In a December 2015 email to Podesta, Harwood bragged about his much-criticized debate performance in which he asked Trump “Let’s be honest, is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?”
In a December 2015 email to Podesta, Harwood bragged about his much-criticized debate performance in which he asked Trump “Let’s be honest, is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?”
OH MY GOD. SHOT THE MSM DOWN. MAKE AMERICA GROPE AGAIN
The latest Private Eye cover's funny. Although only if you're not a Trumper ...
Anonymous have laid into Clinton this morning with a video that outlines here misdemeanours, and I was actually surprised at the number of times that she has been caught and punished - stuff that's apparently on the record. Now I haven't checked each one back to a primary source because I haven't had the time, but seriously - even if 10% of it is on the button she's be dead in the water in the UK. Nobody would let her near a whelk stall.
Totally O/T....been mentioned on here about how good a game Hitman is (despite very poor sales, stupid business model). Latest episode is the best so far.
I've been replaying Paris
It is staggering how well the various elements work together when you know what you're doing.
My current plan is to put a proximity mine in a corridor, and then attempt to time a target lockdown so that the two targets are in the same place at the same time... thus blowing themselves to bits a long way away from where I'm going to be.
See Ladbrokes have changed Witney odds again, Cons now 1/20 from 1/40 a week ago, Lib Dems 8-1 from 12-1 a week ago. The by election has a smell about it, could be closer than most think.
Why then did France continue to allow such immigration into the country? The killer in Nice, for instance, was an unskilled labourer from North Africa who was allowed to move to France in 2003. Why? What possible benefit was it to France to allow an unskilled labourer to move there? Were there really no unskilled labourers available anywhere in the EU - in the fabled Single Market with its even more precious Free Movement - available to do whatever it was that this individual would do? Did no-one think - even in 2003 - that there might be issues with allowing immigration from a part of the world where terrorism and vicious civil war and anti-Western ideologies are not unknown?
It is the failure of the authorities in the West to apply any sort of judgment to whom they let into the country which has allowed, in part, the spread of some very undesirable developments within our countries, developments that we are now finding very hard to handle.
And that failure to apply any sort of judgment, to view immigration as some sort of right, to place the entitlement of the would-be immigrant above any other consideration, a sort of immigration "I want therefore I must have" - as evidenced the response by sentimental idiots like Lily Allen to the Calais Jungle - is still continuing.
Why then did France continue to allow such immigration into the country? The killer in Nice, for instance, was an unskilled labourer from North Africa who was allowed to move to France in 2003. Why? What possible benefit was it to France to allow an unskilled labourer to move there? Were there really no unskilled labourers available anywhere in the EU - in the fabled Single Market with its even more precious Free Movement - available to do whatever it was that this individual would do? Did no-one think - even in 2003 - that there might be issues with allowing immigration from a part of the world where terrorism and vicious civil war and anti-Western ideologies are not unknown?
It is the failure of the authorities in the West to apply any sort of judgment to whom they let into the country which has allowed, in part, the spread of some very undesirable developments within our countries, developments that we are now finding very hard to handle.
And that failure to apply any sort of judgment, to view immigration as some sort of right, to place the entitlement of the would-be immigrant above any other consideration, a sort of immigration "I want therefore I must have" - as evidenced the response by sentimental idiots like Lily Allen to the Calais Jungle - is still continuing.
@Cyclefree, we're just as bad. There's no shortage of unskilled non-EU workers coming to the UK every year,
See Ladbrokes have changed Witney odds again, Cons now 1/20 from 1/40 a week ago, Lib Dems 8-1 from 12-1 a week ago. The by election has a smell about it, could be closer than most think.
It was 23-1 on Betfair (when I put £5 on) earlier today.
Christianity Today, a leading evangelical magazine, said in an editorial that Christians should not support a man whose life is based around “idolatry, greed, and sexual immorality”.
Christianity Today, a leading evangelical magazine, said in an editorial that Christians should not support a man whose life is based around “idolatry, greed, and sexual immorality”.
Christianity Today, a leading evangelical magazine, said in an editorial that Christians should not support a man whose life is based around “idolatry, greed, and sexual immorality”.
Blimey .... they're really laying into TSE !! ..
Presume they mean self-idolatry, if there is such a thing.
Christianity Today, a leading evangelical magazine, said in an editorial that Christians should not support a man whose life is based around “idolatry, greed, and sexual immorality”.
