Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' album is tremendous. 'Love Is A Losing Game' a classic
Years ago a very good friend of mine who writes gig reviews for the Guardian and Indy said "hey, come and join me, in East London, i've gotta review this young Jewish singer song writer, she's meant to be amazing, like Aretha from Camden"
I was busy drinking (or whatever) and I thought - Jewish Camden Aretha-like singer-songwriter? sounds a bit wanky - and I turned him down. The next day he told me I'd made a grave error, it was one of the best gigs he'd ever seen.
It was Amy Winehouse, of course. I never got to see her live. She was brilliantly talented.
In 1983 I was a student in London. A flatmate had a mate coming down to see a band and stay with us. I asked what they were like, and didn't think much of watching a bloke in NHS glasses waving around gladioli.
We went to the pub instead and met him afterwards. I missed the Smiths.
Serious questions how someone with extremist views were allowed to conduct these attacks.
Indeed. If only Diane Abbott had been Home Secretary and Mr Corbyn our PM, the attack would not have happened. One would have felt so much safer. Vote Labour.
So 3 terrorism attack is not the Tories fault.
Police cuts and watered down powers for resources is not the Tories fault.
Another individual on here who cares more about their party than their country. Disgusting
Still banging on about this? Getting much traction?
Party before country. Party before country. Party before country.
Labour would do nothing that might risk an important part of it's voter base clearing off to a neo-Respect. No-one else has that noose around their neck.
Yes, probably. Simple, easy to understand and sell to the public as policies go, whether or not they would have helped in these cases or not.
No good Conservative could support ID cards.
Very simple question, how would have ID cards stopped the events of Saturday night.
I became a Tory over ID cards ten years ago.
BUT if you do want to require everyone to show ID all of the time, you need to make it available. I don't so I don't, if you see what I mean.
The technology has overtaken them. Think about the digital ID on gov.uk that everyone praises for making things like tax discs easier to do. Think about how it will link to your personal tax account and even GP appointments and blood test results. We all already have, or are in the process of gaining, "digital ID cards" with more information on than the previous concept could even imagine. All that's missing is the card, but then that lot is linked to your driving license and if you want to vote, you're going to need photo ID soon.
Awww Peter Sallis. Aside from Wallace he was also good in the original Ice Warriors story in Doctor Who with Patrick Troughton. I remember he best in Last of the Summer Wine, the show itself was awful but I used to watch it when I was a lad with my grandparents. Cocoa and Cleggy.
Some here will be pleased to learn he once played Samuel Pepys - though I can think of only one of us who might be old enough to have seen it...
This morning my daughter saw a picture of James II and asked if it was Samuel Pepys... 5 year olds these days...
It's nonsense like ID Cards which is why Blair is so toxic these days.
Yes, and I hope crap like that doesn't get back on the agenda. Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
All this talk of Buckley and Powell makes me nostalgic for Brian Walden and Weekend world - we criticise pols for being shadows of former years' but nobody today even the sainted A Neill can do the job that Walden used to - as for politicians Powell and Foot sparring over opinion polls and the EC makes me embarrassed for our current crop
It also had a fine theme tune - Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain. (Although the Nantucket Sleighride itself is rather unsavoury - refers to when you harpooned a whale and your vessel was dragged by it...urgh!)
The theme tune is what got me hooked on it when I was a kid!
Mountain were another awesome band. Mississippi Queen is just fab.
I remember seeing a film of AJP Taylor doing a TV programme in the 1960s on the origins of the First World War.
The programme was an hour long and he spoke, without notes, from start to finish, for within about 15 seconds of the hour and the way in which he drew himself towards his conclusions you would have thought he had the whole thing timed to the second. Just remarkable.
I've recently been watching Civilisation on the iPlayer, and thinking they really don't make television like this anymore.
I really do need to delete that thread I wrote tipping Diane Abbott as next Labour leader.
That was a GOOD TIP. You mark my words. We do reasonably well. The McDonnell amendment somehow passes conference. Jeremy decides its time to take up that Professorship at Raqqa University. And geed up by the brilliance of the campaign the flock decide on a woman. Thornberry decides its not for her. And forward comes Diane.
