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Not the brightest comment I've made, and I agree with you. My experience was, standing, facing the bloke, him telling me about the work, standing a bit too close, and putting his hands on my waist. Nothing genital. Just the absolute feeling that this wasn't at all right. I left as quickly as I could disengage from the conversation. ( And didn't take the job. )

I'm male. No, I don't think it does make a difference. Really, we're all general public.

Actually, I got 'touched up' , as a mid teen, by a middle aged hotel manager when I went looking for summer holiday work. It was a shock. I was still basically a kid. Told my parents. They didn't do anything. However, when MP's are in the bar, they're grown people.... this all seems like rather petty stuff, and somewhat contrived at this particular time.

tbf, Paul Sweeney does sound rather like a poor wee baa lamb..... "mortified" by the incident....., "paralysed" with shock.

They don't. They just rely on people who are struggling, and without much power, to turn on the nearest available target, or each other.

It could be a work email address that the person seldom checks. I mean...., if you're a part timer, on a zero hours contract.... then **ck their emails.

Surely the fault lies with the person who sent the mail.

Through his parliamentary career Corbyn has been the moral conscience of the Labour party. That troubles media types, and career politicians interested in climbing the greasy poles of power, or just using politics as a through route to money. I live in an rural English constituency where Labour has no chance. I'll be voting Green. If I was in Scotland, I'd be voting SNP.

My general impression is that very little real criticism of Israel takes place, because everyone runs scared of being accused of anti-Semitism. Not interested in your whataboutery.... ( other regimes ).

I've lost track. Is there going to be a vote on amendments to allow 16/17 year olds, and settled EU nationals ..... to vote in the GE ?

Just now... "... SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford asks for a "cast iron assurance" from the prime minister that he will not attempt to bring his Withdrawal Agreement Bill, to ratify his Brexit deal, before an election. ... " A 'cast iron assurance' from a repeated, unapologetic, and proven liar ?

Meanwhile, I see the role of the SNP at Westminster as taking a responsible course as members of that parliament. Right now, I don't quite see the rationale behind getting together with Swinson. The LD's have nothing to lose, they are at root a party that betrayed their supporters when they had a sniff of power, they haven't reformed themselves, and they have a tiny handful of MP's. Sturgeon has always been clear that the way forward was to achieve independence the clean way.... can't recall the words..., was it something like the Golden Option. ? Facilitating another Tory government, I don't think that was part of it. Anyway, right now, I don't quite see the rationale.

Just another Grauniad knobhead who could have done with being punted a long time ago. The problem for the Guardian is that they define themsleves as a liberal publication. Yet the LD's are obviously, even to a blind person, a bunch of no account chancers who've clambered on to Brexit/Remain as their only hope of any kind of route to influence. However, the Guardian can't bring itself to support someone like Corbyn, who has actually maintained his democratic principles all the way through. And with policies that a large part of the electorate actually want.

Unconvinced. Letter to Richard Branson

Labour don't actually have to do anything....... other than continue to slowly back the government into a corner.

Well, Max Hastings was Johnsons editor at the Telegraph. He was happy enough then to employ Johnson, and give him plenty of room to write his sh*te.

With May, they created the hostile environment for asylum seekers, then the Windrush thing. Johnson chucking out of the party those who didn't agree with him. The kind of country that these a*seholes would end up creating is actually getting close to one where journalists who disagree with the party line do in fact end up face down in a ditch.

'Scuse me, I'm not going to turn Tory just to make you happy.

Oborne was interviewed about this on Ch 4 news this evening. He managed to name Laura Kuennsburg, and Peston ( as purveyors of the fake news ) before Guru-Murthy was able to interrupt to stop him naming more names.

I don't know how these BBC presenters were brung up. I would have thought that somewhere along the way someone would have taught them how to pronounce Oban. But no..., up popped OhBAAAan the other day. Never mind the contortions they apply to Dalziel. And they only just about manage Menzies, because of a previously quite well known politician.

To me, separatist is a word with rather pejorative overtones..... as in 'wrong thinker'.

Corbyn is the guy that, at least in England, gave it back it's honesty. I wonder how many of the a*seholes who voted with the Tories for health cuts are still MP's.

Given that there always has been the anti-EU gene in the Tory party, a lot of what contributed to the result of the 2016 referendum is the after effects of the 2007/8 financial crash, and the austerity/ideological policies followed thereafter. As in... blame others...., Europe, the immigrants etc, etc. Labour were not innocents in all this. But just about anyone other than the Tory/Brexit party in future government would reduce the pressure for future Brexits.

Political truism..... : Oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them ( by accumulation of what Harold Macmillan referred to as ... "Events, dear boy..." The chalice is Brexit. The Conservatives poured the poison into the chalice. It's for them to drink from it. Not Labour.

More accurately, we're not getting beat....... but others are getting the occasional win, and slowly creeping away . Anyway, one point today, so +