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On this week’s podcast, Keiran is joined by Dr Mark Pack of Lib Dem Newswire and Adam Drummond of Opinium.
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Why don't I have any Labour Party MP friends? I used to have one, but he quit. Now I just have Tory MP friends.
Next question: why on earth would anyone want to be an MP?
Off topic.
On BBC news stories I can no longer click on comments then swap over to "highest rated". It just doesn't show them. Is this just me?
E.g. Scroll down to view comments on here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40345280
Declaration of interest - I've always thought it would be very interesting, too.
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Not cheap. But bliss in this weather.
Or indeed any other recommendations?
Experts say insulation boards on the outside of Grenfell Tower may have filled flats with hydrogen cyanide when they caught fire."
http://news.sky.com/story/toxic-gases-released-during-grenfell-tower-fire-may-have-caused-some-deaths-10922685
I can also only read the latest 20 comments.
When I click on More Comments it doesn't work either.
Is it that you have to set up an account to see more comments or to sort as per your post?
Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do?
Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
Hugh Fennyman: How?
Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.
I don't think you need an account just to view (certainly never needed to). Probably a bug in their software if it's affecting others.
January: Doncaster to Hull via Selby, Chester to Warrington Bank Quay, Warrington Bank Quay to Newton-le-Willows, Bermondsey Dive-under (London Bridge to New Cross Gate), Hayes & Harlington "new" bay platform, Heathrow Airport junction new layout (slow tracks).
February: Sheffield to Lincoln, Swinton (Yorks.) to Fitzwilliam, Leeds to York (direct), Doncaster to Cleethorpes, Heathrow Airport junction new layout (fast tracks), Guide Bridge to Rose Hill, Leeds to Skipton, Deansgate to Leyland, Preston to Blackpool North, Blackpool Tramway (Fleetwood Ferry to Starr Gate), Manchester Victoria to Mirfield via Brighouse, Leeds to Sowerby Bridge via Bradford Interchange, Manchester Victoria to Stalybridge, Manchester Victoria to Southport, Wigan Wallgate to Kirkby, Chinley to Ashburys (Manchester), Preston to Ormskirk, Moorthorpe to Church Fenton (via Pontefract Baghill), West Ealing new bay platform (Greenford shuttle), Meadowhall to Leeds (via Barnsley and Castleford), Woodlesford to Normanton (direct), Kirkstall Forge to Ilkley, Guiseley to Bradford Forster Square, Frizinghall to Saltaire, Micklefield to Selby, York to Scarborough, Castleford to Knottingley, Pontefract Monkhill to Wakefield Kirkgate, Leeds to York (via Harrogate), Deansgate to Exchange Square (Metrolink), Manchester Victoria to Newton-le-Willows.
March: Bolton to Hindley via Westhoughton, Oxford Road to Wigan NW (direct), Doncaster to Pontefract Monkhill, Wakefield Kirkgate to Mirfield, Brighouse to Halifax, Preston to Colne, Kirkham and Wesham to Blackpool South, Todmorden to Rose Grove (Burnley), Bolton to Clitheroe, Huddersfield to Barnsley, Newcastle Central to Airport (Metro), South Gosforth to St James via Whitley Bay (Metro), Newcastle Central to South Hylton (Metro), Pelaw to South Shields (Metro), Newcastle to Sunderland (via High Level Bridge), Newcastle to Carlisle (inc. Metrocentre via High Level Bridge), Sandwich to Minster (direct).
April: Newington to Kemsley (direct), Swanage to Norden (Swanage Railway), Media City UK to Broadway (Metrolink, direct), Bidston to Wrexham Central.
May: Preston to Carlisle, Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Cliff Railway, Stapleton Road to Severn Beach, Knottingley to Goole, Skipton to Carlisle, Brighouse to Deighton.
