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Tim Shipman (Mail) @ShippersUnbound 2m
M.Eagle - Creagh job swap clears the way for Labour to ditch HS2
Besides Osbornes ever tightening ligature around the throat of the Tory Party, that's the biggest news.
Not what I heard on radio leeds news reports,creagh sounded all in favour of HS2,bringing jobs to the north and all that.
http://www.ukip.org/newsroom/news
17:16pm There's been much talk of how Maria Eagle's departure as shadow transport secretary (she is now shadow environment secretary) could pave the way for a Labour U-turn over High Speed 2. But during this afternoon's reshuffle briefing, the party's spokesman emphasised that Mary Creagh is a "supporter of HS2" and that "there is no change in the party's position".
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/10/labour-and-government-reshuffles-live-updates
Balls is the scapper, and I suspect Miliband will continue wholeheartedly with the project, if only to emphasize Balls's continuing impotence.
What are we to make of today's goings and other goings ? As many have said, the Osbornians, the Osborniates, the Osbornites or whatever we finish up calling them are in the ascendant which means Osborne comes out of 2015 either in pole position to take over the Conservative Party when Cameron stands down or joining his ally in the political wilderness.
It's a huge personal and political gamble and if the Conservatives lose in 2015, Osborne and his allies will have a long time to contemplate that failure.
On the LD side, I presume the replacement of Moore by Carmichael will allow Moore to fight to hold his seat. As for the exit of Jeremy Browne, I don't pretend to know the whys and wherefores. Could Browne realistically be a challenger for a post-Clegg leadership battle ? If he keeps his seat, I suppose he could.
It's worth mentioning the Leeds tram/trolleybus system. There isn't one, despite it being promised for ages, and last time a large sum (over £100m, I think) was spent preparing for it only for the Government (then Labour) to pull the plug. The suspicion would be that HS2 might go ahead but that we wouldn't benefit.
It will be a joke that once HS2 is complete, it will take roughly half the time it takes to go from Sheffield to London, to go from Sheffield to Manchester.
This post is nothing to do with the fact that I have a daily train commute from Sheffield to Manchester.
Unless they playing the lib dem strategy of saying one thing in the north and another in the south,just poor.
Your role would be to pay extra taxes so that politicians and civil servants could have subsidised executive travel.
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2013/10/royal-mail-nowbbc-next.html
Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP
Very sad to see Kris Hopkins promoted. One of parliaments slimiest, nastiest MPs. Really. Awful. Decision.
Another Richard - It is, especially if you go on the local stopping service, rather than Manchester Airport service.
Stark Dawning - Supertram is a success, they are finally expanding it to my part of Sheffield for HS2
Obama launches a drone strike killing a terrorist? He's still a secret muslim who hates America.
They are simply incapable of changing and the GOP is continuing to lose it's mind as it becomes ever more obsessive and paranoid. Just we predicted back when Romney was beaten.
The PB Romneys are just yet more hilarious proof of that.
The second and more important difference is that the latter are in fact trustworthy. What a difference to government that makes.
Everyone makes mistakes and misjudgments. Everyone is a genius in retrospect. But I really don't think this country could stand another government riven like the Blair/Brown one.
With that in mind I think Miliband's changes make a kind of sense. Right or wrong the dimissal of the Blairite tendency means that the front bench at least is more united than it has been for a very long time.
I can't think of two better character references for the awesomeness of Mr Hopkins
Cam on @tombradby's ITV1 Agenda tonight: EdM 'struck a chord' on energy prices. See PolHome http://www.politicshome.com
How can Nadine Dorries get away with tweeting something like that about a colleague and still retain the Tory whip?
*Even though I am directly responsible for them being significantly increased over the last 4-5 years.
Not the museum anecdote where Cameron ignored everyone but the African but the one where Charles's mum was ignored by Cameron at a dinner.
I think it might cast more light on the reshuffle.
MI5 pregnant with Diana's baby, or something
pic.twitter.com/AGNn1EXjI5
via @hendopolis
I am from Lancashire, incidentally (and rather obviously..
