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Unfortunately, it's a bit of a double whammy at the moment. You've got fools who are easily fooled by the 'wrap' advert on their local newspaper saying vote for a strong May. But you've also got fools who take a tiny little bit more interest, that are just seeing such a farce that they are becoming really really sad about it. Of the five pledges, three were not relevant to the General Election and Westminster, being devolved already. Three pledge on things it is already in their own power to do. Of the other two, one was to increase the number of police in Wales. Yet they were offered the opportunity to take on policing as a direct devolved power - and they declined. The power to increase the number of police was offered to them, they declined, now they are campaigning for more police. It's not a great pledge card. Yet it's the one they came up with all by themselves, so as not to look like that shambles of a party over the bridge.

So Welsh Labour have launched their campaign today. Making sure that they distinguish themselves as a separate entity from 'Corbyn Labour', to avoid any possible association with chaos, marxism or general incompetence. Campaign was launched by Carwyn Jones at the Glamorgan cricket ground just over the park from my office. Given that they've wanted to stress they are a distinct entity for Wales, that they are Welsh Labour with their own priorities they have issued their 5 General Election pledges. Makes you wonder who came up with the 5 aims. Given that 3 of them are devolved to the Welsh Assembly and nothing to do with Westminster. Labour really does need to take a deep breath and sort itself out. Please. I would consider myself a natural Labour voter and would revert back to type at a whiff of competence, but they are testing me to breaking point.

Never mind how long the U.S. Ambassador spent agonising over which records to showcase on his Masterchef cameo this evening, check out his Spillers Records slip mat!

First draught included a jihadi suicide wheelchair, but then I thought people would rumble I wasn't being serious.

Yeah, to be clear, when I said bank, I meant gay black immigrant jewish single mother.

Easy. Capitalism is where banks make profits and are allowed to be 'clever' with the tax they pay. It's not worth upsetting them, in case they leave the country. Then, if there's a banking crisis, the state bails them out. Once they begin to recover, the state then has to offer them 'incentives' to stay based in London and not move to Frankfurt. Capitalism.

superb, cheers ( I was only fidee dollars out)

Yeah, it's been a few years since I haven't been 'on call' in some capacity, be it work the next day or looking after the kids or driving 250 miles. So I tend not even to drink very much right now. But that deep reggae bass loop you can find on some tracks, I can just get quite close to 'out of it' just listening to that. Random unconnected question for @Xann : A while ago, a track on a mix tape, sort of hip hop story of a bunch of guys going out of town on a car holiday? Something like 50 dollar weekend? They end up going to the hills to avoid trouble? Can't find the bloody CD.

how to dance to it? just sort of rock on your heels and balls of your feet, sort of shaking your head sort of just bumping it's BBQ music, so you'll be holding a cold beer so not too lively, the peeps here appear to have got it down, from 2'30" in, the guy at 2'44" is particularly good

medical check - if you don't move to this, you could well be dead...

If you could only have one Stone Roses album? Pff tough because I think they are quite different and both brilliant. I like the first album because it's got space, you can hear the gaps between the instruments and there's no attempt to just turn up a load of dials to get noise filling every where. Second Coming is great, from the first track on it's just great. But the dials have all been turned up, it's more obviously 'produced'. Drive around a city at night when the traffic allows you to do a decent speed and play Begging You, it's just brilliant. The first track, Breaking, just brilliant on headphones. But the first album, stick on Waterfall, put some decent volume in to it and stand in the middle of the room with your eyes closed. At 3 minutes or so in to the song when it breaks down a little, you are stood in the middle of the band. I've still got the art postcards that would often come with a Roses vinyl single. A little bit of joy whenever you got one. Little things!

This is quite an unusual little internet talking shop and we all know we're just venting what you can't actually debate in real life as the vast majority just aren't interested beyond accepting the front page of their newspaper. Had the same conversation over Brexit, there was no debate, we were 'literally full' 'literally sinking' and Romanians were taking all the jobs and all the houses. So to be fair, that side of the argument got their simple message out there and repeated. Truth had nothing to do with it. Now it's all about strong Theresa and mad Corbyn. I've listened in on very similar conversations about Corbyn. I didn't join in, I've learnt there's no point. If it's been on the front of the Mail or the Echo that's the end of the matter. Corbyn is rubbish? Why? Oh he just is. Trouble is on this one, where there was a better debate to be had on Brexit. I'm not convinced giving Corbyn a fair crack would actually change many people's perceptions.

Yes, I've read a little bit of Marx. Apparently, he thought that if the factory owners improved workers' conditions, they'd be more productive. Crazy beardy dude.

When I was a kid in comp our school bus stop was next to a 24 hr pool and snooker hall. So at 7:30am I'd be off down the bus stop an hour early, every morning for a couple of years. Left school with O level Art (C), O level Eng Lang (C), CSE Commerce (A) and seriously good at pool. Anthony Davies lived three doors down and it's no coincidence he cites starting playing at age 12. That's when you started using the bus stop to get to comp.

So to be clear, Israel is like Iran and Jordan's West East Bank and they are all better than the Young Conservatives because they support bombing children at Yemeni weddings? Meanwhile Prime Minister May sells bombs to men that think women driving cars causes homosexuality and somehow the Socialist Workers Party are responsible for North Korean despots nuclear ambitions and Jeremy Corbyn is just bad because he's just Jeremy Corbyn. It's been a right roller coaster today.

I asked you to name three or four countries like Palestine. You named, Palestine, Palestine and Iran. How do you think you'd have done on Family Fortunes?

Well, I can't be bothered to google it or prove it either, but this current tory government sells bombs to terror states. I'd count Cameron and May as complicit in murder. Though to be fair, they've never given a speech about the country of 'east bank'.

You know you lost that round, don't you?

What countries like Palestine has he been to? Just list a few, no need for clever links, just say, a top 3 or 4 that you know of that are countries like Palestine that he's visited.

For some reason, all this, plus May's lies about euro gossip or euro leaks and her voting record and her strong and stable robotnics and her horrible sneeering temper are all off limits. A credible media would be poking fun day after day at a bunch of millionaires and wannabes and public school chums that don't have a clue, but know that if we can privatise another prison or tender out another health function or squeeze another state run comp., then there's another consultancy in it for them at the end of their political career. Not even before the end in most cases, eh Giideon?

I think that was their third go at that poster. First version had wrong dates, second version left a couple of towns off. This third version has been unchanged for 48 hours so I'm presuming it's legit. It'll be London or Bristol for me.

Well, half of me admires you, the other half despairs. The last Labour candidate for this area was a dangerous self opinionated idiot that tried to wreck the local education system. In a very small way I helped to stop him. By the same token, our sitting tory MP was instrumental in saving our local football club. If he went independent, I could see myself voting for him. But not whilst he's a tory.