Mr. Pulpstar, I believe in the equality of all Britons. This idea of Scottish supremacy via a veto over the majority is as mad as Honorius' approach to governing.
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
Mr. P, unsurprising (amused at the Welsh, though).
May should tell them to piss off. I think a UK-wide vote is debatable. One part of the country (or three parts) having veto power over the majority is indefensible.
Welsh Labour are trying hard to lose a large chunk of their supporters. They are close to the tipping point when they would lose many seats.
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
There was definitely a bit of this about - things that happened in the past will have shaped McCluskey's thought processes. But leave him looking rather ridiculous today.
Father of a friend of mine was an informant on union activity for an intelligence agency back in the 80s, FWIW.
Mr. Betting, I have a soft spot for Antigonus Monopthalmus, who seemed to be almost the only Diadochus [if I got the singular right] who got on really well with his son.
Slightly frustratingly, of the three books I've read there has been quite a lot of overlap and each offers something the others don't, but none was quite the comprehensive work I'd like.
[There is one I don't own called Dividing the Spoils, but the author uses Common Era. I'm somewhat wary of an author who wishes to impose revisionist tosh on the calendar].
Mr. P, unsurprising (amused at the Welsh, though).
May should tell them to piss off. I think a UK-wide vote is debatable. One part of the country (or three parts) having veto power over the majority is indefensible.
Welsh Labour are trying hard to lose a large chunk of their supporters. They are close to the tipping point when they would lose many seats.
When I moved into the Monmouth constituency it was a Labour marginal (384 maj). It's solidly back to Conservative (c. 11k maj). It's a traditionally Conservative seat mind, but the sitting MP has improved his majority twice.
Mr. Betting, are UKIP in a position to take advantage, or would such seats drift to the Conservatives?
UKIP are showing signs of falling apart with Mr Hamilton but a new national Leader may fix things. The Welsh Conservatives under a Brexit Leader are ideally placed. Two parties chasing the majority LEAVE vote and 3-4 parties chasing the REMAIN vote.
Indeed – As with the axe attack on a Munich train, very little ‘accurate’ news was forthcoming in the first hour. We can but hope the final figures are much lower
Yokel on here has said on multiple occasions (including after the train slashing) that was small fry & IS have big plans for Germany.
It's easy to assume that if the attacks are not that close together then they probably haven't got that many people. If they start to become more frequent, the pressure on governments to act will grow immensely.
Anti-terror police in France have had a request of theirs rejected. That request? The deletion of footage of the Nice attack. City authorities have refused, on the rather reasonable grounds it may be evidence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36864440
Mr. Betting, I have a soft spot for Antigonus Monopthalmus, who seemed to be almost the only Diadochus [if I got the singular right] who got on really well with his son.
Slightly frustratingly, of the three books I've read there has been quite a lot of overlap and each offers something the others don't, but none was quite the comprehensive work I'd like.
[There is one I don't own called Dividing the Spoils, but the author uses Common Era. I'm somewhat wary of an author who wishes to impose revisionist tosh on the calendar].
I'm not sure what dating convention was used by the Hellenistic Greeks. AUC would obviously be an anachronism.
I suppose we shouldn't prejudge the outcome of the Lagarde case but taking this together with the circumstances in which her predecessor had to step down, you have to wonder what kind of recruitment process the IMF uses for its senior staff.
Indeed, quite extraordinary, or has it just been a witch hunt in Lagarde's case?
Given previous form over the centuries when that lot have taken exception to minorities, I fear for the future in a rather different way. Enough of this and Germany's version of Fronte Nationale will start harvesting votes in a big way, although I can't see such a party getting a majority ( that said, Hitler didn't get one either he basically staged a coup after becoming the largest party but well short of a majority)
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
There was definitely a bit of this about - things that happened in the past will have shaped McCluskey's thought processes. But leave him looking rather ridiculous today.
Father of a friend of mine was an informant on union activity for an intelligence agency back in the 80s, FWIW.
We know that more recently, police pretended to be environmental activists and maintained intimate relations with women activists for a decade. Again, infiltration by state security and safety forces seems to be par for the course in trade unions and left activism. Probably not in investment banks, though.
Mr. Lilburne, I'm not sure either. May have varied from city to city.
[Although the Diadochi were, of course, Macedonian (excepting if you count Eumenes of Cardia) it was Greeks who wrote the history, primarily Hieronymus of Cardia].
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
There was definitely a bit of this about - things that happened in the past will have shaped McCluskey's thought processes. But leave him looking rather ridiculous today.
Father of a friend of mine was an informant on union activity for an intelligence agency back in the 80s, FWIW.
We know that more recently, police pretended to be environmental activists and maintained intimate relations with women activists for a decade. Again, infiltration by state security and safety forces seems to be par for the course in trade unions and left activism. Probably not in investment banks, though.
I expect a poster here is one of the Queens Men, along with most forums.
Anti-terror police in France have had a request of theirs rejected. That request? The deletion of footage of the Nice attack. City authorities have refused, on the rather reasonable grounds it may be evidence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36864440
With Trump clearly pitching for the white blue collar vote in a tight national race he probably wins Ohio and North Carolina and Florida and maybe NH and Hillary needs to win Iowa, Nevada and Colorado and Virginia, hence she picks Kaine. The election is then decided in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia and its suburbs v the more rural, rustbelt parts of the state
Its no wonder they get such poor turnout figures, given how so much of the count is already decided. Why not switch to the winner of the national vote?
