Ruby Cramer Clinton skirts two questions about when Kaine knew about the diagnosis. Her answers here: https://t.co/9c3q9pd7Hr
She sounds like a robot
Shifty, very shifty.
Clinton comes across as a pathological liar.
I follow several in her press pool and watched a lot of her event clips - she's just awfully mechanical on stage. No warmth at all. Trump has his braggart faults, but he seems body temperature at least.
Regarding the question of voting Trump vs Hillary - I'd vote Trump. What he says vs what he sticks with are two very different things. He's a NY liberal sort playing to the gallery IMO. He gets populism and riding the wave.
I find everything about Hillary totally repellent - a liar, crook and machine politician. If she hadn't been married to the phenomenon that was Bill, she'd never get a look in. She's Cherie Blair with knob on.
So, you'd vote for Trump over Hillary because you hope he's a liar.
Whereas you know she is. What a mess there is no decent choice...
It's a revolt against a particular form of liberalism, one that sees internationalism and the free movement of people and capital as the way forward, rather than a revolt against liberalism more generally.
I see free movement of capital, goods and services as totally different to free movement of people.
Why so many others do not, baffles me.
However many Trump and Brexit backers do not. Working class voters in Ohio and the Black Country would be quite happy to have tariffs on imports from Mexico and China (indeed Farage made the argument the EU prevented restrictions being made on cheap Chinese goods)
I think in America, protectionism is strong.
In the UK, I don't think that's the case, but we are pragmatic and know dud ideological dogma when we see it. Particularly when it's fashionable on the continent.
The almost theological worship of unadulterated free movement is that dogma today.
Immigration is the biggest concern on both sides of the Atlantic but cheap foreign goods and offshoring of manufacturing jobs is also a concern too
Cheap foreign goods I suspect are popular in the UK.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is a much greater concern, but I think people blame competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment, much more than a lack of tariff walls and cheap imports.
Ruby Cramer Clinton skirts two questions about when Kaine knew about the diagnosis. Her answers here: https://t.co/9c3q9pd7Hr
She sounds like a robot
Shifty, very shifty.
Clinton comes across as a pathological liar.
I follow several in her press pool and watched a lot of her event clips - she's just awfully mechanical on stage. No warmth at all. Trump has his braggart faults, but he seems body temperature at least.
Regarding the question of voting Trump vs Hillary - I'd vote Trump. What he says vs what he sticks with are two very different things. He's a NY liberal sort playing to the gallery IMO. He gets populism and riding the wave.
I find everything about Hillary totally repellent - a liar, crook and machine politician. If she hadn't been married to the phenomenon that was Bill, she'd never get a look in. She's Cherie Blair with knob on.
So, you'd vote for Trump over Hillary because you hope he's a liar.
Whereas you know she is. What a mess there is no decent choice...
TBH, you can't even really say well if only Cruz or Kasich had got selected...they were all f##king useless in different ways. And Rubio managed to destroy his image after being built up as the great Cuban hope for the GOP.
David Martosko ProTip: Don't run to the bathroom during a @HillaryClinton press availability. It'll be over before you flush.
Again she did a whole four questions, it's a box tick nothing more.
Given there has been no stories at all, no email leaks revelations, etc etc etc, no wonder the press pack had to resort to asking about the ending of the Good Wife...
Could you ever imagine Nick Robinson standing up during GE campaign and saying Mrs May, what do you think about Sky Sports vs R4 coverage of the Test Matches...
It's so incredibly unconvincing brown nosing. The Sky reporter Heather Something acts like Nicholas Witchell - it's painful. She read out some Clinton PR statement in the same sonorous tones.
It's a revolt against a particular form of liberalism, one that sees internationalism and the free movement of people and capital as the way forward, rather than a revolt against liberalism more generally.
I see free movement of capital, goods and services as totally different to free movement of people.
Why so many others do not, baffles me.
However many Trump and Brexit backers do not. Working class voters in Ohio and the Black Country would be quite happy to have tariffs on imports from Mexico and China (indeed Farage made the argument the EU prevented restrictions being made on cheap Chinese goods)
I think in America, protectionism is strong.
In the UK, I don't think that's the case, but we are pragmatic and know dud ideological dogma when we see it. Particularly when it's fashionable on the continent.
The almost theological worship of unadulterated free movement is that dogma today.
Immigration is the biggest concern on both sides of the Atlantic but cheap foreign goods and offshoring of manufacturing jobs is also a concern too
Cheap foreign goods I suspect are popular in the UK.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is a much greater concern, but I think people blame competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment, much more than a lack of tariff walls and cheap imports.
