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Rob Harris @RobHarris
Which was 1 of the most viewed websites in UK's Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (March-Sept)? CricInfo gov.uk/government/upl…
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246104/RFI5781-Defra_most_accessed_websites.pdf
Have to admit as well, since the telegraph comments section has been linked, I have greatly enjoyed the last few SeanT columns. The 'literary criticism is rubbish' piece is a favourite.
Stanley and Gardiner need to dile down the Obama hatred though - not anything wrong with them hating him of course, and there's so much written of the opposite view that a dissenting voice is needed, but they often stray into whiny baby territory in their tone and repetition. They make Dan Hodges seem nuanced.
RT @IDS_MP: Admire your moral crusade @johnprescott how's the wife by the way, over the affair yet?
Th poll sort of confirms my suspicions that for some people stopping immigrants coming in would be just the start.
25% of LDs uncomfortable with an effnik PM.
Josias wrote:
"....Okay, we can't have evidence, and can only infer from what little has come out so far.
"So let's look at it another way. It is clear that the heart of the Labour party was broken for a good number of years, with both sides spreading poisonous briefings. Not about the opposition, but about their own colleagues. This was known about. Careers were ended.
"Yet no-one had the moral courage to say: enough. No-one had the intellectual honesty to say that this is not what the Labour Party should be. Instead, they all pretended that nothing was going on, that everything was fine.
"They are all culpable in their silence. As are the journalists who also knew full well what was going on: the ones who received the poisonous briefings."
PtP replies:
I don't have my copy of Rawnesley to hand, Josias, but I remember enough to be sure that it is simply not true that 'they all pretended that nothing was going on'.
On a personal, one-to-one level, Jowell and Prescott, Clarke and Milburn, and others faced the issue head on. There was even one well documented meeting of the PLP at which the Party Leadership was told bluntly to sort it out. Some paid a price for their courage, as you indicated; others remained to fight another day.
It's very easy for us to write bravely from the anonymous safety of our computers but when you're in the firing line, it does take quite a bit of courage to speak out; and then of course there are always those who genuinely believed they were acting in the Party's interest, if not the Country's, by taking the positions they did.
I agree it would be helpful if we were better served by our Press in this regard, but I have long since given up expecting much from that quarter.
PS Sorry about the somewhat awkward layout - having trouble with my Vanilla.
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Is there a market on what rEd will whine about tomorrow?
How expensive football tickets are ?
Can't imagine why @johnprescott is pissed at the Daily Mail. Can you? pic.twitter.com/AOcE49fZsj
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Astute wording in the question, as taffys notes. Makes arguing the above harder.
How do you describe your national identity?
British/Other (English in England except Midlands/Wales; English/Welsh, Scottish in Scotland):
Lon: 48/33
RoS: 43/48
Mid/W 38/59
North: 48/45
Scot: 40/51
"Circumcision ruling: European bureaucrats are effectively banning Jewish boys" http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100239551/circumcision-ruling-european-bureaucrats-are-effectively-banning-jewish-boys/
As far as you know, did the last Local Council Ward in which you lived have..? (net more ethnic minority background in previous ward):
Con: +17
Lab: +5
LibD: -4
UKIP: +43
(Caveat: sample ±1/4 total poll)
It's curious because so many of them are so obsessed with avoiding full paywall. The reasoning is sound enough right now but it's convenience almost as much as anything else which stops paywall taking off hugely and I guarantee you that will change. People like buying on the internet they just aren't too keen on buying papers. Yet. When it becomes as easy as a one touch/click system that is secure and hassle free then the calculation changes quite a bit against 'we can get news for nothing elsewhere' to the advantage of an easily accessible news source people like that costs very little. Freemium works well too and has it's advantages.
The BBC are also going to have to change. Not because they've been shooting themselves in the foot with comical regularity lately but because their marketplace too is evolving rapidly. Paying for Netflix or whatever is becoming so commonplace that the license fee is looking incredibly anachronistic. They either get their head out of their arse and add a great deal more value or think about slashing the fee and possibly having freemium type models on top of it.
