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Marf’s cartoon deals with two of the major stories of the day, the fall out from Plebgate, and PMQs which was dominated with energy prices. Who would have thought when Andrew Mitchell resigned, there would be such a Sting, in the tail from the Fall Out, of his resignation.
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But when Miliband pointed out that Sir John Major won a majority unlike the PM,boy,that would have stung!
@JohnRentoul: Surely Labour should make its arguments, rather than claim a monopoly on compassion? http://t.co/VmcW4oq9Fn
Or not
* well, Superman IV doesn't really count as it really was awful!
PAGING NEIL.
The Tories might panic after a drubbing next May, but I think he's staying until the election.
Cameron didn`t expect it and never fully recovered.
Link 18's too Geeky, even for me.
Although Superman III still's not as mind-numbingly stupid as Independence Day's alien ships, which had just the right port and interface for a 1990s laptop to connect to. It was good of the aliens to be so helpful. In reality the heroes should still be up there nearly 20 years later, trying to find the correct cable to plug into the alien ship, only to realise they left it in the last hotel room.
Unless you take the view that PC technology is reverse-engineered from the alien craft ...
See:
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/independence-day-interoperability/
I must have missed the point when Labour stopped being a political party and became the intellectually-challenged little brother of Which ...
There might be a problem with over-promising too, as he will be in power expected to deliver after the next election, and some things he won't be able to fix (he will inherit a bit of a mess from the Tories).
They have an unfair advantage with fuel taxes over other forms of transport, and I'm not sure why I should be subsidising the budget holidays of the masses.
I get so cross at having to pay a premium for a last minute booking, relative to the price of flights bought in advance.
But then he's never been as completely and devastatingly routed as Sir John, either.
Perhaps Dave should hold on to that thought.
It's like trollbait.
Who wouldn't vote for that?
I've just read what I think is your OP on the previous thread, and I agree with the broad thrust. Ticketing is too complex on the privatised network. But tackling the issue is difficult, as the basic different ticket types do serve a purpose. I'd probably bore people by going into some of them. ;-)
The best we could probably do is revert back to the BR days, which had things like supersaver, advance, off-peak etc. So it'd be an improvement, but far from your ideal. Even in those days, there were the hated 'permitted routes' clauses that require a PhD to understand.
The government already looked into the issue (a report in 2011 from a study set up under Labour): the McNulty report - see section 4.6 of:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/4203/realising-the-potential-of-gb-rail-summary.pdf
I haven't seen a great deal of action on it.
I suggest you read the detailed report if you have chronic insomnia.
This just in: #UKIP's official membership last week rose to 31,550. Must be hoping they'll meet the Tories going in the other direction...
How is it that at certain times in the life of of union, they start committing sepuku with their own members as the main losers? It happened in Steel, Coal, the Docks and now it's starting in Energy supply and maintenance.
I have his medals.
One of the oddities, that in both India and Pakistan, there's almost a sense of embarrassment that the largest volunteer Army in history, was made up of colonials, fighting for the British Empire and an Emperor.
But there is another slightly higher fare referred to as "via Northampton". Hang on a minute! London Midland only go via Northampton! (Virgin take the faster route between Milton Keynes and Rugby that misses out Northampton)
What a pathetic bunch of officers, really. Their whole defence is really, 'we didn't mean to mislead anyone and contribute to getting a senior government figure fired' as if that in anyway absolves them of the fact that they did commit that act? Even if we are to believe their accounts they are either hopelessly, incompetently stupid or willfully reckless. Despicable.
Is subsidy bad? I'm sure you could have a debate.
Entirely different point from - is retaining my flexibility valuable - unequivocally yes.
Regardless of the base price, and the level of subsidy, as long as flexibility is valuable to the consumer and reduces efficiency for the provider, it is reasonable, sensible and efficiency for the service provider to induce people to give up their flexibility in return for a lower price.
Virgin Trains = Depeche Mode
Midland Trains = Justin Bieber
They told MPs that they stood by their "accurate" account of a meeting with Mr Mitchell in October 2012.
What in the holy name of hell?! I like to think I can understand the internal logic of a position I disagree with very well, it's one reason I find it hard to get so riled up against or fervently in favour of most policies, but I am finding it hard to fathom what new information or interpretation I could receive to make me understand how that statement could be spoken with a straight face and honest intent, and yet I presume they have convinced themselves of it somehow. I just cannot figure it out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24629610
Interesting transcipt quote:
Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton of Warwickshire Police : "... but if an officer has written those words in his pocket notebook or in a report and they are false then that is actually a very serious misconduct issue... their integrity is no longer intact."
I guess the same doesn't apply if an officer says something false out loud to journalists rather than write them in a note book then?
Perhaps my favourite bit was Julian Huppert asking about their media strategy, which they claimed not to have.
Except one of them didn't speak in the meeting, but was the spokesman afterwards.
