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Except it would only be fair to note that the Labour Party has "erased the internet" too. Labour’s housecleaning has removed almost everything prior to the start of the current leadership, and the Wayback Machine (sorry, "the internet") is pretty empty of Labour's past as well as that of the Tories
And were wrong.
You were on stronger ground with "Man cries at Funeral"!
Labour is averaging 37 or so north of the border over the last couple of weeks - a good 10 points down on where it was before this broke in June.
Sling in English Ed's apparent ambivalence to the big industrial issues affecting Scotland and Labour have growing difficulties.
Salmond may not get independence but he will get the leadership role for scotland, not just at Holyrood but in Westminster.
Otherwise.....
Haven't got a clue who this other bloke a couple of you have mentioned is.
Today the mask of reason slipped and we saw the true face of revisionist deceit that the bourgeois aristocrat Cameron wears!
Filled with terror at the prospect of the People realising the depths of their cowardice and unforgivable treachery the Conservatives (hiss!) have clumsily attempted to hide their past, but we will not let them get away with purging the truth so easily, and have bared their depraved activities for all to see!
Only Comrade Miliband has nothing to fear from the past. All relevant speeches, thoughts and policies dating from the beginning of his benevolent and wise leadership remain free for all to enjoy and learn from. Why not read of how his beloved brother applauded his victory and wished him all the best upon his glorious ascension to the supreme leadership of Unite's political subsidiary?
Unite still Labour's largest backer despite Falkirk row
The Unite union remains Labour's largest financial backer, new figures show, despite the fall-out from the Falkirk candidate selection row.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24929107
Although "despite" is an interesting choice.....some might have thought "because" more appropriate.
They're losing support.
Today I spent an afternoon with our management consultants, teenage scribblers all, who lectured me on how to increase productivity within my own department. They based this on the sound knowledge of a day or two in the department with no real understanding of what we do and why we do it a particular way.
Nice quite sweet wet behind the ears youths that they were, I could not control my anger at their idiocies that were being lapped up by a senior management team that is well known for its failure to listen to front line clinicians. It was all I could do to keep from swearing at their plans.
My conclusion: we are bewitched by these over-ambitious, under-experienced but well presented kids, both at work and in politics. They need to be replaced by people who have done front line work, and who know what they are talking about. If we do not then we are f***ed.
In the last 10 days of February, for example, Labour averaged 46.7 in Scotland over 10 subsamples (nearly 2,000 people). By today, a similar sample gave 37.3.
You can take that or leave it when putting money on it.
http://goo.gl/lBXhEU
Don't hold your breath
Would it indeed?
LOL
Edited extra bit: unless it's a reference to the Leveson silliness. Whilst relevant, that's not really what I'm getting at, so much as a culture of collaboration between a PR-obsessed political class and a media that tends to regurgitate press releases and has little insight or objectivity to offer.
Anyway, off for the night.
It is one reason I no longer read the papers.
I couldn't care two hoots whether people believe me, all anyone needs to do is speak to the housing needs department of any local authority or just type tenants incentive scheme into the internet for some examples. As i keep repeating LAs are desperate for family housing and will move mountains to get their hands on properties suitable for families. And yes theoretically LAs would love to move everyone under occupying accommodation (I am not talking about heavily adapted properties for disabled people) into suitably sized accommodation. Its called making good use of their housing stock. Why would a LA who are forking out 1000s per week keeping homeless families in B & B accommodation not want to move a single person occupying a 3BH to a 1BF .
Why do you always think you are so right. What experience do you have in social housing?
By the way how do you collect bedroom tax?
Except the bill came and it was £30, most of it on a 0845 number charged at 50p a minute to... Virgin customer services. I told her we were all Marxists now and she agreed and refunded the charges.
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Unite can't be left to resist Cameron's smear campaign alone
David Cameron and the Tory press have launched a retro anti-union drive to damage Ed Miliband. But it won't fly in today's Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/13/unite-cameron-smear-campaign-anti-union
Well, why are they worrying about it then?
