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"Shadow chancellor Ed Balls' office has said that he will not give back a donation from the Co-operative Group of £50,000 made in March 2012."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24998955
And the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/19/labour-urged-return-co-op-donation-paul-flowers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509803/Co-ops-Rev-Paul-Flowers-committed-gross-indecency-man-public-toilets-30-years-ago.html
Imagine
England
Croatia
Argentina
Peru
Senegal
India
as a group.
The home fixtures from big footballing countries in competitive matches would be great for the minnow, as good as qualifying for a World Cup for some, and we would be spared the boring same old same old fixtures vs Poland, Sweden etc
The South Americans who play club football in Europe cope with the midweek travelling, so that cant be an excuse. The gate receipts from hosting Argentina and England at home would pay for the travel to the away fixtures for Senegal, I think it would be fantastic!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/applied_graphene_goes_public/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8506306.stm
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2013/11/19/new-revelations-expose-contradictions-in-the-labour-leaderships-story-on-falkirk/#more-17503
"The combination of Iain McNicol seeming to change the rules on direct debits and, membership forms potentially being back-dated is toxic for Labour’s position on Falkirk."
"Until these questions like these are definitively answered, Labour’s problems in Falkirk will continue to grow.
Atul Hatwal is editor of Labour Uncut"
The bl**dy right wing press just will not drop it will they.
'It was in the COOPs annual report - and the BBC covered it:'
Lots of coverage tonight for Labour's favorite banker.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509659/Miliband-held-private-meeting-drug-shame-bank-chairman-Labour-leader-facing-difficult-questions-relationship-Paul-Flowers.html#ixzz2l8CdYwAK
Taking the boasts of a meth-head as gospel now? Oh dear.
This is the funniest story in ages, don't ruin the fun with your buzzkill.
Do you think Neil knows?
As for a debate on immigration, I think I spend too much time looking at political blogs, because from that one could be forgiven for thinking that debating about immigration is all we bloody do.
I'd probably be susceptible to wooing from a national liberal party purely from a branding perspective - I've certainly voted LD enough times, but I do sneer at some of their more soft leftyness, so something purportedly a middle ground between Tory and LD would probably appeal to some extent. But then again I don't particularly fear Labour getting back in, even if I think it too soon, and as I live in a safe seat it doesn't matter, so I'd probably stay undecided.
Can't say I'd heard of the sweetshop theory of politics before. Given such shops are a rarity these days, it is imperative the theory be rebranded so as not to lose touch with the young people.
Labour will scrap benefits for under 25s.
Doesn't help though.
The school in question was Faraday High School, East Acton, (which is now the King Fahad Academy).
The programme was broadcast in March 1977, although I think it was filmed during November 1976:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7ThNFtf68&
"People in Scotland must be able to speak freely in the coming months without fear of retribution, writes Brian Wilson
THE Chris Whatley affair is, at one level, just another spat along the long road to the referendum. At another, it tells us a great deal that is disturbing about how public life in Scotland is now being orchestrated.
The full e-mail sent by Shona Robison MSP to the principal of Dundee University, expressing “dismay” over Professor Whatley’s participation in the city’s Better Together launch, makes unpleasant reading. It leaves little doubt about the intentions of its author – to silence the individual and put the frighteners on his employers."
Evening Standard - Labour pressed on Co-op donation
"Labour has said Mr Flowers was "neither influential nor important" and the 63-year-old has been suspended from the party for bringing it into disrepute.
A source said: "It's true that there was a private meeting with Ed in March of this year. There were two informal dinners - three meetings that we can find records of in the space of three years.
"This shows that Mr Flowers was neither influential nor important."
During an appearance before the Commons Treasury committee earlier this month, where Mr Flowers stumbled over the basic facts and figures relating to the ailing bank, he was pressed on whether he had approved a £50,000 donation to Mr Balls' from the Co-operative Group in 2011/2012 while a member of the board.
"My recollection is that we paid for a particular researcher to assist the shadow chancellor in the work that he needed to do, and that we believed to be a legitimate and proper use of resources," he replied.
A spokesman for Mr Balls said: "The Co-op Group, not the bank, donated £50,000 to the shadow chancellor's office which was declared in the normal way at the time.
"Ed has never discussed the donation with Paul Flowers. Ed's been to a few events which Rev Flowers has also been at, but he's never had a meeting or phone conversation with him.""
On the one hand it is utterly outrageous, and one imagines there will be all sorts of exemptions and loopholes so that it doesn't actually mean what it says.
On the other hand, living with my dad and step-mother for another few months might have ended the relationship with my Ex nearly five years earlier.