Somewhat ironically - and assuming his thesis is correct - then the continued parity in online polls is actually really good for the Tories as it keeps the prospect of EICIPM in the minds of Kippers.
Oh, I don't mind it. Just never get your back waxed and let it go stubbly. There is NOTHING funnier/sadder/more revolting than that.
I had a chappy who'd been making eyes at me for years. He plucked up courage to ask me out and then I discovered he waxed his back - it was hilarious, the hair stopped at his shoulders like a welcome mat, and the stubble poked through his shirt.
I fell about laughing at such poorly executed vanity. I think that effected his game. A lot...
A decade ago we had some female cancer thingy at work which demanded that we wore pink. I was browbeaten into playing along by my HR Dir as *showing concern*
I looked at my wardrobe and noticed that with over 20ft of hanging space - there wasn't a single pink garment. Not even undies.
I have a pink vest top. The only problem is that even I look "chesty" in it. Definitely Not Suitable For Work but if I had been "browbeaten" as you werr I would have worn it anyway... or my one other pink item, a magenta coloured satin nightie (knee length - very modest)
Sunil has just passed out.
Not sure if Plato remembers, but we did meet at a PB bash many moons ago.
Permission to swoon?
Thank you!
But seriously I was under the impression most women dislike body hair - not suggesting it's the only reason I'm still single!
Plato, only you can raise the quality of the discussion !
"I'm no Dolly Parton but it was most amusing. The Tesco delivery guy today suffered the same affliction. I wasn't wearing a bra under my tee-shirt. Poor fellow was transfixed."
“On the current fast stream civil service programme, almost everyone is Oxbridge educated and they are all white, so we will introduce a combination of diversity targets and quotas to address that – including for working-class candidates”, he added.
How the f*ck are they going to decide who is working class enough - do you get bonus points for owning a whippet, or do you have to have sniffed glue on a Glasgow Housing estate or what ?!
This stuff is to be expected from a man who, in all seriousness, thinks the next James Bond should be a woman.
I was advised by a professional stylist to wear chokers and neck scarves to keep attention upwards.
I'm no Dolly Parton but it was most amusing. The Tesco delivery guy today suffered the same affliction. I wasn't wearing a bra under my tee-shirt. Poor fellow was transfixed.
Somewhat ironically - and assuming his thesis is correct - then the continued parity in online polls is actually really good for the Tories as it keeps the prospect of EICIPM in the minds of Kippers.
But before you celebrate a 1.5% lead probably still means EICIPM. This is assuming that only Comres phone polling is correct.
“On the current fast stream civil service programme, almost everyone is Oxbridge educated and they are all white, so we will introduce a combination of diversity targets and quotas to address that – including for working-class candidates”, he added.
How the f*ck are they going to decide who is working class enough - do you get bonus points for owning a whippet, or do you have to have sniffed glue on a Glasgow Housing estate or what ?!
This stuff is to be expected from a man who, in all seriousness, thinks the next James Bond should be a woman.
the pen pushers’ idea of “a range” of recommended reading on governmental matters:
· Michael Barber, ‘How to run a Government’ · Tony Blair, ‘A journey’ · Alastair Campbell, ‘The Blair years: extracts from the Alastair Campbell diaries’ · Anthony King and Ivor Crewe, ‘The blunders of our governments’ · Damian McBride, ‘Power Trip: a decade of policy, plots and spin’ · Chris Mullin, ‘A view from the foothills: the Chris Mullin diaries’
I was addressing your implied statement that men can join the WI.
Fair enough - but even the WI might have a sticky time defining who is a man and who is a woman. I know that sounds mad but I was involved in a project some time ago and it is actually a grey area. The only reference is a piece of paper that is based on someone's opinion and in as many as 1% of births that quick squint between the legs produces an "Um..." rather than "Boy" or "Girl".
Think about that - your legal sex is based on a two second glance between your legs on day one and then a chain of people writing it down without making any mistakes or mixing you up.
Absolutely.
