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On May 11th 2010, my birthday as it happens, David Cameron was able to enter Downing Street even though he’d failed to win a majority as a result of the coalition deal with Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems.
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And OGH is only 7? They sure grow up fast these days
What the posters lauding the McDonald's strikers are failing to realise when they talk about unionisation and ending ZHC's is that only two branches were affected, and that one apparently remained open for business.
Now, it might be the start of something bigger. Or it might be a handful of people making a lot of noise about something their fellow workers care little about. Or even a few people acting for political rather than socio-economic ends.
It certainly isn't a signal for something drastic to be done, yet.
Seems to be an assumption it’ll be a girl! Otherwise the poor little chap will have a terrible time at school!
Interesting that Nick Clegg hasn't taken up residence. I wonder if he thinks there is still a way back to the Commons. Not if they behave like that there isn't.
Mrs May if you need to create a few hundred new Tory working peers myself and JohnO are willing to serve.
Same reason why I think the SNP would vote for a vote of no confidence if it came up ( though that's more because their voters would abandon them if they are seen to prop up a Tory govt). its not a good look for a party to be scared to go to the voters
https://lawfareblog.com/how-read-news-story-about-investigation-eight-tips-who-saying-what
If Brexit is to happen, then something along these lines (though I hope severely constrained by amendments) is almost inevitable.
https://espresso.economist.com/840c3eda3ea42ecd90aeb3434f3510b7?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/brexitschmexitinvestinginbritain20170906espresso
But what do we do when we run out of things to sell?
The ex-owners of the firms that were sold, what do you think they're going to do with all the money they were paid for the sales?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41160914
Point of order: Clegg abandoned his plans to bugger up the Lords because the Commons wanted to actually scrutinise them.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41150621
For once, I actually believe Jim...
https://order-order.com/2017/09/05/john-hemming-i-was-victim-of-false-sex-abuse-allegations/
But I do feel that some of the reaction to unions these days shows that the pendulum has swung too far the other way. Unions still have an important purpose to serve in protecting their members rights and working conditions and the fact that people go out on strike should not automatically be taken to mean there is far left militancy nor a political aim to the action.
Plus it would show she isn't surrounded by sycophants.
Presumably Clegg could take a peerage if he wanted but either is thinking of a Commons return or (more likely IMO) wants some time away from Westminster. I doubt there'll be many other LD peerages during the rest of the decade though.
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-8079
Hold out for a hereditary dukedom.
When I said I wanted to the country's first directly elected Dictator, this is how I would take absolute power.
Perhaps you could go as a job lot and be the Dukes of Hazzard.
We don't win the WWII without the Alan Turing.
Oh, God, I don't think I can face another General Election campaign this autumn.
I am not automatically making that sort of assumption. However so far the scale of the disruption is ridiculously low, and the amount of media airtime and political comment from Labour high. It'll be interesting to see if this action spreads through more McDonalds branches or stagnates.
My post was mainly about the reaction to the strike from a couple of posters on here.
They are far too vague and broad.
Question is, what happened to the Oxford spy ring? Were they all caught, or were none caught?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_Country_debate
The battle to become Labour’s next leader in Scotland has been marred by claims of dirty tricks after opponents of one of the frontrunners claimed it could be disastrous to pick a privately educated Englishman.
MSP Richard Leonard, an organiser for the GMB union for 20 years, is believed to be preparing to confirm his candidacy as the choice of the left after Kezia Dugdale unexpectedly quit last week.
He would be the first Englishman to lead the Scottish party but some Labour opponents say his broad Yorkshire accent and private schooling would play badly among Scottish voters as the party tries to regain ground lost to the SNP after a spate of poor elections.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/english-row-in-scots-labour-race-tc8n9vxjs
But the staggering ineptitude of MI6 in housing these traitors -- two of whom were more-or-less permanently drunk -- is, well, not entirely unprecedented: didn't MI5 employ a relative of an IRA commander?
But it probably means one has to go to London, so no point my volunteering.
Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for some interesting discussions to read.
I recently took a girl I met on tinder to Nandos. We had a lovely evening, and enjoyed each others company very much. After our meal, we repaired back to my house for a bottle of wine and a scientology doccumentary.
About an hour in to Louis Theroux and chill, my date got up to use the toilet. She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me.
"I went for a poo in your toilet", she told me "and it would not flush. I don't know why I did this, but I panicked", she continued "I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window".
I was understandably concerned, and told her we would go outside, bag up the offending poo in the garden, bin it, and pretend the whole sorry affair had never happened. Unfortunately, owing to a design quirk of my house, the toilet window does not in fact open to the garden, but instead into a narrow gap of about a foot and a half, seperated from the outside world by another (non-opening) double glazed window. It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo. Here are two photos to illustrate:
As can be seen in the picture, the inside window opens at the top, into the gap that is seperated from the garden by a non-opening double-glazed window pane. Seeing only one solution, I messaged our house group-chat, and went upstairs to find a hammer and chisel to smash open the window.
My date had other ideas.
Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out, using the tried and tested "inside out blag as glove" technique. Unfortunately she couldn't reach. She climbed further in and had the same problem. Eventually I agreed to give her a boost up and into the window. She climbed in head first after her own turd, reached deeper into the window, bagged it up, and passed it out, over the top and back into the toilet from whence it came. She called out to me to help her climb out from the window, I grabbed her waist and I pulled. But she was stuck. Stuck fast. Try as we might, we could not remove her from the window. She was stuck fast, upside down in the gap....
https://www.gofundme.com/9wvxt9-replacement-window
Anas Sarwar is sufficiently worried that he is claiming to be a born again Corbynite. The idea that Mr Sarwar believes in anything other than Mr Sarwar is a bit of a stretch but he once seemed to quite like a certain Mr Blair.
It goes against the spirit of cricket, take the title away from them.
I think we were 20-0 off 30 overs when we were offered and accepted bad light.
Unsurprisingly, we got massive abuse from the spectators.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/903902395352080385
"The Salisbury Convention that the Lords should not stand in the way of a government implementing its manifesto commitments doesn’t apply ..........."
But surely the Government IS implementing its manifesto commitments so the convention ought to still stand..
I am shocked, shocked I tell you. Watching a scientology documentary.
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/905103541987139586