Can someone please get a message to Peter Bone and tell him, as a priority, to stop wearing that fashion crime against humanity of a Grassroots Out! tie?
I am, at this very moment, imagining a note being passed along the benches to the Bonester!
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
What's the penis count in this polyamory? Unless it's more than one, it's a harem.
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"President Trump will continue to enforce President Obama's 2014 executive order protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination while working as federal contractors, the White House announced Tuesday.
"President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election," the White House announced in a statement.
"The President is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression," it said.
The order was the first time the federal government issued explicit protections for federal workers based on their gender identity."
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
John Woodcock is MP for Barrow so he's really going to struggle to justify that vote. I'm sure it won't escape the attention of those nextdoor in Copeland and could be used by the Tory campaign to suggest a Labour vote is a vote against triggering Article 50.
Geraint Davies in Swansea and Ann Coffey in Sheffield were closer results and obviously hard to break down the vote into constituencies.
I imagine John Woodcock has decided to retire at the next election, so he doesn't care.
You'd think at 38 he might want a few more years in parliament, but he'll probably get some cushy job at a think tank. At least he got to date Isabel Hardman.
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
I think he's both, the reason he's sometimes five moves ahead of everyone else is because he's approaching politics in a totally different way, his own way, with his own rules, and this is because he doesn't know or care how normal politics works.
Hence the sometimes horrific blunders, which he shrugs off, and the weirdly clever moves, which blindside everyone else
Yes, I'd agree with that. Though it'll almost certainly end badly if he doesn't care (and I don't think he does, though that might just be show) unless he can keep a lot of the public onside. If he can do that, the other politicos will be terrified that their own position is under threat from a force they don't understand and will run with him for fear of the alternative; if he can't, they'll eat him.
Can someone please get a message to Peter Bone and tell him, as a priority, to stop wearing that fashion crime against humanity of a Grassroots Out! tie?
Are they all in Remain constituencies? It would take a brave MP to do that, from a Leaver area.
The voters won't hear about the vote unless the government lose it, and if the government lose it the story will be about their backbench rebellion.
Tell me, when did MPs change from representatives into delegates? If this had applied 50 years ago, the UK would have remained a place where murderers and spies were hung, abortions were banned and homosexuals were jailed.
They remain representatives. But just like the man who originally made the distinction between delegate and representative they also have to accept the consequences when they lose their seats at the GE that will inevitably follow hard on a Government defeat.
Soeone should run a line, or market---whatever the right descriptor may be---on whether this petition will make three million signers duruing its alloted span:
When you vote they take info. Your email address. Your postcode, if I remember. Then you must activate the vote through an email message they send. Maybe if youve got several email addresses you can cheat, but I don't know. You tell me. P/S I don't think you can express support on that petition itself.
Vladimir Putin just texted me to say that Fancy Bears have only one petition-signing email address, and no interest in influencing British politics, so that's all right then.
This is all too complicated for me. If the Russians wanted to influence things wouldn't they want Trump to visit the UK?
He will come of course.
The pro-Trump petition does contain some classic tells that it was written by a Russian speaker.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has put out a press statement saying that, if Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK does go ahead, as a protest he will not attend the state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Take that, Trump!
(And isn't it presumptuous for him to assume that Her Majesty would be gracious enough to invite him?)
There'd be more cutlery in front of him than LD MPs - wise to opt out before making a fool... oops that ship sailed as well
Probably old hat but I've just seen "Minor Fart" as a very appropriate anagram for our Timmy.
Yes, old hat, but can't resist anagrams. 'Aye, Mrs Hate' or 'Shy Tea Mare'
Sean Thomas becomes "seaman shot", which apart from the wrong homophone seems apposite.
AILING Prestwick Airport is to target increased "military business" including US Air Force flights as new figures show it generated a pre-tax loss of over £9.2million.
The latest accounts for the airport show passenger numbers have dropped to 624,000 - around a quarter of the business it was attracting less than a decade ago.
Around £40 million of public money will have been ploughed into the airport by the year end, which means it will have exhausted its share of state funding five years early, watchdogs have claimed.
Maybe Amazon who have similar tax issues should hire a load too.
Amazon have no tax issues, they don't make a profit in any country.
Oh I know that, but they have the same sort of tax related PR issues as Starbucks. Announcing they will hire some refugees might improve their image similarly.
Its going to kill them in the mid west, Trump's team won't be able to believe their luck with this sort of right-on virtue signalling being sure to get right up the nose of the blue collar workers that might consider themselves in the running for those jobs, for bonus points the Democrats are associating themselves with this sort of action guaranteeing themselves no chance of recovery in the same areas.
