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You can get 16/1 from Hills that Dimbleby will get tattooed this year
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EDIT: Ah, I see his quote above now. Wonder where he wants it?
Rebel rocket attack.
(watch through - don't skip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsF3HspQY6A
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/politics/other-politics/us-politics?ev_oc_grp_ids=1474463
Isnt Chris Christie on a weightloss drive?
So the UK PM attending the CHOGM is the right thing to do?
Treating and dining with war criminals is only acceptable (and even then at a stretch) if you get something in return. The Sri Lankan Goverment's usual approach to international diplomacy is to treat it with utter contempt and do what it wants to do. You should read up about Mahinda Rajapaksa's increasingly authotorian regime and then maybe you will get with the programme buddy...
To think that William Hague will get something tangible from the Sri Lankan Government is laughable. They will play him and stitch him up like a kipper - watch this space...
Steven Gerrard addresses the crowd.. 'We are all here today to prove to the world that Scousers
are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer please?'
Wayne Rooney gingerly works his way through the crowd and steps up to the stage.
Gerrard asks him 'What is 15 plus 15?'
After 15 or 20 seconds Rooney says, ' Forty!'
Obviously everyone is a little disappointed. Then the Scousers start chanting
'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!'
Gerrard says, 'Well since we have a capacity crowd, world-wide press and global
broadcast media here, I think we can give him another chance.'
So he asks, 'What is 5 plus 5?'
After nearly 30 seconds he eventually says, ' Twelve?'
Gerrard looks down and just lets out a dejected sigh.
Everyone is disheartened and Rooney starts crying.
But then the 53,000 Scousers begin to yell and wave their hands shouting,
'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!'
Gerrard, unsure whether he is now doing more harm than good eventually says,
'OK then, what is 2 plus 2?'
Silence hangs over the stadium.
Rooney closes his eyes, and after a whole minute eventually says, 'Four?'
Pandemonium breaks out throughout the stadium as the Scouse crowd stand to a man,
wave their arms, stomp their feet and scream,
'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!'
I reckon you are an imposter, or been got at by aliens, but that last reply does look more like the real thing
F1: just a few hours late, the BBC has the Raikkonen story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24889383
They reckoned Valsecchi's likeliest to get the seat for the last two races. Probably true, although I've heard Hulkenberg may be free to move (especially if he still hasn't been paid).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24889604
Only complete fools or thick unionists are likely to be fooled by all these unionist troughers spouting doom and gloom.
We know up here that they are all inveterate liars and would do anything to keep their own pockets being filled.
This is the CLOWN who predicted not a bullet would be fired in Afghanistan.
Set against a sea of good humour and positivity for Yes?
I may have missed it!
You unable to read. I am writing in a personal manner and am verily sick of idiots like Reid spouting on about crumbs from the westminster table.
We will see how smart he is regarding the fate of the rusting nuclear hulks and large stock of nuclear weapons waiting to be handed back to London. His coupon will not be so smug on that one. Have you yet seen a unionist boasting about how they will be taking their radioactive junk off us if we vote YES.
Fanny.
The Chief of Defence Staff has said the Westminster government will “get our ships in the place it makes the most sense” – blasting a hole in suggestions that if Scotland votes Yes then Glasgow would lose out on work to build the Type 26 ships.
Speaking on the BBC Andrew Marr programme today, General Sir Nicholas Houghton said:
“(The decision) was very much a matter of a business rationalisation. In terms of raw business sense it makes sense the place where they have the greatest capacity and the best depth of skills – which is on the Clyde – so it is driven by a business decision.
“We live in a world now where it is not for the purposes of the defence budget to underwrite elements of industry. We will go and get our ships in the place where it makes the most sense for the British taxpayer in terms of getting the right capability for the armed forces.”
The UK government and BAE Systems made clear its decision earlier this week was based on the fact Glasgow is “the most effective location for the manufacture of the future Type 26 ships”
The equation will have altered.
2 week break to recover with International break - just like last time vs Spanners....
Still there's always the Worthington cup...
That first half was among our worst performances of the last five seasons. And although Krul was good in the second half, our finishing was woeful. He should never have had the chance to make the saves he did. It'll have to be a cup this season, the top 4 is certainly beyond us - we are far to easy to play against and do not know how to score goals. Now watch Arsenal beat United. A dreadful, dreadful day for football!!
