"Stuart Hall appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live eight years ago telling listeners: "Your average 10-year-old can instruct you in oral or anal sex," the corporation defended his comments as "satirical banter".
The veteran broadcaster's admission, revealed on Thursday, of a string of historic sex offences against girls aged between nine and 17 casts his comments in a different, horrific light. Hall made the comments in a 2005 edition of 5 Live's Saturday morning panel show, Fighting Talk."
Just back from voting UKIP in the hyper marginal that is Potters Bar East. This time I actually had to join a queue of half a dozen or so. A lot different from November's PCC elections when the polling staff were pleased to someone come through the door.
Got to love this invention of a "sterling-zone" that the Scots think they'll stay in.
There may be a eurozone but there's no such thing as a sterling zone. Sterling is our currency, if you want to leave we can't stop you from using it but lets not pretend there's some sort of organised "zone" you'll be in. You'll just be using our currency with rates and rules set by the UK like it is today.
Just back from voting UKIP in the hyper marginal that is Potters Bar East. This time I actually had to join a queue of half a dozen or so. A lot different from November's PCC elections when the polling staff were pleased to someone come through the door.
I thought you were a Conservative supporter. Glad to be corrected.
Mick Pork, I was thinking more of people to follow who will be tweeting results more quickly than Sky News / BBC News so some useful @followthisperson. I'm already following OGH of course.
Do carry on - every single time you Disagree with a post of mine - I win.
I said several posts ago that you'd been CheckMated. But you haven't got it yet - carry on repeating your mistake.
Every time you Disagree - its another point to me. You like to be in control by browbeating others into shutting up or so I'm told rubbishing them unchallenged on your blog, so you can tell yourself you've won - but you can't win against me because I have no respect for your Id. And you're dancing to my tune right now.
And we can all see it.
It's up to you - withdraw gracefully and we won't mention it again or let every PBer see that you lost - every time I post.
That seems more than fair to me. Particularly since I don't care at all.
We can tell. Every time you stamp your feet and say that "if you DARE to disagree with me, you LOSE", I can hear the sound of thousands of people quietly thinking to themselves "hmmm, Plato doesn't seem to care when someone disagrees with her posts. That's jolly mature of her."
Sorry to have to correct you but it was the same reheated Osbrowne stuff from last year.
That PB tories think Osbrowne making yet more empty threats on currency is a winner in scotland is merely a measure of just how out of touch they really are.
After omnishambles Osbrowne made those same threats last year the SNP still won the scottish local election in seats and popular vote.
We shall see just big a triumph the incompetent fops manage for this years locals in england and wales, as well as the tories no doubt massive 'surge' in South Shields.
In Lincoln City which sould be one of the first places declaring...on normal midterm conditions (2012 City Council results) you should expect the Tories to hold 1 division and the rest going Labour.
If something else happens, we may have surprises....
Got to love this invention of a "sterling-zone" that the Scots think they'll stay in.
There may be a eurozone but there's no such thing as a sterling zone. Sterling is our currency, if you want to leave we can't stop you from using it but lets not pretend there's some sort of organised "zone" you'll be in. You'll just be using our currency with rates and rules set by the UK like it is today.
I'm feeling rather sorry for the pro-Indy Scots voters - they've been told that the New Land will be free of evil NATO, the Queen, the Bank of England, Sterling...
And yet here we are less than 12 months on and even they're going to endure their version of BBC Scotland, DVLA...
What is the definition of Independence when its exactly the same as now except Prince Alec and his curry chef residing in Holyrood?
It's a massive ego trip and I feel genuinely sorry for the many ways they've been repeatedly mislead. I'd like the Union to remain but if the Scots don't -well that's fair enough, it seems increasingly unlikely and Salmond missed his Arc of Prosperity bounce on an epic scale.
Sorry to have to correct you but it was the same reheated Osbrowne stuff from last year.
Did that have 'Yes Scotland' and others come out in favour of a separate currency too?
"Margo MacDonald, former SNP MP and now independent MSP, and Scottish Green leader Patrick Harvie, a leading supporter of Yes Scotland, told Scotland on Sunday that Salmond and the SNP needed to adopt a "bolder", "radical" vision to attract voters...."
Sorry to have to correct you but it was the same reheated Osbrowne stuff from last year.
