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Cameron First!
"Every volunteer is phone interviewed by our team of voluntary coordinators who are based full time in CCHQ – just outside the door to my office. We then assign each member to one of our 40/40 target seats, based on the skills they possess.
The key to Team 2015 is careful targeting. We’re focused on seeking out the talents and abilities of each person who signs-up and we allocate volunteers to each target seat based, not just on their location, but also for the first time in the history of the Party, based on the skills they possess."
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thecolumnists/2013/07/grant-shapps.html
"Messina, as the campaign manger who got Obama re-elected, is an expert on how to marry online campaigning and traditional door-knocking.
He’s better placed than anybody to offer advice on Team 2015.
I’m told that it already has several thousand volunteers signed up and has started canvassing in various key seats."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2389176/Now-Eds-betting-entire-future-single-speech.html
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So does Stephen Fry!
Imagine hailing a a black cab only to be lectured on the unfairness of the Russian education systems attitude to homosexuals by the driver
*splutters LOL coughs*
could the premise for a sketch show gag, Stephen Fry as a London cabbie, setting up an un PC gag only to deliver a right on punch line a la Bernard...
http://youtu.be/svLyyzBC_qI
Kevin Rudd rated the winner by 24%, Tony Abbott favoured by 23%, 5% calling it a draw, and 48% granted that they hadn’t watched.
So @ChrisBryantMP how's that re-framing of the narrative on immigration working out for ya?
LOL
@Plato re: ginger snaps - you need to be careful. He might have thought you were propositioning him...
Assuming that the Mail is correct (a big assumption I'll grant you) it is deeply worrying.
To be fair, there are some reasonably experienced individuals in the Shadow Cabinet (Harman, Balls, Cooper, etc).
But there are also a huge number of important positions held by very very inexperienced and untested individuals (e.g. Rachel Reeves, Luciana Berger, Chuka Ummana).
I'm not sure a Cabinet with those last three individuals in it is a Cabinet I'd have confidence in, regardless of whether I agree with them or not.
The key question is can these volunteers replace the hundreds of lost members/activists .
Never fails to make me giggle or LOL.
Nick Boles @GeneralBoles
@BBC_Joe_Lynam @SamCoatesTimes It's how @LordAshcroft does his polling... pic.twitter.com/qmSQ6QHR08
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRZymMpCQAAJWIl.jpg:large
It must be something to do with ferocious midges and kilts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10233175/Spanish-town-to-name-a-street-after-John-Major.html
Whinge about the English?
Wish they didn't have to wear kilts?
The Tory volunteer strategy is interesting. My guess is that it will work well in London, where we are all used to jumping on a Tube and going to places we've never heard of before in pursuit of The Cause, but not elsewhere - at least, I've always found significant problems in getting people to shift from one town to another even within the constituency, and anecdotally I gather the Tories did too even when they had more activists.
Even when a broader circle of acquaintances such as co-workers is included, 30 per cent of Americans do not mix with those of a different race, the survey found.
The poll was published just weeks before the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, on 28 August 1963. To mark the date this year, President Obama will deliver speech entitled Let Freedom Ring from the spot where Dr King stood, highlighting jobs and employment, a key theme of the event half a century ago." http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3839980.ece
And in the UK 1/10 have a best friend from another ethnic group.
"Ghettos have sprung up and – as a result of immigrants moving near their relatives and many white Britons leaving inner cities – over time they become consolidated outposts of different lands. Research from the demographer Prof Eric Kaufmann shows that nearly half of all ethnic minorities living in Britain – around four million people – now live in areas where white Britons make up less than half the population.