But Arsenal will surely prevail today.
Lamela has his best game for us so far on Thursday night = not brought on today.
2 weeks off now - that's a way to get his confidence up.
11 games, 9 goals, 2 home defeats to the big boys, West Ham and Newcastle to 0 in both.
We struggle twice vs Hull in a week, Saints stuff them 4-1.
Defence spending has both security and porkbarrel aspects that would mean new ships would be built south of the border. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not very bright. You unable to read. I am writing in a personal manner and am verily sick of idiots like Reid spouting on about crumbs from the westminster table.
We will see how smart he is regarding the fate of the rusting nuclear hulks and large stock of nuclear weapons waiting to be handed back to London. His coupon will not be so smug on that one. Have you yet seen a unionist boasting about how they will be taking their radioactive junk off us if we vote YES.
Fanny.
Should it be happening in Sri Lanka - no.
But that was a Commonwealth decision.
And, funnily enough, it makes its own decisions these days, and no longer does what its told by London. (Scottish Labour - take note.)
So far the 'boycott' has only produced one absentee (no - much as you'd like, you can't claim India as it is not boycotting - the FM is going and the PM is preoccupied) - so looks like the UK, along with the vast majority of the Commonwealth believe engagement is a better route to solutions than boycotts. T'was ever thus.....
Why Falkirk is a 'cesspit' for Ed Miliband
“I really hope a deal hasn’t been done,” said a worried Labour MP yesterday. “In which Ed agrees not to reopen the Falkirk inquiry and Unite says it will fund the election campaign. I really hope that isn’t what has happened. But it is starting to look like it.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100245232/why-falkirk-is-a-cesspit-for-ed-miliband/
The Labour leader is fortunate his flight made it through when the sky was so full of his party’s chickens coming home to roost.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/mail-opinion-ed-miliband-should-2716435
My only hope is that Scotland might see sense and realise the benefits of continuing with the nuclear base as that serves to protect both nations.
But otherwise it is the best interests of both countries to ensure that their combined military forces are as cost effective, efficient and integrated as possible. I see no signs that the senior politicians of all parties on both sides of the border don't see that.
So unless the UK can sell those 2 ridiculous air craft carriers or the T26s they will have the navy and they will base it and any replacements in England. It really is silly to pretend anything else.
None of this means that it would not be in the interests of both countries to come to agreements re existing bases etc. Let's face it money will be even tighter all round both sides of the border. But the SNP supporters who refuse to accept any adverse consequence of independence no matter how obvious do nothing to boost their credibility.
Exactly right Richard - hear hear. The childish arguments advanced by unionists make me be embarrassed to be a unionist! So far I have read (in otherwise generally respected newspapers)
1. There will be patrol boats on the Tweed to stop people swimming over the border
2. A form of wall will be constructed where the frontier runs over land
3. The UK government will refuse to procure any services from Scotland
4. The Bank of England will refuse to allow the National Bank of Scotland to use Sterling, and will seek sanctions against it should it attempt to do so
None of these are in any way likely.
Anyone who thinks that any future UK or rUK government would as a matter of absolute principle refuse to have warships built outwith their borders, isn’t very bright, or is self deceiving.
Any country hosing such a shindig tries to make political capital out of it internally - as we did when we hosted the G8 summit in 2005 (oddly, this year's in Northern Ireland seems to have been a much quieter affair, or so it seemed to me).
What has to happen is:
1) (this is admittedly difficult): ensure that holding the summit does not condone what happened.
2) encourage the government to help the northern populations who have suffered. Some of the allegations of current government rule in those areas is worrying, to say the least.
3) ideally, the government would be convinced to cooperate with an international investigation (an extension of the UNs?), which would look fairly in to everything that happened over the entirety of the war, not just the end. This would have to include India's actions.
The rebels were a bunch of hideous ****s - calling one side 'war criminals' whilst not mentioning the crimes of the various rebel groups is rather disingenuous.