Is it stupid? Yes, yes it is. But this is the Labour membership. Stupid is the new Sane.
Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' album is tremendous. 'Love Is A Losing Game' a classic
Years ago a very good friend of mine who writes gig reviews for the Guardian and Indy said "hey, come and join me, in East London, i've gotta review this young Jewish singer song writer, she's meant to be amazing, like Aretha from Camden"
I was busy drinking (or whatever) and I thought - Jewish Camden Aretha-like singer-songwriter? sounds a bit wanky - and I turned him down. The next day he told me I'd made a grave error, it was one of the best gigs he'd ever seen.
It was Amy Winehouse, of course. I never got to see her live. She was brilliantly talented.
In 1983 I was a student in London. A flatmate had a mate coming down to see a band and stay with us. I asked what they were like, and didn't think much of watching a bloke in NHS glasses waving around gladioli.
We went to the pub instead and met him afterwards. I missed the Smiths.
I passed on a Kirsty MacColl concert because I was a bit tired and there would be plenty of other opportunities...
Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' album is tremendous. 'Love Is A Losing Game' a classic
Years ago a very good friend of mine who writes gig reviews for the Guardian and Indy said "hey, come and join me, in East London, i've gotta review this young Jewish singer song writer, she's meant to be amazing, like Aretha from Camden"
I was busy drinking (or whatever) and I thought - Jewish Camden Aretha-like singer-songwriter? sounds a bit wanky - and I turned him down. The next day he told me I'd made a grave error, it was one of the best gigs he'd ever seen.
It was Amy Winehouse, of course. I never got to see her live. She was brilliantly talented.
In 1983 I was a student in London. A flatmate had a mate coming down to see a band and stay with us. I asked what they were like, and didn't think much of watching a bloke in NHS glasses waving around gladioli.
We went to the pub instead and met him afterwards. I missed the Smiths.
Their first appearance on Top of the Pops was on BBC4 a few weeks ago, from 24th November 1983:
I'll probably get laughed at for saying this but Madonna's Ray of Light album is still IMO amazing. Vocally at her best from the Evita voice training she did, lyrically brilliant, she was spiritually in a great place and William Orbit produced a great album.
The last 3 Survation/GMTV phone polls have been: 12/13 May - Con 48, Lab 30 Lead 18 19/20 May - Con 43, Lab 34 Lead 9 26/27 May - Con 43, Lab 37 Lead 6
The surge seems to have stopped, so I would imagine little change from the last poll. If the gap is closer now, I'm revising my bets!
Corbyn today visited Durham NW, Middlesbrough South, Blyth Valley and Gateshead.
Given the type of his previous visits, it likely means Durham NW, Blyth Valley and Gateshead are considered safe enough and Middlesbrough South already lost.
On Saturday he went Lincoln, Sherwood and Broxtowe. On Sunday he was supposed to go to Stroud.
He doesn't visit the seats on the real defense list, the 5-15% Labour majorities.
His plan is not to save seats but to increase the Labour share.
• confront Saudi over its funding of terrorist groups
• contact Trump and urge him to retract his remarks about the London mayor
• set a date for a quick budget to implement key policies such as lifting the public sector pay cap
• call Merkel and Macron to start Brexit talks, saying he would have a mandate to negotiate tariff-free trade
That's what a proper PM will look like, not the excuse called Theresa May who stands there like a floppy leaf of lettuce when a foreign despotic regime funds terrorism in Britain and when the psychopathic president of another foreign country spews out tweets to interfere in British affairs. There is a political party that is a disgrace to this country, and it's not the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, or UKIP.
The last 3 Survation/GMTV phone polls have been: 12/13 May - Con 48, Lab 30 Lead 18 19/20 May - Con 43, Lab 34 Lead 9 26/27 May - Con 43, Lab 37 Lead 6
The surge seems to have stopped, so I would imagine little change from the last poll. If the gap is closer now, I'm revising my bets!
Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' album is tremendous. 'Love Is A Losing Game' a classic
Years ago a very good friend of mine who writes gig reviews for the Guardian and Indy said "hey, come and join me, in East London, i've gotta review this young Jewish singer song writer, she's meant to be amazing, like Aretha from Camden"
I was busy drinking (or whatever) and I thought - Jewish Camden Aretha-like singer-songwriter? sounds a bit wanky - and I turned him down. The next day he told me I'd made a grave error, it was one of the best gigs he'd ever seen.
It was Amy Winehouse, of course. I never got to see her live. She was brilliantly talented.
In 1983 I was a student in London. A flatmate had a mate coming down to see a band and stay with us. I asked what they were like, and didn't think much of watching a bloke in NHS glasses waving around gladioli.
We went to the pub instead and met him afterwards. I missed the Smiths.
I passed on a Kirsty MacColl concert because I was a bit tired and there would be plenty of other opportunities...
Serious questions how someone with extremist views were allowed to conduct these attacks.
Indeed. If only Diane Abbott had been Home Secretary and Mr Corbyn our PM, the attack would not have happened. One would have felt so much safer. Vote Labour.
So 3 terrorism attack is not the Tories fault.
Police cuts and watered down powers for resources is not the Tories fault.
Another individual on here who cares more about their party than their country. Disgusting
Listen very carefully. I will say this only once.
I am in the fortunate position of believing that the underlying philosophy and practical politics of my party are both coincident with the best interests of my country.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
I'll probably get laughed at for saying this but Madonna's Ray of Light album is still IMO amazing. Vocally at her best from the Evita voice training she did, lyrically brilliant, she was spiritually in a great place and William Orbit produced a great album.
Agreed. Mores the pity she didn't carry on in that general direction.
Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' album is tremendous. 'Love Is A Losing Game' a classic
Years ago a very good friend of mine who writes gig reviews for the Guardian and Indy said "hey, come and join me, in East London, i've gotta review this young Jewish singer song writer, she's meant to be amazing, like Aretha from Camden"
I was busy drinking (or whatever) and I thought - Jewish Camden Aretha-like singer-songwriter? sounds a bit wanky - and I turned him down. The next day he told me I'd made a grave error, it was one of the best gigs he'd ever seen.
It was Amy Winehouse, of course. I never got to see her live. She was brilliantly talented.
In 1983 I was a student in London. A flatmate had a mate coming down to see a band and stay with us. I asked what they were like, and didn't think much of watching a bloke in NHS glasses waving around gladioli.
We went to the pub instead and met him afterwards. I missed the Smiths.
I passed on a Kirsty MacColl concert because I was a bit tired and there would be plenty of other opportunities...
In 1981 I turned down the opportunity to see Queen because a mate of mine told me they didn't play the middle part of Bohemian Rhapsody live so I decided not to bother.
Talking of singers with good voices, I don't know if anyone has heard of Jewel? Saw her at the Royal Albert Hall (I think) about ten years ago. "Pieces of You" was her first (and best, in my opinion) album.
She was deeply unpleasant to [slightly mad blonde Republican woman who all Democrats loathe] on the Roast for [pretty boy actor who played Sam in West Wing]
Twigg was in Halifax The candidate for Liverpool Walton was in City of Chester The MP for Sheffield Heeley was in Barnsley East (they were supposed to have Owen Jones on Sunday and they had Prescott the previous weekend....parachuting Watson's ex girlfriend has not gone down too well with the locals?)
Yeah, I'm leaving that thread up, for this gem alone
As an opinion pollster, speaking exclusively in an entirely personal capacity and in no way representative of his employer put it about Corbynites ‘these days anybody who doesn’t get visibly aroused by the sound of an Enver Hoxha speech is a Blairite,’
The last 3 Survation/GMTV phone polls have been: 12/13 May - Con 48, Lab 30 Lead 18 19/20 May - Con 43, Lab 34 Lead 9 26/27 May - Con 43, Lab 37 Lead 6
The surge seems to have stopped, so I would imagine little change from the last poll. If the gap is closer now, I'm revising my bets!
It's nonsense like ID Cards which is why Blair is so toxic these days.
