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Post by domjg on Jan 12, 2022 21:12:27 GMT
Why not create a thread for it? That way, you and others can spam the hell out of that and not this one. They're excited statgeek . Bless Haven't been so excited since 1992 . Its 48 years since their Labour Party won a GE. They'll calm down soon. Very impressed at the way you managed to ascertain which version of the Labour party from which era is the preferred one of which posters. Very intuitive. I'm not excited just depressed that it turns out this country is even more of a basket case than I ever imagined. Nothing like this would be happening in Germany because it's a serious country where politicians of all stripes have taken the crisis seriously and where a culture of diligence and public service remains strong. But at least we've got English 'humour' eh? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 21:16:00 GMT
domjg - A bit ungracious when you’ve just been “blessed” by one of this site’s top posters.
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Jan 12, 2022 21:22:47 GMT
domjg - A bit ungracious when you’ve just been “blessed” by one of this site’s top posters. @crofty at the rate you’re posting you are going to get deified before me!!!! I may have to post more links to the history of hairstyles.  |
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Post by mercian on Jan 12, 2022 21:24:22 GMT
mercian Sorry. Mea Culpa for not reading every post and/or for being forgetful. I didn't mean just on here though. I don't obsessively follow news and opinion channels, but probably do so more than most people, and I've not seen it discussed publiclyNo need to apologise, no ones perfect - do you think it would be a factor? In addition, the fact that he is fiscally conservative by inclination would imply he would not be so big on the levelling up agenda. It would only take a few percent of recently-switched Tories to switch back to Labour to swing a number of seats. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 21:26:26 GMT
Seriously fed up with chest infection and now long it has lasted Lulu, so too much spare time on my hand.
Hopefully it is temporary (and also that I survive - as you may know, we men are wimps. )
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Jan 12, 2022 21:27:16 GMT
It would only take a few percent of recently-switched Tories to switch back to Labour to swing a number of seats. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 21:29:57 GMT
Some overt, some subliminal.
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Post by steamdrivenandy on Jan 12, 2022 21:34:09 GMT
I've been wading through my note from my 1963 GCE O'level European History 1848 to 1914 and I've not found any reference to the Mandolinistas. I know we covered the Italian Unification, which gave rise to the Carbonari who went round the streets strangling dissenters with creamy spaghetti. Then there was the collapse of Piedmont Airlines, followed by the invention of the Garibaldi biscuit. There were lots of other Unifications going on, it was fashionable at the time.
Has he gone yet?
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Post by hireton on Jan 12, 2022 21:39:50 GMT
Hireton BBS has been keeping track of Scots Tories calling for Johnson to go MPs 1/6 : Constituency MSPs 3/5 : List MSPs 17/26 The potential for Scots Tories to revert to their pre-1965 position will exercise commentators for a while. I wonder if there will be a Johnson Continuity Faction in the Scottish Tories which will attempt a putsch against the disloyal Rossites? |
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Post by neilj on Jan 12, 2022 21:43:33 GMT
Looks like these two allies have got together to write their tweets and hardly a ringing endorsement
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 21:45:00 GMT
Andy - Not many people know that Gary Baldy wasn’t actually Italian but was Scottish. Got fed up with shortbread apparently (which is weird.)
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Post by mercian on Jan 12, 2022 21:45:54 GMT
I've been wading through my note from my 1963 GCE O'level European History 1848 to 1914 ... We were supposed to take notes? |
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Jan 12, 2022 21:48:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 21:52:22 GMT
Thanks Lulu. She isn’t just doing girly stuff like shopping is she? |
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Post by thexterminatingdalek on Jan 12, 2022 21:53:26 GMT
neiljSeems strange that Sunak had to go to Cornwall to meet MPs when one might reasonably expect them to be in the HoC. Do you think they might have organised a fleet of coaches to have a getawayfromborisday? As the only Northamptonshire MP I'd go so far as to say I like on a personal level, I felt for Michael Ellis yesterday. In normal times, he does his surgeries where I work. On the very rare occasions our paths have crossed, he has always been friendly and civil, passing easily for human, which is more than can be said for Leadsom, who comes across like Joanna Lumley playing a demented maiden aunt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 21:59:01 GMT
Je will essayer le programme de quoi vous ecrited. Merci Mademoiselle Citron.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 22:00:47 GMT
I've been wading through my note from my 1963 GCE O'level European History 1848 to 1914 ... We were supposed to take notes? You’re a strange bloke for roc... |
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Jan 12, 2022 22:04:10 GMT
@crofty
She isn’t just doing girly stuff like shopping is she?
