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95 | 18.63% |
| Dennis Skinner |
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53 | 10.39% |
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9 | 1.76% |
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105 | 20.59% |
| Tony Blair |
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28 | 5.49% |
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193 | 37.84% |
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Pissflaps posted:Are you suggesting an appointed successor rather than one that is voted for by the labour membership? Of course not. I mean a successor as in one who originates from the same wing of the party and has similar views on the important issues. Also, McDonnell has a good policy of forcing people earning over 1m to publish their tax returns. Let's see how much attention it gets!
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jabby posted:Of course not. I mean a successor as in one who originates from the same wing of the party and has similar views on the important issues. Are you talking about a reduction in the number of nominations required?
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Mar 1, 2017 23:11
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jabby posted:Of course not. I mean a successor as in one who originates from the same wing of the party and has similar views on the important issues. guardian doesn't seem to say - why the arbitrary cut off at £1M?
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Mar 1, 2017 23:14
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Pissflaps posted:Are you talking about a reduction in the number of nominations required? As someone who is so interested in the leadership of the Labour party I refuse to believe you're unaware of the proposed rule change needed to enable a leader from the left of the party to succeed Corbyn. Cerv posted:guardian doesn't seem to say - why the arbitrary cut off at £1M? It's an easy figure to understand, and McDonnell does an awesome Dr Evil impression he's been dying to bust out.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:17
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jabby posted:As someone who is so interested in the leadership of the Labour party I refuse to believe you're unaware of the proposed rule change needed to enable a leader from the left of the party to succeed Corbyn. The only rule change I've heard of is the reduction in the percentage of MPs needed to nominate a candidate - are you referring to something else?
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Mar 1, 2017 23:21
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The mother of a friend of my wife was recently judged fit to work at the age of 62 after a lifetime on sickness benefits for mental health issues and chronic epilepsy. Last night my wife's friend found her mother dead on the floor, following an epileptic seizure most likely brought on by stress.
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Mar 2, 2017 00:20
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Whats considered a normal wait to see a GP? I rang earlier today to make an appointment at my surgery and I've been told the next appointment is the 29th - literally 4 weeks away. Is it me or is this a bit long?
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CptAwesome posted:Whats considered a normal wait to see a GP? I rang earlier today to make an appointment at my surgery and I've been told the next appointment is the 29th - literally 4 weeks away. Is it me or is this a bit long? that's insane I usually spend a few days getting up at 8am and ringing the line until its open for a morning consult, but I live in a ridiculously small cachement area
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CptAwesome posted:Whats considered a normal wait to see a GP? I rang earlier today to make an appointment at my surgery and I've been told the next appointment is the 29th - literally 4 weeks away. Is it me or is this a bit long? I was once told to wait three weeks (for travel vaccines) and ended up just going private instead. If it's something like that then I'd seriously consider it regardless of your views on private healthcare, and if it's not then it might be time to think about switching if that's an option, because uhh that's not reasonable. VVVVVVV Eh, it depends. I called to make that vaccination appointment literally the first working morning after I found out I would need it, and was travelling in 19 days while the appointment was 24 days away. I would say that is a bit excessive. You might call it lack of foresight on my part or whatever, but sometimes you just don't know beforehand. Even if it's not technically acute. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Mar 2, 2017 00:39
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CptAwesome posted:Whats considered a normal wait to see a GP? I rang earlier today to make an appointment at my surgery and I've been told the next appointment is the 29th - literally 4 weeks away. Is it me or is this a bit long? Depends what you're going for. Anything acute and thats probably excessive. Reviews of chronic conditions, checkups, vaccinations etc. and it's not a big deal. You clearly have a very busy GP though.
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jabby posted:Also, McDonnell has a good policy of forcing people earning over 1m to publish their tax returns.
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CptAwesome posted:Whats considered a normal wait to see a GP? I rang earlier today to make an appointment at my surgery and I've been told the next appointment is the 29th - literally 4 weeks away. Is it me or is this a bit long? Three weeks at my new surgery, which I raised an eyebrow at. Or you can call at 8am and take pot luck they can find you an appointment on that day.
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jBrereton posted:ok what can we do with this information Not much, people only earn that much through capital gains and that means they have lots of wealth around, which means they have good accountants, which means their tax paying is optimised as gently caress and they most likely abuse lots of loopholes. So you don't get much info out of the actual tax returns.
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Mar 2, 2017 01:03
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Pissflaps posted:The mother of a friend of my wife was recently judged fit to work at the age of 62 after a lifetime on sickness benefits for mental health issues and chronic epilepsy. I'm sorry to hear that, it's a bit inane coming from a guy on the internet but I hope your wife's friend is ok (obviously as much as can be expected in this situation).