Working at Starbucks is not a blue collar job. If all Trump can offer at the end of four years is more jobs in coffee shops he will be blown away if his voter suppression campaigns have not been successful.
Yes, the reaction against his failure to deliver anything of economic substance in terms of blue collar wage growth whilst promoting policies to enrich the 1% including himself will be what cuts through. I don't think that even he believes his anti-Muslim, anti-refugee agenda, rather it's part of an approach beloved of right wing demagogues to single out an enemy within and abroad to hide their own domestic failings. And even then, following a policy to "Make America Hated Again" might have limited public appeal, although it might usefully (to him) increase the security threat to the US as a result of which the issue will remain in the public eye.
Over four years the US electorate will eventually spot that the Emperor is wearing no clothes. His approval ratings are already the worst for the honeymoon period of any incoming President and they're only going to go in one direction.
So we now know the date at which we will, very likely, leave the EU entirely.
March 9th 2019.
Will this be the national day of jubilation, the official Brexit Bank Holiday, or will it be June 23rd, the date of the referendum? I prefer the latter, because it is summer.
What do pb-ers think? What should be our July 4th, our Bastille Day? June 23rd looks good to me
March is too close to Easter, so June is preferable.
We really could do with one in October/November, though. Most inconsiderate of Dave to hold the referendum in June and Theresa to trigger Brexit in March. What were they both thinking?
I genuinely sincerely think we should do this. Make Brexit Day a national holiday. We need a unifying holiday that isn't religious or royal (Mayday never really took off). Brexit is perfect.
The Remoaners, until they get over it, can treat it like the Day of the Dead, and walk around in skeleton costumes, the rest of us can eat Helford rock oysters and drink lots of British fizz.
Doesn't it strike you as deeply un-British though?
We're building a NEW Britain. It needs NEW institutions. And NEW holidays.
No we’re not. We’re trying to revive a world that has gone.
Although I feel that the country has to make the best of a bad job, and I really hope it doesn’t turn out too badly, like many Remainers I think we’re making a terrible mistake.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Ah, but my genes will survive, in the persons of my children and grandchildren, all of whom (at least those qualified tio vote) are, I’m happy to say, are Remainers.
I don’t much loike your books, either! LOL
Sean might usefully meditate on Matthew 24 36-44, methinks.
Can someone please get a message to Peter Bone and tell him, as a priority, to stop wearing that fashion crime against humanity of a Grassroots Out! tie?
I am, at this very moment, imagining a note being passed along the benches to the Bonester!
Lurid green? It's wrong on so many levels.
I thought we'd seen the back of that at the end of June last year.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
I think he's both, the reason he's sometimes five moves ahead of everyone else is because he's approaching politics in a totally different way, his own way, with his own rules, and this is because he doesn't know or care how normal politics works.
Hence the sometimes horrific blunders, which he shrugs off, and the weirdly clever moves, which blindside everyone else
Yes, I'd agree with that. Though it'll almost certainly end badly if he doesn't care (and I don't think he does, though that might just be show) unless he can keep a lot of the public onside. If he can do that, the other politicos will be terrified that their own position is under threat from a force they don't understand and will run with him for fear of the alternative; if he can't, they'll eat him.
So why did both the Republicans and Democrats put up such dreadful candidates in their primaries?
And, no, I don't think Sanders would have been any better. Rubio came across as the best of the worst, but was clearly inexperienced and a bit robotic.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
I think he's both, the reason he's sometimes five moves ahead of everyone else is because he's approaching politics in a totally different way, his own way, with his own rules, and this is because he doesn't know or care how normal politics works.
Hence the sometimes horrific blunders, which he shrugs off, and the weirdly clever moves, which blindside everyone else
Yes, I'd agree with that. Though it'll almost certainly end badly if he doesn't care (and I don't think he does, though that might just be show) unless he can keep a lot of the public onside. If he can do that, the other politicos will be terrified that their own position is under threat from a force they don't understand and will run with him for fear of the alternative; if he can't, they'll eat him.
So why did both the Republicans and Democrats put up such dreadful candidates in their primaries.
The Democrats were hobbled by the Clinton machine, but the Republicans had what they thought was possibly the strongest field they'd ever assembled.
Oh yes, some of the worst food I've eaten is in rural France, tete du veau anyone?
Andouillette (sp?)
I ordered it by mistake once. The waitress (obviously seeing through my execrable French) did try to talk me out of it, but I felt committed by then. I told myself the honour of my nation was at stake and that anything a frog-eating Frenchman could eat, an Englishman could eat. Eugh. Luckily it came coated in a thick sauce so I couldn't actually see what I was putting in my mouth which helped. And I didn't throw up. But never again.
