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Is the "ICM men" bar supposed to be red?0
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This is what pollsters call a get out of jail free card or getting your excuses in early. ICM seem particularly well covered.0
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Comparison with 2010 at this point?0
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What on earth is going on here? Why the extraordinary spread between (at its most extreme) Ashcroft and ICM (especially if Ashcroft is ICM?)0
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I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.0
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I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Interesting that there is such a gender split. IIRC ICM had the Tories 10% ahead amongst women (Tim would have been spinning if he was still here). If the don't knows split on that kind of ratio anything could happen. What an amazing election this is.
Edit, actually I think I am getting mixed up with the Ashcroft poll.0 -
No, just excited by the sighting of a (rather obvious) astroturferTheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Have you heard the buzz in Mid Dorset though ?Charles said:
No, just excited by the sighting of a (rather obvious) astroturferTheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Women can't make up their mind.0 -
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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No - Tories getting annoyed with blatant BBC bias towards labour.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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The Countryside Alliance weren't exactly over the moon about Marrs 'misquote' of an article that they published.weejonnie said:
No - Tories getting annoyed with blatant BBC bias towards labour.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
That's the more likely reason for his apology, and rightly so.
Broadcasters can't simply make stuff up, and expect to get away with it.0 -
#MidDorsetBuzzPulpstar said:
Have you heard the buzz in Mid Dorset though ?Charles said:
No, just excited by the sighting of a (rather obvious) astroturferTheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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I better get ready to dive for cover. I find women know exactly what they are going to do and I am 100% certain of it when my lady turns to me and asks "What do you think?". She is merely looking for confirmation about what she has already made up her mind to do.0
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The evidence is out there!Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
My favourite "Top Tip" from Viz:
"Gentlemen, get your revenge on your ladyfriends by taking them around every pub in town, then going back to buy a pint in the one you started in"
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The SNP are creating the (for the UK) new phenomenon of Inverse Swingback (if Reverse Swingback is Swingback followed by a reversal, Inverse Swingback is going the opposite way from the get go).Pulpstar said:Though he is up to 48. I'm regarding it as a minimum.
Con gain BRS looks a touch dubious to me. I suspect the SNP will nab it.0 -
Interesting numbers, shows how Scotland has been viewed as the area which can be destroyed for "national requirements" while England remains untouched by the (outdated) Forestry Commission needs for WW1 (which it is still based on).Ishmael_X said:
It's mainly Sitka spruce, from North America. http://tinyurl.com/ptubkahFlightpath1 said:
Whereas the windfarms came from the Archangel Gabriel.Dair said:
Personally I find Wind Farms beautiful. The real blight on the landscape of the Highlands is the enormous acreage of non-native conifers that London governments required to be planted across Scotland.Ishmael_X said:
NIMBY is a loaded expression - it isn't unreasonable for people to care particularly about the environment where they personally live (because if they don't who else is going to?) And wind farms are blighting inter alia the whole of Highland Scotland and the whole of Cornwall, so the concern is not merely parochial.Dair said:
Wind power NIMBYs are one of the few things that gets me genuinely angry. The utter stupidity from them goes beyond nonsense.AndyJS said:Nigel Farage talking his usual nonsense about wind farms:
http://news.sky.com/story/1472432/wind-giving-power-to-thanets-purple-vote
Personally I don't think they look too bad; they don't infuriate me like solar panel farms on good agricultural land do.
My understanding is that Scots Pine is a conifer and as its name implies is native to Scotland, possibly even the Highlands.
Only think England grows more of is Christmas Trees.0 -
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Lab majority hit 70 today on Betfair, longest ever. In a touch to 65 now...0
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In my canvassing experience, most "undecideds" don't vote.
A few undecideds are genuinely uncertain and are weighing up the pros and cons.
A few, mainly women, are politely telling you to mind your own business.
Others, mainly men, simply refuse to answer and are marked as "Antis"
But most of them couldn't give a toss. They are not interested in politics, they don't know and they don't care and they certainly won't bother to vote. "I don't know". "I haven't really decided."