Which they had decided in the car on the way to the meeting.
When their media consultant was taking calls from the press.
Who they didn't know were going to be there.
Awesome.
Yes, the volunteer army was 2.5 million strong. But, BUT, I reckon it would have been 10 million strong if the Brits, I mean the British - sorry! - had made it widely known that according to Hitler's racial theories the Indians were "Asiatic Jugglers" who needed the British rule, AND that Germany and Japan had plans to carve up India between them, almost "ironically" along the modern Indo-Pak frontier - though admittedly the latter was less well known at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)#Hitler.27s_plans_for_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_power_negotiations_on_the_division_of_Asia_during_World_War_II
The Blairites are not quite dead yet.
Almost none of the voting public has any idea what happened at PMQs today. They might start in a little over a year from now
Polling support for 'an energy price freeze' is 6 points higher than support for 'Ed Miliband's price freeze'
Nobody is listening to politicians most of the time, except other politicians.
And us.
I did reply to your trade balance post but it was unceremoniously ripped from PB's womb by Moderator with a stern warning not to embed charts. Moderator was so upset that the post was deleted entirely with a promise to similarly murder all unborn thoughts in future.
Anyway, here is the offending child but this time presented as a URL:
http://s11.postimg.org/y9i8o2y3n/united_kingdom_balance_of_trade.png
The post didn't say much beyond stating that the post war performance of the UK's balance of trade has not really impressed at any stage: flatlining to the the seventies then picking up to form two peaks coinciding with the corresponding twin oil price/extraction volume peaks.
There is a small upturn at the moment overcoming the accelerating decline in oil and gas but it will be along and bumpy journey to a surplus.
You could write a blog about it. For The Telegraph...
Probably the only excuse Eck needs to nationalise.
FREEEEEEDOMMMMMMM!
Also: wow. Plebgate. Yes. These policemen should go to jail, for quite long periods of time. They lied and connived to bring down a government Minister; that's not just a sackable offence, that is borderline treacherous. Astonishing.
Indeed. I tend to make the point that while the whole affair, as it now appears (accepting the possibility new facts might make it appear not so bad, although that seems doubtful), is not the most despicable thing the police have ever done in this country in recent times, sadly, it very much is, whether an outright conspiracy or, more likely, a group of people indivudally deciding to use the situation for their own ends and ending up in an escalating coverup, it very much is among the most sinister of police misconducts, as the heights to which they felt no shame in bringing down a government minister should fill everyone with fear as to what officers in a similar bind might do to an ordinary person.
I will thank the affair for introducing the word 'traduced' into my vocabulary though.
If they are not lying idiots, those police officers, really quite senior figures, should be a lot more convincing though - we expect senior politicians to be good communicators and spinners, and senior police figures should at the least be able to articulate a convincing sounding argument.
The great thing about embarrasing politician photos is how easy they are to find on any senior figure of course. Good times.
Unite started its industrial action earlier this month over what it says is the victimisation of Mr Deans, who has worked at the Ineos plant for more than 20 years.
Ineos accused him of contravening company policies as part of his work as former chair of the Labour Party in Falkirk.
He was suspended from Ineos in the summer in connection with his Labour Party activities, essentially accused of campaigning on work premises."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24640133
LOL
Well I'm not the professional writer of course. My unique sentence constructon and use of parentheticals is legendary in some circles. I'm working on it.
I will thank the affair for introducing the word 'traduced' into my vocabulary though.
If they are not lying idiots, those police officers, really quite senior figures, should be a lot more convincing though - we expect senior politicians to be good communicators and spinners, and senior police figures should at the least be able to articulate a convincing sounding argument.
Is Simon Carr not with the Indy anymore? When I decided I just could not take one more dead seagull on the front page of my paper he was the one regret I had about what I was leaving behind.
I would love it if UKIP topped the poll at the Euro Election next year!
Even with all those people who were caught spying for the Russians? Interesting.
What's the sentence for treason, in theory anyway?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2013/07/cameron-fish-431x288.jpg
Though Ed Miliband Ice cream van interview is nearly its equal:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1119035/thumbs/r-ED-MILIBAND-FUNNY-large570.jpg?5
LOL
Mick , you're full of good sense.
How would you resolve the Grangemouth impasse ?
I will thank the affair for introducing the word 'traduced' into my vocabulary though.
'Traduce' has a great heritage in our language, kle4.
It appears in Othello's "I did the state some service and they know't" speech. A highly topical use:
Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.
It requires him to practice double agency through a work in the community initiative.
Wasted on the Indy. But blogging for Guido?!
*professional sigh*
In my opinion he has been the best sketch writer of the Commons for the last 10 years. Bitingly funny but usually with a point as well. It is remarkable one of the major papers did not pick him up.
The alleged behaviour at Downing Street is different, as police officers were undoubtedly acting in their capacity as Crown agents for at least part of the time.