimes.
Hacker: When was the last time?
Sir Humphrey: Battle of Waterloo 1815
Must be a great weight of your shoulders knowing you are not guilty.
The thought of a prison sentence must be a nightmare, what ever the tabloids say about it being easy street.
"It was devastating in terms of my life's work," he said. "I'd given everything to become in a position to make a difference to people's lives, to become a cabinet member, to be able to carry out the things that I wanted to do."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27885198
Save the water works and the BBC soft soaping. There are plenty of proper examples of press behaving truly appallingly, but this also involved more than just an affair.
If he cared so much about wrecking your life work that started with the People's Republic of South Yorkshire and finished as an appalling home secretary, you should have thought about all of this before he went shagging around. Same with Prescott.
Also, as only briefly mentioned in the soft soaping article there was more to this story than just getting caught with his trousers down.
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The Experts applaud this Norwegian who apparently put a bet on Suarez biting an opponent and cashed in!
The next months will see! Lib-Dhimmies-for-DIM-ED-and-DUMMER-ECK will not swing the next election....
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What's the problem?
Suarez should have waited for Uruguay to play Germany. I hear they do an excellent shoulder of Lahm
I dare say you also believe that Tories eat babies - it does not alter that fact that your claim is nonsense.
We're watching Colombia and Japan on Bbc3 - Yeah!-
I'm just here to pass on this advice from the ST on trying to cheer yourselves up after an Engexit
"[try doing] something different (eg fill in your wall chart with a different-colour pen)"
It's a somewhat perverse position for a Conservative to take !?!
I assume your defence is the word "knowingly" ?
Otherwise just about every post-war government has employed criminals. You probably know some.
So, why did your Prime Minister apologise ?
'My belief is that the Tories did want to employ who would get dirty stories about opponents. People in the know did know what the Murdoch press was upto !'
So you are confirming it was yet another of your idiotic comments.
Obviously someone told Suárez to give a nail-biting finish to the match...
"77 Specific jurisdiction
The Disciplinary Committee is responsible for:
a) sanctioning serious infringements which have escaped the match
officials’ attention;
b) rectifying obvious errors in the referee’s disciplinary decisions;
c) extending the duration of a match suspension incurred automatically by
an expulsion (cf. art 18, par. 4);
d) pronouncing additional sanctions, such as a fine."
Rebekah Brooks was educated at a state comprehensive.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/5711578/Mili-even-less-Prime-Ministerial-than-Brown.html
2. "Knowingly" is a cast iron defence.
3. I probably do.
http://www.pb.pl/3742120,80887,government-at-war-with-the-coal-mafia?dimension=305
Interesting poll, would the top choices be prime ministers of recent times perhaps?
I don't just mean that the press is attacking him - rather that all over the press they are saying he doesn't look like a PM - ie exactly the same line of attack is being used.
Is it part of a co-ordinated strategy - ie in a few weeks time the press will all move on to a different line of attack.
So this is just the first stage if the exercise - a general softening up by means of a quasi personal attack - then next everyone moves onto a different line - eg that he'll raise taxes.
Gin
In his oral evidence at the Leveson inquiry, Mr Cameron said he remembered the meeting in his office in May 2007 and remembered seeking the assurances there. Quite a moment, you might think, and one that would stay in Andy Coulson’s mind. The prime-minister-in-waiting eyeballs you about your probity before hiring you to be No 10 press chief in-waiting. Funny, then, that Andy Coulson remembers no such thing happening. - See more at: http://blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbon-on-politics/coulson-verdict-blog-publish/28549#sthash.D0AsOYrk.dpuf
http://blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbon-on-politics/coulson-verdict-blog-publish/28549
I don't just mean that the press is attacking him - rather that all over the press they are saying he doesn't look like a PM - ie exactly the same line of attack is being used.
Is it part of a co-ordinated strategy - ie in a few weeks time the press will all move on to a different line of attack.
So this is just the first stage if the exercise - a general softening up by means of a quasi personal attack - then next everyone moves onto a different line - eg that he'll raise taxes.]
There's nothing orchestrated about it - *Ed is Crap* just pops into 80% of politico's brains whenever he opens his gob - It ain't *Pre-prepared*
Good reading material !
Did Thatcher look "prime ministerial" before her election? I seem to remember that some harboured doubts, even within her own party?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/06/theres-poison-in-the-shadow-cabinet-and-it-could-cost-ed-miliband-the-election
The question to ask is why no one complains about posh boy Farage who went to a fancy private school and worked as a city slicker. Senior levels of UKIP are packed with Old Etonians. The abilities of people to have total blind spots on on hand and be total bigots on the other is an interesting point I think.
My point is just that the message everywhere is the same and it's a very specific message.
But I don't think the message is going to be the same every week till next May - I think it'll change at some point.
I've always thought that the absolutely overwhelming line of attack is going to be that Labour = Tax Bombshell. With Waste / Welfare / Borrowing / Debt as the secondary issues.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/23/crisis-labour-party-ed-miliband
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead down one to three points: CON 33%, LAB 36%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
Sun Politics @Sun_Politics
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead down one to three points: CON 33%, LAB 36%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
I missed the snore draw earlier, should have gone all guns blazing and at least create some excitement.
And todays ursine forest revalation: Tabloid journalists have no respect for privacy.
LAB 341 CON 265 LD 18 Other 26 (ukpr)
Ed is crap is PM 10.5 MONTHS TO GO
"What do you think of Ed Miliband?"
"I think he's doing very well."
"Oh. Well. Er. Well, what do the people you talk to think of how he's doing?"
"They think he's doing fine."
"Oh."
Presumably the reporter will ring 100 people who he thinks are CLP chairs (he's two years out of date in our case) and pick the two who say something critical. 'Twas always thus - I once had an interview lasting more than 2 hours for an "in depth" programme (the one with the Westmnister-as-crocodile sequence at the start): they used precisely half a sentence which fitted with their theme.
"... posh boy Farage who went to a fancy private schoolposh boy Farage who went to a fancy private school..."
Didn't he go to Dulwich College? Same school as Alistair Campbell and I don't remember anyone moaning about it being a fancy public school when Campbell was bullying his way around Westminster.
This whole busyness of worrying about what school politicians' parents sent them to is really rather childish and pathetic.
How many times do you people need to be told this????-
It's Because He Clearly Likes Drinking Pints In The Pub
As someone who likes pints in the pub he will always have an element of kudos points from me.
Remind me who was caught making up lies about opponents wives and who employed him.
We should remind ourselves that Maria Miller was found 'not guilty' by the standards committee and only gained opprobrium for a backhanded 'non-apology'.
How strong was the case against Brookes... how much was the prosecution piling on the kitchen sink in the hope of getting something?
On The Record!!!!!
Iran are now the only team left who have not scored.
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Luis Suarez can be banned from international football for two years, according to FIFA reports
@docbloomfield: @camillalong And to answer that we have to ask "Was the bite in self-defence?" If the answer's "no" than that could imply it was more sexual