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[dholliday]

Smith certainly would have won 1997, there was just a massive surge for change...it's more uncertain if he would have won 2 more elections after that...

I think I agree. My Nana for example was a Thatcher voter but she told me (at the time John Smith was still alive) that she liked him, and for my Nana that normally means she'd have voted for his party. I think quite a few people voted more for the personality & oratory skills of the leader rather than for loyalty towards a party. Probably also why Blair got in and why Miliband couldn't.

 

[Steve0]

Honestly baffles me that a single person is a Tory, let alone how they keep winning elections.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/investigators-probing-how-mum-came-13879057

Investigators are probing how a young mum died in her freezing home after her benefits were stopped because she was too ill to attend a meeting.

Elaine Morrall could not afford to pay for heating so, according to her mum Linda, she switched it off and only turned it back on when her four children came home from school.


The 38-year-old, who had been battling depression and an eating disorder, and had recently been in hospital in intensive care, had wrapped herself in her coat and scarf indoors.

Today, Cheshire Police said they had attended Ms Morrall’s address in Boston Avenue, Runcorn , following reports of a sudden death and found Ms Morrall’s body.

Detectives say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding Ms Morrall’s death, and a file has been prepared for the coroner.

Cheshire coroner’s office said an inquest was yet to be opened.

The ECHO understands the cause of Ms Morrall’s death was not immediately obvious, and more tests and checks will be carried out to establish how she died.

 

[jaycee]

Honestly baffles me that a single person is a Tory, let alone how they keep winning elections.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/investigators-probing-how-mum-came-13879057

Investigators are probing how a young mum died in her freezing home after her benefits were stopped because she was too ill to attend a meeting.

Elaine Morrall could not afford to pay for heating so, according to her mum Linda, she switched it off and only turned it back on when her four children came home from school.


The 38-year-old, who had been battling depression and an eating disorder, and had recently been in hospital in intensive care, had wrapped herself in her coat and scarf indoors.

Today, Cheshire Police said they had attended Ms Morrall’s address in Boston Avenue, Runcorn , following reports of a sudden death and found Ms Morrall’s body.

Detectives say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding Ms Morrall’s death, and a file has been prepared for the coroner.

Cheshire coroner’s office said an inquest was yet to be opened.

The ECHO understands the cause of Ms Morrall’s death was not immediately obvious, and more tests and checks will be carried out to establish how she died.

Around 90 people a month die due to cuts in benefits,the boss of ATOS is paid £44k a week,it costs twice as much to impliment as it saves,plus around 76% of appeals are upheld

 

[orchard]

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Carole Cadwalladr
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Questions, anyone?? Photo surfaces of Boris Johnson with Joseph Mifsud. The "London professor" named in FBI docs who's now gone to ground.. ..and who Boris specifically denied meeting. (H/t to @gavinsblog for top digging.) pic.twitter.com/jJwRsLfs9k
1:24 am - 11 Nov 2017

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By: Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla

 

[summerisle]

Fruity language, but nevertheless the truth.

 

[tsubaki]

Pob has intervened in the debate.

Utter scum.

 

[Eggs]

....shameful how Gove decided to back a public schoolboy snob with a big gob rather than put the record straight on a desperate woman imprisoned abroad. Politics and politicians at its very worst.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think Ronald Reagan once said, the scariest words in the English language are "my name is Boris Johnson and I'm here to help"

 

[orchard]

Police launch two-week weapons surrender in England and Wales

Let's hope the Tories take the hint and turn themselves in.

 

[gonetomorrow]

May ought to fire the both of them if she's got any balls.

 

[Blue 1]

Fruity language, but nevertheless the truth.

Boris Johnson looks like a medicine ball made out of gammon and thrown into a hay bale and Michael Gove looks like a frozen jizzwelly filled with vomit.

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Walken]

I think Ronald Reagan once said, the scariest words in the English language are "my name is Boris Johnson and I'm here to help"

sounds a bit profound for reagan

 

[Eggs]

May ought to fire the both of them if she's got any balls.

...i’m afraid that’s what happens with somebody like Johnson who has been spoon fed and cosseted for his entire life. When things are done for you, you don’t work exceedingly hard to learn the facts, do your homework and read your brief.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

sounds a bit profound for reagan

He was one smart cowboy.