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LemonDrizzle posted:UK Visas & Immigration is a good organisation staffed by smart people with excellent judgment UK immigration policy is moronic, news at 11.
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Malcolm XML posted:UK immigration policy is moronic, news at 11. Don't worry, it's only going to get worse in the next parliament as our parties race to the bottom.
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forkboy84 posted:Don't worry, it's only going to get worse in the next parliament as our parties race to the bottom.
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quote:Ms Hirono said she was in "utter shock", adding she had spent the time at conferences in Asia and Africa. I've been in academia and that sounds like an extremely generous conference schedule. Like how is Nottingham even covering her expenses at that point? How does she have any kind of teaching load?
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Fatty posted:I've been in academia and that sounds like an extremely generous conference schedule. Like how is Nottingham even covering her expenses at that point? How does she have any kind of teaching load? It's long, but IIRC the limit is 300 days, consecutively.
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Mar 21, 2015 05:06
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Fatty posted:I've been in academia and that sounds like an extremely generous conference schedule. Like how is Nottingham even covering her expenses at that point? How does she have any kind of teaching load? maybe she was visiting? Over 200 days absence/conference/whatever seems a huge amount for a home contracted lecturer. Even our old semi-retired profs/lecturers on the way out do more than that.
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Fatty posted:I've been in academia and that sounds like an extremely generous conference schedule. Like how is Nottingham even covering her expenses at that point? How does she have any kind of teaching load?
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:cam'rons britane "East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire" is a stupid NUTS region that no-one really thinks should exist except bureaucrats during the seventies. 
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Mar 21, 2015 13:15
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we're number one! we're poo poo!
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So it looks like Cameron's basically got what he wanted then? No empty chairing, he's getting his special Q&A session where there's nobody in the room to argue with him, so it's basically just a series of interviews. Good thing they changed the format especially for him, letting him back out of his own accord would have looked like bowing to political interests!
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Mar 21, 2015 17:40
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There's no head to head with Labour but there's a Question time with David, Ed and Nick which will be bizarre.
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I really have to doubt any infographic where Groningen is one of the richest regions in europe unless they included the value of the gas extracted there because the people sure aren' t rich.
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Mar 21, 2015 18:29
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NihilismNow posted:I really have to doubt any infographic where Groningen is one of the richest regions in europe unless they included the value of the gas extracted there because the people sure aren' t rich. If that's the case, then why isn't Aberdeen on the rich list?
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namesake posted:There's no head to head with Labour but there's a Question time with David, Ed and Nick which will be bizarre. Right but "the three leaders will answer questions separately from a studio audience but not debate directly" which makes me think of people who are in the same room but making a big show of refusing to talk to each other. I mean QT is already pretty much the standard political debate format as it is - politicians take turns answering questions and addressing things the others said, so if they're saying they won't 'debate directly' then that kinda sounds like Cameron's only agreed to do it if he gets some Alan Partridge-style contractual power over what takes place I was going to say at least they can't ignore the audience, but they'll probably cherry pick that too so Cameron doesn't get booed to gently caress like Osborne at the olympics
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Mar 21, 2015 18:53
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I don't know if his one was cherry picked, but Tony Blair did a Q&A thing back when he was PM and got absolutely destroyed on it.
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Yeah I was thinking about that one, that was a Paxo roast though, and pretty much all about Blair's unpopular warmongering - he can't really claim bias when he's the only person there. QT involves Dimbleby moving focus on to the other guests, and by its nature this will be open to arguments about uneven support in the audience and demands for guaranteed representation and the like Can't wait for some softball questions setting Cameron up for his vapid waffling and empty cliches, met with audible applause. I bet they won't even have anyone shouting!
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They've done that QT Q&A thing with the leaders being on separately one at a time before. I mostly remember it because it was watching it was the only Higher Modern Studies lesson I attended (I self-studied) and on the way out I slagged off Michael Howard, only for someone who had sat through the whole show to ask "Who's Michael Howard?"
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Donkey Kong? He'd get my vote.
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That's ridiculous. Which leader would have been best suited to lead at the battle of Ypres?
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baka kaba posted:Right but "the three leaders will answer questions separately from a studio audience but not debate directly" which makes me think of people who are in the same room but making a big show of refusing to talk to each other. I mean QT is already pretty much the standard political debate format as it is - politicians take turns answering questions and addressing things the others said, so if they're saying they won't 'debate directly' then that kinda sounds like Cameron's only agreed to do it if he gets some Alan Partridge-style contractual power over what takes place As Milliband said on the BBC article quote:David Cameron is now in the ridiculous position where he'll go to the same studio as me, on the same night as me, with the same audience as me but he won't debate me head to head It's loving absurd. The media shouldn't wield disproportionate power over the government, but this isn't some principled stand Cameron's taking, it's weaseling because he knows he'd lose in a 1-on-1 debate. I hope they pull a bait and switch and he walks onto a stage with Ed Milliband already there.
