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« Reply #2275 on: August 05, 2014, 03:26:09 AM »
Baroness Warsi has resigned from the Government over Gaza:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28656874
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« Reply #2276 on: August 05, 2014, 04:02:08 AM »
Good riddance.
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« Reply #2277 on: August 05, 2014, 11:21:23 AM »

It took her a month to realise that?
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« Reply #2278 on: August 06, 2014, 10:39:16 AM »
Chapman Pincher is dead at 100.
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« Reply #2279 on: August 06, 2014, 11:00:25 AM »

Didn't even know he was still alive; I've got one of his books, but I've yet to read it.
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« Reply #2280 on: August 06, 2014, 11:29:48 AM »

Well, now he isn't Tongue

(always fun when that happens, though. Nothing will top Claude Lévi-Strauss, I suspect).
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« Reply #2281 on: August 07, 2014, 02:38:19 PM »
Galloway being a bit of a c-ntweasel again.
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« Reply #2282 on: August 07, 2014, 02:58:29 PM »
Quote from: afleitch on August 07, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Galloway being a bit of a c-ntweasel again.

I daresay.
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« Reply #2283 on: August 08, 2014, 10:42:30 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV5z9d2W6gs

This fella's just been made a peer by Nick Clegg's LibDems.
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« Reply #2284 on: August 08, 2014, 11:25:08 AM »

Considering Clegg wanted to gut the Lords, this could be ironic. Tongue
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« Reply #2285 on: August 08, 2014, 01:44:05 PM »
The list of new peers is hilariously bottom-of-the-barrel.
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« Reply #2286 on: August 08, 2014, 02:31:10 PM »
This probably does nothing to Cameron but it's still pretty funny.
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« Reply #2287 on: August 08, 2014, 04:31:25 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on August 08, 2014, 01:44:05 PM
The list of new peers is hilariously bottom-of-the-barrel.

A few broadsheet-friendly celebs and donors, as per.
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« Reply #2288 on: August 11, 2014, 02:10:47 PM »
Random observation, but pretty odd considering the depth of unpopularity of all 3 current leaders, but 2010-15 is set to be the first parliament since 1970-1974-1974 in which there's been no leadership changes/challenges outside of a PM's resignation (Brown).

And it's not like there hasn't been points where the media's talked the possibility up for all 3 either: constant talk of Cooper-Balls 'on manouvres' for the first two years of EdM's leadership, post-omnishambles for Cameron and near enough constantly for Clegg.
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« Reply #2289 on: August 14, 2014, 10:25:44 AM »
Paedogeddon latest: Cliff Richard's Berkshire home searched by the police.
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« Reply #2290 on: August 15, 2014, 01:01:18 AM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on August 14, 2014, 10:25:44 AM
Paedogeddon latest: Cliff Richard's Berkshire home searched by the police.

Are they the lemmings / Or are you, Cliff? / Or are you Cliff?
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« Reply #2291 on: August 22, 2014, 06:15:42 PM »
There's currently an unseemly row to do with the administration of the Commons: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28891458
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« Reply #2292 on: August 23, 2014, 08:21:08 PM »
With the referendum on the UK remaining within the EU coming up in 2017, are there any recent polls on the subject?  Would the Scotland referendum result have any impact in 2017?  Especially if the vote tracks with recent polls showing a solid 3:2 win for the unionists?
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« Reply #2293 on: August 24, 2014, 02:20:41 AM »
Quote from: Frodo on August 23, 2014, 08:21:08 PM
With the referendum on the UK remaining within the EU coming up in 2017, are there any recent polls on the subject?

YouGov ask about it from time to time.  Most recently, in their 10-11 August poll, they asked:

"If there was a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, how would you vote?": Remain a member 40, Leave 38.

"Imagine that the British government under David Cameron renegotiated our relationship with Europe and said that Britain's interests were now protected, and David Cameron recommended that Britain remain a member of the European Union on the new terms.  How would you then vote in a referendum on the issue?": Remain a member 54, Leave 23.

Anyway, there may not be a referendum; it's only the Tories of the three main parties who want to hold one.

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I don't see a No win in the Scottish referendum having an effect.
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« Reply #2294 on: August 24, 2014, 11:23:50 AM »
What precedent there is suggests that polling right now would be of no use anyway; polling prior to the 1975 referendum showed a tight race...
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« Reply #2295 on: August 26, 2014, 07:15:35 AM »
Is Welsh allowed to be spoken on the floor of the House? Did Lloyd George ever use it?
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« Reply #2296 on: August 28, 2014, 06:15:08 AM »
Douglas Carswell (MP for Clacton), defects to UKIP and resigns his seat to fight the ensuing by-election.

Sorry to be childish, but...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKgIjOiKVc
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« Reply #2297 on: August 31, 2014, 01:33:10 PM »
Why am I not in the least surprised that no one here thought the assault on Galloway was worth a mention? I'm sure that if the "sides" had been reversed, we wouldn't have heard the end of it.
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« Reply #2298 on: September 02, 2014, 11:23:30 AM »
I suspect many people felt he had it coming.
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« Reply #2299 on: September 04, 2014, 04:54:22 AM »
Quote from: Senator Cassius on August 28, 2014, 06:15:08 AM
Douglas Carswell (MP for Clacton), defects to UKIP and resigns his seat to fight the ensuing by-election.

Sorry to be childish, but...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKgIjOiKVc


Carswell should win re-election easily, according to two polls:

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8950
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8955
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