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    Measuring The Tories

    Shame they only got 11 MPs elected then.
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    Measuring The Tories

    Yeah, and Labour, LibDems and Greens all said they would increase borrowing by £90-£100 billion a year for the term of the parliament to pay for their schemes.
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    Wasps downward spiral...

    They lost 75-21 to Worcester in the Premiership Shield, the competition for 2nd XV sides. Can't even be bothered to put a side out for that! As for the end to relegation/promotion, while the current Prem clubs may want Newcastle back in the fold, I doubt very much that they would want a club...
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    Wasps downward spiral...

    Is it Warwickshire Colleges Group??!
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    One name who will you take pleasure

    Any one of the "Change" MPs who jumped ship mid-term (and didn't trigger an immediate by-election). Thankfully ALL of them lost their seats when they stood. Soubry and Umunna best of all!
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    Measuring The Tories

    Don't know if you noticed about three weeks ago it was being reported that some utility companies (SSE and National Grid) had started setting up holding companies offshore, including Switzerland and China, to ensure a Labour government couldn't get their hands on the shares! It's no surprise...
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    Measuring The Tories

    Well, there was that as well! And then the Labour Party had a knee-jerk reaction to Foot's Marxist unpopularity by appointing total jerk Kinnock, who then went and lost even more heavily in 1987, just after the miners' strike! You couldn't make it up!
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    Measuring The Tories

    ... including the unlikeliest of wins in 1983 when Foot was Labour leader. Gerald Kaufman described the Labour manifesto then as "the longest suicide note in history"!
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    Measuring The Tories

    You want a "reduction in food banks"? How is that going to help, exactly? Maybe you mean a reduction in the NEED for people to use food banks, which is admirable, but how would it be achieved? You could argue that an increase in the minimum wage would cure the problem, but that is just as likely...
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    General Election 2019 thread

    I suspect that a great proportion of people rock up in A&E because they have no confidence in getting seen within a day or two by their GP, which desperately needs attention. Both me and the missus have had some health problems this year and last, and have needed to go to A&E by ambulance. The...
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    More Wasps BS?

    The vast majority of Tigers who played for England in the early nineties and beyond (i.e. at the start of the professional era) were home-grown or local - the likes of Rowntree, Cockerill & Garforth in the front row, Neil Back, Dean Richards, Martin Johnson, Ben Kay, Lewis Moody, Austin Healey...
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    More Wasps BS?

    Yeah there were basically three sides in the amateur (pre-90) era that ruled the game: Cov, Tigers and Baaaaath.
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    Phil Parkinson

    Fair to say that Sunderland fans on Twitter don't rate him as a good replacement for Jack Ross. They want him out after 12 games ...
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    Another Stabbing last night

    Maybe he has a stammer ... (old joke alert - fill in the gaps!)
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    Coventry Carpet Shops

    Floors 4 All stock QuickStep laminates as well - really solid light commercial or heavy domestic use (including ballroom dancing, i suspect, given the name!), and a real easy lay ...
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    Coventry Carpet Shops

    Ball park figure: £150,000 (assuming the ball park is the regulation 400 feet by 400 feet, and taking a nominal mid-range carpet price of £9.99 per square yard). Soz!
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    Another Stabbing last night

    FFS, let it go!
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    UK Immigration - The Facts

    I was giving my opinion from having lived in a multicultural England my whole life (55, by the way), not making out it was factual. I wasn't having a go at you, Gaz - just the article.
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    Taskmaster on Dave

    Would he be the David Baddiel/Paul Sinha "intelligent but hopelessly inept" character, i wonder??
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    Taskmaster on Dave

    He's a very odd little squeaky ginger person, isn't he??
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