For all the criticism of Corbyn's response to the creation of the TIG, what would be the response from May and the Conservative Party if five of their MPs left to join the same group?
Would not May claim her door was always open and she was always "willing to listen to colleagues" ?
Well, there's what would May's response be, and what should May's response be, in such circumstances.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
If only TSE was right, the UK would not be facing a calamitous mess!
To coin a phrase, don't blame me, I voted Labour in 2015.
I hate to admit it, but Ed Miiband as PM and Ed Balls as COTE would suit me fine, right now.
*sigh*
I'd prefer Ed Balls as PM and Miliband as Chancellor. EdM would come out of a meeting with Putin with his his underpants round his ears.
And had Labour won in 2015, there's a strong chance Boris would be LotO (and performing well in a natural oppositionist position), UKIP would be on 15%+ and the Tories still committed to an In/Out referendum, as we headed to a GE next year.
Would Boris be in favour of In, or Out, in this alternate scenario? We'd be in less trouble if the PM who held the In/Out referendum was in favour of Out.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
If only TSE was right, the UK would not be facing a calamitous mess!
To coin a phrase, don't blame me, I voted Labour in 2015.
I hate to admit it, but Ed Miiband as PM and Ed Balls as COTE would suit me fine, right now.
*sigh*
I'd prefer Ed Balls as PM and Miliband as Chancellor. EdM would come out of a meeting with Putin with his his underpants round his ears.
And had Labour won in 2015, there's a strong chance Boris would be LotO (and performing well in a natural oppositionist position), UKIP would be on 15%+ and the Tories still committed to an In/Out referendum, as we headed to a GE next year.
Would Boris be in favour of In, or Out, in this alternate scenario? We'd be in less trouble if the PM who held the In/Out referendum was in favour of Out.
He probably wouldn't have made up his mind - or perhaps wanted his own cakeism of "we'll renegotiate a wonderful deal or we'll leave for a different but still golden future".
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
Just claim somebody hacked your account...that's what everybody else always says.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
Protagonist struggles with being blackmailed by some sort of amorphous online gang, that appears to be able to hack into the protagonists phone/CCTV/internet use to track their every move (and baleful utterance), but in closing scenes Protagonist discovers that their tormentor is actually their tech-savvy young wife who has been posing as an amorphous online gang in order to send them completely mad (and collect the life insurance).
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
I'm sure we would compromise on an open bar at a PB drinks do.
I've always liked Chris Evans for the amount he throw behind the bar for the regulars turfed out when he took over the pub next door the day he sold Virgin Radio to STV..
One wonders why the AG wasn’t an intrinsic part of the negotiations all along .
It’s clear that the key issue is him changing the legal advice . If the ERG then still refuse to vote for the deal they will come under huge pressure .
Hopefully the PM will be able to tell the Malthouse Compromisers that the EU are moving to a point where the AG can issue a revised advice - and that Hotel California Brexit is dead.
Or it really is going to be a shit-fest......
Let’s hope it’s the former . The problem for the ERG is that they bigged up the original legal advice and if the AG now says the backstop legally can’t be permanent then if they still dig their heels in the anger from the rest of the party will be huge . At that point May should do something she’s not done so far and threaten to push for a softer Brexit and throw them under a bus .
I think what’s now happening is the realization that May surviving the no confidence from her MPs was pivotal . They can’t threaten to remove her now and no deal isn’t going to happen regardless of the government and media commentators continuing to peddle this fantasy .
If there's no Hotel California Brexit there is no need to reject the deal.
But if there's a change to stop Hotel California Brexit then the original rejection was the right move.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
I am not sure what you have said that is really unacceptable - surely nothing in theToby Young tissue class, and lots of people were happy to defend that as mere lolz and bants. Anyway it's the curse of vanilla that it's bloody difficult to track down who said what in the past.
You have the option to change your name in profile settings. If that operates retrospectively, perhaps become John Smith?
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
Just claim somebody hacked your account...that's what everybody else always says.
Hacked by a widly vengeful, weirdly eurosceptic ex girlfriend whose name I will protect out of gallantry? Yes. YES. That was it!