Not when they are perceived as destroying UK industry they are not. People will blame a whole host of factors but the Brexit vote was primarily a vote against immigration and against the damage globalisation was seen to have done
It's a revolt against a particular form of liberalism, one that sees internationalism and the free movement of people and capital as the way forward, rather than a revolt against liberalism more generally.
I see free movement of capital, goods and services as totally different to free movement of people.
Why so many others do not, baffles me.
However many Trump and Brexit backers do not. Working class voters in Ohio and the Black Country would be quite happy to have tariffs on imports from Mexico and China (indeed Farage made the argument the EU prevented restrictions being made on cheap Chinese goods)
I think in America, protectionism is strong.
In the UK, I don't think that's the case, but we are pragmatic and know dud ideological dogma when we see it. Particularly when it's fashionable on the continent.
The almost theological worship of unadulterated free movement is that dogma today.
Immigration is the biggest concern on both sides of the Atlantic but cheap foreign goods and offshoring of manufacturing jobs is also a concern too
Cheap foreign goods I suspect are popular in the UK.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is a much greater concern, but I think people blame competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment, much more than a lack of tariff walls and cheap imports.
Very few consumer goods are made in the UK. We make music, movies, aero engines, some precision engineering, and quite a lot of cars.
But the clothes you wear, the computer you use, the pills you pop, the TV you watch, etc: they're all imported.
It's a bit more nuanced than that, I think. The post-War Liberal ascendency, which includes the EU as one of its projects, is seen to have failed. People think they have featherbedded immigrants and the bankers while they struggle and lose out year on year. They don't like globalisation nor being told what to think by foreigners and money men.
The problem is that if you want to be successful, globalisation is the only game in town. There is literally no alternative to the EU (which doesn't necessarily mean it will work, of course).
Yes, it is quite clear that Australia doesn't exist -
1) Only countries that accept unrestricted immigration can succeed. 2) Only countries in the EU can succeed. 3) Australia is successful, restricts immigration and isn't in the EU. And isn't a Nazi hellhole... 4) It's supposed to be a law abiding country founded by importing criminals, and they are supposed to have a mammal with the body of a beaver, the mouth of a duck. Which lays eggs...
Yes, it is high time to put an end to the Australia story. Nonsense for children....
To be clear, I voted Remain. I understand - I think - why people voted Leave even if I believe their reasons to be counter-productive.
Australia has higher immigration than the UK does in the EU. And I don't believe most people do make the distinction between "controlled" but higher immigration and "out of control" but actually lower immigration. They see the people on their streets.
And, PS, Australia also has politicians who claim Australia is being swamped by immigration. You don't need the EU as a bogeyman for that.
Also, of course, there is freedom of labour between Australia and New Zealand.
There is a bit of a difference between free movement between Australia and New Zealand and free movement between Poland and the UK and Mexico and the USA
It's a bit more nuanced than that, I think. The post-War Liberal ascendency, which includes the EU as one of its projects, is seen to have failed. People think they have featherbedded immigrants and the bankers while they struggle and lose out year on year. They don't like globalisation nor being told what to think by foreigners and money men.
The problem is that if you want to be successful, globalisation is the only game in town. There is literally no alternative to the EU (which doesn't necessarily mean it will work, of course).
Yes, it is quite clear that Australia doesn't exist -
1) Only countries that accept unrestricted immigration can succeed. 2) Only countries in the EU can succeed. 3) Australia is successful, restricts immigration and isn't in the EU. And isn't a Nazi hellhole... 4) It's supposed to be a law abiding country founded by importing criminals, and they are supposed to have a mammal with the body of a beaver, the mouth of a duck. Which lays eggs...
Yes, it is high time to put an end to the Australia story. Nonsense for children....
To be clear, I voted Remain. I understand - I think - why people voted Leave even if I believe their reasons to be counter-productive.
Australia has higher immigration than the UK does in the EU. And I don't believe most people do make the distinction between "controlled" but higher immigration and "out of control" but actually lower immigration. They see the people on their streets.
And, PS, Australia also has politicians who claim Australia is being swamped by immigration. You don't need the EU as a bogeyman for that.
Also, of course, there is freedom of labour between Australia and New Zealand.
There is a bit of a difference between free movement between Australia and New Zealand and free movement between Poland and the UK and Mexico and the USA
Oh I agree, I'm just pointing out that freedom of movement between neighbouring countries is not that uncommon.