I don't think there is a big pool of undecideds to be tapped. Perhaps a few on the margin will make the difference in a close contest.0 -
If Hunting was as big an issue as the economy ANYWHERE then there would be a Pro-Hunting party with a couple of seats at Westminster. There isn't. No-one cares.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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I read that one million fewer women voted than men last time.0
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which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?0 -
Does anyone think there is a significant difference in real life? If not - what does that tell us about polling?0
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I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?0 -
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html0 -
Most elections are decided by the undecided.0
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There is a very lively Twop Twips Twitter account running.foxinsoxuk said:
The evidence is out there!Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
My favourite "Top Tip" from Viz:
"Gentlemen, get your revenge on your ladyfriends by taking them around every pub in town, then going back to buy a pint in the one you started in"
Canvassing politicians.Get a warmer welcome from homeowners, by carrying a Betterware™ catalogue with you.
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OT - Far more interesting than mixed up women are:
Internet v Phone polls; Polls checking for registered voters; regional variations; age profile of party support; certainty to vote; ... the list goes on....0 -
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?0 -
Tim Bell on WATO R4 BBC said today that undecideds break 2 to 1 for the incumbent party. Any evidence to back that up?0
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Out of curiosity, when canvassing, do parties have a general rule when it is too late to be knocking on peoples' doors? A lot of people will only be available post 5-6pm, but I can easily imagine people being more irritated if they think its too late to be bothered.0
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Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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You poor souls - always being picked on bwah bwah bwah... No chance of blaming the Scotsman who introduced spruce trees I suppose?.Dair said:
Interesting numbers, shows how Scotland has been viewed as the area which can be destroyed for "national requirements" while England remains untouched by the (outdated) Forestry Commission needs for WW1 (which it is still based on).Ishmael_X said:
It's mainly Sitka spruce, from North America. http://tinyurl.com/ptubkahFlightpath1 said:
Whereas the windfarms came from the Archangel Gabriel.Dair said:
Personally I find Wind Farms beautiful. The real blight on the landscape of the Highlands is the enormous acreage of non-native conifers that London governments required to be planted across Scotland.Ishmael_X said:
NIMBY is a loaded expression - it isn't unreasonable for people to care particularly about the environment where they personally live (because if they don't who else is going to?) And wind farms are blighting inter alia the whole of Highland Scotland and the whole of Cornwall, so the concern is not merely parochial.Dair said:
Wind power NIMBYs are one of the few things that gets me genuinely angry. The utter stupidity from them goes beyond nonsense.AndyJS said:Nigel Farage talking his usual nonsense about wind farms:
http://news.sky.com/story/1472432/wind-giving-power-to-thanets-purple-vote
Personally I don't think they look too bad; they don't infuriate me like solar panel farms on good agricultural land do.
My understanding is that Scots Pine is a conifer and as its name implies is native to Scotland, possibly even the Highlands.
Only think England grows more of is Christmas Trees.
If the Green Party had its way and spread a virus that destroyed all human life, England would be covered in oak and Scotland in conifers.
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries are devolved matters and its Scottish policy to expand forests to 25% of Scotland's land area.
Nothing to do with 'London'. Although of course as it stands all Scottish MPs can vote on English agriculture matters.
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ComRes did a poll on the undecided last week
http://www.comres.co.uk/polls/good-morning-britain-undecided-voters-poll-2/
They broke pretty similarly between Con and Lab.0 -
No evidence, but I think that the truly undecided, like Buridan's asses, will not vote. It's the "won't tells" who may split in the manner Tim Bell suggests.TCPoliticalBetting said:Tim Bell on WATO R4 BBC said today that undecideds break 2 to 1 for the incumbent party. Any evidence to back that up?
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5:30 to about 7pm is peak time to get people, but when we have early nights probably 6:15 latest. In some areas people will not answer the door after 7pm.kle4 said:Out of curiosity, when canvassing, do parties have a general rule when it is too late to be knocking on peoples' doors? A lot of people will only be available post 5-6pm, but I can easily imagine people being more irritated if they think its too late to be bothered.
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What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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I absolutely agree with you...the worst thing Brian Ferry ever produced!Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
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You mean like this comment from the controller of BBC2TheWatcher said:
The Countryside Alliance weren't exactly over the moon about Marrs 'misquote' of an article that they published.weejonnie said:
No - Tories getting annoyed with blatant BBC bias towards labour.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
That's the more likely reason for his apology, and rightly so.