Furthermore, children from particular communities are often – as a result of these population shifts and parental choice – in schools where their own “minority” ethnicity is the majority. And, thanks to technology that was supposed to connect us – satellite television, the internet – migrants are able to insulate themselves from British culture and language. YouGov polling shows that one in 10 of us has a best friend from another ethnicity. But in too many areas there is a lack of contact, let alone intimacy, across ethnic lines." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10233993/Immigration-We-must-break-down-the-barriers-of-Britains-ghettos.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/gibraltar/10235937/Gibraltar-Spain-considers-joint-diplomatic-offensive-with-Argentina-over-Falkland-Islands.html
Spot on impression for anyone who remembers Saturday Live on Ch4 circa 1986
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuMSu20avs&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=/watch?v=JSuMSu20avs&feature=youtu.be
His Lords speeches have started by referring to his register of interests, which states that he is the director of an Aberdeen-based company called Renewable Energy Ventures (REV) Ltd.
However, documents lodged with Companies House show there are actually nine firms in the REV network, seven of which have been incorporated within the past five months.
The former Scottish Deputy First Minister is also director of a company called Pilot Offshore Renewables, also formed in April, which is not mentioned in his register of interests.
House of Lords rules state that Members must be “especially cautious in deciding whether to speak or vote” in debates that relate to their private business interests. > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10235949/Lord-Stephen-facing-questions-over-wind-farm-empire.html
"One of its advantages is that it works outside the party’s traditional, declining membership structure. But it will still have to deal with the party’s voter-targeting software, Merlin.
Merlin is loathed by many MPs and Tory activists who simply think it doesn’t work; they point to how it crashed at key points during the Eastleigh by-election campaign.
If Messina can find a way to deal with this problem, then he really will be a campaign wizard."
Labour election organisors will be saddened by this. They had come to love Merlin as the Labour Party's best weapon against the Tories !
Nothing changes in the real world.
Are you sure they aren't bosom pals...?
I think the minimum ages in the US system are a good idea.
" Mr Fry has come up with a new plan to protest over what he calls the "unspeakable" treatment of the gay community in Russia.
He has called on athletes competing in the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia to make a "simple gesture" of solidarity by crossing the their arms over their chest whilst receiving their medals.
"[Its] just a simple gesture, they can't take that away, they're not going to chop their arms off", Mr Fry said. The British actor, who has written an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron asking him to boycott the Winter Olympics, was speaking at Gay Pride in Glasgow..."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10236185/Stephen-Fry-asks-athletes-to-protest-at-Russian-Winter-Olympics-with-simple-gesture.html
I think voters should be able to choose anyone at all - even in theory a foreigner or a teenager - as part of their role of assessing the best candidate. Why should we circumscribe their choice with a few arbitrary restrictions?
We've had the debate about the age of MPs before. I approach the matter from a Burkian perspective - all an MP can offer is their judgement. I simply don't think that a 20 year old has seen enough of the world to offer a truly reflected view. As a result they are more likely to end up as lobby fodder.
Then I assume it was pointed out [by me and tens of thousands of others] that he was actually depriving the athletes of their own career dreams so eff off. When he is competing in the luge or even the curling then he can boycott himself.
This is Luvvies Nil - ROTW 10. Frankly, coming off the back of TwitterSilence that just showed the massive hypocrisy of Caitlin Spazz Mong AIDSSSSS IS SO FUNNY Moran et al - I think its worked out perfectly.
Of course in Ms Moran's case using terms like this is entirely ironic, gives no offence and is very funnnnnnny - so her friends say. But some of them have left Twitter because they've been exposed as well and don't like the facts played back to them.
http://www7.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2013/08/09/the-numbers-of-lib-dem-lost-deposits-at-ge2015-could-be-in-the-hundreds/
http://storify.com/BethanyBlack/caitlin-moran-champion-of-women-if-you-re-white-ab
Posturing on stilts. And what really irks me is that it costs him NOTHING professionally. Not a single DVD royalty but he's demanding others sacrifice themselves on his Ego Altar.
Urgh.
That he's now decided to be Peter Tatchell combined with Pussy Riot is just ....
Sadly the Americans had to sacrifice 4 years of training.
If you remember this was to protest Russian invasion of Afganistan. Now-a-days, we invade other countries !
