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Brokenbottleboy: Some messages slightly reordered to preserve thread of conversation.
KGM: [Channel 4 News Presenter]: So wants to be a Tory MP? [in response to Cameron opening the Tory candidate list]
LB: [Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Corby]: Many more people than want to be a Labour MP. Even though whatever their expense claims they never get sacked.
KGM: There are awful inconsistencies on all sides. what's the difference between gove and viggers? Or Hoon and Blears? ...or Kirkbride and Mackay for that matter....I still don't get why she's been treated differently by David Cameron....do you? Are you really suggesting she was right to have both her homes paid by the taxpayer?
LB: Sure! She has a legit 2nd home in her constituency, lives in London. What frivolous claims does [Michael] Gove have?
KGM: Michael was ordered to repay the furniture bill, so it was judged by [David Cameron] as wrong. Why is that any different to Viggers?
LB: Meanwhile... Labour MPs have actually claimed for phantom mortgages and still have the whip. Cam's acting & he's the only one.[Michael Gove was] ordered to repay furniture, which may have been claimed in good faith, and claiming for frivolity like duck house is different.
KGM: No I agree with you on Labour action appearing slow to many people...alhto they argue there's a process to go thru . Not sure many outside see it that way. I'd be very careful about trying to claim high ground. All sides look pretty bad.
LB: high ground vs any ground. Brown has done precisely zero to any MP. I oppose Phil Hope and was careful to be measured on ConHome. [Bagshawe attached her opponent Labour's Phil Hope over his expenses claims in a blog the Conservative Home website.] And actually... Recent polls measured opinion Cam's response vs GB, see PB.com. DC was miles ahead on response to scandal.
KGM: Both leaders have disciplined some (morley, malik, etc) and let off those close (gove, blears). I'm surprised you seem more proud of the DC response than ashamed of what they were up to to prompt it. And you'll probably beat phil hope anyway on the national swing regardless. So I wouldn't go on about it.
LB: Disciplined how? Forced retirement on pain of whip removal vs. Nebulous, consequence-free "suspension".
KGM: No the suspension is effectively the same as taking whip. and both are very weak. all are allowed to stay til next election.
LB: And dude, it is risible to suggest Mackay wasn't close to leadership, but you know that! [Andrew Mackay was David Cameron's parliamentary aide].
KGM: Yeah but it took a long time for Mackay to finally be sacked...and took til now for DC to say how serious the case is.
LB: He said it was serious when Mackay became first high profile resignation. Meanwhile [Jacqui] Smith remains [Home Secretary]
KGM: How do you think J Smith compares to Mackay? Very different allegations.
LB: Smith claimed a room in her sister's place was her main home! I have a lot of time for her personally, but her claim is the more egregious.
KGM: [Individuals like Mackay] could be told to resign straight away but haven't been.
LB: It needed investigation. Unlike Labour's, the result has been swift and decisive. No Labour MP yet forced to retire...even [Margaret] Moran [who used Parliamentary expenses to pay for dry rot in a second home located in Southampton - she is MP for Luton South].
KGM: There's nothing to investigate - he admitted it all on day one. What about [David] chaytor? [Labour MP suspended from the party for claiming expenses on a mortgage he'd already paid off]. Morley and Gibson likely to follow.
LB: Yes but his defence was fees office specifically oked it after he sought advice. [David Cameron's committee] had to rule.
KGM: I'm not sure you get how much politics need s to change now. The game of oneupmanship on expenses is just irritating.
LB: As [Prospective Parliamentary Candidate], I get voter anger first hand to my face. All parties guilty but voters looking to see what response is. [David Cameron] at least acting. Forgive me, but you excused Damian McBride [spin doctor for Gordon Brown forced to resign in the wake of the Smeargate emails] too at the time. Given all are guilty, difference in discipline levels means a lot.
KGM: Maybe we should come and follow you around on the doorsteps sometime. That's an outrageous suggestion. I never excused anything of the sort. I questioned some of your wider accusations - and @Tom_Watson successfully took legal action as I recall. [Tom Watson took legal action against two newspapers who linked him to Damien McBride and Derek Draper's smear campaign emails].
LB: No, you also minimized what mcBride did, arguing he was spad not civ svt etc. Off to give chicken pox ridden kids their tea... Look fwd to your report on c4 tonight, will watch!
KGM: Speak soon.What we said is still on twitter so go back and read it...but you really should be careful about accusations like that.
LB: Yes DM me I am sucking oxygen from all yr followers at this point - will dm you my mobile - later.