Five Rights HRC's health lies are so transparent she's making fools out of her supporters. From well before the "pneumonia": https://t.co/Sc1uqodvV3
Can someone tell me what these great lies are? I get it she lied about emails. And there was that sniper incident against Obama. But how is she even in the same league of lying as Trump?
Make of this as you choose by former Clinton Secret Service Agent
"That is when all the other agents, especially this young jet-black haired one, convene to shield her from view completely. We call this “collapsing on” the protectee. They left in such a hurry to get her from the public view that her shoe—which she could not retain—was left behind.
Here’s what was very disturbing to me: after the medical episode, she went to her daughter’s apartment and not to an Emergency Room. Secret Service procedure for each detail dictates that everyone knows which hospital to go to depending on the event - heart failure, gunshot, you name it. It is very revealing that, whatever is wrong with her, she is being treated by her own private medical specialists in secret and, judging by the ballet-like reaction by her detail, they have dealt with this before.
It's a bit more nuanced than that, I think. The post-War Liberal ascendency, which includes the EU as one of its projects, is seen to have failed. People think they have featherbedded immigrants and the bankers while they struggle and lose out year on year. They don't like globalisation nor being told what to think by foreigners and money men.
The problem is that if you want to be successful, globalisation is the only game in town. There is literally no alternative to the EU (which doesn't necessarily mean it will work, of course).
Yes, it is quite clear that Australia doesn't exist -
1) Only countries that accept unrestricted immigration can succeed. 2) Only countries in the EU can succeed. 3) Australia is successful, restricts immigration and isn't in the EU. And isn't a Nazi hellhole... 4) It's supposed to be a law abiding country founded by importing criminals, and they are supposed to have a mammal with the body of a beaver, the mouth of a duck. Which lays eggs...
Yes, it is high time to put an end to the Australia story. Nonsense for children....
85% of Australia's exports are raw materials. I'm not sure that's a model we can follow.
It's a revolt against a particular form of liberalism, one that sees internationalism and the free movement of people and capital as the way forward, rather than a revolt against liberalism more generally.
I see free movement of capital, goods and services as totally different to free movement of people.
Why so many others do not, baffles me.
However many Trump and Brexit backers do not. Working class voters in Ohio and the Black Country would be quite happy to have tariffs on imports from Mexico and China (indeed Farage made the argument the EU prevented restrictions being made on cheap Chinese goods)
I think in America, protectionism is strong.
In the UK, I don't think that's the case, but we are pragmatic and know dud ideological dogma when we see it. Particularly when it's fashionable on the continent.
The almost theological worship of unadulterated free movement is that dogma today.
Immigration is the biggest concern on both sides of the Atlantic but cheap foreign goods and offshoring of manufacturing jobs is also a concern too
Cheap foreign goods I suspect are popular in the UK.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is a much greater concern, but I think people blame competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment, much more than a lack of tariff walls and cheap imports.
Not when they are perceived as destroying UK industry they are not. People will blame a whole host of factors but the Brexit vote was primarily a vote against immigration and against the damage globalisation was seen to have done
Okay- but do those same people seek out made in Britain labels and buy British wherever they can even if it costs a lot more?
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
Very few consumer goods are made in the UK. We make music, movies, aero engines, some precision engineering, and quite a lot of cars.
But the clothes you wear, the computer you use, the pills you pop, the TV you watch, etc: they're all imported.
Yes of course, they are (well, maybe not all the clothes the very wealthy wear - some tailors are still making a damn good living) and that isn't going to change. We are not going to see TV factories re-open in the UK, for example.
However, all those imports have to be paid for and as you, Mr. Robert, frequently post on these pages the UK cannot keep flogging off the family silver indefinitely. If import substitution isn't going to happen on a large enough scale, and I do not think it can, then we better do something about hugely increasing our exports.
That thought just brings us back to "competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment" as per Mr. Royale's post.
It's a bit more nuanced than that, I think. The post-War Liberal ascendency, which includes the EU as one of its projects, is seen to have failed. People think they have featherbedded immigrants and the bankers while they struggle and lose out year on year. They don't like globalisation nor being told what to think by foreigners and money men.
The problem is that if you want to be successful, globalisation is the only game in town. There is literally no alternative to the EU (which doesn't necessarily mean it will work, of course).
