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Nancy Platts 126 votes Katie Ghose 48
I think we should get Warrington South selection today too.
Next week-end we should have Calder Valley, Bury North, Halesowen, Hornsey, South Basildon & East Thurrock, Cardiff North, Enfield North and Sheffield Hallam (on Monday).
30th June for Plymouth Sutton & Devonport
First weekend of July for Colne Valley, Hendon, Nuneaton, Stourbridge
Mid July (13-14th) for Cardiff Central, Kingswood, Crawley, Rugby, Hampstead
Weekend of 20-21th July: Croydon Central, Battarsea, Pavillion
What it means in terms of seats I'm not sure, probably L largest but without a majority.
OT just saw Man of Steel - really good, beautifully shot, if a bit oddly paced at times. Not being a comic reader I'm not sure how they have Superman be on someone's team and it not be a massive irrelevance to have a team, when his fights with people can basically level cities, and he's not even so dumb that he'll always be outsmarted. But as a movie, holds up very well, and I've never been a fan of most previous superman movies.
Can it be true that Met Office’s temperature forecasts in 12 out of the last 13 years have been too warm? None issued ended up too cold?
Yellow Duckmarine tour bus in Liverpool sinks with 30 people on board. Reports are that everyone has been rescued:
http://news.sky.com/story/1104125/tourist-bus-sinks-with-30-people-on-board
Lib Dems will beat UKIP on both counts.
I saw this review [one of many saying much the same] and LOL
"This is one of the worst attempts I have seen at film-making. Without the special effects, there would be nothing except a bunch of guys dressed as the Blues Brothers following Keanu Reeves around a blue screen.
But then, without the special effects they wouldn't have used all the slow motion either, and so the film would have been about five minutes long. And believe me, five minutes of the Blues Brothers against a blue backdrop would have been much more entertaining."
I can recommend Wolverine Origins if you fancy some good CGI, fight scenes, a bit of wit and lots of baddies vs goodies. Nice mindless action with uber eye candy re Mr Jackman who has his shirt off most of the time.
This is interesting — phone boxes in urban areas are apparently still used a lot with 65,000 calls a day:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22861389
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKPBny5JOc
and LOL ;^ )
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At91c3wX1Wu5dFkzTjFrRmJRN3F6ODBTTEs4NGFhcUE#gid=0
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/06/15/comres-poll-boris-beckons/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
If the swivel-eyed loons in the tory party decide to go berserk on Europe during the election campaign that would obviously push up the kipper vote.
The first Matrix is a fun movie, especially if you have affinity for everything been green tinted. Although I actually watched Blues Brothers a few weeks ago and it wasn't anywhere near as fun as I remembered. Ah, nostalgia. Now I'm in my late 20s I find it is cropping up more and more.
I'm waiting to see how it goes - only a few mins in so far... I do have pizza on my mind though so the omens aren't good :^ )
Now I think about - I avoided it because IMO Keanu Reeves is a pretty face and a terrible actor. Then again I can't bear Leonardo Di Caprio but loads rave about him - I can't think of a film of his I've taken to, I just endure him.
[It's here, if you're interested: http://thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-last-of-us-first-impressions.html]
Mr. T/kle4, whilst true it's not exactly peak traffic time the site's still quiet.
Labour is to blame for the NHS A&E situation
and
The Coalition is to blame for the NHS A&E situation
'Mostly' is a bad term. Could mean Labour's 99% or 51% to blame, or that Labour's to blame but the Coalition isn't.
Although it has to be said one of the main selling points of The Matrix was the truly amazing special effects for the time, which was 1999. They might fail to make an impact these days.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've played a zombie game since playing RE 2 with my elder brother, although I did load up the first Walking Dead episode (the game that is) the other day, which is very much not a typical zombie game experience.
Speaking of Zombies with a twist, has anyone checked out the Newsflesh trilogy? I heard decent things and l liked the idea of a savvy kind of zombie response in the modern age that was promised (George Romero is considered a saint in the setting, as his movies unwittingly predicted the measures we would all need in a zombie apocalypse), but I found the characters too unbearably smug and self satisfied, and a forced new-media vs old-media idea that was implemented very pooly indeed (apparently everyone relies on blogging culture for news now, and yet the new-media protagonists are still somehow part of a new-media influence that is not respected by the old-media and so marginalised, despite it apparently being dead. So is it dead or not?)
The second book I've not managed to finish, as I just cannot get over the POV protagonist being obviously crazy (that is, breakdowns and hallucinations) and yet no-one seems to care and still does what they say all the time, handwaved away as though it's something everyone has to let go, because he's just crazy so deal with it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feed-The-Newsflesh-Trilogy-Book/dp/035650056X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371319494&sr=8-1&keywords=feed
Not really that bad news for Cammie since Boris is no closer to being in the commons nor does there seem to be anything at all on the horizon yet. That won't stop him having some fun and trading insults with Clegg though.
