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Why the Labour centrists stand a better chance in Scotland – @chris__curtis looks at Scottish Labour's membership https://t.co/WJtd00qpQ2
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Damn it. Was about to be "Third, Reich on time."
I suggested that I am tempted to put a few quid on Jackie Baillie, simply because the other 2 are so awful. She is not exactly the sharpest tool in the box herself but compared to the invisible man and the empty suit she is a colossus (and that is not a weightest comment, honest).
Understand it won't compare to the UKIP line up for entertainment!
https://leftfootforward.org/2017/08/who-will-replace-kezia-dugdale-scottish-labour-leadership-runners-riders/
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511?lo=ap_a1
I guess it makes sense - fast growing and larger varietals both always seem to have less taste.
Nah, the centre of gravity is just much more leftwing nord des lignes.
If only the EU had stayed as a common trading community, then so would we.
I do recall a debate where she seemed a little outclassed by both Nicola and Ruth but that is fairly normal for Scottish politicians. She would need to toughen up a bit.
I suspect that even if TSE is right about the membership she is too much of a centrist to win. She was the organiser of Jim Murphy's leadership campaign. I can't see her having a lot in common with Corbynites but she is a rare talent in the party.
F1: the Bottas contract sounds like a one-year deal but there's no specific number mentioned on the BBC report. I'd be mildly surprised if it were that short, as his pace as been good, and he's proven a very good pairing with Hamilton.
It doesn't feel like the left are putting forward their best candidate either, surely Neil Findlay or Rowley would have been a much easier sell than an unknown Yorkshireman.
I kept a constant watch on John Curtice's projection for the BBC, which never had the Conservatives on fewer than 313 seats, and as high as 322 at one point. Once it became clear that the Conservatives were easily holding places like North Warwickshire, Tamworth, Erewash, Amber Valley, Swindon, then it was hard to see them getting under 310 seats.
There were a lot of rumours that turned out to be unfounded (losing Shipley, Witney, Finchley, Putney, Kingswood) which drove the Conservatives down to 300 on spread markets.
@JohnRentoul: @JasonGroves1 Tories sensibly retreating rather than be defeated after DUP say its 10 MPs will vote for Labour motions.
Are you TSE in disguise??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod
Here's another great article - on the coming wave of anti-trust legislation in the US against the tech giants
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/theres-blood-in-the-water-in-silicon-valley?utm_term=.noP4wmjzl#.waGqObDBE
And anti-trust doesn't have much of a history of succeeding.
https://xkcd.com/1118/
https://twitter.com/Rosball/status/907965227580436480
No need for a Division even!!
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.@houseofcommons just unanimously approved @UKLabour motion to end NHS pay cap. Victory for campaigners
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Blimey. Govt really bottled it and handed Labour victory on Opposition Day motion calling for NHS pay rise.
I just found the rapidly changing and coalescing political environment interesting.
a target as you say
politics will beat economics
It's enough to turn anyone into a rabid Corbynite nationaliser.
The NHS in E&W employs about 1.5m people so if you assumed that they were all paid the same an additional 4% increase would mean the headcount would need to be reduced by 60K to stay within budget. Of course, in reality, any job losses are likely to be focussed on those who actually do the work rather than sitting in offices having meetings so that number may be nearly doubled.
Or we can just print some more I suppose.
Check this out from wiki:
"Calls to 118 118 are charged £8.98 per call plus £4.49 per minute (after 60 seconds) including VAT (tariff code SC087) plus the access charge set by the caller's landline or mobile phone provider."
I would imagine old people still use them or some service similar. But of course the value is not the directory enquiries, eye-watering charges as they may be, but the brand. They have now launched 118 118 Money and presumably could diversify to home grocery delivery or anything else they fancied.
But to the original point - govt directory enquiries cost 40p before the service was "liberalised".
It's called taking back democratic control. Or something.
In general it seems undesirable that the Government can ignore the will of Parliament, whatever the form that it's expressed - it's another indication of the weak position of a minority government, but they ought to need to find allies or accept the view of the majority, rather than just shrug it off.
Osborne's latest rant that he won't rest until Theresa May is "cut up in pieces in his freezer" is just the latest in a long line of seriously bitter and angry Tories that we've seen over the years (Heath, Hezza, Fatch, etc.)
I mean sure Labour and Lib-Dems have their fall out but can anybody seriously think of a leading Labour and Lib-Dem MP or former MP that would make such a violently malevolent comment about an enemy as Osborne's about May?
Ali Campbell maybe? But not many others...
They Tories are a nasty, nasty bunch aren't they?
If you allow debates like this to be taken seriously and binding then you can constantly pick all the candy you want while not balancing the other side of the equation. It's not a responsible way to behave.
You can object to Theresa May as much as you like but he is now becoming threatening. Very sad and as a BBC presenter has just said it must be hurting Theresa May but it is now damaging him much more
And Liverpool 1 down
I believe the last lost Opposition debate was by the 2009 Labour Government who were shamed by the vote into providing UK residence for ex-Gurkha soldiers.
* I am absolutely not a constitutional lawyer.
If the vote were binding then the opposition would not win it.
It is only because it is non binding that they can win.
bribed the DUP with a billion of taxpayer moneyentered into an arrangement with the DUP for them to support certain bits of legislation.The "lifting" of the public sector pay cap looks dreadful politics. I imagine the Government thinks that public support for the Police, prison officers and possibly nurses will be such that everyone will think lifting the cap is a good idea even if it's not clear how the additional wage bill will be met.
The problem is other public sector workers such as firemen and other health workers and some local authority workers will argue that what's good for the Police should be good for them.
The FBU has already rejected a 2% pay deal - the public are likely to be fairly supportive of firefighters so that's one problem but other public workers will now think the Government's weakness will merit pushing for more money so we may well see local authority workers moving toward greater militancy.
Not so. It was thought to be binding last weekand the DUP were prepared to support it on that basis - that's a major reason why the Government announced the end of the pay freeze.
Most Tories are as well, but there some who are obsessively factional. They think they have a God-given right to rule, and hate the opposing faction who keep them out of office.
Lots of Labour MPs would be less restrained about rivals, though Osborne's remark (though presumably supposed to be a joke) does stand out. Danczuk is the closest parallel I can think of, when he was a Labour MP. But most Tories wouldn't go that far either.
18-3. You can always rely on Liverpool to screw things up.