So on average people have been paid less. This isn't (or at least shouldn't be) in the hands of the government. If you've earned less pull your finger out and do your job sufficiently well that you will earn more. If you don't have a job where your performance matters then find one that does.
Stephen Fry's open letter asks people to show tolerance to others, and addresses it to
the leader of a party I have for almost all of my life opposed and instinctively disliked
Does he not see the contradiction there?
http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-and-the-ioc/single-page/
I feel terribly sorry for the athletes - they train their whole careers and self-absorbed numpties and failing politicians try to hi-jack them for their own ends.
Yuk.
Sadly the Americans had to sacrifice 4 years of training.
If you remember this was to protest Russian invasion of Afganistan. Now-a-days, we invade other countries !
Were any of the "excuses" worse than the Nazi regime itself ? Berlin 1936 was not boycotted despite Germany's anti Jew, anti Black, anti Slav anti non White records.
WE rightly laud Jesse Owens historic 4 gold medals in 45 minutes [ the timetable was deliberately skewed against him ]. WE should not forget taht we do so because the US and others did not boycott Berlin Olympics.
On the other hand, long term boycotts do sap the energy of sporting nations. Boycott of white South Africa worked because it was for an extended period and it hurt their major sport, rugby !
I am sure the American import Messingabout will solve this with some software program.
Call them political collateral damage. No one cares about them after the event.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389149/Bye-bye-Bercow--hello-BoJo-Speaker-quit-plum-Tory-seat-Election--local-grandees-select-Boris-seconds-flat.html#ixzz2bgpGeHbh
And in political betting terms, voters who have seen a decline in their real wages and living standards are less likely to support the government.
Whether or not it is their own fault for having the wrong type of job.
He writes for example
"He is making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews."
It takes a very kind interpretation to read this as anything other than nonsense.
Being gay isn't entirely normal. It just isn't. We simply wouldn't be here if it was. Gay people, gay attitudes, gay whatever you like - I'm chilled. Gays wanting to style themselves as some sort of endangered national treasure: I'm less convinced.
Stephen Fry, should you read this; You should be embarrassed at the slumlike complacency with which you indulge yourself when writing.
Oatcake @oatcake
Comic Relief invests millions in controversial tobacco, chemical and arms firms mirr.im/18mYECm via @DailyMirror
Big Tobacco> Surely not? That's Lynton's Manor - oh...
Charity Comic Relief is investing millions in controversial tobacco, pharmaceutical and arms firms, a Sunday People investigation reveals.
Each year an army of kind-hearted Brits pledge millions to Red Nose Day or Sport Relief – and it is mostly invested before going to those in need.
A probe by the Sunday People and investigative agency OpenWorld News has found Comic Relief put £14million into a company which invests in firms accused of unethical behaviour.
The Invesco Perpetual High Income Fund, not named in Comic Relief’s latest publicly available accounts, has been called the UK’s top performer.
But critics claim the charity’s seeming wish to get interest on cash clashes with its own projects in the Third World.
A source said: “Everybody has a soft spot for Comic Relief and loves to support it. It’s done so much for so many good causes, and should rightly be praised.
“But a considerable amount of money in the charity goes to places some people would be unsure about.”
Among those invested in by Invesco are three of the world’s biggest cigarette firms – British American Tobacco, Reynolds American and Imperial Tobacco, makers of the Lambert and Butler brand.
Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/comic-relief-invests-millions-controversial-2149614#ixzz2bgqO9Pc8
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Real wages fell 8.8% between 2008 and 2012. Private sector real wages fell 10.1%. Public sector wages fell 3.5%. Who should be complaining?
Compared to when it used to be like Brighton or Soho?
'Having the wrong type of job' - If you accept employment to do something that is essentially worthless then it's your own lookout surely.
People that day-on-day do fuck-all will clearly find themselves more productive in an environment where they actually achieve something.
Putin isn't rounding them up in cattle wagons and gassing them.
Oh, but that doesn't fit his intellectually bankrupt argument about Putin and wrestling bears half dressed.