June: Hatfield & Stainforth to Gilberdyke, Hull to Seamer, Doncaster to Gainsborough Lea Road, Newark North Gate to Collingham, Lincoln to Barnetby, Hereford to Newport, Chester to Holyhead, Llandudno Junction to Llandudno, Great Orme Tramway (Llandudno Victoria to Summit), Lancaster to Barrow, Carnforth to Long Preston, Oxenholme to Windermere.
Funny that; just media and opposition froth after all, eh?
I could stir up plenty of controversy on here, but I think it would land me in a lot of trouble with the moderators to put it mildly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6lwk3HGu0
We are watching and reading less news and feeling all the better for it. Whatever will be, will be and at our age (mid 70's plus) there is more to life than constant political turmoil.
I have no doubt that in the end we will have a soft Brexit as nothing else is at all likely.
I will continue to post from time to time and will read the comments regularly but my priorities lie in a less confrontational atmosphere than present day politics.
However I am not having a go at anyone on here whose diverse views are a credit to the site
After all, why join a party? Or vote? You will probably not achieve anything on your own, but you're part of a joint enterprise which you think worthwhile.
When a deal has been negotiated it will be presented to the Commons as take it or leave it. There is no way for the Commons to say that it would rather have a softer deal instead.
I feel that our Constitution is badly failing in this situation, and I blame the referendum for this. There is no place in our Constitutional system for referenda. We must never allow politicians to avoid hard choices and debates by hiding behind the cop-out of a referendum. We'd be much better off if Brexit happened as a result of a majority government with a PM elected with a mandate and a specific plan for it.
Yes; it's hubris. Newly favoured by electoral losers....
Boris has managed to do worse than Diane on the radio - the guy is knackered I tell you.
Mortimer
Whatever gets you through the night. You are too young to know what an exhausted Tory government looks like
Laura K - the BBC's anti tipster
May's safe for now because no Tory with any sense wants to head up the impending Brexit disaster. She's now the sacrificial lamb.
However, they find themselves in a very peculiar bind atm, with little sign of an obvious way to square the circle. It is, however, all their own fault.
It is for that reason that I now want a soft Brexit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/21/exclusive-dup-broke-talks-tories-36-hours-week-demand-2billion/
Unrelated to the podcast, I've been thinking about Corbyn's antipathy towards the EU. I think it is based on the current austerity agenda driven by Schäuble. For instance, Corbyn has complained bitterly about the treatment of Greece.
But in other matters e.g. protection of workers rights, cooperation in science, security etc. he is supportive. And he has a relaxed view on immigration (except for exploitative use of cheap labour).
When Schäuble departs, hopefully in September, the EU austerity agenda could gradually change, and growth and jobs rise up the agenda.
The point I'm struggling to make is that Corbyn's attitude to the EU may change over the next year or two in a positive direction. And he's the one who is making the UK political weather. Who would have thought that a couple of months ago!
That said; modern conservatism is still largely underpinned by the Tamworth manifesto.
My answer - "he's playing the political game"
Response - "bloody politician, just like the rest of them I guess"
I'm not sure this is going down as well as Corbyn thinks, there are loads of people who voted for him because he was a genuinely different choice than thee usual politicians, he didn't play the game, at least not openly enough for casual followers to notice.
* Break the US "blockade" of Cuba being his latest brainwave.
If all votes in Parliament were free votes without the use of the whips to make MPs vote along party lines then I would agree with you about referendums but as long as the MPs are making decisions based on bribery or threats from their own party then we do not have a representative democracy and referendums are the only way to actual get the voice of the people heard.
The ponces.
Not sure if that's per year - and if so which year it would relate to - but given that NI is about 3% of the UK it would potentially be an astonishingly large amount - equivalent to about £30bn across the whole UK.
Given that the NHS (England) budget is just over £100bn it would be an increase of about 25% - far, far greater than even the likes of Corbyn has in mind.
Lib dem leadership election not exactly impressing the daily mash so far!
Tomorrow is Bobajob Day, every poster on PB must masquerade as me. If you don't, I'm telling The Sun what emerged tonight.