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In the immortal words of Norman Lamont "today has been difficult day."
Bugger.
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To retain less than 20% of their deposits.
On the other hand it all helps those of us on the lost deposits bet.
GeorgeMonbiot @GeorgeMonbiot 42m42 minutes ago
.@TheGreenParty has some excellent policies and has costed them. So why can't it defend them in interviews? Urgent media training needed.
Green launch election campaign - lots of media news - with commentators tearing their warped philosophy to shreds.
Pure co-incidence of course that Green voters are more likely to have been former Labour supporters and the MSM want Labour back in/
I doubt if it will have any impact on the Greens's support.
Nevertheless, their upward surge of a few weeks ago seems to have come to an end.
She's hardly a novice, as a journalist with an MA in Mass Communication, and served as internal communications coordinator on the National Executive of the party.
Everyone is "agin" you! Fortunately the blues have loads of money and the ears of most the press and Sky, to help compensate.
I feel your pain though.
FPT..
Charles's kind observation that Gladstone (ex High Tory, than Peelite before recognising his true home was with the Liberals) would be a Thatcherite these days probably applies to most Liberal politicians of the 19th Century hence the degree to which they were revered by some on the Thatcher side of the fence.
As to where that would leave the Victorian Tories, well, maybe another day...
I've not listened to the Natalie Bennett interview - anyone is entitled to a bad day at the office but why did she do the interview if she was below par ? There are plenty of hostile journalists and bloggers around to pounce on the slightest gaffe or indiscretion but why make it so easy for them ?
As an aside, it looks like the Green Party is looking to put up a full slate of candidates in County Durham.
Fair enough though she apologised to green members for not doing a good job on lbc, nice to see a human side to politiçians
They're standing 509 candidates
These people are the parasites of the political process but they've always existed in one form or another.
Some of the mainstream politicians get away with talking total crap or making things up, and virtually no interviewers know enough or care enough to stop them. All Nat did was to make it easy for them.
For once, I agree with Roger.
Cracknell a runner?
(No he's a rower boom boom)
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24/02/2015 11:40
Any more suggestions for our betting on Tory candidate for Kensington?
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It would be interesting if the media gave their candidates as much scrutiny as lowly UKIP councillors have had. I wonder how many Greens have come to plods notice in the dim and distant and even not so distant past over some demonstration or other or worse (and what sort of outpourings they have made on social media regarding the state of the establishment and what should be done about it as well). I wouldn't be surprised if some of the expose's makes UKIP's sinners look positively angelic!
PS Re last thread. I think UKIP made an error in doing the Thanet fly on the wall documentary. Such things whether its Geordie Shore or the Kardashians are always going to be a lose lose (even without someone saying something grotesquely stupid) as it inevitably becomes a vehicle for certain factions in the middle classes to sneer down their noses at whoever the subject of the documentary is. they should have known better. Of course not only did it create the wrong narrative for the party but it gave far too many media outlets the opportunity to ignore UKIPs health proposals announced yesterday.
God knows why
The question arises, if she gets shredded that badly in the debates (should they happen of course), it's surely a good thing for Ed? I suspect a bit like Darling, in the first debate in Scotland, that "Ed is crap" is so heavily "priced in" that the fact the man can stand up straight and talk will count in his favour in the first debate in particular and having Natalie Bennett next to him looking less than realistic about policy shall we say (I'm being kind) can but help garner the Left to him.
Secondly the Green party of England and Wales is only one of three in the UK. Surely the broadcasters have every right to invite the leader of either of the other parties to the debates? Please?
No wonder Ed wants to debate
If folk think "poor old Natalie, she's feeling rough and he's bullying her, and yes we need more social housing and I'm sure taxing landlords will add up easily to pay for it" then good for them.
I will not be among them mind.
I can't help but feel that it speaks to a major contradiction in the Greens' political philosophy, which is that even parties like Syriza or Podemos (who the Greens would like to see themselves alongside) on the radical left have discernible economic agendas which are coherent from their own viewpoint. The UK Greens on the other hand are a weird mix between the hard-left and a sort of Eco-millenarianism which runs up against even those left-wing aims. Take the way that Bennett says the world has 'too much stuff' and that we should prepare for falls in GDP (Green policy). Now, even Lenin wanted to grow GDP and make their citizenry as a whole wealthier - he just thought that a command economy was the best way to do it. Hence they propose things that a very left-wing government would do, but unlike a true party of the left haven't even got to the stage where they've considered the costings and the tax that would pay for it - if you get anything at all you get a pie in the sky figure based on some kind of dream world in which 'sustainability' has somehow squared any circle.
Have you forgotten Neil is a PB Tory?
And now Bennett.
It will be someone on the candidates' list, who has been a runner-up in one of the other safe seats but is still available and still doing the rounds. Names like Suella Fernandes, Helen Whately, Nick Rose, Laura Trott, who are all standing in the current round of selection meetings. As a wild guess I'd suggest Suella, assuming she doesn't get selected for Fareham on Saturday.
Making these mandatory worldwide to stop cross infections seemed to be the designers objective (it works by the plunger snapping in half when you try to withdraw it again)
The slight problem of course is that is only useful for a pre measured amount of fluid in the manner of single dose vaccines.
You can't fill the thing from vials as the plunger would break off.
Not one of the interviewers asked the question.
I knew I should have excluded you!!
Middle age starts about 10 years later than your current age.
"Laura Trott. Not to be confused with the Olympic cyclist of the same name, Trott is an adviser to the Prime Minister on Education and Family policy. Previously Special Adviser to Francis Maude at the Cabinet Office, she is a former Councillor in Camden. In 2013 was longlisted in Croydon South, and in October was longlisted for Havant."
http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2015/02/faversham-and-mid-kent-shortlist-released.html
Don't you all agree ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Parsley
Even worse than FPTP.
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Bennett is hardly the best but there seems little point in doing what JoCo did and repeatedly ask the same question when it's been given a pretty succinct and clear answer. Figures will come in March. But JoCo isn't interested in informing the audience just trying to monster a (admittedly easy) target.
Perhaps the funniest part is how the career politicians in the Labour party are allowed to get away with not actually having any figures and not intending to have any figures. And Labour gets away with it time and time again.
Is @weejohnny your brother?
It is by far the best policy the Greens have and the only attempt any of the mainstream parties have to address the Marx Capitalism problem (inevitable diminution of wages, in case your wondering).
Lucas isn't my cup of tea with her sanctimonious simperings, but she does at least come across better
Met Lucas in Brighton about five years ago and said well done to her for giving james Delingpole a dressing down on daily politics.. How times change
Honestly Iris Robinson would be all over Neil if she met him.