Did that have 'Yes Scotland' and others come out in favour of a separate currency too?
"Margo MacDonald, former SNP MP and now independent MSP, and Scottish Green leader Patrick Harvie, a leading supporter of Yes Scotland, told Scotland on Sunday that Salmond and the SNP needed to adopt a "bolder", "radical" vision to attract voters...."
LOL....as you say.....
Unfair Carlotta
they started off as Euro loving, neutral republicans and now they're sterling loving, nato monarchists - how can it get more radical ?
"I'm feeling rather sorry for the pro-Indy Scots voters - they've been told that the New Land will be free of evil NATO, the Queen..."
Plato, for the seventy-nine billionth time, the SNP have never been opposed to the monarchy. You really must stop getting your Scottish "facts" from your PB Tory chums and the Telegraph.
Mrs Bluebell Wood has just arrived in South Shields. Avery must be pleased.
Can I just say that Bluebell Wood is a lovely name - I've had people called Beverley Hills and Neil Armstrong work for me - I stopped noticing within a few minutes but it was a bit of a curse for them :^ )
"Salmond refuses to say if separate Scottish currency is option Thursday 2 May 2013 The First Minister has refused to say if he would rule out an independent Scotland having its own currency."
And the latest on the incompetent fop master strategy on Europe.
"But this isn’t all that hypothetical when John Baron has already told Coffee House that if he and colleagues have no success through official routes, they will be ‘looking for all opportunities to raise this on the floor of the House’. And the Prime Minister might have been trying to tickle them a little with his radio interview, but he hasn’t responded to their letter yet, and the meeting that Baron is trying to arrange hasn’t happened yet, either. So Tory backbenchers might feel that if they hear no more than the same noises from the Prime Minister in the next few weeks, they’ll do their own thing, possibly using a Private Member’s Bill, or backbench business debates, or amendments to existing legislation. But the legendary EU referendum bill isn’t on its way into Parliament any time soon.
Oh dear. Banging on about Europe should come in handy for next years EU elections at least. ;^ )
'That PB tories think Osbrowne making yet more empty threats on currency is a winner in scotland is merely a measure of just how out of touch they really are'
Even Labour think the SNP currency policy is a non starter,try independence without nanny.
UKIP ought to be able to do well in a place like Lincoln.
I dont think so.... I watched this episode of Question Time, and Mary Beard says its all hunky dory there. Charming facts, surveys and opinion polls say so... There is a rather annoying real person who lets an anecdote get in the way mind you... pfff anecdotal evidence.
"I see that the agree/disagree functionality has been removed!"
But fortunately there's now a dislike button to replace it. That'll be a relief to the PB Tories who pressed for such a functionality, and I'm sure none among their number will make themselves look like hypocritical fools by repeatedly whinging when it's used on their own posts.
"I see that the agree/disagree functionality has been removed!"
But fortunately there's now a dislike button to replace it. That'll be a relief to the PB Tories who pressed for such a functionality, and I'm sure none among their number will make themselves look like hypocritical fools by repeatedly whinging when it's used on their own posts.
Well the quote button is still there...
I think there should be just an agree.. like the good old days :')
INCENDIARY leaflets produced by a UKIP candidate for one of Stone’s county council seats has led to calls for him to withdraw from the election and apologise.
The leaflets, on ‘the sanctity of marriage’ produced and promoted by David Nixon – who today stands as a candidate for the Stone Rural seat – were called ‘a vile throw back’ by Stafford Borough Councillor Rowan Draper.
The leaflet says the coalition government’s proposals for same-sex marriage – referred to as ‘the gay marriage bill’ – are ‘a farce’.”
Are there figures somewhere for the turnout among different income groups (or whatever measure)? I'd be interested to know whether the 'working class' were being lost completely, or not - my mind is open.
"Jimmy Kelly will be most upset - someone has taken away his favourite toy!"
You were saying? It was you that wanted the button, Carlotta - indeed my very first "disagree" came from you, disagreeing with me when I bemoaned the appearance of the disagree button.
Your whining about my use of that button in the weeks since is a kind of meta-hypocrisy that is almost off the scale.
INCENDIARY leaflets produced by a UKIP candidate for one of Stone’s county council seats has led to calls for him to withdraw from the election and apologise.