Broadcasters can't simply make stuff up, and expect to get away with it.
"“We made a flawed but very interesting documentary called Meet the Ukippers which had some moments in it which just made your jaw drop.”"
I don't recollect having seen any apologies about the 'flaws'.
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Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?0 -
This would rather seem to prove my point. You couldn't even manage a sentence justifying them aesthetically in objective terms without veering off into your (very naive) perceptions of what they represent.Dair said:
I find them beautiful because they are - fantastic modern engineering, reaching to the skies with sleek versimilitude that it is possible to live well in your environment while enjoying the technology that makes life good.Luckyguy1983 said:
You find them beautiful because you connote them with lovely clean free power; with a bright greener future. I find them ugly because I see them as oppressive fascistic symbols of a tokenistic green racket that is just another way of moving money and power from the poor to the rich. Were you to research the issue properly, you'd cease to see them in the way you do now.Dair said:
Personally I find Wind Farms beautiful. The real blight on the landscape of the Highlands is the enormous acreage of non-native conifers that London governments required to be planted across Scotland.Ishmael_X said:
NIMBY is a loaded expression - it isn't unreasonable for people to care particularly about the environment where they personally live (because if they don't who else is going to?) And wind farms are blighting inter alia the whole of Highland Scotland and the whole of Cornwall, so the concern is not merely parochial.Dair said:
Wind power NIMBYs are one of the few things that gets me genuinely angry. The utter stupidity from them goes beyond nonsense.AndyJS said:Nigel Farage talking his usual nonsense about wind farms:
http://news.sky.com/story/1472432/wind-giving-power-to-thanets-purple-vote
Personally I don't think they look too bad; they don't infuriate me like solar panel farms on good agricultural land do.
Many people visit Holland to enjoy the looking at the windmills.
Objectively, they are simply vast metal constructions that are extremely at odds with their surroundings. Like the NATO Golf ball radar stations, or the belching cooling towers at Didcot, how you feel towards them entirely depends on your point of view. However, those are isolated in one spot. Wind farms are everywhere.0 -
I think Dair is getting confused with Charlie Gilmour's antics on the Cenotaph.TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.0 -
Tomlinson?Pulpstar said:
Have you heard the buzz in Mid Dorset though ?Charles said:
No, just excited by the sighting of a (rather obvious) astroturferTheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Was it when he was swinging from the flag at the cenotaph during a lefty protest a few years ago and claimed afterwards he didn't know what the cenotaph was?TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
EDIT: I see someone has got there first, and I made the same mistake too
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I only thank the Lord the people he confused were white otherwise we would have had a fully fledged racist on boardCuthbertBede said:
I think Dair is getting confused with Charlie Gilmour's antics on the Cenotaph.TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
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The adopted son of the Socialist, Dave Gilmour? That's what I thought too. Muppet.CuthbertBede said:
I think Dair is getting confused with Charlie Gilmour's antics on the Cenotaph.TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.0 -
In Scotland, that's the SNP. 60% on May 7th?TCPoliticalBetting said:Tim Bell on WATO R4 BBC said today that undecideds break 2 to 1 for the incumbent party. Any evidence to back that up?
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At the beginning of the campaign I said the SNP would be a huge issue and it is now right in the centre with almost every report referring to it in some way or other. It must have an effect on polling south of the border to the detriment of labour0
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Otis Ferry was one of the guys who broke in to the Commons chamber when the Hunting Bill was going throughCuthbertBede said:
I think Dair is getting confused with Charlie Gilmour's antics on the Cenotaph.TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
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Doubt it - am wondering about Carmichael though. Do Orkney and Shetlanders regard themselves as Scottish and is Carmichael regarded as a Liberal ?Dair said:
In Scotland, that's the SNP. 60% on May 7th?TCPoliticalBetting said:Tim Bell on WATO R4 BBC said today that undecideds break 2 to 1 for the incumbent party. Any evidence to back that up?
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Can you please elaborate on "his background in SLAB".Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?
