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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:17 
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I'll deny all knowledge of you ask me, but I reckon Teresa has dealt with the Trump Tweet Twattastophe quite well.


Yes, I think she went as far as she could. The Hugh Grant moment is never going to happen, no matter how much we'd like it to.

Amber Rudd was very good in the Commons yesterday on this too.


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GQ covers Corbyn

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"The actual shoot itself was quite tortuous. It was as difficult as shooting any Hollywood celebrity.

"We've shot many politicians for our cover ... but never have we encountered such a ring. Obviously [Labour director of communications] Seumas Milne and his crew are very particular gate-keepers.

"They didn't really seem to understand the process at all, didn't understand (a) that he would have to be photographed in the first place (b) that he would need to be presentable or that he couldn't just turn up in his anorak.

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Pretty bad for the police to have disclosed that stuff

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Keeping evidence that should have been destroyed, of an entirely legal act, from someone who was never charged with a crime, and then keeping that evidence in your personal possession after you leave the service and then leaking it 8 years after the event? That officer must be breaking some laws, surely.


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stuff like this means I'm really not likely to vote Labour. As per last election.

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stuff like this means I'm really not likely to vote Labour. As per last election.

Latest Survation poll gives Labour an eight point lead. They were the only pollster to get even close with the GE17 result.

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stuff like this means I'm really not likely to vote Labour. As per last election.

Latest Survation poll gives Labour an eight point lead. They were the only pollster to get even close with the GE17 result.


Speak their name, and they shall appear. Local Labour canvaser appeared at my door this morning.

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 Post subject: Re: Political Banter and Debate Thread
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Unexpected mention of the Chartists by my MP in the House on Friday:

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The idea of equalising the number of constituents predates all of us in this House. The Chartists first suggested it in the people’s charter of 1838, and it is important to read what the charter said. Point 5 of the Chartists’ demands—[Interruption.] This is a working-class movement for political reform—Opposition Members might want to listen. Point 5 refers to equal constituencies, securing the same amount of representation for the same number of electors, instead of allowing less populous constituencies to have as much or more weight than larger ones.


That's reduced my net disapproval of her by a point, but still a long way to go.

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I am also aware of the marvellous brewery in Hook Norton, which I am ever proud to represent and from which so many hon. Members are pleased to buy wares from time to time. Christmas is coming and it is doing a very good pack.


At this rate she'll have made her score positive by 2068.


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A brief moment of loveliness from the Australian Parliament, of all places

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Does his face then sour, followed by him going on a rant about being eaten by crocodiles?

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Also this is happening:

THREE MPs NOW. THREE MPs WHO ARE COMPLETELY FAILING AT DATA PROTECTION AND SECURITY BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION, GOING ON LIKE THIS IS PERFECTLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL WRONG https://t.co/rxZyL9ZnHS https://t.co/oUAEBk57Ph

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I'm really rather fond of my MP just lately. Go get 'em Alison!

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That's not the twitter thing that I shared ^^


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You're quite right.

That's odd.

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It is now.

I didn't change anything, so I think maybe the Twitter script that makes things look pretty might have got confused.

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Fair enough. Awesome webmastering. Would web again. A+++


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I have figured out why it was confused and hopefully it won't get confused again.

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I have figured out why it was confused and hopefully it won't get confused again.

Did it have too much cannabis?


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I have figured out why it was confused and hopefully it won't get confused again.

Did it have too much courgette?


Yes, yes it did.


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Reviews of Shipman's new book are coming in https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/u ... ry-tragedy

I really enjoyed his last one so I'll pick this up at some point when I'm not reading books with zombies and/or spaceships on the cover.


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I really enjoyed his last one so I'll pick this up at some point


Aye. One of the most gripping political thrillers I've read in a long time.

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when I'm not reading books with zombies and/or spaceships on the cover.


That's for the third book in his trilogy.


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/ ... ssion=true

Cam W posted that on the twitter

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Donald Trump spent much of 2016 questioning his opponent's stamina to be president of the United States. But it is now Trump's own fitness that is being scrutinized by friends and foes alike.

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Jeremy Hunt does the right thing!

Guardian: Jeremy Hunt launches opt-out organ donation plans

Well done Jeremy. You're not a complete euphemism, after all.


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 Post subject: Re: Political Banter and Debate Thread
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http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/arti ... llennials/

This is an excellent, if thoroughly depressing, review of all the ways Millennials are thoroughly and dangerously screwed by the modern housing, jobs, and healthcare systems. It's written about America but Britain is not so different, I fear.