Yes, it is quite clear that Australia doesn't exist -
1) Only countries that accept unrestricted immigration can succeed. 2) Only countries in the EU can succeed. 3) Australia is successful, restricts immigration and isn't in the EU. And isn't a Nazi hellhole... 4) It's supposed to be a law abiding country founded by importing criminals, and they are supposed to have a mammal with the body of a beaver, the mouth of a duck. Which lays eggs...
Yes, it is high time to put an end to the Australia story. Nonsense for children....
To be clear, I voted Remain. I understand - I think - why people voted Leave even if I believe their reasons to be counter-productive.
Australia has higher immigration than the UK does in the EU. And I don't believe most people do make the distinction between "controlled" but higher immigration and "out of control" but actually lower immigration. They see the people on their streets.
And, PS, Australia also has politicians who claim Australia is being swamped by immigration. You don't need the EU as a bogeyman for that.
Also, of course, there is freedom of labour between Australia and New Zealand.
There is a bit of a difference between free movement between Australia and New Zealand and free movement between Poland and the UK and Mexico and the USA
Oh I agree, I'm just pointing out that freedom of movement between neighbouring countries is not that uncommon.
Indeed and had expansion of the EU to Eastern Europe never happened and Blair put a time delay on movement we would probably still be in the EU
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
The livable area is much much larger. The State of Victoria alone is not far off the size of the UK from memory, and 90 of that is habitable I'd guess.
It's a revolt against a particular form of liberalism, one that sees internationalism and the free movement of people and capital as the way forward, rather than a revolt against liberalism more generally.
I see free movement of capital, goods and services as totally different to free movement of people.
Why so many others do not, baffles me.
However many Trump and Brexit backers do not. Working class voters in Ohio and the Black Country would be quite happy to have tariffs on imports from Mexico and China (indeed Farage made the argument the EU prevented restrictions being made on cheap Chinese goods)
I think in America, protectionism is strong.
In the UK, I don't think that's the case, but we are pragmatic and know dud ideological dogma when we see it. Particularly when it's fashionable on the continent.
The almost theological worship of unadulterated free movement is that dogma today.
Immigration is the biggest concern on both sides of the Atlantic but cheap foreign goods and offshoring of manufacturing jobs is also a concern too
Cheap foreign goods I suspect are popular in the UK.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is a much greater concern, but I think people blame competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment, much more than a lack of tariff walls and cheap imports.
Not when they are perceived as destroying UK industry they are not. People will blame a whole host of factors but the Brexit vote was primarily a vote against immigration and against the damage globalisation was seen to have done
Okay- but do those same people seek out made in Britain labels and buy British wherever they can even if it costs a lot more?
Some may but of course it is the issue of cheaper foreign imports which makes British goods relatively more expensive
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
The lovable are is much much larger. The State of Victoria alone is not far off the size of the UK from memory, and 90 of that is habitable I'd guess.
Though that is not where the immigration is. Australia is one of the most urbanised countries (possibly more accurately sub-urbanised). Immigrants to Australia almost all go to a handful of major cities, and indeed country towns are often depopulating. Farmland in much of Victoria is hard to sell as very difficult to make a living from.
Off topic, I think the EU are absolutely correct to take a no compromise line with May.
they see a weak, dithering vain person who hid behind the sofa when Brexit was being fought and will be very easily intimidated. I see nothing in her premiership so far to contradict their view.
Theresa May is quite capable of coming back from the negotiations with a shockingly bad deal which she makes a desperate attempt to defend, only for all hell to break loose in her party and the country.
@Sean_F@WilliamGlenn Agreed. I understand why an economic liberal could want to leave the EU. How any economic liberal could vote Leave after the campaign and it became clear what sort of cultural phenomenon it was was a beyond me. I fear the Hannan wing of Brexiters will find themselves as Dr Frankenstein on this. Though I accept it's too early to tell.
Mr Submarine, you seem to follow the same logic (sic) as Mr Meeks, to whit, because some 'deplorables' are voting one way on a binary issue, no good sane people could vote the same way. For me, if the liberal economic argument suggests vote leave, that is how I am going to vote, regardless of how the deplorables vote.
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
The lovable are is much much larger. The State of Victoria alone is not far off the size of the UK from memory, and 90 of that is habitable I'd guess.
Though that is not where the immigration is. Australia is one of the most urbanised countries (possibly more accurately sub-urbanised). Immigrants to Australia almost all go to a handful of major cities, and indeed country towns are often depopulating. Farmland in much of Victoria is hard to sell as very difficult to make a living from.
