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  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,801
    Charles said:

    Suspect it would be tricky to inform Gin of my own death
    That's what I said. ;)
  • welshowlwelshowl Posts: 4,464
    Well hopefully it'll all be fuel for an interest rate rise.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,886
    Rees-Mogg choosing his words carefully on Newsnight.
  • I agree.
    I agree that at some point in the near future, perhaps when Mike is back, there should be a thread dedicated to Mark. It doesn't have to be about him specifically but could be about something close to his heart such as the possibility of a Lib Dem revival.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,317
    dixiedean said:

    Rees-Mogg choosing his words carefully on Newsnight.

    Not floccinaucinihilipilification again? :p
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    SeanT said:

    She's also exceptionally beautiful. If I say so myself. And I do.

    She's PHWOOOOARRRR

    She will also leave me within 18 months, I suspect. But at least I will be able to say, on my deathbed: my only marriage was to a truly dropdead gorgeous young woman.

    There are inferior fates.
    I am curious at to why volunteer on a farm. Surely there are lots of jobs going?
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 40,010
    edited September 2017
    SeanT said:

    She's also exceptionally beautiful. If I say so myself. And I do.

    She's PHWOOOOARRRR

    She will also leave me within 18 months, I suspect. But at least I will be able to say, on my deathbed: my only marriage was to a truly dropdead gorgeous young woman.

    There are inferior fates.

    I'll be able to say that too:
    https://twitter.com/spajw/status/886280128178814978
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,647

    I am curious at to why volunteer on a farm. Surely there are lots of jobs going?
    Nascent agrochemicals kingpin?
  • Sean_F said:

    Surely racist rants are part of the service.
    I recognise all of what SeanT says.

    I hate to admit it, but I've had some poor black cab experiences, with rude, self-entitled aggressive drivers who overcharge and, inexplicably, take nothing but cash.
  • SeanT said:

    She's extremely idealistic (yes, I know). She's doing this thing called WWOOFING


    https://wwoofinternational.org/


    I want to make her a TV star. She's very good on screen, funny and pretty, and knows loads about organic food AND astrology. I want her to be THE PAGAN CHEF
    Astrology is a load of pseudoscience, unfortunately.
  • Very sad to hear about Mark Senior. The site won't be the same without his distinctive voice.
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    TOPPING said:

    Nascent agrochemicals kingpin?
    It seems the polar opposite! good for her.
  • Chris_AChris_A Posts: 1,237
    Sorry to hear of Mark's demise. He was around from very nearly the beginning wasn't he?
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548

    I'll be able to say that too:
    https://twitter.com/spajw/status/886280128178814978
    I got married the same year, and Mrs Fox in a similar dress! My wedding photos look very similar.

    Looks like you did well there. Congratulations
  • OchEyeOchEye Posts: 1,469

    You really are silly - read my comments and you will see my reservations but there is a consensus that she did perform above expectations today
    How low the bar was! Even Cameron would have walked beneath it.

  • SeanT said:

    Stunner!

    And she's not bad either - boom, boom.

    In all seriousness, it's the best thing I ever did. My marriage is a blessing. Tough at times, of course, but always worth fighting through for. She'd say the same, I know. Hopefully, that's how it will be for you, too.

  • I got married the same year, and Mrs Fox in a similar dress! My wedding photos look very similar.

    Looks like you did well there. Congratulations

    And to you!

  • Very sad to hear about Mark Senior. The site won't be the same without his distinctive voice.

    Yes - condolences to his family. He was a strong, distinctive voice on here.

  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548

    And to you!

    In a softer moment, I suggested that Japan is a good destination for a pearl anniversary. Sounds expensive but worth it.

    Her best feature is her short memory. I am often in the doghouse, but always let out quickly.
  • glwglw Posts: 10,309
    It's probably just as well that Saddiq Khan isn't facing election anytime soon as he would be screwed. People are properly hopping mad about the Uber decision. Inside the M25 it seems to be a hotter issue than Brexit.


    Sorry to hear about Mark Senior passing away. He was infuriating at times, but very rarely rude and he certainly knew his onions.

  • In a softer moment, I suggested that Japan is a good destination for a pearl anniversary. Sounds expensive but worth it.

    Her best feature is her short memory. I am often in the doghouse, but always let out quickly.

    Ha, ha. Japan is fantastic - definitely worth the money. And it's not that expensive these days. You can get bullet train travel passes, the hotels are manageable outside the real top tier and food and drink is reasonable if you limit the trips to high end sushi places.

