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The next PB get-together will take place on Tuesday March 17th from 7pm at the Shooting Star in Middlesex Street. As the map below shows this is just round the corner from our normal venue, Dirty Dicks. We are hoping that this will be less crowded and noisy than the pre-Christmas bash. Thanks to Fat Steve for finding the new venue.
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Will Lab retain the lead they achieved on Thursday or will we revert back to a Tie or even a Con lead?
Most difficult YG prediction of the week coming up...
I assume no other polls are expected tonight (obviously this close to the election we could get polls from various unexpected quarters)
Wonder why?
That is all.
It has been a good week for Conservative selections perennial finalists with Helen Whately also selected on Tuesday
The whole point of my post was to express my disgust at MPs refusing to ban abortion on the grounds of the sex of the foetus (with principally females being the victim)
and to point out that it follows that said MPs are so wedded to the idea of the "right to choose" that if someone discovered a "gay gene" that could be detected in a test on a foetus, our MPs would not even ban abortion on those grounds.
I hereby appoint TSE as her campaign mananger.
' it's obviously wicked uncle Vlad? '
Just like the Russian defector poisoned in a London hotel in 2006, nothing to do with uncle Vlad just an amazing coincidence.
It's a really great company - it's first generation products are already on the market in China (for swine FMD). We are about to launch an immunocastration product for boars as well.
On the human side we've focused on Alzheimer's and HIV rather than influenza, primarily because the tender prices in flu are so low that the returns really just don't work.
Company is called united biomedical if you want to look.
So perhaps you can explain just how you've established in the short time you've had, that Putin was responsible for killing this man. Go on, I'm all ears. You might want to explain whilst you're at it why he would want to -given that his approval ratings are at 85%, and the political opposition in Russia is disunited and ineffective.
And that "hard case " is irrevlevant to the other 99.99% of abortions in any case.
I understand where you are coming from now. (possibly a rewrite of the original would have been better).
Myself, I am in favour of the right to choose, but not as a form of eugenics based on what you assume the child might become. Serious genetic faults that leave the child with very low life quality are ok, hair colour, sex, and general cosmetic reasons should be ignored.
(the dividing lines are of course a minefield)
Not sure the PB drinks organisers have thought this one through.
But I suspect that most experts would thing that, in this case, bearing the foetus to term (even if adopted immediately) would cause more distress to the child-victim.
Hope the company other products have better prospects.
"Of all the hair joints in all the towns in all the world, OGH walks into mine. Play it, Sam. Play As Hair Goes By."
If Navalny who's a small fish can be under house arrest, why not Nemtsov?
His murder is very unusual, nobody had got murdered that close to the Kremlin before, though there was an attempt on Brezhnev in 1969.
The closest analogy is probably the assassination of Jean Jaures who tried to prevent WWI, but was murdered by those who had an interest on the war starting.
One of the things that puzzled me was why she wasn't selected to fight Eastleigh again.
Maybe there was a reason why she passed up the Eastleigh gig then.
Isabel Hardman @IsabelHardman 5h5 hours ago
Diane James giving a speech that's much better than the sort of thing many junior ministers produce #UKIPSpring
Clearly something happened in those 4 hours between her speech and her decision to withdraw.
George Galloway has ordered lawyers to issue Twitter users who alleged he was an anti-Semite with letters demanding £5,000 and threatening legal action.
The Bradford West MP has reportedly singled out up to a dozen people, including some who had only re-tweeted other posts and a charity worker with just 75 followers.
The letters, seen by The Times, were issued by Bradford-based Chambers Solicitors. They said the recipient was “required” to pay legal costs of £5,000 plus VAT into a HSBC bank account by 10 March.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/george-galloway-demanding-5000-from-twitter-users-over-antisemitism-libel-10077205.html
Odd choice. All very curious.
However I think she should avoid any roof top assignations in the near future .... or walks close to the Kremlin !!
If they are, then how do you prove or disprove that said person is an anti-semite?
Unfortunately twitter falls onto the same category as PB.com, but twitter doesn't have moderators to protect its site or its users.
The worse thing is that it creates a pattern, "the higher someone rises in UKIP the harder they fall" is beginning to become a law of UKIP mechanics.
Of course the whole area is littered with possibles, maybes and other confounders.
Maybe she will be elevated to mythical status on here now? I seem to remember she was the butt of all jokes after she appeared on This Week and said UKIP could win 40 odd seats
"Maybe she will be elevated to mythical status on here now?"
"Do you think her speech at conference was *too* good? Added to her strong performance coming out of Eastleigh and her appeal across class and gender... "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/scottish/6389855.stm
Looks as if the rot set in after 18 secs.
http://www.andoverandvillages.co.uk/andover-news-in-andover-and-villages/1797-ukip-s-diane-james-stands-down-as-local-candidate
The second jobs issue looked bad and it was then compounded by a disastrous BBC1 Question Time - Q1 Immigration, Q2 Second Jobs and then worst of all someone in the audience with very good communication skills said they would never vote Con again due to MPs getting a 10% pay rise. It was very strongly implied that this had been implemented by the Conservatives - ie Conservatives giving MPs a huge pay rise whilst implementing austerity on everyone else - as toxic as you could possibly get.
Shapps said no but far, far too quickly and not clearly enough for the TV audience to register.
It was the single most damaging hour of TV for the Conservatives in the last few years.
Con have definitely gone backwards this week.
However excessive exposure of my ARSE is liable to lead to over familiarity and a sense of entitlement and I'm wary lest it be seen as some form of PB benefit to certain scroungers herewith.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/farage-i-admire-putin
''Nigel Farage has named Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admires... ''
I realise it's only one programme and most things go in one ear and out the other. But even so this was so unbelievably toxic that it will have done significant damage.
What is shocking is that Shapps handled it so badly - to just contradict the audience member in about 6 words spoken almost under his breath in 3 seconds was absolutely hopeless. He should have made it very, very clear that what had been said was not true and he simply didn't do so.
Must say I'm very surprised your getting your ARSE out every Saturday from next week through to the election as I was lead to believe you spent weekends drinking G & T's and playing Rummy at Chez Jack?
Apparently, he's demanding that people describe him as a "rabid anti-semite" in future.
While multi-infarct dementia is often casually referred to as Alzheimers potentially the market for true alzheimers is vast, and the potential benefit to the world is incalcuable.
The real answer to much of the social care/ chronic ill health issue will come from big pharma. The rest of us are chasing the horse long after it has bolted.
I hope Charles has a very good profit out of a very successful drug, and can afford the Mansion tax for the whole of Belgravia!
No I don't!
I like her, unlike the PBers who slagged her off after she appeared on This Week, I think she is quite good. Hope she hasn't left UKIP and this is just a temporary thing
I remember being relatively impressed at Eastleigh, but haven't paid much attention to her since.