The EU's inability to recognise this led to the slaughter of countless people in Yugoslavia.
I realise the EU has less chance of a fair hearing than the Guildford Six, but even by today's standards, there is a slight problem with assigning blame for the breakup of Yugoslavia (which started in 1991) to the EU (founded late 1993). The EU is not Skynet
Guildford SIX? that trial certainly has some flaws...
but, the EU was perhaps rather too swift in recognizing Croatia. Just as they have been too swift in Ukraine, recently
"Burnham is unrepentant: ‘We need to get back to communicating simple policies that will make a real difference to people.
‘There’s no more obvious illustration of that than having the chance to have a home of your own. Whenever we talked about housing, we talk about housing not homes. People switch off. " ‘We said we’d build 200,000 homes. It’s a massive but meaningless figure. We’ve been abstract rather than framing it as something that matters to somebody, that means something.
‘My ambition is to enable all people who want a ladder into home ownership to have one. It’s a strong instinct in most British people.’
The EU's inability to recognise this led to the slaughter of countless people in Yugoslavia.
I realise the EU has less chance of a fair hearing than the Guildford Six, but even by today's standards, there is a slight problem with assigning blame for the breakup of Yugoslavia (which started in 1991) to the EU (founded late 1993). The EU is not Skynet
Guildford SIX? that trial certainly has some flaws...
but, the EU was perhaps rather too swift in recognizing Croatia. Just as they have been too swift in Ukraine, recently
Good news for us Welsh Labourites. Dame Eluned is looking to stand in 2016 Assembly elections. Former MEP and currently on shadow front bench in Lords. A politician who will bring badly needed experience and knowledge to Welsh Labour, if elected. I assume she will be looking for somewhere not far from Cardiff. She should have plenty of options, although i would love to see her down West.
That is actually incorrect. You do not achieve stability through multinational democracies. Stability can only be achieved through there being a shared idenity. A lack of shared identity and you have a very unstable region.
You're assuming that Europe is inherently stable, but....is it? There's no real geographical reason why the ScandiNordics are separate countries, why the Baltics are seperate states, why Portugal isn't part of Spain, why NI isn't part of Ireland, why Belgium exists, why Poland isn't part of Germany, why Czechoslovakia broke up, why Scotland isn't part of England. It's all just habit and tribes and my-dad-killed-your-dad, and they switch sides every five minutes. You may be right about multinational democracies, but this is Europe: they are all multinational democracies. Including us.
"Hillary Clinton on course to win presidential election, poll says
NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds former secretary of state is first choice in Democratic primary, and that she would go on to defeat Republican opponents"
It's early days yet. Hillary is riding the coattails of Bill's popularity because he's associated with the roaring 90's - the days before the crash and stagnation (which ironically he helped bring about due to a lack of financial oversight). And who wouldn't like to see lascivious Bill back in the White House as "first man"? He'd be able to wholeheartedly dedicate himself to the interns without having to worry too much about the duties of office...
Seriously though, the Clintons have a couple of skeletons in their closet, not the least of which is Libya. Through the Clinton Foundation there was a merry go round whereby money was funneled to the Clintons supposedly for speeches and charitable work (most of which got consumed by "administrative costs") while back at the State Department Hillary and her coterie manufactured a crisis in Libya which had immediate economic ramifications for some of her corporate benefactors...
Bill was the ultimate "Teflon Don" of politics but it remains to be seen whether Hillary will prove to be as resistant to scandals. It surely epitomizes the arrogance of power when she as a trained lawyer runs the office of minister from a private e-mail server at home while every lowly civil servant is restricted from conducting any business whatsoever through their personal mail account and has to provide a complete paper trail for all of their actions.
Twitter Phillip Blond@Phillip_Blond Fascinating discussion with @montie and @paddyashdown at dinner tonight Paddy thinks Lib-Dems are in less trouble than Labour
Former Labour MEP Baroness Eluned Morgan has announced she will seek selection to Assembly next year. She hasn't mentioned where.
Irranca-Davies (Ogmore MP) will co-chair Labour 2016 campaign.
Meanwhile on Plaid side, Mary Helen Jones is seeking selection on the regional list. She will also stand in Llanelli (she won it in 1999 and 2007 and lost it in 2003 and 2011). Simon Thomas (currently list AM) is seeking selection in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (3 way marginal in 2011) other than re-selection on the regional list.
