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How LAB had a very different election in Scotland in 2010 compared with England and Wales pic.twitter.com/9iG3CGDHIG
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http://order-order.com/2015/01/06/red-on-red-audio-of-murphy-v-abbott-mansion-tax-bunfight/
Do you know who I am... said Murph.
Skeletor? said Abbot.
Cameron can remind everyone who messed up the negotiations over GPs contracts, and why they have to go to A&E outside of 9 to 6.
Wales swung more heavily to Labour in 1992 General Election than England -- when the Labour leader was Welsh.
Yes, the UK Labour Leader was Scottish.
And Ed isn't...
...I was talking about the PB Tories Labour MPs complaining about the mansion tax.
He thinks Ed is going to lose...
@MShapland: The Idea David Miliband could come back will make some Labour rank and file WANT to lose 2015....
The issues were first noticed this morning, when the ukip.org address showed a page that often appears when ownership of a domain expires - in this instance offering links to walk in showers and subscriptions to the Telegraph newspaper.
Soon after, a mischievous record label claimed to have purchased the the address for a year - tweeting what the company claimed was a recent for their order.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-01-06/ukip-website-down-as-record-label-claims-to-have-bought-domain/
@BuzzFeedUK: Labour is “boasting” about cutting the arts budget
http://t.co/QB5z1yQ6vn http://t.co/HjjJwr5ASt
@ScotTories: He gets through an entire seven minute interview without uttering the words "Ed Miliband". #wheresmili
http://t.co/Q6XR4l3XtW
On the other hand, we all live on the same island and share the same propensity to moan about the weather, some cultural traditions (pubs, fish & chips etc.) currency, language, a Protestant reformed national church, and an acerbic sense of humour.
http://t.co/eHH8pkpQ4K
Rochester & Strood latest odds:
8/15 @KellyTolhurst (Con)
6/4 @MarkReckless (UKIP)
Kippers can fill their boots...
I'm willing to bet (and have) that they will fall short of expectations in the key Middle England marginals.
Plenty of Labourites are desperate to do well this year to disprove what they believe is the New Labour fallacy that you have to be in the soft-centre to win. One does wonder if folk like David Miliband and Blair are almost as keen to be vindicated.
They are still doing OK there.
Today's updated projection has the parties as follows:
Labour ............. 288
Conservative .... 278
SNP ................... 33
LibDems ............. 26
UKIP .................... 3
Plaid Cymru .......... 2
Greens ................. 1
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/06/uk-services-sector-growth-slows-december
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/ukip_website_broken/
Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband 10m10 minutes ago
Labour will make sure the NHS in England has the time to care. With Labour:
20,000 nurses
8,000 GPs
5,000 care workers
3,000 midwives
More tractor stats comrades.
If you look at the comments under the threads on the A&E story the most liked comments are about how the influx of immigrants is choking the service.
Whether that is true or not, labour assumptions that an A&E crisis is great for them are not necessarily correct.
Police pulled over a man riding a space hopper through a Dundee underpass in the early hours of New Year's Day.
The man was seen trying to bounce his way through the dual carriageway Marketgait underpass, which has no pedestrian footpath, at about 03:00.
One witness said the man "looked very drunk" as he was chased down the tunnel by officers.
Police Scotland confirmed that the man had been spoken to, but no formal action was taken.
Witness Jamie Shankland told BBC Scotland's Newsdrive programme it was a surreal sight.
He said: "It was like a scene from the movie The Hangover."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-30681476
Oh, wait...
He left out the bit about 1,000 free owls.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/20/article-2662719-1EEE326200000578-499_634x359.jpg
Have a look at: http://hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/321/2014/07/GP-Taskforce-report.pdf
"Despite the longstanding Department of Health policy to increase GP training numbers in
England to 3,250 per annum, GP recruitment has remained stubbornly below this target, at
around 2,700 per annum, for the last four years. This cumulative recruitment shortfall is
being compounded by increasing numbers of trained GPs leaving the workforce, most
significantly GPs approaching retirement, but perhaps more worryingly women in their 30s.
GP recruitment and retention is a much bigger problem in some parts of the country and
often in those areas which have the worst health outcomes."
https://twitter.com/TheStaggers/status/552175588375801857
#leftyconspiracy
Also, whilst more articulate than Ed, he also had a unfortunate tendency to come across in a lecturing and slightly pompous manner. I think that might have grated on some people.
Take the 2012 budget, we had politicians obsessing about pasties, and being photographed eating them.
PS - I'm not sure how +50 PMI can be described as hitting the brakes.
If it had fallen below 50 then that might accurately be described as hitting the brakes.
A clever political party would actively recruit more of them.
They really were a most scummy Government. And an even scummier Opposition, denying any of it is anything to do with them.
https://twitter.com/jimmurphymp/status/551834747610341376/photo/1
This is getting to be a habit!
Mind you I was first on here with the news that The Jam had reformed and supporting the libertines.. Easily done
If Miliband goes on the NHS, then as well as Cameron reiterating Labour promised to cut it in 2010, it's an invitation to refer to Scottish Labour's policy of taxing England to fund Scottish nurses and to ask whether Miliband agrees.
Of course, that's so obvious Miliband must have a rebuttal. It'd probably be that Scotland deserves it's fair share of the mansion tax, but if he agrees then the Conservatives could put up the Scottish Labour quote, and then one of Miliband agreeing.
I fear that you, on the other hand, would be reduced to the vile state of penury.
https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/552480466805489665
Any reason why it wouldn't be fair?
I was asking you.
However, I did so without much hope.
I don;t know why. Its being going on for decades.
Where I'm less clear is Labour targets 20-40, where I expect an underperformance. So you will win seats off the Tories, but I think they'll be <30 seats in total, and possibly fewer.
It would be interesting to see how many patients are waiting with ailments that a GP might have dealt with, were there any available.
If only you'd had a major 'flu epidemic, eh? How much happier you'd be. Oh well, I suppose you have to make do with what you can find by selective use of statistics.
@carrieapples: Grant Shapps: “Jim Murphy’s comments show once again that Ed Miliband simply does not command the respect of his party."
I'm not a fan of the NHS concept as a state funded healthcare provider anyway, but all other things being equal, it's hard to see how healthcare performance would have been better under Labour given that policy.
To be clear, I place very little store in them, but they do help illustrate one possible way that the referendum might have created new facts on the ground.
That's the entire purpose of triage, so if the situation you suggest is occurring then I would suggest that it is a defect in the local organisation of NHS services that is at fault.
e.g. Can't wait for Labour's version of the jury room classic, 1012 Angry Men, etc ad infinitum
That almost sounds like a rapidly growing population is putting huge strain on the health service. What could be driving such a thing?!?