I know little economics, but it looks to me to be, err, right on the money.
http://www.footlocker.eu/gb/en/Shoes/Nike-Air-Max-2013-42.aspx/4207536104
"Obama launches a drone strike killing a terrorist? He's still a secret muslim who hates America."
If, heaven forbid, Obama was a secret muslim, he wouldn't care a damn for the lives of fellow muslims. In every country where islam holds sway, muslims are killing other muslims (of the wrong sect) by the thousand's every day; sometimes every hour. If you wanted to find a religeon of death this is it.
Perfect #reshuffle cartoon from @Adamstoon1:
pic.twitter.com/Amxn7oqtNK
I'm afraid there are no Blairites left.
Good Luck
Liam
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/86084/the_daily_telegraph_tuesday_8th_october_2013.html
Your shoes were worse!
This will definitely end well.
EDLNewsXtra @EDLNewsXtra 6m
Malala Yousafzai, who fought Islamic Extremism for real, continues to be held in low regard, by the #EDL.
http://twitpic.com/dgglow
It was that he "doesn't know how to listen".
Though converts out of Islam are often quiet about it, for cultural reasons:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7355515.stm
A third of British muslims support the death penalty for those who leave Islam according to this article.
Despite this persecution, there is quite an active house church movement in Iran.
http://www.elam.com/articles/The-Church-In-Iran/
These light rail projects in the UK never make their money back in terms of fares. What they do is enable travel and business. The same thing happened in Nottingham and Croydon, two other tram networks I know a small amount about.
On another note: I don't agree with Tim about much, by on Malala we're as one. An inspirational and rather brave young woman. It's a shame she didn't get Time's POTY last year. She would have been a much better and wiser choice than Obama, again.
Indeed, how about the Nobel Peace Price for Malala? She'd certainly fit in more easily with Tawakol Karman than Obama.
Although I'm rather hesitant about thrusting such a young person further into the limelight.
Personally, I've found the latter point easy to forget, given the contrast between this government's relative harmony and the backbiting and off-the-record briefing that characterised the previous government.
(second in SW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVmPPl7Qw2E#t=73
(first in East)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRUlH4u5qqg
(top in Wales)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ5PHRm8BPM
(top in Yorkshire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXhpCvET_U
(second in SE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYyTzBo4S0
(top in West Midlands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVHlwoSQZ4
(second in NW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGO5HyWr6tQ
(second in East Midlands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKcSo599I8
I leave out sitting MPs, Diane James (as you probably already saw her in action) and a couple who didn't upload a short video.
Thanks. So you have to see all the UKIP winnable candidates or be damned!
All the best people met Hitler...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AuPoOCVtSzM/Sy9irajwf0I/AAAAAAAAApM/nLXmU9jpxWg/s1600/Hitler+&+Lloyd+George+at+Obersalzburg+during+George's+second+visit.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AuPoOCVtSzM/S1pv6I-Lb0I/AAAAAAAABjk/RkwrcG04e1w/s1600/The+Duke+and+Duchess+of+Windsor+with+Hitler.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660668
Hold on ! This cannot be correct. I thought Labour was going to be in trouble on this. The PBTories told us....
This is a perfect outcome for those resisting the imposition of regulation by politicians and makes an agreed regulatory solution before the next GE less likely.
Although the story may not yet be over, in either direction.
An easy target for metropolitan leftie elites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZmOgMlyRE
Hunt has not apologised nor withdrawn his tweet.
He has written to Burnham highlighting the basis of his accusation: that the Department of Health under Burnham imposed restrictions on the CQC's briefings to the media.
It is quite evident from the published emails that this was the perception of CQC officials.
Hunt is undertaking to legislate to prevent such political interference in future.
Over to Burnham and his legal team.
The tory comedy spinners on PB are all the proof anyone ever needs of that.
He is quite articulate, but a public schoolboy as Education spokesman for the Labour party says it all...