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May 7th | UK General Election 2015 OT - Please go vote!
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You can't stop people riding in the countryside with dogs it's as simple as that.
FlammableD
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He's clearly not after repealing it because it's hard to enforce. It's hard to stop people doing a lot of illegal things, but they're still illegal.
PJV3
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Perhaps the war on drugs is about to end.
Hah, that's funny.
Break their legs?
fizzelopeguss
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If the scots thought the media bias during their referendum was bad... They ain't seen nothing yet. It's gonna be piss funny, seemingly like civilisation didn't exist in this country prior to 1972.
PJV3
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It's my new positive left wing persona.
I read the eviction figures released by the justice department today, a bit grim.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/may/14/tenant-evictions-reach-six-year-high-rising-rents-benefit-cuts
Aye
"I changed my mind"
End of story, you arent going to get anything more out of him
Also loved Trist Hunt getting shut down for completely changing the question, leader material
The SDLP are also launching a coup against their leader. It would seem the entire party wants Alasdair McDonnell to go, inc. former leader Durkan and the Deputy Leader Kelly. McDonnell is terribly uncharismatic (and avoided all publicity during the election campaign) and the party don't believe he can't lead solely from Westminster.
CyclopsRock
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The humans, the horses or the dogs?
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Tristam Hunt is a fucking waste of space. Can't answer shit.
Gurgelhals
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The Labour Party doesn't really have any suitable candidates for leadership, does it? You know, fresh blood, new ideas, things like that? The current field of candidates looks dismal to say the least.
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Burnham's not bad but he carries baggage. Perhaps stretching 'fresh blood' a little, but in fairness it's quite difficult to have fresh blood when you're only five years away from last being in office. Cameron ran against David Davis, a minister under Major, and that was a decade after the Conservatives left office. In terms of "never been a minister" fresh blood, I quite like Lammy, too. You're right it's thin pickings. Umunna, Kendall, and Creagh are all blargh, and Cooper is not fresh blood in the slightest.
He's my MP, having been parachuted in by the Labour NEC, and has the honour of being the MP elected on the smallest share of their electorate at 19.9%.
He was up against Michael fucking Gove, the most unpopular Education Minister since a certain Milk Snatcher, as Shadow Education Minister and hardly laid a glove on him.
Totally useless. Should be nowhere near parliament, never-mind the Labour leadership.
CyclopsRock
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Sexy though. He's like the HoC's James Bond.
Just gotta keep that pretty mouth closed :3
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If you like Craig Bond, sure. Personally, for the man with good tastes, Jarvis fills in as a good Connery substitute.
CyclopsRock
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He certainly has that lonely-in-a-forward-operating-base-bum-fun look about him, but I reckon Tristram would look more at home at a high stakes Montenegrin poker game. So, uhh, yeah Craig Bond indeed.
Cameron would be feverishly rubbing his lap-bound cat to excess whilst his tough second in command who needs to be violently dispatched before the final showdown would have to be Gove - very much the Oddjob of the Tory party.
Pankratous
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When I was in PHSE in 2nd year (age 13~?), our teacher whipped out her own dildo and got us all to put condoms on it. Good times.
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"David... I haven't told you this yet... but I used to be a journalist. For The Times. I wrote two articles about henchmen. I've got strong opinions about minions. I know I can do this job."
(And So
@flashboy:
2/1 tax avoidance scheme
3/1 massive drug fiend
6/1 shagged a goat
10/1 caught on video punching kitten
25/1 actually a dog in a man costume
Porcile
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Some kids at my school found my maths teacher's pink dildo in a classroom cupboard. On hindsight I suppose it could of been used for sex education but we didn't really have any sex education classes at that time, so the circumstances of its appearance were always suspicious.
Sir_Crocodile
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I don't know why he ever thought he had a chance
that "british obama" hyperbole must have gone to his head.
Yvette Cooper & Andy Burnham are unelectable (gordo advisor and mdstaffs respectivley) but at least they're capable.
I agree, I think there are some skeletons that he does not want to come out
Any serious politician should know that this comes with the territory, not be scared off after a few days in the 'spotlight'...
Not that most people give half a fuck about the current underwhelming field of Labour leadership candidates anyway.
Lets not forget that he is also the Unions choice, so you can expect like the last 5 years the tories will drum this home time and time again, as they feel that worked, making Miliband out to be anti-business as he is a union man
PJV3
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I'm only really interested in a leadership candidate who is going to attack this sort of stuff, and try to find a solution.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/may/14/tenant-evictions-reach-six-year-high-rising-rents-benefit-cuts
More cuts incoming means thing will get worse, number 1 issue for me. Both parties are failing on the big issues, the nhs reforms were irrelevant to what's coming down the line in public health.
Labour need to get serious about the nation and it's problems or I will just write SNP at the next election.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/may/14/tenant-evictions-reach-six-year-high-rising-rents-benefit-cuts
More cuts incoming means thing will get worse, number 1 issue for me. Both parties are failing on the big issues, the nhs reforms were irrelevant to what's coming down the line in public health.
Labour need to get serious about the nation and it's problems or I will just write SNP at the next election.
A Sunday paper probably has something on him.
actually the more I think about it I reckon it is about a lot of Labour people feeling this is a 10 year battle....
and I reckon the next election which a lot of Labour people think is already lost, and the next leaders vote in 2020 if as expected they don't win will be the one they all want
2020, the big battle
Dan Jarvis vs Chuka Umunna
and I reckon the next election which a lot of Labour people think is already lost, and the next leaders vote in 2020 if as expected they don't win will be the one they all want
2020, the big battle
Dan Jarvis vs Chuka Umunna
Sir_Crocodile
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I have the distinct feeling you are going to be severely disappointed unless there are mp's yet to declare their candidacy.
PJV3
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If they have, it will come out now anyway, if so I'd expect him to refuse a shadow cabinet job.
Seems odd though as any story is likely to be published now anyway and he'll face similar scrutiny in the future.
Sir_Crocodile
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It's better on him for the story to come out while he's a backbencher if any exists - then he would in a far better position to return to the leadership - assuming he was able to weather whatever was uncovered.
That is assuming the paper don't keep their powder dry until he seems a better target
I don't want to come over as a cunt, and I think that figure is disgraceful, however as a proportion of the rental market, 42000 is tiny
the solution is not just to keep paying more and more benefits, as all that does is fuel rent increases
FlammableD
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how does that work?
honestly not being sarky, seriously don't understand enough about rents
Sir_Crocodile
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If so then it's wrongly - I've seen him on question time plenty and he is a lightweight. He would not do well in a campaign.
Landlords charge a rent, people who can not afford that rent move in with the help of housing benefit..... if the Government does not start restricting housing benefit all landlords do is keep increasing their prices as they know the shortfall will be picked up by the tax payer...
of course there are more market forces at play, like shortfall of housing, but in the cruellest sense, if you can not afford a house you should not live there.... but in a caring society we would continue to pay their rent...
the solution is somewhere in the middle
Honey Bunny
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Didn't he add the British Obama stuff to Wikipedia himself?
My moneys on tax avoidance.
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