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Adrian "Golly" Chiles will be along soon to tell us all they hey it was only the odd insult and that he would get some abuse if he walked around the streets of Manchester because he is a celeb.
http://order-order.com/2015/03/06/itv-hosting-a-secret-leaders-debate-next-friday/
Another massive victory for team Dave if it happens.
If Dave can play the broadcasters so brilliantly just imagine the world of hurt he's going to inflict on Ed in this debate.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-03-06/poll-greens-mostly-likely-to-be-seen-as-amateurish/
The whole argument in favour of a Nuclear Deterrent is based on MAD. There is no MAD when you can only blood the nose of an enemy. Russia is a country of 17 million square kilometres with military infrastructure generally separate from major population centres.
Even if the entire UK arsenal was deployed solely on population centres, it's still only a bloody nose. Russia survives, the UK is obliterated. MAD is not achieved.
"UKIP slumped to third place in Bocking ward in Essex (CC) in their attempt to defend the seat as the Conservatives polled 34.3% to win the seat back having lost it by 20 votes two years ago. In addition, UKIP suffered a 5.3% drop in their vote share from 2013 as they finished 119 votes adrift of Labour to finish third."
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Posting less is nothing to do with the site, which remains admirable. I just felt that I was posting for the sake of it and not adding anything to the debate.
At such times, less is more.
I think this is an avoidable disaster for Cameron.
He's acting as if the Tories are leading in the polls. But they're still behind and this arrogance reminds voters why they put the Tories behind Labour.
What are the odds on ITV going it alone with the debates?
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
NATO - Article 5
At the moment, nothing has been decided and I'm far from convinced the seven-sided debate would be a "win" for Cameron as he will have to face some hostile questionning on immigration from Farage and perhaps the audience that isn't going to be easy for him.
Where I would agree is that Cameron's biggest problem in the head-to-Head with Ed M wouldn't be Ed M but questions from the audience.
Time for Ed to run along for another meeting with the head of the BBC. Ed Miliband, the Violet Elizabeth Bott for our times.....
"I'll thcream and thcream 'till I'm thick"
When Dave has played it well I say so.
So no need for Trident 2 at all and no need to retain Trident 1.
In practice NATO is essentially the USA Nuclear deterrent when push comes to shove.
For all their reported certainty of victory. our blue friends tend to wet them selves with excitement at the smallest twitter rumour by their tame press.
Relax and enjoy. (or brick yourself if you wish)
I'm the same with George.
Though I haven't had much to do in the last 5 years.
I went on Holiday to Tunisia a few years ago, could be next on the menu for the nutjobs.
At the moment that would mean "nuking" Israel as there is a convention against nuking those without the power to respond.
History shows blokes named Alanbrooke think they can do better than Tory PMs.
06/03/2015 14:10
ITV, I'm told, NOT thinking of going it alone & accepting Downing St proposal for 7-person debate. TV cos to unveil united plans very soon
After 5 years of denying the bleeding obvious, Tory HQ stares reality in the face.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11453572/George-Osborne-I-regret-not-overhauling-RBS.html
And still draw the wrong conclusions.
Does "told" have a higher certainty than "heard" I wonder?
State of play in the Libyan civil war at the moment, like Labour seats the coastal areas have alot of people in a small area.
You'll miss them when they are gone.
Given it would seem to be against Ofcom rules (DUP, SF and BNP should by rights also be invited) on such matters surely Ofcom must step in a end this farce once and for all? If ITV attempt to do this they should be hauled across the coals for doing so. We cannot have politicians and TV companies conspiring to influence the general election in what at best is a highly questionable manner.
PS Little surprise that it is ITV that are rumoured to break ranks when its run by that Westminster stooge Crozier.
Part-ELBOW for the week's polls so far, inc. last night's YG and Populus:
Lab 33.5
Con 33.1
UKIP 14.5
LD 7.1
Green 5.9
Lab lead 0.4%
also, Greens sub-6%
Where's yer Crossover now?
Damn, and there I was thinking this was all as innocent as the pure white snow.
And subtract a week while the GB public take a break to get drunk and do some gardening while the kids paint Easter eggs?
*except in Scotland
One broadcaster and Dave come to an arrangement, and all the other parties quietly acquiesce and don't boycott it in favour of an offer by the other broadcasters.
As my father used to say, you seldom see a poor bookie, but bankrupt punters are ten a penny.
ISIS are playing a clever game, I think if they aren't stopped they'll go for Istanbul and Rome. But probably not before 2040 or so.
Odds on Lampedusa becoming part of the caliphate before 2025 ?
the NHSCrossover!There is also an intense debate going on about the introduction of retransmission fees in the UK market (i.e. where a broadcaster charges the pay-tv operator for their channel). The current government has just launched a review, which will report post-election. ITV and Channel 4 want it, Sky is vehemently opposed (the BBC just wants to keep its licence fee). So, by doing this, ITV would thus put itself in the government's good book.
For that reason, I don't believe any of Sky, ITV or Channel 4 would go against the government, given what could happen if the Conservatives formed the next government.
Obviously the BBC is concerned re the licence fee.
He has appalling music taste for starters as John Oliver explained.
http://youtu.be/3lKYPp2Kp6s
Our American cousins had more or less authorized a tactical strike on Vietnam if Khe Sanh was about to fall.
There seemed to be some discussion about the possible "fall out"* should they have done so, and it was decided that it probably wasn't one of the better military strategies.
MAD only works as long as no one else starts it.
*pun intended
That isn't to say the nutters wont then go onto try and blow up western stuff etc, but the thing that drives ISIS in the way it does at the moment is having his calilphate, where in their eyes everything is perfectly Islamic.
ISIS have at their heart a belief in a forth coming apocalypse, granted, a few of them might not have the same degree of certainty about "when and if" but it does give you an insight about what you are dealing with.
Not if you go into almost any pub.
You will meet several people who claim they never lose on the fruit machines, and oddly, you meet very few gamblers who tell you about the losses they have made over the years.
The number of virgins needed is somewhat reduced by the fact that it was Allah's will that they should die, therefore he will have accounted for those who deserve paradise, and the rest who will have eternal damnation.
(Other religions have a similar way of seeing things.)
James Dennison @JamesRDennison · 20m20 minutes ago
Latest polls in 3 Green targets - GP to put all resources in Brstol W - odds against them bt momentum w them #gpconf
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I'm already on the Greens at 7-2 here. Lib Dems could well get squeezed
£10 Bristol West, Labour.
Walked to the pub years ago after work one evening with a Horse Racing trader who told me about six pieces of incredible bad luck he had that months punting that made me think he might have gone skint until he finished of with "record month mind..."
Con Lab LD Green
16 32 25 0 0 24
After the Civil War, every church was whitewashed to remove the pictures and as many statues to saints were destroyed as possible. We can only guess at what cultural treasures we lost then from the odd chance find when the whitewash is peeled off. The story goes that the Chinese Ambassador visited Peterborough, saw the front of the cathedral with all the decapitated statues and said "ah, you too have had a Cultural Revolution". So this experience is not completely unknown in Britain.
@JamesRDennison: @TSEofPB http://t.co/xUgn70j0tG
And
@JamesRDennison: @TSEofPB actually they've changed since i put the graphs together a few days ago, will put up a new version
I hope you're writing in purple ink to MI5 about the enemy within.