  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758

    I agree that at some point in the near future, perhaps when Mike is back, there should be a thread dedicated to Mark. It doesn't have to be about him specifically but could be about something close to his heart such as the possibility of a Lib Dem revival.
    Lib Dem performance in local elections? RIP
  • SeanT said:

    Here's my wife.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1031649450286646&set=t.100011011150723&type=3&theater


    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206053063741029&set=t.100011011150723&type=3&theater

    I hope that works.

    Yeah. Young.

    Stay healthy!!

  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548

    Ha, ha. Japan is fantastic - definitely worth the money. And it's not that expensive these days. You can get bullet train travel passes, the hotels are manageable outside the real top tier and food and drink is reasonable if you limit the trips to high end sushi places.

    It is more the pearl shopping that sounds pricey!

    On the other hand she has given me and Fox jr permission to go to the World Cup, so cannot really complain.

  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548

    Stay healthy!!

    All that organic food and fresh air will be a shock!
  • Oh what sad news about Mark Senior. It's fair to say we didn't get on at all back the days when I was posting regularly. But he was the kind of person you wanted by your side in the trenches. I agree a dedicated memorial thread is a must. Requiscat in pace.
  • HHemmeligHHemmelig Posts: 617
    edited September 2017
    Those of us who were lurking/posting here in the 2005 election well remember the very funny banter between Mark Senior and the somewhat deluded Rik W (Richard Willis), who was the Tory candidate in Sutton & Cheam and seemed to be convinced that he was heading for a landslide win. In one of Mark's last posts, in this year's GE campaign, he still couldn't resist going on about how he proved Rik W wrong (called him a "pea brain" IIRC). Mark was one of the breed of "Winning Here" Lib Dems, who seemed ubiquitous not so long ago, but as someone posted upthread, seem to be diminishing fast now. I'm sure we'll all miss his informed contributions.

    Incidentally, Rik W / Richard Willis was jailed a few months ago for child porn offences.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,667
    SeanT said:



    I want to make her a TV star. She's very good on screen, funny and pretty, and knows loads about organic food AND astrology. I want her to be THE PAGAN CHEF

    Can I interest her in https://www.ciwf.org.uk/ ? (Your FB photos are, sadly, "not available".)

    Startled to hear about Rik Willis. He seemed an amiable chap if a slightly naive guy (a Tory MP's aide, IIRC?). Basically, I guess, one can never tell from online political chat about that kind of thing.
  • HHemmeligHHemmelig Posts: 617
    edited September 2017

    Can I interest her in https://www.ciwf.org.uk/ ? (Your FB photos are, sadly, "not available".)

    Startled to hear about Rik Willis. He seemed an amiable chap if a slightly naive guy (a Tory MP's aide, IIRC?). Basically, I guess, one can never tell from online political chat about that kind of thing.
    Here's a link to the story Nick - many more online if you Google him

    http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/former-reading-councillor-jailed-sharing-13213795
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,801
    JRM sounded very ominous for Theresa on Newsnight tonight...
  • nielhnielh Posts: 1,307
    SeanT said:

    lol. The reason you have unlimited black cabs at the station is coz they are desperate for the fares. Because of Uber. Pre-Uber, cabbies would pick and choose their fares. "Nah, mate, I don't go sahf of the river"

    As for the other guff, you clearly don't live in London and you've no idea how Uber transforms things so your opinion is worthless.
    nah mate, I do understand it. More than you think. I don't want to be driven around London by an indentured servant class driving leased 2005 toyota priuses. It feels wrong. Dont think there is anything to celebrate about it, even if it has transformed things for you and made life easier for millionaires. Bring on the high tax rates. Lets get Corbyn in. In the meantime, I stick with Black cabs. Even though I am a TRAITOR REMAINER FOOL ETC. I DONT CARE.
  • nielh said:

    nah mate, I do understand it. More than you think. I don't want to be driven around London by an indentured servant class driving leased 2005 toyota priuses. It feels wrong. Dont think there is anything to celebrate about it, even if it has transformed things for you and made life easier for millionaires. Bring on the high tax rates. Lets get Corbyn in. In the meantime, I stick with Black cabs. Even though I am a TRAITOR REMAINER FOOL ETC. I DONT CARE.
    If you want to stick with black cabs, that's fine: it's your choice, as long as enough other people are happy to support that model. But I don't see why others should be stopped from using Uber, assuming that they can sort out their regulatory issues, if they prefer that.

