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[Flosshilde]

what is editing for if not to edit ?
I've also been told not to delete messages, in which case what is the delete message facility for, I wonder.

I think that editing, in any context, would be used to correct factual error, gramatical error, or to clarify something (or to remove something that the poster, on second thoughts, feels might be offensive). Not to remove one statement & replace it with another saying something completely different. But then I'm just old-fashioned about such things.

[teamsaint]

Harriet Harman got it right "Sitting here in London" just about sums it up for those away from power - more importantly I suspect judging from the you-gov report as report we are yet nearer to a corporatist state

having a close to non existent difference between parties doesn't help.

Maybe if the Bank of England's friends on the labour front benches actually supported workers and their rights, instead of doing everything they can to support the banks and the city, life would improve for ordinary folks.....not that they care, I suppose.

It really is no wonder people voted for Galloway.........

[Paul Sherratt]

>>which buffoon ?

Good point. There are so many. Born to it, I suppose.

[Serial_Apologist]

A toast to the electorate of W Bradford!



(Wasn't Eric Pickles a Big Noise on the council there once?)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Noise Possibly *rse certainly

Pickles was first elected to Bradford Council in 1979.[2] Between 1988 and 1990, he served as leader of the Conservative group on the council. In September 1988 the Conservative Party gained control by using the Conservative mayor's casting vote to become the only inner-city council to be controlled by the Conservatives.

When Bradford Council was hung, Pickles opted to break the agreement that the position of Lord Mayor is rotated between the parties, when he put a Conservative mayor in place again.[3] This effectively gave the Conservatives a majority due to the Lord Mayor's casting vote. To do this, they also broke the tradition that the Lord Mayor kept the status quo.

Whilst at Bradford, Pickles announced a five-year plan to cut the council's budget by £50m, reduce the workforce by a third, privatise services and undertake council departmental restructures, many of which proved controversial.[3] A book, The Pickles Papers by Tony Grogan, was written about this period in Pickles's life.[4]
wicki

[Serial_Apologist]

Noise Possibly *rse certainly

Thanks for that reminder, Calum. No wonder that Tory minion saying to me, "Don't you have a decent chair for him to sit on?"

[MrGongGong]

A toast to the electorate of W Bradford!

[eighthobstruction]

I'm only 10 miles away but can I still have Half apint of Timothy Taylors 'Landlord'....surely if the wind is in the right direction ,I should be able to hear ol'George....

[eighthobstruction]

Noise Possibly *rse certainlyetc etc Pickles stuff

Which is quite possibly why Bradford now has so many many many problems {many many many}

[Lateralthinking1]

For an hour last night, I was much cheered by this outcome. I still am. For the sake of balance, it is only fair to say that he isn't wholly for the good. For a start, I find his love of the lavish a contradiction. There are other picky points which personally I see no point in mentioning again.

I feel that there are many big plus points. The main one for me is the indication once again that with personalities that can appeal to the electorate, the rigid three party system can easily crack. This is fantastic. The sooner we have five or six parties with some significant weight the better. It probably won't ever happen but this win shows that it isn't impossible.

Then, whatever his extremes at times, that feeling that they pale into insignificance compared with a very extreme Government parading as moderate. And, the feeling too that to start to rebalance the scales, it needs at least one voice like his.

He is about the only name that could do it, now that Benn and Skinner are so old and Livingstone has always been more of a fantasist than anything else.

I would like to think that what has happened will help to counter Labour's conservatism. The problem with that one is that many of us have different views as to where Labour are right and wrong. What I hope more than anything else is that they start to find some clear red water between themselves and the huge end of multinational business.

Finally, George knows his history and parliamentary procedure. He has depth in that sense. In the current Parliament, that is a commodity that is sadly lacking. This makes his return particularly welcome.

[MrGongGong]

I find this

Jackie Whiteley (C) 2,746 (8.37%, -22.78%)
Jeanette Sunderland (LD) 1,505 (4.59%, -7.08%)

cheered me up no end !

[teamsaint]

do you think someone should casually mention to dave that they HAVE run out?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/30/david-cameron-motorists-fuel?newsfeed=true

[eighthobstruction]

George Galloway.....snake oil salesman?????.....

[Flosshilde]

10,000 people can't be wrong.

[teamsaint]

10,000 people can't be wrong.

I think there is a very decent thread to be had stemming from your assertion........... !!

(actually i think that was the slogan of the guys down at Spire FM, but I could be wrong !)