"But his following remain enthusiastic and fired up and you can see a post-November 8th scenario when the party leadership is seen as having betrayed the legitimately elected nominee. For the Republicans the worry is the impact Trump will have on the other elections particularly the fiercely contested battle for it to retain control of the Senate."
I'd agree with both points. Trump will almost certainly lose now unless something truly scandalous comes out about Hillary, which seems unlikely. His base won't, however, blame him; it'll all be down to betrayal from those on the Hill and the RNC.
But Trump will get his revenge if he drags down the turnout from GOP voters, impacting the senate, House and gubernatorial races.
Totally O/T....been mentioned on here about how good a game Hitman is (despite very poor sales, stupid business model). Latest episode is the best so far.
I've been replaying Paris
It is staggering how well the various elements work together when you know what you're doing.
My current plan is to put a proximity mine in a corridor, and then attempt to time a target lockdown so that the two targets are in the same place at the same time... thus blowing themselves to bits a long way away from where I'm going to be.
Why then did France continue to allow such immigration into the country? The killer in Nice, for instance, was an unskilled labourer from North Africa who was allowed to move to France in 2003. Why? What possible benefit was it to France to allow an unskilled labourer to move there? Were there really no unskilled labourers available anywhere in the EU - in the fabled Single Market with its even more precious Free Movement - available to do whatever it was that this individual would do? Did no-one think - even in 2003 - that there might be issues with allowing immigration from a part of the world where terrorism and vicious civil war and anti-Western ideologies are not unknown?
It is the failure of the authorities in the West to apply any sort of judgment to whom they let into the country which has allowed, in part, the spread of some very undesirable developments within our countries, developments that we are now finding very hard to handle.
And that failure to apply any sort of judgment, to view immigration as some sort of right, to place the entitlement of the would-be immigrant above any other consideration, a sort of immigration "I want therefore I must have" - as evidenced the response by sentimental idiots like Lily Allen to the Calais Jungle - is still continuing.
@Cyclefree, we're just as bad. There's no shortage of unskilled non-EU workers coming to the UK every year,
I know. Why? Perhaps our new PM could answer this question. She ought to know something about the topic after all.
Why then did France continue to allow such immigration into the country? The killer in Nice, for instance, was an unskilled labourer from North Africa who was allowed to move to France in 2003. Why?
Family visa, wife is reported as "French-Tunisian", so I guess she was a French national?
Apparently he wasn't religious and drank like a proper French person, so it's not obvious that immigration should have been able to guess that he'd go religious-homicidal-bonkers 10 years later.
Why then did France continue to allow such immigration into the country? The killer in Nice, for instance, was an unskilled labourer from North Africa who was allowed to move to France in 2003. Why? What possible benefit was it to France to allow an unskilled labourer to move there? Were there really no unskilled labourers available anywhere in the EU - in the fabled Single Market with its even more precious Free Movement - available to do whatever it was that this individual would do? Did no-one think - even in 2003 - that there might be issues with allowing immigration from a part of the world where terrorism and vicious civil war and anti-Western ideologies are not unknown?
It is the failure of the authorities in the West to apply any sort of judgment to whom they let into the country which has allowed, in part, the spread of some very undesirable developments within our countries, developments that we are now finding very hard to handle.
And that failure to apply any sort of judgment, to view immigration as some sort of right, to place the entitlement of the would-be immigrant above any other consideration, a sort of immigration "I want therefore I must have" - as evidenced the response by sentimental idiots like Lily Allen to the Calais Jungle - is still continuing.
@Cyclefree, we're just as bad. There's no shortage of unskilled non-EU workers coming to the UK every year,
I know. Why? Perhaps our new PM could answer this question. She ought to know something about the topic after all.
What is your definition of unskilled ? Is a foreign agricultural worker who can pick fruit 5 times as quickly as a UK person skilled or unskilled ?
Excellent response by May to the final Corbyn question. In response to the Shadow Foreign Secretary shouting for a second Referendum, she said "I thought Labour MPs would have learnt the lesson - you can ask the question as often as you like, it won't stop them keep getting the answer they don't want..."
Not bad pre-cooked joke from May on Labour wanting a second vote - 'I'd have thought Labour members would have learned that you can have a second vote and still get a result you don't want'.....
Not bad pre-cooked joke from May on Labour wanting a second vote - 'I'd have thought Labour members would have learned that you can have a second vote and still get a result you don't want'.....
