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Based on what happened in the Phil Woolas case in 2010 the Speaker might delay calling a vacancy in the constituency pending the possibility of an appeal.
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Funny how the biggest infrastructure imbroglio in a generation is getting little coverage in the National.....
I expect the Nats will react in the calm, measured reflective style we have come to know and love if the case goes against them......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danus_Skene
He has accused “posh boy” David Cameron of running away from a debate with First Minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon.
Over the years Alex Salmond has made no secret of the fact he thinks politicians like the prime minister who attended Eton College were out of touch with ordinary people.
Shortly after the 2010 general election, which saw the birth of a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition, he told the Conservative leader: “Do not let the people suffer for attitudes forged on the playing fields of Eton.”.......
Mr Skene said: “I did go to Eton 50 years ago and to be honest I have forgotten all about that.
“I am quite happy for people to judge me for things I have said and done since the age of 18 because I am not responsible for where I went to school.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/westminster/general-election/572371/snp-candidate-attended-school-david-cameron/
I am not responsible for where I went to school.......But David Cameron is.....
The SNP’s deputy leader, Stewart Hosie, turned up the pressure on Saturday by calling for Carmichael to step down and demanded a full investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Hudson.
Hosie said: “Mr Carmichael has no credibility in continuing as an MP and in my opinion he should stand down.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/23/alistair-carmichael-liberal-democrats-byelection-threat-leak-snp-sturgeon
Self-awareness seriously lacking...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/25/us/us-muslim-extremists-terrorist-attacks.html
RobD are you anywhere near Bangkok? Here for another 3 weeks or so, although going down to the coast around Christmas/New Year!
The Lantern Project was stripped of financial support after fears were raised over its governance, counselling techniques and use of unqualified staff.
The move raises further questions about the judgment of Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who championed two alleged victims of VIP abuse helped by the charity.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3351986/VIP-child-sex-charity-loses-NHS-funds-concerns-controversial-therapy-use-cause-false-memories.html
If it does succeed it will be pretty much open season on politicians - how many Labour politicians have not said something intemperate about Thatcher, or Conservatives Miliband (or his father...)
Brave (possibly in the Sir Humphrey sense) of the petitioners to bring it - if they fail, lets hope those who generously funded them thus far continue to do so.
What are the odds they exist 35 years from now too?
This documentary about Albania was quite interesting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039tg2y
(Though the presenter {possibly editor} was clearly quite dippy as she thought that 8 hours listening to the works of E.Hoxha was horrific, but didn't pass comment on forced, dangerous labour in the mines at the same prison camp)
On "This Week" the other week, AndreW Neil revealed himself to be a degenerate bourgeois revisionist by referring to Enver Hoxha as "Enver Hoksa".
“The portentous advice and methods of the conceited intellectual who is divorced from life, from practice, are sterile; they produce nothing, neither bread nor boots, nor butter, neither meat nor houses. Such an intellectual displays nothing but his unhealthy intellectualism, the great deficiency above all in his ideological formation with our Marxist-Leninist world outlook, as a result of which he does not know why he works and whom he should serve. Therefore, if the working class want to help such an intellectual, in order to correct him and educate him, they should put him to work together with them so that he gets up to his elbows in oil, mud and manure. What is important is the fact that this dirt cleans the stains of the past from the consciousness, prevents the noxious weeds of the bourgeois and revisionist ideology from sprouting and running wild. If there is some intellectual who does not like this and does not correct himself, then, rightly, the working class should refuse to give him bread, shoes, or a room in which he can lay his head to dream and philosophise. Why should our working class and peasantry be soft-hearted towards such people, even though they may have emerged from among their own ranks? Why should they be unduly gentle and allow themselves to suffer serious damage and hinder our advance through sickly sentiment? Is this in order to allow a stratum of saboteurs and plotters against socialism to be created among us? It is unthinkable that we should ever close our eyes to such a thing and allow it to happen. In these cases, pity is an expression of petty-bourgeois sentimentality and very harmful. The working class and the co-operativist peasantry want work, honesty, check-up and rendering of account by everyone.”
(in a forced tanning salon, or similar, presumably)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35047872
They're not only back to calling for inquiries into things they really dislike, but are now putting inquiries as a basis for their support for government legislation.
I haven't said this for a few months, but: Andy Burnham Is Scum.
Trump says in parts of London the police are intimidated because of radicalisation, is this true and if so whereabouts?
I must admit I'd missed the introduction of these laws. So if someone goes on the radio and says you said something, you're liable to be arrested? very odd.
also ironic that they want to ban one of the few sportsmen with something approaching a personality (not a very attractive personality, I'll grant you) from sports personality of the year...
(it's not called "nice sportsman of the year you'd be happy to let your daughter marry". Though perhaps it should be)
Not entirely sure what I did last week, though!
London’s Metropolitan police have said Donald Trump “could not be more wrong” when he claimed parts of London were so radicalised that officers feared for their lives.
Politicians also weighed in, with a Downing Street source saying the US presidential hopeful’s comments were “totally inaccurate” and London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, describing them as “utter nonsense”.
In a withering statement, the Met, responsible for policing the British capital, said: “We would not normally dignify such comments with a response, however, on this occasion we think it’s important to state to Londoners that Mr Trump could not be more wrong.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/08/the-met-blasts-donald-trump-for-london-police-in-fear-muslims-claim
1) Burnham's sick attitude to inquiries can be seen over his behaviour over Stafford. He wants inquiries into all sort of imagined or real iniquities, except when it will hurt the reputation of an NHS trust. He is scum.
2) If the government caves into this, Labour will just do it again and again.
3) Labour were in power for 13 years, and they had lots of bills to increase surveillance over people. Yet they did not have an inquiry then.
Just found this juicy Jem, Jimmy, Jim, er.................