Andouillette ? Still brings me out in a cold sweat. My wife once ordered it, similarly in error, and chivalry compelled me to swap for my dish of something delicious. I too preserved national honour.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
I think he's both, the reason he's sometimes five moves ahead of everyone else is because he's approaching politics in a totally different way, his own way, with his own rules, and this is because he doesn't know or care how normal politics works.
Hence the sometimes horrific blunders, which he shrugs off, and the weirdly clever moves, which blindside everyone else
Yes, I'd agree with that. Though it'll almost certainly end badly if he doesn't care (and I don't think he does, though that might just be show) unless he can keep a lot of the public onside. If he can do that, the other politicos will be terrified that their own position is under threat from a force they don't understand and will run with him for fear of the alternative; if he can't, they'll eat him.
So why did both the Republicans and Democrats put up such dreadful candidates in their primaries?
And, no, I don't think Sanders would have been any better. Rubio came across as the best of the worst, but was clearly inexperienced and a bit robotic.
A nation of 300m. Trump and Hillary were it.
Jesus.
Clarence Darrow: When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
Donald J Trump When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work!
I remember that the first year of Obama's presidency, he sounded half-candidate and half-senator. Trump is still sounding half-candidate and half-TV personality.
I'm still trying to work out if he's genuinely got no idea how politics works or whether he's five moves ahead of everyone.
I think he's both, the reason he's sometimes five moves ahead of everyone else is because he's approaching politics in a totally different way, his own way, with his own rules, and this is because he doesn't know or care how normal politics works.
Hence the sometimes horrific blunders, which he shrugs off, and the weirdly clever moves, which blindside everyone else
Yes, I'd agree with that. Though it'll almost certainly end badly if he doesn't care (and I don't think he does, though that might just be show) unless he can keep a lot of the public onside. If he can do that, the other politicos will be terrified that their own position is under threat from a force they don't understand and will run with him for fear of the alternative; if he can't, they'll eat him.
So why did both the Republicans and Democrats put up such dreadful candidates in their primaries?
And, no, I don't think Sanders would have been any better. Rubio came across as the best of the worst, but was clearly inexperienced and a bit robotic.
A nation of 300m. Trump and Hillary were it.
Jesus.
Foot, Kinnock, IDS, Hague, Corbyn. Admittedly a smaller pool to trawl, but there's still an element of pot and kettle about such criticism. The lunatic Brown even made it to PM.
How much of this is Russian cyber-manipulation and email hacking, etc, to engineer a Le Pen victory? One has to ask.
The betting point being that Putin probably has something on Macron and the others as well.
And also on Theresa May.
I can't imagine St Theresa having ever done anything wrong. Teresa May, on the other hand...
Mrs May has never done anything wrong. She has the perfect reputation. She is loyal to her family, daughter of a vicar, never sworn. Just the perfect temperament for a PM.I know people who know her personally and have done for 30 years. No flies on her as they say.
How much of this is Russian cyber-manipulation and email hacking, etc, to engineer a Le Pen victory? One has to ask.
The betting point being that Putin probably has something on Macron and the others as well.
And also on Theresa May.
I can't imagine St Theresa having ever done anything wrong. Teresa May, on the other hand...
Mrs May has never done anything wrong. She has the perfect reputation. She is loyal to her family, daughter of a vicar, never sworn. Just the perfect temperament for a PM.I know people who know her personally and have done for 30 years. No flies on her as they say.
I think you need to pay closer attention to his spelling of the forename
Can someone please get a message to Peter Bone and tell him, as a priority, to stop wearing that fashion crime against humanity of a Grassroots Out! tie?
I am, at this very moment, imagining a note being passed along the benches to the Bonester!
Lurid green? It's wrong on so many levels.
I thought we'd seen the back of that at the end of June last year.
Can someone please get a message to Peter Bone and tell him, as a priority, to stop wearing that fashion crime against humanity of a Grassroots Out! tie?
I am, at this very moment, imagining a note being passed along the benches to the Bonester!
Lurid green? It's wrong on so many levels.
I thought we'd seen the back of that at the end of June last year.
It is horrendous.
I'm conversely just having pleasant memories of Eric Forth's tremendous ties.
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
It was the British people who delivered a Brexit majority.
My guess would be that the Tories take Copeland by a whisker, while Labour holds Stoke fairly easily.
