"This is not so much opportunism as outright amnesia. There has been much amusement in Westminster this week over the fact that both Labour and the Tories have deleted inconvenient material, predating the last general election, from their websites. Yet in the case of the Opposition, it is part of a much wider attempt to treat 2010 as though it was Year Zero. On the economy, health, welfare, education and a score of other issues, they imagine voters will forget that this is not just the party that is responsible for so many of the country’s problems, but in many instances the very personnel."
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.
Hideaway Ed.. probably at home regretting having to sign his childrens birth certificate and actually ..due to public pressure ..urgh.. marry their mother.
England are confused by players who can pass the ball.
English soccer players are like English politicians then.
Like Scottish footballers really. Sad.
Why do so many Scots in Aberdeen, Dundee etc walk around in Man U,Man City and Arsenal shirts, no wonder the Scottish league is down the tubes if English football is some sot of model
Sky.
Sky contracts killed Scottish football. In the 80s teams like Dundee United got to the semis of the European Cup and the final of the Eufa cup with 13 Scots. They did this because they paid their players relative buttons and invested their income in excellent youth team set ups which developed great players.
Then came Bosman and Sky, wages went through the roof, the youth team set ups were no longer viable and any player good enough for the Championship was offski with a zero on his salary.
Some recurring names here: Ed Argar (shortlisted in both Tonbridge and Newark), Vicky Atikins (shortlisted in Tonbridge), Nusrat Ghani (longlisted in Croydon South), Nigel Huddleston (shortlisted in Newark and longlisted in Croydon South)
- Joan Walley is retiring in Stoke North. Born in 1949, she enteretd the Commons in 1987 GE. She was one of the Lambeth surcharged Cllrs.
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.
Get married or don't get married - it depends on the relationship between the two adults and what they want for their kids.
To suddenly decide to get married as a result of press criticism is somewhat distasteful. It suggests a lack of respect for marriage and/or hypocrisy.
Moderators I HAVE NOT BEEN REFFERRED TO BY ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN WARNED NOT TO MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO ME..Does that ruling still stand AND IF I AM OVER 75 can I now have a named GP
Moderators I HAVE NOT BEEN REFFERRED TO BY ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN WARNED NOT TO MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO ME..Does that ruling still stand AND IF I AM OVER 75 can I now have a named GP
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.
Get married or don't get married - it depends on the relationship between the two adults and what they want for their kids.
To suddenly decide to get married as a result of press criticism is somewhat distasteful. It suggests a lack of respect for marriage and/or hypocrisy.
An iz dad defo hates Britan so theres no wonder hes crap
How many international class players have England got, two? Belgium have a dozen, it's embarrassing
I agree,the England U-21's may be top of they group but what great talent is in that team,get ready my English friends for a future of our international side struggling.
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.
Get married or don't get married - it depends on the relationship between the two adults and what they want for their kids.
To suddenly decide to get married as a result of press criticism is somewhat distasteful. It suggests a lack of respect for marriage and/or hypocrisy.
The press criticism itself was very distasteful. I tend towards the view that it was probably something they thought they'd get round to at some point, and the press attention was just something that altered their schedule rather than their reasoning. But this may well be a rose-tinted view of things.
How many international class players have England got, two? Belgium have a dozen, it's embarrassing
Who are the 2 world class players ?
Cole and Rooney. Although Cole is maybe past his peak and Rooney is inconsistent
No show rooney,he never turns up for major international finals,On cole,2 years back you could have said world class,same with Gerrard,time as caught up with they legs.
Interesting to see the rise in the Green vote. Could it not only be disaffected rightwing Tories who are moving to UKIP, but disaffected left-wing Labour voters moving to the Greens? If we had PR, as we do for Euro elections, I doubt any of the main parties would even reach 25%, and UKIP and the Greens could both play a part in future coalition governments
When God warned the Oirish-Scots about their Anglo-Saxon neighbours He forgot to say that they would be called "Jocks". [Easy mistake as the English word 'Joke' was yet to be derived.]
Lo-and-behold: God recognised His mistake and decided to punish their top 'sports-men[-or-persons]' as being useful footballers (or Soccarists for the Morman branch)! Then He realised that this was not enough retribution; instead He "whispered" to the 'important folk' that setting-up the SFA, Scottish Parish Council and electing 'Buy Blair; Get Brown' was "normal" and - erm - productive!
Finally He Rested. And the Devil invented a 'Thing' from 'The Black-Country' that "posts" as a 'Scouse'.... [Yawn: Litany charge-shytesheet is too long already....] *
* Why do thick M***er-F**kers spell 'already' as "all ready". Simple-Communication-Utilises-Messaging...!