Plaid seem to be making a habit of having 2 goes at being elected. Bit naughty, but legal. Helen should win Llanelli back, unless UKIP have a real go. Simon Thomas will struggle in Cam West which should be easy for the tories.
Former Labour MEP Baroness Eluned Morgan has announced she will seek selection to Assembly next year. She hasn't mentioned where.
Irranca-Davies (Ogmore MP) will co-chair Labour 2016 campaign.
Meanwhile on Plaid side, Mary Helen Jones is seeking selection on the regional list. She will also stand in Llanelli (she won it in 1999 and 2007 and lost it in 2003 and 2011). Simon Thomas (currently list AM) is seeking selection in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (3 way marginal in 2011) other than re-selection on the regional list.
Plaid seem to be making a habit of having 2 goes at being elected. Bit naughty, but legal. Helen should win Llanelli back, unless UKIP have a real go. Simon Thomas will struggle in Cam West which should be easy for the tories.
What has happened to the Labour vote in South Pembs & West Carms given that Nick Ainger held it comfortably 1997 to 2010?
But anyhoo. I've been asked to write two articles next year, one for the US prez election. Before I start plowing thru Wikipedia and pretending it's research, has anybody got some good sources for national and statewide polling? I've got http://www.pollingreport.com/ ,but that's just a start
Per the Times, the Govt is going to have to repeal the Child Poverty Act 2010.
If they don't, any cuts to Tax Credits which they now announce will be challenged in Court and it is highly likely they will be ruled unlawful.
How crazy is this?
The Govt is not allowed to set benefit levels!
By the way it was not widely reported but not long before the GE a legal challenge to the Benefit Cap was heard in the Supreme Court. The Govt only won by 3-2.
One more judge and the Benefit Cap would be unlawful!
But anyhoo. I've been asked to write two articles next year, one for the US prez election. Before I start plowing thru Wikipedia and pretending it's research, has anybody got some good sources for national and statewide polling? I've got http://www.pollingreport.com/ ,but that's just a start
This is the primary source I used for the last elections:
But anyhoo. I've been asked to write two articles next year, one for the US prez election. Before I start plowing thru Wikipedia and pretending it's research, has anybody got some good sources for national and statewide polling? I've got http://www.pollingreport.com/ ,but that's just a start
This is the primary source I used for the last elections:
Chris123 She could be the Democratic Nixon, he of course rose to prominence on IKE's coattails as she did Bill's
HYUFD, could be. Nixon was ultimately brought down by the smoking gun on one of his tapes (which he had made for his personal records and indulgence in a pre-electronic age). Clinton has also generated files (electronically). She claims that did not want to maintain and preserve them but has supposedly deleted them. Since this server was set up for home use and as such may not have employed the highest level of encryption and safety (to which governments and their agencies have access to) the firewall may well have been breached...
Seems that the media pay far more attention when things are going well for ISIS than badly.
At some point someone is going to expose just how organised these SNP trolls are when it comes to their attack/rebuttal service. And also just how 'restrained' rather than 'angry' Nicola Sturgeon's automated responses are in support of the victims on the receiving end of this vile abuse! She is very clever at expressing nice soundbites about her personal dealing with journalist victims in particular rather than actually attacking or ever undermining the Cybernats who dish out the abuse!
@AlanRoden: Tomorrow's Scottish Daily Mail: Nicola Sturgeon and the vile Internet trolls. #scotpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday http://t.co/sSkmZCP2D8
Unfortunately the newspapers seem to be rounding on Scotland or the Scots rather than the SNP Government at Holyrood who seem to be taking this decision over funding the Queen. Hopefully they will quickly correct this misconception and start focusing on the real culprits and the reasons behind their decision.
Danny, I am sure that the Labour party were completely wrong to underestimate William Hague, IDS and Michael Howard when they were chosen to lead the Conservative party in 1997, 2001 & 2005....
That's very interesting. I was actually thinking about voting for Yvette instead because I was starting to wonder if she'd be more of a vote-winner, but these poll results certainly contradict that.
Really? She's very smart but she comes across as wooden and wonky. Andy is far more likable, he's got the "common touch." I can see Yvette appealing to retired headmistresses but not to working class Joe's that have gone over to UKIP or have become so disaffected with the whole political setup that they can't be bothered to vote.