I am really perplexed by the idee fixe on Russia of all places - because of Pussy Riot who were ostentatiously blasphemous in a church? How about all the countries in Africa or places in Britain where bigots put up anti-gay billstickers in Muslim areas?
Oh...
BBC Propaganda @BBCPropaganda
Between 2000 and 2012, CPI was 33.4%, private sector wages rose 47.7% (real terms 12.6%), public sector wages rose 54.6% (real terms 21.2%)
Another day, another car pulls up alongside Ed Miliband. This one's being drive by the Guardian's John Harris. tinyurl.com/lorc8ko
Whatever else one knocks him for = Mr Hodges was 100% spot on with his prediction of EdM's detractors pulling up along side and shooting him in the street.
A most apt metaphor.
Con = 10237 (38.95%) (8/11 Councillors)
UKIP = 6627 (25.21%) (1/11)
LibDem = 3836 (14.60%) (1/11)
Lab = 2863 (10.89%) (1/11)
Ind = 2028 (7.72%)
Green = 692 (2.63%)
Total = 26283
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/buckingham/#comment-18413
Seant "Evenin' Easterross. I'm in Arisaig, after a week on Skye, and I've been asking people, since I arrived, what they intend to vote next year. Overwhelmingly they say they're gonna vote No.
Is this a Hebridean thing? Do you have data for the geographical spread of No and Yes independence voters? I'm curious, because you've been hinting that a Yes is very possible, yet my feeble one-man straw poll implies No by a distance.
However perhaps the Western Isles are historically different (I expected them to be some of the most pro-independence) thanks to the religious history, or the midges, or whatever.
Where is the Yes vote concentrated? Glasgow? The prosperous east coast?
Genuinely curious."
Seant, I have been pondering this too, and suspect that where there are definitely pockets of solid SNP support in the Highlands and the North East of Scotland that will show a stronger Yes vote in the Indy Ref than elsewhere. I had around 50 17-24 year olds in my garden last night for a BBQ/party, and I came across a crowd of them discussing the Indy Ref all things at one point much to my surprise. Absolutely gobsmacked at just how little support the Yes vote was garnering from that straw poll of this age group considering they were the SNP's great hope for helping swing support their way. If they are any reflection, the No vote will be even higher among this age group if they turn out to vote.
http://onesecond.designly.com/
“Unscrupulous employers whose only interest seems to be finding labour as cheaply as possible, will recruit workers in large numbers in low wage countries in the EU, bring them to the UK, charge the costs of their travel and their substandard accommodation against their wages and still not even meet the national minimum wage.”
“That is unfair. It exploits migrant workers and it makes it impossible for settled workers with mortgages and a family to support at British prices to compete.”
“Take the case of Tesco, who recently decided to move their distribution centre in Kent. The new centre is larger and employs more people, but the staff at original site, most of them British, were told that they could only move to the new centre if they took a cut in pay.”
“The result? A large percentage of the staff at the new centre are from Eastern bloc.”
“Look at Next PLC, who last year brought 500 Polish workers to work in their South Elmsall warehouse for their summer sale and another 300 this summer.”
“They were recruited in Poland and charged £50 to find them accommodation. The advantage to Next? They get to avoid Agency Workers Regulations which apply after a candidate has been employed for over 12 weeks, so Polish temps end up considerably cheaper than the local workforce which includes many former Next employees.”
Statement by Tesco
“It is wrong to accuse Tesco of this. We work incredibly hard to recruit from the local area and have just recruited 350 local people to work in our Dagenham site.” [Sky News]
Statement by Next
“Mr Bryant wrongly claims that Polish workers are used to save money. This is simply not true.”
“We are deeply disappointed Mr Bryant did not bother to check his facts with the company before releasing his speech.” [Reuters]
Statement by Labour Party
“We're not suggesting any law has been broken. Tesco and Next are anecdotal examples.” [Reuters]
Anecdotal examples? Surely not.