L.B.C. got few good Rottweilers... James O'Brien worry about him, when he ducks down behind the mike think he's on the snort. Then there's ...... Total Recall
I'm surprised that any politician agrees to appear on The Andrew Neil Show as he absolutely ties them in knots,if they think they can get a lie or a distortion of fact past him they soon find out that's not a very wise move.
Most of the papers continue to focus on developments in the election campaign. The Guardian says a call by the leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, to curb free movement, has infuriated Labour party activists who've been campaigning for a pro-migration stance. Mr McCluskey - a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn - suggests the shadow cabinet should not upset Labour's carefully crafted Brexit position. The Guardian says Mr Corbyn has not been drawn into the argument, saying the issue would be discussed at the weekend. Boris Johnson is pictured in several papers visiting the flood-hit areas of South Yorkshire, where he faced criticism from local residents. The Daily Mirror and the Sun adopt the same headline to describe his uncomfortable visit: "Sandbagged". The Daily Telegraph uses a striking aerial image taken by a drone showing the extent of the flooding in Lincolnshire where a road disappears into a a muddy sea.
The Financial Times pictures the Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, on its front page in yellow boxing gloves. It calls her "hard-hitting" as she once again ruled out a parliamentary pact with Labour. The Daily Telegraph says the Conservatives offered Nigel Farage an electoral pact but talks broke down. Under the deal, the paper says the Tories would have carried out minimal campaigning in 40 key Labour-held marginal constituencies to give an advantage to Brexit Party candidates. But Mr Farage wanted the Tories to withdraw completely from the seats. Several papers, including the Sun, report that one in four unauthorised migrants in the EU are thought to be living in the UK. Research by the American think-tank, Pew Research Center, suggests there could be up to 1.2 million migrants - many of whom have overstayed their visas or are failed asylum seekers. The Times suggest that more than half are from the Asia Pacific region.
The Financial Times warns on its front page that some of the UK's most popular health websites are sharing people's sensitive data with dozens of global companies, which target adverts. The FT suggests symptoms put into WebMD's checker were shared with Facebook; ovulation cycle data from BabyCenter ended up with Amazon Marketplace, and that most data went to Google's advertising arm, Double-Click. The companies denied any wrongdoing. Google insisted no information was used for personalised adverts; Amazon that it wasn't used for advertising. Facebook said it would investigate, saying such a practice would violate its rules.
And finally, the real life James Bond may enjoy a drink, but it will be in a bar in the headquarters of MI6 in central London, rather than a tropical beach hotel, according to the Daily Telegraph. The head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Alex Younger, explains that spies need to unwind but given that they're not allowed to talk even to their closest friends about their work, they need a place where they can. Sir Alex tells the paper that the bar is therefore "one of the most exclusive in London". But he doesn't reveal whether the bar adheres to Bond's recipe for the perfect martini.
General election: Nigel Farage rejects '11th-hour pact' in furious swipe at Boris Johnson The cornered Brexit Party leader lashed out - hours before the candidate deadline - following reports the Tories suggested he only target 40 key seats
Furious Nigel Farage today accused Boris Johnson of wanting to lose the election after reports an 11th-hour attempt at a Leave alliance had broken down. The Brexit Party leader accused the Tory leader of wanting to lose as he dismissed the suggestion he could target just 40 key seats on December 12.
Flood victim tells 'little man' Boris Johnson to 'get on his bike' after photo op Angela Causer blasted Prime Minister Boris Johnson for coming to Stainforth in South Yorkshire days after the town was hit by devastating floods he decided were not a national emergency
Anti-Brexit campaigner registers cat to replace the Brexit Party in election in order to secure votes from Conservative candidate in marginal seat.Below are the 2017 results.
Anti-Brexit campaigner registers cat to replace the Brexit Party in election in order to secure votes from Conservative candidate in marginal seat.Below are the 2017 results.
Why won't the government publish the controversial report into Russian influence in British politics? James O'Brien interviewed a series of experts to find out.
The publication of the report from parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee will be held back until after the general election, despite it being ready to go.
