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I keep hearing this, but I’m not sure. certainly Nick Ferrari is, but the rest of the days broadcasting James O’Brien, Shelagh Fogerty and Eddie Mair could hardly be described as right of centre.
Fair point but when you factor in Andrew Castle, Iain Dale, Nick Ferrari, Maajid Nawax (especially fanatical), Nigel Farage, Tom Swarbrick. That lot bring it over to centre right.
No, the video clip tells you nothing. Johnson was told to wrap up his long rambling answer with a hand gesture, which he mimicked back with a smirk.
Social media is worse for misinformation than radio or TV.
So you agree the video clip tells you something? Looked likea grimace to me.
Are Labour really pushing the Andrew Neil/Boris scared thing? They should, you can be sure the Tories would. Also its this kind of thing that gets through to people who are not really engaged in politics.
What has he got to hide? should be the attack line.
Are Labour really pushing the Andrew Neil/Boris scared thing? They should, you can be sure the Tories would.
They already have, pre-election.
It COULD be a dog’s breakfast but just the same it COULD work out well – we just don’t know so it’s too early to condemn.
No, there is literally no way it can work out well. There is no legslative way to solve the problem that that "No-one’s banning casual working. That would be utterly insane." and yet some people are only able to find casual work.
I gave you a suggestion as to how it could work but you seem not to have noticed.
I didn't respond to spare your blushes but let's go: A guy wanting a saturday worker has to advertize longer hours but the worker can work less hours if he wants? What if the worker wants the full advertized hours? Depending on how you frame the rules it's either a ban on casual Labour or no meaningful change to the status quo.
Iain Dale
I listen to a lot of Iain Dale's output, his interviews are not biased, it's very clear he takes pride in being a good interviewer and that means unbiased. He interviewed Anne Widecombe the other week. They're friends and fellow brexiteers. He asked her all the difficult questions an interviewer should. The guy is a pro.
Pro Musicians can play genres they don't like. Lawyers can argue cases they don't agree with and interviewers can ask difficult questions that are contrary to their personal views.
Boris used to be the editor of the Spectator, Andrew Neill used to/still does (can’t remember) sits on the board of the company that owns the Spectator, Dominic Cummings wife writes for the Spectator…I’m going to call bias.
Boris obvs doesn't agree because he's ducking the interview and I suspect he knows better than us.
Not a fan of msm or the guardian
Where the hell did the term MSM come from? Because its bloody irritating. Its not the Main Stream media, its just the media. Same as its always been. The term seems to imply that there's some secret font of wisdom and truth that only a select wise few have access too
The Canary, Skwawkbox and such are not some independent news source. They're as much peddlers of propaganda as CCHQ's Factcheck or the Daily Mail/Telegraph.
Of course there are ways to sort zero hours contract injustices. You have to make it more worth while for emplyers to give people contracts. Carrot and stick.
Of course there are ways to sort zero hours contract injustices. You have to make it more worth while for emplyers to give people contracts. Carrot and stick.
We're talking about the very specific "banning zero hours contracts" manifesto promise.
"sort zero hours contract injustices" is a far, far, broader topic.
Takes a while for the post to stop though, so even if you sign up, you may still get some unwanted mail for a while afterwards
Thanks @nickc but was rather hoping that there would be some written guidance on how many times a political party is allowed to write to members of the public.
And this morning I have yet another LibDems communication persnally addressed to me, am returning it with "not known at this address" scrawled across. Out of all the parties they send the most.
Also in today's post is a personally addressed letter from a "Polling and Elections Expert" urging me to vote for the LibDems. I haven't consented to my personal details being made available to all and sundry so where do I stand with GDPR? Anyone know?
Has anybody else been getting the Facebook adverts from obscure groups? I had one pop up so I had a look into the smallprint about who was funding it. Turns out its a Tory MP, and the Tory's are doing this to exploit a loophole in the law about funding of political parties
I just found this article on it in PR Week
Who's behind the obscure groups funding election atatck campaigns on Facebook?
The Leave team have completely screwed our political discourse for a generation. Not sure who learnt most from the other, them or Trump’s team(s)? Perhaps it’s a feedback loop. (Don’t mention that Putin has used these skills for far longer).
kelvin
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That’s video clip is very telling. Wow.No, the video clip tells you nothing. Johnson was told to wrap up his long rambling answer with a hand gesture, which he mimicked back with a smirk.
Neither the PM or Nick Ferrari agree with that excuse Kelvin
https://twitter.com/robpowellnews/status/1200365066773811200?s=19
And this morning I have yet another LibDems communication persnally addressed to me, am returning it with “not known at this address” scrawled across. Out of all the parties they send the most.
Eventually found out how to opt out of communications from this forest destroying political party. They don't make it easy.
Neither the PM or Nick Ferrari agree with that excuse Kelvin
They both say he was imitating Ferrari. Johnson (and I) thought the signal from Ferrari was for him to shut up… Ferrari says he was telling his producer (who we can’t hear) to shut up.
Look, I consider Johnson dangerous and I’m no fan of Ferrari (to put it mildly) but misinformation needs calling out even if it is aimed at people you oppose or strongly disagree with.
Johnson was not caught on camera secretly signally to Ferrari in order to control the interview. That is either a fabrication, or a misinterpretation too eagerly spread by people who wish it was true.
Britain Elects
@britainelects
2h2 hours ago
Westminster voting intention:
CON: 42% (-)
LAB: 34% (+2)
LDEM: 13% (-1)
BREX: 4% (+1)
GRN: 3% (+1)
via @PanelbaseMD, 27 - 28 Nov
Chgs. w/ 22 Nov
What sort of lead might take us into hung parliament territory? Earlier this month a Conservative source told The Sunday Times: “If you’re in the seven to 10 range it’s squeaky bum time.”
