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I would have to tell him (again) that he was talking bollocks.
In case anyone's interested, what I've been doing when I'm not doing party politics:
I'll be at all the English party conferences in this context, happy to have a drink with any available pb'ers. Still struggling to get ANY sort of reply from UKIP about stands at theirs - got all the way to the Chief Executive (not Farage, the business manager), who said um, I dunno, but I'll find someone who does. Several days later, no reply. If their are any UKIP people out there who would like UKIP to get money from stands, please encourage them to get in touch - the other parties would have had their salespeople camping outside my office by now.
@StephenTwigg
My pledge that Labour will defend & restore AS levels as crucial both for high standards and widening participation http://t.co/9DwHSlaEDq
Of course, as a true One Nation policy it does not apply in all parts of the Nation..
"The risk is made greater by losses in successive council elections over the course of a parliament. Each small defeat demoralises another member, his or her family, their friends. There is an aggregate effect that ends in fewer feet pounding the pavements and fewer hands stuffing envelopes when the big push comes."
The LDs have lost a lot of councillors in the past few years. Has this shown up in local (in)activity?
Have been having fun password guessing ;-)
They used to demand that local councillors make over their allowances to the party.
Anyone who thinks we don't already have state funding of political parties look away...
I've moderated your post, and removed the link, the link you included was a link to your inbox.
I suspect that wasn't the link you wanted to post.
We just need you to be linking to Guido to believe that you really have lost the plot completely.
Link edited again.
If that links to my password box too, I resign any claim to understand computers...
Just scanned the 'southern cancer' link. This uppity ex-separatist leader might pretend he speaks for Scotland but he certainly has no claim to understand England's north. It's a vile remark.
Just be pleased that the web email account it links to is hosted from a group with which you are publicly associated.
Could have been worse.
Would you say your political viewpoint is representative of the North of England?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/23700586
Whilst denials in F1 are worth about as much as they are in politics I do think this may be true. Ferrari tend not to give drivers equality, and Raikkonen isn't a number two. Furthermore, he appeared to be unhappy when he was with the team a few years ago.
Someone like Hulkenberg would be a better fit. If/when the market comes up I'll be sure to check his odds.
But no, I speak for no-one but myself, several thousand enormo-haddock and a few hundred octo-lemurs.
He doesnt like Salmond much though! It does look like a lost referendum will lead (as in post 78) to internecine sqabbles within the SNP, with loss of support. It is not yet clear who would pick up those voters, or whether they would just stay at home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/b87.stm
suppository [səˈpɒzɪtərɪ -trɪ] n pl -ries
1. An encapsulated or solid medication for insertion into the vagina, rectum, or urethra, where it melts and releases the active substance
2. A place or container in which things can be stored for safety; an abundant source or supply.
Reference:
http://news.sky.com/story/1127561/pm-hopeful-tony-abbotts-suppository-gaffe
Sound public finances? Really? If that were Milband's big idea, I might vote for him, if I thought it was anything even vaguely resembling a shadow of a credible idea.
I don't expect to have to carry this threat into action.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED-includes-erroneous-use-of-literally.html
In 2010 Broxtowe registered the 12th highest Labour share of the vote in any seat the party didn't win.
Full list:
1. Hendon: 42.11%
2. Brent Central: 41.22%
3. Manchester Withington: 40.51%
4. Warwickshire North: 40.07%
5. Morecambe & Lunesdale: 39.53%
6. Wolverhampton South West: 38.98%
7. Sherwood: 38.81%
8. Waveney: 38.72%
9. Corby: 38.64%
10.Stroud: 38.60%
11.Enfield North: 38.49%
12.Broxtowe: 38.30%
I think it really will be a duel next time, though. The LibDems aren't even selecting till sometime in 2014.
When only the Netherlands, Greece and Portugal are doing worse [eh, Mary??? Although it is true that only Greece started out in a worse position in May 2010], and when Britain is back-tracking to a neo-feudal world of seigneurial privilege and modern serfdom
Did SeanT get to ghost-write that bit?
I'm afraid those statistics are wrong. The 101,920 figure is for England, not the UK. You wouldnt be mindlessly reposting something incorrect from twitter, would you? That would be terrible.
Will we be waiting long for you to congratulate the coalition for more new build starts in England last year than Labour achieved in either of the last 2 years it was in power?
In France housing construction is declining rapidly accelerated by falling prices and unsold stocks of property.
In the UK the housing construction rate is rising rapidly accelerated by stabilised and slowly growing prices.
Take note of this recent article from French Property:
Housing construction in France this year is likely to drop 18% from 2012 to 250,000.
That is just half of the 500,000 the government says are needed annually and the lowest since WW2, says Jean Perrin, President of the Union Nationale de la Propriété Immobilière, the private landlords association.
