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Several people have been asking if Friday’s PB gathering is still going to take place. The answer is yes. It will start at the Lord Raglan pub, 61 St Martins le Grand, St Pauls EC1A 4ER from 6.30pm. An area downstairs called the Fireplace has been booked.
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One thing I found curious about this announcement was the total lack of scrutiny from either the Tories or the media. As you say, one of the most naked electoral bribes I can ever remember, coming in at an eye watering 10 billion quid a year. As I mentioned earlier, the scrutiny of Labour's manifesto (and Mr Corbyn) has been woefully lacking because nobody took it seriously. That cannot be allowed to continue.
We all know the voting history of 18-24 year olds, so the Tories needn't worry too much, I feel. They didn't even turn out for the EU referendum in any great number, and I expect the same at this election.
They don't want to give an obvious bribe the oxygen of publicity... instead concentrate on the overall sums not adding up. Don't want to increase awareness among benefiting students, do we?
(Not that I can make it, sadly.)
Not as high as my age group, admittedly.
The basic problem was that he was far, far too old by the time of the Crimean war.
its fairly straight forward we piss money up the wall so Cameron could play noblesse oblige with other peoples money.
we dont invest in our childrens future.
There appears to be no significant increase in turnout among young people, with 18-24s almost half as likely to vote as those aged 65+ (43% vs 78%; in 2010 estimated turnout for 18-24s was 44%).
The half who made it to university or the half that did not?
I've never understood the meme that students do not vote. In 2001 I was living in a Halls of Residence as an 18 year old student and virtually everyone I spoke to that day voted. While young people as a whole do not turnout I imagine most who dropped out of education before uni are those not voting.
Servers for any large City organisation are typical hosted AWAY from the centre of London in at least 2 buildings a minimum of 30 miles apart. Data is replicated between both locations so the company can continue with limited impact should a site go down.
http://www.barbersarms.co.uk/
That is my one and only awful pun this evening.
https://order-order.com/2017/05/23/stroud-labour-manchester-attack-wonderful-timing-for-may/
Just because we are leaving the EU does not mean they will stop behaving like rational and decent human beings at events like this, as we will not if (when, sadly) the boot is on the other foot.
We will prohibit councils from creating any new places in schools that have been rated either ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ by Ofsted
That seems fraught with unintended difficulties, at first glance.
I'm really struggling to make it any simpler to understand than that.
They've already wargamed this into the system.
Perfect!
It's all approved at the top, who wrote bits is immaterial.
I mean you do know stock markets can be suspended in emergencies? Just look at what happened on/the days after 9/11
May .... easier .... apparently spent most of her time around the Conservative Association rather than either doing more than just enough work, or socialising with other students, who might have had different views.
Or both!
@TSE - I would be up for a Manchester get together.
If that was meant seriously, then Rayner is actually even stupider than she looks. It wasn't even unworkable, it was actually deliberately dishonest (in terms of its funding - in effect, every spending commitment was unfunded).
Looking in more detail will have to wait a few days until I am a bit less busy.
but the scheme is unsustainable and people will get pissed off
Strangely, no further work was commissioned to them from the London office....
The interesting and relevant figure will be the total electorate this time compared to 2015 GE and 2016 EU ref.
Of course this GE's figure won't be available yet until all the late applications have been processed.
PB'ers task for the evening is to identify some additonal political nominees for such commemoration,
Perhaps some comments from Labour types might help:-
Exhibit 1 below: a vignette from September 2016 – the first formal day of the Conference.
9:46am: Corbyn tells Jewish peer who quit Labour over anti-Semitism to “reflect“.
9:56am: Corbyn says he backs war crimes investigations into British troops.
10:00am: Corbyn says he opposes giving more resources to MI6.
10:22am: McDonnell defends calling Esther McVey “a stain on humanity”.
10:40am: Yvette Cooper tells McDonnell to apologise.
11:06am: McDonnell doubles down, says “yes I do” think they were the right words.
11:15pm: Derek Hatton spotted in the conference hall.
11:52am: Ken Livingstone talks about Hitler on the BBC.
1:42am: Delegate rants about “Jewish MPs” and “Jewish plot to oust Corbyn”.
1:50pm: Fringe speaker compares Tory welfare policy to Nazis’ Arbeit Macht Frei.
5:00pm: Momentum host speaker call for a Jewish man’s throat to be cut.
5:25pm: Anti-war merchandise mocking injured British soldiers on sale.
6:00pm: Jackie Walker says anti-Semitism in Labour is “exaggerated“.
6:30pm: Leaflets circulated: “Jewish Labour Movement does not belong in Labour” at a meeting held to discuss anti-Semitism within the Labour party.
And this – Exhibit 2 – from a former Labour councillor in Portsmouth. Perhaps it should now be plastered all over Tory posters.
"I cannot advocate to voters that they elect a Labour Government with Jeremy Corbyn at the helm. Indeed, I would be morally obliged to campaign against any administration that included Corbyn and John McDonnell, given my belief that they would seriously imperil our nation's national security if ever given the reins of power."
Mind you, it simply echoes what Jeff (now Lord) Rooker said last year at the time of the Syria bombing vote.
"My party leader cannot be accused, like the prime minister, of misleading anyone. He has never, to my knowledge, agreed to protect the realm, the British way of life, or western liberal democracies – and he won't. We need to get rid of him before we face the electorate and have a leader fit and proper to offer themselves as our prime minister….
The case is clear, Daesh is coming for us. They try to use our innate tolerance to undermine us – exactly the same way as the anti-British Trots in the Labour party are using our tolerance to try and get control. The history of Munich tells me not to give in to the easy route. If you don't fight when under attack, you lose – and we are under attack."
Ouch, ouch….
Plus Diane Abbott, a woman Corbyn is putting forward as Home Secretary.
How any decent person can – in all good conscience – now support Labour beats me.
https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/867094028801757185
I predicted this.