The more we learn about gender, the messier it seems to get. The forced genital mutilation of babies in the past (almost always to make *it* into a girl) is pretty horrific.
the pen pushers’ idea of “a range” of recommended reading on governmental matters:
· Michael Barber, ‘How to run a Government’ · Tony Blair, ‘A journey’ · Alastair Campbell, ‘The Blair years: extracts from the Alastair Campbell diaries’ · Anthony King and Ivor Crewe, ‘The blunders of our governments’ · Damian McBride, ‘Power Trip: a decade of policy, plots and spin’ · Chris Mullin, ‘A view from the foothills: the Chris Mullin diaries’
I was advised by a professional stylist to wear chokers and neck scarves to keep attention upwards.
I'm no Dolly Parton but it was most amusing. The Tesco delivery guy today suffered the same affliction. I wasn't wearing a bra under my tee-shirt. Poor fellow was transfixed.
Have you seen the Louis Theroux docs on transgender children - it's probably on catch-up tv somewhere.
It's provocative and enlightening. It made me rethink a few things.
I knew it was on but I was not interested enough to watch it. Mr Theroux's previous documentaries always left me feeling like I had been short-changed so I did not bother with this one.
He is lying, because afaik the Tories aren't taking people out of paying NI, just IC. The whole history of NI is exactly for the purpose of funding various benefits and pension. If you don't "pay in" you don't get your state pension, so no such link is broken.
You can simply claim child benefit (if you have a kid under 12) to gain your NI credits rather than working.
If it is it means that the Labour party is VERY racist - no doubt Diane Abbott has her paws in this. Imagine if UKIP had written a separate manifesto for white Englishmen only.
Imagine if UKIP were demanding that a particular percentage of jobs were reserved for white people.
Why I'm voting Tory, Sean. Whatever social policy nonsense Clegg and Cameron may decide if reelected will be a picnic compared to what Labour under Miliband will put the country through.
It's a good reason for voting Conservative - provided the Conservatives don't do something similar. I remember how Cameron started his premiership by condemning Oxbridge for not taking in enough students from ethnic minorities.
Miss Plato, Miliband's idiotic suggestion Bond should be a woman was as tone deaf as when Prescott went to Scotland for the referendum and suggested a joint Anglo-Scottish football team.
When demographics are key to a character they cannot be altered. Bond's defined by being British, male and a womaniser.
On the other hand, Rosamund Pike as a serial womaniser. Hmm. Maybe the idea does have merit...
Somewhat ironically - and assuming his thesis is correct - then the continued parity in online polls is actually really good for the Tories as it keeps the prospect of EICIPM in the minds of Kippers.
The monthly comparison between online and phone polls is pretty stark.
Labour are going to lose, but it will come as an awful shock to many of their supporters, just as it did in 1992.
Somewhat ironically - and assuming his thesis is correct - then the continued parity in online polls is actually really good for the Tories as it keeps the prospect of EICIPM in the minds of Kippers.
Basssssssssiiiiiiiilllllll...
Listen, don't mention the crossover! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. [returns to pb.com] So! It's all forgotten now, and let's hear no more about it. So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Gove, an Esther McVey, and four Grayling salads.
I find his playing the numpty a most intriguing form of intv. He's clearly a very clever man who's made an art of appearing a bit stupid/unthreatening. I've seen quite a lot of his stuff and it's a unique technique.
I found his one about the insanity defence prisoners a bit lacking - but it still shone a light on those involved. He's jolly perceptive.
Have you seen the Louis Theroux docs on transgender children - it's probably on catch-up tv somewhere.
It's provocative and enlightening. It made me rethink a few things.
I knew it was on but I was not interested enough to watch it. Mr Theroux's previous documentaries always left me feeling like I had been short-changed so I did not bother with this one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
It's a legitimate grievance that there are no immigration controls for (mainly white) EU migrants, whereas (mainly non-white) immigrants from outside the EU face such controls. But, I wouldn't want to move to abolish such immigration controls in the name of equality.
The more we learn about gender, the messier it seems to get. The forced genital mutilation of babies in the past (almost always to make *it* into a girl) is pretty horrific.
Somewhat ironically - and assuming his thesis is correct - then the continued parity in online polls is actually really good for the Tories as it keeps the prospect of EICIPM in the minds of Kippers.