He said 304,234 new French homes were built in 2012, down nearly 20% from 2011. For 2013, "the figure will be the lowest since the Second World War," he told the AFP news agency in an interview.
The downturn is mainly due to the fiscal situation which discourages owner occupation, he said. "The problem is not that developers are unable to build but that they are not selling. The real challenge is not to find suitable construction sites but to give homebuyers the confidence to purchase."
Hollande builds houses that don't sell and which fall in value. C'est le socialisme.
Osborne builds houses that sell and grow in value. C'est le capitalisme.
Note that if France only build 250,000 houses in 2013 there will not be much difference from the UK in total dwellings constructed. Current rate of UK construction is currently around 50,000 per quarter and growing.
In the 1950s and 1960s local government construction peaked at 150,000 per annum, but since 1997 virtually no council dwellings have been built. In the first two years of the Coalition government more council dwellings have been built than in the entire thirteen years of Labour government. Still the figures are less than 5,000 with a heavy skew to Scotland.
Housing Association builds peaked at just over 40,000 in 1993-4, and were around 30,000 in 2010-11, but expansion has been constrained by funding sources drying up and the lack of a worked business model for the sector. Moving rents nearer to private sector levels may alter the model but this will take time.
I'm willing to go knocking-up in Barbados for any party that wants to pay to send me there for the duration of the campaign.
As the big four consultants tend to be retained to advise on what cuts to make and then again to patch the holes after their advice is implemented, it is a good business to be in.
But it all washes out in time. Employment of temps and consultants falls as the downsized organisation settles. That is why it often takes two to three years before the full potential of downsizing is realised in reduced cost base.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKADQnjQmc&feature=player_embedded
1) The registration process makes you jump through pointless hoops.
2) Cutting people off after 15 years is outrageous. The UK doesn't give votes to foreigners living in the UK for 15 years, so the principle is effectively that mobile people are disenfranchised, and only stationary people are allowed to vote.
As an example of (1), your form has to be witnessed by a British citizen living outside Britain. Why would I be expected to know one of those? If they only trust British people to witness it, why not a British citizen living in Britain?
65% of 2010 Labour voters would chose a majority Labour government as best for Britain; 15% would chose a Lib/Lab coalition.
"It must have been like this in Dallas. A sudden crack, then a shout, than several panicked cries of “look out!” I have witnessed political eggings before, but this appeared to be more than the work of a lone egg assailant. A veritable fusillade of unhatched chicken was raining down on Ed Miliband and his party.
Moments like these test the mettle of a man. And few men are made of sterner stuff than the Daily Telegraph’s very own sketchwriter Michael Deacon. As others froze or fled, Deacon sprang forward and hurled himself between Miliband, his attacker, and the deadly egg salvo. It was like watching Clint Eastwood in The Line of Fire...http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100231172/the-lone-eggman-ed-miliband-meets-the-egg-hurling-lee-harvey-oswald-of-walworth/
“I never usually feel sorry for Eg and I normally put him in the same category as The Guardian (ie utterly worthless and useless arse-paper) but I found a lump in my throat and my heart really went out to the Marxist bastard as much as I wanted to despise him. He is an adenoidally challenged autistic geek at the end of the day and in the words of John Bradford, "there but for the grace of God, go I."”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23707454
I can only hope John Inverdale follows her into retirement...
Time to start getting the act together. The contrast with the tight organisation, coherent messages and realistic pledges of 95-97 in the party is stark.
"I really had not intended to heap indignity upon indignity onto the unfortunate Mr Chris Bryant, but when a Labour employment spokesman stomps on to the ground I thought I had made my own over 30 years ago, with his remarks on the mobility of labour, I felt I had to join in.
As readers will know, Mr Bryant was at one time the Minister of State for Europe, so we have to assume that he was aware of the Blair government's decisions to open the gates to unlimited, uncontrolled, uncounted immigration from the Third World and to set aside the EU moratorium on immigration from the newly admitted central European states including Poland. For him to now to criticise Polish immigration in terms which, had they come from Nigel Farage, might have been condemned by many on the Left as "racist" or "extreme", would have been bad enough, but to do so by way of an attack on Tesco and Next in which he got the facts wrong and had to back down, is absurd even for a member of Mr Milliband's team." http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100231069/chris-bryant-may-be-absurd-but-hes-drawn-attention-to-the-immigration-problem-that-his-party-left-us-with/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10242658/Why-Alastair-Campbells-advice-to-Ed-Miliband-sucks.html
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100231108/labour-needs-to-come-up-with-a-future-it-wont-find-it-by-digging-up-the-corpse-of-new-labour/
I agree with Andy Burnham that there needs to be a clear general direction of policy, even if the fine details are published later. At the moment the party looks witless. Omniscramblesfits a bit too neatly.