Moderators I HAVE NOT BEEN REFFERRED TO BY ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN WARNED NOT TO MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO ME..Does that ruling still stand AND IF I AM OVER 75 can I now have a named GP
I have farted in the bath. I will not go further as any relation to my output may be construed as promoting you and your view-point. "Big": Humpf....
The evidence is that numbers attending A & E have been rising rapidly for a long time, and especially since 2004. The reasons for this are no doubt complex, but the idea that this is something new in 2013 is stark raving bonkers, absolutely bat-shit crazy.
No A&E crisis till 9 years after that fateful day when GP contract was signed.
Well, with about six weeks to go, I think we have found the Daftest Post of the Year, against strong competition.
Look at the evidence.
And most of Hunts "rolling back" today was of Lansleys contract last year, tonight's Mail story was a 2009 story but Lansley wrecked it deliberately. 111 and walk in closures, Lansley (plus Hunt on 111)
The cuts to community elderly care that your idiotic govt thought would save money have just ended up with people being driven into hospital and left there.
The cuts to community elderly care that your idiotic govt thought would save money have just ended up with people being driven into hospital and left there.
Citation needed.
Intelligent nay smart posters on PB don't need facts, they just 'know' stuff.
Russell Brand, Cameron and Osborne are cutting benefits because they are no good in bed, but Ed Miliband may be good (Alan Carr sceptical in this discussion of high politics)
This winters NHS crisis will make Mid Staffs failings look like the glory days IMHO. I believe the majority of the FT Sector will fail the A&E targets that have by the way been eased to 95% from 99% under Labour
To suddenly decide to get married as a result of press criticism is somewhat distasteful.
Do you have any idea what was going through their minds when they decided to marry or are you just presuming it was to counter press criticism?
It is true that it could be that they always intended to get that married that weekend. How unfortunate for them that it followed a week or so of negative press coverage.
Now, I have a bridge that I want to sell. One careful owner, hardly used. Any interest?
If there is going to be a crisis in the NHS this winter, the buck won't stop with Jeremy Hunt if it happens in either Wales or Scotland. Somewhere in the UK right now, its an SNP, Labour or Conservative/Libdem Government in charge of their patch of the NHS. And things are not looking good for Labour in Wales when it comes to their stewardship of the Welsh NHS.
This winters NHS crisis will make Mid Staffs failings look like the glory days IMHO. I believe the majority of the FT Sector will fail the A&E targets that have by the way been eased to 95% from 99% under Labour
The union vote-rigging scandal in Falkirk deepened yesterday after a couple living in the constituency disclosed that a “phantom” Labour Party member was signed up at their address. The couple said they were “mystified” after receiving mail from both the Labour Party and the Unite union for a man they have never met. They have even been visited by individuals looking for the man. The man is one of 15 Labour Party members identified by Eric Joyce, the MP for Falkirk, who do not live at their registered addresses.
[BTW I did suggest to a Treasury minister that they should stop using the word 'deficit' and use 'overspend' instead.]
That would be a great idea in the right hands - an overspend sounds like something you absolutely shouldn't be doing. But you can't use it if you've just been in power for five years and you're still overspending. It would be like basing your campaign around the slogan, "We're a bunch of incompetent thieves, but possibly slightly less bad than the other lot."
How easy would it be for a young Welsh speaking working class solicitor to become PM these days, or the illegitimate son of a housemaid from the Highlands, or a provincial shopkeeper's daughter from the town's grammar school who doesn't go to Oxford to read PPE ? You would have to be optimistic about that happening again.
The privately educated encompasses Eton - with fees well in excess of UK average wages and day schools which had provided grammar school education to a wider social intake albeit at a cost to many parents perhaps at £12K pa.
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The NHS is safe in Tory hands and defo not being sold off
Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP
Sorry, I mean two multi millionaires who pay no tax in the UK because they are registered in Monaco. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10452253/Nadine-Dorries-Nadhim-Zahawi-and-the-lessons-gone-unlearnt-at-Westminster.html
Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP
Sorry, I mean two multi millionaires who pay no tax in the UK because they are registered in Monaco. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10452253/Nadine-Dorries-Nadhim-Zahawi-and-the-lessons-gone-unlearnt-at-Westminster.html
Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP
Despite the fact that they don't pay British tax. Suppose I should really
Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP
I should say sorry to the tax avoiding Barclay Brothers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10452253/Nadine-Dorries-Nadhim-Zahawi-and-the-lessons-gone-unlearnt-at-Westminster.html
Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP
Because, unlike them, I DO pay full tax on every penny I earn - unlike Daily Telegraph owners, the Barclays http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10452253/Nadine-Dorries-Nadhim-Zahawi-and-the-lessons-gone-unlearnt-at-Westminster.html
Sky contracts killed Scottish football. In the 80s teams like Dundee United got to the semis of the European Cup and the final of the Eufa cup with 13 Scots. They did this because they paid their players relative buttons and invested their income in excellent youth team set ups which developed great players.