As a matter of interest, how many medical doctors are in parliament? I know there's Sarah Woolaston and Dan Poulter, along with the independent ex-MP Richard Taylor. But how many are there in total - I must be missing some?
In fact, it would be nice to see a table of all the professions MPs had before entering parliament...
Falkirk Labour hopeful admits paying for mass recruitment to party
Labour concern after former election strategy manager Gregor Poynton wrote single cheque for 11 new members
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/falkirk-labour-gregor-poynton-paid-recruits
* The Daily Mail muckrakes - the Guardian investigates.
Despite being Great News for Ed, nobody in the Real World cares about Falkirk
They've gone mad.
Stick to Guido, Falkirkers!
"Labour's unpublished report into irregularities in Falkirk, which has been partially leaked to the Guardian."
Cui bono?
Of course it's mainly be led by the EU (I think the relevant commissioner, but I wouldn't swear to that). But don't let that stop Cameron trying to claim the credit.
You dig
He muckrakes
We need more from other areas. Not just engineers, but nurses, social workers, firemen, police officers, secretaries, call centre workers, underemployed vinters and McDonalds employees of the month. We would begin to reflect the diversity and priorities of the nation, and have people who could speak with knowledge on these fields.
In reality the last thing to do if you want a political career is to work for a living.
Politics would be worse if we had more people moving from big business, banks etc, whether they were handed their positions by Daddy or not. But to some, this sort of stuff counts as a "proper job outside politics".
When you say engineers, do you mean plumbers? Or lofty academics, the heads of multinationals? Why stop there, why not posties and waitresses?
So I'm not sure that promotions in Parliament are the problem. It's more that most people in politics work their way up through a series of political jobs, and moving sideways from another profession is a bit unusual. That's partly because if you're successful in a profession you do earn more, with less stress - nobody monitors your private life, tries to discredit you, or openly plots to get your job. I took a 40% pay cut in 1997 and if I'm elected in 2015 I'll take another (smaller) one. You have to be very politically motivated to do it, and that might not be a good thing - perhaps we need more MPs who aren't single-minded about politics?
This is intetesting-
www.smith-institute.org.uk/file/Who-Governs-Britain.pdf
I think I read somewhere that around 90 of our current MPs have never held a significant job, outside of politics.
Blimey Charles. If ever I'm struck by that 'leftie politics of envy' bug re your lifestyle, I'll remember that you have to hobnob with the likes of Liam Fox.
Do we want more builders as MPs?
Even more amusing that it will come back to bite Ed in the arse if he doesn't deal with it now.
What an idiot.
There's a grand gesture possibility there...
Has Crosby told him to hold back, in case it annoys the far Right UKIP mob?
Sen Mary Landreu (Dem) has introduced a bill in the Senate to allow people to keep their old health care plans. Sen Diane Feinstein (Dem) has said she will support it, as has Sen Kay Hagan (Dem).
A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Rep Upton (Rep). The House bill will be up for a vote on Friday. It remains to be seen if Harry Reid will allow the bill in the senate to come to a vote. It is hard to overstate the heat that people who voted for Obamacare are hearing from their constituents who have had their plans cancelled because they are 'bad apple' insurers with 'sub-standard' plans, according to the president. The latest figure of cancellations I have seen is approaching 5 million.
So far HHS is saying that just over 100k people have 'selected' a plan - i.e. it's in their shopping basket on the web site, NOT that they have signed up and agreed to pay. Figures from the insurance companies suggest that less than half that number have, but they are unverifed.
We have no breakdown as to how many are young or old.
That is critical, as it's the young who have to sign up for this turkey to work, as they are expected to pay the lion's share of the costs of older folks..
