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I could vouch the same. I've never been a member of the Labour party but I have hung around a few of them and I've been fairly active in a union. I knew the previous Labour MP here and I know a few local Labour councillors. I've never known one of them be racist or anti semitic.

BBC News in what might be the very definition of 'comfort zone' a left wing anti war speech was disrupted by a more left wing more anti war protest keep the faith

Rock and roll singers like this Elvis chap, making loads of money and getting famous for doing next to nothing. He can't sing properly, the songs are rubbish, the lyrics are pathetic and often suggestive. It's far too loud to properly listen to. His entire act appears to be based around having greasy hair and girating hips. Absolute rubbish.

I can't understand why a populist newspaper like The Sun or some such wouldn't organise a populist campaign to stop a foreign take over of our british media. I thought we were all about getting our country back.

I had a flashback memory just a few days ago, caused by a smell that was very reminiscent of the smell from the old carbon black plant. A nasty chemical smell, but whisked me back to being a kid. Back in the days when having a cough was a sign of having been outdoors and the accepted cure was a packet of fags.

Another in my series of Barrybados promotional shots. I met my love by the gas works wallDreamed a dream by the old canalKissed a girl by the factory wallDirty old townDirty old town Love the place you live folks.

So a woman, on her own personal promo video that says she 'wants to send them all back' is still allowed to stand by her party and goes on to get 13.5% of the vote. What a nice bunch of lads the UKIPs are.

Emily Maitlis on Newsnight tonight is wearing a sort of long sweatshirt and a pair of long suede boots. As a feminist, I support her right to wear whatever she likes. Anyone looking at this in a sexual way, well, they need to get with the programme.

Are you saying there's more to this £20 in the trousers story than we're being told?

BBC News As it happens, he's actually edged towards a truth here, so I can only presume he was pissed, or during the course of the day he wrote three or four versions of the same speech and was just practicing them.

I have absolutely no opinion on Buble. 'The mother-in-law' on the other hand, regularly insists that I only hate him because he's a mainstream success and I have to be 'clever' with the music I like. I have told her on any number of times that actually, I have no opinion on Buble just like I have no opinion on carpet cleaner brands, The One Show or cravendale milk. It just doesn't interest me but best of luck to them all. But no, she knows I must hate him. And Michael Ball.

I thought Guns n Roses was just a shabby T shirt in Asda.

You should be rightly pleased with yourself, well done.

Theresa May bolsters the red, white and blue brexit negotiating team.

ditto, fellow saddo I recognised it and went looking for the name what a sad pair of individuals we are

what BOF didn't put in the quote, but does link to on the, er, link is that it was written by professional right wing troll retard Toby Young that's pretty much all you need to know I'm offended by the existence of Toby Young.

Plenty was said during the campaign. Reduced immigration. Stop payments. Improved NHS. A better deal for steelworkers if we're outside the single market. Primacy for our courts and our laws. Retained access to the single market. Retention of London as a banking hub. Are any or all of those on or off our agenda? If my sole reason for voting out was to get £350 million for the NHS, how will this be achieved if David Davis decides to pay to be a non-member of the single market? Nobody is expecting 'detail', it's plain to see there isn't any detail. But on some fairly basic things like immigration and the single market, would we prefer none, some, or more? Where is the debate? Surely nobody voted for a secret deal to be done by Liam Fox, David Davis and Boris Johnson? We need to engage everyone's brains rather than con them along. We need a national discussion. I want to see Theresa May mass debate.

Red white and blue brexit. We're not going to tell you what's in it, you've just got to eat it, and still have it. It's a secret patriotic shit cake. I'm beginning to form a theory that I'm in a coma and the last thing I saw before a piano fell on my head was an episode of Brass Eye.

Went up that London on the weekend. Anyway, having wandered through a few parks we decided to cross the river and get some food. The pedestrian crossing at Parliament / Big Ben was crazy rammed busy. So we decided to walk up a block and cross where it was quieter. By random luck as we passed Downing Street we bumped in to some people we know and they were taking a party of guides / rangers / scouts type kids in to visit 10 Downing Street. They had named adult passes that required I.D. checks etc., but the entrance permit just basically said ‘plus a dozen or so kids’. No names or i.d. required for the kids. So my two nippers tucked in on the end of the group, went in through the pleb gate and had 20 minutes of selfies with the policeman, the cat and the christmas tree at the door to No 10. Which was nice…

He's making a list Checking it twice Gonna find out who's naughty or nice Santa Claus is in contravention of the Data Protection Act (1998)

Yet another way of saying 'California and New York' here is to say 'two of the fifty states that came together to form a federal republic'. Though perhaps an even simpler way of saying 'California and New York' here is to simply say 'money'. Who's to say that if the rules of the game had been different, the Trump team wouldn't have changed tactics and concentrated on losing California and New York by lesser margins? A couple of speeches about making California the electric car centre of the world and boom, he gets a few hundred thousand extra votes there. He tells the people of New York he'll freeze rent increases, boom, a few hundred thousand votes there. Doesn't even need to be true, does it. But he didn't bother, they were lost causes under the rules of the game. If they needed to win a 'popular vote' they could have worked harder in states they knew weren't theirs to win. Where was Trump in the closing hours of campaigning? Florida. Spouting shit to anyone that would turn up for a free badge. He won Florida by 1% and bagged 29 elec college votes. Michigan he won by less than 1%. Similar in Pennsylvania. Visiting close polling industry states and promising jobs. Fighting where he had a chance of winning. Bob Mook the Clinton Campaign Manager actually mocked the Trump campaign as late as the 5th November for appearing haphazard and seemingly 'just visiting as many places as possible'. Yeah, what a dumbass. You simply can't extrapolate the final tally in one game to a different game, that's way too simplistic. The other team might have changed their whole approach. By all means argue for a first passed the post total popular vote system in the future. Where all candidates can aim their tactics at that game with those rules. I suspect the result is not as clear cut as imposing different rules retrospectively on an already run race.

The Clinton campaign spent $170,000,000 more than the Trump campaign. They won California by 4,200,000 votes more than Trump. A single state that dominates those statistics, California alone gave a majority to Clinton that accounts for all of the 'popular vote' surplus plus millions more. They won New York with 1,500,000 more votes than Trump. Two states gave Clinton a surplus of 5.7 million votes. The democrats spent a total $534,000,000 on their campaign. But either didn't understand the established system, or simply couldn't persuade enough people across the whole of America. For instance, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but for all those mountains of votes in California and New York, she missed winning the 20 electoral college votes for Pennsylvania by just 47,000 votes in a state of 6 million voters. All that effort to win one and a half million surplus votes in New York when a spit away she was losing Pennsylvania by 0.8% of the vote. Bad system, or spectacular tactical failure? (it's both) The system is clunky. The alternative is to simply allow money, California and New York to dictate to all other states who will be president. wiki election data

I remember Blackburn before all the asians moved in. It was a land of milk and honey where the local blonde maidens worked the fields until dusk and produced some of the best organic fairy cakes for export. Jobs were plentiful, mostly these jobs were racing car drivers and astronauts, but some were much better paid. The average house was not damp, it had a double garage and the council would just give it to you providing you were no darker than cornish clotted cream on their wall chart guide to who qualifies. England regularly won the world cup, summers were longer, warmer. The village had just one criminal, and he was more of a 'character' than a real villain, from memory it was Claude Greengrass played by Bill Maynard. The local vicar was a cheeky chubby woman. We didn't like her softly modern ways at first, but she won us around. What was her name? Ah yes, Geraldine Grainger. That's the Blackburn I remember, before the asians moved in.