Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
Many moons ago I was a member of Thoresby Colliery's junior brass band (I even won a trophy for playing the cornet!) -Do you think George will let me have some coal?
He might give you his helmet when he's finished down that shaft.
Already got one of those and a miners lamp from plunder when my dad's pit shut!!
Cameron slams fat cat bosses as it is revealed they have awarded themselves a massive 49 per cent pay hike
City firms to pay out £4.2billion this year in bonuses Shell making £4.4billion in three months as oil prices soar Average earnings has now hit £2.7million
Many moons ago I was a member of Thoresby Colliery's junior brass band (I even won a trophy for playing the cornet!) -Do you think George will let me have some coal?
Maybe, but Ed Davey won't allow you to burn it.
Just wait till Caroline Flint and Ed Miliband are back in charge of the nation's energy !
Actually my Dad did get this coal allowance - It used to get dumped on the driveway and my dad made us bloody shovel it into the boiler room!! Would have preferred the money!!
Not sure if this has been mooted before but how about this for a wheeze. ....Lab win a majority, lower the voting age to 16, reintroduce EMA and run future campaigns along tbe lines of
"Vote for us or the nasty Tories will stop your pocket money?
Get 'em dependent, get 'em entitled, get ' em young.
Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
Yes. It's one of five things referred to obliquely (deficit, not debt) on the party's website and Cameron apparently referred to it in his speech (which I can't remember anything about, in which I'm probably not alone). As I say, barely mentioned these days, for reasons we both know - (a) the debt is still going up briskly and (b) the public are not really engaged on the issue.
But perhaps you can point out speeches on the subject made by leading Tories in the last two weeks, say? Perhaps they're just under-reported?
Is the Prime Minister this week recent enough and leading enough for you?
‘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.’
It's a bit desperate on the part of Labour loyalists to think that this theme is going to be dropped. As the Spectator comment, "David Cameron’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet yesterday evening rehearsed some basic political arguments that will be honed between now and 2015." Get used to it.
Cameron surrounded by differing demos in Sri Lanka - those protesting the current Sri Lankan government, those complaining about crimes under Colonial rule. Who were in power when Ceylon got independence?
Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
And the theme of the deficit and government debt seems to be acknowledged by some on the left at least. The unlikely figure of Ken Livingstone has raised the subject:
Miliband should back the Commonwealth's quiet promotion of democracy, not try to wreck it Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister. There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
All looks fair enough, aside from the use of the non-standard crawl-delay directive. This means that someone thinks that the SNP site will be vigorously patrolled by bots. Or, more likely, someone left defaults in. ;-)
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
The Con party vault purge is the ultimate saddo lefty 3 tissue fantasy:
1) Involves a matter of low importance 2) Does not involve any policy 3) Allows them to cryw*nk out all their petty class frustrations - a toff boy beat me up at school...
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
Or indeed Miliband over Falkirk/Unite/Grangemouth/McCluskey/Watson/McNichol/Oldknow/Yearly.....to mention a few....
Hideaway Ed and Tough guy Len..The juicesome twosome. The power behind New Labour..or is that Old Labour or maybe even just Labour..no one seems to know .. not even the party members..the ones who were signed up legimately of course.
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
In the particularly trivial case of the botched Tory Internet Purge, not much!
I'd post some more classics, Cameron's emoting / lies over Sure Start or cuts to frontline services, but there's enough massive pictures of clueless flab-faced Tory fops on this thread already. And it's boring.
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
Or indeed Miliband over Falkirk/Unite/Grangemouth/McCluskey/Watson/McNichol/Oldknow/Yearly.....to mention a few....
Cameron: Sri Lanka Hague: Sri Lanka Osborne: Down a mine Balls: New York Chuka: Palestine (tho what's that go to do with his business brief, goodness knows...)
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
Or indeed Miliband over Falkirk/Unite/Grangemouth/McCluskey/Watson/McNichol/Oldknow/Yearly.....to mention a few....
