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I wonder if we will get madder than the ukip candidate who was proudly a porn performer?
' Veteran Labour blogger Hopi Sen, along with Sunday Times journalist James Lyons (£), wrote one year ago about how Lavery had received redundancy payments from the tiny trade union he led, the rump National Union of Mineworkers he took over from Arthur Scargill, over a period of years. And a loan that has no evidence of ever being repaid.
They related how, among fact-finding missions to the Caribbean and India by his cronies, the £1.6m compensation payments paid to the union on behalf of invalided-out miners had been frittered away to a fraction of their original levels. Nearly £800k of it was paid directly to Lavery in remuneration, pension and car allowance. And that is not to mention a somewhat unusual £75k mortgage loan, which was later very kindly written off by the union (Lavery declined to give the names of the relevant trustees at the time). And later £62k redundancy costs, even though Lavery resigned (thus rendering himself, one presumes, ineligible for redundancy).
Lavery had no satisfactory answers to the questions raised by Sen and Lyons. And that seems to be because there exist no satisfactory answers. There are now at least two investigations being carried out into Lavery, which have yet to report. In short, there are very serious questions to answer by the former General Secretary, regarding the use of funds deriving from sick miners, who gave their money to the union in good faith. '
http://thecentreleft.blogspot.com/2017/02/ian-lavery-should-not-be-labours.html
Seriously, it could cause problems for Aaron Banks, with knock ons for his nasty little "send 'em back & have Douglas Carswell shot for treason" movement. But I don't think May will lose sleep.
Macron 24.5%
Le Pen 23%
Fillon 19%
Melenchon 19%
http://www.odoxa.fr/sondage/impact-evenements-20-avril-lelection-presidentielle/
This story is of marginal importance.
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/855438697550024704
Personally, I don't buy it. Particularly in the world of politics, my view is that as the absolute numbers go up, it gets harder and harder to overturn the same percentage split.
And yet, OGH and others perpetuate this myth that somehow the referendum was close because of the percentages. It was not. Leave won by ~ 1.3 MILLION votes.
Lab 52.2
Con 26.6
UKIP 8.3
Grn 6.4
LD 5.7
TUSC 0.8
Three-way marginal this time?
Percentages matter. But 52:48 is not actually that close.
https://storify.com/hopisen/defending-good-unions-doesn-t-mean-protecting-bad-
' Newsnight has also identified a sum of £109,911 written off in the union's books in 2007. This is almost exactly the figure Mr Lavery would have owed on the £72,500 mortgage if he had made no, or very low, payments over the 13-year period. '
' A second puzzle relates to Mr Lavery's redundancy. He acknowledges he received £62,000 in redundancy payments but insists he doesn't recognise a second payment of £85,426, logged on the union's books in 2013. '
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36046675
https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/855435974200803328
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39622335
As an alumnus of Cambridge, we have form for being the greatest double/sleeper agents in history.
For the greater good.
In Nick Palmer’s words, Tick, tock ...
Every single one was an EUsceptic.
Possibly Erith & Thamesmead if Labour disintegrates.
Expect a poll boost for May.
A half decent opposition, etc., etc....
If it had been held to be binding, something might have been done. But now...
Lab 49.8
Con 27.4
UKIP 17.3
LD 2.3
Grn 2.3
CPA 0.6
EngDem 0.4
Not massively dissimilar, a bit more UKIP than LD/Grn. If E&T is in danger, G&W ought to be close enough to be describable as a marginal.
And the fact we are even discussing this as even remotely possible is quite frightening.
Sadly, I misread this BBC story "Jeremy Corbyn has held a rally to a crowd of hundreds in Cardiff - calling for voters to join him on a journey of "hope and excitement""
For some inexplicable reason, I misread the last word as 'excrement'
That William Hill market on Labour MPs resigning in 2017. Didn't that state it only counted if they took the chiltern hundreds or an equivalent? So the snap election basically guarantees a win for the 6 or under option. Even Metro Mayor winners won't technically resign.
I hope Mr Dancer's space cannon is fully serviced I think almost everyone involved in Labours campaign might need to be fired into the heart of the Sun.
A. Endless whinging; and
B. Journalists and Twitter users running the risk of it falling off as they become excitable?
Will that do?
They're strong in Central and Broomhill wards and I don't see the inhabitants of the Manor having a big turnout.
Have you any ideas about how enthused the Asian vote in Sharrow and Nether Edge is with Labour at present ?
May I ask if you evidence for this truly extraordinary claim?
Theresa just can't sit back,the tv news media are her opposition.
My Lib Dem friends in Dore are saying Hallam will see the Tories finish second ahead of Labour.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions let us wait for the manifesto and at least it will be the genuine article not like labour's ridiculous 'rolling manifesto'
Those who backed with Robert at 10/1 can lay off for guaranteed profit by backing Labour here at 4/6.
Maybe having a department whose only performance indicator is how much borrowed money they can get rid of my not be the best idea.
As to Hallam I expect Clegg will lose the tactical votes of 2015 and there's no way Labour will run the high energy campaign they did last time.
Any borough that used to be prefixed 'The Socialist Republic of' by the press back in the 1980s.
https://twitter.com/roger_scully/status/855443637479624704
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/855460089364439040
Labour's campaign showing about as much evidence of success as the Corbyn Relaunch thus far.
And Labour now has 47 days left in which to convince the people of England and Wales that a Far Left minority Government, led by Jeremy Corbyn and sustained by the support of Scottish Nationalists, is just what they've always wanted.
Howard Jones on Top of the Pops '83 on BBC4 right now.
If something sounds too good to be true then it probably is. Alas.