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Mar 2, 2017 01:06
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jBrereton posted:ok what can we do with this information *smokes a turd* why would you want information on rich people that can reveal uncomfortable truths about their lives, that's just like 1984
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Mar 2, 2017 01:07
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CptAwesome posted:Whats considered a normal wait to see a GP? I rang earlier today to make an appointment at my surgery and I've been told the next appointment is the 29th - literally 4 weeks away. Is it me or is this a bit long? For a GP, I'd say anything over 2 weeks was abnormal. And they usually reserve a few appointments if you call up when they open, for emergency appointments. So if you've not tried that then give it a go.
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Mar 2, 2017 01:12
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Tesseraction posted:*smokes a turd*
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Guavanaut posted:Is that what the hip young tory councilors are doing nowadays? Oh he's more than just a failed PPC?
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Mar 2, 2017 01:15
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*Pulls away from turd-bong momentarily* That is some gooooood poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2017 01:32
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Tigey posted:Can't wait for tomorrow's Daily Mail headline over the Lords vote. No mention, they do have the Whiteley MI5 story though. The more reliable source of EU outrage has you covered however: 
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Mar 2, 2017 01:39
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Pochoclo posted:Not much, people only earn that much through capital gains
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Mar 2, 2017 01:41
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Mar 2, 2017 01:50
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Disappointing. I saw the front page yesterday and assumed they were towards the end of a Twelve Days of Expressmas thing.
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Weather: sunshine and showers
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Mar 2, 2017 01:58
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Picture a tweet of me holding an express saying weather:rain up on a sunny day with the caption fake news
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Namtab posted:Picture a tweet of me holding an express saying weather:rain up on a sunny day with the caption fake news lol
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jBrereton posted:ok what can we do with this information Individually? Nothing. But it puts huge moral pressure on people to pay their taxes. Public figures will be afraid of the media finding out about their aggressive tax avoidance, company bosses will be afraid of their workers finding out, etc. etc. Considering the complexity of tax laws using moral pressure to force people to pay up is a pretty good idea for no real downside. However as I expected outside of the Guardian article and something in the Belfast Telegraph I can't find any media coverage of this new policy announcement, and I predict Labour MPs aren't going to be shouting it from the rooftops either. jabby fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Jeremy Corbyn Page Liked · 13 hrs · Today, I have written to leaders of European socialist parties to coordinate lobbying, at every level of the EU, for the rights of British citizens abroad and to reaffirm Labour's commitment to the rights of EU residents in the UK. As socialists, we must stand up for the rights of everybody - we must end the uncertainty and stop our fellow citizens being used as bargaining chips. 
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JFairfax posted:Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn, uhh, actually does something kinda good? Still shying away from supporting the amendment in Lords, but at least he does try and put the point across and more importantly at least talks about supra-national cooperation. I mean really he's just echoing the government's line on the topic, but you can't have everything.
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Private Speech posted:Jeremy Corbyn, uhh, actually does something kinda good? Still shying away from supporting the amendment in Lords, but at least he does try and put the point across and more importantly at least talks about supra-national cooperation. ? https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/837013077455429632
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Well I don't read Corbyn's twitter, or much of any twitter for that matter. Going by what he said in the quote posted earlier he's still pretty much repeating what the government said. Which honestly if I believed it wouldn't be all that bad either. But then that's the danger of listening to Tories.
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Private Speech posted:Well I don't read Corbyn's twitter, or much of any twitter for that matter. You weren't clear that Labour supported the amendment? The amendment which was proposed by Labour and no Labour peer voted against? It's almost as if Labour didn't grandstand pointlessly against the bill in the commons because the legislative process wasn't actually over yet. You don't have to be reading his twitter it said in BBC news that it was a Labour amendment.
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Mar 2, 2017 10:01
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The confusion has arisen because while labour may support that amendment and others, their insistence on running a three line whip on the unamended bill indicates that their support for Brexit is greater than their desire for rights for EU citizens. Maybe a bit of grandstanding would help people understand their muddled position because right now they're nothing to anybody.
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Mar 2, 2017 10:04
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Mar 2, 2017 10:06
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Lord of the Llamas posted:You weren't clear that Labour supported the amendment? He's still parroting the Tory line in that statement, the one that was posted in this thread. Now to be clear I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with a quid-pro-quo approach, but equally since EU refuses to negotiate on it separately it means no actual guarantees. I wouldn't put it past Labour to not whip for the amendment if the Tories try to overturn it in commons.
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Mar 2, 2017 10:12
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Jose posted:this is definitely bad news for may that lords doesn't get a mention what involvement did Whitely have with the Unions?
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Mar 2, 2017 10:19
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A vowel, a consonant, a vowel, another vowel, a consonant and a final consonant please Carol.
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They misspelled 'payroll' as 'run' for some reason.
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