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Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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Back when I was a LibDem activist in the 90s we'd usually knock off at 8pm, or earlier if it was getting dark. Some reckoned that 7 - 7.30 was a better time to stop depending on which soaps were on.kle4 said:Out of curiosity, when canvassing, do parties have a general rule when it is too late to be knocking on peoples' doors? A lot of people will only be available post 5-6pm, but I can easily imagine people being more irritated if they think its too late to be bothered.
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Nate Silver- he is exactly what I imagined him. I don't think the real him could have been a more perfect fit to what I had in my head.0
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Singing "Let's Stick Together" seems worse to me.TheKrakenAwakes said:
I absolutely agree with you...the worst thing Brian Ferry ever produced!Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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Can understand you not being a fan.Dair said:
Singing "Let's Stick Together" seems worse to me.TheKrakenAwakes said:
I absolutely agree with you...the worst thing Brian Ferry ever produced!Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
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were the points he made inaccurate?Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?0 -
Bournemouth 3 - Bolton 0 - Bournemouth to join Southampton in the Premiership - wonderful to see the success of smaller clubs - and no I don't support them having been born within a few miles of Old Trafford0
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When I was a child heading to the beaches of fife, I always loved the sight of the Fife Radar Golf Ball.Luckyguy1983 said:
This would rather seem to prove my point. You couldn't even manage a sentence justifying them aesthetically in objective terms without veering off into your (very naive) perceptions of what they represent.Dair said:
I find them beautiful because they are - fantastic modern engineering, reaching to the skies with sleek versimilitude that it is possible to live well in your environment while enjoying the technology that makes life good.Luckyguy1983 said:
You find them beautiful because you connote them with lovely clean free power; with a bright greener future. I find them ugly because I see them as oppressive fascistic symbols of a tokenistic green racket that is just another way of moving money and power from the poor to the rich. Were you to research the issue properly, you'd cease to see them in the way you do now.Dair said:
Personally I find Wind Farms beautiful. The real blight on the landscape of the Highlands is the enormous acreage of non-native conifers that London governments required to be planted across Scotland.Ishmael_X said:
NIMBY is a loaded expression - it isn't unreasonable for people to care particularly about the environment where they personally live (because if they don't who else is going to?) And wind farms are blighting inter alia the whole of Highland Scotland and the whole of Cornwall, so the concern is not merely parochial.Dair said:
Wind power NIMBYs are one of the few things that gets me genuinely angry. The utter stupidity from them goes beyond nonsense.AndyJS said:Nigel Farage talking his usual nonsense about wind farms:
http://news.sky.com/story/1472432/wind-giving-power-to-thanets-purple-vote
Personally I don't think they look too bad; they don't infuriate me like solar panel farms on good agricultural land do.
Many people visit Holland to enjoy the looking at the windmills.
Objectively, they are simply vast metal constructions that are extremely at odds with their surroundings. Like the NATO Golf ball radar stations, or the belching cooling towers at Didcot, how you feel towards them entirely depends on your point of view. However, those are isolated in one spot. Wind farms are everywhere.
As for vast metal constructions, I would ask you to consider The Kelpies
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/kelpies-timelapse-watch-the-construction-of-andy-scotts-30-ft-steel-equine-statues/0 -
There aren't "three or four Tory candidates in and around here" anywhere; one per constituency is the rule. Furthermore, school classes are generally one class to one year: the odds on you and the tory candidate both having either twins or children born within a year of each other so that you each have more than one child in any given class are very, very long. You seem to be a troll.TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Idlewild, remote part.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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You're right, my mistake. Apologies to Otis Ferry for accusations of Cenotaph desecration. Seems he was far keener on robbery for which he served a prison sentence "much easier than private school" he says.CuthbertBede said:
I think Dair is getting confused with Charlie Gilmour's antics on the Cenotaph.TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
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He spent a long time going on about the SNP's record on the Scottish NHS (and Nicola's as Health Secretary). Which I thought was strange as the Scottish NHS isn't really an issue in this election as the UK Government and Parliament have no authority over it, and it is surely for the Scottish people to judge at the next Holyrood election.TOPPING said:
were the points he made inaccurate?Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?