Stoke is the really big one. If Labour loses that to UKIP there is no hiding place. Likewise, if UKIP does not take Stoke it's hard to see how it can ever win. By contrast, a Tory win in Copeland will merely confirm what we already know: as long as Corbyn leads Labour the Tories are guaranteed a huge majority at the GE. Stoke is existential for two parties. Copeland isn't.
I expect Labour to lose both.
Reports on Vote UK forum suggest Labour is becoming more confident of holding Stoke.
"President Trump will continue to enforce President Obama's 2014 executive order protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination while working as federal contractors, the White House announced Tuesday.
"President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election," the White House announced in a statement.
"The President is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression," it said.
The order was the first time the federal government issued explicit protections for federal workers based on their gender identity."
Yes, Trump is sui generis. He is not a right-wing and/or religious Republican. On many issues, he will probably have socially liberal New York views: LGBTQ, abortion, gun control and so on -- or at least will not care much either way. His advisers, perhaps, not so much. The Donald is not Ted Cruz.
I think some Brexiteers see the upcoming state visit as a symbolic passing of the torch - there's only room for one head of state in the Anglosphere Republic.
"But in every constituency - it seems - far more people have signed the petition about Trump not getting a state visit"
Several reasons for that, as I'm sure you know. A head start by the easily offended, more enthusiasm for useless protests by the easily offended. and more time on their hands by the easily offended.
But good to see that you haven't suggested it's because the pro-Trump supporters have problems with joined-up writing.
And yes, the ban is a bonkers idea hastily cobbled together, but that is my subjective opinion. Other opinions are available.
My guess would be that the Tories take Copeland by a whisker, while Labour holds Stoke fairly easily.
Stoke is the really big one. If Labour loses that to UKIP there is no hiding place. Likewise, if UKIP does not take Stoke it's hard to see how it can ever win. By contrast, a Tory win in Copeland will merely confirm what we already know: as long as Corbyn leads Labour the Tories are guaranteed a huge majority at the GE. Stoke is existential for two parties. Copeland isn't.
I expect Labour to lose both.
Reports on Vote UK forum suggest Labour is becoming more confident of holding Stoke.
I would be surprised if labour failed to hold he seat. I am not at all confident that Nuttall will attract sufficient support
How much of this is Russian cyber-manipulation and email hacking, etc, to engineer a Le Pen victory? One has to ask.
The betting point being that Putin probably has something on Macron and the others as well.
And also on Theresa May.
And now Le Pen is in hot water too!
Marine Le Pen on Tuesday must repay €298,000 to the European Parliament or see her MEP salary slashed in half, following allegations the French far-right leader misused funds.
EU authorities are seeking to recover a total of €340,000 from the far-right leader, who is a lawmaker in the European Parliament but also a leading presidential candidate in France’s upcoming presidential election.
The EU Parliament is seeking to recover the funds after accusing two of Le Pen’s parliamentary assistants of in fact working for her National Front party back home.
A first letter sent to Le Pen demands she repay the sum of €298,497.87 by January 31, for salaries paid to Catherine Griset, who worked as a parliamentary assistant from December 2010 to February 2016.
In a report last year, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) made light of the fact that while Griset’s contract stipulates her workplace as the EU Parliament’s headquarters in Brussels, she was “unable to prove that she continually resided in Belgium” nor that she was “regularly present at her place of work”.
OLAF also pointed out that Griset held a “recognised position” at the National Front’s headquarters in the suburbs of Paris during her time as a parliamentary assistant.
A second letter sent to Le Pen seeks to recover an additional €41,554 by February 28, for wages paid to her bodyguard Thierry Légier.
If she fails to repay the European body, Le Pen could see her MEP salary cut by 50 percent, according to several sources cited by French newspapers.
The signature map for that is ever so slightly different from the Other One.
But in every constituency - it seems - far more people have signed the petition about Trump not getting a state visit.
Because it has been up longer and trumpeted by every news outlet going for 2 days and been used as another outlet for Remoaner grief. For a pro Trump petition to get almost 100 000 signatures in less than 24 hours with virtually no publicity until now and in the face of relentlessly anti Trump headlines from the UK media is not something to be dismissed lightly
I think some Brexiteers see the upcoming state visit as a symbolic passing of the torch - there's only room for one head of state in the Anglosphere Republic.
Sounds to me like you are in need of a nice cup of tea and a lie down in a darkened room, perhaps for the next 4-8 years
Look, no offence, but by your own admission you're really old and soon you will be dead, and everyone will forget you ever existed immediately. You're so unimportant and forgettable people will probably forget to bury you and just step over your crumpled body until you turn into a small hump of compost which then gets washed away in a slight shower.
So I'm not sure your opinion weighs too heavily on this issue.
