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Result of last election (2011): Lib Dem 1,239, 1402, 1113 (average: 1,252 (41%) Lab 786, 734, 781 (average: 767 (25%) Con 787, 807, 559 (average: 718(23%) UKIP 324 from one candidate (11%)
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@Roger
Don't worry, all this Thatcher eulogising, like Northern Rock, will be forgotten by next weekend.
But thanks again for this Harry.
What has PB done to displese you so?
But you knew that. And you might even pretend to be outraged.
You can add Helmut Kohl to that list.
Architect of German Re-unification and the Euro.
He may not have been elected but I would add Martin Luther King to that list.....
Paul Martin of Canada.
Fatcha.
George W Bush.
That's about it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/10/ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-song-number-one-margaret-thatcher_n_3050678.html
No one else did !
Golda Meir, Lee Kuan Yew and Kim Dae Jung and David Cameron should be added onto your list.
No doubt Thatchers good friend Pinochet will be next.
Unspoofable as always.
Ask Sean Fear next time he's on if he knows why - he lives in Luton South.
One could make a case that the structural unemployment and un-competitiveness of much of the UK is because the value of the pound is weighted to the South East, and that the remainder of the UK is penalised by being unable to depreciate against it. It is much the same problem as the PIGS have with the Euro.
"United destroyed by Argentinian sub"
On that of all days!
Most unfortunate but hardly unexpected.
I shall be disappointed if Ukip don't come first or second tonight.
Public Ways to Commenorate Margaret Thatcher
Commemorations to occur/built before the end of 2015.
New Statue in Grantham 5/6
Statue erected in Trafalgar Square 13/8
Port Stanley renamed as Port Margaret 5/1
Rename HMS Britannia as HMS Thatcher 20/1
Heathrow renamed as Margaret Thatcher Airport 33/1
Privatise the NHS 50/1
Face carved into Mount Snowdon 500/1
Argentine Sea to be renamed as the Thatcher Sea 1000/1
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/other-politics/uk-politics/Public-Ways-to-Commenorate-Margaret-Thatcher-5075642.html?force_racing_css=N
Thatcher fatigue is well and truly setting in amongst the general public. Time for everybody to move swiftly on. Tories especially.
And Blair's soul mate was Gadaffi.
You will never be forgiven by Pork if you don't include Napoleon, not the short arsed frog but the President of Animal Farm.
I understand Pork is related to the great leader.
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I nominate Seretse Khama of Botswana?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seretse_Khama
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/63042/shock-withdrawal-of-labour-party-favourite-to-replace-david
Perhaps they could have a Thatcher memorial EU debate and legislation in westminster too too while they are at it? I can't see how Cammie would have any problems with that.
The seven-and-a-half-hour session of Commons tributes – led by David Cameron and Ed Miliband – had earlier been the subject of tense exchanges between Number 10 and Bercow's office, the Guardian has learned. The Speaker was said to be "taken aback" by the initial request that parliament be recalled, since that move had previously been reserved only for matters of national emergency.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/10/margaret-thatcher-parliament-john-bercow?CMP=twt_fd
Munich does not share taxes, govt spending or language with Porto, Thessaloniki, Galway, Valencia etc hence the problem. Single currencies can survive without all the criteria above (Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and UK 1922 -79) but not an absence of all three. Geneva shares taxes and a govt with Zurich if not a language. Galway shared a language with the UK ( hence Ireland effectively paid for currency union via emigration and depopulation from the 20s to the 70s).
I have this very day returned from Germany where they think we are very smart for staying out and lament hugely the accidental unpopularity they are unjustifiably garnering in Southern Europe when they ( rightly) think a) nobody asked them if they wanted the Euro b) they've done nothing wrong other than be thrifty and efficient.
An Iranian businessman claims to have mastered time with a machine that allows users to fast forward up to eight years into the future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9985757/Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-Machine.html
At the 11th hour? Smacks of a bit of a shambles. They should have been certain of everything long before this.
Here they are going on. The hustings are taking place now. The other 3 left are probably judged decent enough.
I think that part of the un-competitiveness of some of the UK regions to the private sector are in part the transferences of wealth via benefits, national payscales for govt jobs and pensions. A Nurse can live well in Leics on a salary that would be a lot tighter in London.
Welcome to PB, I also lurked a long time before posting.
Nonsense! That's the South Atlantic! BTW did you see the top of the article:
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On no account should Franco be on the list. He was a murderous dictator. It's only because - for various reasons - the West turned a blind eye to what he did (largely because of the very much worse crimes of the Germans and the Russians, a sort of genocide-fatigue, Cold War real-politik and because, frankly, in the post-war world Spain did not matter) that more is not known about his crimes. See Paul Preston for instance.
Nor should Pinochet be on the list. He may well have helped us over the Falklands but that does not excuse his crimes. The way the Tories came to his defence as if he was just some kindly old gentleman who'd been unfairly traduced was, frankly, sickening. It should be possible to thank a dictator for his help on one occasion while remaining clear-sighted about the fact that he was a dictator and no democrat.