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Picked up the latest GQ for some Christmas reading and had a choice of covers: Jeremy Corbyn or Matt Smith. I chose the one best known for playing a kindly old-fashioned English gentleman who becomes a folk hero and wants a better world but runs away a lot.


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

This is an excellent, if throughout depressing, review of all the ways Millennials are thoroughly and dangerously screwed by the modern housing, jobs, and healthcare systems. It's written about America but Britain is not so different, I fear.


Great piece, thanks for the link.

I think it'll get worse before it gets better, as much as I hope I'm wrong about that.


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Fucking horrible website, though.

Get off my scroll event, mofo.

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I think the design is cute.


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I think the design is cute.


Yeah I thought it was very cool, all you need is the up and down arrow keys, or the scroll wheel.


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Get off my scroll event, mofo.

So much :this:


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I think the design is cute.

Yeah I thought it was very cool, all you need is the up and down arrow keys, or the scroll wheel.

What do you normally use?

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I think the design is cute.

Yeah I thought it was very cool, all you need is the up and down arrow keys, or the scroll wheel.

What do you normally use?


The up and down arrow keys, or the scroll wheel.

EDIT - And PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN for bigger jumps. And HOME and END sometimes, I think.

Whatever the case, I thought it was a nicely designed webpage, although I would have to explain it to my in-laws if I were to send them a link, which sort of spoils it a bit.


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On Friday the House of Lords debated Baroness Kennedy's bill to restrict entry to the country to those who are ' known to be, or to have been, involved in conduct constituting the commission of a gross human rights abuse or violation'. This is basically referring to those Russians already facing sanctions here, in the US, and elsewhere - a Magnitsky Act.

It's a very good debate and worth reading if you want something positive in politics. It'll be interesting how far it progresses: the minister's response was a bit lukewarm.


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

This is an excellent, if thoroughly depressing, review of all the ways Millennials are thoroughly and dangerously screwed by the modern housing, jobs, and healthcare systems. It's written about America but Britain is not so different, I fear.


This was my mate's comment about it. He's a very wealthy banker.

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This makes me so angry. When Hammond touts his unemployment figures, these are the people he’s sweeping under the carpet. It’s a disgrace.

(Click through for a short video interviewing some people who are homeless despite having zero-hour contract jobs.)

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Racial division within Bradford is 'horrible state of affairs', warns scrutiny committee chairman.


I'm amazed comments are open on this article.

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Have to say that this Bannon/Trump falling out is cheering me up a bit.


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Definitely!

And now Mr Trump's team are trying to stop publication. Oh, this always goes well (for the publishers).


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Good to hear that Mrs May is so keen to sort out the housing problem she's added 'Housing' to the name of the local government department and kept Sajid Javid on as minister.


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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... ffle_quip/

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PHILIP Davies has prompted laughter in the Commons this afternoon with a joke on Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle.

MPs are now back in Westminster following the Christmas break and the outspoken Conservative Shipley MP joked he would need to "get in quick" with his question "before the Prime Minister's inevitable call".

His quip was met with amusement from fellow MPs.


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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15814361.Shipley_MP_Philip_Davies_prompts_laughter_with_Cabinet_reshuffle_quip/

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PHILIP Davies has prompted laughter in the Commons this afternoon with a joke on Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle.

MPs are now back in Westminster following the Christmas break and the outspoken Conservative Shipley MP joked he would need to "get in quick" with his question "before the Prime Minister's inevitable call".

His quip was met with amusement from fellow MPs.


Oh, how we laughed.

He also said this. What a poor snowflake.

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Trump said the US can get again into the Paris accord after the (very short) meeting with Norway's PM. I don't know what she said to him, but we should be grateful.

Anyway, the chance that Trump changes his mind again is almost 1.


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He apparently changes his mind about things very easily when he's in a room with someone and then changes it back again just as quickly.


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Mr Trump won't be visiting the UK because he doesn't like the new embassy. And not, of course, because he's worried he'll be as welcome as a hog roast at a vegan wedding.

In other news, the Radio 4 newsreader just said 'shithole'.


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Mr Trump won't be visiting the UK because he doesn't like the new embassy. And not, of course, because he's worried he'll be as welcome as a hog roast at a vegan wedding.

In other news, the Radio 4 newsreader just said 'shithole'.

For what was believed to be the first time in history, a peer said “Cunt” while speaking in the House of Lords yesterday.


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For what was believed to be the first time in history, a peer said “Cunt” while speaking in the House of Lords yesterday.


Piers Morgan's a peer?


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