... I then got home from work so not sure how the discussion continued.0 -
Big_G_NorthWales said:
Bournemouth 3 - Bolton 0 - Bournemouth to join Southampton in the Premiership - wonderful to see the success of smaller clubs - and no I don't support them having been born within a few miles of Old Trafford
well done you Cherries!..seems an age since I watched them at Dean Court with Ted MacDougal and Phil Boyer all those years agoBig_G_NorthWales said:Bournemouth 3 - Bolton 0 - Bournemouth to join Southampton in the Premiership - wonderful to see the success of smaller clubs - and no I don't support them having been born within a few miles of Old Trafford
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There's a few by a Mr Derek Dick aka Fish, Script for A Jester's Tear onwards.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
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It was her record they were discussing weren't they? She is about to be thrust upon rUK and I think it is entirely reasonable that we should learn a little more about her.JohnLilburne said:
He spent a long time going on about the SNP's record on the Scottish NHS (and Nicola's as Health Secretary). Which I thought was strange as the Scottish NHS isn't really an issue in this election as the UK Government and Parliament have no authority over it, and it is surely for the Scottish people to judge at the next Holyrood election.TOPPING said:
were the points he made inaccurate?Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?
... I then got home from work so not sure how the discussion continued.
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Except he only spent time in prison on remand.Dair said:
You're right, my mistake. Apologies to Otis Ferry for accusations of Cenotaph desecration. Seems he was far keener on robbery for which he served a prison sentence "much easier than private school" he says.CuthbertBede said:
I think Dair is getting confused with Charlie Gilmour's antics on the Cenotaph.TheWatcher said:
What, and when?Dair said:TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
The Crown accepted Ferry's pleas of not guilty to robbery and common assault charges. He admitted a public order offence and was given a one-year conditional discharge for causing "fear, stress and upset" to a hunt monitor.0 -
Proclaimers.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
Or perhaps that is your point.
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Its a reet proper bugger this freedom of speech innit? Not that it stopped the law locking Ferry up in jail for 4 months and then withdrawing the charges. Its easy to rubbish the CPS and the police when they are just shafting some poor journalist eh?TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Did someone say on an earlier post that Ferry defaced a war memorial? Which one? I know he invaded parliament.0 -
I think you'll find it was the Proclaimersisam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
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Get you facts right Ishmael...I have twins in the same class as the Tory candidate for North Dorset. I have asked the Tories standing in North Dorset. Mid Dorset / Poole North, West Dorset and Poole...OK?Ishmael_X said:
There aren't "three or four Tory candidates in and around here" anywhere; one per constituency is the rule. Furthermore, school classes are generally one class to one year: the odds on you and the tory candidate both having either twins or children born within a year of each other so that you each have more than one child in any given class are very, very long. You seem to be a troll.TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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I make no judgement on that, but I would say that school classes going across years, while not the norm, is not exactly that uncommon either. I've seen extreme examples with a class in a small school going across three years! (it was 3-4 from the lowest year, the bulk from the middle, and 1-2 from the highest year)Ishmael_X said:
There aren't "three or four Tory candidates in and around here" anywhere; one per constituency is the rule. Furthermore, school classes are generally one class to one year: the odds on you and the tory candidate both having either twins or children born within a year of each other so that you each have more than one child in any given class are very, very long. You seem to be a troll.TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
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Not sure. He was picking spot statistics and she was countering with others and claiming the direction of travel was good, ie they found it in a mess and improved it.TOPPING said:
It was her record they were discussing weren't they? She is about to be thrust upon rUK and I think it is entirely reasonable that we should learn a little more about her.JohnLilburne said:
He spent a long time going on about the SNP's record on the Scottish NHS (and Nicola's as Health Secretary). Which I thought was strange as the Scottish NHS isn't really an issue in this election as the UK Government and Parliament have no authority over it, and it is surely for the Scottish people to judge at the next Holyrood election.TOPPING said:
were the points he made inaccurate?Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?
... I then got home from work so not sure how the discussion continued.
And even if it was irrelevant, was it inaccurate?
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Yes they see themselves as Scottish. But also as Norse. It's a joint identity. But the independence movement there is as weak as Wales and there is no Norse unification movement. It's more Cumbria or at best (for this Unionist nonsense of Orkney and Zetland being exclaves) Cornwall.Pulpstar said:
Doubt it - am wondering about Carmichael though. Do Orkney and Shetlanders regard themselves as Scottish and is Carmichael regarded as a Liberal ?Dair said:
In Scotland, that's the SNP. 60% on May 7th?TCPoliticalBetting said:Tim Bell on WATO R4 BBC said today that undecideds break 2 to 1 for the incumbent party. Any evidence to back that up?