But before you celebrate a 1.5% lead probably still means EICIPM. This is assuming that only Comres phone polling is correct.
I don't think it does, with Scotland as it is. But it's very close. I have the Tories ahead by 21 seats on a 1.1% gap in vote share currently.
Miss Plato, Miliband's idiotic suggestion Bond should be a woman was as tone deaf as when Prescott went to Scotland for the referendum and suggested a joint Anglo-Scottish football team.
When demographics are key to a character they cannot be altered. Bond's defined by being British, male and a womaniser.
On the other hand, Rosamund Pike as a serial womaniser. Hmm. Maybe the idea does have merit...
I sincerely hope Consett is a lot nicer nowadays. I went there post closure and the air was still orange with dust and everything was fly-blown dereliction.
It was grim, though not as appalling as Immingham. Christ that needed a health warning from 5 miles out.
Jim Murphy has strongly attacked the Tory manifesto pledge to extend EVEL to financial matters – “ including an English rate of Income Tax, when equivalent decisions have been devolved” - as “a brutal betrayal of Scotland and the Smith consensus,”
Miss Plato, cold characters can be two-dimensional, but when they have some depth they can be very interesting. When someone's capable of being an utter bastard but isn't compelled to be one it makes them quite unpredictable.
Afternoon all and I see Sporting Index has reverted to a Tory lead of 15 seats.
A very interesting piece by one of the ComRes backroom boys showing Sunil's precious crossover took place in January and the Tories have been leading with the telephone pollsters ever since. Next Ipsos Mori will be interesting. The Survation and Panelbase polls are looking increasingly out of step with all the others. Interesting that in 2 days the SKY poll of polls has gone from 32 Tory 34 Labour to 34/34.
Miss Plato, cold characters can be two-dimensional, but when they have some depth they can be very interesting. When someone's capable of being an utter bastard but isn't compelled to be one it makes them quite unpredictable.
"I'm no Dolly Parton but it was most amusing. The Tesco delivery guy today suffered the same affliction. I wasn't wearing a bra under my tee-shirt. Poor fellow was transfixed."
Somewhat ironically - and assuming his thesis is correct - then the continued parity in online polls is actually really good for the Tories as it keeps the prospect of EICIPM in the minds of Kippers.
Basssssssssiiiiiiiilllllll...
Listen, don't mention the crossover! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. [returns to pb.com] So! It's all forgotten now, and let's hear no more about it. So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Gove, an Esther McVey, and four Grayling salads.
I sincerely hope Consett is a lot nicer nowadays. I went there post closure and the air was still orange with dust and everything was fly-blown dereliction.
It was grim, though not as appalling as Immingham. Christ that needed a health warning from 5 miles out.
@paulwaugh: Priceless Lib Dem leaflet: ‘you shdn’t vote’ for Nick Clegg cos he’s ‘not interested in yr local area’ http://t.co/SJoOxAwypC
My mother might get one - she lives just south of Consett near Buttsfield.
Actually it is pretty good now - the red dust has gone, the steelworks are no more, the slag heaps have been levelled. The usual out of town shopping area is actually pretty close to the town (easy walking distance) because there was so much space left after the steelworks was demolished. Lot of new build property as well on the south/ east sides although Blackhill (to the north) is much older.
A lot of money was pumped in by the government after the steelworks closure, but I suppose you could say Consett is sort of like a dormer town for Newcastle - close but not too close. It has a theatre/ cinema and some night life.
A decade ago we had some female cancer thingy at work which demanded that we wore pink. I was browbeaten into playing along by my HR Dir as *showing concern*
I looked at my wardrobe and noticed that with over 20ft of hanging space - there wasn't a single pink garment. Not even undies.
I have a pink vest top. The only problem is that even I look "chesty" in it. Definitely Not Suitable For Work but if I had been "browbeaten" as you werr I would have worn it anyway... or my one other pink item, a magenta coloured satin nightie (knee length - very modest)
When I was at my (very po-faced) pre-prep school, I was told to bring in "something red" three days running.