Leverage!
I missed one!
Rats!
Preferably big inflatable ones, all the better to intimidate the neighbours....
Hideaway Ed.. probably at home regretting having to sign his childrens birth certificate and actually ..due to public pressure ..urgh.. marry their mother.
Hideaway Ed.. probably at home regretting having to sign his childrens birth certificate and actually ..due to public pressure ..urgh.. marry their mother.
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
In the particularly trivial case of the botched Tory Internet Purge, not much!
I'd post some more classics, Cameron's emoting / lies over Sure Start or cuts to frontline services, but there's enough massive pictures of clueless flab-faced Tory fops on this thread already. And it's boring.
Ah, so you can smear away, because it does not matter. Yet if someone from Labour is subjected to similar behaviour, it matters terribly.
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
In the particularly trivial case of the botched Tory Internet Purge, not much!
I'd post some more classics, Cameron's emoting / lies over Sure Start or cuts to frontline services, but there's enough massive pictures of clueless flab-faced Tory fops on this thread already. And it's boring.
Ah, so you can smear away, because it does not matter. Yet if someone from Labour is subjected to similar behaviour, it matters terribly.
"...presidential job approval is still the most important variable for how his party fares in midterm elections, explaining about half of the variance. The relationship is highly statistically significant: For every point in job approval the president loses, his party loses 0.6 percent of its caucus."
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
In the particularly trivial case of the botched Tory Internet Purge, not much!
I'd post some more classics, Cameron's emoting / lies over Sure Start or cuts to frontline services, but there's enough massive pictures of clueless flab-faced Tory fops on this thread already. And it's boring.
Ah, so you can smear away, because it does not matter. Yet if someone from Labour is subjected to similar behaviour, it matters terribly.
A classically clueless article. There's too much to say, but just one thing (actually a quote from the original CW article):
"Conservatives posted a robot blocker on their website, which told search engines and the Internet Archive they were no longer permitted to keep a record of the Conservative Party web archive."
The robots.txt file says nothing of the sort. Some (and not all) archives use the robots.txt for that purpose, but they do not have to (they do it out of choice), and it is nowhere in the spec. Basically, the archives are misusing robots.txt if they think it means that.
If this is the level the left has to descend to, then God help us if they ever get back in.
Corporeal.. Maybe to you.. but I wonder what his children will think of him..and it also depends on your own consideration with regard to your relationship with your children. He apparently thinks his principles are uppermost.. sod the kids..
You mean the purge that exists only in the minds of techno-illiterate conspiracy theorists?
Ach come on, don't waste your time. The hapless Shapps Purge was a great story, a chuckler that will last, and got some of Cameron's Greatest Hits on the news (sledging with huskies on Newsnight I particularly enjoyed)
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I daresay the policemen involved with the Mitchell affair had exactly the same view.
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
In the particularly trivial case of the botched Tory Internet Purge, not much!
I'd post some more classics, Cameron's emoting / lies over Sure Start or cuts to frontline services, but there's enough massive pictures of clueless flab-faced Tory fops on this thread already. And it's boring.
Ah, so you can smear away, because it does not matter. Yet if someone from Labour is subjected to similar behaviour, it matters terribly.
A classically clueless article. There's too much to say, but just one thing (actually a quote from the original CW article):
"Conservatives posted a robot blocker on their website, which told search engines and the Internet Archive they were no longer permitted to keep a record of the Conservative Party web archive."
The robots.txt file says nothing of the sort. Some (and not all) archives use the robots.txt for that purpose, but they do not have to (they do it out of choice), and it is nowhere in the spec. Basically, the archives are misusing robots.txt if they think it means that.
If this is the level the left has to descend to, then God help us if they ever get back in.
Come on! Let's face it - the story is hilarious. Tories erase their history. Superb fun.
Cameron: Sri Lanka Hague: Sri Lanka Osborne: Down a mine Balls: New York Chuka: Palestine (tho what's that go to do with his business brief, goodness knows...)
