ice-is-forming
I was born naked, shameless & fucking outrageous..
lol. He appreciated my critical thinking and debating skills 
I joined the Labour Party...
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taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Good for Prescott laying into Warner in this piece from last year
"Lord Warner, a career civil servant, was actively involved in advising private healthcare firms who have lucrative contracts in the NHS.
Last year he was the only Labour peer to vote with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on proposed NHS regulations to allow companies to bid for almost all health services.
When he was called before a parliamentary select committee to discuss his lobbying as a peer for private healthcare, he said: “The point I’m trying to make is that we do not have constituents. There is not a group of people who have voted for us... We are not elected to represent a particular geographical area and we are not paid a salary.”
But he was nominated by Labour to be one of its peers.
Warner admitted he does not represent the people. Instead he speaks up for the private healthcare industry through his private consultancy firm Sage Advice Ltd"
NHS will charge a fee over my dead body - whatever 'Labour' traitors and private healthcare vultures might think
"Lord Warner, a career civil servant, was actively involved in advising private healthcare firms who have lucrative contracts in the NHS.
Last year he was the only Labour peer to vote with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on proposed NHS regulations to allow companies to bid for almost all health services.
When he was called before a parliamentary select committee to discuss his lobbying as a peer for private healthcare, he said: “The point I’m trying to make is that we do not have constituents. There is not a group of people who have voted for us... We are not elected to represent a particular geographical area and we are not paid a salary.”
But he was nominated by Labour to be one of its peers.
Warner admitted he does not represent the people. Instead he speaks up for the private healthcare industry through his private consultancy firm Sage Advice Ltd"
NHS will charge a fee over my dead body - whatever 'Labour' traitors and private healthcare vultures might think
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
With the hundreds/thousands figure I was thinking of town councils and so on too (there are 9000 town and parish councils). Apparently there are 433 'principle authorities', of which Labour control 35%. Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaI know what you mean.
Although not sure there are hundreds of labour councils. Even assuming all the blairites went along with it, they would probably not get this through in those councils where labour is a minority / 'no overall control' administration relying on support from smaller parties.
And quite a few labour councils did stand up to the thatcher government, and the tories used it as justification for stripping even more powers from councils, and peddling the line that labour couldn't be trusted to run things, which to a large extent, the public bought.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
I went to my first local branch meeting tonight and it was remarkably similar to this. Just over half new members or recent rejoiners including a group of really enthusiastic twentysomethings. And existing members overjoyed to see so many people. Then the meeting dominated by fairly pointless reports from parish and district councillors and a bit of a turf war between them. There was a sense from the newer members that this isn't entirely what we've signed up for... but early days in terms of changing the agenda. Really friendly and welcoming... but a bit frustrating and bureaucratic. It felt part social club, part rusty machinery for winning elections, with not much space left for actual politics.
I might go along to the constituency meeting and see what that's like as it's on an all-members basis here rather than delegates. At the moment I feel like an observer of a strange new world rather than a party member but perhaps I will be assimilated in due course.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
did you get taken to the bar?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Th
She took us to a Kurdish reception who were great people. Lots of beer and please do take a beer with you sort of thing.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
no eric joyce offering people out? parliament is not what it was
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no one shooting the prime minister in the grand lobby either - it's terrible to see how parliament's declined
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
surely that cellar was destroyed when they rebuilt the palace of westminster after some victorian bellend managed to a) destroy 600 years worth of fascinating financial records by burning them
and b) burn the whole gaff down
JimW
支那暗杀团
Stick that in your pipe rolls.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Fucking scum and vermin tory cunts:
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
pixels, i'm afraid
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
erg, its horrible to see him taking it seriously, no fucker else does. God bless him for giving it a try but its just a wast of time all round.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
tony.c
Well-Known Member
Yes, my niece reposted that to me on FB. Turns out it was a spoof on twitter. My apologies. Feel free to unlike that post.
The BBC felt the need to deny they added this subtitle to PMQs yesterday
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
If that's all you can see then it's more than glasses you need, be they 'bent to fuck' or otherwise.
Louis MacNeice
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
60k a year before they have touched expenses and the cunts can't even stop the yaar booing for long enough to make PMQs look a bit less like a fucking charade. You can't even pay the cunts to pretend to take us seriously.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
ah where is Jack Ketch in our hour of need? Him and merlin are sorely needed
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I note tom watsons upgraded his symbol of love for all that is decent into the big version after I critiscised his tiny enamel pin one on here last week. With his hipster glasses, the cunt.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
tom watson's librarian alter ego?
teqniq
DisMembered
Pickman's model are you saying my suggestion is too flippant or not Baroque enough? 
In all honesty though tbh I'm thinking it's only a question of time before some desperate soul decides they've had enough and opts for something along those lines.
I know there's the stoicism and 'we don't do that sort of thing' here in the UK, but still....
In all honesty though tbh I'm thinking it's only a question of time before some desperate soul decides they've had enough and opts for something along those lines.
I know there's the stoicism and 'we don't do that sort of thing' here in the UK, but still....
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
neither too flippant nor not baroque enough but too quick and not sufficiently painful.Pickman's model are you saying my suggestion is too flippant or not Baroque enough?
In all honesty though tbh I'm thinking it's only a question of time before some desperate soul decides they've had enough and opts for something along those lines.
I know there's the stoicism and 'we don't do that sort of thing' here in the UK, but still....
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