By the third day my parents were so annoyed that they gave me a copy of the Little Red Book.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No-one is suggesting that. What we all want is for there to be one law for all, equality under the law. The concern is that a political party will seek to offer something specifically to one ethnic or religious minority group in a way which divides rather than unites us. To do so at a time when we see the consequences of ghettoised communities is, frankly, despicable and dangerous.
Being a victim never ends well. And pandering to snake oilers who will stop you *being a victim* just swaps one form for another.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
At the start of the year, the left-wing pro-independence website Wings over Scotland commissioned a series of Panelbase surveys comparing public attitudes in Scotland with the rest of the United Kingdom. The results were the occasion for a collective intake of breath amongst the Wish Trees for Yes set, as they discovered a Scotland outwith Byres Road and beyond the pages of the Sunday Herald.
Here they encountered backing for capital punishment, the monarchy, and nuclear weapons and opposition to immigration and defence spending cuts. This wasn’t the Scotland on whose behalf they had fought and sweat and interpretive-danced to cast off the shackles of Westminster neoliberalism. This was a country at one with key centre-right assumptions. It was almost as if Scotland was just like… England.
Miss Plato, alas, I am Netflixless. The ads for Daredevil do look pretty good.
Funnily enough, I joined Netflix last month but have run out of anything to watch ! Partly, my enthusiasm went down when I couldn't get to see it on my telly. Watching on my laptop screen takes a lot of the pleasure away.
Manifesto launches give cynics everywhere the chance to trot out one of the hoariest political cliches around, namely that manifestos don’t matter because parties never do what they say they’re going to do anyway. Unlike most cliches, however, this one is not only trite but almost certainly wrong, too. There are enough studies around to suggest that parties, knowing that politics is a repeated rather than a one-shot game, take their promises pretty seriously and that, as a result, they actually follow through on the majority of them.
Political scientists first started studying the extent to which parties redeemed their manifesto pledges in the 60s and 70s after some pioneering work by Richard Rose. One of the most detailed studies from back then was done by Colin Rallings, who more recently is one half of the duo (the other is Michael Thrasher) who have done the election-time number crunching for several broadcasters and newspapers.
I saw your debate earlier with Charles and others and was unable to comment. However, there's an important piece of data that would move to bring you both towards resolution: a plot of 1/15th of a hectare is not one for a single dwelling. At least not under PPG3 (the planning guidelines published in 2003 or so), and also not historically.
PPG3 requires housing density of 30-50 dwellings per hectare. In London, we'd look at the larger number. If land goes at £420k per 1/15th of a hectare, that's £6.3 million per hectare, which would equate to £126k per dwelling.
As that would be an average, we'd hope that a Local Authority could source land for lower than the average, but it would still be a lot lower than the number you were working from. I fully understand why you were led down that route (you'd tend to expect whoever produced the original statistics to do it on a per-house basis), but it's not so. This tends to agree with Charles's instinct that the number was way too high.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No-one is suggesting that. What we all want is for there to be one law for all, equality under the law. The concern is that a political party will seek to offer something specifically to one ethnic or religious minority group in a way which divides rather than unites us. To do so at a time when we see the consequences of ghettoised communities is, frankly, despicable and dangerous.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Being a victim never ends well. And pandering to snake oilers who will stop you *being a victim* just swaps one form for another.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
I feel the same way about my "Asian-ness" - as far as I'm concerned New Year isn't today or tomorrow, but January 1st
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
How does treating people differently get us there? A BAME manifesto is a horrible idea, why should people with different colour skin be excluded from the regular manifesto process. I don't know what has possessed the Labour party, it goes completely against the idea of integration.
Unbelievable stuff today. The party of fiscal rectitude casting uncosted giveaways out like confetti. I'd be mighty hacked off if I was a private sector renter though. It's bad enough being shafted as an ordinary homeowning taxpayer. The key issue though is that Cameron knows he isn't going to be in a position to enact it, which just makes it blatant dog whistling.
Being a victim never ends well. And pandering to snake oilers who will stop you *being a victim* just swaps one form for another.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
Disagree 100%. You have to call a spade a spade.
Sexism, racism, religious intolerance etc. has to be called out and called out strongly if it's happening. It's not a matter of playing the victim or being politically expedient here, it's simply about right and wrong!
