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  • rcs1000 said:

    The French Republicains Primary gets closer and closer

    Latest poll: IFOP
    http://www.la-croix.com/France/Politique/Primaire-Juppe-Sarkozy-Fillon-coude-coude-avant-1er-tour-2016-11-17-1300803980

    Juppe 31 (-2) / Sarkozy 30 (=) / Fillon 27 (+7) - The changes are from last week.

    Second round
    Juppe 57 / Sarkozy 43
    Fillon 63 / Sarkozy 37
    Juppe 50 / Fillon 50

    The dynamic stays the same (Juppe down, Sarkozy flat, Fillon up) and it seems that we are nowwithin the margins of error for the first round.

    The debate tonight was a bit dull, not sure it will have changed strongly the momentum.

    I'm wondering if Fillon could do this; he's certainly the guy with the big 'mo at the moment.
    Indeed. The problem is that his rise started very late and from a very low base. In this IFOP poll he gained 8 points last week and 7 this one, more than doubling his score from 12 to 27. But he is still just behind... If the press is as favorable for him tomorrow as it was after the first two debates it might get really interesting on Sunday night!
  • rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?
    One minute past midnight
    Cool. 90 minutes of dull reading of technical papers, then rewarded by scandal and 3 middle aged blokes dicking around.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    Welcome to PB Chris!
  • rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?

    Btw red oaks...watched both seasons now...two thumbs up.
    The senior tennis coach is my new role model.
    Lol... I have never met TSE, but that is who he reminded me of.
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548

    rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?
    One minute past midnight
    or perhaps two minutes to midnight?

    https://youtu.be/9qbRHY1l0vc
  • rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?
    One minute past midnight
    Cool. 90 minutes of dull reading of technical papers, then rewarded by scandal and 3 middle aged blokes dicking around.
    I'm not watching it at midnight.

    I reckon it'll be overload as people try and watch it, and as a TV snob, I'll wait until I get back home, and watch it on my 4k Ultra HD TV.

    UHD is the dog's dangly bits.
  • Is it an exclusive Angus Reid poll coming out about the likely Strictly winner?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?
    One minute past midnight
    Cool. 90 minutes of dull reading of technical papers, then rewarded by scandal and 3 middle aged blokes dicking around.
    I'm not watching it at midnight.

    I reckon it'll be overload as people try and watch it, and as a TV snob, I'll wait until I get back home, and watch it on my 4k Ultra HD TV.

    UHD is the dog's dangly bits.
    You must have good eyesight ;)
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,768
    GIN1138 said:

    Love the mirrors front page - best in years ;-)
    The post midnight one is superb
    Do you know what the story is BJO?
    I think so but will not know if I was right till morning I am too knackered.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,554
    edited November 2016
    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick. Because that account has tweeted an unedited front page and it isn't a scandal story.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    GIN1138 said:

    Love the mirrors front page - best in years ;-)
    The post midnight one is superb
    Do you know what the story is BJO?
    I think so but will not know if I was right till morning I am too knackered.
    You big tease ;)
  • The embargoed story isn't on the front page of the guardian.

    https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/799382123358683136
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    edited November 2016

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick.

    It just got deleted, but looked to be 2 hours old already?

    Utterly bizarre if true! (and why would it be under a court injunction?)
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick. Because that account has tweeted an unedited front page and it isn't a scandal.story.

    That looks real to me. What an anticlimax.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,407
    edited November 2016

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick. Because that account has tweeted an unedited front page and it isn't a scandal.story.

    Yes, it's the twitter account of the Metro paper
  • RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,923

    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?

    Btw red oaks...watched both seasons now...two thumbs up.
    The senior tennis coach is my new role model.
    Lol... I have never met TSE, but that is who he reminded me of.
    :laugh:
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
  • RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486

    The embargoed story isn't on the front page of the guardian.

    https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/799382123358683136

    But, if you look at the detail of the Guardian article, you will see that the Government will now exclude infrastructure spending from the deficit reduction calculations.
    Meaning that Labour's policy at the 2015 election is about to become Tory policy.

    Put another way, EICIPM
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
  • rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    So, who's watching the Grand Tour at midnight?

    Is it definitely available at the stroke of midnight?

    Btw red oaks...watched both seasons now...two thumbs up.
    The senior tennis coach is my new role model.
    Lol... I have never met TSE, but that is who he reminded me of.
    :laugh:
    Why do I get the feeling I'm being traduced
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    RobD said:

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick.