Then came Bosman and Sky, wages went through the roof, the youth team set ups were no longer viable and any player good enough for the Championship was offski with a zero on his salary.
The result is the embarrassment we see today.
http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2013/11/introducing-the-13-candidates-on-the-longlist-for-mid-worcestershire.html
Some recurring names here: Ed Argar (shortlisted in both Tonbridge and Newark), Vicky Atikins (shortlisted in Tonbridge), Nusrat Ghani (longlisted in Croydon South), Nigel Huddleston (shortlisted in Newark and longlisted in Croydon South)
- Joan Walley is retiring in Stoke North. Born in 1949, she enteretd the Commons in 1987 GE. She was one of the Lambeth surcharged Cllrs.
To suddenly decide to get married as a result of press criticism is somewhat distasteful. It suggests a lack of respect for marriage and/or hypocrisy.
2-0 FFS.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-24964130
Germany on Tuesday - in many ways the ideal game...
Signing for Falkirk tomorrow
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-15/u-k-parties-prepare-for-2015-by-erasing-web-histories.html
No A&E crisis till 9 years after that fateful day when GP contract was signed.But its Defo not Torys fault
Bring evidence next time
Lo-and-behold: God recognised His mistake and decided to punish their top 'sports-men[-or-persons]' as being useful footballers (or Soccarists for the Morman branch)! Then He realised that this was not enough retribution; instead He "whispered" to the 'important folk' that setting-up the SFA, Scottish Parish Council and electing 'Buy Blair; Get Brown' was "normal" and - erm - productive!
Finally He Rested. And the Devil invented a 'Thing' from 'The Black-Country' that "posts" as a 'Scouse'.... [Yawn: Litany charge-shytesheet is too long already....] *
* Why do thick M***er-F**kers spell 'already' as "all ready". Simple-Communication-Utilises-Messaging...!
:humph:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/ae-crisis-deepening-2400244
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4859935.print/
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/surge-in-patients-sparks-ae-crisis-1062295
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/4859935.Don_t_come_here_says_A_E_crisis_hospital/?action=complain&cid=8241615
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1332789.mps_anger_at_ae_crisis/
For anyone that would like to play, the Chile game will close at 12 noon on Sunday:
http://www.electiongame.co.uk/chile13/
Many thanks - and hope to see some of you at DD's on Wed.
Cheers,
DC
Over 75's no need to worry their named Dr will nullify their need to attend hospital
Who or Which. I'll try to be polite and not associate yourself with a "t'ick norfen" poster....
I will only try though....
I really struggle to find any reversal of the Lansley reforms. Can you poin t these out?
PB Tories should really look at the evidence before posting or ask any A&E worker
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff 1h
The LibDem blogger @markreckons..isn't any more. LibDem, I mean. Still blogging. Here on why party politics is bust http://bit.ly/18BpS7h
Now, I have a bridge that I want to sell. One careful owner, hardly used. Any interest?
UKIP Official Channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ukipofficial/featured
The couple said they were “mystified” after receiving mail from both the Labour Party and the Unite union for a man they have never met. They have even been visited by individuals looking for the man.
The man is one of 15 Labour Party members identified by Eric Joyce, the MP for Falkirk, who do not live at their registered addresses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10453539/Ed-Miliband-must-act-over-phantom-Labour-members-in-Falkirk.html
"Why our energy crisis is just beginning"
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9078561/the-real-energy-scandal/
David Kynaston's latest book Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-1959 is 99p on Nook. Might be useful to anyone has the Nook reader or app.
http://www.nook.com/gb/ebooks/modernity-britain-opening-the-box-1957-1959-by-david-kynaston/9781408839829
New York Post @nypost 9h
Today's front page http://nyp.st/1bsEsi6 pic.twitter.com/MEPqDjL5xZ
Con maj 4.1
Lab maj 2.72
No maj 2.48
http://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/market?id=1.101416490
The privately educated encompasses Eton - with fees well in excess of UK average wages and day schools which had provided grammar school education to a wider social intake albeit at a cost to many parents perhaps at £12K pa.