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We don’t know yet whether the highly controversial Milne is actually going but judging by the Tweets that’s been the buzz from Liverpool overnight.
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'He appeared to have all the power of Alastair Campbell at his peak but without the skills '
Given the corrosive effect of Mr Campbell and his alleged bullying ways, I can't think of a bigger insult to use than those words above to describe anyone.
Labour - and the corbynite idiots - need to lose an election before they understand how screwed they are.
Oh, and antics like changing someone's speech without telling him, by editing the autocue as he's about to go on stage - not big and not clever, especially when your boss is going on about party unity.
Seems the media has finally latched on.
"Germany's Banks are a Timebomb. And if they crash it will be 2008 all over again"
http://dailym.ai/2dqzIqI
Oh, and silly "relative" "poverty" definitions are bollocks. Making the rich less rich doesn't make those at the bottom any better off, nor does just handing them cash as supplicants of the State.
There are a tiny number of people in the UK living in actual poverty, as the rest of the world might define it. Someone is not "in poverty" because they have last year's iPhone or because their satellite TV is only 42" instead of 55.
I think Mr Mid-Life-Crisis would be fabulous. He talks in loony lefty pamphlet language and is incredibly angry. He's just placard away from a rant these days.
Of course - Dr Eoin would be ideal - he's a one man wonder at fact checking too.
They don't have a mechanism in the EZ to bail out banks at this level.
I thought Seumas Milne’s one year contract was up, er that’s it. – No sacrificial lamb, no olive branch sacking for party unity, just not very good at the job, as Mandelson predicted.
And soon to be return to the Guardian by all accounts?
Paul Mason would be a terrible replacement. Increasingly unhinged and unconnected to reality I think even Syriza in its pomp might have hesitated to employ a cannon that was quite that loose.
Who exactly is running the South African USA police. They seem to be acting more like the Selous Scouts under Uncle Ron ('oil leak') Reid Reddy?
http://dailym.ai/2dqxdVw
The only way a bank the size of Deutsche is getting bailed out is if the ECB "print" several hundred billion Euro, which is against every rule in the book. But not doing it risks a domino effect, with Commerzbank next to fall.
It could quite conceivably wreck the Euro as a currency, Deutsche is way too big to fail.
Two pictures sez it all really:
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/780934964607062016
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/780935426592890880
I liked the final sentence of that article:
"Here, in Britain, we should surely be thankful that, after the Brexit vote, we are preparing to jump clear of the clattering train as it heads for a ravine"
- although landing on railway ballast at 40mph will not be unpainful.
The US fine is a proposed fine and it is normal to haggle about these things. The provision made might yet prove sufficient but that is not the real problem. Their real problem is how many toxic derivatives and associated insurance they are still sitting on even although they have managed to wind down some of the exposure.
Germany can afford to bail out its banks and, unlike Greece, does not need EU help to do so. It is just going to be politically toxic to do so having failed to take that step earlier when everyone else was doing it. It may be the final straw for Merkel who looks increasingly unlikely to stand again.
it's a question of when not if. Merkel's refusal to bail them out on Monday won't help the inevitable happening sooner
one inch2.54cm closer to the precipice.What a crock the Euro system is.
The ramping of candidates in an election where almost no-one here is voting, is pointless. Here we're pretty much all all more interested in how to make money, than in the actual result on Nov. 8.
Why wouldn't she want to stand down? And who would replace her?
:-)
But Merkel doesn't want to do that so the EU is a convenient whipping boy
It seems as though the political decision to hurt Southern European countries as much as they could to keep them in line is about to come and bite them in the bum. I am personally looking forwards to it, years of holier than thou preaching from Berlin and Frankfurt has made me indifferent to their travails. If there is some blowback to the UK, we'll just have to deal with it, watching the German banks crumble or the German government enforce a "good enough for thee, but not me" approach and blow up the whole EMU is going to be quite delicious.
Similarly the German refugee crisis is a direct result of Eight Million Germans being expelled from parts of Germany annexed by Russia, Poland and Czech after World War 2 and fleeing west as refugees. While that was within living memory Germany would never have stood aside as another refugee crisis unfolded in southern Europe.
