Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
Why would Darce resign - he's doing his job - well it seems.
It probably is just a matter of time before Dacre resigns. That doesn't mean it's a matter of days or weeks (or not ones that can't be numbered in hundreds).
Rob Flello quits as Junior Shadow Minister (Justice). LabourList wonders if the reshuffle is starting
Interesting if it is. Could be quite a good time for it piling yet more news into a schedule already squeezing the tory conference into second place at the moment. It won't have escaped little Ed that today is Cammie's big speech either.
Behaving just like his old pal and master, Gordon Brown?
It would be funny watching him get it back in spades during the next Labour conference, the one just before the GE.
If Adolf had popped his clogs at the end of 1938 he'd be in the pantheon of great Germans and still have streets and squares named after him.
Even after burning of the Reichstag, Night of the Long Knives, book burning, Dachau, Nuremberg race laws, Guernica & Krisstallnacht? I doubt even Goebbels PR skills & German amnesia would stretch that far.
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
Why would Darce resign - he's doing his job - well it seems.
He has raised the brand's awareness.
Like Godfrey Bloom did for UKIP. I remember that being hailed as a triumph by some of the more amusing PB tories too. ;^ )
As I said yesterday EdM and Hezza aren't poles apart politically. That will be highlighted by UKIP in their attempts to switch more Tory members to their cause. Incidentally someone mentioned the lack of atmosphere at the Tory conference. I noticed that particularly during Chis Grayling's speech as justice minister. Right wing populist stuff that would have a Thatcher era conference cheering to the rafters was greeted with polite applause. The stuffing has gone out of the Tories
Is Tim going to carry on with his bitter gossipy fishwife impression all through the speech? Is Mick Pork going to try and impress his mentor by doing a Phil Neale to Graham Taylor 'yes boss' line all the way through. Do I not like Tim and Mick!!
If Adolf had popped his clogs at the end of 1938 he'd be in the pantheon of great Germans and still have streets and squares named after him.
Even after burning of the Reichstag, Night of the Long Knives, book burning, Dachau, Nuremberg race laws, Guernica & Krisstallnacht? I doubt even Goebbels PR skills & German amnesia would stretch that far.
They would be seen as unfortunate failings in an otherwise successful career. The victors write history.
In 1938 Stalin was several millions ahead in the murder stakes and people lined up to praise him.
Is Tim going to carry on with his bitter gossipy fishwife impression all through the speech? Is Mick Pork going to try and impress his mentor by doing a Phil Neale to Graham Taylor 'yes boss' line all the way through. Do I not like Tim and Mick!!
If Adolf had popped his clogs at the end of 1938 he'd be in the pantheon of great Germans and still have streets and squares named after him.
Even after burning of the Reichstag, Night of the Long Knives, book burning, Dachau, Nuremberg race laws, Guernica & Krisstallnacht? I doubt even Goebbels PR skills & German amnesia would stretch that far.
Probably, though he'd be a controversial figure. The German economic and diplomatic recoveries from 1933 to 1938 would more than balance out the sort of domestic authoritarian policies that were fairly common in most central / southern European countries at the time. The Night of the Long Knives was popular at the time (the SA was rightly seen as an overbearing bunch of thugs).
jeremy warner @JeremyWarnerUK Well done #Cameron for stressing a self help message - at last a proper ideological divide with Labour begins to emerge.
PM: Last week Labour proposed to put up corporation tax on our biggest and most successful employers. #cpc13
Patrick Cusworth @Patriccus "Bashing business may play well to a Labour audience, but it is crazy for our country" #cpc13 > More for the private sector required
Jonathan Badyal @JonathanBadyal 300,000 new businesses formed since the 2010 general election #cpc13
George Morrall @GeorgeMorrall 300,000 new businesses is a good figure by anybody's standards. Huge entrepreneurial strength is still deeply embedded in UK economy #cpc13
I'm enjoying the twitter war between tim and Plato - for every critical tweet tim posts Plato comes back with a supportive one. Who will win? Hopefully there's more than one way to decide.
I'm enjoying the twitter war between tim and Plato - for every critical tweet tim posts Plato comes back with a supportive one. Who will win? Hopefully there's more than one way to decide.
Probably, though he'd be a controversial figure. The German economic and diplomatic recoveries from 1933 to 1938 would more than balance out the sort of domestic authoritarian policies that were fairly common in most central / southern European countries at the time. The Night of the Long Knives was popular at the time (the SA was rightly seen as an overbearing bunch of thugs).
