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“I’ll tell you what sums up Jeremy Corbyn for me. When we had a march through Westminster he made sure he was right at the front and carrying a banner. But when it came to the hard graft – talking to businesses and government he was nowhere to be seen.”
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Corbyn: 16 mentions
Smith: 5.
What is actually good about OWEN SMITH.
That's what I'd want to know if I was a Labour member with a ballot.
On the other hand, not all constituencies have Labour MPs (!) and of those that do, not all will have Labour MPs who choose to put their head above the parapet in quite such terms.
Off to Telford now, to see what Owen Smith has to say for himself this afternoon.
It's like invoking Hitler as something insightful.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/22/cutting-corporation-tax-will-make-theresa-mays-brexit-talks-more/
At room temperature, holding your nose (or not often), I would bet good money on no one being able to tell the difference between red or white wine; or whisky or brandy.
It's quite a good party trick. Especially if there is a "wine expert" there...
On topic...I think Lab need a good 10-15 years to work this socialism will work if only the people are given a chance stuff out of their system.
Not as effective as a six-month campaign and then referendum for the Tories & the EU but it seems nothing else is going to work.
It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
Labour's problem, in the event of a Smith win, is that he's bloody rubbish. He's worse than Ed Miliband. Whilst he doesn't appear as awkward, he comes out with tosh, and his rhetoric is scarcely less socialist than Chairman Corbyn.
It is wonderful to enter a thread without a cartoon character in sight.
Sure you don't mean zenith ?
Edit: oh wait...
Perhaps we could try this at the meeting with young AlanBrooke.
Is that the 'vibrant' Italy whose economy has stood still for about a decade?
The Country deserves a decent opposition and it hasn't got one. At least if Smith wins it will not be quite such a shambles even if its still impossible for Labour to win a GE..
Off topic - has anyone been watching AMC's Halt and Catch Fire? Really enjoying it. Think Mad Men with computer heads rather than creatives.
The Guardian and The Observer don't think the news from Rio is Golden though do they?
https://twitter.com/ScotlandNow/status/767703391019687936
I promise likewise to enter into an intensive training programme also before we eventually do meet.
What we need is some independent polling evidence to see if this is just wishful thinking or actually true or not .
Watershed generally implies some break or turning point - pretty sure there is no implicit value judgement.
Reading the story, it's the just the Swedish leader opining on the subject. More importantly, Merkel, Hollande and Renzi are meeting this afternoon to discuss (amongst other things) Brexit. Let's see if we get any smoke signals from that conversation.
My gut instinct is to agree with Don that this is closer than some would have it and certainly closer than the 5:1 CLP nominations make it appear but at the same time, we can't ignore those nominations, or the polls from earlier on in the campaign, dated though they now are. I could well see Corbyn winning with a smaller share in a two-way contest this year than he achieved last year in a four-way. Considering the relative quality of the opposition and the change in membership since last year, that wouldn't be too impressive. But it would still be a win.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
If turnips were swords I'd have one by my side.
So say: look I'm not even close to the centre ground; but I'm not your favourite uncle/geography teacher whom you wouldn't trust to nip out and buy a pint of milk; I scrub up ok as your archetypal middle-aged, identikit politician, the likes of which we have been electing to office for generations; and, let me say this again, I am a true red and proud of it, come on guys, power to the workers, and all that.
And then get elected. And then resign shortly thereafter, and let someone actually electable take over.
It is positively Mandelsonian in its artifice.
Merkel isn't minded to do that as it would be domestically tough to cut Britain out of the single market given that 2m German jobs depend on our trade deficit with them.
Mr. Max, interesting on Italy.
The Vueling aircraft was waiting to leave Ibiza to travel to Madrid-Barajas airport in Spain when the weapon went off in front of alarmed passengers.
The pistol discharged inside the National Police agent’s case as he handed it over to the pilot for safe-keeping.
