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Many of the LibDem junior ministers would have made excellent senior ones, and many of them achieved a great deal, often behind the scenes and up against a sometimes reluctant senior coalition partner. We do not however select our senior politicians on merit (alone).Nemtynakht said:
I quite agree but he could have been an excellent CofE. I'm not keen on Tim Farron, I preferred Nick Clegg, too europhile for my taste in supporting a party with democrat in their name, but I think he has been unfairly judged regarding the coalition, considering the way a coalition works elsewhere e.g. Germany.IanB2 said:
To answer the original question - he was a brilliant and innovative pensions minister who both knew the detail and had the political skills to drive through radical reform from his position within the junior coalition partner. I am quite sure his radical shake up of both the state and private pensions worlds will stand the test of time - and he is a VERY rare example of a politician who made the financial environment simpler rather than more complicated.Nemtynakht said:
My former MP, he's a good man well liked locally. I think the local LDs selected the next PPC straight after the last election, and they announced quickly she would definitely be standing, TBH I don't think he would have had a great chance. There is a large UKIP vote to squeeze for the Tory candidate and a lot of new houses going up around Thornbury and Chipping Sodbury. I will vote for Claire Young and think she would certainly be better than our current MP Luke Hall although I would note we have already had 3 leaflets from Tories and 1 from LDs and it is a LD target seat.
But to jump from there to suggesting he is a 'missed leader' is misunderstanding the type of politician he was - he was made for the job he had, not for being party leader.0 -
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The cashier is unlikely to have much of a clue about that bet.Carolus_Rex said:
I imagine they take the money and try to keep a straight face.Dadge said:
What is betting shops' policy in these instances? Do they just take the bet, or is there any code of honour that states they warn the punter that it's a losing bet?bigjohnowls said:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 2m2 minutes ago
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PaddyPower shop in London has taken a bet of £330 at 500/1 that UKIP will win most seats
Where is MikeL these days?
All they'll be thinking is it's a big bet at long odds which has to go through head office and written down very carefully.
The politics trader at head office, however...0 -
Or more like Custer's last stand?Freggles said:On topic, is this Labour uniting around Corbyn more, like the Republicans did for Trump?
[Interesting fact: one of the Native American chiefs at Little Bighorn was actually called Lame White Man, which is surely one of the earliest recorded instances of sledging]0 -
Good luck - had a look at some of your policies which seem to be more well prepared than the Labour Party.David_Evershed said:
Excellent performance on Daily Politics.Lennon said:
No technically leader - just the candidate which is based in London and thus can get to the studio...Pulpstar said:Lennon said:*cough* Shamless self-promotion plug *cough* (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052lyqd).
Didn't realise we had a genuine bona fide UK party leader amongst our ranks !
How refreshing to have a clear policy and polite discusion of the issues - whilst being able to put down the Plaid leader on her challenge about crowd sourcing.0 -
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It's almost there was a thing called 'purdah' and the release of politically sensitive statistics are suspended. But labour know that. They are relying on people like you who don't.bigjohnowls said:No more NHS Stats till after election apparently
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Lab's Jon Ashworth: postponement of NHS stats till after polling day "a cover-up" - writing "to insist this data is released as planned"0 -
Without going all statto, it would be possible - theoretically - to end up with a result likePulpstar said:
Wow, that has to be the lay of the election. UKIP could get 100% in every seat they're in and it still wouldn't win.bigjohnowls said:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 2m2 minutes ago
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PaddyPower shop in London has taken a bet of £330 at 500/1 that UKIP will win most seats
Where is MikeL these days?
I'll go a million to one for anyone who fancies a top up.
This was actually a very good bet had it been placed in say October 2015 though.
UKIP 200
Con 190
Lab 150
SNP 55
LD 36
Grn 1
NI 18
It'd probably take Theresa May, Liam Fox and Boris to decide it'd be a good idea to scrap A50 and join the Euro, but while I'd never lay a 1000000/1 shot anyway (don't have the resources to lay against anything other than pence, and what'd be the point of that?), it's still worth thinking about with a punter's hat on.
Which is a long-winded way of saying that if I thought I could collect if it came in, I'd take that.0 -
Nobody expects theFreggles said:
If he would confirm that, it'd probably help people vote Labour. Nobody sane expects a win.Scott_P said:
https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/862676207187447809Freggles said:On topic, is this Labour uniting around Corbyn more, like the Republicans did for Trump?
Spanish InquisitionLabour Party Manifesto!0 -
It can only be downhill for the Conservatives now, talk about peaking too soon!!!!!!.0
