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    CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 59,719
    Tykejohnno said:

    Mark pack writes ,Chuka Umunna: Wikipedia is the least of it

    He does appear to have a convicted friend from the Phil Woolas school of campaigning:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Grell
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    Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 49,325
    AveryLP said:

    HYUFD said:

    Reagan would beat Obama new poll finds, though yohttp://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2013/04/10/1980s-nostalgia-poll-finds-reagan-beats-obama-in-a-landslideu may as well compare Dubya to FDR

    I wonder if Thatcher would beat the British Obama.

    Perhaps Chuka could post the polling results.
    Chuka-Umunna-Vision?
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    PBModeratorPBModerator Posts: 661
    Can we drop the Savile discussions.

    Thank you.
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    CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,214
    I am now beginning to see why the Jewish practice of burying a person within 24 hours of death is so marvellous.

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    CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 59,719
    C4 on Thatcher's Big Bang reforms and the bust "you can't pin this one on Thatcher"....
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    Y0kelY0kel Posts: 2,307
    Alanbrooke said:

    CarlottaVance said:

    Channel 4 leading on Syria and G8, US gun crime law, UK organ donation...and finally, was Thatcher's "big bang" responsible for the global economic crisis.

    News is returning to "normal"..

    North Korea and Cyprus didn't make it then ?
    Why should Korea be up there in the news? You have an internal power issue at the top of a dictatorial cult of personality state that has nuclear weapons, you have the US on a military posture level in the region that hasn't been seen a a very very long time, South Koreans are now beginning to get edgy; some are keeping kids from school and doing a bit of food stocking, the Chinese are fretting. Oh and North Korea might do a test ballistic missile launch and is believed to be considering another deniable action.

    Not in anyway a problem in such an important region of the globe.

    I do again though recommend this little gem of a website both for the fact its somehow weirdly funny and the that it turns out to have an unintended relevance to the situation within Pyongyang. Young Kim likes to be seen with the military, a lot. His PR team likes that but some of his generals don't particularly like him.

    http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com/
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    CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,214
    @Tim: It's an Italian practice, too; certainly in high summer.

    If only we had followed our own previous convention instead of all this vaingloriousness. Whatever a person's achievements, we are all equal in death.
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    philiphphiliph Posts: 4,704
    tim said:

    @Cyclefree

    I blame refrigeration.

    I blame Funeral Directors.

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    Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 49,325
    philiph said:

    tim said:

    @Cyclefree

    I blame refrigeration.

    I blame Funeral Directors.

    I blame tim :)
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    valleyboyvalleyboy Posts: 605
    Interesting by election in my neck of the woods today, Burton, Pembs. Looks like a 3 way split between Indie, Tory and Labour. Even a close 3rd would be a result for Labour in this very rural seat. If either Tory or Lab win it will mean for the first time the Indies will not be ruling group as there would be a 30/30 split on council.
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    TykejohnnoTykejohnno Posts: 7,362
    Margaret Thatcher listened to voters – now it’s Nigel Farage who hears their despair

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/9987168/Margaret-Thatcher-listened-to-voters-now-its-Nigel-Farage-who-hears-their-despair.html
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    MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382
    New thread - the Thursday night local by-elections
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    old_labourold_labour Posts: 3,238
    Lincolnshire looks well-represented.
    AveryLP said:

    The full list:

    Sir Philip Sidney (1586)
    Admiral Robert Blake (1657)
    Sir Isaac Newton (1727)
    The Viscount Nelson (1806)
    The Duke of Wellington (1852)
    The Viscount Palmerston (1865)
    Lord Napier of Magdala (1890)
    The Rt Hon William Gladstone (1898)
    The Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1914)
    The Earl Haig (1928)
    The Lord Carson (1935)
    The Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill (1965)
    The Rt Hon Baroness Thatcher (2013)*

    *Royal Ceremonial Funeral. All others full State Funerals.

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    old_labourold_labour Posts: 3,238
    I hope they do not put him in the "cheap seats".
    Plato said:

    Some enquired about the ages of Nancy Reagan and Gorby earlier - since they can't attend - is this chappy the oldest confirmed guest so far?

    RT @MichaelLCrick: Sir Clive Bossom, 95, confirms he'll go to Thatcher funeral. He was MT's PPS when she was junior pensions minister under Macmillan early 60s

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    old_labourold_labour Posts: 3,238
    There is at least one member of this parish who could do that standing on his head.
    In my case, I had to look up scatter graph on the intertubes.
    anotherDave said:

    The Spectator are looking for a researcher:
    "If you can make a scatter graph in Excel then you have all the expertise required. What matters most of all is flair, resourcefulness and capacity for hard work."

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/04/wanted-researcher/

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    old_labourold_labour Posts: 3,238
    Expect a few mementoes of the funeral to be offered for sale on Ebay next week.
    TwistedFireStopper said:

    Roger said:

    Glad to see Jeremy Clarkson has been invited to the funeral. Obviously going to be a classy affair.

    It's got Blair's Mrs as well, now that's really classy.
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