Johnson accused of ‘stitch-up’ over claims Brexit Party candidates offered peerages to stand down UK faces legal action for failing to name EU commissioner Johnson abandons bakery visit after protesters gather outside Analysis: We are hounded by Labour’s myth of the 2017 contest Mark Steel Johnson makes May look like an expert campaigner – the Tories are in trouble
'This will almost certainly get worse': Hospital A&E waiting times hit worst level on record 'A source of shame for politicians of all stripes. Our staff are stretched beyond their limit,' leading doctor says
Overall performance by NHS emergency departments has hit its worst ever level with one in four patients at major A&Es waiting longer than four hours to be seen or treated in October, figures show. The data from NHS England showed 83.6 per cent of patients were treated or admitted in four hours across all accident and emergency departments. The national target to see 95 per cent of patients within four hours has not been achieved since July 2015.
More than 720 patients waited over 12 hours for a bed in October, one of the worst performances for the health service as emergency departments saw record levels of attendances.
Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “The worst part of this is that winter is only just beginning. This will almost certainly get worse.”
A week into the campaign and it all seems to be warming up nicely,lies,counter lies,accusations,denials the list goes on.Labour seems to be closing the gap but there's always a **** up just around the corner.Conservatives seem a bit blase about it all,especially after the Brexit party's decision.The UnLibDems are still in cloud cuckoo land.
Nigel Farage’s one man alliance has already fallen apart The eternal question never goes away: who on earth do this lot expect us to vote for?
Your regular reminder that, in just a few weeks time, somebody really will win this election. Will it be Boris Johnson, who was today unable to visit a bakery because too many protestors had gathered outside to tell him to go away? This after spending yesterday quite literally being called an “a**ehole” on the national news, by flood victims for whom the prime minister’s presence in their town proved about as welcome as the Grayling in their living room.
(Seriously, it’s the most common species in the now burst River Don. I don’t write this stuff.) Will it be Jeremy Corbyn? He was heckled in Dundee by an almost performatively inarticulate Scottish nationalist, who was demanding a second referendum on Scottish independence that he seems to think Corbyn won’t give but Boris Johnson seems to think he will, so you’ll just have to come to your own view on that one.
Will it be Jo Swinson? Her party was announcing some new policies on racism, the announcing being done by Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna, which is understood to be the first announcement either has made all year that wasn’t to announce they were either leaving, forming or joining a new party.
Will it be Nigel Farage? No it won’t. Not least as he’s not standing in almost half the available seats, and isn’t actually standing himself at all. But he was in South Yorkshire, announcing his party’s candidate for Hull West and Hessle, which isn’t actually in South Yorkshire. But then again, neither was Nigel Farage, he was actually in Hull, which isn’t in South Yorkshire, it’s just that he thought he was.
That candidate, naturally, is Michelle Dewberry, first seen on The Apprentice in the mid 2000s. More recently seen on absolutely any politics programme that will have her, having reinvented herself as a kind of northern, working class, female pope. Dewbal infallibility is a real thing. Whatever the issue, however openly she will admit to not understanding it, she can, nevertheless, never be wrong by virtue of her epistemologically bulletproof northernness. The return of the death penalty? The beatification of Donald Trump? Chemical castration for anyone who can’t prove they’re not secretly a paedophile? All these thing are absolutely right and correct and if you disagree, well, that’s the liberal metropolitan elite for you.
Has any single cultural entity bequeathed quite such a legacy to the world as The Apprentice? Inter-war Vienna perhaps? The Oxford Union?
To watch the show now is not merely to wonder at who it will be that accidentally drops an actual dog **** in the artisanal sausage machine, but which of them will wind up doing Nazi salutes in the European Parliament or frog marching your third generation immigrant neighbours on to a transport ship.
Still even Nigel Farage’s current plan, to only run against Labour and Lib Dems, and not the Tories, a policy best understood as the world’s first entirely one-sided alliance, is already coming unstuck.
At 3.59pm, Rupert Lowe, former Southampton Football Club chairman and now former Brexit Party candidate, announced with fully one minute to go that he was officially backing out in Dudley North, to make sure the Conservatives win. This was not how it was meant to be. When you spend weeks begging for an alliance, then end up doing one just with yourself, at least you know that no one can break it, as there's no one in it but you. Except now they have. If the whole thing reeks of a stitch up, that’s because it’s exactly what it is. Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP, the lot, all conniving with one another to contrive for the voters the limited options that suit their needs best.
Brexit has broken everything and broken everything utterly. Whoever wins, everything is already lost.
sneaky glance at the camera ,he conna help himself
He knew what he was doing was wrong,he thought he'd get away with it,he thinks an apology will make things right,he plays football like he does politics...