Indeed. I was being geographical in the sense that "life is possible there" in a way that it's not in the Sahara or the Himalayas, but yes you are of course right. There's still an awful lot of it mind!
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
The livable area is much much larger. The State of Victoria alone is not far off the size of the UK from memory, and 90 of that is habitable I'd guess.
The point is not that their immigration level is lower - it is that the non-existent Australians control immigration. Indeed (if they existed), much of this control was conceived as protecting the domestic labour force - rather than attempting to reduce wages via immigration.
QT audience seems to be out of touch with the general public on grammar schools.
It all depends on how the question is put.
Remember why the Grammars were abolished? It was very much a bipartisan movement, and a popular one.
Grammars should only be allowed where a plebiscite of the affected population all vote for them. It should not be dictated either by central government or by a priveliged few.
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
Australia has easily inhabitable land of about 760,000 Sq Km. That is about 10% of its total area. By comparison the total area of the UK, habitable and uninhabitable is about 240,000 sq Km. So the readily inhabitable area of Oz is already 3 times the area of the whole of the UK.
Their population currently is about 1/3rd of the UK.
They have a very tightly controlled immigration system and the reason they have so many immigrants at the moment is they want them. Unlike the UK inside the EU, if they decide they don't want them any more they can stop importing them.
Personally I am in favour of freedom of movement which is why I wanted the EFTA solution. But people dismissing Australia as a model because it currently has high immigration rates really are being very dumb indeed.
Off topic, I think the EU are absolutely correct to take a no compromise line with May.
they see a weak, dithering vain person who hid behind the sofa when Brexit was being fought and will be very easily intimidated. I see nothing in her premiership so far to contradict their view.
Theresa May is quite capable of coming back from the negotiations with a shockingly bad deal which she makes a desperate attempt to defend, only for all hell to break loose in her party and the country.
Perhaps that's what the Eurocrats intend.
That's what Cameron did. It didn't end well, I recall.
QT audience seems to be out of touch with the general public on grammar schools.
Corrected for you....
They have now moved on from new grammars, which BBC executives clearly believe nobody but the most reactionary old fogies can back (actually 38% of the voters), to the future of the Labour Party and a head to head between Campbell and McDonnell (with the odd Soubry intervention) which is obviously far more relevant to the majority of the country (actually 30% at the last election and falling!)
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
The livable area is much much larger. The State of Victoria alone is not far off the size of the UK from memory, and 90 of that is habitable I'd guess.
Which considering we have inhospitable mountains too probably puts us about equivalent for landspace and with a multitude of their population. When I lived there houses could be cheaper and three times the size.
Okay- but do those same people seek out made in Britain labels and buy British wherever they can even if it costs a lot more?
I don't support Mr. Hyfud's argument here but I do buy British whenever I can. In particular I will not buy foreign meat (save specialist sausages, where there is no British equivalent) even though they are generally more expensive than imported equivalents (e.g. locally produced lamb is about 50% more expensive than stuff that has been frozen and shipped halfway around the world).
Partly my decision is made on the basis on animal welfare considerations (other countries standards are lower than our own), partly on the grounds of quality (the difference between prime Sussex Lamb and New Zealand lamb is huge and if I have a complaint I can bend the farmer's ear in the pub on Sunday lunchtime) but mostly I just want to support British Farmers who are struggling.
When I couldn't afford the premium for British meat I went without or bought cheaper cuts that I could afford.
Is the immigration of Australia actually lower than here ? Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
The livable area is much much larger. The State of Victoria alone is not far off the size of the UK from memory, and 90 of that is habitable I'd guess.
Which considering we have inhospitable mountains too probably puts us about equivalent for landspace and with a multitude of their population. When I lived there houses could be cheaper and three times the size.
Median house prices in Sydney have just dropped below AUD 1 million. Roughly £569 000.
@Sean_F@WilliamGlenn Agreed. I understand why an economic liberal could want to leave the EU. How any economic liberal could vote Leave after the campaign and it became clear what sort of cultural phenomenon it was was a beyond me. I fear the Hannan wing of Brexiters will find themselves as Dr Frankenstein on this. Though I accept it's too early to tell.
Mr Submarine, you seem to follow the same logic (sic) as Mr Meeks, to whit, because some 'deplorables' are voting one way on a binary issue, no good sane people could vote the same way. For me, if the liberal economic argument suggests vote leave, that is how I am going to vote, regardless of how the deplorables vote.
Quite so. I've never seen my vote in either a GE or a referendum as requiring me to take a moral stand. The risk of Brexit is now entirely down to how well the government executes it. I'm sure that whatever happens I'll be disappointed.
