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as Keith Best of the Immigration Advisory Service once said, Labour's asylum and immigration policies genuinely seemed to be designed to appeal to Daily Express readers. sorry, i just thought of that old quote w what Cracker said about back of fag packet tabloid courting...

hucks otm. i repeat myself when i note Lane Kenworthy saying that

btw T, dunno what you are on about! next, you will be trying to imply that i have a problem w the nutty group of provocateurs that cluster around Frank Furedi, such as Claire Fox, Hume, O'Neill, Patrick West, that lot :p

otm.

Tory 'headbangers' or not aside, hey, at least i see that ex-investment banker David Laws - rightly criticised even by his own colleague Chris Huhne for favouring health social insurance schemes that (as Huhne pointed out) invariably exclude some of the poorest sections of society - is chief...

i honestly don't know sloane. as you saw from my post upthread, i don't like it any more than anyone else, and feel very sorry for people who wanted to vote but were not able to. it's business as usual. (w the emphasis here being on the word business.) there's a committee that will 'look into...

at least two of my mates worked 12 hour shifts on election day. they managed to vote. stations were open 7a-10p (well, in theory at least). a, say, 14 hour shift would be problematic, granted, but you can apply for a postal vote beforehand, as people obviously know shift patterns in advance...

is Barack Obama the American Nick Clegg? etc

i'm just grateful that instead of that Home Counties posho Prescott w his suspiciously smooth, blue-chip lobbying background & elite education, we finally have in Nick Clegg a decent working class Deputy PM w a solid trades union background who can reach out to the people of Wales, Scotland...

i am surprised that a party who have joined up w the Tories across eighteen councils - even where Lab has been the biggest party - in order to take over, and then merrily push through the Tory agenda, w out any ameliorating influence to soften Tory blows, would join them nationally, especially...

also re T's Oxford GK concerns, i hear you on the 'a city the size of Oxford'. i mean, Norwich is in East Anglia, and yet is the best beer city in the UK. (though i'm sure you get plenty of GK houses there, been a while since i've been so i forget. granted, they are presumably offset by all the...

you lot need to come up to Mcr :cool: we have four established large family brewers (the most of any city in the UK) and around a further 20 micro breweries of varying size (from ones like Phoenix who get their beer out regularly to hundreds of regional pubs and can be found further afield if...

i know it's hard to mess up this typically French dish so perhaps not saying much T but i was genuinely overjoyed w my toulouse sausage, puy lentils i had in a Manc Rouge not so long ago, so i would join you here. also they always manage to not mess up the creme brulees.

now that i think on Leo's query, heard a good report about Goya near Pimlico tube from a foodie mate (that's central, v near Westminster). decent Spanish restaurant, then i checked out the restaurant website and well, it's clearly not overly swanky, to be fair i suppose if you're both...

i could have told you that on election night ;)

have to second Droid on Killarney if you are on the rural walks southwest/west tip. Kilkenny is a fine trip from say Dublin also, yes, agreed. Derry or Belfast top city breaks, Galway gorgeous. Belfast to Derry on the train about £9 one way when i was last there, and it is a fine train trip...

well said. anyone been on the Sheffield or Croydon ones? the Tyne and Wear underground train system is good i think, out to the coast, inner Nwc, down to Sunderland. the Mcr one ended up w the council having to use compulsory purchase orders (pretty sure Mcr council is a leader in this...

i saw an interview from Parliament Square w Jnr the other day and he really impressed me. i don't mind Snr but he's definitely more patrician. (good start of a salt-and-pepper vibe w that white streak he's got at the front of his hair, too.) Jack Dromey's a bit feisty, eh?! saw an interview...

i bet a browse of the hotels page at Time Out might throw up some hints (i've already seen some nice ones just now, esp in the Boutique Hotels bit). sorry not a London hotels man myself (other than the cheapest chains) but just wanted to say re eating out you might also want to re-up this...