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Most GPs don't receive a public sector salary though; they're effectively self employed. So how would that work? Maybe we should 'privatise' MPs too...?

IPSA's been disbanded? When did that happen?

#whataboutery klaxon# Would you be using that same line of defence if it had been a nasty Tory at the helm at the time and with the same outcome?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/09/carlsberg-poster-free-beer-billboard

The most amusing aspect of that is John Prescott, the master of car crash interviews, gleefully tweeting about the story without a hint of irony John Prescott @johnprescott If yesterday's Michael Fallon interview was a car crash, Eric Pickles just caused a motorway pile-up #r4today

Maybe they should start playing the ladies in League 2.... http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/portsmouth-ladies-4-southampton-1-in-hampshire-cup-final-2387349.aspx

I have "no problem" with whatever the best policy is for the country's finances, rather than what is the best election point scoring policy. The jury is out for me as there appears to be supporting (and conflicting) evidence on both sides of the coin on this one.

The nasty Tories are talking about adjusting existing rail fare regulation whereas Labour were talking about a whole new tier of regulation for the energy industry. The main political point scoring against Labour's energy freeze policy was that it didn't take into account fluctuating prices - i.e. prices go down as well as up - but, of course, labour backtracked on that one and decided retrospectively that it was a cap not a freeze. P.s. the "big society" is in reference to the volunteering initiative, not the train fare policy.

http://www.adamsmith.org/news/press-release-political-move-to-scrap-non-doms-ignores-all-the-evidence-new-paper-argues/

I tend to agree with pap on this one....rioters are more likely to riot when a Tory government is in power than a Labour government. Pap and I probably disagree on the reasons why that is though... In a similar vein, its no coincidence that the SNP engineered a referendum whilst the nasty Tories were in power...

The point is, that whoever wasn't in power at the time was always bound to 'bang on about it' when they got into power. The nasty Tories and their supporters don't have a monopoly on blaming other parties for all the country's woes.

Depends how many people vote for him. He got signicantly more votes in 2010 than Blair did in 2005 so he had as much right to govern from that perspective. Its the flaws in electoral boundaries that can result in a "failure" to win outright, not the number of people that vote for you, per se.

Has anyone ever said the crash happened "just because of Labour"? If the Tories had been in power at the time, and the same level of crash occurred, you can be sure that those now saying " it wasn't much to do with Labour" would be blaming the Tories with a similar level of rancour to those who are holding Labour to account.

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Fortunately, it was before the days of mobile phones and facebook etc, something for which we can all be thankful

No sign of JRod in the build-up video. I thought he was back doing 'normal' training with the squad now?

I once ended up naked from the waist down in the Doggetts. True story.

#devil's advocate klaxon# Where did the Mirror get the “forcibly manhandled” quote from given it would have been a private conversation between Cohen and Clarkson?

Blimey*, I agree with pap. (*when I say "blimey" I don't actually mean "blind me")

Davis and Gardos back in contention for Saturday. Djuricic out with an ankle injury though.

Not guilty m'lud. I never had a personality to start with.

He wasn't prosecuted because the police/prosecutor decided the evidence wasn't convincing enough to secure a prosecution. Victims can ask for a case to be dropped but they have no right to demand it is. There were plenty of witnesses to the event so the victim declining to give a statement isn't reason alone to drop the case.