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
I would expect that would simply 'promote' the older 3,200 tweets
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
Sri Lanka is as beautiful, charming and exuberant as everyone says. Very nice people, gorgeous landscapes. The only disappointment was the food. It was pleasant at best, and often deeply bland and mediocre. That was a big surprise. I expected it to be like India, or maybe Mauritius. But no.
It did occur to be that I've just became jaded and over-indulged, but last month I did a trip to Vietnam and the food totally blew me away. It is one of the great cuisines of the world, endlessly varied, fresh and healthy, and they all know how to cook it really well, yum yum yum.
Sri Lanka is lovelier to look at, though.
Really surprised about the food...
Sri Lankan food is truly delicious* (and yes there are similarities to Mauritian food) - definitely beats north Indian cuisine.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
Sri Lanka is as beautiful, charming and exuberant as everyone says. Very nice people, gorgeous landscapes. The only disappointment was the food. It was pleasant at best, and often deeply bland and mediocre. That was a big surprise. I expected it to be like India, or maybe Mauritius. But no.
It did occur to be that I've just became jaded and over-indulged, but last month I did a trip to Vietnam and the food totally blew me away. It is one of the great cuisines of the world, endlessly varied, fresh and healthy, and they all know how to cook it really well, yum yum yum.
Sri Lanka is lovelier to look at, though.
Wow, how did you manage to eat shit food in Sri Lanka? Sri Lankan food is incredible, and I don't think I've ever eaten anything bland there. I usually end up eating about three helpings and ending up in a food-induced coma. What kind of places did you go to? Usually the less money you spend, the better the food is. Even the "short eats" (baked goods that George Osborne would want to tax) are delicious. Kothu Roti (fried pieces of bread with curry) is amazing hangover food, in case this is relevant to you.
One wonders why the AG wasn’t an intrinsic part of the negotiations all along .
It’s clear that the key issue is him changing the legal advice . If the ERG then still refuse to vote for the deal they will come under huge pressure .
Hopefully the PM will be able to tell the Malthouse Compromisers that the EU are moving to a point where the AG can issue a revised advice - and that Hotel California Brexit is dead.
Or it really is going to be a shit-fest......
Let’s hope it’s the former . The problem for the ERG is that they bigged up the original legal advice and if the AG now says the backstop legally can’t be permanent then if they still dig their heels in the anger from the rest of the party will be huge . At that point May should do something she’s not done so far and threaten to push for a softer Brexit and throw them under a bus .
I think what’s now happening is the realization that May surviving the no confidence from her MPs was pivotal . They can’t threaten to remove her now and no deal isn’t going to happen regardless of the government and media commentators continuing to peddle this fantasy .
If there's no Hotel California Brexit there is no need to reject the deal.
But if there's a change to stop Hotel California Brexit then the original rejection was the right move.
The bloke on politics live today said that moves might be afoot with Cox shuffling a lot of technical papers. This at the same time as the EU reiterated they wouldn't reopen the WA.
So answers on a postcard (remember them?) as to what will be presented.
My $0.02? Some mutual agreement provision for sufficient progress in trade talks so as to render the backstop unnecessary. But then again, that would necessarily be full alignment for NI so we shall see.
In addition to The Seven, Labour is also down by Onasanya (in clink) and Paul Flynn (died earlier this week).
In fact, if TIG did resign and fight by-elections, it'd give the government an effective overall majority of two until new MPs were returned.
I thought that Onasanya was appealing? does she go to prison in the interim?
Yes, it's instant prison regardless of appeal.
So what happens if she wins her appeal after serving time in choky?
She avoids having a recall petition run in her constituency that could cost her her job as an MP, and avoids action by the Law Society to have her struck off as a solicitor.
Both of these actions are dependent on her conviction being upheld on appeal, and probably mean more to her than six weeks in the big house.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
One wonders why the AG wasn’t an intrinsic part of the negotiations all along .
It’s clear that the key issue is him changing the legal advice . If the ERG then still refuse to vote for the deal they will come under huge pressure .
Hopefully the PM will be able to tell the Malthouse Compromisers that the EU are moving to a point where the AG can issue a revised advice - and that Hotel California Brexit is dead.
Or it really is going to be a shit-fest......