As I've said before, I've been on a journey wrt the Sri Lankan conflict. In the early 1990s I favoured the rebels: I did not know much about the conflict, and it was the side favoured by many of my university friends. As I got older and read more about the conflict, I despised both sides. Towards the end I felt much more contempt for the rebels than the government. So perhaps that colours my view.
Anything that helps that country back to normality is good. And normality includes diplomatic relations. If we attend, they may listen to us. If we do not, they certainly will not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_war_crimes_during_the_Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
“William Hill offering that he'll do it 16/1 before end 2013 5/1 before end 2014”
A tattoo at his age! – why the hell not I say. Growing old disgracefully is the new respectable.
Presumably William Hill is happy to pay out on Dimbleby’s say so, rather than requiring evidential proof?
Having worked for an American multinational, this struck me as 100% bollocks - with the British much less deferential than the Americans.
The typical American reaction to a command from on high was 'Yes Sir!' - while the typical British reaction was 'Oh god, what's the old fool come up with now?'
I know, I know, anecdote...however, this blog post struck me as a much more persuasive argument that Freedland's:
http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2013/11/why-the-british-like-their-spies/
"Britain, in the neat phrase of my colleague, Martin Wolf, has long been a “warfare state” – mobilised to protect British freedom"
*If* the worst of the allegations about Falkirk are true (and the jury is nowhere near sitting yet), then it reflects exceptionally poorly on all the involved parties. Vote-rigging, witness intimidation, false signatures, and data-protection laws smashed. And that is without including the Grangemouth mess.
It is not just Labour's political opposition saying this: senior Labour politicians have been calling for an inquiry into what happened as well.
There is a big story here, even if the worst of the allegations are untrue. After all, it has already cost one shadow cabinet minister (*) his job.
(*) Is 'shadow cabinet minister' the correct term for 'general election co-ordinator'. If not, what is? 'shadow cabinet member'?
Secondly Ireland then decided to adopt a position of formal neutrality. I have not yet seen any suggestion that Scotland is considering this move.
The situations, background and feelings/hatred by both sides are very different.
Plebgate led to numerous investigations, hearings in the HoC and possible criminal prosecutions
Falkirk led to Ed hiding a report that Len does not want seen by anybody
Both teams will finish above Spurs though. As will Chelsea, City and Liverpool. So sixth for us - and hopefully a trophy.
One saw a democratically elected politician ejected from office by an alleged conspiracy.
The other saw alleged attempts to insert a preferred candidate by subverting democracy.
Oh, and "Ed called the Police" a day after a Tory MP already had....
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100245232/why-falkirk-is-a-cesspit-for-ed-miliband/
"The suggestion being whispered is that Mr Miliband’s refusal to hold another inquiry can be explained by the need to keep Len McCluskey satisfied. Mr McCluskey is furious about the attacks on Unite’s integrity and claims rather implausibly that the whole scandal is a Tory plot. That defence is not particularly credible; there are not many Tories in Falkirk.
“I really hope a deal hasn’t been done,” said a worried Labour MP yesterday. “In which Ed agrees not to reopen the Falkirk inquiry and Unite says it will fund the election campaign. I really hope that isn’t what has happened. But it is starting to look like it.”"
For so the PB Kinnocks did see, and the are never wrong, well, hardly ever, well, actually, almost never, well, there was this one time that maybe they were not wrong...
Remember, George Osborne at a burger once.
This isn't going away so Miliband needs to deal with it now and not let it fester into next year and closer to the election. Somewhere there is a smoking gun and vested interests will find it eventually.
However bad it is for Ed he needs to get it over with, the closer to the election we get and his enemies will I use it against him.
Forget vote UKIP get Labour it will be vote Labour get Unite.
Ed is up to his neck in this cesspit - his money men sent out ballot papers to "phantom members" for their own leadership election and to fix PPC elections.
Now what other election had union members voting in it - and may have involved phantom members ?
Clue - 2 out of 3 parts of the constituency voted for the winners brother...
My preamble should have been 'If PB was at all representative, an rUK government would be in a massively huffy huff, headlining at the Huffington Post'.
Perhaps you will remember that, the next time you decide to violate the site rules.
Denial is not a river in Egypt....
United are well short of quality but the work rate and determination that we saw last season are coming back. Their midfield is really poor and asks a double shift from Rooney which they certainly got today.