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/12/489202-remember-back-when-jimmy-carter-forbade-immigration-from-iran-and-expelled-and-immigrants-from-iran-and-expelled/
Trump is Attacked for Proposed Muslim Ban, But a Democratic President Actually Banned Entry from Muslim Nation
Perhaps that's what Trump was referring to.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/674483368478834688
Carter banned Iranians - at a time when US Embassy staff were being held hostage in Iran. Christians, Jews, Zoroastrian Iranians were banned as well as Muslims.
There is no precedent for a ban based on religion
Which ever way you look at it, Nicola has problems. The maintenance contracts were cancelled 2010, the recommendations to repair supports and trusses 2009 shelved. And let's say that the FM does admit incompetence, however grudgingly, the Scottish Government would be liable for all and any costs and losses for businesses and individuals for the closure. Will run into billions.
Our junior level legal eagle, Sturgeon has declared that the lack of maintenance did not cause the cracks. It's been pointed out to her that routine maintenance would have found them, rather than the off chance that an engineer on another project would see them, too late.
The latest joke doing the rounds: The Naked Rambler had clothes before Nicola Sturgeon became his divorce lawyer.
All previous actions have been based on nationality
However you say nothing of what Carter did to Iranian muslims while president. He not only temporarily prevented them from entering the States, he expelled those that were already in the country.
http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/Labour-councillor-quits-arrest-suspicion-dealing/story-28318760-detail/story.html
If you believe in freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association, Trump's comments are deeply worrying.
He would do well to remember the words of the Founding Fathers:
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
I suspect others would feel similarly.
Will be in SF 11-14 January for my annual sojourn.
You around for a drink?
Distinctions on the basis of nationality may be drawn in the immigration field by the Congress or the executive. So long as such distinctions are not wholly irrational, they must be sustained.”
It is important to note that there is no precedent for a religious litmus test, just a national one.
People who support this should state how immigration officials can tell someone is Muslim or not.
They cannot. And because they cannot, innocent people will be stopped from entering, whilst clever people wishing America harm will still get in.
It is clearly insane.
Putting that aside, had he said that parts of London were a no-go area for members of the public or the police - unless heavily protected and in groups - he might have a point on some of the worst estates.
WM refusing to release the full transcript with the names of those involved on national security grounds as it might embarrass the French was a lame excuse. It was whether Carmichael and his sidekick Mundell were BOTH involved that the release of an original memo might have shown.
Amazing how often national security has been used to cover up information that would show WM in a bad light on matters Scotland. Devo files pre 1999 ongoing and Dunblane killings for 100 years due to interesting parties being involved also spring to mind.
https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/674491222803656704
But a by-election is a by-election, is a betting opportunity
The then Scottish Executive wanted to review all options before a decision was made and then came the election that brought the minority SNP into power who promptly kicked the project into the long grass.
Come the hour, and the reports saying that the Forth Road Bridge was coming to the end of it's life due to higher than predicted traffic flows and heavier lorries taking the structure far beyond it's design capabilities - low and behold, we get a bridge, built by the Chinese, using Chinese steel, based on a four lane design, but without, unlike the original, pedestrian and cycle path, or as suggested, dedicated bus lanes. But cheap!
For those who are interested, it was the minority SNP who changed the name from Scottish Executive to Scottish Government.
(presumably Hillary favours Stalin due to his support for the international brigades)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12039856/Enough-excuses-lets-get-on-and-build-a-third-runway-at-Heathrow.html
"This week my old colleagues in the Government are facing exactly that situation over an argument that has been going on for longer than quite a few of them have been alive – where to build a new airport runway in the South East of England. The longer it has gone on the harder it has become to decide, not surprisingly in an area where the population grows every year. But the passing of time has also made the case for it overwhelming, unless you are against air travel in principle or believe that it is better for British people to be collectively poorer, permanently, rather then decide where to build a single stretch of extra tarmac.
"As foreign secretary I was regularly shown by other countries the airports they were building. China has built literally dozens of new airports, never mind runways, and Dubai will soon be able to host more aircraft than all the London airports put together. Of course, such places have a lot more space, so it is easier for them, yet somehow Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam have also managed to build a lot more runway capacity than we have.
"For a while, people thinking of investing in or trading with Britain will put up with circling for many hours of their lives over London suburbs, waiting for their plane to get a chance to land. They will even tolerate the extreme vulnerability of Heathrow, working at 99 per cent capacity, to the strong winds or slight snowfall that produce hours of delays while the rest of the world takes them in its stride. They might even forgive the fact that if they want to fly to the main cities of China, it would be a lot easier for them to do so from Paris. But leave them doing all this for another decade, which is how long it takes to get a runway up and running, and many of them will take their orders and jobs elsewhere."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVvp1liUsAEXUVq.jpg:large
The one thing I don't think Carmichael has is a personal vote.
You must be loving Corbyn.. He's even more left wing than one could have thought possible.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114003
Maybe it's just me, but he was a poster boy for awful things in Albania for decades. I suppose in the words of The Abbotess "he did more good than ill". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha
i.e. he promoted women's rights (and by the way imprisoned tortured and murdered lots of the population)
I'm not defending what he said, but suggesting that the high threshold for freedom of speech needed to ban someone from the UK is not met in this case. He is not inciting violence or sedition, and he's not a rapist or murderer.
If the judgement goes ahead, will Carmichael be back, or is his career terminated?
Miss Vance, Trump's an arse [fitting, given his name can mean an episode of flatulence], and his latest utterance ridiculous. But banning people with whom we disagree and putting him on a par with someone who literally advocates murdering apostates and the like is protesting a shade too much, I think.
Free speech means the right to be an arse. A right Corbyn is currently exercising, if Miss Plato's post is correct.