Croydon Momentum Disgraceful attack on John McDonnell from Anna Soubrey. If they think Corbyn is a joke, why speak like that? They think he's a threat #bbcqt
Question Time panel extraordinarily skewed towards REMAIN (as was)
Who is the rightwing politician this time ?
The only real rightwinger is Quentin Letts, who is a journalist, he had a clever line warning McDonnell that if he let the revolutionaries go too far he could end up like Robespierre
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump won't even release his tax returns, yet voters still think he's more transparent than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
Fifty-four percent of likely voters said Trump is transparent, compared to 37 percent who said the same of Clinton.
QT audience seems to be out of touch with the general public on grammar schools.
It all depends on how the question is put.
Remember why the Grammars were abolished? It was very much a bipartisan movement, and a popular one.
Grammars should only be allowed where a plebiscite of the affected population all vote for them. It should not be dictated either by central government or by a priveliged few.
The elite was in favour of closing grammars because it meant they could stay on top with the help of private schools.
Question Time panel extraordinarily skewed towards REMAIN (as was)
Who is the rightwing politician this time ?
The only real rightwinger is Quentin Letts, who is a journalist, he had a clever line warning McDonnell that if he let the revolutionaries go too far he could end up like Robespierre
I'm started watching about 2315 - it's electric stuff
Having read again the Telegraph piece on EU officials intending to make the UK give up on Brexit by making negotiations too tough, I am more and more convinced that our line should be:
"These are the UK's red lines:
1. No UK contributions to the EU budget 2. UK to control movement of people across its borders 3. UK laws to have primacy 4. UK not subject to ECJ rulings
Now, EU, given these red lines, what are you prepared to offer us. If nothing, then let's just get it over and done with and to the WTO rules. When you are ready to be sensible, let us know."
@Sean_F@WilliamGlenn Agreed. I understand why an economic liberal could want to leave the EU. How any economic liberal could vote Leave after the campaign and it became clear what sort of cultural phenomenon it was was a beyond me. I fear the Hannan wing of Brexiters will find themselves as Dr Frankenstein on this. Though I accept it's too early to tell.
Mr Submarine, you seem to follow the same logic (sic) as Mr Meeks, to whit, because some 'deplorables' are voting one way on a binary issue, no good sane people could vote the same way. For me, if the liberal economic argument suggests vote leave, that is how I am going to vote, regardless of how the deplorables vote.
Absolutely. I'm an economic and social liberal and I switched due to the Hannan/Gove/Johnson liberal arguments despite not because of the deplorable Farage/Bone/Galloway one.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but if something is right it remains right even if the wrong people agree.
Question Time panel extraordinarily skewed towards REMAIN (as was)
Who is the rightwing politician this time ?
The only real rightwinger is Quentin Letts, who is a journalist, he had a clever line warning McDonnell that if he let the revolutionaries go too far he could end up like Robespierre
I'm started watching about 2315 - it's electric stuff
Yes, the grammar debate was a snoozefest of agreement apart from Letts. Now it is getting quite vicious and much more interesting
Okay- but do those same people seek out made in Britain labels and buy British wherever they can even if it costs a lot more?
I don't support Mr. Hyfud's argument here but I do buy British whenever I can. In particular I will not buy foreign meat (save specialist sausages, where there is no British equivalent) even though they are generally more expensive than imported equivalents (e.g. locally produced lamb is about 50% more expensive than stuff that has been frozen and shipped halfway around the world).
Partly my decision is made on the basis on animal welfare considerations (other countries standards are lower than our own), partly on the grounds of quality (the difference between prime Sussex Lamb and New Zealand lamb is huge and if I have a complaint I can bend the farmer's ear in the pub on Sunday lunchtime) but mostly I just want to support British Farmers who are struggling.
When I couldn't afford the premium for British meat I went without or bought cheaper cuts that I could afford.
I can afford to buy locally produced food so I do. Obsessing over food miles is my main way of virtue signalling. However, secretly I only do it because everything tastes so much better. Don't tell anyone.
Having read again the Telegraph piece on EU officials intending to make the UK give up on Brexit by making negotiations too tough, I am more and more convinced that our line should be:
"These are the UK's red lines:
1. No UK contributions to the EU budget 2. UK to control movement of people across its borders 3. UK laws to have primacy 4. UK not subject to ECJ rulings
Now, EU, given these red lines, what are you prepared to offer us. If nothing, then let's just get it over and done with and to the WTO rules. When you are ready to be sensible, let us know."