I've heard this 'playing the victim' defence so many times now - it's dangerous!
Mr. S, indeed, when that lunatic father claimed he had no idea about extremism that could've affected his teenage daughter and blamed the police, then turned out to have attended foam-flecked hate-filled marches against the West it's very dangerous.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
What sort of TV do you have? Not a Smart one I assume. That makes a huge difference.
I'd recommend Bosch, DareDevil, House of Cards, Chuck, Rake, The Boss, Sons of Anarchy - I watch so much that an idea of your preferences would help me narrow a few down.
I'm an atypical viewer who watches an enormous volume of true crime forensic/reality/history/sci-fi/sci-fantasy/science/supernatural/legal dramas.
Miss Plato, alas, I am Netflixless. The ads for Daredevil do look pretty good.
Funnily enough, I joined Netflix last month but have run out of anything to watch ! Partly, my enthusiasm went down when I couldn't get to see it on my telly. Watching on my laptop screen takes a lot of the pleasure away.
Being a victim never ends well. And pandering to snake oilers who will stop you *being a victim* just swaps one form for another.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
I feel the same way about my "Asian-ness" - as far as I'm concerned New Year isn't today or tomorrow, but January 1st
Today is Tamil New Year which I will observe by going to the Temple and January 1st is the Greogrian New Year which I will celebrate by getting hammered. You can do both and no shame in doing both!
Being a victim never ends well. And pandering to snake oilers who will stop you *being a victim* just swaps one form for another.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
Disagree 100%. You have to call a spade a spade.
Sexism, racism, religious intolerance etc. has to be called out and called out strongly if it's happening. It's not a matter of playing the victim or being politically expedient here, it's simply about right and wrong!
I've heard this 'playing the victim' defence so many times now - it's dangerous!
So if a non white person gets a job in front of a white person purely on skin colour, what is that if not state sponsored racism ?
White people are not the majority in London yet that is what sadiq khan is pledging
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine if a party launched a manifesto that they openly stated this is policies for whities...what would the reaction be? I sounds like something the BNP would do.
Unbelievable stuff today. The party of fiscal rectitude casting uncosted giveaways out like confetti. I'd be mighty hacked off if I was a private sector renter though. It's bad enough being shafted as an ordinary homeowning taxpayer. The key issue though is that Cameron knows he isn't going to be in a position to enact it, which just makes it blatant dog whistling.
Today could be the game changer - voters don't hear all the details and minutiae - just a positive message on childcare, tax free minimum wage and opportunity to buy a home at a discount plus funding for the NHS.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine if a party launched a manifesto that they openly stated this is policies for whities...what would the reaction be? I sounds like something the BNP would do.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine if a party launched a manifesto that they openly stated this is policies for whities...what would the reaction be? I sounds like something the BNP would do.
Well this is how Labour's move comes across, normal manifesto for whites, special manifesto for non-whites. What on Earth possessed them to release such a publication.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Again, you're speaking from an Utopian perspective. We are quite away from that...
Being a victim never ends well. And pandering to snake oilers who will stop you *being a victim* just swaps one form for another.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
So, go back to the utopia of the 60s and 70s then?
No. Forward to a future where we don't treat people differently depending on their skin colour.
I'll definitely drink to that. Do you think we're at that stage now?
I feel the same way about my "Asian-ness" - as far as I'm concerned New Year isn't today or tomorrow, but January 1st
Rachman thrived because of a shortage of affordable housing, which he made even more unaffordable by shifting out the tenants who had been there before with protected rents, then filling them up with incomers. To some he was low life scum, to most on here, he would be classed as a heroic free marketeer.
Maybe sadiq khan thinks this kind of thing is happening in the shires
Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 14 South African white supremacist camps brainwash kids to start race war dailym.ai/1OaGnvn pic.twitter.com/rZh00bvDCn
So, we have from the Conservatives the:- 1. Tax cuts that they did not promise clearly in 2010 2. Right to Buy for housing association properties that they did not promise clearly in 2010 3. IHT reductions that they did promise in 2010 Are these the game changers enough to swing over from Lab 4%+ of the voters? That is unclear but this has probably ended EdM's chances of a majority.