Yes, and I hope crap like that doesn't get back on the agenda. Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
Totally agree. May's more statist instincts (Snoopers Charter etc.) make me worry about this....
I'll probably get laughed at for saying this but Madonna's Ray of Light album is still IMO amazing. Vocally at her best from the Evita voice training she did, lyrically brilliant, she was spiritually in a great place and William Orbit produced a great album.
10 minutes BBC news reveal that they released one of the attackers without charge.
Imagine the Tory nationalists if this was done under labour government.
3 attacks under mays was not enough eyes and ears all to fund tax cuts for the rich
The police killed the three attackers didn't they?
And it would have been much better if they had been immobilised and arrested. No martyrdom, information gathered, cell rounded up.
Any evidence for the martyrdom effect?
They were wearing suicide vests. There was no other option than to shoot them.
Shoot to disable, not to kill.
The existence of the word 'martyrdom' is evidence that martyrdom exists.
You cannot shoot to disable, trust me. In the high pressure of the situation you have to shoot for the centre of mass. If it's a possible suicide bomber, and you are close enough, you might try for the brain stem but basically you're going to unload into the chest.
Talking of singers with good voices, I don't know if anyone has heard of Jewel? Saw her at the Royal Albert Hall (I think) about ten years ago. "Pieces of You" was her first (and best, in my opinion) album.
She was deeply unpleasant to [slightly mad blonde Republican woman who all Democrats loathe] on the Roast for [pretty boy actor who played Sam in West Wing]
I'm not good with names...
Ann Coulter, Rob Lowe.
I think she may have had a big hand with her script from some of the comedians present!
The last 3 Survation/GMTV phone polls have been: 12/13 May - Con 48, Lab 30 Lead 18 19/20 May - Con 43, Lab 34 Lead 9 26/27 May - Con 43, Lab 37 Lead 6
The surge seems to have stopped, so I would imagine little change from the last poll. If the gap is closer now, I'm revising my bets!
Wasn't their last poll a 1% lead?
It was, but that was for Mail on Sunday. Not sure if their methodology is different vs their polls for GMTV.
Serious questions how someone with extremist views were allowed to conduct these attacks.
Indeed. If only Diane Abbott had been Home Secretary and Mr Corbyn our PM, the attack would not have happened. One would have felt so much safer. Vote Labour.
So 3 terrorism attack is not the Tories fault.
Police cuts and watered down powers for resources is not the Tories fault.
Another individual on here who cares more about their party than their country. Disgusting
Listen very carefully. I will say this only once.
I am in the fortunate position of believing that the underlying philosophy and practical politics of my party are both coincident with the best interests of my country.
Is this a little difficult to grasp?
Theresa may is crap are you struggling to get your head around this.
Serious questions how someone with extremist views were allowed to conduct these attacks.
Indeed. If only Diane Abbott had been Home Secretary and Mr Corbyn our PM, the attack would not have happened. One would have felt so much safer. Vote Labour.
So 3 terrorism attack is not the Tories fault.
Police cuts and watered down powers for resources is not the Tories fault.
Another individual on here who cares more about their party than their country. Disgusting
Still banging on about this? Getting much traction?
Party before country. Party before country. Party before country.
Oh dear. I don't think our pet bot is feeling well. Nurse?
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
It works if you are really, really silly. Abbott silly.
The last 3 Survation/GMTV phone polls have been: 12/13 May - Con 48, Lab 30 Lead 18 19/20 May - Con 43, Lab 34 Lead 9 26/27 May - Con 43, Lab 37 Lead 6
The surge seems to have stopped, so I would imagine little change from the last poll. If the gap is closer now, I'm revising my bets!
Wasn't their last poll a 1% lead?
It was, but that was for Mail on Sunday. Not sure if their methodology is different vs their polls for GMTV.
The Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday was an online poll. The Survation poll for GMB is a phone poll, and the last poll had a 6% Tory lead
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Unless it's a detonator on release, dumbo.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
@MicahGrimes: BREAKING: US DOJ charges federal contractor with "removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet."
