rendelharris

Jenny1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > > It's like you going to Pub to buy a pint. The > pint > > costs ?4.00 and you only have ?3.95 so a mate > > gives you 5p > > > > Is he entitled to a sip. ? > > > > Foxy > > Trouble is I think the DUP might be the kind of > mate who says 'A miss is as good as a mile. > Without that 5p you'd have no pint at all. I'm > entitled to half.' Nailed it!

The DUP oppose LGBT rights, gay marriage and abortion, they're climate change deniers, recently implicated in a massive financial scandal and have historically had very close ties with loyalist paramilitaries and the far right. If May sits down to sup with them she'd better have a long spoon.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > In a couple of hours time, Teresa May will go > to > > Buckingham Palace to seek permission > > from The Queen to form a Government. Can The > > Queen refuse her. Has that ever happened ? > > > > DulwichFox > > No and no. The only time there was a difficult > decision to make was when Macmillan was ousted in > 1963 in mid-term. The Queen (and her advisors) > made it clear that she'd wait until a convincing > leader emerged from the Tory infighting. > Eventually Alec Douglas-Home told her that he > could form a cabinet and gain the confidence of > the Commons. If it had been left to the vote of > Tory MPs from the moment Macmillan resigned, Rab > Butler might well have won and become PM. Don't know about that first "no" - technically the Queen has the right to do all sorts of things, including suspend Parliament and refuse assent to bills. In this case, she has the right to appoint the Prime Minister and there's nothing in statute to stop her offering the post to Corbyn if she wanted to. Of course in practice it'd probably be the end of the monarchy - the last monarch to try that level of interference was Charles I, and it didn't work out so well for him.

Forgot about that (the fixed term act), good point.

Amusing that the party which set itself up as being the stable alternative to chaos has twice in a year gambled on an unnecessary poll and had it blow up in their faces. Suspect no second election in the near future, but can't see May hanging on for long with Boris and others licking their chops on the sidelines (which is why no second election, May is an absolute lame duck but any new leader would want time to consolidate and to let any charges of disloyalty fade). But the only predictable thing about the future these days is that it's unpredictable!

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't look at the Daily Heil these days, can > anyone report on how the frothingatthemouthometer > is looking just now?... Current headline "MAY MELTDOWN?" Looks like even they're getting worried...

I like your thinking squire! We shall see. The bookies this morning had Boris as the clear favourite for next Tory leader, which surely would lead them into a world of pain...

I just opened a celebratory bottle...then saw the 2015 exit poll which said Tories would be 10 short of a majority when in fact they got 22 more than predicted. Oh well, the bottle's open now...

Don't say it...despair I can cope with, hope'll kick you in the nethers every time...

clockworkorange Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > REceived a 'too good to be true' offer through my > door. The company is called SellQuick and the > offer is to buy my flat which is currently for > sale and has been for a number of months. > > Is this a scam? > > Anybody heard of these guys? > > Feels a bit like webuyanycar.com ie they'll buy > for knock off price. > > Any experience be good to hear. > > Thank you Looked into some of these when we were selling eighteen months ago and were trying to hold a chain together - as you correctly surmise, they're exactly like webuyanycar etc - rip off merchants. They'll give you about 60% of market value - they're basically there to rip off the desperate and the ignorant, not good people.

Yep usual but it was very slow just after it came back on...

Well someone had to...

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't know if I might miss Trump when he is > gone. > > I'm quite enjoying watching him go insane. Know what you mean but I'd sooner watch him go insane a little further away from the button - terrifying interview on PM last year with the guy who co-wrote The Art of the Deal with him, "Trump would be quite capable of starting a nuclear war just because he thought he wasn't being shown enough respect."

Recorded message 19.15 saying it'd be fixed by 22.25, came back on five minutes later! (Copleston)

Keeping an eye on the live feed of the Comey hearing...no definite evidence of wrongdoing as yet (plenty of circumstantial, much seems to hinge on whether saying "I hope you can drop the investigation" was the expression of a personal hope or a veiled order) - pretty extraordinary statement from Comey though that although he never kept notes of his meetings with Obama or Bush he did with Trump because "I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting."

One Who Does Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Every prime minister has to receive security > briefings of the most secret nature and this > presents a major issue should JC ever get to No10. Although the PM is subject to the OSA, as an MP s/he is not subject to vetting. Also under the Intelligence Services Act the security agencies are legally obliged to disclose all relevant information to the PM and would be in breach of the law if they didn't. The idea that the security agencies would refuse to disclose information to Corbyn as PM is as far fetched as...well, as Corbyn being PM, unfortunately.

