Brian Dixon
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here is a veraion of jeruslam you never heard before.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sheer genius from the golden age of satire, wish they would bring it back today, no shortage of material.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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glad you liked it howard,but here is a geezer you might like.a bit like marmite,you either love it or hate it.but its worth a look in.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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here he is bigging up Maggie.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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doubt if this will come up at conference.
Keith Sansum1
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true howard
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Just scratch the surface..............
Eric Pickles tells survivor of alleged child abuse: 'Adjust your medication'
Mental health campaigners aghast as minister recorded shouting at alleged child abuse survivor
'adjust your medication'
Eric Pickles has been criticised for furthering mental health prejudices after he told a survivor of
alleged child abuse to "adjust your medication" when she accused him of ignoring her.
The Communities and Local Government minister made the comment in a recorded confrontation with
constituent Teresa Cooper earlier this month. Ms Cooper was one of at least six women who say they
were drugged as teenagers at the Kendall House care home, Kent, in the late 1970s and early 1980s
, whose children now have genetic defects.
To hear the recording, click on the video above
Confronting Mr Pickles, who is her constituency MP, she said: "Nothing has changed on the Kendall
House abuse. Only you have ignored it. You have ignored it." Pickles then interjected, shouting: "just,
just, adjust your medication".
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that probably explains this.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I did wonder why this story has resurfaced, but I see now. This is more of a bread-and-butter pudding issue, this time around.
The 'news' that he had a bread-maker at home broke way back in the middle of his campaigning for the 2010 election when, in the midst of of a group of bread-factory bakers, he extolled the virtues of DIY, bread making wise.
[That he uses the machine as I do...well, I don't know where to put myself. But I feel vindicated, because everybody else insists on soft-squidgy white goo, so I do keep those guys in work as well...phew!]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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for those who have not had time to study the conference resolutions in detail here is a brief precis.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Conservative Party conference:
With Labour leaning left, Cameron is pitching hard for the centre ground
Although his team denies it, the Prime Minister's speech was a toe-to-toe response to Ed Miliband's
headline-grabbing performance at his own conference last week
David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party conference yesterday was not one that will go
down in the annals. Its presentation was merely passable, its reception was no better than satisfactory,
and its contents were largely dull. It was, however, well-suited to its purpose.
The audience, after all, was not so much the delegates in the hall as the electorate beyond. And the
central message - Britain is recovering from the financial crisis but we need more time to "finish the
job" - is arguably delivered better by statesman-like tedium than a blizzard of policy initiatives.
Particularly when the speaker is a Tory leader trying to convince voters that Labour's alternative risks all.
In fact, although his team denies it, the Prime Minister's speech was a toe-to-toe response to
Ed Miliband's headline-grabbing performance at his own conference last week. Not because
Mr Cameron answered the question about falling living standards posed by his Labour counterpart.
He did not. What he did do, however, is use much of his time on the podium to tear strips off
Labour, not only for the "mess" left by the last government but also for the "1970s-style socialism"
proposed by a future one. Mr Miliband is no longer a figure of fun to be derided for his weakness;
he has become the would-be custodian of a "land of despair".
Full story Independent
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Another view....
Cameron responds to Miliband, but still keeps his options open
An opposition leader hasn't set the agenda in such a challenging way since Thatcher
Full marks to David Cameron for making a speech without spurious policy announcements and choosing
instead to advance an argument. There are already plenty of points in the year when a government has
no choice but to announce policies. However if a leader takes the grown-up decision to avoid
headline-grabbing initiatives that are quickly forgotten he must find ways of dramatising the argument,
and framing a case of depth.
Cameron failed to do this as he ended his party's conference. Instead his themes were familiar and
developed superficially. No doubt next year he will arrive armed with illustrative policies for the next
election. But he will need to deepen the argument too if he wants to be heard, let alone sway many voters.
Much of yesterday's speech was a response to Ed Miliband's one last week. I cannot recall an opposition
leader setting the agenda in such a challenging way since Margaret Thatcher in the late 1970s. Tony Blair
appeared to do so as leader of the opposition, but his distinctive pitch was to lecture his party about the
need to accept most existing orthodoxies, a relatively undemanding task when a party ached to win an
election after four defeats.
Miliband is braver. He has raised fresh questions about what should happen when markets fail and
when a powerful militant newspaper becomes indiscriminately abusive. Wisely in his speech, Cameron
did not engage with Miliband's important battle with the Daily Mail, but he devoted much of his speech to
an attack on the Labour leadership.
The attack was surprisingly clichéd. Cameron has a range of thoughtful advisers behind the scenes,
all of them reflecting privately with nuanced subtlety on Miliband's speech. Some were genuinely
impressed with it. Yet in the conference hall Cameron talked of Red Ed, mocked Ed Balls and repeated
the familiar jibe about Labour wanting excellence for their own children but not for anyone else's, a silly allegation if
anyone thinks about it for more than a second.
Full story Independent.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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So lets just go into this a little more,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Most pundits(even tory leaning ones) have said that the mouse's speech was poor, and just enough to limp through these party conferences.
The mouse obviously fears milly as he mentioned him and the labour party so often, but realy he had a chance to put distance between himself and milly and get the tories to be electable come 2015.
He threw it all away in a yawning speech shame really.
Of course on the other hand Milly's move to the left is a surprizing one, with blair having secured middle England votes enough to be elected, it appears milly is going back to the lefty days?
now, some of you might think im overjoyed with that? well, it is important to have an alternative to this co olition shower,
but like I told many people in the years of opposition both at the national and local levels,
you cant do much in opposition.
So I do hope milly has thought out his move to the left.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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we have two not very good party leaders, the main issue is who is the nastier one.
i would plump for dave after his promise/threat to deny benefits to anyone under the age of 25.
clearly designed to pander to the lowest instincts of his party many of who see a chav lying in bed until noon still wearing a baseball cap/hoodie, deciding whether to go on his/her playstation or simply "chill out" in front of the telly.
all this means is that anyone who works straight from school then eventually loses a job aged 23 or 24 will be expected to either starve or try to get a voucher for the local food bank.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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although not a great fan ed is improving
of course people have got used to the old politics of slagging each other off
now its all pally pally
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