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine if a party launched a manifesto that they openly stated this is policies for whities...what would the reaction be? I sounds like something the BNP would do.
Well this is how Labour's move comes across, normal manifesto for whites, special manifesto for non-whites. What on Earth possessed them to release such a publication.
Farage will surely hammer this point on Thursday and connect that kind of thinking with Rotherham
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine if a party launched a manifesto that they openly stated this is policies for whities...what would the reaction be? I sounds like something the BNP would do.
Well this is how Labour's move comes across, normal manifesto for whites, special manifesto for non-whites. What on Earth possessed them to release such a publication.
Unbelievable stuff today. The party of fiscal rectitude casting uncosted giveaways out like confetti. I'd be mighty hacked off if I was a private sector renter though. It's bad enough being shafted as an ordinary homeowning taxpayer. The key issue though is that Cameron knows he isn't going to be in a position to enact it, which just makes it blatant dog whistling.
Today could be the game changer - voters don't hear all the details and minutiae - just a positive message on childcare, tax free minimum wage and opportunity to buy a home at a discount plus funding for the NHS.
It could be a gamechanger in the fact that Ed now has almost a zero chance of a majority.
As a right wing Thatcherite I want to applaud the new right to buy policy but I just can't. The theory behind the original right to buy policy - as I understand it - was that if people lived in a home that they owned, they would be less likely to vote Labour. The proportion of people living in their own home is falling and from what I can tell it is being driven in part by buy to let merchants.
Now I don't have a problem with buy to let. Many people put in a lot of effort to buy a property, do it up and create a decent home for someone to live in. Understandably people are suspicious of pensions and savings rates are very low. So more and more people want to buy property as it's seen as a safe investment. And with policies like help to buy who can blame them?
Today's Tories need to bite the bullet and acknowledge that buy to let is part of the problem. Even if it was a token effort to raise tax on buy to let landlords it would show that they understand that it is part of the problem. But they - and Labour too - just can't bring themselves to acknowledge this issue.
At the start of the year, the left-wing pro-independence website Wings over Scotland commissioned a series of Panelbase surveys comparing public attitudes in Scotland with the rest of the United Kingdom. The results were the occasion for a collective intake of breath amongst the Wish Trees for Yes set, as they discovered a Scotland outwith Byres Road and beyond the pages of the Sunday Herald.
Here they encountered backing for capital punishment, the monarchy, and nuclear weapons and opposition to immigration and defence spending cuts. This wasn’t the Scotland on whose behalf they had fought and sweat and interpretive-danced to cast off the shackles of Westminster neoliberalism. This was a country at one with key centre-right assumptions. It was almost as if Scotland was just like… England.
Thanks for the link. As a Scot living in London, what I don't understand is: who are all these people voting for? Neither SLAB nor SNP represent them at all, there seems to be a huge opening for the Tories, but somehow they've never managed to detox their brand enough after Maggie.
Nice day at the beach any pb tories? frinton the better option though..
Greg Hands@GregHands·25 mins25 minutes ago Leading team to Clacton next Tuesday to support local @GilesWatling vs my fellow-Fulham resident @DouglasCarswell. Get in touch to join me!
Personally, very impressed with Labour's BAME manifesto. Lots to work on to get true equality and fairness...
Why can't there be a single manifesto for everyone?
All things being equal, that would be ideal.
So why go for an ethnic minority one too?
Because ethnic minorities still have specific issues. Some of which is inherent to the community in question, some of which is about equality etc.
For example, I invited my mother-in-law to visit us from Sri Lanka for a few weeks earlier this year and she was refused a visiting visa. We've obviously appealed this appalling decision but it just goes to underline the perception that ethnic minorities are not treated equally in all facets of life here in the UK.
PS - My in-laws are comfortable middle class folk (my father-in-law is a doctor!)
That is based on nationality, not ethnicity. I frankly think it's a nasty divide and rule tactic to divide the country up into different ethnic groups to treat them differently. I would like to think we could move past this sort of racism.
