Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Frothy and Triumphant! Oh Come Lefties, Come Ye to anti ConDem-nay-tion!

[KateMiddlet0n]

Fed up of the ConDems robbing the poorest and most vulnerable blind? Sympathetic to the squeezed middle? Have you eyes that can see the horrors that await the dismantling of our welfare state and all that is great and good in UK?

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This is our 4th thread now!

I think it's usual to count up from 1-12? But then I couldn't get my 12 days of Christmas to add up

What a brilliant poim hully

Love the poim HULLY!

Hully, you are a genius .

The tuition fees blog post is ready to go now. If I muck about with it any more, it will get worse! We have a guest blogger for the first part. Bless her.

Just catching up on the blog - wow, it looks great! I particularly like the "What you can do" box.

I'll have a think about a topic to blog about, maybe after the 12 days are over.

I will write the Lib Dem voter bit if you want. I voted Lib Dem in the last election. Got a Tory, but never imagined for a minute it'd make bugger all difference if we got a Tory or a Lib Dem .

I also have the MN Christmas survey to do and I've not bought a thing for Christmas. We have the tree up but that is it. No groceries, no presents, no booze... nada.

Kate, join me on my frenzied shopathon this week.

Thought I'd start with the booze... after that I won't give a monkey's arse who gets what. My theme this year will be 'Eclectic'.

Ahaha - I have no Christmas dinner bought till Tuesday, and no main present for DD, DS1 or DS2 until Thursday. I have no tree up yet (I do have ceiling decs), and I MUST bake my gingerbread tree decs tomorrow!!

Love the poim, Hully. Brilliant.

We went to the mountains today, was lovely and snowy and pretty. Only marred by my cough, aching shoulder and arm and breathlessness. Am now I feeling Not Good and scaring myself by googling my symptoms. Going to doc tomorrow.

Hunty, fab pome :)

pipers piping, if you don't fancy Scotland- as not entirely sure what is affecting us and not the rest even though am living here myself! What about DLA changing to PIP? PIPers PIPing?

WELL DONE for the trending!!

hope you are ok, Mme

Blimey MmeL are you alright? That puts my little ruck on another thread into perspective a bit.

Great pome, Hully

Hully I meant

hully - that is brilliant. But horribly depressing

hope you are ok Mme.

Hully's pome put me so much in mind of Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
For them as don't know it, here's a summary from Wikipedia:

Timothy Cratchit, called "Tiny Tim", is a fictional character from the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He is a minor character, the young son of Bob Cratchit, and is seen only briefly, but serves as an important symbol of the consequences of the protagonist's choices. It is claimed that the character is based on the invalid son of a friend of Dickens who owned a cotton mill in Ardwick, Manchester.

When Scrooge is visited by The Ghost of Christmas Present he is shown just how ill Tim really is, and that Tim will die unless he receives treatment (which the family cannot afford due to Scrooge's miserliness). When visited by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come all he sees of Tim is his crutch, as Tim has died. This, and several other visions, led Scrooge to reform his ways. At the end of the story, Dickens makes it explicit that Tim did not die, and Scrooge became a "second father" to him.

In the story, Tiny Tim is known for the statement, "God bless us, every one!" which he offers as a blessing at Christmas dinner. Dickens repeats the phrase at the end of the story.

How nice that we're looking at such a swift return to Victorian values, where the lives of disabled children rest on the goodwill of grumpy rich men who've been terrified by ghosts.

Been away this weekend, and catching up - it feels like I'm always trying to catch up on here!!

But brilliant on trending yesterday - that really is outstanding , well done everyone.

And excellent poem Hully, I read it to my children. Twice. Then I had to explain workfare to them, who were rightly horrified by it. My daughter is 14 and she is going to email her thoughts on it to our MP who is Vince.

Right, now I'm off to read everything and the blog from Saturday

Don't, garlic. I have Gaskell's 1848 Mary Barton by my bed but just can't read it - the red mist descends within seconds.

X is dying, so his neighbour has to go to the rich factory owner (who's just laid them all off), to get an infirmary voucher. Rich factory owner says he can't give inpatient voucher, but he'll give an outpatient voucher. All way too late and inadequate, and anyway X is so malnourished he never had a hope of fighting it off.

If heathcare vouchers are reintroduced, as some on MN would like, we'll be in exactly this situation again. Even down to the too late and malnutrition.

I am going to re-read 1984 over Christmas for similar reasons. People are divided and ruled by hate and suspicion of others and there's propaganda aplenty.

Who wants healthcare vouchers?

Blog analytics :)

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Between them, they clocked up 23,182 Pageviews over 6,337 Visits, which gives them an average of 3.66 Pages/Visit in 3:49 minutes.

That might not sound much, but is good. it shows people aren't just having a glance then buggering off. This is borne out by our bounce rate of 18.19%.

70% of our visitors were new, which one would expect and hope for.

I'm so excited about this, I had to show you the chart!
See that huge peak over on the right? That's all your Twitter activity yesterday
Well done! Keep it up!!!

Source of visits:

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This is just fantastic since last week. 'Direct' means people typed it into their address bar. Twitter's doing brilliantly, and Mumsnet's still holding up with 1,511 visits when you add mobile & main together.

We see it on here all the time - a majority of people tend to follow what they perceive as the general opinion. That's what the govt are depending on, with all their "lazy scroungers" propaganda. We may not have enormous media budgets (or, indeed, any!) but we can keep making a noise. The more people hear us froth, the more will join us. And that's how it's done :)

Bugger, sorry about the cramped stats. I forgot the spaces would be stripped out