What is even more troubling is the number of folks who have been steered to enroll in Medicaid, which has no payable premium, and is taxpayer funded. It looks like almost 400k folks have enrolled in Medicaid. The theory is that the young enrolling in Obamacare will pay for this. It looks like Obamacare will collapse under its own weight. The website problems are merely window dressing.
How has my insurance changed for next year? I am male, covered for maternity care, free conraceptives, pediatric dentistry and mental health care. Otherwise my coverage is the same as it was.
This is a truly dreadful piece of legislation for a problem which could have been solved by a simple piece of legislation - abolish pre-existing conditions and lifetime cap terminations, tort reform, and allow insurance companies to sell across state lines. Problem solved.
So now Obama is facing the fallout from his bare faced lie, repeated over and over, that "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it. Period.", and that the average family will save $2500 per year. More than half the country now think him untrustworthy. Also more than half the country want Obamacare repealed.
There's nothing wrong with builders. I just don't want Parliament full of builders, waitresses, teachers, firemen, posties, plumbers. I think the triangle heads do a better job.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/11/david-cameron-milibands-labour-poses-the-same-old-danger/
‘The single biggest threat to the cost of living in this country is if our budget deficit and debts get out of control again. If interest rates and mortgage rates start to soar, the increase in cost of living will far outweigh the impact of any increase in government spending or indeed reduction in taxation.’
I'm sure I'll be quoting him regularly in the coming months.
1. Labour are tied to deficit reduction plans
2. No fucker knows what the deficit is
I may do one of the jobs I've mentioned in this thread, don't jump to conclusions pal!
Or if we filled Parliament full of people from "proper jobs" running banks or mulitnationals or Daddy's firm, that would be even worse still.
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In fact, it would be nice to see a table of all the professions MPs had before entering parliament...
This is intetesting-
www.smith-institute.org.uk/file/Who-Governs-Britain.pdf
I think I read somewhere that around 90 of our current MPs have never held a significant job, outside of politics.
What's a "significant job"?
Do we want more builders as MPs?
Why not? What's wrong with builders? I presume a significant job is any job that's not wanky spaddery/ PPE/bag carrying/ intern stuff. That pretty much rules out Cameron, Clegg and Milliband.
"Wanky spaddery bag carrying" exists in big business for Daddy's little gems / PPE tossers too though, to an even greater extent. Just because a job is in the private sector doesn't make it any more "proper", look at David Cameron's CV.
There's nothing wrong with builders. I just don't want Parliament full of builders, waitresses, teachers, firemen, posties, plumbers. I think the triangle heads do a better job.
What's up with normal people, aint we good enough for you?
Hehe. Would you like parliament to be run by a few hundred assorted bar staff, mechanics, call centre workers, teaching assistants, porters, gardeners, salesmen, cleaners, childminders? I wouldn't.
I may do one of the jobs I've mentioned in this thread, don't jump to conclusions pal!
Again, why not? The likes of Cameron, Clegg and Milliband have hardly set the World on fire.
I just think things would be even worse in the situation I mentioned. A plumber's skills are wasted scrutinising legislation.
Or if we filled Parliament full of people from "proper jobs" running banks or mulitnationals or Daddy's firm, that would be even worse still.
What skills have Cameron, Clegg, or Milliband got, that make them more suited to scrutinising legislation, than me, or you? Or tim? Or Foxinsoxuk?
You'll be telling me next that we need more people like Owen Jones, Laurie Penny or their rightwing equivalents lording it over us!