Ann Widdecombe 'was offered Brexit talks role to stand down as Farage candidate'
Nigel Farage has stepped up his attacks on the Conservative party as it was claimed that senior Brexit party figures – including Ann Widdecombe – had been offered post-election roles or peerages as part of an attempt to get him to stand down more candidates at the general election. Widdecombe, the party’s candidate in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, was told she would be part of the government’s post-election Brexit negotiating team if she stood down, according to senior Brexit party officials. Widdecombe, a former Tory minister, is a Brexit party MEP.
Mike Greene, its candidate in Peterborough, had been offered a government education role, party officials said.
Earlier on Thursday Farage said some offers had come from Boris Johnson’s chief strategic adviser, Sir Edward Lister. In a stinging tweet, he wrote: “The system is corrupt and broken.”
More Even Boris Johnson’s Chief Strategic Adviser Sir Edward Lister is calling our candidates and offering them jobs if they withdraw. The system is corrupt and broken.
The face of Nigel Farage peering out of the window of a crabbing boat in Grimsby appears on the front of the Daily Telegraph. It says the Brexit Party leader has threatened to report the Conservatives to the police - after he accused Downing Street of trying to bribe his election candidates with jobs and peerages if they agreed not to stand. Number 10 has vehemently denied making such offers. The Sun says candidates pulling out of the election is a good thing - if it gives the Tories a clear run in Labour-held marginals. "Some of Mr Farage's people now grasp the monstrous risk he is having them take," the paper argues in its editorial. "They do not want the blame for Labour sneaking through to win a seat they would otherwise have lost." "Betrayed" is the headline on the front of the Daily Mirror, which pictures 99-year-old Brian Fish, who spent 10 hours in pain on an A&E trolley waiting for treatment. The paper says figures released on Thursday - showing hospital performance in England is at its worst level on record - "stand as a damning indictment of nearly 10 years of Tory rule".
The Daily Mail says the figures have come "at the worst possible time" for the Conservatives, but it believes things would deteriorate further if they were removed from power. "Labour's tax, borrow and spend madness would bankrupt the country", it claims in its editorial, "and the NHS along with it".
The author John Le Carré and the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, are among 24 public figures who've written to the Guardian saying they will "refuse" to vote for Labour at the election because of concerns about the way the party has handled allegations of anti-Semitism. In an open letter, they say the pain felt by the Jewish community "has been relegated as an issue, pushed aside by arguments about Britain's European future". In response, Labour says it's an "extraordinary" letter given that some of the other signatories have themselves been accused of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or misogyny. It adds that the party is taking "robust action" to root out anti-Jewish behaviour.
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Most of the papers continue to focus on developments in the election campaign.
The Guardian says a call by the leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, to curb free movement, has infuriated Labour party activists who've been campaigning for a pro-migration stance.
Mr McCluskey - a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn - suggests the shadow cabinet should not upset Labour's carefully crafted Brexit position.
The Guardian says Mr Corbyn has not been drawn into the argument, saying the issue would be discussed at the weekend.
Boris Johnson is pictured in several papers visiting the flood-hit areas of South Yorkshire, where he faced criticism from local residents.
The Daily Mirror and the Sun adopt the same headline to describe his uncomfortable visit: "Sandbagged".
The Daily Telegraph uses a striking aerial image taken by a drone showing the extent of the flooding in Lincolnshire where a road disappears into a a muddy sea.
The Financial Times pictures the Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, on its front page in yellow boxing gloves. It calls her "hard-hitting" as she once again ruled out a parliamentary pact with Labour.
The Daily Telegraph says the Conservatives offered Nigel Farage an electoral pact but talks broke down.
Under the deal, the paper says the Tories would have carried out minimal campaigning in 40 key Labour-held marginal constituencies to give an advantage to Brexit Party candidates.
But Mr Farage wanted the Tories to withdraw completely from the seats.
Several papers, including the Sun, report that one in four unauthorised migrants in the EU are thought to be living in the UK.
Research by the American think-tank, Pew Research Center, suggests there could be up to 1.2 million migrants - many of whom have overstayed their visas or are failed asylum seekers.
The Times suggest that more than half are from the Asia Pacific region.
The Financial Times warns on its front page that some of the UK's most popular health websites are sharing people's sensitive data with dozens of global companies, which target adverts.
The FT suggests symptoms put into WebMD's checker were shared with Facebook; ovulation cycle data from BabyCenter ended up with Amazon Marketplace, and that most data went to Google's advertising arm, Double-Click.
