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The irony of the Good Friday Agreement was that it ultimately ruined the moderate parties.
The argument is that lifetime of the universe is vast - 100 trillion years or some such. It started 14 billion years ago so therefore only 14x10^9 / 10^14 = 14 / 100000 = 0.014% of the universe's estimated life (assuming no issues arise with false vacuum instability).
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Left wins clean sweep in Labour NEC membership elections. Now let’s have mandatory selections of all MP candidates in every parliament
Calls for the purge begin....
Ditto the jury.
Unless Mr Mason's ambitions are yet more extensive ?
This isn't true - it was only in June 2017 that the SDLP lost its final 3 Westminster seats - before that, they had been a continuous presence in Parliament, where they represented the Catholic voice in NI, since the 1970s. The present parliament is the first since the long-gone days when the Unionist Party returned all of NI's MPs, that NI's representation in Parliament has come from one party only (although there is 1 independent MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon in North Down).
Yasmine Dar (Left) 68,388 votes – elected
Jon Lansman (Left) 65,163 – elected
Rachel Garnham (Left) 62,982 – elected
Eddie Izzard (Labour First and co) 39,508
Johanna Baxter (Labour First and co) 27,234
Gurinder Singh Josan (Labour First and co) 25,224
Nick Donovan 11,944
Nicola Morrison 7,551
Sarah Taylor 7,011
When selecting for Medical School or postgraduate level intelligence is a given, but persistence and ability to learn from experience are what I look for.
The world is full of lazy intelligent people who have squandered their talents. Give me a grafter any day, someone who is willing to do the hard work and enjoy it.
Eesh, my record is 7.30am
Milton Keynes North: Charlynne Pullen (same candidate as 2017)
Corby: Beth Miller (same candidate as 2017)
Northampton South: Gareth Eales (local Cllr)
Crawley: Peter Lamb (local council leader)
I doubt the CPS will care.
― Bill Gates
Corbyn's supporters might be in a state of hubris now, but what happens if Labour is defeated for a fourth general election in a row? What happens even if there were a Corbyn government which would be a total disaster -as it would be -and it was swept away in a Tory landslide at the following election. Labour would then be in a much much worse position than it was in the early 80s -it would be infested by the hard left, with no means of removing it.
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
(Hides behind desk)
FPT: Mr. Eagles, all the dogs I've had have been either 'proper' border collies or a variant. The incumbent is a pure border collie and very daft in some ways. The smartest by a mile was the first hound, part-border collie, part-something else (poodle or labrador seem likeliest).
http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-867-20-inspirational-quotes-that-everyone-gets-wrong/
They are in London, they do go to things. Just not the House of Commons.
For those really interested in such things Stephen Bungay has written really quite an interesting book on the Imperial German General Staff management approach:
http://www.stephenbungay.com/Books.ink
His book on the Battle of Britain from a management Consultant approachis interesting too:
It would probably be safer if we stuck to arguing about pizza
They do not mind when power is concentrated in the correct hands and they are in no doubt as to whose hands those are
Government insiders insisted they had been “tracking developments at Carillion for weeks” and that contingency planning had been under way for some time under Damian Green, Mr Lidington’s predecessor.
https://www.ft.com/content/944f4f46-f8b3-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167
1. MPs
2. The NEC
3. Conference
4. The membership
The Corbynite faction has the NEC and the membership in the bag. Conference is broadly aligned and for the time being, MPs are quiescent. However, Corbyn is still not yet in a position to impose a new settlement on Labour in the way that Blair was.
This country was also once effectively run by the Committee of Safety.
Dartford, Gravesham, Chatham used to be bellwether seats, but are now probably only winnable for Labour in very good years.
You've expressed your view of Corbyn and left-wing policies many times here. If you're right they will prove to fail, OK: having a Corbyn government that doesn't work well (subject as it would be to support from centrist MPs and probably other parties) is the only plausible way to change the balance of opinion that worries you. If Corbyn narrowly fails to win or, worse, wins but is then immediately undermined by defections, then we'll just get into "one more heave territory" and it will all carry on until he or his successor gets a chance.
Essentially democracy needs a variety of political opinions to be tried, so that we can see how they work out. It's not as though the current Government was setting records for excellence. Operating on a permanent basis that we're allowed to try anything except socialism is not a reasonable democratic strategy. Brexit, sure! A decade of austerity? OK! But not policies aiming to help poorer people?
George Orwell was at home in Burma.
Racism charges swarm Trump as 'shithole' debate rattles immigration talks
Sadly there is no Alternative.
Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone
If government was outsourcing work to someone (who clearly wasn't very good at it) to do the outsourcing for them, why outsource it in the first place ?
Civil servants could have at least done an equally crap job, but for less pay, and financed the work at a much lower cost of borrowing.
I suppose the worst they could have done would be to bankrupt the entire nation, but that seems unlikely...
‘Because you’re in Chatham’ came a loud cry.
Chatham, for younger readers, was an important Naval base.
Apologies for the mistake, but if what you say is right the point is emphasised - they refused to even stand for a long time, it'd be another huge huge step to actually take up seats, when some major events have still happened since the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFUKV5_EwdA
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/952886548588060672
Equally likely for the Tories to start unravelling when they realise that they are going to lose to an unlikely crossbreed of Wolfie Smith and Tom Good.
Anyway, they had an abstentionist position during the early part of the Troubles, not only from sitting in parliament but from standing for it too. I agree that for them to sit would be a difficult step (and one that would perhaps undermine a little the role of Stormont, giving them another incentive not to).