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This is the same country who have again been elected chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council Panel.
I like the link title wording: 'be head' or behead?
http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2015/ ... cil-panel/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I like the link title wording: 'be head' or behead?
http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2015/ ... cil-panel/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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^^^^ without the faintest sense of irony too.
Just so long as the UNHRC keep on calling Britain out for our appalling Human Rights though then all is OK.
Just so long as the UNHRC keep on calling Britain out for our appalling Human Rights though then all is OK.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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To answer a question BWFC_Insane asked a week or so ago - and I couldn't properly answer...
there is a young rising left-wing "star" being talked about in Labour circles...
Clive Lewis - MP for Norwich South - gained his seat from LibDems this time around - outspoken anti-austerity record, opposed to nukes.. describes himself as a "proud socialist" and is a member of three trade unions (Unite, GMB and the National Union of Journalists). In his victory speech, he declared New Labour to be "dead and buried" and promised to stand up for Norwich’s most vulnerable against an "onslaught of cuts" by the Conservative Party.
according to Wiki..
there is a young rising left-wing "star" being talked about in Labour circles...
Clive Lewis - MP for Norwich South - gained his seat from LibDems this time around - outspoken anti-austerity record, opposed to nukes.. describes himself as a "proud socialist" and is a member of three trade unions (Unite, GMB and the National Union of Journalists). In his victory speech, he declared New Labour to be "dead and buried" and promised to stand up for Norwich’s most vulnerable against an "onslaught of cuts" by the Conservative Party.
according to Wiki..
he ticks quite a few boxes...Before being elected to the House of Commons he was a BBC News TV reporter for more than a decade starting out as a BBC News trainee, eventually becoming the BBC Look East’s chief political reporter. He was also an army reservist infantry officer, serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009. He is an associate governor of Thorpe St Andrew School and was one of the previous Labour Government's National Black Role Models, working with young people across Britain.
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Any chance of posting a bigger photie, I can hardly make that one out?
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sorry!CrazyHorse wrote:Any chance of posting a bigger photie, I can hardly make that one out?
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Korbinov really doesn't want electing, fancy putting a veggie in charge of the farming brigade, one whose opinion of meat eating is it should be treated the same way as smoking!
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Vegan, actually.Hoboh wrote:Korbinov really doesn't want electing, fancy putting a veggie in charge of the farming brigade, one whose opinion of meat eating is it should be treated the same way as smoking!
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ?CMP=fb_gu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"To have [the close of nominations] at 12 o’clock on a Monday – we must have been on fecking crack cocaine. You can’t get to anyone, so people were wandering in after a weekend of spending time with their bloody constituency secretary or their leftwing wife, they just fecking wander off the train and hadn’t even had a cup of tea in the tea room by 12 o’clock on a Monday. They go straight down to the PLP office and do something stupid. The people that are around on a Monday morning are the London lot – and for feck’s sake, it’s the home of the left, it’s all the fecking mayoral candidates and deputy leader candidates.”
Verging towards Tucker there
"To have [the close of nominations] at 12 o’clock on a Monday – we must have been on fecking crack cocaine. You can’t get to anyone, so people were wandering in after a weekend of spending time with their bloody constituency secretary or their leftwing wife, they just fecking wander off the train and hadn’t even had a cup of tea in the tea room by 12 o’clock on a Monday. They go straight down to the PLP office and do something stupid. The people that are around on a Monday morning are the London lot – and for feck’s sake, it’s the home of the left, it’s all the fecking mayoral candidates and deputy leader candidates.”
Verging towards Tucker there
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a propos a recent discussion... a coroner has ruled fairly emphatically on this one, at least...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09 ... 1442835048
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09 ... 1442835048
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John McDonnell won't be simply making it all up on his own... there are some fairly impressive names on this list:
Labour’s new Economic Advisory Committee:
· Mariana Mazzucato, Professor, University of Sussex
· Joseph Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics.
· Thomas Piketty, Professor, Paris School of Economics
· Anastasia Nesvetailova, Professor, City University London
· Danny Blanchflower, Bruce V, Rauner Professor of Economics Dartmouth and Stirling, Ex-member of the MPC
· Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre of City University"
Labour’s new Economic Advisory Committee:
· Mariana Mazzucato, Professor, University of Sussex
· Joseph Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics.
· Thomas Piketty, Professor, Paris School of Economics
· Anastasia Nesvetailova, Professor, City University London
· Danny Blanchflower, Bruce V, Rauner Professor of Economics Dartmouth and Stirling, Ex-member of the MPC
· Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre of City University"
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^^ Have you actually looked that lot up ? The usual suspects. Soviet Russia had plenty of 'experts' to plan & explain how it couldn't go wrong.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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I was hinting at state of mind, actuallyDr Hotdog wrote:Vegan, actually.Hoboh wrote:Korbinov really doesn't want electing, fancy putting a veggie in charge of the farming brigade, one whose opinion of meat eating is it should be treated the same way as smoking!
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Should the person who had the pig butchered be charged with crimes against animals be put on trial or was it still alive Dave?Ahead of UN general assembly, PM stresses view that Syrian dictator has ‘butchered his own people’ and should be prosecuted for war crimes
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bobo the clown wrote:^^ Have you actually looked that lot up ? The usual suspects. Soviet Russia had plenty of 'experts' to plan & explain how it couldn't go wrong.
I didn't need to look most of them up... they are well known!!
have you summat to add about their economics credentials?
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Hoboh wrote:Should the person who had the pig butchered be charged with crimes against animals be put on trial or was it still alive Dave?Ahead of UN general assembly, PM stresses view that Syrian dictator has ‘butchered his own people’ and should be prosecuted for war crimes
even taking into account the fact that you posted it, Hoboh - that's a startlingly crass comparison to make...
poor job!
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Oh don't get me started on that!thebish wrote:Hoboh wrote:Should the person who had the pig butchered be charged with crimes against animals be put on trial or was it still alive Dave?Ahead of UN general assembly, PM stresses view that Syrian dictator has ‘butchered his own people’ and should be prosecuted for war crimes
even taking into account the fact that you posted it, Hoboh - that's a startlingly crass comparison to make...
poor job!
How many people were butchered by Korbinovs bunch under Blair in Iraq?
If Korbinov had any conscience about it surely he would have done more than just vote against, the honourable thing would be to resign!
I'm not saying what Assad did and is doing is right, but for crying out loud coming from the mouth of someone who would be more than happy to drop bombs to prove his manhood takes the mickey some what.
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"Korbinov's bunch under blair in Iraq"??
comparing the butchery of Assad to cameron sticking his cock in a dead pig whilst at some toff-club is just mindlessly crass.. (in my humble opinion! )
comparing the butchery of Assad to cameron sticking his cock in a dead pig whilst at some toff-club is just mindlessly crass.. (in my humble opinion! )
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It is!
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Leading experts in their field? Yes we can't have some people who actually know stuff sticking their oar in, that is a bit dangerous....bobo the clown wrote:^^ Have you actually looked that lot up ? The usual suspects. Soviet Russia had plenty of 'experts' to plan & explain how it couldn't go wrong.
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BWFC_Insane wrote:Leading experts in their field? Yes we can't have some people who actually know stuff sticking their oar in, that is a bit dangerous....bobo the clown wrote:^^ Have you actually looked that lot up ? The usual suspects. Soviet Russia had plenty of 'experts' to plan & explain how it couldn't go wrong.
indeed.. I'd rather trust actual economists with the economy than politicians.
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