Let’s hope it’s the former . The problem for the ERG is that they bigged up the original legal advice and if the AG now says the backstop legally can’t be permanent then if they still dig their heels in the anger from the rest of the party will be huge . At that point May should do something she’s not done so far and threaten to push for a softer Brexit and throw them under a bus .
I think what’s now happening is the realization that May surviving the no confidence from her MPs was pivotal . They can’t threaten to remove her now and no deal isn’t going to happen regardless of the government and media commentators continuing to peddle this fantasy .
If there's no Hotel California Brexit there is no need to reject the deal.
But if there's a change to stop Hotel California Brexit then the original rejection was the right move.
The ERG will say "Yay! We defended the Referendum outcome!", be a bit insufferable for a bit - then move on to looking at the terms of the trade deal.Their purpose will become less immediate.
That's what I presumed. But - so far - that's not the case. I have deleted about 3150 tweets. Leaving about fifty from the last few days. If I scroll down it stops. I can't find any more. Maybe it will update tomorrow, or next week, and I will have to delete again, we shall see.
You can still access my older photo tweets, but those are endless shots of me drinking champagne in sunny places. Annoyingly gloaty, but far from career-ending.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
Protagonist struggles with being blackmailed by some sort of amorphous online gang, that appears to be able to hack into the protagonists phone/CCTV/internet use to track their every move (and baleful utterance), but in closing scenes Protagonist discovers that their tormentor is actually their tech-savvy young wife who has been posing as an amorphous online gang in order to send them completely mad (and collect the life insurance).
Comments on this website to Tim resulted in ending up on the front page of my local newspaper..
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
A very advanced age for someone to finally grow up.
That's a little unfair. I have always been very candid about being a juvenile, bipolar drunk, prone to absurd moodswings, and gratuitous abuse. So you can do one, you pickled rat's pizzle ETC ETC ETC
To be honest Sean I don't think you've not got anything to be worried about.
In the dozen or so years we've been on PB and you've only really gone OTT with me once but you had the grace to apologise the next morning.
I remember the time the Guardian did a piece on the time you admitted the coalition cuts gave you the horn, if you can survive that, you can survive anything.
BTW does anyone know if it is possible to delete all one's comments and history on Vanilla?
Of all the places I have Stupid Things When Drunk, this site is possibly the worst, and the last one to be bleached.
I'd like me erased. Can it be done? Robert? Or can I delete myself and start again?
Are you thinking of standing for parliament?
God no, all the stuff ineradicably ON record rules that out completely. I am forced to content myself with being an International thriller writer and the Times luxury travel correspondent. There are worse fates.
But it is possible I might be a bit more famous in the next year or two (film and TV stuff etc), and if that happens, I don't want anything out there on t'Net, that's stupidly offensive. And sometimes I am stupidly offensive, especially here, after about 8pm.
I know @rcs1000 is a busy chap, but maybe he could write us an app which displays a single @SeanT post at a time [out-of-context, naturally, but that's exactly what you need].
We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
*groan*
I'm screwed, aren't I? You could all start blackmailing me tomorrow. In fact that would make a good plotline for a thriller, except if I wrote it and it was a hit you'd blackmail me again and ask for all the royalties.
Protagonist struggles with being blackmailed by some sort of amorphous online gang, that appears to be able to hack into the protagonists phone/CCTV/internet use to track their every move (and baleful utterance), but in closing scenes Protagonist discovers that their tormentor is actually their tech-savvy young wife who has been posing as an amorphous online gang in order to send them completely mad (and collect the life insurance).
That's what I presumed. But - so far - that's not the case. I have deleted about 3150 tweets. Leaving about fifty from the last few days. If I scroll down it stops. I can't find any more. Maybe it will update tomorrow, or next week, and I will have to delete again, we shall see.
You can still access my older photo tweets, but those are endless shots of me drinking champagne in sunny places. Annoyingly gloaty, but far from career-ending.
That's what I've been using, along with another app. Both of them are now insisting I have no more tweets to delete (even though I theoretically have tweeted 33,000 times. Because I have erased the crucial 3,200.
Sorry this is quite boring. I shall shut up now, and have a coffee.