Not many streets left named after Franco and Musso. Maybe a post '38 mortem AH would have had a period of rose-tinted commemoration, but assuming that Europe had reached the same liberal plateau we have, he'd be far too gamey for modern mores.
I'm enjoying the twitter war between tim and Plato - for every critical tweet tim posts Plato comes back with a supportive one. Who will win? Hopefully there's more than one way to decide.
"Ed Miliband looks thin and tense, his pristine white shirt emphasising very dark and wounded looking eyes.
“This is very hard,” he says haltingly. “My dad died 19 years ago, he meant so much to me. I did ponder over the weekend what was the right thing to do.”
If Adolf had popped his clogs at the end of 1938 he'd be in the pantheon of great Germans and still have streets and squares named after him.
Even after burning of the Reichstag, Night of the Long Knives, book burning, Dachau, Nuremberg race laws, Guernica & Krisstallnacht? I doubt even Goebbels PR skills & German amnesia would stretch that far.
They would be seen as unfortunate failings in an otherwise successful career. The victors write history.
In 1938 Stalin was several millions ahead in the murder stakes and people lined up to praise him.
FWIW, when my Mum was a school she had to write an essay on Hitler. Typical teenager she put it off to the night before it was due. Thought she could just copy it out of Encyclopaedia Britannica. She snuck into her Dad's study and opened up the appropriate volume of the 1933 edition.
Total article: "Hitler, Adolf. Recently elected Chancellor of Germany."
Probably, though he'd be a controversial figure. The German economic and diplomatic recoveries from 1933 to 1938 would more than balance out the sort of domestic authoritarian policies that were fairly common in most central / southern European countries at the time. The Night of the Long Knives was popular at the time (the SA was rightly seen as an overbearing bunch of thugs).
Not many streets left named after Franco and Musso. Maybe a post '38 mortem AH would have had a period of rose-tinted commemoration, but assuming that Europe had reached the same liberal plateau we have, he'd be far too gamey for modern mores.
True, though Mussolini's record is tarnished by the war and alliance with Hitler, while Franco has the stain of the Spanish Civil War on his record. How a Hitler who died in late 1938 would have been remembered by popular history would, I suspect, have depended largely on how his successors managed in office and what they did. I think you're probably right that had there been a general swing to democracy heading into the 21st century, his reputation would have suffered as his domestic abuses were given greater prominance but it would have been a gradual decline.
Back to something more lively. I'd post some of the stuff Heseltine's comments have sparked (of which there is a huge amount) but I fear I cannot. Seems like he hit a bit of a raw nerve.
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
Why is it a clanger? Labour's proposed corporation tax rate is one that the Coalition themselves were happy to legislate for earlier in the Parliament.
The first bit of unquestionable BBC bias I have seen. Those delegates interviewed after Cameron's speech were clearly supplied by Central casting to make Tory party members look ridiculous.
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
How many votes do you think there are in cutting corporation tax for large companies? I'd say approximately 0.
its a shame really as big compnaies tend to be more diversely owned (certainly listed companies are) and belong to an awful lot of people in terms of pension and insurance funds. Small companies usually have a wealthy individual owning them.
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
Why is it a clanger? Labour's proposed corporation tax rate is one that the Coalition themselves were happy to legislate for earlier in the Parliament.
The fact that Labour are prepared to increase it to pay for whatever whim catches their fancy sends out the wrong signals to overseas investors and owners of multinationals considering coming to Britain. The actual amount of the increase in itself is fairly irrelevant .
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
How many votes do you think there are in cutting corporation tax for large companies? I'd say approximately 0.
its a shame really as big compnaies tend to be more diversely owned (certainly listed companies are) and belong to an awful lot of people in terms of pension and insurance funds. Small companies usually have a wealthy individual owning them.
Yes, they're companies owned by the public, as opposed to 'publicly owned' companies. Got that? English is difficult to explain sometimes.
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
How many votes do you think there are in cutting corporation tax for large companies? I'd say approximately 0.
Unlike with the Labour party here and interestingly their defeated cousins in Australia not everything in politics should be about the obsessive garnering of votes in the short term.
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
Why is it a clanger? Labour's proposed corporation tax rate is one that the Coalition themselves were happy to legislate for earlier in the Parliament.
The fact that Labour are prepared to increase it to pay for whatever whim catches their fancy sends out the wrong signals to overseas investors and owners of multinationals considering coming to Britain. The actual amount of the increase in itself is fairly irrelevant .
