Sorry for going off piste here, and excuse the pun. But the term wifie is not dropping out of use up here in Aberdeenshire stjohn, although it does have more than one meaning here.
OK. One last stab at TSE's crossword clues, before I turn in.
12. Your polling station may be moving this autumn.
Is the answer to 12 across, 1898?
Your polling station = Booth. "Joseph Booth", the Welsh Rugby player moved to England in the autumn of 1898, after losing his place in the Welsh Rugby team.
As I predicted, Dave overtakes Ed in the MORI ratings, enabling the PB Tories to rationally analyse a MORI poll for the first time in 15 months.
Of course for the last two months they believed the narrowing Labour lead with MORI was the issue. Oh dear, what chumps.
Anyhow it seems no one posted the biggest story of the day, whether xenophobia trumps logic in this country for the next few decades
Britain needs 7million MORE immigrants over 50 years to 'meet the cost of caring for the elderly' 140,000 extra immigrants to the UK are needed every year until 2063 Office for Budget Responsibility says foreign workers needed to raise tax George Osborne's spending cuts will be wiped out by ageing population
Finally just caught up with PMQ's, and definitely an extremely strong and polished performance from David Cameron as he batted Ed Miliband out of the park. Was Cameron's retort to Ed Miliband that 'every day this country gets stronger, he gets weaker' a defining political moment in the mode of Blair's 'I lead my party, he follows his' and 'weak, weak, weak' to Major? I think it was.
Finally just caught up with PMQ's, and definitely an extremely strong and polished performance from David Cameron as he batted Ed Miliband out of the park. Was Cameron's retort to Ed Miliband that 'every day this country gets stronger, he gets weaker' a defining political moment in the mode of Blair's 'I lead my party, he follows his' and 'weak, weak, weak' to Major? I think it was.
Seeing as I doubt more than 5% of the population at most either noticed these 'moments' when they happen or afterwards, I doubt it.
I doubt that Blair had any bigger an audience for his PMQ's, but the fact that his comments resonated as defining moments in politics on hindsight still hold weight.
Finally just caught up with PMQ's, and definitely an extremely strong and polished performance from David Cameron as he batted Ed Miliband out of the park. Was Cameron's retort to Ed Miliband that 'every day this country gets stronger, he gets weaker' a defining political moment in the mode of Blair's 'I lead my party, he follows his' and 'weak, weak, weak' to Major? I think it was.
Seeing as I doubt more than 5% of the population at most either noticed these 'moments' when they happen or afterwards, I doubt it.
My point is that I doubt more than a tiny slice of the population were ever even aware of his comments, either at the time or in hindsight, means that they weren't the defining moment. The situation they summed up was what won Blair the election, his ability to state it so eloquently made almost no impact.
"Ironically, it was Mr Cameron’s friend, George Osborne, who did the formalities of the negotiation and hiring, but the Australian has since supplanted the Chancellor as the driving force of the Tory campaign. “He thinks that George has many skills but couldn’t strategise his way out of a paper bag,” says a friend."
Yes, brillliant!!!
'Some will say PM's fixer is racist': Top Tory attacks Cameron's chief over foul-mouthed rant at Muslims
David Cameron’s controversial new campaign chief, Lynton Crosby, was in a fresh row last night after a leading Tory peer said his foul-mouthed rant against Muslims could be seen as ‘racist’.
Former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft told friends that outspoken Australian Mr Crosby’s remark about ‘f****** Muslims’ was a major error of judgment.
‘The danger is that other people will see it as racist,’ Lord Ashcroft was heard to comment at the Spectator magazine parliamentary awards lunch at The Savoy in London. ‘Some people may assume he means effing Muslims, effing blacks and all effing immigrants and will not appreciate that Muslim is a religion not a race.’
If Ed Miliband's or the Labour party's poll ratings continue to decline over the next few months on the back of a continued Uk economic recovery. Then Cameron's claim that 'every day this country gets stronger, he gets weaker' is going to get repeated until it does resonate. Hence my query about this being a defining comment or slogan from David Cameron.
My point is that I doubt more than a tiny slice of the population were ever even aware of his comments, either at the time or in hindsight, means that they weren't the defining moment. The situation they summed up was what won Blair the election, his ability to state it so eloquently made almost no impact.
How, as Muslims aren't a race? You might as well say it's sexist, or ageist, or any other made-up rabble rousing pot-stirring compensation-seeking free speech-suppressing "ist"/"ism" that takes your fancy. Most "isms" are just words designed by the Left to silence debate.
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Is the answer to 21 across WIFIE?
Europe = E.
"superfast" internet = WIFI.
E blocks (blocks = limits, or goes at the end of the word) WIFI = WIFIE.
The word Wifie is dropping out of common parlance and is now only used in about 30,000 homes. I think?
OK. One last stab at TSE's crossword clues, before I turn in.
12. Your polling station may be moving this autumn.
Is the answer to 12 across, 1898?
Your polling station = Booth. "Joseph Booth", the Welsh Rugby player moved to England in the autumn of 1898, after losing his place in the Welsh Rugby team.
Of course, it was F***ing racist !!