It was just a rare (from me anyway) comment on the number of posters mindlessly ramping one side or the other, in an election where almost no-one on this board is actually voting. There's one pro-Hillary shill in particular who has commented 300 times on nothing else, almost certainly a waste of the DNC's cash.
Sure, we all have an opinion as to the relative merits (or otherwise) of the two most unpopular candidates in history, but most of us here are just looking for a betting angle - given there's nothing we can do to affect the result of the contest.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/27/ignore-the-talk-of-labour-unity--tom-watson-just-humiliated-jere/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XwsPvu6yI&feature=youtu.be
Those vox pops look really genuine.........
Eventually after a lot of unnecessary damage it did but the Germans have been adamant that that should not happen again with their "bail in" ideas. Having German citizens being amongst the first to suffer this (after Cyprus where the biggest victims were Russian gangsters so no one cared) was not a part of the plan.
It makes the Sarkozy plan look an interesting possibility (should he manage to get elected, of course...).
On Milne, he's fantastic at his job. No one else is so adept at keeping his boss in the news or dragging a story out for days and days. Ok, usually it's for negative reasons, but he's on the right track.
Corbyn might well have wanted him gone awhile ago for all I know, or others of the Corbynistas brand. If so, they probably didn't want to appear weak and do do before Corbyn was internally secure. Which they now are.
He does seem to find encounters with people who have the temerity to question him perplexing in the extreme.
Ok in fairness again that's most politicians too, he's just awful at not seeming offended at being asked.
I hope he isn't replaced with someone more competent (Milne, that is, not Corbyn).
You show disappointment they are not focusing on what you want when you have more important subjects, without seeming too entitled.
Once again yes minister taught us all about not answering questions. Sure it's a formula we see overused, but clearly it works or they wouldn't keep doing so. The old ' I think the real question is...' 'That's not the question...' Works at press conferences rather than interview since the journalist will not be as able to cone back at your evasion.
Note: @kle4 one for you to assess.
Trump probably doesn’t have to worry much about winning Melbourne and surrounding Brevard County, solidly Republican territory where GOP voters outnumber registered Democrats by about 40,000.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/09/27/trump-goes-from-debate-stage-to-sunshine-state/
Really? All I see is reaction to the Trump ramping and, in particular, the stupid pseudo-doctor stuff.
I'd love to be paid to give my opinions on the Internet. How do I sign up?
Oh, I just have. Putin's a great man. Russia's doing brilliantly helping the lovely Assad. North Korea's a great place to go on holiday. Venezuela's economy is booming. The Conservatives are evil baby-eaters. Vote TRUMP!
..and one of the reasons is that Sainsbury's penchant for rebranding foods from other companies under their own name. People don't like it when well remembered and loved brands are made invisible. True other major supermarkets do this too - Tesco is a prime example - but Sainsbury's leads the pack.
Theoretically.
If anyone knows Sam Allardyce, please tell him to get in touch. We could always use more store managers and yes, we can pay in pies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/27/britain-leaps-into-seventh-place-in-competitiveness-rankings-as/
I think a post-Brexit UK can be the number one most competitive country in the world. Let's hope Tezza is of like mind.
Seumas return to Guardian
Significantly, he was not involved in any of the media briefing ahead of Mr Corbyn's keynote speech to the Labour conference this afternoon - a task normally carried out by the leader's most senior press spokesman.
The party is already searching for a replacement for Kevin Slocombe, Mr Corbyn's former head of media who left his post in the summer to work for Bristol mayor Marvin Rees.
https://t.co/EhnP7LMINQ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/37449771
Brexit due to David Cameron’s ‘shit’ campaign, says senior German official
http://tinyurl.com/j9t6uqk
bill mitchell is some crazy trump ramper. i wouldnt listen to anything he says.
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Rather, I think the Hitler background is a factor - having been the cause of mass forced migration followed by extermination, many Germans feel that they need to be especially careful not to shut an eye to refugee misery. It's a decent fundamental outlook though of course one can quarrel with practical consequences.
If he thinks a migrant impact fund will alleviate peoples fears on immigration, then he is deluded.