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So the Daily Mail is now calling round our constituencies & local parties asking how we represent our constituents – of course not interested when response is supportive & entirely missing the point that we were all elected or re-elected just 5 months ago #AntiBullyingWeek pic.twitter.com/dOtxsHDHJ0
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Kind of like what has happened with Labour. Discipline only matters to many people when it is going the way you want it to apparently.
I am a principled individual
You are defying the will of the people
We are standing up for our beliefs
They are bullies
So the answer is yes.
Even hardcore Leavers like Steve Baker and Dominic Raab disavowed this Telegraph front page.
I may not agree with Anna but she has a right to her opinion, though I would not expect her to see the government fall, not least as she is in a marginal leave voting seat
But, going back to my theme of people having it much worse in the recent past, Conservative and Unionist politicians were getting a much rougher time in the 70's 80's and 90's and getting less sympathy.
When did Smiths do that?! It used to be 4ish at the Theee Goats Head in Ox!
The data seems to suggest that millennials today are in a much worse position than previous generations at the same stage, far from previous generations ‘having it worse.’
https://twitter.com/goodwinmj/status/916309501615267840
Attitudes like this by older generations is why this is happening:
https://twitter.com/jameskanag/status/877862748549398528
My local authority ( Conwy) are about to approve 4 week bin collections and this after 5% rate increase for years
A few more Tories within the govt privately hold such views, I suspect, e.g. Stewart. They are muzzled by collective responsibility.
Giles' cartoons were the Express' saving grace for me.
Not one that I would use, but why is killing with a rope getting you clutching your pearls, while killing with a knife in the back fine and dandy? Why is decapitation unremarkeable for that matter?
299 to 311, Govt Majority 12
Reason closer than yesterday was no Lab MPs voted with Govt.
Wouldn't necessarily imply Lab leavers won't vote with Govt on future votes - this vote was on environmental and employment rights etc.
Govt had:
Con - 302 (inc whip withdrawn)
DUP - 9
Con max = 318 - 2 Speakers - 2 tellers = 314. So on face of it 12 Con MPs didn't back Govt - of which one (Clarke) voted with Lab.
However I suspect there is another twist. David Hanson (Lab) was chairing the Committee and did not vote. He is generally very loyal so presumably didn't vote as Chairman. Also note that David Amess who was Chairing yesterday didn't vote (in this Division). Suggests Chairmen don't vote (whether or not actually in the Chair) - not sure how many there are.
Can we all forget about Sunday's thread?
Idiot!
Total vote = 610
Max = 650 - 7 SF - 4 Speakers - 4 tellers = 635.
So 25 missing.
Per earlier post (9.31pm below): 12 Con missing. Also 1 DUP missing.
So 12 opposition MPs also missing. Some may be deliberate abstentions (ie Lab leavers) but implies opposition is struggling to get full turnout.
NB. Includes Chairmen (ie Hanson, Amess) but they will cancel out.
Just as in other contexts references to death by poisonous gas would be loaded relative to death by other methods.
They have sound judgment based on their professions.
or stabbing in the back? When this is going on?
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/updates-sentencing-baby-faced-killer-773399
I find this quite bizarre. Specalist magazines are on the whole very expensive and these days what information do they provide that can't be found on the internet (often complete with an active community) for free.
(As a bloke on a laptop along way from Westminster I may have missed something.)
Why anyone would pay good money for it beats me.
Mind you, I buy newspapers less and less these days. Never during the week and quite often I miss them out at the weekend as well.
The only paper worth actually paying money for these days is the Guardian (and perhaps the Times at a stretch). And I say that as someone completely at odds with their political slant. But they still at least try to value journalistic standards unlike the Telegraph which has become the broadsheet Mail.
Seems like a sane solution all round compared to minimum pricing - people get a choice, the government still gets tax revenue, as opposed to the minimum price going in the brewer's pocket...
When I've missed a collection and had to wait for the next one, in effect therefore 4-weekly, I cannot say I've noticed a problem other than the obvious that I was running out of space, but that need not be a definitive roadblock, depending on how much recycling or other waste collection there is. It does seem a long time though, it's asking a lot of people to not throw that much away, particularly when many authorities have smaller rubbish bins anyway now.
And TBF I am thinking more of fortnightly than monthly
Trump voters are most supportive with 78% backing a FTA compared to 52% of Clinton voters.
https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/11/lord-ashcroft-what-american-voters-think-of-trump.html
I would say fortnightly, with weekly recycling is the upper limit.
1) He was a Ramshagger Welsh
2) He's been dead for over 300 years, it is never wise to judge historical figures to modern day standards.
295 - 313
Govt majority up to 18!
Just that I dont make distinction between one form of violent murder than another. Nothing to do with being from the left/right.
1. They will impose the same ISDS structure that they have with NAFTA. This means that secret courts of two American and one non-America have the right to rule that British laws are incompatible with the FTA. For example, in Canada, this led to the Quebec government's law requiring GM products to be labelled being thrown out.
2. No US FTA would be acceptable if it did not allow full access of US agricultural products to the UK. This means that you will have the choice between expensive British products (because they are made to UK food standards) against cheap US ones (made to US standards).
3. The US, in all recent FTAs, requires that governments keep their intellectual property laws in lock step with the US. So, if the US changes the law on copyright length, we will be treaty bound to change ours.