Also, on the Tories' destruction of archived speeches, why did they not transfer them to the Bodlein Library at Oxford University, which does maintain the Tory Party Archive after all
"Best wishes to Kevin, Therese & their family as they embark on the next stage of their lives. JG"
Abbott, although with qualification, also managed to insult John Howard which may make Johnnie less enthusiastic than he was in defending Abbott in future if he gets in trouble, perhaps with a future leadership challenge from Julie Bishop or Malcolm Turnbul
"Much as I admire and appreciate and put on a huge pedestal his immediate predecessor (John Howard), in this respect at least, he had lacked the imagination to grasp that opportunity and the member for Griffith, Kevin, he had the decency to see that here was something that needed to be done," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-13/kevin-rudd-to-retire-from-politics/5090108
•Chris Christie (R) 43% [36%] (40%) [37%]
•Hillary Clinton (D) 42% [49%] (46%) [45%]
•Hillary Clinton (D) 49% [50%]
•Paul Ryan (R) 40% [38%]
•Hillary Clinton (D) 49% [53%] (50%) {49%}
•Rand Paul (R) 40% [36%] (38%) {41%}
•Hillary Clinton (D) 51% [54%]
•Ted Cruz (R) 36% [31%]
•Chris Christie 27%
•Ted Cruz 14%
•Jeb Bush 12%
•Rand Paul 10%
•Paul Ryan 9%
•Marco Rubio 4%
•Bobby Jindal 2%
•Rick Santorum 1%
•Scott Walker 1%
•Someone else/Not sure 20%
PPP North Carolina 2016 GOP primary
•Chris Christie 20% (10%)
•Jeb Bush 16% (9%)
•Ted Cruz 12%
•Rand Paul 12% (6%)
•Marco Rubio 10% (21%)
•Paul Ryan 7% (12%)
•Bobby Jindal 6%
•Rick Santorum 2% (5%)
•Scott Walker 1%
•Someone else/Not sure 13% (8%)
•Chris Christie (R) 46%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 43%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 47%
•Jeb Bush (R) 43%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 50% (52%)
•Rand Paul (R) 41% (40%)
•Hillary Clinton (D) 51%
•Ted Cruz (R) 39%
http://www.giantbomb.com/their-finest-hour-the-battle-of-britain/3030-16397/
And how does it compare to the excellent Stumovik IL2?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/UBI-Soft-IL2-Sturmovik/dp/B00005NUO0
3,783 adults polled between November 10 and November 12.
39% of Northern Voters said they would never Vote Tory
1 in 4 Northern Voters didn't know anyone who voted Tory
21% said the North was represented among the Tory leadership.
http://order-order.com/2013/11/13/entire-conservative-web-archive-still-available/
We need fewer lawyers and more export salesmen - they should be able to make a case for British goods and services. We need fewer journalists and more technical authors - although they might have a bit of a problem writing non-fiction.
30% said they would never vote for Labour.
27% thought that their area was well represented among the Labour leadership.
A quarter of voters thought that Labour stood no real chance at all there, suggesting that they regarded backing the party as a wasted vote.
22 per cent said they did not know anyone who they thought supported or voted Labour.
The two entrants are:
Goat Hall
Haggard de Toni
http://vote-2012.proboards.com/post/118303/thread
26k benefits cap supported by 79% of Northerners, and 85% of Southerners (excluding London)
The commitment to reduce immigration to “tens of thousands” 83% support in both the North and the South
Help-to-Buy scheme was backed by 63 per cent of voters in the North and 62 per cent in the South (excluding London)
Labour strategists expect UKIP’s share of the vote to fall significantly at a general election and want to persuade UKIP voters to back Labour rather than voting for the Tories.
Improving the party’s message on immigration is seen as crucial.
The partnership with the programmer took a bit of work. He was good, but more used to arcade games, and thought that planes flying over bases should automatically pick up more fuel as they flew. I wonder if he did any others?
A few years later, the much better-financed Lucasarts game with the same title came out, and I wrote to them and said oi, you're pinching my copyright. They wrote me a ferocious legal letter saying they'd sue me for disruption of trade if I dared to say another word, which in retrospect was probably a bluff. In a way I thought they were right - I couldn't reasonably claim to copyright Churchill's phrase, though arguably I did have rights to computer games of that name on that theme - and anyway I didn't have the money to argue a case, so they successfully scared me into submission.