It just seems very patronising to me. If Labour want to push further on equality with quotas then why not just put a chapter under their manifesto called 'equality' and put it in there?
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Indeed. I honestly don't understand this move. Separating non-whites is a bad move. Maybe politically it helps them with certain voters who are in favour of positive discrimination, but it sends a very poor message. People should be treated equally, not be told that they get a different manifesto to everyone else because of the colour of their skin.
Again, you're speaking from an Utopian perspective. We are quite away from that...
What we need is better education, not special treatment for certain groups. All that does is create friction. Having a special manifesto for non-whites is a step back for race relations. It is also pretty bloody patronising. It is not utopian to want people to be treated equally and for immigrant groups to integrate, we will never reach that goal if certain groups receive special treatment based on nothing but the colour of their skin. It is segregation and goes against the spirit of community cohesion and integration.
Rachman thrived because of a shortage of affordable housing, which he made even more unaffordable by shifting out the tenants who had been there before with protected rents, then filling them up with incomers. To some he was low life scum, to most on here, he would be classed as a heroic free marketeer.
That was also in a time of rent controls.... "In order to maximise his rental income from the properties in Notting Hill, he is said to have driven out the—mostly white—sitting tenants, who had statutory protection against high rent increases, and then filled the properties with recent immigrants from the West Indies. New tenants did not have the same protection under the law as had the previous ones...." wikipedia
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"I'm no Dolly Parton but it was most amusing. The Tesco delivery guy today suffered the same affliction. I wasn't wearing a bra under my tee-shirt. Poor fellow was transfixed."
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I never knew Sunil doubled up as a Tesco delivery man.
· Michael Barber, ‘How to run a Government’
· Tony Blair, ‘A journey’
· Alastair Campbell, ‘The Blair years: extracts from the Alastair Campbell diaries’
· Anthony King and Ivor Crewe, ‘The blunders of our governments’
· Damian McBride, ‘Power Trip: a decade of policy, plots and spin’
· Chris Mullin, ‘A view from the foothills: the Chris Mullin diaries’
Hardly an impartial list…
http://order-order.com/2015/04/14/mandarins-given-new-labour-holiday-reading-list/
The more we learn about gender, the messier it seems to get. The forced genital mutilation of babies in the past (almost always to make *it* into a girl) is pretty horrific.
When demographics are key to a character they cannot be altered. Bond's defined by being British, male and a womaniser.
On the other hand, Rosamund Pike as a serial womaniser. Hmm. Maybe the idea does have merit...
Labour are going to lose, but it will come as an awful shock to many of their supporters, just as it did in 1992.
I found his one about the insanity defence prisoners a bit lacking - but it still shone a light on those involved. He's jolly perceptive.
I remember learning about his case from a Horizon episode on BBC2. Horrific stuff.
That makes him so intriguing. Like Sherlock and Irene Adler.
It was grim, though not as appalling as Immingham. Christ that needed a health warning from 5 miles out.
A very interesting piece by one of the ComRes backroom boys showing Sunil's precious crossover took place in January and the Tories have been leading with the telephone pollsters ever since. Next Ipsos Mori will be interesting. The Survation and Panelbase polls are looking increasingly out of step with all the others. Interesting that in 2 days the SKY poll of polls has gone from 32 Tory 34 Labour to 34/34.
Think of Justified.
A whole one, and not just the usual bunch of "right" tits?
I get fined for inappropriate posts .... how do you think I fund her shoe collection so lavishly
https://twitter.com/Sunil_P2/status/587369426271477760
A lot of money was pumped in by the government after the steelworks closure, but I suppose you could say Consett is sort of like a dormer town for Newcastle - close but not too close. It has a theatre/ cinema and some night life.
Regrettably it will still return a Labour MP.
By the third day my parents were so annoyed that they gave me a copy of the Little Red Book.
The school was Not Amused. Words Were Had.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-14/police-hunt-man-over-theft-of-hair-growth-products/
Generally good progress has been made but still lots to do!
My memory's failing me, but I'm reasonably sure one of the classical writers, maybe Livy, complained about prices and values getting out of whack.
The way TV, books, videogames and music are changing due to advances in technology is very interesting.