I would put Vaclav Havel on the list. The conscience of Czechoslovakia and other enslaved Eastern European countries.
I have this very day returned from Germany where they think we are very smart for staying out and lament hugely the accidental unpopularity they are unjustifiably garnering in Southern Europe when they ( rightly) think a) nobody asked them if they wanted the Euro b) they've done nothing wrong other than be thrifty and efficient.
Which is all very well but of course it is quite probable that the value of the Euro internationally is significantly lower for Germany than if Germany still had the Deutshmark and as such chances are their exports would have been far more expensive and they would not be quite economic powerhouse they currently are. In that way just as Southern Europe is disadvantaged by the EUro Germany has benefitted.
Furthermore given it is the German Government that is driving the particularly harsh conditions being imposed on PIGS nations one can hardly say the anger towards Germany is 'accidental'. That is particularly so given that Germany alongside the rest of the EU membership allowed countries to join such as Greece whose economies were not up to scratch in the first place.
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Does this mean we have to put some more coins in the vanillameter?
By the way re the Germans and the Euro: I have visited Germany hundreds of times over the past thirty years before during and after the Euro debate. I have yet to meet a single one personally ( I'm sure they must exist somewhere) that wanted to give up the D Mark. They were right too, for their own and indeed Europe's sake.
http://english.sina.com/world/p/2013/0410/580403.html
In summary -
The Republicans' shift towards Communism happened mainly during the war, and not before (there was a similar shift, though not as great, in respect of the Nationalists)
Extrajudical killings by Republicans were about 40,000 and Nationalists about 150,000, maybe more.
Anticlericalism was well established in Spain, so there were more than a negligible number of killings of the clergy in Nationalist zones, although the vast majority of the 7,000 or so believed killed were killed by Republicans
Killings in Republican zones were generally the result of the breakdown of law and order, allowing in Communist and Anarchist vigilantés. Killings in the Nationalist zone were dominated by orchestrated planned killings in retaken territory.
If there's a redeeming feature of Franco, he didn't co-operate much with the Germans.
I have no idea how to fix it
I have yet to meet a single one personally ( I'm sure they must exist somewhere) that wanted to give up the D Mark.
Yet they have been content to elect government after government that has been pro-Euro and pro-EU. Ironic that......
They're aware of the issue & working on it.
There's an issue with vanilla worldwide
http://status.vanillaforums.com/
Suddenly there is.
Doing a post-war list of top leaders?
Obscurity is forever, as a Corsican once said. The Metelli dominated Roman politics in the period between the Third Punic War and the Jugurthan War (when a Metellus was consul and temporarily Marius' patron/sponsor), but because that isn't as well-documented as the clashes with Carthage or the bloody demise of the Republic they're far less well-known. It was interesting to learn more about them in the lengthily entitled but very enjoyable The Crisis of Rome: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius.
Time to back UKIP?
Several wealthy Conservative donors who once paid £50,000-a-year to dine with David Cameron and Cabinet ministers have defected to UKIP.
The Eurosceptic party, which secured its best by-election result in February when it came second in Eastleigh, wants to secure its first elected MP in the 2015 general election. It has has begun targeting wealthy businessmen, inviting them to private dinners with Nigel Farage, the party leader, at a London flat.
The party, which has reached 17 per cent in recent national polls, says it will spend more than £100,000 on the local elections next month and hopes to field 1,700 candidates.
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/business/latest-news/drivers-support-campaign-to-scrap-tunnel-tolls-1-5505163
http://politicalbetting.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/china-early-discussion.html
Most of the conversation is revolving around Massa's prospects, and the gulfing chasm in the odds between him and Alonso for pole or the win.
http://www.southtyneside.info/applications/2/councillorsandcommittees/councillorbiography.aspx?id=44
"I was always interested in politics in particular the socialist aspect Labour from an early age, I have a long legacy of shipyard workers in my family who where always discussing the issues of the day. Since then I went on to graduate with a BA (Hons) in Politics and Media Studies from Northumbria University. It was after I graduated that I became more involved in local politics, I was subsequently elected in 2004 and was again honoured to be re-elected in 2006. In this time I have also graduated with a Masters in Social work from Durham University and am employed as a Social worker."
http://www.southtyneside.info/applications/2/councillorsandcommittees/councillorhomepage.aspx?id=44
EDIT had some issues posting a short while ago. Seems to be OK now - I hope!
For Adenauer, to be honest, rebuilding a shattered nation after Hitler was a bit more impressive than doing so after Jim Callaghan. For De Gaulle, he was just such a key figure in both creating modern France (which again was more of a mess in 1958 than we were in 1979) and modern Europe - more than Maggie for the UK.
As well as the dictators (who had an, er, mixed record), two of Sean's other examples - Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa - are pretty questionable. Walesa was a great dissident but pretty mediocre politician - he lasted one term as Polish President and, great hero to his nation though he is, just isn't Big League. As to John Paul II - affable fellow though he no doubt was, I'm not really sure what the case is for him being a great politician. Indeed, he presided over a period where the Catholic Church basically failed to respond in a meaningful way to AIDS, internal abuses, and rapid social change.