That would be logical and much preferable in my opinion. You might be interested in this:
I'm not sure that would help much, it would likely switch the campaigning from perceived swing states to big metropolitan areas. A quarter of the US population live in just 10 conurbations (NY, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, Philly, Miami, Atlanta, Boston) - and half in the top 44 (some of which really are merged, such as SF and San Jose).
What a disaster. Election being decided by people rather than archaic maths that gives votes to farmland..
I suppose we shouldn't prejudge the outcome of the Lagarde case but taking this together with the circumstances in which her predecessor had to step down, you have to wonder what kind of recruitment process the IMF uses for its senior staff.
Indeed, quite extraordinary, or has it just been a witch hunt in Lagarde's case?
Wasn't Strauss-Kahn the victim of a witch hunt too?
Given previous form over the centuries when that lot have taken exception to minorities, I fear for the future in a rather different way. Enough of this and Germany's version of Fronte Nationale will start harvesting votes in a big way, although I can't see such a party getting a majority ( that said, Hitler didn't get one either he basically staged a coup after becoming the largest party but well short of a majority)
Is that the reason why we are spending £200 bn to build 40 large tubes ?
Given previous form over the centuries when that lot have taken exception to minorities, I fear for the future in a rather different way. Enough of this and Germany's version of Fronte Nationale will start harvesting votes in a big way, although I can't see such a party getting a majority ( that said, Hitler didn't get one either he basically staged a coup after becoming the largest party but well short of a majority)
Is that the reason why we are spending £200 bn to build 40 large tubes ?
Given previous form over the centuries when that lot have taken exception to minorities, I fear for the future in a rather different way. Enough of this and Germany's version of Fronte Nationale will start harvesting votes in a big way, although I can't see such a party getting a majority ( that said, Hitler didn't get one either he basically staged a coup after becoming the largest party but well short of a majority)
Is that the reason why we are spending £200 bn to build 40 large tubes ?
Given previous form over the centuries when that lot have taken exception to minorities, I fear for the future in a rather different way. Enough of this and Germany's version of Fronte Nationale will start harvesting votes in a big way, although I can't see such a party getting a majority ( that said, Hitler didn't get one either he basically staged a coup after becoming the largest party but well short of a majority)
Is that the reason why we are spending £200 bn to build 40 large tubes ?
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Trident.
Thats the figure CND have come up with.
Real figure is £25-31 billion
Compared with Hinkley Point it looks good value...
Last five days - French mother and daughters stabbed, axe attack, RAF attempted kidnapping and now this.
I suppose with ISIS controlled territory being slowly taken back in Iraq by Iraq army with US support and in Syria by Syrian army with Russian support and now getting to the stage where complete overrun of Isis in Iraq and Syria is inevitable, it was fairly likely that this sort of Gotterdamerung strategy would ensure.
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
There was definitely a bit of this about - things that happened in the past will have shaped McCluskey's thought processes. But leave him looking rather ridiculous today.
Father of a friend of mine was an informant on union activity for an intelligence agency back in the 80s, FWIW.
We know that more recently, police pretended to be environmental activists and maintained intimate relations with women activists for a decade. Again, infiltration by state security and safety forces seems to be par for the course in trade unions and left activism. Probably not in investment banks, though.
I'd be surprised if there was much active surveillance of the trade unions today, but wouldn't surprise me if the SWP and some other members of the "revolutionary" left still had an eye kept on them from the inside.
Reuters BREAKING: Multiple people injured and killed in Munich shopping center shooting - German police
Social and various News Media outlets will be just getting in initial reports and reporting it as ‘real time’, - this will often conflict/contradict with those agencies reporting information more up to date. - That's a fingers crossed it is.
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“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/756525223483207680
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/756521086079172608
Father of a friend of mine was an informant on union activity for an intelligence agency back in the 80s, FWIW.
Slightly frustratingly, of the three books I've read there has been quite a lot of overlap and each offers something the others don't, but none was quite the comprehensive work I'd like.
[There is one I don't own called Dividing the Spoils, but the author uses Common Era. I'm somewhat wary of an author who wishes to impose revisionist tosh on the calendar].
UPDATE: One dead, 10 injured in shooting at #Munich shopping centre: police source - AFP
Anti-terror police in France have had a request of theirs rejected. That request? The deletion of footage of the Nice attack. City authorities have refused, on the rather reasonable grounds it may be evidence:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36864440
[Although the Diadochi were, of course, Macedonian (excepting if you count Eumenes of Cardia) it was Greeks who wrote the history, primarily Hieronymus of Cardia].
Bad timing for that remark...
In any case, what options do the EU have ? If they renege on their commitment, Turkey could take away the naval ships and the coast guards !
Germany's @Abendzeitung reports up to 15 killed in the Muncich shooting
Once someone dons the gimp suit and is chained to the radiator, their negotiating leverage declines to a remarkable extent.
#MUNICH Video of scene of attack is being spread on IS-linked Telegram channels https://t.co/tFB0oaRmT9
Real figure is £25-31 billion
Compared with Hinkley Point it looks good value...
Looks grim.
I wonder if Merkel's as guaranteed for re-election as people think.
#Munich police say they believe more than one shooter is involved; no one taken into custody yet. More: https://t.co/ye3EdLBDy5
BREAKING: Multiple people injured and killed in Munich shopping center shooting - German police
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UPDATE: 'We believe we are dealing with a shooting rampage' - Munich police. https://t.co/iktpvLwv89
Europe is being run lunatics.
https://twitter.com/NoughtPointFour/status/756542127518220288