- Phew. Made it to airport in plenty of time, even if it felt a little hairy. #
- 30p per text?! Might be going quiet. #
- @libdems how many messages on results service? 10s? 1000s? #
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Monthly Archive for April, 2008
- Help track #
- @willhowells same happens here in certain weather conditions. Have to wait til digi switch for stronger signal #
- Weighing suitcases. We’re under our limit between us. "Someone", however has packed too many books and shoes. #
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- @dr_nick Take lots of pics and vids of your new robot hoover! #
- Turning on Wii for first time in months and bowling 158 #
- @miketd want my 7 years out of date Derbyshire media file? #
- @dr_nick has it needed emptying yet? #
- Oh, the internet is so slow today! Argh! #
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From Joe.My.God quoting the NY Times
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population.
But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.
- @willhowells plain mince squished into patties will work, also nice padded with breadcrumbs, herbs, tomato paste, bound together with egg #
- Today is warm enough to fling wide all the windows and doors and let the house breathe a little. #
- oh, un-bloody-believable. Seconds after talking about summer, there’s a thunderclap and giant drops of rain falling. #
- @meryl_f washing all either in conservatory or got tumbled-dry at laundrette yesterday. V eco unfriendly! #
- Clearly God doesn’t want me to leaflet. Or the neighbours to have their bbq #
- Hmmm. Smell of wet tree wafting in through my window really makes me want to go camping. #
- @willhowells Expiry date? Eggs? If they don’t stink when you crack them, they’ll be fine. Unless you wanted poached, which need fresh #
- Lending old laptop with history to P. "This is the workhorse that helped win by-elections in Leicester and Cheadle" #
- This is turning into quite some storm. Lightning, thunder, absolutely hammering it down. #
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- Teasing P about walking out of theatre at half time. As bad as falling asleep av ballet! #
- Heading to laundrette as last resort. Only way I can wash and dry everything before hols. #
- Twitter segment on iPM on Radio 4 just come to an end. #
- Corblimey, even Mapperley Top has a Subway now. #
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- Wondering how I’m going to drive my car home without the arm and leg the service is costing. #
- Getting on a bus to an area paper calls "no go", although it isn’t at all. Prob shouldn’t hum Handel’s Water Music tho. #
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Last night, a link from Alex Wilcock reminded me to look up a speech by Jeremy Browne in which he hammered both the Labour party and the Conservatives, largely about the 10p tax rate. I wrote about it for Lib Dem Voice here – giving some edited highlights and a link to the full speech in Hansard.
But one jibe stuck with me and this afternoon I’ve been checking the figures:
If the Conservatives cannot stand the relative heat of being a smaller Opposition than Michael Foot was able to muster, they are obviously not quite the Government in waiting, as they have come to style themselves in recent weeks.
So I checked on Wikipedia. 1979 general election: 269 Labour MPs; 2005 general election: 198 Tory MPs. David Cameron went on to inherit the 2005 cohort, which he still has, give or take the odd defection; Michael Foot inherited the 269 members from the 1979 election, give or take a few by-elections.
Michael Foot went on to write “the longest suicide note in history”, but still won more MPs in 1983 than the Tories have now – 194 according to Wikipedia.
In fact, the Labour party have not had fewer than 200 MPs since 1935 – the Tories have, however, been under 200 before 1997, in 1945.
Find out here.
I can hear “39 and younger, 15kHz” but not “30 and younger, 16kHz”
- Renewing my car insurance for less than half what it cost last year. Under £200 for the first time! #
- "Taking the ‘not’ out of Nottingham." Hmmm. #
- @jamesgraham he’s from Big Brother and he’s recorded a video about Brian Paddick #
- Interesting. Standing in cinema ticket queue and cinema connects to my phone over bluetooth and tries to install application. #
- Bugger, missed the bit where it said "not Thu" in the listing. #
- Send unfollow brianpaddick to twitter #
- I mean @dr_nick Send unfollow brianpaddick to twitter if you don’t want more updates #
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