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Seems to be a few here that have also swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

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You're right. What are the odds on an August / September snap election I wonder ?

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That's good news. Some more detail here: https://www.ft.com/content/cdf4235e-...7-15af748b60d0

Unlikely now. There was thinking in the immediate aftermath of the election that it might happen but the government is stable for now, plus they're running out of time to call it. I think you need 4 weeks notice as least?

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Evidently JC is so upset about Tory NHS parking charges that he reckons he'd scrap them. Typically, he's not quite so keen to explain why his party introduced them in Wales and seems to have no plans to change that. It appears he's deleted a tweet on the subject :

https://order-order.com/2017/07/19/c...run-welsh-nhs/

Embarrassed maybe?

They believe what they want to hear. Twas ever thus.

I dare say all those left leaning BBC millionaires must swing the rich v poor balance the other way a little however... :D

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Vince Cable is to succeed Tim Farron as Lib Dem leader.

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as far as i'm concerned they're still tainted by the homophobe farron , that stink won't wash off that easily .

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The latest in a long line of non-entity Lib Dem leaders. He's also got form for suspending any form of good judgement when confronted by pretty female journalists posing as constituents.

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Bit bland although he was one of the few who warned about the oncoming crash in 2008

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I was warning about it before 2008. ;) It wasn't rocket science that a big bust was on the way.

Anyway just in case anyone was tempted to think that Diane Abbott might have, at long last, got a grasp of basic figures pertaining to her brief we have this:

https://order-order.com/2017/07/20/d...numbers-gaffe/

Utterly inept.

Can anyone seriously imagine her as home secretary? :spin:

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No l certainly cannot but this one ain't much cop either as crime figures soar....:(

http://news.sky.com/story/police-num...ecade-10955205

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...or-theresa-may

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Load of ball projected here I would say. The S... will hit the fan in a couple of years. So sorry for the people having to get a state pension at 68, mine is 66.

Live long and prosper.

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10% seems an awfully high jump in a year! :erm:

It's anecdotal but the moped thefts (people on the moped's stealing) seems to be reaching crisis levels in London over the last 2-3 years. Now acid attacks.

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Was the current home secretary in that position for the whole of period referred to in those figures?

If not then the deflection fails. ;)

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No deflection my dear Julian ;) but she is the current incumbent of the Home Office and if she ain't up to the job as they say then she has to move along now as the current crime figures are unacceptable unless you think otherwise? as the cuts have gone way too far now IMO.

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In order to judge these figures we need to understand whether, for example, there's been additional reporting of crimes that were hitherto not reported for whatever reason. A great deal of effort has gone into encouraging people to report hate crimes, for example, and given the terrorist attacks we've seen in the last year or so it's not entirely surprising that there'd be a surge in reports of reprisal attacks in whatever form they've taken whether verbal abuse or serious physical assault.

As for the acid and other moped attacks, IIRC the lads arrested recently were held in relation to 5 or 6 attacks that happened in once evening. These crimes whether attempted or successfully completed are easy to commit in large numbers and it wouldn't surprise me at all to discover that there's a very few people actually responsible for a vast number of them. Have there been any acid attacks since the young men were arrested? I haven't heard of any being reported.