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Labour candidate for Copeland by-election is not a massive fan of Jeremy Corbyn. pic.twitter.com/0EP91ycFjw
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Hope the cheques in the post!
Con 219
Lab 186
UKIP 82
Green 20
Real jobs, real lives.
I rather like Gillian Troughton's politics, and they seem not too far from my own, or Tim Farron for that matter!
I don't think it is so much that the 5 Labour candidates are anti Corbyn, but rather that all the 5 were genuinely local longstanding activists with local roots. These are the people that outperform the national party, as we also see in Bromsgrove tonight too.
This bodes well for the Labour party in the long run. Corbyn is allowing the grass roots to thrive, and deliberately so. He is killing the Spadocracy.
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/822200313478336512
I'm sure they can employ her in Portugal if she'll go
https://twitter.com/mrdominicbuxton/status/822231750130728960
Swamp the Drain!
The SNP bloke on this week just said that, as Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain, the SNP would vote against a50 to reflect the wishes of their constituents
Then in the next breath he said he hoped labour MPs would 'develop a backbone' & vote against it... not reflecting the wishes of their constituents!!! Classic stuff
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In case I wasn't clear enough from my previous tweets:
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Jess Phillips immediately pulled him up and he had no answer
I'm sure you knew that xxxx
Trump is mercurial - that is the fundamental issue.
I notice on Facebook that the young and dumb use the xxxx thing quite a bit in their interactions. Presumably you're getting a bit past qualifying in at least one of those categories.
https://twitter.com/pressjournal/status/822242220363411458
When I read that "Donald Trump will be our number one ally", I have the image of a supplicant holding onto someone's trouser leg declaring "I'm your best friend".
I won't be surprised if Mélenchon beats Macron. The centre is a hard place to polarise from, and polarisation is what it's all about.
Should we withdraw from Five Eyes and other agreements we have had for decades so that we can treat Turkey as an equitably number one ally?
http://www.dw.com/en/lisbon-call-center-boom-draws-eu-guest-workers/a-18269637
Unfortunately as its drawing in expats its unlikely to help with Portugal's 28% youth unemployment rate....
IMO this should also demonstrate to the non Corbyn wing of the party that there is a place for them... There isn't some kind of secret takeover plot.
She has much stronger links with the Constituency Associations than Cameron ever did.....
And while we're complimenting Corbyn on his open approach, there could be an alternative explanation.....he just doesn't think Parliament that important to the movement
THE senior STV journalist who was allegedly “gagged” by the SNP has resigned.
Digital politics and comment editor Stephen Daisley is to leave his job later this month.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15029547.Journalist_in_SNP__gagging__row_quits_STV/
Welcome to 'civic' SNPland......
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-01-20/three-dead-and-20-injured-after-car-ploughs-into-pedestrians/
Police saying not terror related, one witness claims driver chanting Allahu Akbar
http://upflow.co/l/eOW6/startups-shun-silicon-roundabout-2017-1r=US&IR=T
https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/822215830947725312
News to Mrs May!
That’s what one local Labour source told Business Insider on Thursday when we asked them what could win or lose the crucial Copeland by-election for the party......
....councillor Gillian Troughton is a leading candidate among local Labour members to stand in the by-election. Troughton won a Cumbria County Council by-election in 2015 and is well-respected locally. “She has a strong handle on the big issues in the seat,” a Labour campaigner told Business Insider.
Holliday, like Troughton, enjoys an advantage in that she’s widely-known in Copeland....
However, a possible Achilles heel is her support for Corbyn. Holliday describes herself as centre-left and pro-nuclear, but supported the anti-nuclear, socialist veteran in the party’s most recent leadership election. Copeland isn’t a progressive Labour seat in metropolitan London. It’s a traditional, pro-Leave, working-class seat with widespread concern about immigration. “We don’t do Corbyn here,”
http://www.businessinsider.co.id/corbyn-candidate-rachel-holliday-joins-race-to-be-labours-copeland-byelection-mp-2017-1/#3ZpJJLwXvkIGHAlI.99
I'd love to see Britain withdraw from both NATO and UKUSA. The latter was only officially admitted to exist nearly 60 years after it was agreed - talk about ignominy! Britain to the US may have been number one poodle for a time; now I don't think it's even that, for all the importance of the money-laundering network centred on the City of London and with an infrastructure spanning many outposts. The attitude in the Foreign Office has long been that the Yanks have the tech and can sling guns whereas the Brits have the brains and can understand the fuzzywuzzies' and tribal leaders' minds. Strange then that most countries' elites mostly prefer to send their brats to Ivy League universities rather than to Britain's two, if they get the chance. Who laughs at whom behind whose backs? Where we agree is that the relationship involves far more than NATO, but I wouldn't call it an "alliance".
If Hollande had been the Socalist candidate, Sarkozy the LR one, and Bayrou had stood, you could easily have had five candidates in the teens (Hollande, Sarkozy, Macron, Melechon and Bayrou), and he could easily have made second.
But with both Fillon and Le Pen having floors in the low 20s, I don't see how he can make it into the final, unless he were able to pick up Socialist voters who went tactically for him to avoid a Fillon-Le Pen run off. Which, while possible, seems relatively unlikely.
Yesterday, I heard a story (whether true or not is another matter) that Goldman was going to substantially reduce its London footprint. The European back-office was going to Warsaw, sales & trading for the bulk of European clients would go to Frankfurt, and a number of investment banking jobs would be moved back to the US.
I don't know the veracity of the story, although the source is a plausible one.
It also tends to lead to corporatism, where chosen industries are 'protected' from foreign competition, to the benefit of the owners of those businesses, and the detriment of consumers.
After that comes George Monbiot's Pollution Paradox:
https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/822072394680586240
...except in this case we're not talking about dirty companies, we're talking about shitty, inefficient ones.
Taking part in Donald Trump's inauguration today is the Talladega Marching Tornadoes, a 'historically black college marching band' according to Aunty. - Not a Tank or Missile Launcher in sight unfortunately, the inauguration day will be all the poorer for it.
Not a huge amount of evidence though I admit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-latest-news-goldman-sachs-move-half-london-jobs-3000-employees-new-york-europe-eu-frankfurt-a7534776.html
We'll probably most feel the negative effect in ancillary services: i.e. other businesses that were headquartered in London so as to be near the source of so much financial services activity. (Accounting, law, etc.)
I wouldn't like to be long prime London property. Oops.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-38680031