Free trade in goods; no use of product standards as an NTB. Free trade in services, but no financial passporting.
According to a new WXYZ/Detroit Free Press poll released Thursday, Trump trails Clinton by only 3 points, as the former secretary of state takes 38 percent to Trump's 35 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson pulls 10 percent support, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein takes 4 percent. Thirteen percent of respondents were undecided.
Farage, who will step down as leader of UKIP at the party’s yearly conference later this week, is eyeing a future role as “roving ambassador,” according to Banks. “To go to places like Denmark and France and say: ‘It’s possible, you can do it as well.’ "
Having read again the Telegraph piece on EU officials intending to make the UK give up on Brexit by making negotiations too tough, I am more and more convinced that our line should be:
"These are the UK's red lines:
1. No UK contributions to the EU budget 2. UK to control movement of people across its borders 3. UK laws to have primacy 4. UK not subject to ECJ rulings
Now, EU, given these red lines, what are you prepared to offer us. If nothing, then let's just get it over and done with and to the WTO rules. When you are ready to be sensible, let us know."
I wouldn't argue with those, though I might add in Mr. Robert's Free Trade suggestions (see his recent post). The EU is unlikely to agree to any of it, especially Mr. Robert's free trade in services, but it has the advantage of cutting through the crap. Properly handled the negotiations could be done and dusted in a month.
The key point is that the UK has to go into these negotiations prepared to get up and walk away from the table.
@MTimT@John_M No. I'd reject as ludicrous a guilt by association charge linking me to Goldman Sachs or Sinn Fein as a Remainer voter. It would be equally absurd to say every Leave voter is responsible for Britain First's street patrols. Which is why I said no such thing. I said I could understand why an economic liberal could want to leave the EU. I said I couldn't understand how an economic liberal could have voted Leave after the campaign. While my view is possibly utterly wrong it's a far more nuisanced judgement that either of you is suggesting. I did not say ' All Leave voters go in the Basket of deplorable '.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/co/colorado_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5974.html
which makes this article in the Atlantic look utterly hilarious:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/the-state-that-fell-off-the-map/499529/
quote: "Colorado was supposed to be a presidential battleground, but that now seems far-fetched.". Lol.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is a much greater concern, but I think people blame competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment, much more than a lack of tariff walls and cheap imports.
It's so incredibly unconvincing brown nosing. The Sky reporter Heather Something acts like Nicholas Witchell - it's painful. She read out some Clinton PR statement in the same sonorous tones.
But the clothes you wear, the computer you use, the pills you pop, the TV you watch, etc: they're all imported.
HRC's health lies are so transparent she's making fools out of her supporters.
From well before the "pneumonia": https://t.co/Sc1uqodvV3
I get it she lied about emails. And there was that sniper incident against Obama.
But how is she even in the same league of lying as Trump?
"That is when all the other agents, especially this young jet-black haired one, convene to shield her from view completely. We call this “collapsing on” the protectee. They left in such a hurry to get her from the public view that her shoe—which she could not retain—was left behind.
Here’s what was very disturbing to me: after the medical episode, she went to her daughter’s apartment and not to an Emergency Room. Secret Service procedure for each detail dictates that everyone knows which hospital to go to depending on the event - heart failure, gunshot, you name it. It is very revealing that, whatever is wrong with her, she is being treated by her own private medical specialists in secret and, judging by the ballet-like reaction by her detail, they have dealt with this before.
http://ijr.com/opinion/2016/09/260018-protected-hillary-clinton-secret-service-heres-noticed-fainting-video/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
If Trump manages to regain heavy industry for the USA it does have a few implications:
1) fewer Chinese exports to the USA.
2) fewer US gilts being bought by China
3) consequent financial issues for the USA
4) Chinese steel and other products dumped on world markets, bringing either tarrifs or destruction of other nations industries.
5) reduced demand for commodities for China, hitting primary exporters like Australia.
It is hard to see who benefits.
Or is that on a per population basis. I'd be surprised if it was on an absolute basis, and even more so on a people per square metre basis.
I'd guess the livable area of Australia to be higher than that of the UK (Melbourne -> Brisbane coast) & Perth, even though most of it is very inhospitable
However, all those imports have to be paid for and as you, Mr. Robert, frequently post on these pages the UK cannot keep flogging off the family silver indefinitely. If import substitution isn't going to happen on a large enough scale, and I do not think it can, then we better do something about hugely increasing our exports.
