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• compouter2 Posts: 2,371

  March 2014

  Show me the crossover....show me the crossover!

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• HYUFD Posts: 132,010

  March 2014

  Farewell Sir Peter Tapsell! Sir Peter gave up a lucrative City career for 50 years of service on the backbenches and was a great authority of expertise, particularly on foreign policy. He was also like me an Old Tonbridgian. I wish him a well deserved retirement

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• SquareRoot Posts: 7,095

  March 2014

  compouter2 said:

  Show me the crossover....show me the crossover!

  
  GoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaL !!
  

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• HYUFD Posts: 132,010

  March 2014

  Rather amusing photo of Dave and George pre-budget plotting how to win over the plebs!
  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152027408184033&set=a.90656209032.79792.742234032&type=1&theater

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• AndyJS Posts: 29,395

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  The Turkish PM's ban on Twitter got off to a fantastic start with the President - from the same party - declaring it was unacceptable.
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26681236

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• OldKingCole Posts: 36,179

  March 2014

  Where the LD's have a history and an organisation ….. good result. Where they haven't …… disaster.
  
  Poor night for UKIP too.

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• AveryLP Posts: 7,815

  March 2014

  OldKingCole said:

  Where the LD's have a history and an organisation ….. good result. Where they haven't …… disaster.
  
  Poor night for UKIP too.

  Kippers tend to do better in the morning, OKC.
  
  After a good breakfast.
  

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• ZenPagan Posts: 689

  March 2014

  Sigh caught out by the new thread
  
  FPT
  
  @MorrisDancer
  
  You could always have him make gunpowder. Flowers of sulphur were a traditional cure for many ills and may well be a pot of it in a fantasy larder. Saltpeter was used as a food preservative so likewise might be found in a larder. Charcoal I am sure you can come up with

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• TheWatcher Posts: 5,262

  March 2014

  Is SeanT selling up?
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586162/Would-live-house-garish-Three-bedroom-home-Londons-Primrose-Hill-looks-like-strip-club-goes-sale-2m.html

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• philiph Posts: 4,708

  March 2014

  Feel good returns.
  
  The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.

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• surbiton Posts: 13,549

  March 2014

  Thanks, Harry ! Do we know the swings ?

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• Verulamius Posts: 1,555

  March 2014

  Where is the result from Portsoken ward, city of london, or does Harry consider it to be a Parish Council?

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• Easterross Posts: 1,915

  March 2014

  Evening all and for any SNP friends who may be hovering, there were over 1100 registered delegates at the Scottish Tory Conference in Edinburgh last weekend.

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• surbiton Posts: 13,549

  March 2014

  Easterross said:

  Evening all and for any SNP friends who may be hovering, there were over 1100 registered delegates at the Scottish Tory Conference in Edinburgh last weekend.

  What's wrong with them ?

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• nigel4england Posts: 4,800

  March 2014

  philiph said:

  Feel good returns.
  
  The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.

  Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.

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• JosiasJessop Posts: 47,787

  March 2014

  nigel4england said:

  philiph said:

  Feel good returns.
  
  The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.

  Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.

  Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.
  
  It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)

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• nigel4england Posts: 4,800

  March 2014

  JosiasJessop said:

  nigel4england said:

  philiph said:

  Feel good returns.
  
  The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.

  Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.

  Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.
  
  It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)

  You calling me a pleb!

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• OldKingCole Posts: 36,179

  March 2014

  nigel4england said:

  JosiasJessop said:

  nigel4england said:

  philiph said:

  Feel good returns.
  
  The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.

  Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.

  Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.
  
  It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)

  You calling me a pleb!

  So many have closed the rest are doing OK!

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• CarlottaVance Posts: 60,422

  March 2014

  Ian Davidson is providing great off message copy:
  
  New Labour is to blame for bringing about the Scottish independence referendum because it abandoned the interests of its core voters, one of the party's own MPs claimed yesterday.
  
  Ian Davidson said Tony Blair's adoption of privitisation and "cow-towing" to America drove Labour supporters into the arms of the SNP despite their separatist policies........
  
  They appear to run against the Scottish Labour leadership's attempts to paint the independence referendum as an Alex Salmond obsession which runs against the desires of most Scots.
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10715010/New-Labour-are-to-blame-for-the-Scottish-independence-vote.html

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• Tykejohnno Posts: 7,362

  March 2014

  Labour hires dedicated Ukip monitor as Farage says he is braced for 'vicious, insulting' attacks from Miliband's party
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586264/Labour-hires-dedicated-Ukip-monitor-Farage-says-braced-vicious-insulting-attacks-Milibands-party.html

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• Carnyx Posts: 46,924

  March 2014

  CarlottaVance said:

  Ian Davidson is providing great off message copy:
  
  New Labour is to blame for bringing about the Scottish independence referendum because it abandoned the interests of its core voters, one of the party's own MPs claimed yesterday.
  
  Ian Davidson said Tony Blair's adoption of privitisation and "cow-towing" to America drove Labour supporters into the arms of the SNP despite their separatist policies........
  
  They appear to run against the Scottish Labour leadership's attempts to paint the independence referendum as an Alex Salmond obsession which runs against the desires of most Scots.
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10715010/New-Labour-are-to-blame-for-the-Scottish-independence-vote.html

  Just to confirm - the spelling is the reporter's not the PBer's. And the DT doesn't allow comments on the article.
  