The leaflets, on ‘the sanctity of marriage’ produced and promoted by David Nixon – who today stands as a candidate for the Stone Rural seat – were called ‘a vile throw back’ by Stafford Borough Councillor Rowan Draper.
The leaflet says the coalition government’s proposals for same-sex marriage – referred to as ‘the gay marriage bill’ – are ‘a farce’.”
I quoted this a couple of days ago. At the time someone pointed out that UKIP policy was against many of those things, but the article says "UKIP LGBTQ group’s Facebook" disapprove and at least some others don't agree (rather they use the freedom of speech line of argument).
INCENDIARY leaflets produced by a UKIP candidate for one of Stone’s county council seats has led to calls for him to withdraw from the election and apologise.
The leaflets, on ‘the sanctity of marriage’ produced and promoted by David Nixon – who today stands as a candidate for the Stone Rural seat – were called ‘a vile throw back’ by Stafford Borough Councillor Rowan Draper.
Does Rowan Draper think that all the MPs in his party who opposed the gay marriage bill should resign too?
INCENDIARY leaflets produced by a UKIP candidate for one of Stone’s county council seats has led to calls for him to withdraw from the election and apologise.
The leaflets, on ‘the sanctity of marriage’ produced and promoted by David Nixon – who today stands as a candidate for the Stone Rural seat – were called ‘a vile throw back’ by Stafford Borough Councillor Rowan Draper.
Does Rowan Draper think that all the MPs in his party who opposed the gay marriage bill should resign too?
On the aftermath of the vote, you could see the young excited activists (usually from London, Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford) asking for all Labour MPs voting against being deselected.
"Jimmy Kelly will be most upset - someone has taken away his favourite toy!"
You were saying? It was you that wanted the button, Carlotta - indeed my very first "disagree" came from you, disagreeing with me when I bemoaned the appearance of the disagree button.
Your whining about my use of that button in the weeks since is a kind of meta-hypocrisy that is almost off the scale.
is that a republican meta-hypocrisy or a monarchist meta-hypocrisy ? It's so easy to lose track James.
"is that a republican meta-hypocrisy or a monarchist meta-hypocrisy ?"
I believe Carlotta is almost as monarchist as the SNP have always been (couldn't find that manifesto pledge, eh?), so I hope that answers your question.
"Jimmy Kelly will be most upset - someone has taken away his favourite toy!" Your whining about my use of that button in the weeks since is a kind of meta-hypocrisy that is almost off the scale.
Post one of my comments. Or is that like the SNP's currency plan....made up on the hoof.....
"is that a republican meta-hypocrisy or a monarchist meta-hypocrisy ?"
I believe Carlotta is almost as monarchist as the SNP have always been (couldn't find that manifesto pledge, eh?), so I hope that answers your question.
"couldn't find that manifesto pledge,"
keep looking James on past performance you've promised everything so it will just a matter of time.
Answer from Cammie when someone asks him if he supports staying IN or OUT of Europe for his own Cast Iron Referendum Pledge?
Happily UKIP and Europe are of no consequence for the tories today or some might get the idea that the inept PB tory spinners on here want to talk about anything but them or the locals.
"Wee Jimmy Kelly will be most upset - someone has taken away his favourite toy!"
Frankly I'm surprised you've forgotten that one so soon, but I'm always happy to help (within reason, before you go into a huff any say that you didn't really mean 'post one of my comments' and instead meant 'post seventy-nine of my comments').
Just back from voting UKIP in the hyper marginal that is Potters Bar East. This time I actually had to join a queue of half a dozen or so. A lot different from November's PCC elections when the polling staff were pleased to someone come through the door.
I thought you were a Conservative supporter. Glad to be corrected.
I normally am a Tory. It was the first time I have voted UKIP. A brief precis of my voting history. Turned 18 December 88. First two elections, council and Euro (I think). I voted Lab and Lib although can't remember which way round. This was as a protest against the poll tax Voted Tory in 92 GE and every election onwards until today.
Your most intelligent contribution to the currency discussion so far!
At this point, this video needs sharing - there was a very famous dog on That's Life that said *sausages* - but this clip of a stuffed cat makes me weep with laughter - my mum tried to get her cat stuffed and it came back looking remarkably similar ...
