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Predicted #Labour vote shares, based on Ladbrokes' odds. Corbyn wins on first preferences. pic.twitter.com/EgaL2onfCu
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Have I missed something?
On the off chance you haven't used them all up Mr Cameron, please join me in wishing Juncker would disappear [ * wishes furiously * ].
What it does show is that union invovlement is not a sign of being hugely attracted to be labour party.
No matter who wins now, the whole things reeks of incompetence.
Best case scenario for Labour: Cooper squeaks home and spends the next few years trying to build up a meaningful centre-left base in the party.
If the £3ers take umbrage and feck-off, then surely that has to be a good thing for the party, no?
Project Red Dawn looks to me more about the Twilight of the Sods.
If Cameron either negotiates a major package and successfully wins the referendum, or if he calls for us to quit and leads the UK out of the EU, he will go down as a great Tory Prime Minister.
If the public votes the opposite way to him, or if we stay in based on a shoddy deal that doesn't work (e.g. by not curbing immigration), he'll ruin his legacy.
Interesting times.
Not sure whether this would help or hinder Corbyn.
Excited to learn the new leader of the opposition will be invited to a white tie do with the Queen next month. That shld give good pictures.
lols...
He's now the man who used to be David Davis.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/LIVE-Huge-fossil-discovery-to-be-revealed-20150910
Scientists are speculating that the newly discovered species could be the much fabled "missing link" between humans and the left wing of the Labour party.
Latest figures suggest manufacturing exports to the rest of the world are being hit but not to Europe. On the other hand some say that early holidays by car manufacturers are affecting figures.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34210002
So if you work too long, simply move further away and you can replace hours of work with time sleeping on the train .
@MSmithsonPB: Cooper is 8/1 on Betfair to win which is tighter than the 10/1 being offered on a CON majority AFTER the GE2015 exit poll was published
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/05/437727526/with-eyes-on-europe-iraqis-line-up-to-leave-baghdad
At first it seems lively outside on the weekend in Baghdad — the lights are bright in open-air cafes, music streams from beribboned cars in a wedding party and at Ali Hussein's juice stand, decorated with plastic bananas, they're squeezing oranges on old brass presses.
But even as Hussein offers me a sharp, fresh juice, he's downcast. When I ask about the subject on everyone's mind here — the migrant flood into Europe — he laughs. "We were just talking about this!" he says. Several of his friends just passed by to say farewell.
They heard that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was welcoming Iraqis. "Each one said, 'I'm traveling,' 'I'm traveling,' 'I'm traveling,' " says Hussein. All want to be smuggled to Europe.
Conversations in the Iraqi capital, between the rich and the poor, travel agents, taxi drivers and demonstrators in Friday protests, show a city galvanized by the news from Europe. The violence and decrepitude here are nothing new, but now there is a perception of an opportunity for an alternative, and many are seizing it.
Shooting fish in a barrel. And dead fish, at that.
Tom Harris @tnjharris
The Tories are basically playing politics on "Easy" level now: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3229373/Corbyn-attacks-Cameron-launching-drone-strike-killing-British-ISIS-fanatic-Syria-claiming-unclear-point.html …
For safety-related jobs, it's a good idea. For everything else, no.
Does she like cherry pie? I mean really?
I take it this doesn't get old for you, but same can't be said for her?
Any more news about Frost/Lynch wrt a new series yet? Last I hear, Lynch was back on board...
It is back, but now in 2017 now
Or that asking the question becomes illegal in interviews?
"Mr Corbyn questioned whether the RAF airstrike which killed Khan and a fellow UK jihadist Ruhul Amin was legal and confirmed he would not have authorised the attack."
That's the 11% opinion, the Tories have the 66%.
The frustrating thing is not the jokes, but that the jokers believe that they are being witty and original.
Believe me, you are not! I have heard every possible combination of joke on the topic.
If I am allowed by working time directive to work 48 hours then we must presume I do and get paid for 48 hours work.
If I spend 1hr per day travelling to work - each way - then that is 10 hours per week I am not allowed to earn money out of my 48hr working week. Someone living 5 mins way round the corner effectively still get 48 hrs pay compared to my 38 hours. Unless my company pay me 48hrs pay for 38hrs work.
Is there something lost in interpreting this regulation?
I have to confess that I was feeling a bit delicate this morning, after yesterday's distillery visit.
I recommend the Auchentoshan 21 year old. In fact, I recommend all of their output!
My surname (which you may be able to guess from my user name), wasn't much fun to have growing up when I did. Regan and Carter etc.
So is he saying that he would not have authorised an illegal attack - which I think would also be Cameron's position - or is he saying that, even if legal, he still would not have authorised?
Everyone thinks they are the first person to tell her "I'm spending the next few hours with A Hooker"
Think of the ammo it gives even the friendliest of interviewers when quizzing labour moderates.
''Do you agree with your leader that....''
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34198390
"Britain’s public toilets are a disgrace — Mary Dejevsky
Loos in British railway stations are making huge profits – so why are we paying through the nose for broken, paper-free facilities?"
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/10/britain-public-toilets-disgrace-loos-railway-stations-profits
The guy on the street might not know the ins and outs of how things work, but he just knows instinctively that millions of people coming to Europe, and the high desirability of the UK as a place for third world migrants to go to, means we will end up seeing huge migration from this. Even if it wasn't possible legally, it would happen illegally, via smugglers etc.
Meanwhile the Guardianista doesn't think it will happen until the details are read to him.
And the scale so far is only a drop on the ocean. Read the NPR article I linked - it's the buzz of the town in Baghdad, a city of seven million people. And then there's Mogadishu, Kabul, Kano, et cetera. Sweden and Germany have opened the flood gates, and every EU state will be affected.
And the British left worries about whether or not we should use the word "swarm".
If a worker normally travels from home to their appointments then they seem to be captured in this ruling. However, if the company requires them to go to the office first before going off to appointments then they won't be. So in the first case the person will be paid from the time of leaving home to the time of returning but in the latter the time spent travelling to/from the office would be in the person's own time. It doesn't take a great imagination how employees could be disadvantaged by the ruling and end up spending longer "at work" than is presently the case.
Happy days for lawyers from yet another ill-thought out judgement.
Haskins as the moderator in the debates?
"You've gone too far Reagan, stick to the rules"
"With respect 'Sir', sod the rule book, I get results! Large Scotch"
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The only issue is the Tories do it now, or risk Labour removing him, or wait closer to the Genera election?
"LOTO refuses to keep Britain safe from terrorists" is not a voter-winning headline for Labour.
In the pub, sky news comes on, "look at all those people, where are they going?". "Don't care as long as its not here".
Outside of London go into any town centre and conduct a straw poll, the overwhelming response will be the same.