Why then did France continue to allow such immigration into the country? The killer in Nice, for instance, was an unskilled labourer from North Africa who was allowed to move to France in 2003. Why?
Family visa, wife is reported as "French-Tunisian", so I guess she was a French national?
Apparently he wasn't religious and drank like a proper French person, so it's not obvious that immigration should have been able to guess that he'd go religious-homicidal-bonkers 10 years later.
That's not really the point. What benefit to France was it to have an unskilled labourer immigrate into the country? What skills did he bring that could not be found within the country or within the EU itself?
Now of course you're right that we can't guess that someone from Tunisia might turn into a religious homicidal maniac a decade later. But we do know that the risk of this happening is higher than it might be for other groups of immigrants. So we should be applying some judgment to the question of who are the most desirable immigrants from the country's point of view. And desirable needs to take into account not just the economic value of the migrant - the skills he/she brings and so forth - but their ability/willingness to integrate, the risks that they may pose to social cohesion and so forth.
So let's take this individual: an unemployed labourer with no special skills, no skills at all frankly, that could not have been found from amongst the population of the EU. Just on that basis alone he should have been told no. Not only did he have nothing very much to recommend him but he came from a part of the world where religious extremism and its ability to radicalize people such as him has been evident for some time. That too should have pushed the decision to a "no". France allowed in someone who bought nothing special and who had a potential higher risk than others.
This may sound harsh but we really need to start discriminating between those classes of immigrants who are desirable and wanted and add to our societies (and I am generally in favour of this) and those who are not. Not all immigration is of equal value and benefit to our societies.
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
Sod future Labour leader. I backed him to be *next* Labour leader.
So did I.
I would lay him for that. Despite his obvious talents (and there are those who see him as a classic cynical Labour machine politician) I don't think he is ever going to be the right candidate either for Labour or for PM of Brexitland.
Both May & Corbyn have raised their games....I suspect we've heard the last of 'Lisa from Lowestoft' from Corbyn.....
She had another "I've already answered that question" later in the session too. If she can make that stick MPs will have to start listening to her answers, which can only improve PMQs.
PMQs - Snap Verdict: Corbyn never quite put the ball in the back of the net, but this wasn’t May’s finest moment either, and the Labour leader did quite usefully catalogue some of the weaknesses in the government’s position on Brexit. The very fact that Corbyn focused on Brexit was striking, because since the referendum (and for some time before) he has generally avoided the topic. But, as usual, he asked strong questions but failed to follow them up. (In tennis terms, he has an adequate serve, but no return.) He also failed to press May on the one question that is really topical today; in the light of her U-turn last night on a Brexit debate, can she now commit to giving MPs a vote on a substantive motion? May responded competently, but not brilliantly, to Corbyn’s questions, and interestingly she avoided some of the gratuitous Labour-bashing that has marred some of her earlier PMQs, although she did finish with a neat point about Labour getting the same answer when they ask a question for a second time. (Although this was premised on a claim that Emily Thornberry has called for a second referendum on the EU, which as far as I’m aware she hasn’t.)
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
I have never said we would , my initial forecast was 28% which was scoffed at by many on here . It is encouraging that a Conservative activist now thinks that pessimistic .
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
Like Farage and Johnson admitted not winning the referendum as the polls closed
More seriously, I don't think anyone thinks a LibDem win is anything other than an extremely remote possibility,
It reminds me of Oldham West, when the UKIP odds kept shortening and shortening, and we heard regular posts about UKIP was doing really well. And we all fell for it.
And then UKIP barely budged on their 2015 result, and Labour actually increased its share.
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
I have never said we would , my initial forecast was 28% which was scoffed at by many on here . It is encouraging that a Conservative activist now thinks that pessimistic .
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
Like Farage and Johnson admitted not winning the referendum as the polls closed
More seriously, I don't think anyone thinks a LibDem win is anything other than an extremely remote possibility,
It reminds me of Oldham West, when the UKIP odds kept shortening and shortening, and we heard regular posts about UKIP was doing really well. And we all fell for it.
And then UKIP barely budged on their 2015 result, and Labour actually increased its share.
I think a better comparison is with Ribble Valley in March 1991 although there the Conservatives made the fatal mistake of giving the Lib Dems a 4 months long campaign .