Are you sure you should be trolling the age group that delivered the Brexit majority?
I can't help it. Brexit doesn't belong to these doddery old Remainers who could die at any time, snapped in half like a twig, snuffed out like a tallow candle by the cruel fingers of time, shat on by the seagull of doom, as they walk the sands of senescence.
Brexit belongs to young people like ME, ME ME ME ME ME ME, thrusting young thriller writers with six different girlfriends under 28, and a brilliant title for their new book, and an income that makes George Soros look like Bob Cratchit.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Since you are doing so well, when are you going to start giving money away?
I'm sponsoring some of my girlfriends (about a third of them) to go and do charity work in poor places, for a few months. Literally.
It means I get a respite, and I can write it off against tax.
What more do you want?? Blood????
"About a third"? How many girlfriends does one need to have before one can round to "about a third"?
Sean has a Harem.
*ahem*
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I'm made of tougher stuff than you think.
I'm not worried about you! Judging by some contemporaries it seems to get very complicated very quickly, with all manner of jealousies to contend with.
[Off-topic] I've just collected an Ebay order from Argos. Looking at the packaging, I can see it was sent there by Amazon.
It is quite a common trick. People sell co-list on both sites and used Amazon (fulfilled by) warehouse space* OR they sell on eBay and buy it cheaper on Amazon.
* what they do is have two companies, one sells via Amazon and one via eBay. Then when they sell an item on ebay, company number buys from company one in your behath, which obviously allows then to.makr use of Amazon distribution.
Given that President Trump seems, to the surprise of many, to be set on doing what he said he would do, I think that we have to assume that changes to corporate taxation to encourage US companies to re-shore manufacturing are very much on the cards. In practice, that might well mean the "border-adjusted" corporate tax proposal put forward by some Republican congressmen. The effect would be similar to imposing a 20%+ tariff on imports, without actually being a tariff as such.
The international ramifications of such a change to the US tax system would be immense. For a start, it would probably mean a US-UK trade deal would be of little help to us. It could also trigger a worldwide trade war, with the EU and other countries similarly putting up protectionist barriers.
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I can't work out whether Sean is a narcissistic solipsist, or solipsistic narcissist.
The mere fact that he's here means that fundamentally, he's a saddo who spends too much time on an anoracky website. Just like the rest of us.
I'm living proof that you can be a saddo anoraky politics geek AND have sex with loads of hot chicks. You should be encouraged by my example.
The fact you a millionaire thriller writing anoraky politics geek with a pad in Camden no doubt helps a little
What first attracted you to millionaire thriller writer S K Tremayne who also gets free luxury travel around the world where he's allowed to bring companions?
[Off-topic] I've just collected an Ebay order from Argos. Looking at the packaging, I can see it was sent there by Amazon.
It is quite a common trick. People sell co-list on both sites and used Amazon (fulfilled by) warehouse space* OR they sell on eBay and buy it cheaper on Amazon.
* what they do is have two companies, one sells via Amazon and one via eBay. Then when they sell an item on ebay, company number buys from company one in your behath, which obviously allows then to.makr use of Amazon distribution.
Thanks. I'd not known this. Clearly I am not cut out to be an ecommerce entrepreneur.
"Donald Trump should make a State Visit to the United Kingdom"
That means Parliament has to now consider it in a debate
What is the point in forcing a debate on something that the Prime Minister has said will happen??
I can understand people petitioning for a debate to reverse the decision, but petitioning the government to debate something it has already decided to do seems a little pointless.
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I can't work out whether Sean is a narcissistic solipsist, or solipsistic narcissist.
The mere fact that he's here means that fundamentally, he's a saddo who spends too much time on an anoracky website. Just like the rest of us.
I'm living proof that you can be a saddo anoraky politics geek AND have sex with loads of hot chicks. You should be encouraged by my example.
The fact you a millionaire thriller writing anoraky politics geek with a pad in Camden no doubt helps a little
What first attracted you to millionaire thriller writer S K Tremayne who also gets free luxury travel around the world where he's allowed to bring companions?
Quite, to misquote Mrs Merton
Don't tell him that we all have 7 girlfriends under 26 and are not so decrepit as to need a day off every week...
[Off-topic] I've just collected an Ebay order from Argos. Looking at the packaging, I can see it was sent there by Amazon.
It is quite a common trick. People sell co-list on both sites and used Amazon (fulfilled by) warehouse space* OR they sell on eBay and buy it cheaper on Amazon.
* what they do is have two companies, one sells via Amazon and one via eBay. Then when they sell an item on ebay, company number buys from company one in your behath, which obviously allows then to.makr use of Amazon distribution.
Thanks. I'd not known this.
I have got to guess that Amazon know and don't care.
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I can't work out whether Sean is a narcissistic solipsist, or solipsistic narcissist.
The mere fact that he's here means that fundamentally, he's a saddo who spends too much time on an anoracky website. Just like the rest of us.
I'm living proof that you can be a saddo anoraky politics geek AND have sex with loads of hot chicks. You should be encouraged by my example.
The fact you a millionaire thriller writing anoraky politics geek with a pad in Camden no doubt helps a little
What first attracted you to millionaire thriller writer S K Tremayne who also gets free luxury travel around the world where he's allowed to bring companions?
Quite, to misquote Mrs Merton
Don't tell him that we all have 7 girlfriends under 26 and are not so decrepit as to need a day off every week...
On topic: my other half is a voter in the Copeland by-election. More than Brexit he is exercised by the National Grid's proposals to build gigantic pylons across the Duddon Estuary on the edge of the Lake District National Park.
Unless the Tories - specifically the Energy Minister - are prepared to explain to the National Grid that the relevant guidance - which required the Grid to take account of the effect of any building on areas within the National Park, which this proposal would since it is on the edge and highly visible within the Park and would thus ruin its setting, then it doesn't matter if Theresa May personally comes round and hands over gold bars to him. He will be voting for the Greens in this by-election.
Not desecrating a beautiful area (and the alternative is putting the pylons underground as they are proposing to do along the rest of the route) is far more important to him than Brexit.
Given how small Labour's majority was and given how many people in the affected area are up in arms about this proposal, this could make the difference between the Tories winning or not this seat.
"Donald Trump should make a State Visit to the United Kingdom"
That means Parliament has to now consider it in a debate
What is the point in forcing a debate on something that the Prime Minister has said will happen??
I can understand people petitioning for a debate to reverse the decision, but petitioning the government to debate something it has already decided to do seems a little pointless.
As it means the Committee has to consider the support for the counter argument in the debate on banning the State Visit, now the pro Trump petition has crossed the 100 000 threshold that will happen
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I can't work out whether Sean is a narcissistic solipsist, or solipsistic narcissist.
The mere fact that he's here means that fundamentally, he's a saddo who spends too much time on an anoracky website. Just like the rest of us.
I'm living proof that you can be a saddo anoraky politics geek AND have sex with loads of hot chicks. You should be encouraged by my example.
The fact you a millionaire thriller writing anoraky politics geek with a pad in Camden no doubt helps a little
What first attracted you to millionaire thriller writer S K Tremayne who also gets free luxury travel around the world where he's allowed to bring companions?
Quite, to misquote Mrs Merton
Gotta play to your strengths.
... that said, there are quite a few young women who simply *like* older guys. A happy discovery.
Notts LibDems and Greens have agreed not to oppose each other in certain divisions in the County election. I wonder if this will be replicated elsewhere?
Notts LibDems and Greens have agreed not to oppose each other in certain divisions in the County election. I wonder if this will be replicated elsewhere?
Sounds like two bald men agreeing not to fight over a comb.
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I can't work out whether Sean is a narcissistic solipsist, or solipsistic narcissist.
The mere fact that he's here means that fundamentally, he's a saddo who spends too much time on an anoracky website. Just like the rest of us.
I'm living proof that you can be a saddo anoraky politics geek AND have sex with loads of hot chicks. You should be encouraged by my example.
The fact you a millionaire thriller writing anoraky politics geek with a pad in Camden no doubt helps a little
What first attracted you to millionaire thriller writer S K Tremayne who also gets free luxury travel around the world where he's allowed to bring companions?
Quite, to misquote Mrs Merton
Gotta play to your strengths.
... that said, there are quite a few young women who simply *like* older guys. A happy discovery.
Given that President Trump seems, to the surprise of many, to be set on doing what he said he would do, I think that we have to assume that changes to corporate taxation to encourage US companies to re-shore manufacturing are very much on the cards. In practice, that might well mean the "border-adjusted" corporate tax proposal put forward by some Republican congressmen. The effect would be similar to imposing a 20%+ tariff on imports, without actually being a tariff as such.
The international ramifications of such a change to the US tax system would be immense. For a start, it would probably mean a US-UK trade deal would be of little help to us. It could also trigger a worldwide trade war, with the EU and other countries similarly putting up protectionist barriers.
We could be about to find out if the world needs the US as much as the US thinks it does.
The signature map for that is ever so slightly different from the Other One.
But in every constituency - it seems - far more people have signed the petition about Trump not getting a state visit.
