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TinTower posted:I don't see why not; I can think of four current Ministers off the top of my head who are openly LGBT, one of which attends full Cabinet. RIP Sue Townsend, aged 68 and a few days. If she'd lasted a few months more.
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Kegluneq posted:Should the Equalities brief still encompass Women? If so you're specifically looking for a lesbian (or trans woman) MP. AFAIK the only openly gay woman MP is Labour's Angela Eagle. I think it's more realistic though to try to find an openly supportive candidate than to pick the only individual to meet very restrictive requirements (since disabled black lesbian politicians only currently exist in 'hilarious' PC jokes). I think Equalities should be as diverse as possible; that's the point. For example, a (rather probable) Labour equalities team of Gloria de Piero, Chris Bryant, and Rushanara Ali would be a good idea. It's depressing that the Tories have had more diversity in the current Equalities team (which, I believe, is Javid, Morgan, Grant, and Willott) than Labour ever have.
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I don't think there is a disabled gay black transgender woman MP in the Tory party though. Specially in the Tory party.
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Disability is also something woefully under-represented in the Commons; AFAIK, there are only a handful of MPs with some sort of physical disability? Granted, one of them was the Prime Minister for three years.
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Yeah, Evans is clearly unstable and sleazy. Looking at the case though, I'm a bit bemused why it ever went to trial.
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Apr 11, 2014 08:55
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It seems rather counter-intuitive to have someone who regarded ticket touts as classic entrepreneurs in the position of Culture Secretary
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Apr 11, 2014 09:12
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tdrules posted:It seems rather counter-intuitive to have someone who regarded ticket touts as classic entrepreneurs in the position of Culture Secretary Ticket touts are bullshit because it's not a "middleman" by any sense of the word. They buy up all the tickets so no one else can then just instantly re-list them at a higher price. If they hadn't bought up all the tickets in the first place then the "common man" would be able to purchase them straight from the original distributor anyway.
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Apr 11, 2014 09:50
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Just lose your bet already Lemon, God drat. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...on-9253203.html quote:A ramshackle brick-built garage next to a south London light industrial estate has become the most expensive ever to sell in Britain after reaching an auction price of £550,000 in a “frenzied” bidding war. Soon to be converted into three flats that cost £1,500 a month.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Just lose your bet already Lemon, God drat. Also a £550k garage and "the next shoreditch" what the actual christ.
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Apr 11, 2014 10:00
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I think I can make a fortune becoming a London property baron. I just need to get some rabbit hutches on the cheap and suddenly I'm the proud owner of a multiplex. Think I could get £1000 a month per hutch? I could stick a water feeder in and tack on an extra £200 as an "en-suite".
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Apr 11, 2014 10:08
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Frankly at this point you could probably make money selling people property you don't own, given half of the owners don't live in the UK and are never going to come and check it out.
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PiCroft posted:I think I can make a fortune becoming a London property baron. I just need to get some rabbit hutches on the cheap and suddenly I'm the proud owner of a multiplex. Think I could get £1000 a month per hutch? I could stick a water feeder in and tack on an extra £200 as an "en-suite". You jest, but probably.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Frankly at this point you could probably make money selling people property you don't own, given half of the owners don't live in the UK and are never going to come and check it out. that's actually been a successful scam in the past
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Apr 11, 2014 10:22
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Gonzo McFee posted:Just lose your bet already Lemon, God drat. There's a garage conversion on the main road here in Mitcham that went for nearly £200,000. It was a 1 up 1 down with bathroom extended out the back, and was a flying freehold to boot.
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Cerv posted:that's actually been a successful scam in the past Yeah, I remember a guy that came back from a period abroad and tried to put his house on the market, only to be told by the puzzled conveyancers that he didn't actually own it any more.
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Umiapik posted:Yeah, I remember a guy that came back from a period abroad and tried to put his house on the market, only to be told by the puzzled conveyancers that he didn't actually own it any more. What happened after that?
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Umiapik posted:Yeah, I remember a guy that came back from a period abroad and tried to put his house on the market, only to be told by the puzzled conveyancers that he didn't actually own it any more.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Ticket touts are bullshit because it's not a "middleman" by any sense of the word. They buy up all the tickets so no one else can then just instantly re-list them at a higher price. If they hadn't bought up all the tickets in the first place then the "common man" would be able to purchase them straight from the original distributor anyway. Ticket touts won't go away until tickets are sold either (a) at true market value, which would price out all the poors or (b) linked to the buyer in a such a way that they can't be resold (like some tickets for some events are) It's said that the latter option makes it difficult for buyers to sell their ticket if it turns out they can't make it to the event, but I think appropriate legislation could fix this by mandating that the event organiser must offer to buy back any unwanted tickets.
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Torka posted:What happened after that? Just been looking for a news article but can't find anything! Does anyone else know what I'm on about? Think it was up in Merseyside: this guy went round looking for properties that had obviously been empty for a long time, then forged invoices for building work and went to court asking for repossession orders to be made, in order to pay for his unpaid bills. (this actually worked! Well, until he got caught, anyway.)