"keep looking James on past performance you've promised everything"
But not the abolition of the monarchy. As we now know, Alan, because you were unable to assist us with the SNP's former "republican" policy that you were telling us about only a few minutes ago.
At this point, this video needs sharing - there was a very famous PB Burley that said *lefty w*nk* - but this clip of a stuffed tory makes me weep with laughter - my anecdote tried to get her cat tweeter stuffed and it came back looking remarkably similar ...
"keep looking James on past performance you've promised everything"
But not the abolition of the monarchy. As we now know, Alan, because you were unable to assist us with the SNP's former "republican" policy that you were telling us about only a few minutes ago.
james, don't get me wrong, I welcome your conversion to monarchy and on current progress expect you to be campaigning to keep Scotland in the Union. I mean there's still ages to go before the vote.
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
There have been republicans within the SNPs ranks - but they were booted out nearly a decade ago:
Which town in Lincolshire do you think has experienced the biggest fall in crime?
And which maternity hospital usually takes the pregnant mothers when Lincoln hospital can't cope?
Dont care.
Why dont we import the best U21 footballers from all over the world, pay them more than they get in their own countries, get them to play for the full England side and then tell every Englishman & woman how great having no English people in the England team has made it?
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
I find the SNPers desire to refer to the 95% of the UK as *rump* anything very amusing.
There are according to the ONS "Scotland’s population in mid-2011 reached 5,254,800"
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
I find the SNPers desire to refer to the 95% of the UK as *rump* anything very amusing.
There are according to the ONS "Scotland’s population in mid-2011 reached 5,254,800"
"The majority of council results are expected on Friday between 11:00 BST and 18:30 BST, although six councils - Lincolnshire, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Gloucestershire and Hampshire - will declare their results in the early hours of Friday morning.
The result for the South Shields by-election is also expected early on Friday morning."
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
I find the SNPers desire to refer to the 95% of the UK as *rump* anything very amusing.
There are according to the ONS "Scotland’s population in mid-2011 reached 5,254,800"
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
I find the SNPers desire to refer to the 95% of the UK as *rump* anything very amusing.
There are according to the ONS "Scotland’s population in mid-2011 reached 5,254,800"
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
I find the SNPers desire to refer to the 95% of the UK as *rump* anything very amusing.
There are according to the ONS "Scotland’s population in mid-2011 reached 5,254,800"
Maybe it is so they can call us the arse of the UK without anyone realising!
I'd like to think that every SNPer who doesn't post on Newsnet or PB is more open-minded, less uber sensitive to criticism and polite.
Who knows - given the diet of Alec worship, YOU ARE WRONG!!!!!!!!! debating and I AM RIGHT!!!!!! brow-beating - who knows.
Frankly as someone who didn't care much either way - the CyberNats on PB have made me dislike their tactics so much that I'd campaign for The Union and win just to piss them off even more. It's gone beyond wishing for an amicable divorce that I managed.
Just back from voting UKIP in the hyper marginal that is Potters Bar East. This time I actually had to join a queue of half a dozen or so. A lot different from November's PCC elections when the polling staff were pleased to someone come through the door.
I thought you were a Conservative supporter. Glad to be corrected.
I normally am a Tory. It was the first time I have voted UKIP. A brief precis of my voting history. Turned 18 December 88. First two elections, council and Euro (I think). I voted Lab and Lib although can't remember which way round. This was as a protest against the poll tax Voted Tory in 92 GE and every election onwards until today.
I realise you don't care about the facts, but you "care" enough to post the propaganda.
I've just skimmed the statistics for the area you posted about and it appears that crime in Boston has fallen by the largest percentage in the county and that the Maternity unit (along with Grantham) takes the overspill from Lincoln. If you want to work out how truthful that womans story is then Lincoln Maternity had to divert pregnant women twelve times in a twelve month period and Boston pilgrim twice in the same period.
People telling of the misery that mass immigration is causing in their lives isnt propaganda.
You are entitled to your view that mass immigration solves everything from falling education standards to rising crime to saving hospital wards, as am I that people do not want their neighbourhoods changed irrevocably by a wave of people from another part of the world.
It would be like storming into someones home, ripping down the wallpaper they had chosen, replacing it with eggboxes and telling them how much better soundproofed their walls are now. You may well be right, but people couldnt give a toss, they liked it as it was.