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
I think you seriously over estimate the ability of the police to hit a target.
Yeah, I'm leaving that thread up, for this gem alone
As an opinion pollster, speaking exclusively in an entirely personal capacity and in no way representative of his employer put it about Corbynites ‘these days anybody who doesn’t get visibly aroused by the sound of an Enver Hoxha speech is a Blairite,’
You have to experience the Black Sleep of the Corbyn fever to understand why this is real and not funny. They think Red Ed Milliband the son of arch Marxist Ralph Milliband is a Red Tory.
If we do better than 200 seats - and we will comfortably - then we have beaten the system and taken a Great Victory. And Lady Diane of Ackney has played an instrumental part (and no, I'm not talking about her playing Corbyn's pink oboe)
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Masterful trolling, I salute you. But voice activation? "Siri, pull the pin!"
Awww Peter Sallis. Aside from Wallace he was also good in the original Ice Warriors story in Doctor Who with Patrick Troughton. I remember he best in Last of the Summer Wine, the show itself was awful but I used to watch it when I was a lad with my grandparents. Cocoa and Cleggy.
Some here will be pleased to learn he once played Samuel Pepys - though I can think of only one of us who might be old enough to have seen it...
This morning my daughter saw a picture of James II and asked if it was Samuel Pepys... 5 year olds these days...
I'm impressed she was even aware of them!
Her favourite bedtime story is the Fire of London catalogue from the Museum of London...
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Granted I am no police marksmen, but I feel fairly confident that real life is not like a movie, and it would be really bloody difficult to pull off a shot like that in a high pressure situation, and far too much of a risk.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Unless it's a detonator on release, dumbo.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Why stop there, you'll hurt them? Shoot the trigger from their hands or engage them in a sing song to persuade them of the true value of life.
I'll probably get laughed at for saying this but Madonna's Ray of Light album is still IMO amazing. Vocally at her best from the Evita voice training she did, lyrically brilliant, she was spiritually in a great place and William Orbit produced a great album.
Serious questions how someone with extremist views were allowed to conduct these attacks.
Indeed. If only Diane Abbott had been Home Secretary and Mr Corbyn our PM, the attack would not have happened. One would have felt so much safer. Vote Labour.
So 3 terrorism attack is not the Tories fault.
Police cuts and watered down powers for resources is not the Tories fault.
Another individual on here who cares more about their party than their country. Disgusting
Listen very carefully. I will say this only once.
I am in the fortunate position of believing that the underlying philosophy and practical politics of my party are both coincident with the best interests of my country.
Is this a little difficult to grasp?
Theresa may is crap are you struggling to get your head around this.
She is, but how does that contradict the point they made, that they believe 'that the underlying philosophy and practical politics of my party are both coincident with the best interests of my country'?
So, the thread has been up for what, 5 hours, and no-one has noticed that our "eyewitness" doesn't even know the name of the policeman who died whilst protecting parliament.
I'll probably get laughed at for saying this but Madonna's Ray of Light album is still IMO amazing. Vocally at her best from the Evita voice training she did, lyrically brilliant, she was spiritually in a great place and William Orbit produced a great album.
Corbyn today visited Durham NW, Middlesbrough South, Blyth Valley and Gateshead.
Given the type of his previous visits, it likely means Durham NW, Blyth Valley and Gateshead are considered safe enough and Middlesbrough South already lost.
On Saturday he went Lincoln, Sherwood and Broxtowe. On Sunday he was supposed to go to Stroud.
He doesn't visit the seats on the real defense list, the 5-15% Labour majorities.
His plan is not to save seats but to increase the Labour share.
His rally in Gateshead drew a crowd of phenomenal size in the rain.
They may mostly be in safe seats, they may not be registered, but Jezza has the Zeitgeist and is peaking at the right time. Thousands will be spreading the word, and not so locally.
Awww Peter Sallis. Aside from Wallace he was also good in the original Ice Warriors story in Doctor Who with Patrick Troughton. I remember he best in Last of the Summer Wine, the show itself was awful but I used to watch it when I was a lad with my grandparents. Cocoa and Cleggy.