Ok so there may be some shopping involved. On second thoughts how about Succession which you can watch on sky/now tv.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 22:11:25 GMT
Don’t have sky.
Got BBC though.
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Post by domjg on Jan 12, 2022 22:12:10 GMT
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Post by domjg on Jan 12, 2022 22:15:26 GMT
Je will essayer le programme de quoi vous ecrited. Merci Mademoiselle Citron. @crofty Bear in mind you may not be the target demographic.. |
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Post by steamdrivenandy on Jan 12, 2022 22:20:26 GMT
I've been wading through my note from my 1963 GCE O'level European History 1848 to 1914 ... We were supposed to take notes? If you check my OP it was in the singular. Anent rich teas with currants in aka Follicly Challenged Gary- I doubt a Scotsman would design such a silly biscuit. My personal Scottish favourite is the Abernethy by Simmers. An acquired taste, which Mrs SDA says have no flavour and are like eating cardboard, which leaves all the more for me. |
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Post by mercian on Jan 12, 2022 22:28:11 GMT
We were supposed to take notes? You’re a strange bloke for roc... I'll take that as a compliment. You're pretty weird yourself. I hope your lurgi clears up though. |
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Post by oldnat on Jan 12, 2022 22:29:34 GMT
Hireton
"I wonder if there will be a Johnson Continuity Faction in the Scottish Tories which will attempt a putsch against the disloyal Rossites?"
I suspect that the split in SCon is not primarily about Johnson. Fraser's bid for leadership in 2011 was essentially for a return to the Unionist Party status pre-1965. While Davidson won the election, the votes were closer than many assume.
Fraser 2,096 first preference votes
Davidson 2,278 first preference votes
With second preference votes counted, Davidson won by 2,983 votes to 2,417.
Obviously both camps want to continue with the UK Union, and the division is partly about tactics as to whether traditional Scottish Unionism (Scotland in UK) works better with the electorate than "British Unity", but there is also a belief system difference as well.
The more that senior Con folk at Westminster, like Re-Smogg and Gove, rubbish and denigrate the SCon leadership, the more likely it seems that the revival of more traditional Scottish Unionism will gather increased support.
Later note : I see that it took Alistair Gray until 21:18 to come out for Johnson (by when only 3 other Cabinet members had not yet so done)
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Post by thexterminatingdalek on Jan 12, 2022 22:29:43 GMT
Je will essayer le programme de quoi vous ecrited. Merci Mademoiselle Citron. If you haven't seen Worzel Gummidge (the new ones, all on iPlayer), they're all delightful. |
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Post by robert on Jan 12, 2022 22:30:49 GMT
domjgI thought stereotyping was the norm for comedies. That's what makes them funny. Why pick on the French anyway. The Germans and British airmen who appear are equally lampooned. No doubt the bbc will get round to banning it, eventually.
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Post by mercian on Jan 12, 2022 22:30:49 GMT
I've been toying with the idea of standing as an OMRLP candidate in the next GE, so did a bit of research. I loved this policy:
"To unite the population, we will surround the UK with a large cardboard box so people can be both in and/or out of the EU. This will be known as Schrodinger’s Brexit."
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Jan 12, 2022 22:36:27 GMT
I've been toying with the idea of standing as an OMRLP candidate in the next GE, so did a bit of research. I loved this policy: "To unite the population, we will surround the UK with a large cardboard box so people can be both in and/or out of the EU. This will be known as Schrodinger’s Brexit."  |
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Post by mercian on Jan 12, 2022 22:41:58 GMT
lululemon
I've just got to come up with a decent name. What do you think of 'Duke of Earl'?
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Post by oldnat on Jan 12, 2022 22:42:31 GMT
New YouGov poll has CON down to just 28%. This is 17% down on GE2019
Lab 38 (+1)
Con 28 (-5)
LDem 13 (+3)
Green 7 (+1)
RefUK 4 (-1)
(via Smithson)
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