Polls seem to be closing. Guardian poll tracker shows an average line over a week, which is still upward for the Tories. But if you look closely at the last week the Tory trajectory is downward and Labour upward. We've had a number of polls that show it could be close enough for NOM.
Of course, the polls could be bollocks plus we have no idea how this translates to seats. So.. *shrug*
Out of all the parties they send the most.
Labour around here. This morning I had the 5th brouchure to go with the two personal letters from 'our prospective candidate'
It's one in the recycling bin with the Tory "We'll deliver Brexit" threat I got this morning.
Not sure if this is a general tactic but I just had a very nice Labour campaigner knock on the door. She handed me a leaflet, asked politely if intended to vote (yes) and then proceeded to politely remind me to read all the various parties manifesto's as she felt this year more than most, thats it is import to understand whats on offer and to make my own mind up based on that.
No hard sell at all, made me feel a tiny bit happier for politics.
I’ve just arrived home to my postal voting forms and also a personally addressed letter from the nicotine-stained man-frog telling me to say no to a second referendum and yes to a real Brexit
Sorry Nige but I won’t be doing that.
I do hope lots of people who were going to vote Tory do vote for you instead, split the right-wing nut-job vote, and we keep our labour MP
Interesting comments from Boris' dad today, and the level of contempt he has towards the British public.
Even I’ve watched Disney’s Pinocchio.
[ double checks spelling ]
Quick spelling test in the taxi household got 3 out if 4 spelling Pinocchio correctly. No prizes for guessing who got it wrong 😳😳
What did Stanley say, then...?
https://twitter.com/carryonkeith/status/1200391348957958145?s=21
Ouches!
https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1200473223265181698?s=21
^ corker! Lol!
FFS if all these TV election debate (now on BBC) keep going on about climate emergency (we know we know so stop repeating it) I am going to spit into their mouths. 😒
What a nasty piece of work.
Edit: Tosser is only looking for a reaction.
That's not the worst thing Stanley Johnson has said
I'm surprised they let him anywhere near the press
https://twitter.com/SunApology/status/1176030499732631552?s=19
Not going to deny the climate change topic but I rather they debate about other details like how they propose to generate more business and create more jobs.
Regardless of the political parties if they cannot create jobs they will Not be elected, simple as.
These politicians (all of them and especially those in govt) have been taking people for the ride.
No wonder this country is going backward if these are the calibre of politicians people have to choose from.
Same faces all the time and yet unashamedly put on the same spin again and again.
p/s: if you want to reduce climate change then stop or drastically reduce consumption. Exporting plastic rubbish to the 3rd world etc ... did anyone of them even prevent that until recently? This has been going for years!
Can he not just be banned? Or other users given a way to opt to not have to see his “contributions”?
Chewk?
I like him, always have. 🙂
He's not harming anyone and he has just as much of a right to his opinions as anyone else.
Yep get over it
Polls are one thing, bookmakers are another (and usually a better place to look)
Tory majority is on average 2/5
No overall majority is on average 2/1
Oh dear.
bookmakers are another (and usually a better place to look)
Bookmakers odds don't reflect the probability of something happening, they reflect the bookies' exposure. So if something is improbable but loads of people are betting on it anyway, they shorten the odds so that if it happens they don't have to pay out millions.
Well, you can open up wide and let him spit in your mouths then. I’d rather not have to read about it.
The treatment of chewkw on here is appalling, it's basically bullying. Remember in school when everyone joined in mocking the dorky kid? That's what's happening here. If you don't want to read his posts then don't read them. It's easy. There's no need to loudly proclaim over and over again about how hard it is for you have to see his content on your screen (even though his last post is entirely reasonable and quite right). The forum is not under any obligation to provide you with curated content specially for you, they don't have to shut out anyone who isn't your mates.
Act like a grownup for goodness' sake.
Regardless of the political parties if they cannot create jobs they will Not be elected, simple as
Nonsense. Have you missed the past 3 years?
Remember in school when everyone joined in mocking the dorky kid?
This. It's pathetic, and classic mob bullying behaviour. If Chewy is guilty of anything it's not engaging in sensible discussion with people, but why would he? He's not entirely dissimilar to a certain other regular poster who is prone to ranting but his treatment is entirely different.
Keep it up Chewy, don't let the b****** grind you down 😉
No wonder this country is going backward if these are the calibre of politicians people have to choose from.
We get the politicians we vote for. Thick politicians, thick voters, it's a destructive cycle. It will change when people stop allowing themselves to be manipulated by the media and politicians with nefarious intentions. The weird thing is though I think you're one of these people who think they've seen through the propaganda, yet you then support Farage. Farage is the ultimate manipulator, so please open your eyes.
I’m amazed that so many of you are happy to accept the ‘spit in their mouths’ comment as just normal discourse.
So are we sensoring people now for not using earnestly polite 'proper' language? Not everyone communicates in the same way, and his comment, whist crude, was hardly threatening or offensive to anyone on here, I can think of much worse. The last thing we need is to turn this pace into some sort of posho debating club with all the dreary and false verbiage that comes with that sort of thing.
Was just out on bike.. was talking about Boris to GF. A builder heard me and said ,"Go Boris."
Yeah , it's minus 3 and you're working on a Saturday. Exactly where he wants you to be.
Tool.
The weird phenomenon of disappearing posts... is there a secret delete function that I don't know about?
Moderators can delete what they want, it’s essential for them to perform their role properly.
Looks like I’m taking a break.