I think there's some arguments for and against both Yvette and Andy. I do think Yvette looks like the most PM-ready, which surely is something really important to swing voters.
I like Andy much more myself, and do suspect his personality could be exactly the right type to appeal to the small-town people who are so turned off by the type of metropolitan Labour professional politicians (especially white men). But if I'm honest, the Tories just seem SO convinced that Andy would be a dud as leader, that I'm starting to wonder if there's something in it, and there's something about him that I'm missing.
Forget it. The Daily Mail is run by a bunch of chancers who few in Scotland regard as anything other than propagandists for a rabid, irrational, anti-SNP comic.
The results of recent elections should tell you how counterproductive the demonising of peripheral SNP figures by the Daily Mail has been and will continue to be.
Solidarity will field a strong list of candidates in each of the 8 regional lists. Their call will be SNP Constituency vote; Solidarity List vote. During the recent General Election Solidarity stood aside and encouraged voters to back the SNP as the biggest anti-austerity party and pro-independence party. Both the Greens and SSP stood candidates. the SSP votes were derisory but the Greens strategy effectively saved Scotland's only Tory, Mundell. If they had stood aside and encouraged an SNP vote Scotland would be Tory free. Will SNP voters forget these factors? Solidarity are fielding well known candidates like IndyClimber Lindsay Jarrett in the Highlands and Islands and myself, Tommy Sheridan, in Glasgow. The mainstream media will ignore and denigrate Solidarity but many voters now ignore the mainstream media and get their news and ideas from social media. Solidarity will do well.
Welcome to pb.com, Mr. Sheridan. I agree the potential for SNP:Other vote splitting could well benefit explicitly socialist parties as well as the Greens. Though as Dair says it would surely be better if there was just one receptacle for such votes.
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but, the EU was perhaps rather too swift in recognizing Croatia. Just as they have been too swift in Ukraine, recently
In a surprisingly gentle piece in the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132916/Labour-leadership-frontrunner-Andy-Burnham-says-party-toxic-Ed-Miliband.html
"Burnham is unrepentant: ‘We need to get back to communicating simple policies that will make a real difference to people.
‘There’s no more obvious illustration of that than having the chance to have a home of your own. Whenever we talked about housing, we talk about housing not homes. People switch off.
"
‘We said we’d build 200,000 homes. It’s a massive but meaningless figure. We’ve been abstract rather than framing it as something that matters to somebody, that means something.
‘My ambition is to enable all people who want a ladder into home ownership to have one. It’s a strong instinct in most British people.’
I assume she will be looking for somewhere not far from Cardiff. She should have plenty of options, although i would love to see her down West.
Seriously though, the Clintons have a couple of skeletons in their closet, not the least of which is Libya. Through the Clinton Foundation there was a merry go round whereby money was funneled to the Clintons supposedly for speeches and charitable work (most of which got consumed by "administrative costs") while back at the State Department Hillary and her coterie manufactured a crisis in Libya which had immediate economic ramifications for some of her corporate benefactors...
Bill was the ultimate "Teflon Don" of politics but it remains to be seen whether Hillary will prove to be as resistant to scandals. It surely epitomizes the arrogance of power when she as a trained lawyer runs the office of minister from a private e-mail server at home while every lowly civil servant is restricted from conducting any business whatsoever through their personal mail account and has to provide a complete paper trail for all of their actions.
Helen should win Llanelli back, unless UKIP have a real go.
Simon Thomas will struggle in Cam West which should be easy for the tories.
Per the Times, the Govt is going to have to repeal the Child Poverty Act 2010.
If they don't, any cuts to Tax Credits which they now announce will be challenged in Court and it is highly likely they will be ruled unlawful.
How crazy is this?
The Govt is not allowed to set benefit levels!
By the way it was not widely reported but not long before the GE a legal challenge to the Benefit Cap was heard in the Supreme Court. The Govt only won by 3-2.
One more judge and the Benefit Cap would be unlawful!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
What were they using? Walking stick sand zimmer frames?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3136773/Sturgeon-link-vile-internet-trolls-revealed-SNP-leader-follows-bullies-Twitter-previously-met-one-them.html
Forget it. The Daily Mail is run by a bunch of chancers who few in Scotland regard as anything other than propagandists for a rabid, irrational, anti-SNP comic.
The results of recent elections should tell you how counterproductive the demonising of peripheral SNP figures by the Daily Mail has been and will continue to be.