That's what I've been using, along with another app. Both of them are now insisting I have no more tweets to delete (even though I theoretically have tweeted 33,000 times. Because I have erased the crucial 3,200.
You can't erase past the 3200, but they can still be searched for.
If you're really bothered twitter has a deactivation option, which complete nukes everything, and you can keep the account name.
One wonders why the AG wasn’t an intrinsic part of the negotiations all along .
It’s clear that the key issue is him changing the legal advice . If the ERG then still refuse to vote for the deal they will come under huge pressure .
Hopefully the PM will be able to tell the Malthouse Compromisers that the EU are moving to a point where the AG can issue a revised advice - and that Hotel California Brexit is dead.
Or it really is going to be a shit-fest......
Let’s hope it’s the former . The problem for the ERG is that they bigged up the original legal advice and if the AG now says the backstop legally can’t be permanent then if they still dig their heels in the anger from the rest of the party will be huge . At that point May should do something she’s not done so far and threaten to push for a softer Brexit and throw them under a bus .
I think what’s now happening is the realization that May surviving the no confidence from her MPs was pivotal . They can’t threaten to remove her now and no deal isn’t going to happen regardless of the government and media commentators continuing to peddle this fantasy .
If there's no Hotel California Brexit there is no need to reject the deal.
But if there's a change to stop Hotel California Brexit then the original rejection was the right move.
The bloke on politics live today said that moves might be afoot with Cox shuffling a lot of technical papers. This at the same time as the EU reiterated they wouldn't reopen the WA.
So answers on a postcard (remember them?) as to what will be presented.
My $0.02? Some mutual agreement provision for sufficient progress in trade talks so as to render the backstop unnecessary. But then again, that would necessarily be full alignment for NI so we shall see.
There's been a lot of talk about keyhole surgery on the WA. I think that's what the compromise is going to be. I expect Tusk and Macron have taken Varadkar into a dark room somewhere and explained to him that they can't risk an EU recession and more austerity on the back of his basic stupidity on the backstop.
That's what I presumed. But - so far - that's not the case. I have deleted about 3150 tweets. Leaving about fifty from the last few days. If I scroll down it stops. I can't find any more. Maybe it will update tomorrow, or next week, and I will have to delete again, we shall see.
You can still access my older photo tweets, but those are endless shots of me drinking champagne in sunny places. Annoyingly gloaty, but far from career-ending.
That's what I've been using, along with another app. Both of them are now insisting I have no more tweets to delete (even though I theoretically have tweeted 33,000 times. Because I have erased the crucial 3,200.
Sorry this is quite boring. I shall shut up now, and have a coffee.
That's what I presumed. But - so far - that's not the case. I have deleted about 3150 tweets. Leaving about fifty from the last few days. If I scroll down it stops. I can't find any more. Maybe it will update tomorrow, or next week, and I will have to delete again, we shall see.
You can still access my older photo tweets, but those are endless shots of me drinking champagne in sunny places. Annoyingly gloaty, but far from career-ending.
That's what I've been using, along with another app. Both of them are now insisting I have no more tweets to delete (even though I theoretically have tweeted 33,000 times. Because I have erased the crucial 3,200.
Sorry this is quite boring. I shall shut up now, and have a coffee.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
That's what I presumed. But - so far - that's not the case. I have deleted about 3150 tweets. Leaving about fifty from the last few days. If I scroll down it stops. I can't find any more. Maybe it will update tomorrow, or next week, and I will have to delete again, we shall see.
You can still access my older photo tweets, but those are endless shots of me drinking champagne in sunny places. Annoyingly gloaty, but far from career-ending.
That's what I've been using, along with another app. Both of them are now insisting I have no more tweets to delete (even though I theoretically have tweeted 33,000 times. Because I have erased the crucial 3,200.
Sorry this is quite boring. I shall shut up now, and have a coffee.
SeanT Posts: 1 4:57PM
You've done it!
So SeanT's first and indeed only post is the one admitting to cleansing his record. Chapeau, moderators.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
Sri Lanka is as beautiful, charming and exuberant as everyone says. Very nice people, gorgeous landscapes. The only disappointment was the food. It was pleasant at best, and often deeply bland and mediocre. That was a big surprise. I expected it to be like India, or maybe Mauritius. But no.