So Labour obviosuly want to tax ethical companies who by and large pay 20% of tax on their profits like Waterstones more and widen the gap and playing field with companies like Amazon.WELL DONE
"One cannot help but feel Miliband has been sucker punched here. Sure, his defence of his father is heartfelt and his courage in taking on the Daily Mail is to be applauded. But there is the nagging sense that this plays into Paul Dacre's hands. After all, Miliband has kept the story alive and allowed the Mail to repeat its assertions. He is being smeared in the same way as Kinnock was. He is now "Red Ed" with the sinister blood of his father running through his veins."
Cammo is right to highlight Labour's corporation tax clanger. I am expecting that little measure to be quietly dropped before 2015.
How many votes do you think there are in cutting corporation tax for large companies? I'd say approximately 0.
its a shame really as big compnaies tend to be more diversely owned (certainly listed companies are) and belong to an awful lot of people in terms of pension and insurance funds. Small companies usually have a wealthy individual owning them.
Yes, they're companies owned by the public, as opposed to 'publicly owned' companies. Got that? English is difficult to explain sometimes.
So the conference season is over and what have we learnt ?
Ed thinks it's not fair that some people think his dad was a bit weird.
That's it.
I think there is more to it than that. One of the biggest criticisms of political parties is that they are "all the same". Labour definitely broke from the pack last week. Risky, but a definite change.
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The video build up gets a big laugh in the conference hall for footage of Ed Balls nodding at good economic headlines. #
It would be funny watching him get it back in spades during the next Labour conference, the one just before the GE.
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
The biggest vodka selling brand is Smirnoff - made in Fife - and we beat the Russians at the Olympics.
Bugger off Putin just don't arm wrestle with me
He's not even the target.
The Sun must already have Ed in a bulb front page mocked up for May 2015 right ?
PS I don't regard George Galloway in that category.
Do I not like Tim and Mick!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Mount,_2nd_Baronet
In 1938 Stalin was several millions ahead in the murder stakes and people lined up to praise him.
Standing room only for the PM! #cpc13 pic.twitter.com/RoFhUAYBWB
Well done #Cameron for stressing a self help message - at last a proper ideological divide with Labour begins to emerge.
PM: Last week Labour proposed to put up corporation tax on our biggest and most successful employers. #cpc13
Patrick Cusworth @Patriccus
"Bashing business may play well to a Labour audience, but it is crazy for our country" #cpc13 > More for the private sector required
Good thing he moved quickly into the comedy turns section, assuming that was what it was.
300,000 new businesses formed since the 2010 general election #cpc13
George Morrall @GeorgeMorrall
300,000 new businesses is a good figure by anybody's standards. Huge entrepreneurial strength is still deeply embedded in UK economy #cpc13
LOL
Are we going to get the "Ronseal Deal" again?
This is pure Alan Partridge.
Maybe a post '38 mortem AH would have had a period of rose-tinted commemoration, but assuming that Europe had reached the same liberal plateau we have, he'd be far too gamey for modern mores.
Brave mention indeed. Still no Boris though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrUuCDFLOQ
Jesus H. Christ this is cringeworthy.
DC: The left don't like privilege unless its for their own children. We are ambitious for all our children.
Stephen Twigg was opposing free schools on R4 at 0810 and backing them in his own seat the same day....
Small point but the election will turn on such things.
"Ed Miliband looks thin and tense, his pristine white shirt emphasising very dark and wounded looking eyes.
“This is very hard,” he says haltingly. “My dad died 19 years ago, he meant so much to me. I did ponder over the weekend what was the right thing to do.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/exclusive-interview-ed-miliband-stunned-into-defending-war-veteran-father-against-daily-mail-attack-8853222.html
Doesn't sound like any govt money required.
Private education - that will have the lefties spluttering into their flat whites.
Big hand for IDS and his work on helping rather than paying for the problem to hide.
Total article: "Hitler, Adolf. Recently elected Chancellor of Germany."
That was it?? Crikey!
Better than Pork's scratchings.
Land?
Hope?
Land of Hope?
Tory?
Job done.
Labour much ado about nothing as we say down this part of the world.
Is Ric Holden a PB tory? Su-perb!
Just as well Miliband is still bang in the centre......
Ed's speech = full Marx
Looks like CCHQ don`t have a clue how to repsond to Miliband`s ideas!
Ed thinks it's not fair that some people think his dad was a bit weird.
That's it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/the-conversation-uk/daily-mail-attack-miliband_b_4024649.html
Yes SMukesh I'm sure he's just trembling at the thought of Ed saying that's not fair to everything.