Some here will be pleased to learn he once played Samuel Pepys - though I can think of only one of us who might be old enough to have seen it...
This morning my daughter saw a picture of James II and asked if it was Samuel Pepys... 5 year olds these days...
I'm impressed she was even aware of them!
Her favourite bedtime story is the Fire of London catalogue from the Museum of London...
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Unless it's a detonator on release, dumbo.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
These guys were wielding knives, dumbo.
And what if the canisters were bombs, triggered by a release switch?
Why am I even responding to you on this? On other matters you are reasonably sensible.
It's nonsense like ID Cards which is why Blair is so toxic these days.
Yes, and I hope crap like that doesn't get back on the agenda. Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
Totally agree. May's more statist instincts (Snoopers Charter etc.) make me worry about this....
Conservatives voted against compulsory ID cards and 90-day internment when Labour proposed them a decade ago - that was the right decision then and is still the right decision now.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
lol,so naive.
What if the terrorist murdering scum started running at the police,shoot his hands of lads was the cry.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Why stop there, you'll hurt them? Shoot the trigger from their hands or engage them in a sing song to persuade them of the true value of life.
Police Federation spokesman on news just now calling for more tasers. Guess he knows less about disabling terrorists than PB Tories.
Reminder that Survation got GE2015 spot on in their final poll last time (albeit they didn't have the cojones to make it public at the time because they assumed it was a rogue poll)
It's nonsense like ID Cards which is why Blair is so toxic these days.
Yes, and I hope crap like that doesn't get back on the agenda. Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
Totally agree. May's more statist instincts (Snoopers Charter etc.) make me worry about this....
Conservatives voted against compulsory ID cards and 90-day internment when Labour proposed them a decade ago - that was the right decision then and is still the right decision now.
But how could you support the party but not say their changing stance is better? TravelJunkie tells us you only put party before country.
Talking of singers with good voices, I don't know if anyone has heard of Jewel? Saw her at the Royal Albert Hall (I think) about ten years ago. "Pieces of You" was her first (and best, in my opinion) album.
She was deeply unpleasant to [slightly mad blonde Republican woman who all Democrats loathe] on the Roast for [pretty boy actor who played Sam in West Wing]
I'm not good with names...
Ann Coulter, Rob Lowe.
I think she may have had a big hand with her script from some of the comedians present!
It's nonsense like ID Cards which is why Blair is so toxic these days.
Yes, and I hope crap like that doesn't get back on the agenda. Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
Yes indeed, but the fact that there are fewer armed police now than there once were at a time when people weren't running amok on the streets doesn't mean that the scumbags are losing.
• confront Saudi over its funding of terrorist groups
• contact Trump and urge him to retract his remarks about the London mayor
• set a date for a quick budget to implement key policies such as lifting the public sector pay cap
• call Merkel and Macron to start Brexit talks, saying he would have a mandate to negotiate tariff-free trade
That's what a proper PM will look like, not the excuse called Theresa May who stands there like a floppy leaf of lettuce when a foreign despotic regime funds terrorism in Britain and when the psychopathic president of another foreign country spews out tweets to interfere in British affairs. There is a political party that is a disgrace to this country, and it's not the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, or UKIP.
Hasn't anyone told him that Merkel and Macron are not leading the EU negotiations?
I'm sure May is anxious to negotiate tariff-free trade as well.
It's nonsense like ID Cards which is why Blair is so toxic these days.
Yes, and I hope crap like that doesn't get back on the agenda. Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
Totally agree. May's more statist instincts (Snoopers Charter etc.) make me worry about this....
Conservatives voted against compulsory ID cards and 90-day internment when Labour proposed them a decade ago - that was the right decision then and is still the right decision now.
In your opinion .I think I'd cards , control orders and ,,90 day detention are required.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Unless it's a detonator on release, dumbo.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
These guys were wielding knives, dumbo.
The world must be such an easy place to live in when you have a folding bike - omniscience comes as standard does it?
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Unless it's a detonator on release, dumbo.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
These guys were wielding knives, dumbo.