For me Chelsea are still the team to beat although they were ridiculously lucky yesterday.
Unless you are either in the Westminster bubble or you live a sheltered life in which politics is all consuming. Can you really say that people are either interested or have heard of "Falkirk".
Cue "oh yes, I was in the pub last night and it was all people was talking about"....or maybe not.
It is odd that you accuse Cameron of sitting on evidence (wrongly, IMHO), yet do not mention Ed not releasing Labour's report into what happened.
Still, it's sad to see that you and Roger are (I think) the only two posters remaining on here who believe that Mitchell was not wronged. At least Roger's position is more logical than yours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnjIgizeNc4
Nick?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
http://www.spursodyssey.com/onthis0001/200866.html
With background to that photo.
We do have joint projects with other countries; but that would be for the rUK MoD to decide.
Of course if the Scottish government sweetened the deal by subsidising the building of warships on the Clyde for the RN then It may be in the interest of the rUK to continue. This may well fall foul of the EU.
If similtaneously the Scottish govt was making a hard time for the RN/MoD over Trident, then I suspect that frigates would be built elsewhere. rUK would not want to give hostages away so easily.
Can you imagine anyone outside the anoraks even at all interested. Christ, people who funded the Tory Party ended up running hospitals. If this doesn't cut across to the publics interest, how the hell is the process of Labour picking is prospective MP's?
A bit like home goals when Spurs play at the Lane these days....
Ms Murphy first came to public attention over her reaction to the death of Baroness Thatcher. On her Facebook page she published a picture of the former prime minister emblazoned with the words: “One hellbound bitch!” Alongside this, Ms Murphy also suggested that she would be holding a party to celebrate the loss of Baroness Thatcher."
What a classy lady, not! This wannabe female Unite/Labour politician whose supporters sought the boost of an all women short list to help her selection chances in a rock solid safe Labour seat calls the Conservative female politician who smashed the glass ceiling in UK politics to become a party Leader and PM without any these kind shannigans 'One hellbound bitch'?!!
The fat lady is still to sing.
Ed won the leadership election by 0.65% of the vote in the run off.
Sunday Times claims that Unite leadership ballot papers were sent out to 160,000 people who were not members.
Ed won the Labour leadership election by 3895 union members.
3895 is 2.4% of 160,000.........
"It isn’t, frankly, and if a Labour official can claim, “I’m not saying it’s the best Christmas gift in the world but, as a matter of fact, it’s within the rules,” then the rules are junk.
Of course, in some parts of Scotland, such as the west of Scotland, Labour have gone about their business like this for generations.
The unexpected arrival of a Christmas card from the leader of the day was often the only way many members found out they had been signed up.
It has been awful to see that kind of rubbish laid bare in Falkirk and the donkeys leading Unite have no one to blame but themselves.
They blundered into town like drunken bulls trying to buy china before careering into a dispute at Grangemouth where there could only be one winner. And it wasn’t their members.
They have, of course, got a point when they bluster about the ranks of the reactionary right-wing taking the chance to put the boot in. But did they really have to make it so easy?
This union’s cash-crammed envelopes, back-door deals and hubris have undoubtedly harmed Miliband’s chances of taking Labour back into power.
Maybe, as the Labour leader and Unite boss Len McCluskey must desperately hope, the Falkirk debacle will quietly fade away. It might but they might be whistling in the dark.
They need to stop defending the indefensible and start putting things right in Falkirk. In their union. And in their party."
If Ed wanted to kill the story he should publish the investigation, punish the guilty (if any) and the story would naturally die. The fact that he doesnt probably means that the guilty are too big to punish. So the stench of Falkirk continues to emanate from Labour.
As Stalin supposedly said "Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything"
But that's a loaded question, which reminds people. Without looking at the figures, and I may be wrong, I would assume that those following it are anti-Labour. If you asked what were the most important political events of the last two weeks, how many do you reckon will say Falkirk, if they mentioned anything at all?
Almost none I would imagine. That doesn't mean that Tories are wrong to pursue it. Given Labour seem to want to cover it up the Tories will naturally assume that there is more to come on this. They'd be crazy to stop pressing Labour on this till the full facts are known.