The companies denied any wrongdoing.
Google insisted no information was used for personalised adverts; Amazon that it wasn't used for advertising. Facebook said it would investigate, saying such a practice would violate its rules.
And finally, the real life James Bond may enjoy a drink, but it will be in a bar in the headquarters of MI6 in central London, rather than a tropical beach hotel, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Alex Younger, explains that spies need to unwind but given that they're not allowed to talk even to their closest friends about their work, they need a place where they can.
Sir Alex tells the paper that the bar is therefore "one of the most exclusive in London".
But he doesn't reveal whether the bar adheres to Bond's recipe for the perfect martini.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-50413848
The cornered Brexit Party leader lashed out - hours before the candidate deadline - following reports the Tories suggested he only target 40 key seats
Furious Nigel Farage today accused Boris Johnson of wanting to lose the election after reports an 11th-hour attempt at a Leave alliance had broken down.
The Brexit Party leader accused the Tory leader of wanting to lose as he dismissed the suggestion he could target just 40 key seats on December 12.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/general-election-nigel-farage-rejects-20877849
Angela Causer blasted Prime Minister Boris Johnson for coming to Stainforth in South Yorkshire days after the town was hit by devastating floods he decided were not a national emergency
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/flood-victim-tells-little-man-20876846
Not much from the Limp/Dem camp.!
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/brexit/general-election-2019-nigel-farage-voters-thurrock-essex-brexit-924993
Why won't the government publish the controversial report into Russian influence in British politics? James O'Brien interviewed a series of experts to find out.
The publication of the report from parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee will be held back until after the general election, despite it being ready to go.
Great Interview
UK faces legal action for failing to name EU commissioner
Johnson abandons bakery visit after protesters gather outside
Analysis: We are hounded by Labour’s myth of the 2017 contest
Mark Steel Johnson makes May look like an expert campaigner – the Tories are in trouble
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-brexit-general-election-updates-today-candidates-deadline-a9202446.html
'A source of shame for politicians of all stripes. Our staff are stretched beyond their limit,' leading doctor says
Overall performance by NHS emergency departments has hit its worst ever level with one in four patients at major A&Es waiting longer than four hours to be seen or treated in October, figures show.
The data from NHS England showed 83.6 per cent of patients were treated or admitted in four hours across all accident and emergency departments. The national target to see 95 per cent of patients within four hours has not been achieved since July 2015.
More than 720 patients waited over 12 hours for a bed in October, one of the worst performances for the health service as emergency departments saw record levels of attendances.
Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “The worst part of this is that winter is only just beginning. This will almost certainly get worse.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-waiting-times-election-emergency-accident-hospital-a9202546.html
The eternal question never goes away: who on earth do this lot expect us to vote for?
Your regular reminder that, in just a few weeks time, somebody really will win this election.
Will it be Boris Johnson, who was today unable to visit a bakery because too many protestors had gathered outside to tell him to go away?
This after spending yesterday quite literally being called an “a**ehole” on the national news, by flood victims for whom the prime minister’s presence in their town proved about as welcome as the Grayling in their living room.
(Seriously, it’s the most common species in the now burst River Don. I don’t write this stuff.)
Will it be Jeremy Corbyn? He was heckled in Dundee by an almost performatively inarticulate Scottish nationalist, who was demanding a second referendum on Scottish independence that he seems to think Corbyn won’t give but Boris Johnson seems to think he will, so you’ll just have to come to your own view on that one.
Will it be Jo Swinson? Her party was announcing some new policies on racism, the announcing being done by Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna, which is understood to be the first announcement either has made all year that wasn’t to announce they were either leaving, forming or joining a new party.
Will it be Nigel Farage? No it won’t. Not least as he’s not standing in almost half the available seats, and isn’t actually standing himself at all.
But he was in South Yorkshire, announcing his party’s candidate for Hull West and Hessle, which isn’t actually in South Yorkshire. But then again, neither was Nigel Farage, he was actually in Hull, which isn’t in South Yorkshire, it’s just that he thought he was.
That candidate, naturally, is Michelle Dewberry, first seen on The Apprentice in the mid 2000s. More recently seen on absolutely any politics programme that will have her, having reinvented herself as a kind of northern, working class, female pope. Dewbal infallibility is a real thing. Whatever the issue, however openly she will admit to not understanding it, she can, nevertheless, never be wrong by virtue of her epistemologically bulletproof northernness.
The return of the death penalty? The beatification of Donald Trump? Chemical castration for anyone who can’t prove they’re not secretly a paedophile? All these thing are absolutely right and correct and if you disagree, well, that’s the liberal metropolitan elite for you.
Has any single cultural entity bequeathed quite such a legacy to the world as The Apprentice? Inter-war Vienna perhaps? The Oxford Union?
To watch the show now is not merely to wonder at who it will be that accidentally drops an actual dog **** in the artisanal sausage machine, but which of them will wind up doing Nazi salutes in the European Parliament or frog marching your third generation immigrant neighbours on to a transport ship.
Still even Nigel Farage’s current plan, to only run against Labour and Lib Dems, and not the Tories, a policy best understood as the world’s first entirely one-sided alliance, is already coming unstuck.
At 3.59pm, Rupert Lowe, former Southampton Football Club chairman and now former Brexit Party candidate, announced with fully one minute to go that he was officially backing out in Dudley North, to make sure the Conservatives win.
This was not how it was meant to be. When you spend weeks begging for an alliance, then end up doing one just with yourself, at least you know that no one can break it, as there's no one in it but you. Except now they have.
If the whole thing reeks of a stitch up, that’s because it’s exactly what it is. Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP, the lot, all conniving with one another to contrive for the voters the limited options that suit their needs best.
Brexit has broken everything and broken everything utterly. Whoever wins, everything is already lost.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-brexit-boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn-general-election-latest-heckling-a9203521.html
He did play the ball first.
No card, just a word.
Who is the player on the deck?
Nigel Farage has stepped up his attacks on the Conservative party as it was claimed that senior Brexit party figures – including Ann Widdecombe – had been offered post-election roles or peerages as part of an attempt to get him to stand down more candidates at the general election.
Widdecombe, the party’s candidate in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, was told she would be part of the government’s post-election Brexit negotiating team if she stood down, according to senior Brexit party officials.
Widdecombe, a former Tory minister, is a Brexit party MEP.
Mike Greene, its candidate in Peterborough, had been offered a government education role, party officials said.
Earlier on Thursday Farage said some offers had come from Boris Johnson’s chief strategic adviser, Sir Edward Lister.
In a stinging tweet, he wrote: “The system is corrupt and broken.”
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Even Boris Johnson’s Chief Strategic Adviser Sir Edward Lister is calling our candidates and offering them jobs if they withdraw. The system is corrupt and broken.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/ann-widdecombe-was-offered-brexit-talks-role-to-stand-down-as-farage-candidate/ar-BBWKPwx?ocid=spartandhp
The face of Nigel Farage peering out of the window of a crabbing boat in Grimsby appears on the front of the Daily Telegraph.
It says the Brexit Party leader has threatened to report the Conservatives to the police - after he accused Downing Street of trying to bribe his election candidates with jobs and peerages if they agreed not to stand. Number 10 has vehemently denied making such offers.
The Sun says candidates pulling out of the election is a good thing - if it gives the Tories a clear run in Labour-held marginals.
"Some of Mr Farage's people now grasp the monstrous risk he is having them take," the paper argues in its editorial.
"They do not want the blame for Labour sneaking through to win a seat they would otherwise have lost."
"Betrayed" is the headline on the front of the Daily Mirror, which pictures 99-year-old Brian Fish, who spent 10 hours in pain on an A&E trolley waiting for treatment.
The paper says figures released on Thursday - showing hospital performance in England is at its worst level on record - "stand as a damning indictment of nearly 10 years of Tory rule".
The Daily Mail says the figures have come "at the worst possible time" for the Conservatives, but it believes things would deteriorate further if they were removed from power.
"Labour's tax, borrow and spend madness would bankrupt the country", it claims in its editorial, "and the NHS along with it".
The author John Le Carré and the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, are among 24 public figures who've written to the Guardian saying they will "refuse" to vote for Labour at the election because of concerns about the way the party has handled allegations of anti-Semitism.
In an open letter, they say the pain felt by the Jewish community "has been relegated as an issue, pushed aside by arguments about Britain's European future".
In response, Labour says it's an "extraordinary" letter given that some of the other signatories have themselves been accused of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or misogyny.
It adds that the party is taking "robust action" to root out anti-Jewish behaviour.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-50428224