Luckily, the bullet fired into the agent’s luggage, avoiding him and all other passengers, Spanish media reported...
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/terror-as-police-officers-gun-goes-off-inside-cabin-in-front-of-passengers-on-ibiza-flight-a3326591.html
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Sounds like its going to be a bit of a tough meeting, then.
Presumably the bodies of water on either side of a watershed are at approximately the same level?
Now #Olympics2016 has closed, see how each country's economy compares to their medal haul https://t.co/2SoYrdWv4d https://t.co/k5NYCAbPnf
Edit: Caspian -92 feet; Aral +138 feet
Anyone know if the TV watershed is still in place? That is where I hear the phrase most often used....
Half the class was Muslim, and their answers were not necessarily accurate. Despite being practically teetotal even then, I got them all right [did guess the order of vodka/whisky though].
Never had vodka. Only ever had rum in chocolate. One suspects the PB pirates are more au fait with rum.
I have had Chinese white wine which, thankfully, was served in a thimble [give or take].
Politics relies on having a pool of participants with a wide array of complementary skills and experiences. 'Professionalising' it only achieves a very significant narrowing of both.
The fact remains, as any ambitious raindrop knows all too well, the peak of their aspiration is to be falling from the sky somewhere near Basle in Switzerland and wondering whether they are destined for the North or Black Sea. When, prior to young Herdson's attempt to re-write the geographical syllabus, did you ever hear a raindrop so excited to be falling over the Pennines?
We're not even a top three export market for Germany; and I believe we account for just under 2% of German value add.
If anyone's interested, here's an old review, by me, about the best emperor nobody's ever heard of:
http://thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/review-restorer-of-world-emperor.html
Mr Herdson. Isn't the term also (perhaps lazily) also used to describe the entire area of land which supplies water to the rivers and lakes of the system. For example, the watershed of the Chesapeake is 64,000 square miles:
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/baywatershed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3752939/Borders-worst-invention-EU-chief-Jean-Claude-Juncker-widens-rift-European-leaders-calls-borders-opened.html
Surely there was something rather admirable about the 'old days' when you'd be watching the 10000m final and be told that the leading runner was a dentist who trained down the park at weekends, or something similar?
And I do fear that sport will go the way of (especially American) politics where the only people in with a chance of Olympic glory will have been snatched from their parents during teenage and held in some state-funded sports training camp for years, fed on state-funded food ('nutrition', I believe it is called nowadays?) and allowed out only for brief interludes of celebration following their latest victory.
See http://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/gms-opel-cuts-working-hours-at-german-plants-due-to-brexit/53770708
Clearly that's not 2 million jobs but its a fair few and this is just one company at the final stage of production....
It depends how you calculate it.
If you argue, say, that German auto exports to the UK provide the economies of scale that then enable them to achieve a better cost quality ratio that gives them a competitive advantage in domestic and other foreign markets, then you could make the argument that many more jobs than those just needed to build cars for export to the UK depend on those UK exports.
PS That sort of calculation must be relatively more important for products which require highly expensive R&D which must be amortized over large numbers of units produced.
I think Brexiters are still deluding themselves on what a strong hand they have. My arse !
On the other hand, a Nissan Micra with 10% duty, I don't know...........
Why win a vote and then not exercise it ?
So, despite all the crap being spread around, there is almost no chance that there will not be a goods FTA. It is simply in everyone's best interests for there to be one.
It would be better to have a register of millionaires and to pick one at random each week, and drop a £million of their savings as a £2.50 income supplement to every poor family?
I love watersheds. Driving over to Sheffield via the A57 I am always happy to point out to the missus where we pass the weatershed between the Mersey and Trent drainage basins, and then again where we pass the watershed between the Trent and Don drainage basins (the latter both drain into the Humber but arrive at sea level at different points so I treat them as separate). She is as fascinated by this as you would expect.
Mr. Surbiton, you think earning money and spending it on things like energy are voluntary? You tinker.