It’s the question on everyone’s lips:
A full 50 days after Dan Hodges lost his bet that UKIP wouldn’t poll above 6%, we still haven’t seen him in his birthday suit.
“I have to fill in a form, and then get synched with a couple of people’s diaries,” Dan protests.
Don’t make Guido dust off his chicken suit…
The People’s Assembly Against Austerity’s spurious claim that 250,000 people attended their protest in London did not stand up to scrutiny when Guido investigated earlier this week. The real number was closer to 25,000.
It turns out this isn’t the first time these lefties have had a problem with numbers. After the 2014 People’s Assembly protest – which was significantly smaller than this year’s event – Owen Jones appeared on the BBC to demand they give more coverage to the “50,000” people on the march:
50,000 was the number press released by the People’s Assembly.
If this year’s event only had 25,000 people attending, how could 50,000 have turned up to last year’s smaller event?
The Socialist Worker report on the 2014 protest has the answer: the real number was much lower than Owen claimed.
“Up to 20,000 people marched against austerity in central London today, Saturday, in a loud and lively protest called by the People’s Assembly.”
More people turn up to watch Sheffield United play Walsall…
If today’s extensive leak is accurate, this is what the PM is seeking from EU leaders as his renegotiation deal:
So, what do Guido readers think?
Read Dave’s demands and decide: would that be enough to win your vote to stay in?
First he was in PCH by himself.
Then alone on the slow train to Bedford.
This lunchtime Ed Miliband has been snapped by a parliamentary co-conspirator: “standing by himself in the middle of the atrium weirdly walking around. People were looking at him with the expression of ‘WTF?'”
Back to work…
Top leak to the Guardian, revealing what the PM wants in his renegotiation deal:
Apparently the PM’s plan is to undermine the “risky” alternatives to staying in. Only bringing back these meagre concessions would also be quite a risk…
Entries in the comments please…
GCHQ was rapped last year by the Intelligence Services Commissioner Sir Mark Waller for excessive spying on its own staff. The revelation is made today in Sir Mark’s annual report which describes the over-zealous internal monitoring at GCHQ as an “error” caused by a lack of understanding:
“In 2014, GCHQ reported one error to me which happened when an internal monitoring system of some staff communications was found to be capturing more information than it was authorised to. I followed up on this error during my May inspection and the team explained that because of a lack of understanding of the systems’ full capability more data than had been authorised had been collected.
It was clear to me that this was a technical error and not deliberate. Following the discovery of the error GCHQ deleted the captured data and reconfigured the system to ensure that it only collected the information that it was authorised to collect.”
Let’s hope the spooks don’t make any “technical errors” while they’ve hoovering up the public’s personal data…
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Tom Watson’s new spin doctor James Robinson writes:
“The brutal truth is when you are trying to persuade someone to do something it helps if they understand there are consequences if they don’t cooperate.”