    It just got deleted, but looked to be 2 hours old already?

    Utterly bizarre if true! (and why would it be under a court injunction?)
    Darn missed it. Oh well, off to bed.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    Alistair said:

    RobD said:

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick.

    It just got deleted, but looked to be 2 hours old already?

    Utterly bizarre if true! (and why would it be under a court injunction?)
    Darn missed it. Oh well, off to bed.
    Seemed so bizarre that part of me thinks it was a spoof.
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    edited November 2016
    RobD said:

    Alistair said:

    RobD said:

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick.

    It just got deleted, but looked to be 2 hours old already?

    Utterly bizarre if true! (and why would it be under a court injunction?)
    Darn missed it. Oh well, off to bed.
    Seemed so bizarre that part of me thinks it was a spoof.
    Well we can have loads of fun speculation until the anticlimactic story gets published.
    Because if that is the story it is a waste of time.
  • RobD said:

    Alistair said:

    RobD said:

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick.

    It just got deleted, but looked to be 2 hours old already?

    Utterly bizarre if true! (and why would it be under a court injunction?)
    Darn missed it. Oh well, off to bed.
    Seemed so bizarre that part of me thinks it was a spoof.
    That is why I had to ask if that was a genuine Twitter.account.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    So the Metro tweet was right. Bizarre!
  • Are they waiting to be awoken when Oxford University becomes a decent uni, because they'll be frozen for a loooooooong time
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909

    Are they waiting to be awoken when Oxford University becomes a decent uni, because they'll be frozen for a loooooooong time
    Perhaps one of them could become PM... while frozen.
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    edited November 2016

    RobD said:

    Alistair said:

    RobD said:

    Is @metrouknews genuine? It has a blue tick.

    It just got deleted, but looked to be 2 hours old already?

    Utterly bizarre if true! (and why would it be under a court injunction?)
    Darn missed it. Oh well, off to bed.
    Seemed so bizarre that part of me thinks it was a spoof.
    That is why I had to ask if that was a genuine Twitter.account.
    Well Nicole Le Marie is a Metro journalist and if that is the story then it's so anticlimactic that it continues on page 9.
  • peter_from_putneypeter_from_putney Posts: 6,956
    edited November 2016
    The Daily Telegraph:

    "Germany has warned that Britain may have to continue to pay EU contributions for a decade after Brexit, ahead of a meeting between Theresa May and Angela Merkel in Berlin.

    Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, said that Britain's financial commitments will "last beyond the exit" and that it will not benefit from any rebates.

    Britain is hoping that Germany will help to temper demands from France that Britain must "pay a price" for its decision to leave the EU."

    Oh dear, bang goes our £350 million per week saving or so it would seem!
  • DadgeDadge Posts: 2,052
    "Misteron" is a lovely typo. It's hard to imagine aliens voting for a Tory councillor though...
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100

    The Daily Telegrapg:

    "Germany has warned that Britain may have to continue to pay EU contributions for a decade after Brexit, ahead of a meeting between Theresa May and Angela Merkel in Berlin.

    Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, said that Britain's financial commitments will "last beyond the exit" and that it will not benefit from any rebates.

    Britain is hoping that Germany will help to temper demands from France that Britain must "pay a price" for its decision to leave the EU."

    Oh dear, bang goes our £350 million per week saving or so it would seem!

    So another set of empty threats "give us the money, or you will pay nothing".
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909
    Anyone want to hear a joke? Martin Schultz is manoeuvring to be the SPD's Chancellor candidate in next year's election.
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100

    Anyone want to hear a joke? Martin Schultz is manoeuvring to be the SPD's Chancellor candidate in next year's election.

    They couldn't find someone who lives in Germany to do the job.
  • RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
    I posted hundreds of time under different commenting systems (and two other names linked to my change of posting country) in the past. But only the oldies from2007 might remember that!
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
    I posted hundreds of time under different commenting systems (and two other names linked to my change of posting country) in the past. But only the oldies from2007 might remember that!
    I remember you Chris. Going back to the Sarkozy-Royal election.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,448

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
    I posted hundreds of time under different commenting systems (and two other names linked to my change of posting country) in the past. But only the oldies from2007 might remember that!
    I was on here in 2007 but I'd need reminding what your username was.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,448
    edited November 2016
    Missed the metro tweet.

