Election coverage

It was your link djen, on the pc the top was covered by an advert which I couldn't get rid of and on the tab I just got a lego block (but then the tab is weird). I could try chrome as we have that although I dislike it. I am always reluctant to download anything else as the pc is very old and very slow.

Would we use it? I don't think so.

durhamjen
Can you explain why EM agreeing to get rid of Trident would make such a massive difference to how you might vote?
Shouldn't we retain a nuclear deterrent in this increasingly troubled world?

Roseq., Lansdale was a reporter at the Times for ten years before he came to the BBC. Not many socialist reporters at the Times, I wouldn't think.
Or are there?

An excellent article about Ed Miliband and his stance on non-doms.

www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/04/08/non-doms-miliband-has-found-his-voice

Shows the difference between Labour under Blair and Labour now.
If he carries on like this, I might even vote Labour again, although it will not matter, as my Labour MP will get in with or without my vote.

Now if only he'd agree to not replacing Trident.....

Which one roseq? The link to Lilygran?
Someone on the link said he could not see it, and Murphy told him to try a different browser. I use Firefox.

I agree, rose, and I think the idea that most BBC reporters are right-wing is ridiculous. Those at the top are notoriously left-wing, as Jeremy Clarkson said in an interview before he left Newsnight.

If you watch the BBC evening news reports and the ITV ones on the same night, ITV stands out as more impartial.

I can't access that link of djen's, I just get something that looks like a piece of lego and if i tap it nothing happens. It may be this tab.

If someone went to Eton does it necessarily follow that they are Tory (post re Lansdale) ? Many Labourites came from very privileged backgrounds and many Tories from impoverished or humble backgrounds. And surely a good reporter for the BBC or ITV should be impartial whatever his private political thoughts.
Just a thought.

Good idea. Stop digging!

dj herself says it. I am merely repeating it.

ok. I think I will stay off all political threads.
I dont want to derail them or be thought of derailing them as I am not.

Yes Soutra but just like the name in the Harry Potter stories, it should never be said (or written in this case) out loud.

Isn't there a word for that?

It's pretty obvious that one or two are at the moment, but no doubt sanity will prevail eventually...

Sometimes I wonder whether certain threads are being de-railed on purpose.

Unwarranted attack, soontobe , dj and I may not sing from the same hymn sheet all the time, but I respect her right to express her views and appreciate her informed comment. I believe that she would likewise respect my right to express contrary views(=opposite) and we could debate them without getting personal. If someone has gone to the trouble of providing background reading in the way of an appropriate link, I am grateful. Of course you may choose not to read them but how will you ever expand your knowledge and understanding if you do not have an open mind?

That is why I no longer read her links.

What?

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You might even learn that the Conservative party is also referred to as the Tory party, not "Torie" <sigh>

durhamjen and mcem

Either one asks a genuine question and follows up links and informative suggestions, or one continues to promote the image of 'ditsy airhead'.

Is it sensible to protest that posters use expressions and vocabulary that I don't understand when I don't make any effort to look up the meaning of such expressions?

Is it reasonable to expect that intelligent, articulate posters should 'dumb down' to my level when I make no attempt to raise my own level of debate?

Soon, you miss out on a lot of information by deliberately ignoring my links. You could learn so much and might not have to say you do not understand quite so often.
I was actually going to ignore what you said, but thought it would not be very kind of me to miss this opportunity to inform you.

Thank you so much, Ariadne and Lilygran, for saying you read my links.

Just asked my son's partner if she would like to be a non-dom, as she is Danish.
She has lived and worked and paid her taxes here for twenty years. She could have claimed non-dom status, and has never been able to vote in general elections, even though she is allowed to in local elections, because she pays council tax. She's never wanted to be non-dom, although she does get upset at the way some people talk about immigrants. When she says she is an immigrant, some people do not believe her because she does not sound "foreign". That makes it worse.

My other son's partner is Spanish. She was supposed to return from Spain today, but got caught up in the French air traffic control strike. Her father is ill which is why she went home to Spain. Because of the health system in Spain he has private health insurance.
He lives halfway between Valencia and Barcelona. The illness that he has could be treated in a hospital five minutes walk from where they live. However, because of the private health insurance, he has to travel to Valencia, despite the hospital five minutes away being the best hospital in Spain for his condition.
He says we must save the NHS to avoid madness like this.

That's ok rose, apology accepted