Corporeal.. Maybe to you.. but I wonder what his children will think of him..and it also depends on your own consideration with regard to your relationship with your children. He apparently thinks his principles are uppermost.. sod the kids..
As a kid who was born years before his parents were married, and having a number of friends in similar situations, as far as I'm aware none of us were bothered by it (at least not that they ever told me).
To think of that as "sod your kids" is well, a very strange idea to me.
Corporeal.. no probs with that, but was your dad vying to be the PRIME MINISTER.. the children of the Prime Minister are particularly vulnerable, to be publically disregarded by their father must be intolerable ..and he only signed up because of political pressure.. nice one..very Hideaway.
Hideaway Ed ... shamed into marrying the mother of his children... says it all really.. Is this man of no principle really PM material..only to fools
I guess it depends on taste. Your preference is for a PR man who was told to use his family to increase his credibility on the NHS, then broke his word. A man who used Brooke Kinsella to lie about knife crime, a man who can't see a child victim of crime or a bereaved relative without seeing a photo op.
On balance, I still think the UK made a mistake by attending the CHGOM.
However, having made the decision to go, I think David Cameron has conducted himself with admirably - it was great to see him visit Jaffna where he met the locals and held talks with the Tamil leaders there (who of course have next to no power in that authoritian state). It was obvious to see the frosty relationship with the war criminal Mahindra Rajapakse (compare that to the Prince Charles who quite frankly made himself look like an idiot - the Queen was very wise to skip this summit!).
I really hope that David Cameron ratchets up the pressure on Sri Lanka using bodies like like the UNHRC and the UN Security Council to make sure Sri Lanka tow the "civilised" line.
So a thumbs up for David Cameron on his conduct so far from this Labour supporter....
On balance, I still think the UK made a mistake by attending the CHGOM.
However, having made the decision to go, I think David Cameron has conducted himself with admirably - it was great to see him visit Jaffna where he met the locals and held talks with the Tamil leaders there (who of course have next to no power in that authoritian state). It was obvious to see the frosty relationship with the war criminal Mahindra Rajapakse (compare that to the Prince Charles who quite frankly made himself look like an idiot - the Queen was very wise to skip this summit!).
I really hope that David Cameron ratchets up the pressure on Sri Lanka using bodies like like the UNHRC and the UN Security Council to make sure Sri Lanka tow the "civilised" line.
So a thumbs up for David Cameron on his conduct so far from this Labour supporter....
overall Cameron has done a very good job on his overseas jaunts. One of his successes as pm.
And good on you for looking at this with an open mind, I know you were very anti this visit and summit, but you are judging on facts not prejudice. A lot of us could learn from that.
Corporeal.. no probs with that, but was your dad vying to be the PRIME MINISTER.. the children of the Prime Minister are particularly vulnerable, to be publically disregarded by their father must be intolerable ..and he only signed up because of political pressure.. nice one..very Hideaway.
Not being married is being publicly disregarded?
Maybe it's a generational thing or just the society I grew up in, marriage is nice and all but people with kids and no immediate plans to marry wasn't a thing people thought negatively of etc.
woger.. I was put on the naughty step and told not to make ref to a certain poster.. he was told the same.. I have stuck to the rules.. he did not....back to the bar old boy
On balance, I still think the UK made a mistake by attending the CHGOM.
However, having made the decision to go, I think David Cameron has conducted himself with admirably - it was great to see him visit Jaffna where he met the locals and held talks with the Tamil leaders there (who of course have next to no power in that authoritian state). It was obvious to see the frosty relationship with the war criminal Mahindra Rajapakse (compare that to the Prince Charles who quite frankly made himself look like an idiot - the Queen was very wise to skip this summit!).
I really hope that David Cameron ratchets up the pressure on Sri Lanka using bodies like like the UNHRC and the UN Security Council to make sure Sri Lanka tow the "civilised" line.
So a thumbs up for David Cameron on his conduct so far from this Labour supporter....
"Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, has accused the Labour party of “cowardice” for building up billions in debts rather than taking difficult decisions on tax cuts and spending.
In a speech to a campaigning group on Saturday Mr Livingstone accused Gordon Brown of borrowing too much in the boom years.
Mr Livingstone said: “Gordon Brown was borrowing £20 billion a year at the height of the boom in the first decade of this century in order to avoid having to increase taxes, because he wanted to increase public spending.”
The former Mayor described the racking up of debts as “an act of cowardice” on the part of the Labour party.
Mr Livingstone appealed to Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, not to borrow more. Referring to Mr Miliband and Ed Balls, the Shadow chancellor’s, plans for the economy, he said: “I don’t believe that borrowing is your way to the future.”"
We have often said that, where the debate over the NHS is concerned, there is entirely too much political mudslinging. But Labour simply cannot be allowed to peddle the outright lie that the problems people have in getting access to GPs at evenings and weekends have nothing to do with the way their contract allowed doctors to shed such responsibilities – or, more broadly, to lay every problem with a health service they ran for 13 years at the door of the Coalition.
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Add that to Straw going on about spectacular mistakes with immigration and you have to wonder whether it's loose lips week for Labour.
Surely this breaches some site rules, Moderators, is repeat posting of Ozzy's bubbling mug not against the rules, this is a family site!
Ed Miliband has been determined to act as a wrecker for the Commonwealth Conference in Columbo. At the last moment he demanded that David Cameron should boycott the event, thus leaving Prince Charles to attend without his prime minister.
There are two problems with the Miliband position. The first is that Gordon Brown backed Sri Lanka as host four years ago – and Labour in opposition did not raise any objections, either, when the location was reconfirmed two years later.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100246156/miliband-should-back-the-commonwealths-quiet-promotion-of-democracy-not-try-to-wreck-it/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2EmVGowCk
"Vote for us or the nasty Tories will stop your pocket money?
Get 'em dependent, get 'em entitled, get ' em young.
Mods!!!!!
LAST NIGHTS VOTE SHARE
LAB 27.4% +1.1%
UKIP 22.8% +15.9%
CON 19.5% +1.6%
OTH 15.1% -3.1%
IND 7.4% -15.1%
LIBDEM 4.4% +2.4%
GREEN 3.4% -2.8%
So good news for UKIP & bad news for Independents.....but otherwise flat....
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.’
It's a bit desperate on the part of Labour loyalists to think that this theme is going to be dropped. As the Spectator comment, "David Cameron’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet yesterday evening rehearsed some basic political arguments that will be honed between now and 2015." Get used to it.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ken-livingstone-labour-are-just-cowards-for-racking-up-debt-during-boom-years-8941706.html
If Len can't trust Ed - who can?
As to the dull debatable facts of the matter, who cares?
I have my doubts about that particular plan. But it doesn't stop the original point being correct.
BTW, the SNP's robot.txt can be found at:
http://www.snp.org/robots.txt
All looks fair enough, aside from the use of the non-standard crawl-delay directive. This means that someone thinks that the SNP site will be vigorously patrolled by bots. Or, more likely, someone left defaults in. ;-)
It's a view.....
Facts? What do they matter?
:-)
Man Caught With Stun Gun Plotted To Kill PM
http://news.sky.com/story/1169239/man-caught-with-stun-gun-plotted-to-kill-pm
1) Involves a matter of low importance
2) Does not involve any policy
3) Allows them to cryw*nk out all their petty class frustrations - a toff boy beat me up at school...
The power behind New Labour..or is that Old Labour or maybe even just Labour..no one seems to know .. not even the party members..the ones who were signed up legimately of course.
I'd post some more classics, Cameron's emoting / lies over Sure Start or cuts to frontline services, but there's enough massive pictures of clueless flab-faced Tory fops on this thread already. And it's boring.
