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Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Isaac Duffy — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:26:24 -0000

My official statement as deputy MYP on the matter;

To all whom it may concern. ... I am sure you are all aware of the recent resignation of Tees Young Labour chair,Tom Robinson, after I complained due to being contacted by one of my constituents (Alex Foster, 13) concerning highly offensive and homophobic tweets to one of my constituents. On behalf of me and Miss Foster, we are deeply concerned by the language used in these tweets, especially when one considers the age of my constituent. I am aware that this is not a party issue,but a personal issue with the chair, but I am strongly concerned with the slow response from Tees Labour, and was also distressed, by the fact that if I had not intervened in this incident and reported it, would it have even been noticed by Tees Labour? I strongly urge that every party enforces stricter and more efficient ways of ensuring such incidents do not happen. I expect that in effect of this incident, Tees Labour begin to moderate the online lives of their party members, or request that they do not post on behalf of the party at all.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Neill Bannerman — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:39:31 -0000

Well, the experience obviously hasn't dented your interest in politics from what I've seen spread across the internet over the last few hours, so, not all bad.

A good experience for him, I think, to see that such language and behaviour is rarely tolerated at any level in society, even if it is (as I read elsewhere) 'youth' politics.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Neill Bannerman — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:36:45 -0000

Ah yes. That'll teach me for not reading 'PAST' and 'CURRENT' properly.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Bennyrowden — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:32:56 -0000

This article is slightly wrong in that Mr Robinson is no longer the MYP for Middlesbrough, he resigned earlier in 2011 and in February 2012 I was elected the new member for the town.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Alex Foster — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:32:23 -0000

I actually am the person he aimed this at - ischmeALx and I can honestly say I was not only shocked at the comment but at the positive support in return. I think it was the most decent thing he could do for himself to resign and I hope the next chair can watch their mouths.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Isaac Duffy — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:51:37 -0000

I am the deputy MYP that Alex contacted, and I will release an official statement on behalf of me and alex expressing our deepest dissapointments with Tom's behavior, and our strong view that tees labour should take imminent action to assure such matters never happen again.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Neill Bannerman — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:17:01 -0000

Having gone back through his feed a bit, I can certainly see his latest comments are totally in character. Terrible example to be setting for the 'youth' he is apparently there is represent.

Re: A Mincing Little Sh**

Libuscus — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:14:24 -0000

This Tom Robinson man is VERY rude, the girl he called is one of my friends and he was earlier insulting my other friend, I have recently been more interested in politics and I hope everyone else is not like this!

Re: Modern Communication Has Made You An Idiot

Echo Warning — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:05:59 -0000

Pilchard!

Re: Modern Communication Has Made You An Idiot

DeeBee — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:02:42 -0000

I liked the bit where you admitted to liking delicious, tasty dongs. x

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Echo Warning — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:36:10 -0000

Here we go... a nice shiny pile of Sweet FA ;)

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Uksceptic — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:45:58 -0000

I want my money back...

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Echo Warning — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:42:33 -0000

The slightly more interesting point in all of this, which might actually feature is a proper post instead of a short rant, surrounds the reliance on 'the cloud' to do it all for us.

I say 'us' in the 'not you and me who are geeks' sense, but everyone else.

What happens when Hotmail dies? Or Yahoo? I would imagine most people are S.O.L in that situation.

Free is free, and that has a value most users appreciate. But it'll bite a large number of people in the ass eventually.

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Dave Williams — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:38:30 -0000

The Internet. I'm fairly certain that it used to kill everything - maybe they've relaxed it a bit in the wake of everyone getting their rage on.

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Echo Warning — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:34:34 -0000

Source for that? Because Google say otherwise. From here: http://www.google.com/suppo...

"If your profile is suspended, you will not be able to make full use of
Google services that require an active profile such as Google+, Buzz,
Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google
services, like Gmail. Your profile can be restored by editing your name
and submitting an appeal that will be reviewed by our team, as directed
by on-screen instructions."

So I am wrong, Buzz, Reader and Picasa go. Not helpful. But the rest is all still active and will work.

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Dave Williams — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:29:16 -0000

That was never the case. If you get hit because Google decide your name isn't real, it kills your entire Google Account. Mail, Cal, everything - you're not just locked out, everything's deleted.

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Echo Warning — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:28:14 -0000

I was under the impression that getting your G+ account killed didn't kill access to Mail, Calender, Buzz, etc. Seems reasonable to me, unless that has in fact changed and the entire account is killed?

Re: Free Cake! No Refunds!

Dave Williams — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:17:08 -0000

I'm sympathetic to the people arguing that Google+ shouldn't require real names, but only because of the extremely active enforcement of that rule. I rely on Google tools to run my life, as do others - that's what Google position themselves as. Which is fine, as long as they accept the responsibility that comes with that position. Disable G+ for names you question? Fine. Don't kill someone's online presence just because they bought into what you're selling, though.

Re: Here Come The Nutjobs

ashef — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:41:37 -0000

I'm getting sick of the 'Pray for Japan'. There was a young foolish teen on facebook, saying 'i don't have any money so I haven't any control, however there is (she stated fact) a being in control. So begs the question and I questioned her "How much in control are they if they let it happen in the first place?" Then there were Amerians on about how it was punishment and they deserved it for Pearl Harbour, obviously forgetting that they'd already made them pay 1000 fold with what? Oh yes, the two chemical bombs they dropped on the Japanese. They conveniently forgot that. And they are worried about the nuclear from Fukushima travelling to them?

Re: UK Uncut Have Got It Wrong

ashef — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:28:09 -0000

Although to be honest. Even if it was a religion, you can question it. These days, if you have the evidence or if there is lack fo evidence then questioning is perfectly rational.

Re: Unions and the Solidarity ‘Myth’

ashef — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:16:37 -0000

I actually agree. You have no idea how annoyed I was when I found out that those working in the Job Centre were striking. I go to the website to search for the appropriate jobs for me, they're very good for that. But they spend saturday and sunday off, so it doesn't get updated then, and then they took another day off! So, yes to stunting the unemployed definitely. A jobs is a job, public or private. If people want to bumpup their wage, then research the jobs. I will be going into a quite highly paid job once I can get a part time job in order to study. But that's the nature of the job. Want more money? Go into a higher paid job. And I say this as a socialist. We all put our money into the kitty. Why are some getting more for themselves than others?

Re: The Great O2 Data Swindle

tim5165 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:06:51 -0000

Thanks for info about giffgaff. I note that my upgrade offer with O2 (as a contract customer averaging 50+GBP per month) is more expensive than as a new customer with vodafone etc.

Re: Night Driving

Simon Schempp — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:21:59 -0000

Night driving feels great. That is a Lone road, and nothing from point A to point anywhere, except you and your car. Great time to feel peaceful or just feel and think. Also, that's some good music or a nice song for driving a soundtrack.

Re: The Great O2 Data Swindle

Matt — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:29:41 -0000

Yeah you don't hear about them because they save money through not advertising and 90% of their support being volunteers dedicating their time in exchange for free credit on their phones. I can't imagine how much that saves them but I think they're about halfway to breaking even, so it's not like they're losing money with every customer ;D

Let me know if you sign up, use my affiliate page here and get £5 free credit on your first top up: http://giffgaff.com/orders/...

Re: F*** The RMT

Dean Burry — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:11:44 -0000

Hear hear!