"Black woman reveals she is granddaughter of notorious Schindler's List butcher Amon Goeth
German-Nigerian author Jennifer Teege is granddaughter of Amon Goeth":
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438552/Jennifer-Teege-Black-woman-granddaughter-notorious-Schindlers-List-Nazi-butcher-Amon-Goeth.html
Con: +29
Lab: +30
LibD: +44
UKIP: -10
The likes of hardcore Tory trolls like Plato defending the Mail versus Miliband, pretending (to laughter all round) to be a "centrist" alienated by Miliband, is predictable but hilarious nonetheless.
Less predictable were Richard Nabavi and other sensible Tories siding with the Mail. Though Avery LP's tone was amusing, defensive but sort of depressed, knowing full well the Mail had it wrong and Miliband has scored a hit.
We didn't hear from David Herdson, perhaps the only sane Tory PB poster remaining on this, I'd be surprised if he sided with the Mail.
fwiw I think Southam Observer, Mike Smithson, and the rest have called it absolutely right. Miliband will get hell from the Tory press anyway, so he might as well take his victories when he can. And he's scored a massive victory on this one.
They're a millstone.
He is also one of the few decent punters frequenting the Site, so I'd cut him more slack than most.
Combined with the plunging memberships of the Lib-Con-Labs this makes for fertile territory for other parties proposing substantive (and thus noteworthy) change.
And that will be the end of it. The Mail will probably say 'It's a fair cop. lets lay off ed, he's clearly far too smart and popular to trifle with'
Job done!
They run (between them) the shop (father); Post Office (mother) and fish-and-chip shop (sons). The rival kebab shop went out of business shortly after a (convenient?) fire closed it down for 6+ months, at a time when it was, so the story went, in deep financial do-do. All three outlets seem to be both popular and well frequented.
" Richard Nabavi says he didn't support The Mail, Robets, and since he has had a long and distinguished career as a PB poster, he should be taken at his word."
I'd certainly take him at his word but he unequivocally supported the Mail position. No amount of obfuscation can disguise that fact. If he's changed his mind-which any sane person should-then he hasn't posted it on here.
He and that fruitcake Plato.
As I said the other day, I feel very uncomfortable about the manner of the attack on the late Ralph Miliband but Ed is now running the risk of seeming over-sensitive, especially when compared with the Thatcher children who kept a dignified silence when others, including at least person Ed Miliband was happy to be photographed with, carried posters denigrating a deceased elderly lady and much worse.
I just hope that no-one on the Labour front bench has any remaining skeletons in their cupboards because we can be sure the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday will now throw vast amounts of cash at unearthing such as may exist.
As a Tory, I do find it very strange that the editor who constantly "lionised" Gordon Brown seems determined to go for Brown's former bag carrier and Secretary of State for Windmills.
"It's very easy for us to write bravely from the anonymous safety of our computers but when you're in the firing line, it does take quite a bit of courage to speak out; and then of course there are always those who genuinely believed they were acting in the Party's interest, if not the Country's, by taking the positions they did."
Yes, it is very easy. Sadly, we all come across such situations in our lives from time to time, and have a difficult moral decision to make. But it shows that they either did not have the courage to speak out publicly, or the morality, to do so.
In the end it damaged the party, through the infighting, the consequent lack of a credible successor to Brown, and through the embarrassment caused by McBride's smearing. But it is a bit rich for someone who had neither courage or morality to speak out then, to go on about the Mail's stupid antics.
He should have felt the same way for his colleagues.
As I said the other day, Miliband's created a large strategic problem for himself. The next time a Labour politician is seen doing anything like this, he will have to act promptly and decisively. Which are two things he's not proved too good at so far.
"Michael's eventual selection in Barnsley was no accident either, supported as it was by the Amicus “union machine”. We don’t remember him raising concerns over his union’s influence in politics at that time."
http://centrallobby.politicshome.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/unite-stands-up-for-working-people/
The headline 'Who does ed Miliband think he is?' can't be far away - even if it's on the back of a weak story.
"The Land of Hope Is Tory" is such a groaner of a line.
The US federal government shutdown is ridiculous. US governance is such a mess. You have House Republicans in gerrymandered seats completely unwilling to compromise. The GOP is controlled by the roughly 25% of America who are ideological "Tea Party" activists, regardless of electoral consequences for the Republicans or the nation as a whole.
Obamacare has its problems, but I still think it will be popular in the long-term.
What interests me is why the more moderate repubs don't simply lie back, think of America and vote with the dems to break the deadlock.