Awww @MickPork - I see only you Disliked my comment - are you feeling lonely now? I've added you to my CheckMate scoreboard - everytime you Dislike my comment.
One day you will grasp that siding with @JamesKelly just makes you look even more of a pawn. And he's already lost vs me. You are now my pawn by agreeing with his Dislikes.
Are you your own man or his sheep? Up to you - as a man of many opinions.
Goldsmith backs Boris Boris Johnson would make a good leader of the Conservative party, Zac Goldsmith has said.
In an interview with the Evening Standard the Conservative MP for Richmond said voters were unclear on what David Cameron stood for.
“I don’t think people on the streets are clear enough about what Cameron stands for — and that’s a problem in politics,” he argued.
But he was much more positive about the Mayor of London.
"I can imagine [Boris Johnson] as a future and very successful leader of the Conservative Party," he said.
Mr Goldsmith has previously been highly critical of the Government for its sympathy with the idea of a second runway at Heathrow airport, an approach he described as "wink wink, nudge nudge".
The "Bring in Boris" movement has started even before the local results are in.
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The veteran broadcaster's admission, revealed on Thursday, of a string of historic sex offences against girls aged between nine and 17 casts his comments in a different, horrific light. Hall made the comments in a 2005 edition of 5 Live's Saturday morning panel show, Fighting Talk."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-5-live-instruct-sex?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
This time I actually had to join a queue of half a dozen or so.
A lot different from November's PCC elections when the polling staff were pleased to someone come through the door.
There may be a eurozone but there's no such thing as a sterling zone. Sterling is our currency, if you want to leave we can't stop you from using it but lets not pretend there's some sort of organised "zone" you'll be in. You'll just be using our currency with rates and rules set by the UK like it is today.
'A minister in government with some kind of influence? Laughable indeed.'
Got to go some to beat last week's SNP currency car crash,that was hilarious.
Do carry on - every single time you Disagree with a post of mine - I win.
I said several posts ago that you'd been CheckMated. But you haven't got it yet - carry on repeating your mistake.
Every time you Disagree - its another point to me. You like to be in control by browbeating others into shutting up or so I'm told rubbishing them unchallenged on your blog, so you can tell yourself you've won - but you can't win against me because I have no respect for your Id. And you're dancing to my tune right now.
And we can all see it.
It's up to you - withdraw gracefully and we won't mention it again or let every PBer see that you lost - every time I post.
That seems more than fair to me. Particularly since I don't care at all.
There will be. Do keep up.
Mrs Bluebell Wood has just arrived in South Shields. Avery must be pleased.
"Particularly since I don't care at all."
We can tell. Every time you stamp your feet and say that "if you DARE to disagree with me, you LOSE", I can hear the sound of thousands of people quietly thinking to themselves "hmmm, Plato doesn't seem to care when someone disagrees with her posts. That's jolly mature of her."
Or something like that.
That PB tories think Osbrowne making yet more empty threats on currency is a winner in scotland is merely a measure of just how out of touch they really are.
After omnishambles Osbrowne made those same threats last year the SNP still won the scottish local election in seats and popular vote.
We shall see just big a triumph the incompetent fops manage for this years locals in england and wales, as well as the tories no doubt massive 'surge' in South Shields.
*chuckle*
If something else happens, we may have surprises....
And yet here we are less than 12 months on and even they're going to endure their version of BBC Scotland, DVLA...
What is the definition of Independence when its exactly the same as now except Prince Alec and his curry chef residing in Holyrood?
It's a massive ego trip and I feel genuinely sorry for the many ways they've been repeatedly mislead. I'd like the Union to remain but if the Scots don't -well that's fair enough, it seems increasingly unlikely and Salmond missed his Arc of Prosperity bounce on an epic scale.
"Margo MacDonald, former SNP MP and now independent MSP, and Scottish Green leader Patrick Harvie, a leading supporter of Yes Scotland, told Scotland on Sunday that Salmond and the SNP needed to adopt a "bolder", "radical" vision to attract voters...."
LOL....as you say.....
https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/330007759938527233/photo/1
They wheeled out Prescott
https://twitter.com/DanJarvisMP/status/329999363784970241/photo/1
Rosie Winterton is badly dressed as always (actually it's not bad fashion. Just that she's not 30 anymore and she should dress accordingly).
http://election.pressassociation.com/Declaration_times/local_2013_by_time.php
they started off as Euro loving, neutral republicans and now they're sterling loving, nato monarchists - how can it get more radical ?
Plato, for the seventy-nine billionth time, the SNP have never been opposed to the monarchy. You really must stop getting your Scottish "facts" from your PB Tory chums and the Telegraph.
"Salmond refuses to say if separate Scottish currency is option
Thursday 2 May 2013
The First Minister has refused to say if he would rule out an independent Scotland having its own currency."
http://www.heraldscotland.com/u/u/salmond-refuses-to-say-if-separate-scottish-currency-is-option.1367508347
"But this isn’t all that hypothetical when John Baron has already told Coffee House that if he and colleagues have no success through official routes, they will be ‘looking for all opportunities to raise this on the floor of the House’. And the Prime Minister might have been trying to tickle them a little with his radio interview, but he hasn’t responded to their letter yet, and the meeting that Baron is trying to arrange hasn’t happened yet, either. So Tory backbenchers might feel that if they hear no more than the same noises from the Prime Minister in the next few weeks, they’ll do their own thing, possibly using a Private Member’s Bill, or backbench business debates, or amendments to existing legislation. But the legendary EU referendum bill isn’t on its way into Parliament any time soon.
Oh dear. Banging on about Europe should come in handy for next years EU elections at least. ;^ )
Could you link to the SNP manifesto in which they proposed the abolition of the monarchy?
Clue - you can't, because they never have.
'That PB tories think Osbrowne making yet more empty threats on currency is a winner in scotland is merely a measure of just how out of touch they really are'
Even Labour think the SNP currency policy is a non starter,try independence without nanny.
Tonight in SS
@Plato
It's not her real name. It's Avery's nickname for her. Because she worked for Bluebell Wood Children Hospice before becoming MP for Rotherham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QYCTDXq56w
I see the mighty Eck is hedging his bets now.....
But fortunately there's now a dislike button to replace it. That'll be a relief to the PB Tories who pressed for such a functionality, and I'm sure none among their number will make themselves look like hypocritical fools by repeatedly whinging when it's used on their own posts.
I'm a bit of a flower geek... unfortunately my nuclear war surviving slugs and I are involved in a war of attrition and they're winning.
I think there should be just an agree.. like the good old days :')
Well - it beat talking about a separate Scotland's separate plans for a separate currency I guess.....
INCENDIARY leaflets produced by a UKIP candidate for one of Stone’s county council seats has led to calls for him to withdraw from the election and apologise.
The leaflets, on ‘the sanctity of marriage’ produced and promoted by David Nixon – who today stands as a candidate for the Stone Rural seat – were called ‘a vile throw back’ by Stafford Borough Councillor Rowan Draper.
The leaflet says the coalition government’s proposals for same-sex marriage – referred to as ‘the gay marriage bill’ – are ‘a farce’.”
http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Election-leaflet-sparks-UKIP-row-02052013.htm
You were saying? It was you that wanted the button, Carlotta - indeed my very first "disagree" came from you, disagreeing with me when I bemoaned the appearance of the disagree button.
Your whining about my use of that button in the weeks since is a kind of meta-hypocrisy that is almost off the scale.
I somehow doubt it.
*chortle*
I may Agree or Like but they aren't the same. BenM could make a joke I laughed at but its not agreeing with the point made.
Seriously, whoever is fiddling with the site functionality needs to get a grip and stop being so sensitive.
It must be something like 15 million.
Snigger. Self-awareness'R'Us.
Still not worked out what Cammie's position is on his Cast Iron referendum yet? IN or OUT?
It would require a bit more thought than the usual inept public relations twaddle from you admittedly.
I believe Carlotta is almost as monarchist as the SNP have always been (couldn't find that manifesto pledge, eh?), so I hope that answers your question.
keep looking James on past performance you've promised everything so it will just a matter of time.
And a few messages lying in the message box for a couple of days....they must have thought how rude I am in not replying!
Happily UKIP and Europe are of no consequence for the tories today or some might get the idea that the inept PB tory spinners on here want to talk about anything but them or the locals.
Good luck with that for the next few weeks.
LOL
Righty-ho...
"Wee Jimmy Kelly will be most upset - someone has taken away his favourite toy!"
Frankly I'm surprised you've forgotten that one so soon, but I'm always happy to help (within reason, before you go into a huff any say that you didn't really mean 'post one of my comments' and instead meant 'post seventy-nine of my comments').
It was the first time I have voted UKIP.
A brief precis of my voting history.
Turned 18 December 88.
First two elections, council and Euro (I think). I voted Lab and Lib although can't remember which way round. This was as a protest against the poll tax
Voted Tory in 92 GE and every election onwards until today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnTmvQNWqX8
But not the abolition of the monarchy. As we now know, Alan, because you were unable to assist us with the SNP's former "republican" policy that you were telling us about only a few minutes ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNmMu2ibvyM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WX5k5dLr5k
How many points to me have you clocked up on this thread so far?
Do carry on - I win every time you do.
I get double points when your CyberNat mates chip in like @MickPork
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/how-i-exposed-stuart-hall-yasmin-alibhaibrown-on-the-anonymous-letter-that-kickstarted-the-sex-abuse-investigation-8601517.html
100 Snorts = 1 Chortle
You're making more sense on currency than the SNP!
To be fair to James he has been fairly consistent from what I have seen over the monarchy issue.
I still remain bemused as to why he believes the rump uk would want to be in a fiscal union with independent Scotland, or why he believes any one in the rump uk would support it.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/snp-moves-to-expel-left-wing-republicans-1-1049445
On the currency its frankly pathetic - this 'don't frighten the horses' approach is going to lose, not win, them the referendum.
Why dont we import the best U21 footballers from all over the world, pay them more than they get in their own countries, get them to play for the full England side and then tell every Englishman & woman how great having no English people in the England team has made it?
There are according to the ONS "Scotland’s population in mid-2011 reached 5,254,800"
There are according to the ONS http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Population 63.2m in the UK as a whole.
Talk about epic arrogance.
http://labourlist.org/2013/05/county-council-elections-and-south-shields-by-election-liveblog/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LabourListLatestPosts+(LabourList)
The BBC on timings:
"The majority of council results are expected on Friday between 11:00 BST and 18:30 BST, although six councils - Lincolnshire, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Gloucestershire and Hampshire - will declare their results in the early hours of Friday morning.
The result for the South Shields by-election is also expected early on Friday morning."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22376584
Who knows - given the diet of Alec worship, YOU ARE WRONG!!!!!!!!! debating and I AM RIGHT!!!!!! brow-beating - who knows.
Frankly as someone who didn't care much either way - the CyberNats on PB have made me dislike their tactics so much that I'd campaign for The Union and win just to piss them off even more. It's gone beyond wishing for an amicable divorce that I managed.
I was going to like that, but then I thought you might hit me :-)
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21577031-kenneth-appel-mathematician-maps-died-april-19th-aged-80-kenneth-appel
You are entitled to your view that mass immigration solves everything from falling education standards to rising crime to saving hospital wards, as am I that people do not want their neighbourhoods changed irrevocably by a wave of people from another part of the world.
It would be like storming into someones home, ripping down the wallpaper they had chosen, replacing it with eggboxes and telling them how much better soundproofed their walls are now. You may well be right, but people couldnt give a toss, they liked it as it was.
One day you will grasp that siding with @JamesKelly just makes you look even more of a pawn. And he's already lost vs me. You are now my pawn by agreeing with his Dislikes.
Are you your own man or his sheep? Up to you - as a man of many opinions.
Boris Johnson would make a good leader of the Conservative party, Zac Goldsmith has said.
In an interview with the Evening Standard the Conservative MP for Richmond said voters were unclear on what David Cameron stood for.
“I don’t think people on the streets are clear enough about what Cameron stands for — and that’s a problem in politics,” he argued.
But he was much more positive about the Mayor of London.
"I can imagine [Boris Johnson] as a future and very successful leader of the Conservative Party," he said.
Mr Goldsmith has previously been highly critical of the Government for its sympathy with the idea of a second runway at Heathrow airport, an approach he described as "wink wink, nudge nudge".
The "Bring in Boris" movement has started even before the local results are in.
In other words, posters reply above rather than below the quoted sub-thread. Like this.
Stark Dawning reminded me of its merits yesterday. It is an old Usenet practice.