It did occur to be that I've just became jaded and over-indulged, but last month I did a trip to Vietnam and the food totally blew me away. It is one of the great cuisines of the world, endlessly varied, fresh and healthy, and they all know how to cook it really well, yum yum yum.
Sri Lanka is lovelier to look at, though.
Really surprised about the food...
Sri Lankan food is truly delicious* (and yes there are similarities to Mauritian food) - definitely beats north Indian cuisine.
* Trying not to be biased!
I had a Vietnamese girlfriend many years ago and she introduced me to her native cuisine. She said it was a combination of the two greatest cuisines in the world - Chinese and French.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
Sri Lanka is as beautiful, charming and exuberant as everyone says. Very nice people, gorgeous landscapes. The only disappointment was the food. It was pleasant at best, and often deeply bland and mediocre. That was a big surprise. I expected it to be like India, or maybe Mauritius. But no.
It did occur to be that I've just became jaded and over-indulged, but last month I did a trip to Vietnam and the food totally blew me away. It is one of the great cuisines of the world, endlessly varied, fresh and healthy, and they all know how to cook it really well, yum yum yum.
Sri Lanka is lovelier to look at, though.
Really surprised about the food...
Sri Lankan food is truly delicious* (and yes there are similarities to Mauritian food) - definitely beats north Indian cuisine.
* Trying not to be biased!
I had a Vietnamese girlfriend many years ago and she introduced me to her native cuisine. She said it was a combination of the two greatest cuisines in the world - Chinese and French.
I salute whoever it was who first thought of stir fry in a hot baguette.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
Incidentally, I have been doing a mass purge of my tweets, messages, Whatsapps, Facebook posts. I recommend it heartily, like a coffee enema. Also stops you being Toby Younged.
As I was mass deleting, I found this incredibly poignant tweet from our own TSE, back in 2013. It feels like a different geological epoch, now.
Sri Lanka is as beautiful, charming and exuberant as everyone says. Very nice people, gorgeous landscapes. The only disappointment was the food. It was pleasant at best, and often deeply bland and mediocre. That was a big surprise. I expected it to be like India, or maybe Mauritius. But no.
It did occur to be that I've just became jaded and over-indulged, but last month I did a trip to Vietnam and the food totally blew me away. It is one of the great cuisines of the world, endlessly varied, fresh and healthy, and they all know how to cook it really well, yum yum yum.
Sri Lanka is lovelier to look at, though.
Really surprised about the food...
Sri Lankan food is truly delicious* (and yes there are similarities to Mauritian food) - definitely beats north Indian cuisine.
* Trying not to be biased!
I had a Vietnamese girlfriend many years ago and she introduced me to her native cuisine. She said it was a combination of the two greatest cuisines in the world - Chinese and French.
I salute whoever it was who first thought of stir fry in a hot baguette.
Aren't they amazing? How do the Vietnamese stay so slim??!
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
This is the point in the novel at which you discover Your Stalker. Who has screen-saved everything you have ever produced.....
Archive.org has a copy of Vanilla forums. It’s quite difficult to delete everything you’ve ever done online, if someone has time and motive to look for it.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
This is the point in the novel at which you discover Your Stalker. Who has screen-saved everything you have ever produced.....
Archive.org has a copy of Vanilla forums. It’s quite difficult to delete everything you’ve ever done online, if someone has time and motive to look for it.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
This is the point in the novel at which you discover Your Stalker. Who has screen-saved everything you have ever produced.....
Archive.org has a copy of Vanilla forums. It’s quite difficult to delete everything you’ve ever done online, if someone has time and motive to look for it.
I've just checked, Archive.org saves the website headers - but does not, it seems, save the comments. At least I couldn't find any.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
I hadn't thought the 7 MPs should resign and create by-elections, since I was assuming that they would still form part of the opposition to the May government. But if they won't vote against her in a VoNC, that puts a different complexion on the matter, and makes their positions largely untenable.