Blanche Cameron Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > William Stanlake VC was buried in a public grave, > only recently rediscovered and a headstone put up > for him - by the Victoria Cross society not by > Southwark Council who would have dug him up > without even looking. Looking online at the Coldstream Guards message board and others, it appears that Stanlake's grave was in the middle of the very areas of tangled undergrowth you want to save, so how could anyone have known it was there or gone to pay their respects? It seems that as with so many things you swing through 180 degrees depending on which argument suits your cause, it really doesn't help your credibility.

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, it is illegal. > > Thanks for the clarification Mr Barber. There are all manner of things that are illegal but permitted by custom - I believe it's still technically illegal to drive over the pavement to enter one's driveway, isn't it? Some people have even suggested that technically prams and pushchairs are illegal on the pavement as they are wheeled vehicles...sometimes the police and other authorities are permitted to employ a little common sense as to the application of the law. JoeLeg puts his finger on it - properly and closely supervised, small children cycling on the pavement do no harm. The idea that a six-year-old should cycle in the road is absurd, until they can see over, and be seen over, obstacles such as parked cars it's madness.

I have, frequently. I've also walked down Whitehall, around Trafalgar Square, through Bank etc at that time where there are just as many targets. I'm not trying to complain about efforts to keep us safe, I'm just saying I think any psychopath will simply go elsewhere and you can't wall off all of London's busy pavements.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread is really distasteful Yep, and well done Sue for posting that article. No great fan (of Abbott, not Sue!) for many reasons - hypocrisy over private schooling, unnecessarily inflammatory stances on many issues, excuses for missing challenging votes etc - but there's clearly something now wrong with her either mentally or physically and the clusterfuck bullying has been pretty ugly. I do think Corbyn should have noticed this and sidelined her earlier. But you know, I'm sure we've all seen or been on the end of bullying in the workplace and know how just one person can reduce another to the edge of a nervous breakdown or beyond, getting daily abuse from thousands, of the vilest nature, like that...can't imagine it.

Green Goose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rendelharris Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > For your information, Mr.Goose, divertissement, > > while obviously derived from the French as is > so > > much of our language, is listed in the Oxford > > English Dictionary as an English word with its > > first recorded usage as such noted as 1719. > > Therefore only an ignoramus would think that it > > should be italicized or placed in inverted > > comments . > > RH, had you used it in the context of music it > would have been appropriate but your actual words > were... > > Quote "dealing with you is anything other than a > minor divertissment in my teabreak" > Unquote > > Like JayW, you were just showing off. Nope, wrong again, the meaning is recorded in the OED as "A minor entertainment or diversion." It does have another meaning specific to music, of a short ballet irrelevant to the plot, but that was not the sense in which I was employing it. I know you want to have Muslims tattooed then deported, but you do not, as yet, have the right to police how people choose to use language.

I must say (sorry a bit off topic) that I can't really see the point of them anyway - the last two outrages have taken place partially on bridges so we must protect the pavements on bridges...there are many other areas of London with large vulnerable crowds, unless it's planned to barrier all pavements in the centre of town it has a whiff of stable door and bolted horse to me.

For your information, Mr.Goose, divertissement, while obviously derived from the French as is so much of our language, is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as an English word with its first recorded usage as such noted as 1719. Therefore only an ignoramus would think that it should be italicized or placed in inverted comments [sic]. I'm sorry if you don't like these here foreign words coming over and invading our language, perhaps you could have them tattooed on their forearms and sent elsewhere?

By the magic of the internet Mal, looks like it was probably the Wycombe Hospital Cup (Dulwich and Wycombe didn't meet in the FA cup that season) and Wycombe won 2-1: http://www.chairboys.co.uk/results/54_55.htm Love the sound of a "football special"!

robbin, I don't deny that I was not and still am not a fan of Corbyn, for various reasons. I haven't changed my opinion and had May not called this ridiculous opportunist election (to get a mandate for Brexit, which seems to have barely been mentioned) I would have been very happy for him to be deposed before the scheduled 2020 election. However, as he's the one representing Labour I will support him, as I support the manifesto and truly believe more Tory government will destroy many of the things I care most deeply about. Even had I previously been so agin him that I was not going to vote Labour just because of him, people are allowed to change their minds. I was wavering between three parties until recently, now I've made my decision, that's not a U-turn, that's just thinking and making an informed choice, which is sort of the point of the whole shebang.