I read that they are worried about being replaced by tea partiers
' I have an old documents file somewhere where at the time I kept details of these smear campaigns, who the victims were, and exactly how Campbell’s New Labour publicity machine put their slurs and lies into the public domain. I am going to look out that old file now, but it will take a few days to get the material together and in a fit state to print. I intend to publish it by the middle of next week.'
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100239575/alastair-campbell-treated-politics-with-more-contempt-than-any-daily-mail-journalist/
The Mail nonsense is neither here nor there. If somebody took a pop at my old man (God rest his soul) I'd take a pop back - in my customary quiet and understated way, of course!
Nothing wrong about asking detailed questions about the MIlibands' political philosophies, but turning up at a Memorial service and asking questions about rumours that RM was an evil, swivel-eyed British hating Marxist, was not a great idea. Whoever sanctioned the journalists' move needs to revisit moral philosophy. If Ed wasn't keen on grasping the keys to 10 Downing St, the press wouldn't be bothered about his dear old Dad's illiberal political philosophy. It is to the Milibands' great credit that they didn't beat the journalists up. I'm sure many others would have tempted to eject them with an appropriate use of forceful language.
Listening to that great moral crusader Alistair Campbell on R5 was more excrutiating than having root canal work, the stuff about inviting camera crews, via Twitter, to visit and examine Dacre's piles was very odd. Perhaps he needs a new course of treatment.
It's one of those smear UKIP days on PB. Time you lot grew up.
AFAICR, the only person to go effectively on the record at around that time was Darling. No-one else had the courage or morality to tell the world what we now know was going on.
I doubt we're going to agree on this.
Babysitter ethnic minority (net comfortable)
18-24: +40
25-39: +26
40-59: +26
60+: +15
There's still a 25 point swing between the 60+ group & UKIP.......
Ed Miliband finds himself in a similar situation but his moral blindness is so great that he regards himself and his family as victims.
It's hypocrisy and EdM shouldn't get away with it.
An awesome animation showing the territorial changes of WW2 in the European theatre on a daily basis. All made in MS paint!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVEy1tC7nk
By next week tim will have him awarded the VC for sinking the Bismark using a spanner.
@CameronBrownUK
BBC News - UK housebuilding activity expanding at a near 10-year high, survey shows bbc.in/1fIHbM9 #forhardworkingpeople
Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs
Wow. Here's Wikileaks accusing a Guardian writer of being "anti-Russian." twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
Unweighted. YouGov questioned 215 UKIP supporters. As such it is a sub-sample and - as OGH has pointed out many-a-time - it should not be taking seriously on a political betting site!
Oh....
We?
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/politics/other-politics/irish-politics?ev_oc_grp_ids=1195154
I don't know what, if anything, Mr Dacre was doing for the war effort whilst at home. But the assumption that just because you were not on the front line, you were not helping, is fairly sick. Tell that to the land girls, the CO's who acted as bomb disposal officers, the Bevin Boys, and so on.
Every soldier, sailor and airman fighting probably had two or three men and women at home working to support him.
Politics wise, Richard's record makes it even more surprising to see him side with the Mail (which he certainly did). I can only assume a bunker mentality is setting in in Toryland.
*I'm a casual punter, you see, I like the "66/1 Ed Miliband will fall off stage after falling over a trombone and be replaced as leader by Teresa May" type bets. Even though Tim's Buzzword Bingo tips were rubbish. Other punters, like your good self and Antifrank and some others, clearly know your onions, but get a bit hardcore for me, arbing your value overrounds left right and centre...
'As ever with immigration/race/crime/health polling theres a huge difference between national and local
Thinking about YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD, how
comfortable or uncomfortable do you feel about
the number of people from ethnic minorities
who live there?
Interesting to have local figures for 91% white Liverpool?
I'm currently working in my spare time on a browser-based depiction of the development of London's railways, using SVG to depict the lines and the stations. The Central Line's pretty much done, as is the Northern and Metropolitan, all the way out past Aylesbury. There's a long way to go, and so much researching to be done ...
'UKIP supporters have also moved to areas with fewer ethnic minority inhabitants:'
UKIP surge in Liverpool?
Well, since you have been so kind and generous, I can tell you that I've heard a word for Glastonberry (3/1) in the 7.10 pm at Wolverhampton:
Caveat emptor, as always.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer