Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Polite words fail me and I wonder how long he will remain a councillor.
This idiot tries rather unsuccessfully to explain his ridiculous comment.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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rather a weak response and hardly an apology either.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
bloke should resign over that remark
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
is that Cllr fit for office
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
There is plenty of land in Africa, and if better forms of irrigation and soil preservation were implemented, there would be food abundance there too.
But calling someone a silly old fart on social media is not right either.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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comments were worse than that alexander
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Yet another signal that Cameron wants to stay in EU ?
German election: Angela Merkel's triumph is good news for Britain
David Cameron must seize his moment to reverse the drive towards closer union
David Cameron certainly appreciates the importance of winning Merkel over to his cause: some
estimates say that the number of visits by British ministers to Berlin has quadrupled over the
past two years
The old joke about the European Union was that it had two capitals: Brussels and Berlin. In the
wake of the eurozone crisis, we can replace Brussels with Frankfurt - which is why Germany's
elections were watched with such keen interest in Downing Street.
David Cameron knows that his plan to negotiate a new deal between Britain and Europe depends
almost entirely on Germany's approval. So Angela Merkel's crushing victory will have been a cause
for both celebration and trepidation. The incumbent squashed all opposition, with her CDU/CSU party
winning 41.5 per cent of the vote. This can only be seen as a massive endorsement of her approach
to the eurozone crisis, trading German cash for others' austerity.
Whatever the differences between the CDU and the Tories, Cameron retains a hugely powerful
centre-Right counterpart with whom he can definitely do business. Merkel won't pay any price to keep
the UK in the EU, but she has dropped hints in public and private that she's willing to grant concessions
- including a reduction in the EU's powers - so long as it doesn't mean completely unpicking the
founding treaties. The CSU, the CDU's Bavarian sister party, is also an ally of Cameron's, not least
on issues such as rewriting EU rules about foreigners' access to benefits.
In any coalition, the CDU and CSU will control the chancellery and finance ministry. This is where
most of the de facto power over EU decisions now lies. Put simply: Merkelism will continue to dominate.
Which is why, as one journalist told me yesterday, "Cameron should pop open the champagne."
Courtesy Telegraph.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
The mouse is isolating himself so much
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
Yvette Cooper accuses Tories of borrowing language from 1970s National Front with 'go home'
immigration ads
Shadow Home Secretary also criticises spot checks at stations which were 'based on racial profiling'
Labour Party conference: Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper reveals plan for new 'identity theft' criminal
offence
Theresa May under pressure to scale back crackdown on suspected illegal immigrants amid mounting criticism of
'racist' spot checks
Home Office may have broken the law in 'racist' spot checks on suspected illegal immigrants - and may have
questioned domestic violence victims
Immigration minister welcomes Labour's admission of failure over increase in migrants
David Cameron's Tories are still the 'nasty party', says ex-aide Derek Laud
Yvette Cooper today accused the Government of resorting to "divisive gimmicks" and borrowing the
language of the extreme Right in two controversial schemes this summer against illegal immigration.
The shadow Home Secretary denounced the controversial "ad vans" that urged illegal immigrants to
"go home" or be deported and the spot-checks at London railway stations in districts with large ethnic
minority populations.
She claimed the initiatives proved the Conservatives were once again the "nasty party" and promised
such schemes would not be allowed by a Labour government.
Ms Cooper told the party's conference: "Unlike the Tories, we won't do ad vans sent to the areas with
the highest black and minority ethnic British communities, borrowing the language of the 1970s
National Front.
"Those ad vans were driving past the homes and offices of families whose parents and grandparents
had to endure those same slogans scrawled high in graffiti forty years ago, whose children now run local
businesses, work in hospitals and schools, serve their country in our armed forces."
She said it "really comes to something" when even Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence
Party, protested that the Home Office had gone too far.
Full story Independent.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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whilst i agree that the vans were over the top there is a serious problem that has to be addressed.
as for "spot checks" all of us are subject to them at airports, ferry ports, even on trains and buses to ensure we have paid.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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overstretching correlation somewhat ?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Yvette Cooper really irritates me, she is one of those politicians that immediately makes me turn over from whatever programme she is on.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
mrs b*lls is a prime example of an out of touch politician, loves to hold forth but totally incapable of listening to and understanding the people.
most recently she spouted that her party had got it wrong on the open door policy but nothing to do with jobs, housing and pressure on public services, just that it had not been explained to us properly.
in other words her and her ilk are clever and the rest of us thick.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Desperate stuff from Mrs Balls. If you are looking for illegals you won't find them in Carshalton or Sunningdale.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
I find her OK even though im not voting
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i hope that doesn't mean you will be sitting on the fence keith.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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don't do sitting on the fence
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940