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Its even funnier when Cameron was the one that heavily pushed the idea of debates in the last election because he thought he could easily walk it.
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Mar 21, 2015 21:51
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Send Farage back to 1415. A good chart.
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namesake posted:That's ridiculous. Farage dying of sepsis in a muddy hole in Belgium? I can get behind it.
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winegums posted:it's weaseling because he knows he'd lose in a 1-on-1 debate
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maybe they confused agincourt with the charge of the light brigade
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Seaside Loafer posted:Why do you think that? Firstly because he's avoiding it. He wouldn't be dodging the debate so hard if he thought it would help him. Secondly because I don't think he's very good at all. Even in PMQs he falls back on blustering or just saying "something something mess Labour left us" . He's a prime minster who couldn't scrape a majority together on the back of overwhelming media support, almost 2 decades of being in opposition against a tired out Labour government with an unpopular prime minister. He's a crap politician. Thirdly, because Ed Miliband is a decent debater. The Tories and their pals in the media have worked hard to paint this caricature of Miliband as a weird nerd and whatever germ of truth there may or may not be to that, it's still fairly removed from reality and would be really challenged by seeing him debate on a show watched by millions of people. He talks to people and addresses what they're saying directly. Even the simple things he does like asking people their names, or relating questions to previous questions, is a really effective and personalising way of talking to an audience. Cameron can flick on a smile and hug a prole for a camera, but I doubt he could maintain anything resembling human empathy for a whole debate.
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Longbows had a draw of 100-200lb, so you'd need a reasonably strong back to use one. Spineless men thus need not apply, which rules out Clegg, and having seen Miliband's feeble noodle arms, I can't imagine he'd be much use either. Cameron's a hopeless fatbody, so maybe Farage wins by default. Also: 
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So, remember Karie Murphy, the candidate at the centre of the Falkirk vote-rigging selection scandal? She's embroiled in another scandal, this time in Halifax. This time, she failed to make the AWS. The Halifax selection is rather interesting; Riordan's very late announcement that she's retiring was initially perceived as a snub towards local councillors Tim Swift and Barry Collins, who between them infamously lost Labour control of the council last year despite being one seat short of a majority. From the leaked emails in the Indy, that may not be far off the mark.
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I don't remember Karie Murphy.
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But which of our leaders would be best suited to take on the Moon Nazis when they return in 2018?
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Gonzo McFee posted:But which of our leaders would be best suited to take on the Moon Nazis when they return in 2018? Thatch
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There's a thing on BBC Parliament right now called "Ed Milliband Event". He's giving a speech but there seems to be something wrong with the sound and I can't hear him for shite 
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Pissflaps posted:Thatch I didn't mean take on as in invite to team up.
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namesake posted:That's ridiculous. That's easy, it's the rich white former public schoolboy obviously.
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Gonzo McFee posted:But which of our leaders would be best suited to take on the Moon Nazis when they return in 2018? Blair of course, Iraq was good practice and now he doesn't even have to pretend to be apologetic! UKKKIP did have that invading EU space disc in a campaign video though... hmmm so many heroes to choose from
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Kegluneq posted:That's easy, it's the rich white former public schoolboy obviously. So, any of Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage or David Cameron? 
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LemonDrizzle posted:Longbows had a draw of 100-200lb, so you'd need a reasonably strong back to use one. Spineless men thus need not apply, which rules out Clegg, and having seen Miliband's feeble noodle arms, I can't imagine he'd be much use either. Cameron's a hopeless fatbody, so maybe Farage wins by default. Twitter Tories are having a go at Sayeeda Warsi over this, asking her to comment. Can someone explain the connection to Amin other than 'also Asian and is a woman we don't like because she quit over Isreal?'
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Prince John posted:So, any of Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage or David Cameron?  (Edit: I did actually forget Miliband went to a comprehensive though.)Actually I think they might all be too old to be the posh junior officers who did go out and get horribly slaughtered. EvilGenius posted:Twitter Tories are having a go at Sayeeda Warsi over this, asking her to comment. Can someone explain the connection to Amin other than 'also Asian and is a woman we don't like because she quit over Isreal?' Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Mar 22, 2015 |
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EvilGenius posted:Twitter Tories are having a go at Sayeeda Warsi over this, asking her to comment. Can someone explain the connection to Amin other than 'also Asian and is a woman we don't like because she quit over Isreal?' She's really not liked in some segments of the party - seen as well out of her depth and promoted beyond her abilities. She's also had the community cohesion and faith and communities portfolios for most of her career, so I suppose if any Conservative has an informed opinion on the topic, it's likely to be her. Personally I thought she was pretty straight talking on many of the divisive cultural and religious issues facing our country. Edit: Kegluneq posted:
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Prince John posted:If you're willing to allow schoolgirls,
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