  

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• JosiasJessop Posts: 47,787

  March 2014

  nigel4england said:

  JosiasJessop said:

  nigel4england said:

  philiph said:

  Feel good returns.
  
  The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.

  Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.

  Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.
  
  It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)

  You calling me a pleb!

  We're all plebs now, comrade!

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• MarqueeMark Posts: 56,805

  March 2014

  "cow-towing"?
  
  I see a Top Gear special in the offing.....

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• stodge Posts: 15,666

  March 2014

  Tykejohnno said:

  Labour hires dedicated Ukip monitor as Farage says he is braced for 'vicious, insulting' attacks from Miliband's party
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586264/Labour-hires-dedicated-Ukip-monitor-Farage-says-braced-vicious-insulting-attacks-Milibands-party.html

  Yes, well, we can rely on a certain amount of spin and licence but there's an underlying point.
  
  In a week where the Budget has been widely seen as being aimed at UKIP's core support, it suits both Nigel Farage and Ed Miliband to raise the profile of both parties by creating a tension between them.
  
  Farage knows a potentially successful Budget and a Conservative revival renders him and his party increasingly irrelevant (and no politician likes that) while Miliband knows his route to No.10 will be greatly eased by a solid 7-10% UKIP vote.
  

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• CarlottaVance Posts: 60,422

  March 2014

  Carnyx said:

  CarlottaVance said:

  Ian Davidson is providing great off message copy:
  
  New Labour is to blame for bringing about the Scottish independence referendum because it abandoned the interests of its core voters, one of the party's own MPs claimed yesterday.
  
  Ian Davidson said Tony Blair's adoption of privitisation and "cow-towing" to America drove Labour supporters into the arms of the SNP despite their separatist policies........
  
  They appear to run against the Scottish Labour leadership's attempts to paint the independence referendum as an Alex Salmond obsession which runs against the desires of most Scots.
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10715010/New-Labour-are-to-blame-for-the-Scottish-independence-vote.html

  Just to confirm - the spelling is the reporter's not the PBer's. And the DT doesn't allow comments on the article.
  
  

  One up to The Herald:
  
  When Labour in Scotland attached themselves to New Labour, with its policies of privatisation and kowtowing to the Americans, we quite clearly got ourselves out of step with the majority of Scottish opinion.
  
  http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/labour-politicians-our-complacency-opened-the-door-to-indyref.1395417053
  

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• Richard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822

  March 2014

  Regular readers of PB might have noticed that I've been banging on for many months about how the financial markets have been underestimating the 2015 political risk in the UK.
  
  Looks like they're waking up - see the lead story (and the rather good front-cover graphic) here:
  
  http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/
  
  The article itself is paywalled:
  
  http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/2014/03/21/shares/hazard-warning-s9ba3fXiqExPWo8sGKdh2H/article.html
  
  Key quote:
  
  When James Clunie, manager of Jupiter Asset Management's Absolute Return Fund, was asked at a recent media gathering how scared investors should be of Ed Miliband, he replied: "Very scared - on a scale of one to 10, eight or nine."
  
  Even though the markets are now aware of the Miliband risk, I don't think they've quite yet cottoned on to the no-viable-government risk, which IMHO is an even greater worry.
  
  
  

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• AndyJS Posts: 29,395

  March 2014

  "Revealed: the final 54 minutes of communication from MH370":
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10714907/Revealed-the-final-54-minutes-of-communication-from-MH370.html

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• Richard_Tyndall Posts: 33,787

  March 2014

  OldKingCole said:

  Where the LD's have a history and an organisation ….. good result. Where they haven't …… disaster.
  
  Poor night for UKIP too.

  Not sure how you get that idea. In three wards where they did not previously stand candidates they gained 11%, 17% and 19% of the vote. From nothing. In two of those wards they beat the Lib Dems.

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• Tykejohnno Posts: 7,362

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Front page,bottom of telegraph front page,Treasury is preparing a mansion tax for next year,says Danny Alexander.
  
  http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/95012/the_daily_telegraph_saturday_22nd_march_2014.html

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• philiph Posts: 4,708

  March 2014

  Tykejohnno said:

  Front page,bottom of telegraph front page,Treasury is preparing a mansion tax for next year,says Danny Alexander.
  
  http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/95012/the_daily_telegraph_saturday_22nd_march_2014.html

  I thought they were going to add an additional council tax band at the top end for circa. 1.5m or 2m plus properties.

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• Grandiose Posts: 2,323

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  philiph said:

  Tykejohnno said:

  Front page,bottom of telegraph front page,Treasury is preparing a mansion tax for next year,says Danny Alexander.
  
  http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/95012/the_daily_telegraph_saturday_22nd_march_2014.html

  I thought they were going to add an additional council tax band at the top end for circa. 1.5m or 2m plus properties.

  
  

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• surbiton Posts: 13,549

  March 2014

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10714853/Newsnight-economics-editor-Duncan-Weldons-embarrassing-fascist-past.html
  
  I thought the BBC were full of lefties !

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• GeoffM Posts: 6,071

  March 2014

  surbiton said:

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10714853/Newsnight-economics-editor-Duncan-Weldons-embarrassing-fascist-past.html
  
  I thought the BBC were full of lefties !

  Fascism is a thing of the Left, yes.
  
  

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