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Apr 11, 2014 12:20
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It's off-topic but the whole Wendi Deng - Tony Blair story is just so goddamn bizarre to me. I still can't quite get my head round it.
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Saki posted:It's off-topic but the whole Wendi Deng - Tony Blair story is just so goddamn bizarre to me. I still can't quite get my head round it. Which story is this?
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Murdoch has apparently admitted that the 'closeness' between Deng and Blair played a part in his filing for divorce is the only thing I know of at the mo.
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Apr 11, 2014 14:28
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Just the fact Wendi apparently wrote letters talking about how cute Blair's butt was. Amazing stuff.
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Apr 11, 2014 14:58
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Saki posted:Just the fact Wendi apparently wrote letters talking about how cute Blair's butt was. Amazing stuff. She wants to be the 1st First Lady of Europe
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Saki posted:Just the fact Wendi apparently wrote letters talking about how cute Blair's butt was. Amazing stuff. She married Rupert Murdoch remember
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She what  I googled the name and saw a picture of them together under the name Wendi Deng Murdoch and assumed he must have adopted her or something 
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I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that she was kind of a badass and was responsible for Murdoch's security or something.
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Ddraig posted:I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that she was kind of a badass and was responsible for Murdoch's security or something. Would make sense given her instinctive pie defense mechanism
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I'm no expert, but if I was trying to overturn our horrid open-door government, oh and the previous one, I wouldn't go on HIGNFY and deny all knowledge of all the wingnuts in my party, and prove I am an unelectable toss-pot. But then, I don't think I would get asked, or would go. Also I don't really think right thinking people think that sort of stuff, and think that Boris did it, so its cool for me. Oh Farage also managed to work in a sheep shagger allusion about the welsh.
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Trickjaw posted:I'm no expert, but if I was trying to overturn our horrid open-door government, oh and the previous one, I wouldn't go on HIGNFY and deny all knowledge of all the wingnuts in my party, and prove I am an unelectable toss-pot. But then, I don't think I would get asked, or would go. Also I don't really think right thinking people think that sort of stuff, and think that Boris did it, so its cool for me. The thing about that show is that its awfully posh. Even todays episode had a 60% strike rate for people who had their parents pay for their education. Its a given that it cannot go below 20% or above 80%. I challenge anybody to find an episode of HIGNFY where it has a 20% strike rate for people who have had their parents pay for their education. I haven't watched every episode but I think it is an impossible challenge. This is a country where 7.2 % of people are not educated by the state system. HIGNFY tells me nothing about my life.
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General China posted:The thing about that show is that its awfully posh. Even todays episode had a 60% strike rate for people who had their parents pay for their education. Its a given that it cannot go below 20% or above 80%. It maybe, but it was that or itv. But then, I don't really judge formulaic current events based shows on a class system, just comment on total cocks who think they are on a winner because it worked for a perceived loveable buffoon.
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General China posted:I challenge anybody to find an episode of HIGNFY where it has a 20% strike rate for people who have had their parents pay for their education. I haven't watched every episode but I think it is an impossible challenge. 40x02, 21 October 2010, Host: Frank Skinner, Ian's Team: Janet Street-Porter, Paul's Team: Reginald D. Hunter. What do I win?
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Tortuga posted:What do I win? A piece of toast cut in rectangles.
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twoot posted:A piece of toast cut in rectangles. Better than a night with Janet Street-Porter. How Normski managed, I'll never know. And, no, its not a joke about her teeth/fellatio, its just she is an objectionable human being who is far too in love with her own voice, with no idea of the irony of bemoaning how limited her pensioners buspass is then in the next breath saying she went to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot in a helicopter, but was told off because her hat was too big. Bit of classism, there, GC. Also, Loose Women, a show that makes Doctors look edifying.
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Tortuga posted:40x02, 21 October 2010, Host: Frank Skinner, Ian's Team: Janet Street-Porter, Paul's Team: Reginald D. Hunter. What do I win? Close- but Janet Street-Porter went to this place- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_Association_School_of_Architecture
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Trickjaw posted:Bit of classism, there, GC. Too loving right.
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General China posted:Too loving right. IIRC it was Hislop sneering at that, but I takes what I gets.
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Trickjaw posted:IIRC it was Hislop sneering at that, but I takes what I gets. Its a class war, but at the moment we happen to be loosing. Its only temporary.
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General China posted:Close- but Janet Street-Porter went to this place- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_Association_School_of_Architecture Her parents didn't pay tho, she was 100% grant.
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SybilVimes posted:Her parents didn't pay tho, she was 100% grant. We are, however, agreed she is gobby moron, though? GC: Can we have a goon meet on your estate when its the glorious 11th or whatever it is? We don't have guns, we will just chuck whatever comes to hand.
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