I know a couple if ex armed response coppers. No police force trains their operators to disable. That only happens in action movies. Aim for the centre mass, put 'em down.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Why stop there, you'll hurt them? Shoot the trigger from their hands or engage them in a sing song to persuade them of the true value of life.
Police Federation spokesman on news just now calling for more tasers. Guess he knows less about disabling terrorists than PB Tories.
If that was what he said relating to this incident then yes.
How does that work with a would-be suicide bomber? You can't wing them and hope they don't trigger the bomb. Shooting them in the head is the sensible thing to do.
Hard to trigger a bomb if you have no hands left.
Unless it's a detonator on release, dumbo.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
These guys were wielding knives, dumbo.
The world must be such an easy place to live in when you have a folding bike - omniscience comes as standard does it?
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We went to the pub instead and met him afterwards. I missed the Smiths.
Party before country.
They were wearing suicide vests. There was no other option than to shoot them.
Our unarmed police, who can't ask to see our papers and can't arbitrarily detain us, are part of what makes us quintessentially British. If we give up these freedoms then the scumbags win.
The existence of the word 'martyrdom' is evidence that martyrdom exists.
Is it stupid? Yes, yes it is. But this is the Labour membership. Stupid is the new Sane.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q2wc7
12/13 May - Con 48, Lab 30 Lead 18
19/20 May - Con 43, Lab 34 Lead 9
26/27 May - Con 43, Lab 37 Lead 6
The surge seems to have stopped, so I would imagine little change from the last poll. If the gap is closer now, I'm revising my bets!
• confront Saudi over its funding of terrorist groups
• contact Trump and urge him to retract his remarks about the London mayor
• set a date for a quick budget to implement key policies such as lifting the public sector pay cap
• call Merkel and Macron to start Brexit talks, saying he would have a mandate to negotiate tariff-free trade
That's what a proper PM will look like, not the excuse called Theresa May who stands there like a floppy leaf of lettuce when a foreign despotic regime funds terrorism in Britain and when the psychopathic president of another foreign country spews out tweets to interfere in British affairs. There is a political party that is a disgrace to this country, and it's not the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, or UKIP. It will probably show a Labour lead. The most recent five polls from Survation have had the Tories at +18%, +12%, +9%, +6%, and +1%.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/01/08/why-ive-backed-diane-abbott-to-be-next-labour-leader/
I am in the fortunate position of believing that the underlying philosophy and practical politics of my party are both coincident with the best interests of my country.
Is this a little difficult to grasp?
Dumbass.
I'm not good with names...
The candidate for Liverpool Walton was in City of Chester
The MP for Sheffield Heeley was in Barnsley East (they were supposed to have Owen Jones on Sunday and they had Prescott the previous weekend....parachuting Watson's ex girlfriend has not gone down too well with the locals?)
As an opinion pollster, speaking exclusively in an entirely personal capacity and in no way representative of his employer put it about Corbynites ‘these days anybody who doesn’t get visibly aroused by the sound of an Enver Hoxha speech is a Blairite,’
Only for the laughs if it came off!
Shooting to wound is only found in westerns.
I think she may have had a big hand with her script from some of the comedians present!
Then booked an International flight on the same day. Gave the tickets to my neighbour who said the gig was awesome.
Edit: sorry to be rude but yours was a staggeringly ignorant comment.
If we do better than 200 seats - and we will comfortably - then we have beaten the system and taken a Great Victory. And Lady Diane of Ackney has played an instrumental part (and no, I'm not talking about her playing Corbyn's pink oboe)
RIP PC Keith Palmer
They may mostly be in safe seats, they may not be registered, but Jezza has the Zeitgeist and is peaking at the right time. Thousands will be spreading the word, and not so locally.
Why am I even responding to you on this? On other matters you are reasonably sensible.
What if the terrorist murdering scum started running at the police,shoot his hands of lads was the cry.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/survation-unpublished-poll-general-election-result-2015-5?r=UK&IR=T
I'm sure May is anxious to negotiate tariff-free trade as well.
Some of these pollsters are going to have a really bad June 8/9th