Hague: Sri Lanka
Osborne: Down a mine
Balls: New York
Chuka: Palestine (tho what's that go to do with his business brief, goodness knows...)
Where's Ed?
Rats!
Preferably big inflatable ones, all the better to intimidate the neighbours....
That explains a great deal.
DAN HODGES (Who would have thought it - of all the people, surely not Miliband loyalist Dan) argues the case: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100246077/labour-is-lining-up-scapegoats-for-the-falkirk-scandal/ !"!!
http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2013/11/internet-wont-forget-camerons-lies-and-neither-will-british-people
Interesting Sean Trende article
"...presidential job approval is still the most important variable for how his party fares in midterm elections, explaining about half of the variance. The relationship is highly statistically significant: For every point in job approval the president loses, his party loses 0.6 percent of its caucus."
Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/15/why_obamas_job_approval_will_matter_in_2014_120676.html
"Conservatives posted a robot blocker on their website, which told search engines and the Internet Archive they were no longer permitted to keep a record of the Conservative Party web archive."
The robots.txt file says nothing of the sort. Some (and not all) archives use the robots.txt for that purpose, but they do not have to (they do it out of choice), and it is nowhere in the spec. Basically, the archives are misusing robots.txt if they think it means that.
If this is the level the left has to descend to, then God help us if they ever get back in.
Any tips? Thanks.
Here's Leyla's e-petition again:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/52740
Guido Fawkes - Friday Caption Contest (Stranglehold on the Free Press Edition)
To think of that as "sod your kids" is well, a very strange idea to me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/10449978/Is-Aldis-55-Glen-Orrin-whisky-really-worth-200.html
On balance, I still think the UK made a mistake by attending the CHGOM.
However, having made the decision to go, I think David Cameron has conducted himself with admirably - it was great to see him visit Jaffna where he met the locals and held talks with the Tamil leaders there (who of course have next to no power in that authoritian state). It was obvious to see the frosty relationship with the war criminal Mahindra Rajapakse (compare that to the Prince Charles who quite frankly made himself look like an idiot - the Queen was very wise to skip this summit!).
I really hope that David Cameron ratchets up the pressure on Sri Lanka using bodies like like the UNHRC and the UN Security Council to make sure Sri Lanka tow the "civilised" line.
So a thumbs up for David Cameron on his conduct so far from this Labour supporter....
And good on you for looking at this with an open mind, I know you were very anti this visit and summit, but you are judging on facts not prejudice. A lot of us could learn from that.
"Moderators I HAVE JUST BEEN REFFERRED TO BY SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN WARNED NOT TO MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO ME..Does that ruling still stand"
Doddy you're behaving like a little girl. Grow up! I'd expect better of you
Maybe it's a generational thing or just the society I grew up in, marriage is nice and all but people with kids and no immediate plans to marry wasn't a thing people thought negatively of etc.
"Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, has accused the Labour party of “cowardice” for building up billions in debts rather than taking difficult decisions on tax cuts and spending.
In a speech to a campaigning group on Saturday Mr Livingstone accused Gordon Brown of borrowing too much in the boom years.
Mr Livingstone said: “Gordon Brown was borrowing £20 billion a year at the height of the boom in the first decade of this century in order to avoid having to increase taxes, because he wanted to increase public spending.”
The former Mayor described the racking up of debts as “an act of cowardice” on the part of the Labour party.
Mr Livingstone appealed to Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, not to borrow more. Referring to Mr Miliband and Ed Balls, the Shadow chancellor’s, plans for the economy, he said: “I don’t believe that borrowing is your way to the future.”"
I know you and I have politely disagreed about this issue in the past, but can I just say that your post was very good.
Saturday' i front page - "Jail for bad doctors and nurses" #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers via @olyduff
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/15/tory-speeches-internet-archive
Nothing to do with the Conservatives.
Nothing to do with anything else on the Internet.
Are Labour going to put Blair and Brown's speeches back on their site?
Pity we can't change a UKrobots.txt and erase 13 years of Labour misrule...