Back to the "fifties"
Dave is going to call his new pop band, Rachman Turner Overdrive, in honour of his new housing scam.
I refuse point blank to be a female victim. If more bods like me took responsibility and stood up - this whole identity politics schitck would die on its feet.
The world is full of those who prefer to make their problems the fault of someone else. Playing the victim makes you one.
Otherwise, it's a great analogy.
What have you watched lately worth mentioning ?
'Back to the "fifties"
Dave is going to call his new pop band, Rachman Turner Overdrive, in honour of his new housing scam.'
Popular election pledge for 1.5 million housing association tenants and your clearly rattled. win/win.
I saw your debate earlier with Charles and others and was unable to comment. However, there's an important piece of data that would move to bring you both towards resolution: a plot of 1/15th of a hectare is not one for a single dwelling. At least not under PPG3 (the planning guidelines published in 2003 or so), and also not historically.
PPG3 requires housing density of 30-50 dwellings per hectare. In London, we'd look at the larger number. If land goes at £420k per 1/15th of a hectare, that's £6.3 million per hectare, which would equate to £126k per dwelling.
As that would be an average, we'd hope that a Local Authority could source land for lower than the average, but it would still be a lot lower than the number you were working from. I fully understand why you were led down that route (you'd tend to expect whoever produced the original statistics to do it on a per-house basis), but it's not so. This tends to agree with Charles's instinct that the number was way too high.
Otherwise what they're implying is there's one manifesto for whites and one for non-whites, which is divisive and highly distasteful.
Sexism, racism, religious intolerance etc. has to be called out and called out strongly if it's happening. It's not a matter of playing the victim or being politically expedient here, it's simply about right and wrong!
I've heard this 'playing the victim' defence so many times now - it's dangerous!
I'd recommend Bosch, DareDevil, House of Cards, Chuck, Rake, The Boss, Sons of Anarchy - I watch so much that an idea of your preferences would help me narrow a few down.
I'm an atypical viewer who watches an enormous volume of true crime forensic/reality/history/sci-fi/sci-fantasy/science/supernatural/legal dramas.
I can't help with soaps or anything like them.
White people are not the majority in London yet that is what sadiq khan is pledging
1970s politics, so old hat
https://twitter.com/Sunil_P2/status/588025567427043330
To some he was low life scum, to most on here, he would be classed as a heroic free marketeer.
Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline)
April 14
South African white supremacist camps brainwash kids to start race war dailym.ai/1OaGnvn pic.twitter.com/rZh00bvDCn
1. Tax cuts that they did not promise clearly in 2010
2. Right to Buy for housing association properties that they did not promise clearly in 2010
3. IHT reductions that they did promise in 2010
Are these the game changers enough to swing over from Lab 4%+ of the voters?
That is unclear but this has probably ended EdM's chances of a majority.
I can't see an upside to this for anyone bar *community leaders* with an axe to grind. It's the Phil Woolas Party.
Now I don't have a problem with buy to let. Many people put in a lot of effort to buy a property, do it up and create a decent home for someone to live in. Understandably people are suspicious of pensions and savings rates are very low. So more and more people want to buy property as it's seen as a safe investment. And with policies like help to buy who can blame them?
Today's Tories need to bite the bullet and acknowledge that buy to let is part of the problem. Even if it was a token effort to raise tax on buy to let landlords it would show that they understand that it is part of the problem. But they - and Labour too - just can't bring themselves to acknowledge this issue.
Thanks for the link. As a Scot living in London, what I don't understand is: who are all these people voting for? Neither SLAB nor SNP represent them at all, there seems to be a huge opening for the Tories, but somehow they've never managed to detox their brand enough after Maggie.
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"In order to maximise his rental income from the properties in Notting Hill, he is said to have driven out the—mostly white—sitting tenants, who had statutory protection against high rent increases, and then filled the properties with recent immigrants from the West Indies. New tenants did not have the same protection under the law as had the previous ones...." wikipedia
Also worth noting most people won't watch, so the take-away from the debates will be filtered by both news that evening and the papers.
Yup, it's amazing the things you can get away with if you know the right people, and have enough money to affect their eyesight.