Most Orcadians and Zetlanders are Scottish.0 -
If Rod Stewart is classed as Scottish then Mandolin Wind wins hands down.JohnLilburne said:
There's a few by a Mr Derek Dick aka Fish, Script for A Jester's Tear onwards.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.0 -
Congratulations Bournemouth. Eddie Howe 33-1 to be England manager in future.0
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Dair confused Ferry with Charlie, the adopted son of the Socialist musician, David Gilmour.Flightpath1 said:
Its a reet proper bugger this freedom of speech innit? Not that it stopped the law locking Ferry up in jail for 4 months and then withdrawing the charges. Its easy to rubbish the CPS and the police when they are just shafting some poor journalist eh?TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Did someone say on an earlier post that Ferry defaced a war memorial? Which one? I know he invaded parliament.0 -
I need to see the Kelpies soon. I've no objection to man imposing his vision on the landscape on occasion. But not carpeting beautiful countryside with useless white elephants that damage the natural habitats they're placed in.Dair said:
As for vast metal constructions, I would ask you to consider The Kelpies
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/kelpies-timelapse-watch-the-construction-of-andy-scotts-30-ft-steel-equine-statues/
I wonder if you'll like them so much when the subsidies stop and they become turbine elephant graveyards as in Hawaii and California: http://www.friendsofgranderondevalley.com/Komoa wind 6-7-11 706 480x.JPG0 -
Oh well they're all Scottish I'll just lump them in togetherIshmael_X said:
Proclaimers.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
Or perhaps that is your point.
"Stay until your love is, love is... a letter from America!!!"
and my favourite song by a black man is "Sexual Healing" by Bob Marley0 -
Man is a genius, should be 3/1KentRising said:Congratulations Bournemouth. Eddie Howe 33-1 to be England manager in future.
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I'd say almost sui generis. Orcadians and Shetlanders each call the biggest island the mainland, and Bergen is IIRC the nearest big international airport to Lerwick. Also linguistically distinct from the Gaelic Highlands/'Saxon' Lowlands. But nobody should thik that they are parochial at all - they were often very widely (globally) travelled even in the old days, as the old graveyard near Stromness shows, with strong links also to Aberdeen (uni and all that). Also a lot of oil industry incomers.Pulpstar said:
Doubt it - am wondering about Carmichael though. Do Orkney and Shetlanders regard themselves as Scottish and is Carmichael regarded as a Liberal ?Dair said:
In Scotland, that's the SNP. 60% on May 7th?TCPoliticalBetting said:Tim Bell on WATO R4 BBC said today that undecideds break 2 to 1 for the incumbent party. Any evidence to back that up?
Very strong LD tradition anyway, as another Pber pointed out - all but 15 years of the last century LD IIRC.
However as was also noted Mr C has potentially badly blotted his copybook by being part of the Coalition which has made life a lot more difficult for oil well before indyref. And the refusal to let Scottish fisheries ministers leadin the latest EU negotiations will not help.
Beyond that I'd keep an open mind. I have found most press reports either to have an axe to grind or to be far too superficial. I would not be surprised if he survived.
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As I understand it he was a Labour Student at Uni.TCPoliticalBetting said:
Can you please elaborate on "his background in SLAB".Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?0 -
Think you mean Marvin Gaye?isam said:
Oh well they're all Scottish I'll just lump them in togetherIshmael_X said:
Proclaimers.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
Or perhaps that is your point.
"Stay until your love is, love is... a letter from America!!!"
and my favourite song by a black man is "Sexual Healing" by Bob Marley0 -
No steer this evening from your main man at SunPolitics, so no surprises likely in their soon to be announced YouGov poll.