That thought just brings us back to "competitiveness, British Governments, poor management, poor skills/education and lack of investment" as per Mr. Royale's post.
Fox News Poll: Head-to-head, @realDonaldTrump leads @HillaryClinton 46% to 45%. #SpecialReport https://t.co/VcaexRnAYB
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/15/fox-news-poll-clinton-and-trump-in-one-point-race-among-likely-voters.html
LD 340
Lab 308
Con 155
UKIP 79
they see a weak, dithering vain person who hid behind the sofa when Brexit was being fought and will be very easily intimidated. I see nothing in her premiership so far to contradict their view.
Theresa May is quite capable of coming back from the negotiations with a shockingly bad deal which she makes a desperate attempt to defend, only for all hell to break loose in her party and the country.
Perhaps that's what the Eurocrats intend.
Blakelaw (Newcastle upon Tyne) result:
LAB: 43.2% (-20.0)
LDEM: 28.1% (+19.0)
UKIP: 19.1% (+3.0)
CON: 5.1% (-2.4)
GRN: 4.5% (+0.5)
Tupton (North East Derbyshire) result:
LDEM: 38.3% (+38.3)
LAB: 34.7% (-32.4)
CON: 17.5% (-15.4)
UKIP: 8.9% (+8.9)
BPP: 0.7% (+0.7)
Lab 1004
LD 654
UKIP 443
Con 119
Green 105
Remember why the Grammars were abolished? It was very much a bipartisan movement, and a popular one.
Grammars should only be allowed where a plebiscite of the affected population all vote for them. It should not be dictated either by central government or by a priveliged few.
Their population currently is about 1/3rd of the UK.
They have a very tightly controlled immigration system and the reason they have so many immigrants at the moment is they want them. Unlike the UK inside the EU, if they decide they don't want them any more they can stop importing them.
Personally I am in favour of freedom of movement which is why I wanted the EFTA solution. But people dismissing Australia as a model because it currently has high immigration rates really are being very dumb indeed.
NYPD have closed down this part of ny and am in pain here
Lab 67.1
Con 32.9
Partly my decision is made on the basis on animal welfare considerations (other countries standards are lower than our own), partly on the grounds of quality (the difference between prime Sussex Lamb and New Zealand lamb is huge and if I have a complaint I can bend the farmer's ear in the pub on Sunday lunchtime) but mostly I just want to support British Farmers who are struggling.
When I couldn't afford the premium for British meat I went without or bought cheaper cuts that I could afford.
Makes London seem a bargain...
http://www.domain.com.au/news/sydneys-median-house-price-falls-below-1-million-domain-group-20160420-go9kie/
LibDems winning here, anyone?
Disgraceful attack on John McDonnell from Anna Soubrey. If they think Corbyn is a joke, why speak like that? They think he's a threat #bbcqt
Fifty-four percent of likely voters said Trump is transparent, compared to 37 percent who said the same of Clinton.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/quinnipiac-voters-see-trump-as-more-transparent-than-clinton/article/2601955?custom_click=rss
"These are the UK's red lines:
1. No UK contributions to the EU budget
2. UK to control movement of people across its borders
3. UK laws to have primacy
4. UK not subject to ECJ rulings
Now, EU, given these red lines, what are you prepared to offer us. If nothing, then let's just get it over and done with and to the WTO rules. When you are ready to be sensible, let us know."
Two wrongs don't make a right, but if something is right it remains right even if the wrong people agree.
"Meritocracy is not a cuddly idea where the poor do better but a brutal reality where every winner brings a loser"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/mays-vision-of-social-mobility-is-sheer-fantasy-nvbrk6gsv
Free trade in services, but no financial passporting.
Anna Soubry, John Mcdonnell AND Alastair Campbell on one panel? Hope someone's got fire extinguishers ready... https://t.co/oCklZMHs5M
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poll-trump-trims-clinton-lead-in-michigan/article/2601969?custom_click=rss
Could this be it?
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/democratic-national-committee-fund-congressional-races-228212
http://www.politico.eu/article/ukip-plans-invasion-of-the-continent-nigel-farage-arron-banks-right-wing-populism/
Farage, who will step down as leader of UKIP at the party’s yearly conference later this week, is eyeing a future role as “roving ambassador,” according to Banks. “To go to places like Denmark and France and say: ‘It’s possible, you can do it as well.’ "
The key point is that the UK has to go into these negotiations prepared to get up and walk away from the table.