In living memory of the Holocaust, a Jewish MP has been driven out of the Labour party by anti-Semites whose grip on the institution is total and irreversible. That last sentence stirs a sulphurous nausea and, 1,255 days after the Corbyn disaster began, still sounds too horrific to be true — and yet it is. The decent who remain imagine this stain will be scrubbed away one day, under a new leader, but it will not because it cannot.
Incidentally while spring cleaning on Twitter, I discovered that they have a 3200 tweets rule. That's as far back in someone's Twitter Timeline as you are allowed to search. So If you delete your most recent 3,200 tweets, you essentially disappear.
Twitter is not *quite* the timebomb I thought. But it is still dangerous.
Unfortunately seems limit can be bypassed with a datesearch, eg ..... from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2009-02-12
Yes I saw that one, and left it. Because it's my very first tweet! If you can find any others (which aren't photo tweets) I'd be interested. But i think I am now erased. e.g.
This is the point in the novel at which you discover Your Stalker. Who has screen-saved everything you have ever produced.....
Archive.org has a copy of Vanilla forums. It’s quite difficult to delete everything you’ve ever done online, if someone has time and motive to look for it.
I've just checked, Archive.org saves the website headers - but does not, it seems, save the comments. At least I couldn't find any.
That sounds like a challenge, for when back in front of a proper computer..
When I watched Luciana Berger deliver her speech resigning from the Labour Party I cried because of its integrity and bravery and grace. And I cried because in my entire adult life what happened yesterday is the one of the lowest, most dispiriting political moments for British Jews. I cried because I despair at what has happened. I cried because I don’t think it is over.
I hadn't thought the 7 MPs should resign and create by-elections, since I was assuming that they would still form part of the opposition to the May government. But if they won't vote against her in a VoNC, that puts a different complexion on the matter, and makes their positions largely untenable.
They said yesterday they could vote on an issue by issue basis with the government
They are not going to support a vonc as they need time and publicity to grow their support. The more that join from any party diminishes a GE further
This is a whole new ball game and will be very interesting to see how it develops
No amount of shouting about how tenable their position is going to change the reality
Fuck Islam. Polls say almost 50% of Europeans think Islam is incompatible with European values. I agree with them. I'm one of the 48%. Unless it swiftly reforms, Islam must depart these shores. I want it gone. It must be slowly squeezed out with bans on burqas, imams, mosques, halal, the works, as is now happening across Europe from Austria to Denmark to Switzerland.
When I watched Luciana Berger deliver her speech resigning from the Labour Party I cried because of its integrity and bravery and grace. And I cried because in my entire adult life what happened yesterday is the one of the lowest, most dispiriting political moments for British Jews. I cried because I despair at what has happened. I cried because I don’t think it is over.
Fuck Islam. Polls say almost 50% of Europeans think Islam is incompatible with European values. I agree with them. I'm one of the 48%. Unless it swiftly reforms, Islam must depart these shores. I want it gone. It must be slowly squeezed out with bans on burqas, imams, mosques, halal, the works, as is now happening across Europe from Austria to Denmark to Switzerland.
Aren't you violating the EU’s right to be forgotten law. Off to re-education with you!
In fact you cannot delete any aspect of your prior existence. All you have done since birth, and indeed before, is recorded for posterity in the form of light emissions, and every word you have ever uttered lives on as radiation. It is all there in the beams and the waves. When we gaze at a celestial star we see it as it was many moons ago. Not just last Wednesday but long before that. The noise from Big Bang reverberates to this day as the background hum to our everyday activities and will continue to do so until the end of time. Which is in itself determined. It is common knowledge how and when and why all things, including time itself, will cease to be. If you really think about it, which is unwise, this means that the future has already happened and, since the past is captured and alive, both tomorrow and yesterday are with us today. Quite a thought, but what does it tell us about the header topic, the prospects for a general election in 2019? Alas, very little. My view, FWIW, is that it is far more likely that TM will call one, should she fail to get her deal through, than most pundits believe.
Nice to see a new poster on here, we had a SeanT on here before. I think he was a writer, called David Cameron "Gaylord Ponceyboots" I believe.
Sky Poll shows CON 32% LAB 24% TIG 10%, LD 9% - I've seen no figures for other parties.
So TIG + Lib Dem alliance higher than Lab. Delicious.
You’re wasted carping in the Lib Dems.
