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11am – Richard Barbrook talks at launch of Jeremy Corbyn's digital manifesto
12pm – He is revealed as 'supporter of IRA's armed struggle'
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First among losers.
Edit: 5th like Germany ;(
This should worry Clinton Clinton holds a 54% to 33% lead when voters are asked whom they expect to win the election. Ninety-two percent (92%) of Clinton voters believe she will prevail, while only 66% of Trump supporters think he will.", complacency is her campaigns biggest danger.
If Ian Paisley got in bed with them there is no issue.
On the second issue it's more serious, we can debate freedom of speech in Italy in 1998, but that is also debatable since only in america freedom of speech is legal.
But support for clear criminal activities should not be allowed publication.
If I were a Labour member looking at Smith standing on a Corbynite programme but being backed by every virulent anti-Corbynite in the party, I wouldn't trust him an inch.
A man with his record is not someone I would like to see having influence like that.
Three are two positions:
1. Left wing desire to alter the party and it's governing institutions and committees to a permenant left wing outlook. Vote JC
Almost all other options vote the other guy. Problem is he isn't inspirational to get the more lethargic to support him.
This isn't about leading labour, it is about where labour is going.
Not all republicans think Trump can win, because of his big mouth.
Commie - check
Terrorist sympathizer - check
anti-Semitism - check
Isn't that the entry requirement for corbyn inner circle?
Too many people teaching degrees with very little worth to too many undergraduates
And too many graduate programmes being set up just to attract foreign students
We need to educate our students to the benefit of our nation first.
Not a Tory - check
Anything else goes.
"Tory" includes those voting for the Lib Dems, Conservatives, or UKIP; anyone who likes Blair, supported the Iraq war, prioritises power over purity, didn't vote for Corbyn last year...
As a lawyer I'm tempted to invoke the idea of a "constructive Tory"...
College tuition fees and University tuition fees are simply being increased astronomically just to cover the ever expanding waste in administration, or simply that the administrators are increasing the fees in order to increase their spending in administration and waste it on themselves.
It reminds me of the old Peter Sellers movie "Where does it hurt ?" .
Most of them remind me of London Labour voters in profile, image and behaviour, that's why I said metropolitan.
But a peace treaty is a treaty.
Most people don't like the Germans even though the war ended in 1945, most people don't like the Russians even though the Cold War ended in 1989, heck some don't like the French even though the war against them ended in 1815.
You can't force people to like others.
"I'm suing for constructive Toryism because Jeremy Corbyn put me in a position of responsibility where I had to compromise my beliefs."
And he really does teach a course called that....oh and he wrote a book about how Wired magazine is an evil publication.
That being said, I would be willing to listen to a sane and reasonable person (so not the Jezziah) who had a sensible proposal about BT Openreach, and I would be open minded about public ownership of that aspect of the national infrastructure.
For those who do get £9,000's worth of education, most of them could probably be educated just as effectively more cheaply.
There is also no reason a degree course needs to be as long as three years.
A significant proportion of what gets taught on a degree course is of use neither to students nor to employers.
The system is ripe for reform.
There was even talk about California seceding early in the year in the event of a Trump presidency.
However since Trump's chances are low, there won't be enough time between Trump's election and Trump's inevitable impeachment for any US state to secede.
He would have caught the democrats with their pants down.
In the last YouGov, Labour support was down to 24% for your (and my) generation (50-64) and down to 13% (!) for over 65s. The Conservative lead was 18% for 50-64 and a massive 45% for 65+. Now compare with five years ago - 28th August 2011 - at the equivalent period under Miliband. Labour was just 6% behind the Conservatives in the then 60+ sub-break (41% Con, 35% Lab).
That is a huge change of political allegiance amongst older voters. A combination of many things is behind it, but Corbyn is one of them. People by now have very firm opinions on Corbyn, and Labour cannot recover that loss of support with him in charge.
I don't think British universities are quite that bad, but certainly at Aberystwyth there were more non-academic than academic departments and I would estimate they accounted for between 40 and 50% of the staff with allowance for double counting (I was both a lecturer and an administrator at one time, confusingly).
It was in that spirit that I thought electing him was a distinctly courageous decision. But I never dreamed he would prove this bloody awful.
It was a record difference of support between those over 65 and those under 35.
I made the comment a few days later on PB that it appears that we have 2 different and distinct societies, those born before 1970 and those born after 1970, that have entirely different and diverging views on everything.
I'm not surprised that the divergence has continued, it's probably due to the entirely different worlds those two groups grew up in.
It's like those who grew up in the Victorian era and lived in the 1960's.
All over now, England win the match and the series.
Timmy has a long history with these folk. He was fighting the likes of SWP lot years before he found PB.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37224570
Nevermind.
50 seconds into this video describes it:
https://youtu.be/KRGes_vU3HU.
The EU is basically saying that Ireland isn't allowed outside the play-pen.
I've no idea how we as the UK will fare in the the next few years, but there will be one big plus in leaving the actual institution of the EU behind.
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/international/studyabroad/outbound/feesandfunding/
Not to say that this decision was right or wrong, or whether it was made for the right or wrong reasons. But on the question of can the EU fine Apple the answer is an unequivocal yes.
"M'lud, the government has repeatedly stated that there was no illegal state aid, yet it has brought my client to this court in order to ask you to order repayment of illegal state aid which it denies ever existed..."
Aint' gonna fly, it seems to me...
But £1350 for a couple of emails from your tutor is hardly good value
Ireland is being dismissed as an irrelevance.
Perhaps there's another way of looking at this, but if I was Irish I think I'd be pretty upset.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/30/southern-health-boss-quitsbut-will-still-receive-240000-a-year-a/
What is unique about this case is that historically state aid has been defined as the government giving money to a company. In this case, it is about the government offering a company a tax advantage.
It bears repeating, of course, that there are anti state aid rules in NAFTA and other free trade agreements.
The EU is just bullying for 13bn of protection money. It simply isn't a legitimate claim in my view. An agreement was made, and no matter how faulty that agreement was assuming that the people who made it were legitimately empowered to do such a thing it must stand.
Apple, and all the rest of the big corporations should pay their fair share of tax, but the rule of law (and a reasonable law) is more important.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/30/parliamentary-expenses-should-be-scrapped-and-mps-trusted-with-a/
Ireland's government debt-to-GDP has collapsed from 124% in 2013 to about 90% today. As the banks are privatised and the assets of NAMA are sold off, that should drop to around 60%. Add in a little bit of economic growth between now and 2020, and it'll be back below 50%.
Quite an extraordinary round trip.