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Which one was Shaun Woodward? Think he went on to be a minister.

It says they have appeal beyond a small sect. When they are at their best you should see defections from tories and lib dems.

Wait a few years and the garage will do it for you. My folks have just upgraded to a new car and want to transfer my dad's personalised plate to it. They have both played the old/infirm card and got the guy at the garage to sort it all out.

A defection to labour - getting big 90s flashbacks now.

That's what put him in my mind today.

The worst? No. The least competent? Yes.

The least funny member of The Mary Whitehouse Experience, who went on to be the least funny member of Newman & Baddiel, then the least funny member of Baddiel & Skinner.

I often get called a vagina if that helps. Kids, man. They can be so cruel.

Rosario Dawson Kimi Raikkonen Andrea Pirlo Caroline Flack Heath Ledger (and a ouija board)

5 for Wednesday. Shocker. 3 for the comedy quiz

The left are hardly getting behind Labour and trying to help Starmer oust the Tories. Pinnochio emojis you would imagine coming from the Tories, but no... On the antisemitism issue, I'm not re-treading the old ground of who said what, when and so on. That dragged Corbyn's leadership down and sink it like a battleship. He couldn't clearly announce anything because the news was always filled with stories about this issue. All the stuff about individual policies being popular was lost in that white noise. The issue I was addressing was the funding shortage in Labour caused by a few things, including a hefty payout, loss of union income because of that payout, and the loss of seats. Add to that loss of members (between 10% and 20%) as the lefties who joined for Corbyn left. The Labour party (by membership) is still over twice the size of the Tories.

Just a wee diversion.

I stopped reading at this point and let my imagination fill in the rest of the post. You filthy b*****d.

I was in the civil service from 2006 to 2013, and remember the rapid speed (and cost) of renaming everything that moved, re-doing signs to make Scotland look like Wales and so on.

Couldn't care less which way they do it so long as they were the same to avoid confusion.

On the last season of Titans on Netflix and need a new show to watch with the kids after this one. Watched all the arrowerse, mandalorian, etc. Any suggestions much appreciated (I think I asked this a few months back as well...)

This goes well beyond Covid and goes right back to 2007 with the SNP coming into power. Plastering Gaelic words across police cars, train stations and ambulances when fewer than 2% of Scots read or speak it. Renaming various agencies and bodies to be distinct and different from the Westminster counterparts. And it's why throughout this pandemic she has been consistently one degree different from England in every regard. Just to show that Scotland is different. Health is a devolved issue - but would any difference have really been made had all 4 nations adopted the exact same strategy? All these tiny shades of difference have no material benefit to safety - except to undermine it by causing confusion - and are used by politicians. How much of 2020 was Sturgeon enjoying being "seen" to be better than Johnson at this? When at the same time the same mistakes were being made, such as discharging the elderly back into care homes to spread the virus?

Remember, there are many folk out there who cannot budge from wanting fresh and perpetual lockdowns.

The details you are looking for can be found here https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/investigation-antisemitism-labour-party-finds-unlawful-acts-discrimination-and

Not all of them, we still have plenty

For many office workers (thinking of the civil service in particular) the difference will start with meetings. Rather than just saying that a meeting will be held online via Teams or Zoom, the invites will come round saying that the meeting is in a certain room, but people can join it online. What will inevitably happen is that the in-room meeting is where all the discussion is, and those joining online are spectating. if you have ambitions and want to be seen participating, you'll need to be there.

Just the kind of thinking that has killed Labour in the past. As recently as 2016, the Tories were in utter crisis after the Brexit referendum. Cameron resigned, leadership election looming, public trust gone - Labour under Corbyn could have really attacked the Tories and made some real progress. They were making inroads in the polls. Instead the centrists within Labour thought the same as you - now is the time to attack the leader! So they formed a circular firing squad. Instead of attacking the Tories, Labour ended up in a months-long leadership challenge attacking themselves. The Tories appointed May and Labour was the party in crisis all summer. I don't think Corbyn really recovered - that was the moment that the public would have given him a hearing and the party destroyed it. Right now is the time for Labour to start saying something positive; a leadership challenge will just kill them.

All the news reports is a six-figure payout, which is a fairly wide range. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58439902 A triple whammy really - compensation payouts, loss of short money and cuts from Unite tied to the compensation.