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Arming Eritrea- Future Of The Left “Be careful, or we’ll get the world we all...

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“Jim…manages to defy the continuity team and switch...”
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The British Library has overlaid several of its archival...

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“Do I mean by all this that England is a genuine democracy?...”
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There’s one political party that could do very well out of the general sense of...

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A sick game to play: my piece in today's...

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“Lily Allen – Not Fair I think Lily Allen should be careful...”
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Given this week’s idiotic controversy over Stephen Fry’s remarks about MP’s...

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Diabetting...

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Hipsters Ruin Everything $17.50 + $5 for International...

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Can cranking out Mother Sky for German TV channel WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk - the channel that...

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Putting an ultimate summer party...

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“There’s only one way to out groupie Linda Eastman at this point and that’s to get...

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“It’s drowning. It gives you the complete sensation...”
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Yes, I’m juvenile.

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via megpickard: Meg Pickard - whose full fat blog is at Meish.org - made this brilliant animation...

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I used to...

…write stories every day. Then one day, about six months ago, they stopped. It’s as if...

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“It is an important and popular fact that things are not...”
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“I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER… WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I...”
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(How To) Keep Your Husband Happy - The Cosmopolitans. Classic 1980s party punk song that skewers the...

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Little Boots meets Annie Lennox at Later…With Jools...

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From policy wonk to just wonky: the...

In The Loop, Armando Iannucci’s caustic political satire, could not have been released at a...

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Today in Glenn Beck madness: Glenn and cuddly NRA nutjob Wayne LaPierre stoke up the fear among...

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Bradford estate from a Don McCullin photo set at The...

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Little Boots - New In Town NME compared this video to Michael Jackson’s Thriller video but...

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“When it comes to places like China and Afghanistan,...”
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Dirty Projectors w/ Bjork 05.08.09  The beauty of this clip is amplified by the fact that...

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Warburtons provide serving suggestions for the exceptionally...

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Phil Collins’s No Jacket Required re-imagined as a...

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How To Be - Coltrane Motion (from the album Songs About Music) “Phil Spector stepping on a...

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“As for Geordie Greig, well, Etonians have a history of...”
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“A number of people have been arrested for annoying the nation…in a plot called Operation Less...

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1984: The Masterpiece That Killed George...

May 10th

Fuck fashion and its constant desire to co-opt everything....

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#Timesfail: How The Sunday Times missed...

Today’s edition of The Sunday Times magazine features a fairly lengthy discussion of Twitter....

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May 10th

Courtney Love wants to punch Ryan Adams.

May 9th

Fearmonger - new iPhone app combines crime and accident data...

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jaycruz: My Little Corner of the World - Yo La Tengo And if you care to stay in my little...

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“‘Multitasking is a myth,’ Ms. Gallagher said....”
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Quimby The Mouse by Chris Ware for This American Life. It was interesting to see that Ware had...

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there is only one photograph of you and I together barely enough evidence to prove I ever even...

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I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape - The Times (featuring Dan Treacy, of the Television...

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Julia Allison once again hawking Blueprint...

May 8th

Number 6: Where am I?
Number 2: In the Village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number 2: Information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number 2: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.
Number 6: You won't get it.
Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will.

May 8th

This photo is amazing. I’m adding Portmeirion to my...

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Glenn Beck goes gun-ho with Chuck Norris. “We’ve talked about the spending, we’ve had...

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“I don’t follow any musicians on Twitter: I prefer my access...”
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