    Is this story worth staying up until Midnight for?
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    edited November 2016
    https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/799346489382223872

    As I said, everybody is on for Secretary of State.
    It's Cabinet Apprentice.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,554
    edited November 2016
    GIN1138 said:

    Missed the metro tweet.

    Is this story worth staying up until Midnight for?

    If it is the embargoed front page...the answer is 100% no.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,448

    GIN1138 said:

    Missed the metro tweet.

    Is this story worth staying up until Midnight for?

    If it is the embargoed front page...the answer is 100% no.
    :(
  • MarkSeniorMarkSenior Posts: 4,699
    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,923

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Don't be silly. No way that could take up a whole page.
  • I've changed my mind, Brexit is awesome.

    Manchester United’s debt has risen by 18%, to close to £338m, in part due to Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union.

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/17/manchester-united-debt-rises-338m-partly-because-of-brexit
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,838

    The French Republicains Primary gets closer and closer

    Latest poll: IFOP
    http://www.la-croix.com/France/Politique/Primaire-Juppe-Sarkozy-Fillon-coude-coude-avant-1er-tour-2016-11-17-1300803980

    Juppe 31 (-2) / Sarkozy 30 (=) / Fillon 27 (+7) - The changes are from last week.

    Second round
    Juppe 57 / Sarkozy 43
    Fillon 63 / Sarkozy 37
    Juppe 50 / Fillon 50

    The dynamic stays the same (Juppe down, Sarkozy flat, Fillon up) and it seems that we are nowwithin the margins of error for the first round.

    The debate tonight was a bit dull, not sure it will have changed strongly the momentum.

    I hope Sarkozy gets it somehow. I'm a sucker for people who lose once coming back and winning.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,838
    rcs1000 said:

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Don't be silly. No way that could take up a whole page.
    Very small type, perhaps?
  • MarkSeniorMarkSenior Posts: 4,699
    Misterton Con hold

    Con 257 Lab 119 LD 77 UKIP 57
  • Evening everyone. Just watching the piece on newsnight about hf trading. Wouldn't the delay that Betfair uses on an in play market prevent all the chaos? Genuine question as I don't really follow the ins and outs of the financial markets.
  • GIN1138 said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
    I posted hundreds of time under different commenting systems (and two other names linked to my change of posting country) in the past. But only the oldies from2007 might remember that!
    I was on here in 2007 but I'd need reminding what your username was.
    He was Chris from Bethesda back then.
  • Misterton Con hold

    Con 257 Lab 119 LD 77 UKIP 57

    Near 20% Con to LD swing!
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    Check your inbox TSE.
  • RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    rcs1000 said:

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Don't be silly. No way that could take up a whole page.
    There's actually no embargo :D
  • RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
    The efforts I go to to get you a story 34 minutes before the embargo is lifted, and I don't even get an AV thread for my troubles. Bah!

    :D
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,407
    edited November 2016
    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
    The efforts I go to to get you a story 34 minutes before the embargo is lifted, and I don't even get an AV thread for my troubles. Bah!

    :D
    I'll definitely do an AV thread next May, mourning the sixth anniversary of the worst referendum result in history.

    Edit - The second worst, the worst referendum result in history was on June 23rd, as it led to Dave resigning.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
    The efforts I go to to get you a story 34 minutes before the embargo is lifted, and I don't even get an AV thread for my troubles. Bah!

    :D
    I'll definitely do an AV thread next May, mourning the sixth anniversary of the worst referendum result in history.
    A date that will live in infamy!
  • RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
    The efforts I go to to get you a story 34 minutes before the embargo is lifted, and I don't even get an AV thread for my troubles. Bah!

    :D
    I'll definitely do an AV thread next May, mourning the sixth anniversary of the worst referendum result in history.
    A date that will live in infamy!
    See my edit
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
    The efforts I go to to get you a story 34 minutes before the embargo is lifted, and I don't even get an AV thread for my troubles. Bah!

    :D
    I'll definitely do an AV thread next May, mourning the sixth anniversary of the worst referendum result in history.
    A date that will live in infamy!
    See my edit
    That one will live in even more infamy!
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,923

    Misterton Con hold

    Con 257 Lab 119 LD 77 UKIP 57

    Near 20% Con to LD swing!
    Turnout derisory.
  • RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Check your inbox TSE.

    Already replied
    Google Chrome cache is surprisingly hard to navigate!
    As a reward, the next thread, when I get back to doing threads, will be about an electoral voting system.*

    *Not AV, but the voting system, that IS NOT AV, the French use to elect their President.
    The efforts I go to to get you a story 34 minutes before the embargo is lifted, and I don't even get an AV thread for my troubles. Bah!