    Uber, making a virtue of the market, not only delivers better, cheaper service for the customer but also provides good entry-level jobs for the workforce. The only ones losing out are those who think that the state entitles them to a living doing a job that relies on outdated skills.
  • Can I also add my name to the expressions of condolence for Mark. As with many on here, I didn't agree with him on quite a lot but you knew where he was coming from and he knew his stuff. I can't fault him for his perpetual optimism about Lib Dem prospects: if you can't believe in the future success of your cause, what's the point?
  • MTimTMTimT Posts: 7,034
    Just tuning in now. So sorry to hear about Mark. The greatest thing about PB is that you can learn the viewpoints of others whom you probably would never meet otherwise. What a loss to have no more of Mark's contributions. RIP.
  • nielhnielh Posts: 1,307

    If you want to stick with black cabs, that's fine: it's your choice, as long as enough other people are happy to support that model. But I don't see why others should be stopped from using Uber, assuming that they can sort out their regulatory issues, if they prefer that.

    Uber, making a virtue of the market, not only delivers better, cheaper service for the customer but also provides good entry-level jobs for the workforce. The only ones losing out are those who think that the state entitles them to a living doing a job that relies on outdated skills.
    I dont think uber provide good entry level jobs. They provide £3 an hour desperation servitude. three stars out of five and you are finished!

    Nothing to celebrate. National humiliation. its just a disgrace, priveleged people misinterpreting defacto slavery and poverty as opportunity.

    ITS ALL GOING TO GET TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY CORBYN AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. ENJOY YOUR £3/ HOUR UBER RIDES WHILE IT LASTS. BECAUSE AFTER THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET ALL YOUR WEALTH TAKEN OFF YOU BY CORBYN. F**K OFF TO THE CARRIBEAN OR THE MIDDLE EAST. I DONT F**KING CARE I WILL CARRY ON TAKING BLACK CABS FOUR TIMES A YEAR AND IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO ME! !!!!!
  • MTimTMTimT Posts: 7,034
    SeanT said:

    I should add that she has officially allowed me to say and post what I like on PB about Brexit,
    sex, Corbyn, her, Uber, whatever ("who cares, it's just a bunch of old men"), but she is severely disapproving of my entire persona on Twitter ("you sound like a grumpy old twat").

    I have found this difficult to rebut.
    Healthy self-awareness at least. Must be worth some points.
  • nielh said:

    I dont think uber provide good entry level jobs. They provide £3 an hour desperation servitude. three stars out of five and you are finished!

    Nothing to celebrate. National humiliation. its just a disgrace, priveleged people misinterpreting defacto slavery and poverty as opportunity.

    ITS ALL GOING TO GET TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY CORBYN AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. ENJOY YOUR £3/ HOUR UBER RIDES WHILE IT LASTS. BECAUSE AFTER THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET ALL YOUR WEALTH TAKEN OFF YOU BY CORBYN. F**K OFF TO THE CARRIBEAN OR THE MIDDLE EAST. I DONT F**KING CARE I WILL CARRY ON TAKING BLACK CABS FOUR TIMES A YEAR AND IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO ME! !!!!!
    Actually, I walk when I'm in London. Black cabs and the tube are far too expensive.
  • glw said:

    It's probably just as well that Saddiq Khan isn't facing election anytime soon as he would be screwed. People are properly hopping mad about the Uber decision. Inside the M25 it seems to be a hotter issue than Brexit.


    Sorry to hear about Mark Senior passing away. He was infuriating at times, but very rarely rude and he certainly knew his onions.

    I don't think he would be. I have had countless conversations with Labour voting Londoners who are furious with the lack of affordable housing. It doesn't stop them voting for a party who has previously (and still is) in favour of uncontrolled immigration.
  • MP_SE2 said:

    I don't think he would be. I have had countless conversations with Labour voting Londoners who are furious with the lack of affordable housing. It doesn't stop them voting for a party who has previously (and still is) in favour of uncontrolled immigration.
    I know that signing petitions is easy but all the same, in less than a day, 414,065 people have signed the change.org petition on the Uber decision. The decision has energised people. Whether it'll last I very much doubt (not least because I don't ever expect Uber to stop operating in London). All the same, it shows the risks being run.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 14,236
    SeanT said:

    She's also exceptionally beautiful. If I say so myself. And I do.