With your facility with numbers, I think you seem well qualified for employment running one of the big banks or accountancy firms or Patisserie Valerie.
When I watched Luciana Berger deliver her speech resigning from the Labour Party I cried because of its integrity and bravery and grace. And I cried because in my entire adult life what happened yesterday is the one of the lowest, most dispiriting political moments for British Jews. I cried because I despair at what has happened. I cried because I don’t think it is over.
I'm gob-smacked by some of the things that have been said to Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth by members of their own parties.
The big news is if the Jewish Labour organisation breaks its ties with the party, accompanied by an exodus (sic) of its members. I gather it's up for debate very soon.
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We could then vote yea or nay to each post - once 100 votes are in, the deleteotron will excise the offensive posts. Every now and again we could have an entertaining header with statistics and "worst post deleted this week".
You would be putting your future reputation in the hands of a bunch of strangers on here, but then you've been doing that for years anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_43rd_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period
I've always liked Chris Evans for the amount he throw behind the bar for the regulars turfed out when he took over the pub next door the day he sold Virgin Radio to STV..
But if there's a change to stop Hotel California Brexit then the original rejection was the right move.
You have the option to change your name in profile settings. If that operates retrospectively, perhaps become John Smith?
However the replies to your comments including your original comments would still be visible so would need to be deleted individually.
Now I'm on gardening leave for another three months so I'd be prepared to do the latter at £100 a post.
Sri Lankan food is truly delicious* (and yes there are similarities to Mauritian food) - definitely beats north Indian cuisine.
* Trying not to be biased!
So answers on a postcard (remember them?) as to what will be presented.
My $0.02? Some mutual agreement provision for sufficient progress in trade talks so as to render the backstop unnecessary. But then again, that would necessarily be full alignment for NI so we shall see.
Both of these actions are dependent on her conviction being upheld on appeal, and probably mean more to her than six weeks in the big house.
https://twitter.com/thomasknox/status/1191386531
Why make your task bigger, though, eh?
In the dozen or so years we've been on PB and you've only really gone OTT with me once but you had the grace to apologise the next morning.
I remember the time the Guardian did a piece on the time you admitted the coalition cuts gave you the horn, if you can survive that, you can survive anything.
Although Tiggers is the correct styling.
Sorry this is quite boring. I shall shut up now, and have a coffee.
https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1097897558721130497
It's all getting a bit meta.
If you're really bothered twitter has a deactivation option, which complete nukes everything, and you can keep the account name.
4:57PM
You've done it!
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1097904154830430208
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1097904243544084481
But they will never take our memories.....!
https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from:thomasknox since:2017-07-01 until:2018-04-28&src=typd
Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
https://twitter.com/HTScotPol/status/1097898152252850176
Well that's a surprise.
Ou sont les neiges d'antan.
OK time to WORK. Later.
The search thingy seems unreliable, but.......
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from:thomasknox since:2009-01-01 until:2010-02-12&src=typd
Which yields .....
https://twitter.com/thomasknox/status/8335030337
On tim: 'You putrid globule of scrounging Scouse pus.'
On the Greeks: 'You moussaka-munching, fetid-fiddling, Elgin-marbles-undeserving malingerers.'
On some piece of new Labour policy or other: 'Dr Palmer needs to stick a suppository up it.'
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/luciana-bergers-departure-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-labour/
I wonder. If the Tiggers get, say, 2 Conservative MPs defecting, does that make it less likely more Labour chaps and ladies jump ship?
Nice to see a new poster on here, we had a SeanT on here before. I think he was a writer, called David Cameron "Gaylord Ponceyboots" I believe.
Sky Poll shows CON 32% LAB 24% TIG 10%, LD 9% - I've seen no figures for other parties.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/luciana-bergers-exit-from-the-labour-party-was-a-distressing-sight-for-jews-sph8x2md6
They are not going to support a vonc as they need time and publicity to grow their support. The more that join from any party diminishes a GE further
This is a whole new ball game and will be very interesting to see how it develops
No amount of shouting about how tenable their position is going to change the reality
With your facility with numbers, I think you seem well qualified for employment running one of the big banks or accountancy firms or Patisserie Valerie.