    :D
    I'll definitely do an AV thread next May, mourning the sixth anniversary of the worst referendum result in history.
    A date that will live in infamy!
    See my edit
    That one will live in even more infamy!
    I'll never forget that morning.

    Hectic morning at work, which began at 6amish, taking a phone call at 7.45 am from someone who worked for the Tory party telling me Dave was quitting.

    Ringing Mike at 7.50 am to tell him the news.
  • MarkSeniorMarkSenior Posts: 4,699
    edited November 2016
    Con hold Welwyn Hatfield The Haldens Big increase in LD vote

    Con 502
    Lab 454
    LDem 437
    Green 81

  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,158
    Looks to me like Labour votes going to LD....
  • DadgeDadge Posts: 2,052
    kle4 said:

    The French Republicains Primary gets closer and closer

    Latest poll: IFOP
    http://www.la-croix.com/France/Politique/Primaire-Juppe-Sarkozy-Fillon-coude-coude-avant-1er-tour-2016-11-17-1300803980

    Juppe 31 (-2) / Sarkozy 30 (=) / Fillon 27 (+7) - The changes are from last week.

    Second round
    Juppe 57 / Sarkozy 43
    Fillon 63 / Sarkozy 37
    Juppe 50 / Fillon 50

    The dynamic stays the same (Juppe down, Sarkozy flat, Fillon up) and it seems that we are nowwithin the margins of error for the first round.

    The debate tonight was a bit dull, not sure it will have changed strongly the momentum.

    I hope Sarkozy gets it somehow. I'm a sucker for people who lose once coming back and winning.
    I wish Orban hadn't made a comeback.
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Trump meets with Kissinger
    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/306604-trump-meets-with-henry-kissinger

    Seems they've been friends for years.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,158
    Editor of money week is talking far more sense than is usual for this programme!
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,422

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Have our cake and eat it. We'll take the prosecco, but not you.

    Anything else?
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 8,806
    Question Time debate is quite pathetic. Except for Merryn Somerset Webb, that is. Kwarteng is OK.
  • If it's just Rooney and captaincy I will be seriously dischuffed
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,838
    I see reports of Hammond using one of my favourite nonsense words - in that he still 'aspires' to achieve a surplus apparently. As we all know, aspiring to something in politics means you know you won't achieve it, are probably not even trying, but want to indicate you like the sound of it.
  • timmotimmo Posts: 1,469
    Tories gain seat from Greens in Bath area..
    Good night for them so far
  • MarkSeniorMarkSenior Posts: 4,699
    Con gain Bath Abbey from Greens

    Con 350 LD 273 Green 252 Lab 126 Ind ??? UKIP ???
  • If it's just Rooney and captaincy I will be seriously dischuffed

    The story is Spurs have agreed a deal to sell Harry Kane to Villareal with Roberto Soldado going the other way
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,554
    edited November 2016
    Top Gear Two...I mean The Grand Tour is already available to view on Prime.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    Top Gear Two...I mean The Grand Tour is already available.

    Three minutes early!
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 8,806
    One minute to midnight.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,554
    edited November 2016
    So the Metro did break the embargo on their own twitter feed...I have to say the picture of the dying kid, you they certainly look very ill....
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    Time to watch 'the neutral zone'!
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909

    This is the embargoed story

    They could have phrased it better to make the photo juxtaposition work.
  • If it's just Rooney and captaincy I will be seriously dischuffed

    The story is Spurs have agreed a deal to sell Harry Kane to Villareal with Roberto Soldado going the other way
    I heard that we are selling you back Ronnie rosenthal for sturridge?
  • Bit harsh to call Corbyn a child, but at least this way he might get to be PM one day.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,554
    edited November 2016
    If the opening sequence of TGT is anything to go by....I think we know where all that Amazon money is going!

    I a want a giant pirate ship in the middle of nowhere...actually lets also have a dragon, I heard they are popular....makes a Rolling Stones rider look reasonable.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,158
    Portillo bang on on the money on This Week. Not electorate moved to the right, but Labour leadership moved to the left.
  • So the Metro did break the embargo on their own twitter feed...I have to say the picture of the dying kid, you they certainly look very ill....
    Oh... hence that Don's story being given run from a few years ago as being relevant pre midnight
  • Speedy said:

    The Daily Telegrapg:

    "Germany has warned that Britain may have to continue to pay EU contributions for a decade after Brexit, ahead of a meeting between Theresa May and Angela Merkel in Berlin.

    Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, said that Britain's financial commitments will "last beyond the exit" and that it will not benefit from any rebates.

    Britain is hoping that Germany will help to temper demands from France that Britain must "pay a price" for its decision to leave the EU."

    Oh dear, bang goes our £350 million per week saving or so it would seem!

    So another set of empty threats "give us the money, or you will pay nothing".
    No, in Germany's case it's "give us the money, or you will pay nothing, and buy none of our exports".
  • kle4 said:

    I see reports of Hammond using one of my favourite nonsense words - in that he still 'aspires' to achieve a surplus apparently. As we all know, aspiring to something in politics means you know you won't achieve it, are probably not even trying, but want to indicate you like the sound of it.

    Aspiring to not say George Osborne is a complete muppet, perhaps?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909

    kle4 said:

    I see reports of Hammond using one of my favourite nonsense words - in that he still 'aspires' to achieve a surplus apparently. As we all know, aspiring to something in politics means you know you won't achieve it, are probably not even trying, but want to indicate you like the sound of it.

    Aspiring to not say George Osborne is a complete muppet, perhaps?
    Aspiring meaning he sucks.
  • GIN1138 said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
    I posted hundreds of time under different commenting systems (and two other names linked to my change of posting country) in the past. But only the oldies from2007 might remember that!
    I was on here in 2007 but I'd need reminding what your username was.
    I was Chris(fromParis) then Chris(fromBethesda).
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155

    GIN1138 said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Welcome to PB Chris!

    Thanks Rob. I have been both lurking and contributing on this site since 2005, but I tend to contribute mostly during French election campaigns.
    Please keep on contributing
    Agreed! You are currently averaging 0.8 posts per year! I think TSE is about a thousand times more prolific :p
    I posted hundreds of time under different commenting systems (and two other names linked to my change of posting country) in the past. But only the oldies from2007 might remember that!
    I was on here in 2007 but I'd need reminding what your username was.
    I was Chris(fromParis) then Chris(fromBethesda).
    I think I remember the Bethesda handle. Always wondered if you meant the game company, or the actual town!
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,554
    edited November 2016
    Top Gear....just don't bother doing another season lads...it is going to be embarassing when it is compared to the TGT.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207

    Speedy said:

    The Daily Telegrapg:

    "Germany has warned that Britain may have to continue to pay EU contributions for a decade after Brexit, ahead of a meeting between Theresa May and Angela Merkel in Berlin.

    Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, said that Britain's financial commitments will "last beyond the exit" and that it will not benefit from any rebates.

    Britain is hoping that Germany will help to temper demands from France that Britain must "pay a price" for its decision to leave the EU."

    Oh dear, bang goes our £350 million per week saving or so it would seem!

    So another set of empty threats "give us the money, or you will pay nothing".
    No, in Germany's case it's "give us the money, or you will pay nothing, and buy none of our exports".
    I vote to pay nothing
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 733
    edited November 2016
    @BritainElects

    Abbey (Bath & NE Somerset) result:
    CON: 32.8% (+2.4)
    LD: 25.6% (+4.7)
    GRN: 23.6% (-4.5)
    LAB: 11.8% (-4.9)
    IND: 4.0% (+4.0)
    UKIP: 2.2% (+2.2)

    Two holds and one gain for the Blues so far tonight. How long will Dumfries & Galloway take?
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    Mortimer said:

    Portillo bang on on the money on This Week. Not electorate moved to the right, but Labour leadership moved to the left.

    Moved? leaped more like.

    I mean a shadow chancellor who advocated armed struggle....

    Not just by the IRA this time
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    rcs1000 said:

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Don't be silly. No way that could take up a whole page.
    LOL - not even a column
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,155
    Floater said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Don't be silly. No way that could take up a whole page.
    LOL - not even a column
    Depends.. you could easily fill an entire page with the words

    BREXIT
    MEANS
    BREXIT

    :)
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,909
    RobD said:

    Floater said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Rumours are that the Mirror Story is the compete list of May's plans for Brexit and the government is trying to block publication

    Don't be silly. No way that could take up a whole page.
    LOL - not even a column
    Depends.. you could easily fill an entire page with the words

    BREXIT
    MEANS
    BREXIT

    :)
    The Mirror already printed the whole plan under the guise of hiding another embargoed story. Very crafty of them.
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