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1 hour ago, bluebarby said:
,,then your North East bunch of Massiveleverage come to her rescue and put a political pistol her head and demand a kings ransom for pulling her out of the sh*t.
Can you honestly and seriously imagine this happening? Not in a million years..............................
Wow, I didn't know Philip May was a "trillionaire"!
This is too hung up on current events so try a generalisation...
Actually they won't get it... because any region with sentient people will also form at least one cross-traditional-party alliance and preferably multiple alliances, and they will offer their votes to form a government on a competitive basis too. Yes, it's horsetrading but that's how things work anyway, just not on such an above board and refined basis. It's pretty much were Labour's devolution is already tugging us, though like much coming out of the left the implications weren't properly considered (Umm... SNP!). It also has parallels in much of Europe. National party orientated FPTP hasn't exactly worked swimmingly for the NE over the last century has it, and there are huge problems with all forms of PR.
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Problem noted. Thanks!
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It's looking more certain by the hour - the Tories are currently talking themselves into it!
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18 minutes ago, Bedlingtonian said:
Who won?
The Ulster DUP I think. They are now in pole position to dictate the handling of the Irish border, and to demand more economic aid.
In our FPTP system being a party that has a regional concentration gives you massive leverage. Has the North East the sense to form such a party, and of course the voters in the North East the horse sense to support it?
@bluebarby Life provides you with many opportunities to make your own "fair" - if you can be ar**d!
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One of the major reasons May is in the mess she is today I think. By not triggering Article 50 (or what Ukip wanted, simply repealing the Parliament Act) within days, or a few weeks at most, she allowed people like Blair and Mandleson to start maneuvering behind the scenes to undermine the vote, and of course the execrable Gina Miller to launch her legal challenge in front of EUrophile judges who are still mainly on the Brussels teat. A whole long list of other mistakes followed, including appointing totally the wrong person as chancellor. It all goes back to Dodgy Dave and his duplicity though, but that's water well under the bridge now!
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On 3/6/2016 at 13:14, threegee said:
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Currently Dolphin seems the most popular download. It's true that it's both friendly and fast, the big downer is that it doesn't appear to work at all with Live!
Dolphin has been seriously improved in the last couple of weeks, and I find I've now gravitated to it as the primary browser on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3. It works exceptionally well with the new Bedlington.co.uk as our site is currently "building-out". I will be trying it out on other Android devices quite soon. Dolphin deserves the Google Play Store rating as top browser - recommended!
...and no it doesn't seem to support the Bedlington.co.uk Live! plug-in, but viewing the webcam on a mobile is something I seldom do. I might check which android browsers support Bedlington.co.uk Live! quite soon.
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FOR THE MANY KGS - NOT THE FEW
...and Labour is right: we must end food banks!
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It hit one of my machines yesterday and so far is painless. It took a long time to install though, so re-time it to install overnight or when you are going out, or you'll be sitting twiddling your thumbs cursing Microsoft.
Once it is installed your (Windows 10 Home) machine will be showing as Version 1703. You can find your current version from the Settings --> System --> About (at the very bottom of the left hand menu) screen.
Maybe more on this later...
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2 hours ago, Tonyp said:
Hi everybody not been on the site for a while lost my wife last year she died of a heart attack very sudden moved from London to Glasgow that's life putting everything into perspective. ...
Nice to see you back Tony, and very sorry to hear about your life-changing event.
I don't think you can move your contributions to our state pension scheme (only a private one), but of course you can claim it from overseas when eligible. Loads of info on line though:
Why Hungary and do you trust Mr Orban? It seems many Hungarians don't!
I'd email or phone the London embassy with my questions before deciding anything.
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Failing everything else you could always emigrate.
I think - technically - I probably did "emigrate" in 2006. But, through the wonders of modern technology I'm still with you in spirit. Mind you there's a chronological limit to even this, even though it does mean I have incredibly easy access to far cheaper and higher quality alcohol now.
On the education thing: it's simply that my left wing teachers at Tynemouth were more deluded than yours at Westridge, and thus easier for a very few of us (less intelligent ones) to take the proverbial out of in the classroom. The resulting life-skills have stayed with us; whilst the intelligent ones - who conformed to expectations - went on to uni (one suspects to become teachers). God, if only we'd had material of the likes of Jeremy to work on, instead of the miserable brother of the Labour candidate for Tynemouth! Isn't life unfair?!
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1 hour ago, bluebarby said:
... I have probably rattled 3g’s cage now...
My cage encompasses the entire history of our islands, and so is a far larger cage than those of the compulsive virtue signalers and miscellaneous accompanying freeloaders. So...feel free to try!
Jeremy has his heart in the right place, but his head deeply buried in the sand. Fortunately MOST Brits can see this, and intuitively KNOW that a clever and manipulative female is far less dangerous than a terminally deluded male saint who won't be able to control the darker forces he fronts for. If I'm wrong about this, and you are right, then God help US ALL!
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32 minutes ago, Bedlingtonian said:
As would Blyth and Wansbeck perhaps.
But... there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago!
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13 minutes ago, moe19 said:
Corbyn just made a speech on Teeside and asked for a minutes silence for the people killed in the attacks at Manchester and LIVERPOOL
So intent on trying to score political points on the back of these peoples murders he cant even get the place they were murdered at correct
He's already done a complete 'U'' turn on shoot to kill!
What you're actually voting for with Jeremy is: a catastrophic coalition of Trotskyites, Scottish Nationalists and EU fanatics! (Yes, I copy/pasted that one from today's email from leave.eu, but that doesn't make it any less true!)