Because it has been up longer and trumpeted by every news outlet going for 2 days and been used as another outlet for Remoaner grief. For a pro Trump petition to get almost 100 000 signatures in less than 24 hours with virtually no publicity until now and in the face of relentlessly anti Trump headlines from the UK media is not something to be dismissed lightly
Hmmm - the no state visit petition only started to get coverage as a result of the signatures it had got.
On topic: my other half is a voter in the Copeland by-election. More than Brexit he is exercised by the National Grid's proposals to build gigantic pylons across the Duddon Estuary on the edge of the Lake District National Park.
Unless the Tories - specifically the Energy Minister - are prepared to explain to the National Grid that the relevant guidance - which required the Grid to take account of the effect of any building on areas within the National Park, which this proposal would since it is on the edge and highly visible within the Park and would thus ruin its setting, then it doesn't matter if Theresa May personally comes round and hands over gold bars to him. He will be voting for the Greens in this by-election.
Not desecrating a beautiful area (and the alternative is putting the pylons underground as they are proposing to do along the rest of the route) is far more important to him than Brexit.
Given how small Labour's majority was and given how many people in the affected area are up in arms about this proposal, this could make the difference between the Tories winning or not this seat.
Having phoned in Copeland that issue was not raised once, Brexit was. Richmond was supposed to back Zac on Heathrow it ended up dumping him on Brexit. We will see but I can't see pylons dominating the major issue of the age and of course a vote for the Greens is no use to Labour
Married to David Wheeldon; MP for Wealden. Are there any other MPs with rhyming spouses and constituencies?
At the hustings where we were choosing from the shortlist, she used that very effectively. There had been a bit of a mess-up over her name, and some criticism that she was trying to exploit it. She opened her speech by turning this round: "As you may know, my married name is Wheeldon. When I announced that I would be applying to be the candidate here, my mother-in-law was ecstatic: 'Darling, this seat is made for you!'. Talk about being put under pressure!'
These days it's called polyamory, darling. It's quite the thing amongst us young sexy people.
It's certainly a great way to screw people up emotionally.
I can't work out whether Sean is a narcissistic solipsist, or solipsistic narcissist.
The mere fact that he's here means that fundamentally, he's a saddo who spends too much time on an anoracky website. Just like the rest of us.
I'm living proof that you can be a saddo anoraky politics geek AND have sex with loads of hot chicks. You should be encouraged by my example.
The fact you a millionaire thriller writing anoraky politics geek with a pad in Camden no doubt helps a little
What first attracted you to millionaire thriller writer S K Tremayne who also gets free luxury travel around the world where he's allowed to bring companions?
Quite, to misquote Mrs Merton
Gotta play to your strengths.
... that said, there are quite a few young women who simply *like* older guys. A happy discovery.
Indeed as Sugardaddys.com shows
Just don't go to prisonbabes.com
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Darned, it no longer exists. Twenty-odd years ago when I was doing Internet stuff, there was an American website that allowed you to correspond with women in American prisons. A customer complained it was not loading properly, so we all had a look.
One fairly attractive woman was in for life, for murder. Her marital status was 'widowed'.
It did not take much to connect the dots on that case ...
Given that President Trump seems, to the surprise of many, to be set on doing what he said he would do, I think that we have to assume that changes to corporate taxation to encourage US companies to re-shore manufacturing are very much on the cards. In practice, that might well mean the "border-adjusted" corporate tax proposal put forward by some Republican congressmen. The effect would be similar to imposing a 20%+ tariff on imports, without actually being a tariff as such.
The international ramifications of such a change to the US tax system would be immense. For a start, it would probably mean a US-UK trade deal would be of little help to us. It could also trigger a worldwide trade war, with the EU and other countries similarly putting up protectionist barriers.
That's going to take a while, and may run into WTO issues; interesting, though. Far more interesting are the proposals to force US companies to on-shore manufacturing by removing tax allowability of production costs of items sold in the US but produced overseas. That could be done quickly, and without recourse to any international bodies.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38805196
"President Trump will continue to enforce President Obama's 2014 executive order protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination while working as federal contractors, the White House announced Tuesday.
"President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election," the White House announced in a statement.
"The President is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression," it said.
The order was the first time the federal government issued explicit protections for federal workers based on their gender identity."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2613444/
Very poor insult by your usually high standard, too.
Things seem to be kicking off now...
Over four years the US electorate will eventually spot that the Emperor is wearing no clothes. His approval ratings are already the worst for the honeymoon period of any incoming President and they're only going to go in one direction.
I thought we'd seen the back of that at the end of June last year.