    She's PHWOOOOARRRR

    She will also leave me within 18 months, I suspect. But at least I will be able to say, on my deathbed: my only marriage was to a truly dropdead gorgeous young woman.

    There are inferior fates.
    Please tell us that your brain isn't completely in your ballbag and you've prenupped her.
  • fitalassfitalass Posts: 4,320
    edited September 2017
    Dura_Ace said:

    Please tell us that your brain isn't completely in your ballbag and you've prenupped her.
    Bizarre, I posted no comment on this link but its flagging up that I did?
  • fitalassfitalass Posts: 4,320
    fitalass said:

    You take a wee break from PB.com over the summer and come back to find that SeanT has got married?!
  • fitalassfitalass Posts: 4,320
    edited September 2017
    Dura_Ace said:

    Please tell us that your brain isn't completely in your ballbag and you've prenupped her.
    And again after I did just comment on this thread, its bizarre thats its now flagging up that I did comment again when I didn't? PB gremlins?
  • MP_SE2 said:

    I don't think he would be. I have had countless conversations with Labour voting Londoners who are furious with the lack of affordable housing. It doesn't stop them voting for a party who has previously (and still is) in favour of uncontrolled immigration.
    It's not dyed in the wool, Labour voting Londoners who are the issue. It's relatively apolitical types who voted Ken, Boris, and Sadiq because they reckoned them good sorts with Londoners' interests at heart.

    PBers routinely forget that swing voters are just that - not terribly political people who don't have strong ties and show voting patterns that seem pretty eccentric to those who follow it all more closely.
  • Dream on. We are leaving. If you want to remain an EU citizen then the only way will be for you to move to another country.
    So many errors in such a short post. Unfortunately it remains possible that the disaster called Brexit may happen, but it's by no means a certainty. And it's a screaming necessity in sensible opinion that a way will be found to call it off. If it were to happen, for a British citizen to have a grandparent born in Ireland would in most cases be sufficient for them to claim Irish and therefore EU citizenship. Moving to an rEU country would be unlikely to be sufficient. (Do you think rEU citizens moving to Britain would get British citizenship?)

  • JohnLoonyJohnLoony Posts: 1,790
    (A few hours late but)

    I have been commemorating Harry Patch Day, the 100th anniversary of the date on which Harry Patch (1898-2009) was seriously injured by a piece of shrapnel, and his three colleagues were killed by the explosion. For the rest of his life, Harry Patch commemorated 22nd September as his own Remembrance Day, rather than 11th November.

    He usually referred to them by their nicknames: Jack, Jilly & Maudy. But in real life they were:

    Private Ernest Cullingford, no. 28783, 7th Batallion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
    Private James Forrest, no. 34500, 7th Batallion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, age 20
    Private Alfred Moyses, no. 28328, 7th Batallion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, age 27

    We Will Remember Them
    DiqawtaH
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,549
    edited September 2017
    One of view the great things about this site is rubbing shoulders with people who have contributed to political life in various ways and can comment from a position of experience.I think the more illustrious on here do tend to know who each other are, but somehow that doesn't weaken the democratisation this site provides to a genuinely unknown armchair enthusiast like myself. And the experience and knowledgeability on here challenges the rest of us to try and avoid the most basic level of arrant nonsense (a higher level of arrant nonsense is, of course, fine).

    So it is sad to hear of view Mark Senior's passing, he is not someone I recall particularly crossing swords with in the last couple of years on this site, but I have certainly made use of UK Polling Report and my recollection is that he did engage positively with one or two of my efforts at numerology along the way. RIP.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,317
    nielh said:

    I dont think uber provide good entry level jobs. They provide £3 an hour desperation servitude. three stars out of five and you are finished!

    Nothing to celebrate. National humiliation. its just a disgrace, priveleged people misinterpreting defacto slavery and poverty as opportunity.

    ITS ALL GOING TO GET TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY CORBYN AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. ENJOY YOUR £3/ HOUR UBER RIDES WHILE IT LASTS. BECAUSE AFTER THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET ALL YOUR WEALTH TAKEN OFF YOU BY CORBYN. F**K OFF TO THE CARRIBEAN OR THE MIDDLE EAST. I DONT F**KING CARE I WILL CARRY ON TAKING BLACK CABS FOUR TIMES A YEAR AND IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO ME! !!!!!
    Alright, who wants to chip in to buy nielh a new keyboard? :smiley:
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