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Well... he's an intellectual match for Boris, isn't he? Or... is it that he just has a far louder voice?
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He's already high on religion; this spills over into the EU religion.
Tim Farron interview: ‘Maybe God’s plan is for me to lose a bunch of elections and be humbled’ Yes, that's about it Tim - and the only insightful thing you've said for years.
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On 5/31/2017 at 23:46, bluebarby said:
Last couple of days Ms May or Ms Maymaynot has abandoned her large ball bearing and anchor chain necklaces but then tonight they are back in favour again.
Any comments anyone? Is this of any significance?
Isn't it obvious: anchor chain is strong and the large ball bearing stable. You should be reflecting on the length of her trousers though; I'm reliably advised by nearby females that these are far too short. This could be read as an omen for coming austerity, but I think it's far more likely that she's keeping her stilettos free to give head champagne socialist Emily I'll-do-ANYTHING-for-a-cabinet-post Thornberry a good kicking.
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Matt missed a trick here by not putting YouGov on the sign.
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On 6/1/2017 at 17:33, Eggy1948 said:
I have no bias I just accept that politicians have a job to do are out to win votes and they can promise what they like.
They certainly can, but a failure to challenge their nonsense is a failure of the democratic process. You might as well abstain from voting if you uncritically accept what you are told, and vote for a now meaningless rosette.
It took Corbyn about one minute to get around to abusing the 'i' word tonight, and he went on to do it again within seconds. He's trying to justify massive spending of money we haven't got, and anyone "of an age" aware of what was going on around them in the 1970's knows that this is just a few short steps away from our Country being at the mercy of the IMF. Of course some people claim that he'd put us at the mercy of a vindictive EU long before this. If you want to find out who is right here then vote Labour! You might not want to know the details of politician's promises, but I don't want to find out the details of who is right about the way Corbyn bankrupts our country!
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16 hours ago, Eggy1948 said:
I believe I have heard the 'i' word used in the
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Does that mean they have all been telling porkies?
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Can we have an example of it being used as a meaningless buzz-word, and a euphemism for "spend spend spend" before the Blair government? It's such a common word that there must be many many examples - surely?
I read through the entire Harold Wilson "White Heat" speech from 1963 last night (excellent bedtime reading), many pages of it, and not once did I find the the word, and the speech was in connection with future industrial strategy. In fact the only search engine return I could find of Harold Wilson actually using the word was in the proper financial sense of creating a UK investment bank to fund small enterprises (which would of course have demanded a fixed and defined monetary return for the taxpayer).
Pro tem my answer to your question is: No, I don't think they were telling porkies, because the word was formerly used truthfully:
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1 hour ago, bluebarby said:
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I personally don't care who anyone votes for that is their decision but the important thing is that all those who are entitled a vote should turn up at the polling station, if they don't like any of the candidates then that does not matter simply spoil your voting slip, the important thing is that you turned up.
A good argument to the Null vote so thoroughly disliked by our establishment politicos!
Generally when a politico bemoans the fact that people don't vote it's a cipher for: they aren't voting for me and the more people who have no command of the facts that can be persuaded to trot into the polling stations the more likely it is they'll fall for my empty rhetoric!
Of course a substantial Null vote would kill this political strategy stone dead!
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It's the most misused, disingenuous word used at this election. It obfuscates and downright deceives. No, that word isn't immigration, it's invest. When you hear "we are going to invest in..." you know you are being lied to - a politician never invests in anything! This is politico code for spending money we haven't actually got (and will never have), on things we probably don't need, in ways that won't actually produce any tangible investment returns. It's generally empty rhetoric, because anyone getting into power will have to face the broad reality of how state spending is already structured, and the wiggle room for changing anything at all is minimal - if you pursue the pet political project you used to buy votes you'll have to steal from things which pretty much everyone has already decided is really important. And... as spending on those other things has been refined over the years in the light of hard experience, and your pet political project is just starting out - the chances of simply squandering public money now becomes very much higher!
Say you'll raise more tax to pay for it and your're fooling no one, because tax revenue has already been maximised by the numerous budgets of all governments. Yes, the plain truth is that raising the tax rate will result in less tax; or less tax from some other source, or worse: an actual drop in Gross Domestic Product to tax!
So, any poltico using the 'i' word is either fooling you or fooling themselves. And... here's the kicker: is anyone who is either lying to you to grab power, or so easily fooled themselves, a safe enough pair of hands to put at the controls of our economy?
Beware the 'i' word: it's a trap for fools!
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2 hours ago, Symptoms said:
"Events, dear boy, events."
Oh, how Theresa May must be glad her wrinkly and dementia tax is off the front page.
You blinked; you missed the 'U' turn!
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46 minutes ago, bluebarby said:
... but I needed to know exactly where you, and your followers, politically stood, now I know I shall leave you in peace. You shall hear of me no more.
You only had to read a few of my posts to know where I stand - and it most certainly isn't as a Tory voter!
I sincerely hope that I don't have any "followers", and that everyone can think for themselves.
Your retreat is only necessary if you think that your ideas won't stand up to public scrutiny. A full range of political views is always welcome here, but you should be prepared to justify them. If you are feeling a little sore we can declare a (partial) truce!
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Oh What a Lovely Election!
in Chat Central
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There's nothing wrong with Gove; he should have been in the original cabinet instead of the incompetent Hammond. In Remonian terms he's a hard Brexiteer, as indeed your poster boy McDonnell has just come out as!