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David Herdson and I plan to host a PB event in Yorkshire in July next year and we wanted to sound out opinion to see if this would be popular.
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Edit: If there any good cricket going on nearby too I'll see if I can get one of my longer UK business trips around then. It'd be a great chance for me to meet some pb'ers.
Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee?
On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
Tha's bahn' to catch thy deeath o` cowd
Then us'll ha' to bury thee
Then t'worms'll come an` eyt thee up
Then t'ducks'll come an` eyt up t'worms
Then us'll go an` eyt up t'ducks
Then us'll all ha' etten thee
That's wheear we get us ooan back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis
"Interesting Twitter convo between Dan Hodges & Will Jennings:
Will Jennings: "OK, all elections 1945-2010, average final year increase for incumbent is 2.5%, so there is some evidence for you."
Will Jennings: (on oppositions): "It's different but pretty symmetrical (-2.6%). Of course, past performance is not an indication of future results!"
On Jennings analysis today that would put Labour on 35.5 & the Tories on 33.7....Lab maj of 14.....20 months from the GE.....
http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/total
Many thanks for the LD retirement information. Much appreciated
http://www.cricschedule.com/year/2014.php
"2014: Sri Lanka Lord's, Headingley; India Lord's, Trent Bridge, Old Trafford, The Oval, The Rose Bowl."
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/sep/22/ecb-ashes-tests-2013-2015
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Basic-Broad-Yorkshire-Arnold-Kellett/dp/1870071824
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/07/nhs-health?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/aug/07/godfrey-bloom-bongo-bongo-land-ukip
"Ignore Godfrey Bloom's 'bongo bongo land' comments – he's trying to provoke
The Ukip MEP's posturing should not be taken too seriously, and nor should his party"
When the real election comes in 2015 disaffected Tories will have to decide whether they hate David Cameron more than they hate Ed Miliband. By voting for the likes of Godfrey "Ray-Bans" Bloom they risk splitting the core Tory vote and making Ed our next PM. It's a no-brainer, even for disaffected Tories who tend not to believe in what lefties call revolutionary defeatism (lose now, to win better later)."
Re the Jews comment on the other thread. Another line has been added which makes it marginally less offensive but it also makes it read like gibberish.
"Anna Soubry: A one woman walking disaster":
http://www.liberal-vision.org/2013/07/22/anna-soubry-a-one-woman-walking-disaster/
Eastleigh: Con: 39, Lab: 10, LD: 47, UKIP: 4
Hazel Grove: Con: 34, Lab: 12, LD: 49: , UKIP: 5
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/eastleigh/
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/hazelgrove/
Did you read Tim Stanley on the EDL and Islam? Sadly - or perhaps wisely, the Telegraph did not enable comments!
LD 42.0% Con 26.9% Lab 22.5% UKIP 5.2%
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-announces-500-million-to-relieve-pressures-on-ae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE
Ey up ol' cocker
I might even take in the Open Championship.
A special adviser who works on policy in Nick Clegg’s office told a private meeting with representatives of the major banks that the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme outlined by the Chancellor in the Budget did not have the full support of the Liberal Democrats.
You only have to read yesterday's BoE Quarterly Inflation Report to see how critical investment in private sector dwellings and activity in the housing market is to sustaining growth in the economy.
Or, if this long and somewhat dry document is not to your taste, watch the Sky News interview of Carney and revel in the utter disdain with which the Governor politely dismissed Ed Conway's suggestion that the Government's Help to Buy scheme might create a bubble and cause the Bank to terminate it early.
Why Conway, who is a good (but wrongheaded) economist, sullies his editorial role at Sky by labouring party political points is beyond comprehension. Ed, please, please leave the politics to Joey and Sophie and concentrate on the economics.
The sad fact is that in all the years I have posted on this site, I have never felt the need to personally page 'Tim' with a link to a story that might make him happy. It makes you come across as needy of his praise by the way, but never felt the need to point that out before as it might undermine your feminism stick. But you do feel the need to be his cheerleader, and you seem to revel in it, bless. Really puts your politics, feminism and intelligence into perspective in future political debates on this site. Hopefully you will manage to rise above it and finally what a hypocrite it makes you in your attacks on other female posters on this site.
@Plato, dontcha just love being lectured by our usual trolls and their pom pom waving cheerleaders on this site when most of them turn out to be so thin skinned they cannot cope with being challenged on their hypocrisy. Still, Tim heaped high praise on Carola because she as a teacher noticed Theresa May's weight loss as an indication of her leadership ambitions. And yet, I as a former nurse understood the immediate implications of her weight loss due to the announcement she had developed insulin dependent diabetes when it came to light, and despite the ignorance of some who didn't understand that insulin dependent diabetes doesn't have a set age profile that it adheres too.
My sister in law became an insulin dependent diabetic in her early twenties, she collapsed at a wedding where she was bridesmaid. With my own personal family history, it was a worry that I suffered gestational diabetes, I had to undergo tests after 10 years to check if I had developed this condition. Luckily I had not, but my grandmother and all her siblings did, my great Aunt and her son both ended up totally blind due to their diabetes by the time they were forty.
In other news, Carney and his men rejected out of hand the suggestion that the Help to Buy scheme is starting another unsustainable housing boom, which will please Osborne no end.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/08/interest-rates-set-to-stay-low-for-the-foreseeable-future/
The clever thing to do is to identify a proxy variable, e.g. by-election swing or PM approval which can be shown to predict the future (election outcome) with a fair degree of accuracy.
If so, you can definitely count me in along with 'Er Indoors.
However two things concern me: firstly, will accommodation be scarce and expensive because of Le Tour?
Secondly, although I had no interest in the Olympics, I do rather fancy seeing Le Tour, which also passes through Cambridge on the 7th, so I'd rather be down here to watch it.
I won't bother with the rest as, really, it speaks for itself. But May said that she'd been making a conscious effort to lose weight etc before the diagnosis (which was when I first spotted/commented on it - and, importantly, in the broader context of her going through a makeover). I posted the link at the time.