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
That would imply something like Con 50 / LD 30 / Lab 10 / UKIP 5 / loose change.
Good PMQs from Corbyn. TM reasonably good as well. JC 7/0 TM 6/10
I'd say that counts as a voodoo poll (one respondent, unweighted)
Also non-representative......
If OGH rates as it as 7:6 for Corbyn I'd say 'score draw' was pretty fair.
Sparrow raises an important point - Corbyn doesn't follow through and is only as good as his script (which has got a lot better) - but if both are going to raise their game that's good for the country....
PMQs - Snap Verdict: Corbyn never quite put the ball in the back of the net, but this wasn’t May’s finest moment either, and the Labour leader did quite usefully catalogue some of the weaknesses in the government’s position on Brexit. The very fact that Corbyn focused on Brexit was striking, because since the referendum (and for some time before) he has generally avoided the topic. But, as usual, he asked strong questions but failed to follow them up. (In tennis terms, he has an adequate serve, but no return.) He also failed to press May on the one question that is really topical today; in the light of her U-turn last night on a Brexit debate, can she now commit to giving MPs a vote on a substantive motion? May responded competently, but not brilliantly, to Corbyn’s questions, and interestingly she avoided some of the gratuitous Labour-bashing that has marred some of her earlier PMQs, although she did finish with a neat point about Labour getting the same answer when they ask a question for a second time. (Although this was premised on a claim that Emily Thornberry has called for a second referendum on the EU, which as far as I’m aware she hasn’t.)
I guess the take away from that is that with the right puppeteers, Corbyn can ask good first questions but has neither the intellect or ability to effectively respond when left to his own devices.
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
Like Farage and Johnson admitted not winning the referendum as the polls closed
More seriously, I don't think anyone thinks a LibDem win is anything other than an extremely remote possibility,
It reminds me of Oldham West, when the UKIP odds kept shortening and shortening, and we heard regular posts about UKIP was doing really well. And we all fell for it.
And then UKIP barely budged on their 2015 result, and Labour actually increased its share.
No one knows anything and volumes of activists and posters prove nothing.
I've always held that the views of southern Tories with no Scottish votes, no influence and minimal clues should be of vital importance. Unfortunately most of my countrymen are of a different opinion.
Report on Vote2012 website from a Conservative campaigner at Witney " I was there on Saturday , the Lib Dem campaign very visible around Witney itself , 30% plus and a strong 2nd place is very do-able "
Well you seem to be admitting you will not win the seat
Like Farage and Johnson admitted not winning the referendum as the polls closed
More seriously, I don't think anyone thinks a LibDem win is anything other than an extremely remote possibility,
It reminds me of Oldham West, when the UKIP odds kept shortening and shortening, and we heard regular posts about UKIP was doing really well. And we all fell for it.
And then UKIP barely budged on their 2015 result, and Labour actually increased its share.
No one knows anything and volumes of activists and posters prove nothing.
Not quite true. The party machines should have an indication by how on how postal voting is going. Clearly it is illegal for that information to be passed on.
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Oh yes, and that nice chap from Russia who reads my email.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/786146681658236928
It is staggering how well the various elements work together when you know what you're doing.
My current plan is to put a proximity mine in a corridor, and then attempt to time a target lockdown so that the two targets are in the same place at the same time... thus blowing themselves to bits a long way away from where I'm going to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrREy0zRWzM
Old Pope and young Cardinals ....
And a lack of promised AV methodology articles...
It is the failure of the authorities in the West to apply any sort of judgment to whom they let into the country which has allowed, in part, the spread of some very undesirable developments within our countries, developments that we are now finding very hard to handle.
And that failure to apply any sort of judgment, to view immigration as some sort of right, to place the entitlement of the would-be immigrant above any other consideration, a sort of immigration "I want therefore I must have" - as evidenced the response by sentimental idiots like Lily Allen to the Calais Jungle - is still continuing.
Is there a demographic left?
Christianity Today, a leading evangelical magazine, said in an editorial that Christians should not support a man whose life is based around “idolatry, greed, and sexual immorality”.
Shame they don't have a vote.
For the Republicans the worry is the impact Trump will have on the other elections particularly the fiercely contested battle for it to retain control of the Senate."
I'd agree with both points. Trump will almost certainly lose now unless something truly scandalous comes out about Hillary, which seems unlikely. His base won't, however, blame him; it'll all be down to betrayal from those on the Hill and the RNC.