And also on Theresa May.
And, no, I don't think Sanders would have been any better. Rubio came across as the best of the worst, but was clearly inexperienced and a bit robotic.
A nation of 300m. Trump and Hillary were it.
Jesus.
My wife once ordered it, similarly in error, and chivalry compelled me to swap for my dish of something delicious. I too preserved national honour.
I'm conversely just having pleasant memories of Eric Forth's tremendous ties.
"But in every constituency - it seems - far more people have signed the petition about Trump not getting a state visit"
Several reasons for that, as I'm sure you know. A head start by the easily offended, more enthusiasm for useless protests by the easily offended. and more time on their hands by the easily offended.
But good to see that you haven't suggested it's because the pro-Trump supporters have problems with joined-up writing.
And yes, the ban is a bonkers idea hastily cobbled together, but that is my subjective opinion. Other opinions are available.
Marine Le Pen on Tuesday must repay €298,000 to the European Parliament or see her MEP salary slashed in half, following allegations the French far-right leader misused funds.
EU authorities are seeking to recover a total of €340,000 from the far-right leader, who is a lawmaker in the European Parliament but also a leading presidential candidate in France’s upcoming presidential election.
The EU Parliament is seeking to recover the funds after accusing two of Le Pen’s parliamentary assistants of in fact working for her National Front party back home.
A first letter sent to Le Pen demands she repay the sum of €298,497.87 by January 31, for salaries paid to Catherine Griset, who worked as a parliamentary assistant from December 2010 to February 2016.
In a report last year, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) made light of the fact that while Griset’s contract stipulates her workplace as the EU Parliament’s headquarters in Brussels, she was “unable to prove that she continually resided in Belgium” nor that she was “regularly present at her place of work”.
OLAF also pointed out that Griset held a “recognised position” at the National Front’s headquarters in the suburbs of Paris during her time as a parliamentary assistant.
A second letter sent to Le Pen seeks to recover an additional €41,554 by February 28, for wages paid to her bodyguard Thierry Légier.
If she fails to repay the European body, Le Pen could see her MEP salary cut by 50 percent, according to several sources cited by French newspapers.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178844
"Donald Trump should make a State Visit to the United Kingdom"
I'm not worried about you! Judging by some contemporaries it seems to get very complicated very quickly, with all manner of jealousies to contend with.
Still, takes all sorts etc.
this strikes me as quite a sinister development, pressuring businesses to take official views on political issues https://t.co/W4TuxKJOiT https://t.co/GP9jN3IDit
* what they do is have two companies, one sells via Amazon and one via eBay. Then when they sell an item on ebay, company number buys from company one in your behath, which obviously allows then to.makr use of Amazon distribution.
There's a good explanation here:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/21/tax-changes-taxing-imports-plan-has-chance-of-passing.html
The international ramifications of such a change to the US tax system would be immense. For a start, it would probably mean a US-UK trade deal would be of little help to us. It could also trigger a worldwide trade war, with the EU and other countries similarly putting up protectionist barriers.
I can understand people petitioning for a debate to reverse the decision, but petitioning the government to debate something it has already decided to do seems a little pointless.
So instead of a pissed off wife at home to deal with, you've got a pissed off cuckolded husband to deal with as well.
If you're ever going to have an affair, have it with a woman who is single.
Unless the Tories - specifically the Energy Minister - are prepared to explain to the National Grid that the relevant guidance - which required the Grid to take account of the effect of any building on areas within the National Park, which this proposal would since it is on the edge and highly visible within the Park and would thus ruin its setting, then it doesn't matter if Theresa May personally comes round and hands over gold bars to him. He will be voting for the Greens in this by-election.
Not desecrating a beautiful area (and the alternative is putting the pylons underground as they are proposing to do along the rest of the route) is far more important to him than Brexit.
Given how small Labour's majority was and given how many people in the affected area are up in arms about this proposal, this could make the difference between the Tories winning or not this seat.
Trump Administration Grants Waiver Allowing 872 Refugees Into The U.S. https://t.co/LzSB7zYYy2
A big moment.
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Darned, it no longer exists. Twenty-odd years ago when I was doing Internet stuff, there was an American website that allowed you to correspond with women in American prisons. A customer complained it was not loading properly, so we all had a look.
One fairly attractive woman was in for life, for murder. Her marital status was 'widowed'.
It did not take much to connect the dots on that case ...
Never been forced to vote with the government, when in opposition.
That's the crux.
"Having backtracked on its proposal to ban green card holders from 7 mostly Muslim countries"
Was there a proposal to ban Green Card holders?