Which reminds me, we should presumably see Stephen Fisher's latest forecast tomorrow morning.0 -
It was a new and (for me) welcome face of Eddie. Dair thinks it is part of some SLAB conspiracy.JohnLilburne said:
Not sure. He was picking spot statistics and she was countering with others and claiming the direction of travel was good, ie they found it in a mess and improved it.TOPPING said:
It was her record they were discussing weren't they? She is about to be thrust upon rUK and I think it is entirely reasonable that we should learn a little more about her.JohnLilburne said:
He spent a long time going on about the SNP's record on the Scottish NHS (and Nicola's as Health Secretary). Which I thought was strange as the Scottish NHS isn't really an issue in this election as the UK Government and Parliament have no authority over it, and it is surely for the Scottish people to judge at the next Holyrood election.TOPPING said:
were the points he made inaccurate?Dair said:
Car Crash for Eddie Mair. He sounds desperate to pick holes that don't exist. Although given his background in SLAB that's not surprising.TOPPING said:
On PM this afternoonDair said:
I don't understand the context. I looked at his twitter and didn't see this comment.TOPPING said:
which is an apposite time to re-post FPT (from phantom thread):Dair said:
There's only so many hours in the day....Pulpstar said:ITT:
Women can't make up their mind.
(c) PatronizingBetterTogetherWoman
Back to the SNP:
Eddie Mair - you go girlfriend.
What was he on? He usually irritates me with his borderline smug git mode.
Had Nicola just p*****d on his ch**s?
... I then got home from work so not sure how the discussion continued.
And even if it was irrelevant, was it inaccurate?
I thought it was good journalism - proceeding from Paxo's "why is this lying b*****d lying to me" premise to unnerve the interviewee such that they stop lying.
Amidst the Sturgasm, I thought it was most called for. And as I say, not inaccurate.0 -
Nate’s final numbers: Cons 283, Labour 270, UKIP 1!! #Panorama
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THey are trolling us and it is actually CON+6................peter_from_putney said:No steer this evening from your main man at SunPolitics, so no surprises likely in their soon to be announced YouGov poll.
Which reminds me, we should presumably see Stephen Fisher's latest forecast tomorrow morning.
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One day he might throw a curve ball in and not say anything when there is a bombastic poll :-)peter_from_putney said:No steer this evening from your main man at SunPolitics, so no surprises likely in their soon to be announced YouGov poll.
Which reminds me, we should presumably see Stephen Fisher's latest forecast tomorrow morning.
But I doubt it some how.0 -
You mean by The Proclaimers.isam said:
My favourite song by a Scottish artist is "Letter From America" by Simple MindsCharles said:
Are you referring to Charlie Gilmour rather than Otis Ferry?Dair said:
Hmm, Otis Ferry.TheKrakenAwakes said:
Otis Ferry and his Vote OK organisation have been helping out Tory candidates around the country including Angie Bray in Ealing Central and Ben Howlett in Bath.foxinsoxuk said:
In the heart of former foxhunting territory here in Leics I have heard no one mention it. Mind you they may not want to tell me. I am a fox after all!TheKrakenAwakes said:
Believe me...if you lived in rural Dorset you would know that Hunting is as big an issue here as the economy!felix said:
How about trying to get a life?TheKrakenAwakes said:
I've tried to find out the views of the three or four Tory candidates in and around here about repealing the Hunting act and I can't get an answer from any of them...that includes one who's kids are in the same class as my own childrenkle4 said:
I'm sure the Tories do get edgy about him looking out of touch - it is a longstanding concern that he looks to be so - but what that has to do with Cameron getting riled about a misquote and Marr subsequently acknowledging it was a misquote, I don't know.TheKrakenAwakes said:I see Andrew Marr had to apologise on his show yesterday for misquoting Cameron on his love of fox hunting. Tories getting edgy over DC looking out of touch with Joe Public for wanting to repeal the Hunting Act?...particularly as most hunts are ignoring the law and hunting live quarry regardless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/foxhunting-lobbyists-fronted-by-otis-ferry-target-backing-of-tory-candidates-in-stealth-campaign-10102041.html
Yes to Fox Hunting.
Yes to desecrating memorials to our war dead.
Nice.
Should watch Sunshine on Leith - fantastic film. Utterly brilliant.0 -
On those numbers, it will be same time, same place, in 3 months everybody....bigjohnowls said:Nate’s final numbers: Cons 283, Labour 270, UKIP 1!! #Panorama
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