But Trump will get his revenge if he drags down the turnout from GOP voters, impacting the senate, House and gubernatorial races.
http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/9da7b790-789f-46f3-8fbd-b0cc29e949fb
Sadiq Khan given poll boost to strengthen position as future Labour leader
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/sadiq-khan-given-poll-boost-to-strengthen-position-as-future-labour-leader-a3367201.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/300410-carson-defends-ryan-from-trumps-attacks
Apparently he wasn't religious and drank like a proper French person, so it's not obvious that immigration should have been able to guess that he'd go religious-homicidal-bonkers 10 years later.
Clinton 43
Trump 34
https://t.co/TpgrW3NDwO
I would have thought labour MPs had learnt you can ask the same question again but you'll still get the answer you don't want
Both May & Corbyn have raised their games....I suspect we've heard the last of 'Lisa from Lowestoft' from Corbyn.....
Now of course you're right that we can't guess that someone from Tunisia might turn into a religious homicidal maniac a decade later. But we do know that the risk of this happening is higher than it might be for other groups of immigrants. So we should be applying some judgment to the question of who are the most desirable immigrants from the country's point of view. And desirable needs to take into account not just the economic value of the migrant - the skills he/she brings and so forth - but their ability/willingness to integrate, the risks that they may pose to social cohesion and so forth.
So let's take this individual: an unemployed labourer with no special skills, no skills at all frankly, that could not have been found from amongst the population of the EU. Just on that basis alone he should have been told no. Not only did he have nothing very much to recommend him but he came from a part of the world where religious extremism and its ability to radicalize people such as him has been evident for some time. That too should have pushed the decision to a "no". France allowed in someone who bought nothing special and who had a potential higher risk than others.
This may sound harsh but we really need to start discriminating between those classes of immigrants who are desirable and wanted and add to our societies (and I am generally in favour of this) and those who are not. Not all immigration is of equal value and benefit to our societies.
Still proud of that bumblebee gag, even if it has had some bad consequences
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2016/09/07/if-corbyn-wants-to-win-the-confidence-of-labour-mps-he-needs-to-improve-his-performance-in-the-commons/
Good PMQs from Corbyn. TM reasonably good as well.
JC 7/0
TM 6/10
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/786164850271592448
PMQs - Snap Verdict: Corbyn never quite put the ball in the back of the net, but this wasn’t May’s finest moment either, and the Labour leader did quite usefully catalogue some of the weaknesses in the government’s position on Brexit. The very fact that Corbyn focused on Brexit was striking, because since the referendum (and for some time before) he has generally avoided the topic. But, as usual, he asked strong questions but failed to follow them up. (In tennis terms, he has an adequate serve, but no return.) He also failed to press May on the one question that is really topical today; in the light of her U-turn last night on a Brexit debate, can she now commit to giving MPs a vote on a substantive motion? May responded competently, but not brilliantly, to Corbyn’s questions, and interestingly she avoided some of the gratuitous Labour-bashing that has marred some of her earlier PMQs, although she did finish with a neat point about Labour getting the same answer when they ask a question for a second time. (Although this was premised on a claim that Emily Thornberry has called for a second referendum on the EU, which as far as I’m aware she hasn’t.)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/oct/12/pmqs-may-corbyn-brexit-debate-claims-real-victory-after-may-offers-brexit-debate-concession-politics-live
More seriously, I don't think anyone thinks a LibDem win is anything other than an extremely remote possibility,
It reminds me of Oldham West, when the UKIP odds kept shortening and shortening, and we heard regular posts about UKIP was doing really well. And we all fell for it.
And then UKIP barely budged on their 2015 result, and Labour actually increased its share.
more polls are needed, but initial signs are that clinton as had a post debate bump of some sort, on top of the pussygate disaster for trump
Takes you a minute to realise the car is doing what it is designed to do...
https://twitter.com/_markgallagher/status/785921178103865344/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
https://twitter.com/Kevin_Maguire/status/786164532456464384
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/786164326709288960
To be fair, Corbyn seems to be getting better too, at least at the presentation if not the content.
If OGH rates as it as 7:6 for Corbyn I'd say 'score draw' was pretty fair.
Sparrow raises an important point - Corbyn doesn't follow through and is only as good as his script (which has got a lot better) - but if both are going to raise their game that's good for the country....
Get used to it. It's the way the SNP is going...