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Here's my contribution to this festival of all things Soviet;
Ochi Chernye - Red Army Choir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-WeTgt5EM
Got a letter from Boris tonight. Pretty sure I am not the only one but there we are.
What was slightly concerning (apart from yet another request for money) is that it is all about Ed and what he said. Having dominated the news agenda for so much of the summer the tories seem to have lost it entirely since Ed's speech and their conference (so far) is not bringing it back again. This is not healthy, especially for the party actually in office
With Labour pathetically yo-yoing on the project, Cameron will probably want to give a positive message.
Larry the Cat could well make it in as part of a joke, and 'Labour's economic mess' seems a certainty. Energy will be mentioned, but maybe not 'energy companies'. Cameron will want to appear concerned about bills, without trying to side directly with the companies by mentioning them.
Right. Now those are my predictions, they won't happen. ;-)
Evening, Comrades!
The Hunt for Ed October: "A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRsiwBoUQPM
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Cornered rats are dangerous.
Big Society. Hmmm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhIMEMDYxZE
Red Russian Army Choir & Leningrad Cowboys- Delilah
At the odds, I'd take Scotland, UKIP, work hard and get on, and twitter.
Is it just me or does the Tory conference lack a certain fizz? There seems to be less passion and sense of camaraderie than the other conferences - it all seems pretty lacklustre from the coverage I've seen.
Leave well alone would be my advice.
That's because they have no real members there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiQnRLREDo
That said, they have definitely gone for sombre this year. Next year will be more showbiz.
The BBC reports on both BBC1 6pm and 10pm weren't actually that strong on the sympathy angle - they were both pretty straightforward "Row .... Ed's defence .... Mail sticking to its view .... Press regulation".
I suspect within a couple of days it will all be forgotten.
"Boris" looks safe enough as Cammie always tries to quip back at him.
*presumably not Rocksteady Studios, the developers of Arkham Asylum.
Balls speech got pushed down running order and badly squeezed by Kenya. In contrast Osborne got full lead story status.
Even tonight despite Ed's 3 mins, they still then got decent length report on Cameron interview.
Leicester City also looking formidable, just behingd Burnley and QPR on goal difference QPR are doing well at the moment, but I expect 'arry to get a premier league phone call soon.
Ahem! In the British Motherland, the show was called Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles!
Thats some brass neck.
Or are you just being Krangky?
The other time I remember Ed reacting oddly when was he was egged recently. There was no anger when it happened. Instead he smiled and acted as if it was an everyday happy moment. It was just a weird. But then I am biased and do want him to be in charge. Maybe there is a sympathy vote in it, but I doubt it.
Ah, 80s cartoons. Thundercats was also excellent.
Seriously, Steafel??
Almost as ridiculous as Campbell.
LOL
Priceless
What have The Mail really got, though?
"Yer old man was a Marxist, and we don't think he liked the English" is hardly going to have people flocking to Cameron, is it?
Not only is the affair overshadowing their but they risk being associated with the extremities of the Mail approach. Cameron, to his credit got it right this morning.
*whatever the truth about Ralph M's views, or how reasonable the Mail's conclusions on those views were, I think it far easier for the left to drum up sympathy at the attack than have Labour be worried at the line of attack.
'Indeed, the Mail under Dacre briefly had positive views of New Labour until the Ecclestone scandal and clashes with the government's Director of Communications Alastair Campbell cooled the relationship thanks to the practice of spin doctoring. Dacre said in 2004:
I think [the Blair] government, through the Campbell approach, [has] put [the] hostility [of the press towards politicians] on a different footing. I think after a while the media industry came to believe that it was disseminating untruths and misrepresenting the truth as a matter of course.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dacre
Apart from being the only thing keeping Cameron PM and the tories in power of course.
The newspaper's refusal to apologise for what the Labour leader described as a smear on his late father will work in Miliband's favour for a number of reasons, not least because he can appear to be standing up to the big guys, David and Goliath-style, once again as he criticises the Mail. But there's a suspicion that he will also use this incident to call for further-reaching reform of the press
I agree
That's been fairly obvious after last weeks 'land grab' threat.
It doesn’t matter how much Ed Miliband’s lip quivers, his dad was, as The Daily Mail suggested, a far left wing intellectual whose gratitude to the country which took him in extended only to wishing it might be dismantled, root and branch. That Ralph Miliband was also an urbane north London émigré does not alter, either, the fact that he was, like so many academics, seduced by Marxism.
Our universities are virtually the only places in the civilised world where this absurd and discredited creed continues to prosper; much of it today is simply attitudinalising nonsense; when Miliband began his work, under the tutelage of the horrible Harold Laski, it was a potent threat to our way of life.
I agree.
The Mail-Miliband spat is much more to do with the upcoming meeting of the Privy Council Sub-Committee on Press Regulation due to take place on 9 October.
The Committee of eight ministers, 4 Conservatiive and 4 Lib Dem under Maria Miller and Danny Alexander, is due to decide whether 'to seal' (i.e. accept) the draft of the Royal Charter on a Press Regulatory Authority proposed by the Press's industry body, The Press Standards Board of Finance (PressBoF).
If the industry proposed regulatory body is not sealed then there is an option to seal instead the draft version of the Royal Charter drawn up during earlier cross-party negotiations (i.e. the Miliband office-Hacked Off version).
The Coalition government want to put the Press Regulatory body issue to bed before the start of the upcoming press trials.
It seems to me that an effect of the Miliband story might be to raise the public temperature of the press regulation issue and to create a pretext for escalating press industry differences with the political parties. In other words the more the issue flares up in public the more pressure there is on the PC Committee to accept the PressBoF proposal.
The alternative of sealing the cross-party version would become much more difficult politically if the Press and the Labour Party were at loggerheads. It would make it much easier for the Press to justify walking away from Levenson resolution if there is a coincident battle going on.
Given the above, I think the impact on party standings with voters is of secondary importance to the players, at least at present.
URW, late of this blog, whose funeral happened earlier today.
Dacre's the one rampaging around displaying his usual 'subtlety' by making it pretty damn clear that he won't hesitate to go after anyone who displeases him or gets between him and his idea of how the press must operate. It's the Black/Dacre 'plans' all over again and even amongst those who despise the thought of any oversight or independent PCC there will be the same facepalming at Dacre's buffoonish and counterproductive antics.
Laughably crude threats to go after politicians families just ain't going to work anymore.
Laughable stuff from stuff from comical Ali,did he think we've forgotten about the 45 minute warning et al.
It was a dumb story, which the Mail appears to be doubling down on in the assumption it will pay off at some point, but that just seems unlikely to me, and it will also take up more time than Cameron would want from the scripted narrative of the Tory conference, which cannot be good for him.
It's weird that some seem to think it's only lefties opposed to this as well. It's clearly seen as a strategic misstep from many on the right as well, pretending it's a lefty issue is just putting one's head in the sand.
Night all.
Land confiscation - centrally planned price controls - poiltical intervention into press freedoms.
Where next? Buckingham Palace to be seized and used as London's Lubyanka?