Boris Johnson: Nick Clegg Is Just David Cameron's 'Cup Bearer'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4SJsTj1XTg
Another useful comparison is console storage. I think the Playstation has 120kb memory cards, the PS2 8MB memory cards and the small PS3 hard drive is 40GB. It's a phenomenal rate of technological progress.
Mr. kle4, I've seen bits of that Walking Dead game. It sounds more interesting than the usual fare. I'd not heard of the Newsflesh trilogy or read any of it.
I still have fond memories of the terrible voice-acting in Resident Evil 2. And the licker creeped me out a bit.
Edited extra bit: Miss Plato, Con Air's on BBC3 at 10pm. Not sure if that's your kind of thing, but I rather liked it.
The CGI seems to be holding up well - if it wasn't for the giant cathode ray monitors and green dot matrix type, I wouldn't notice it was made in 1999.
LAB 36% (-1%)
CON 27%(+1%)
UKIP 20% (-1%)
Lib Dems 7% (+1%)
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 8h
Very worried about the escalation of events in Syria but we should not be arming either side."
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage
Just as interesting is the prospect of 'Boris FM' as that hardly speaks of someone preparing for a quiet life. Quite the opposite. Boris will also be more apt to speak his mind than Clegg and I doubt that will fill Cammie with joy.
I still can't see any way into the commons for him this side of 2015 though things could still change I suppose depending on certain MPs and their calculations about future leadership scenarios.
My $0.02 is that a lot of that LD support will be sticky.
Labour weren't fit to govern in 2010 and won't be in 2015.
@SeanT? Watching re-run of the Birthday Parade on BBC2.
I think it's a reaction to being hit by the Daily Mail/Jeremy Hunt double team (nurses and managers had it previously).
I do understand there is a shortage of people training to be GPs though.
I do find it a strange feature of our (largely unwritten) constitution that the Mayor of a conurbation numbering some 8 million souls is not considered a candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minsiter, whereas he would be if he happened to be MP for West Fuckwitshire. Especially as there is nothing constitutionally which demands that the PM is a member of Parliament, and it would be easy enough to find him a seat if he was elected.
The ideal of course would be to arm the rebels, overthrow Assad, and then get the moderates to sell the salafists down the river and induce them to enter a convenient free fire zone...
Whatever happened to diplomacy?
Wages are an issue, no question about that. But whether Cammie and Osbrowne really want to start lecturing GPs or doctors on pay cuts (given what is coming) is debatable to say the least.
I think eventually Boris will just stick with being Mayor of London as long as he can. Too many people in the parliamentary party will not want him as leader, and by the time he has a real opportunity I think he'll have been on the scene for long enough that his popularity will start to wane.
On another note, I see the other day Ken Clarke entered the top 5 longest serving cabinet ministers in the modern era. Don't think he'll get 6 more years to break the record.
Kind of misses the point that any prospective leader still has to win over much of the commons and tory MPs anyway given the process for electing a leader. You can't really do that very effectively from the outside and popular as Boris is he would still be at a big disadvantage unless he had put some time in as an MP again. The longer the better.
You could theoretically make changes that would make it far easier for those like a Mayor to get into the commons or take part but changes to the leadership election process and elegibility rules are never easy to push through for any party leader and are usually regarded with suspicion from backbenchers.
I do understand there is a shortage of people training to be GPs though.
There is certainly a shortage of Trained GPs, particularly in inner cities, where it is often impossible to appoint anyone.
While Partners often earn £100 000, salaried GPs are on £60 000 or so. Many are part time, particularly due to the feminisation of medicine over recent decades, so on correspondingly reduced salaries. Not bad money, but not quite the sums occasionally quoted in the papers.
The payscales for GPs and Consultants are here:
http://bma.org.uk/practical-support-at-work/pay-fees-allowances/pay-scales-salaried-gps
The fact that it is hard to find a GP over 55 shows how unhappy the workforce is. When I qualified 25 years ago many GPs worked on into their late sixties or even seventies.
It is not as easy as it sounds to simply take on more staff. There needs to be a consulting room, clerical support, equipment, parking, supervisory and quality control supervision etc.
The most overcrowded practices are often so because of an adjacent practice closing, often because of being unable to appoint, and the patients being sent to the overcrowded one by the powers that be.
Pulse today has some scary figures in its news this week:
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/political/gp-leader-calls-for-parliamentary-debate-over-gp-burnout/20003208.article#.Uby5PbtZ5I8
Mr Lilburne, you're absolutely right: GPs are independent businessmen. The problem is there are just not the qualified GPs around to be employed.
At our last recruitment, we had 2 applicants and neither were UK graduates. We followed references and were unable to appoint. And our practice would be considered to be in the desirable top 10%.
This just means that the senior doctors have to spend much more time seeing patients and less in training the 10,000 extra GPs