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Post by cj on Aug 13, 2018 22:29:41 GMT
I seem to have lost the ability to see when forum folk post tweets, pictures and the like and have no idea why, if there are any tech savvy individuals who can proffer any advice it would be gratefully received. My browser is Firefox Quantum 61.0.2.
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Post by greenchristian on Aug 14, 2018 15:04:05 GMT
I seem to have lost the ability to see when forum folk post tweets, pictures and the like and have no idea why, if there are any tech savvy individuals who can proffer any advice it would be gratefully received. My browser is Firefox Quantum 61.0.2. I get that occasionally, and most of the time it clears when I refresh the page. Though I'm using an earlier version of firefox,
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cj
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Post by cj on Aug 14, 2018 18:38:31 GMT
I seem to have lost the ability to see when forum folk post tweets, pictures and the like and have no idea why, if there are any tech savvy individuals who can proffer any advice it would be gratefully received. My browser is Firefox Quantum 61.0.2. I get that occasionally, and most of the time it clears when I refresh the page. Though I'm using an earlier version of firefox, Unfortunately its been quite a while and a browser upgrade or two, very frustrating...
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Post by Strontium Dog on Sept 7, 2018 2:04:06 GMT
I have a question about Loss of Office payments for MPs because I was reading the Scheme of MPs' Business Costs & Expenses on the IPSA website.
Now, the Scheme says that "To qualify for the Loss of Office payment, the individual must have been an MP on the day before the dissolution of Parliament and a candidate for re-election for the same seat, but not re-elected", which is straightforward enough.
But if, as is expected, the boundaries are altered before the next election, then any MP standing in a successor to his or her old seat and losing would presumably be ineligible for the payment, because they are not "a candidate for re-election for the same seat".
Is this how it actually works, and if so, isn't it a little unfair to penalise an ex-MP who is rendered ineligible purely by virtue of a boundary change?
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Post by catking on Sept 17, 2018 10:26:11 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place, but when are the local election 2019 threads going to be created?
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Post by BossMan on Sept 26, 2018 7:51:42 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place, but when are the local election 2019 threads going to be created? Very, very soon. Probably within in the next 48 hours at the most. Myself and swanarcadian have been creating them for the last week (and he's done most of the work for which I'd like to thank him), there are around 300 threads to create, we have nearly finished. Just a few more and a few checks and then I'll make them public and archive 2018's boards on Sunday.
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Post by BossMan on Sept 26, 2018 11:15:33 GMT
Just to clarify.
I will make the 2019 election boards accessible either tonight or tomorrow night.
I will archive the 2018 election boards (which will still be accessible like previous years) on Sunday.
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Post by catking on Sept 26, 2018 11:47:16 GMT
Thanks, Iain.
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Crimson King
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 26, 2018 17:53:55 GMT
yes many thanks both
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Sept 26, 2018 19:24:19 GMT
Not urgent, but I’m looking for information on the Shadow Cabinet(s) of Churchill between 1945 and 1951.
Does anyone have any info on its make-up?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 26, 2018 20:14:15 GMT
Not urgent, but I’m looking for information on the Shadow Cabinet(s) of Churchill between 1945 and 1951. Does anyone have any info on its make-up? David Butler's 'British Political Facts' explains that the Shadow Cabinet was formally known as the 'Consultative Committee' and that "names were added, but never subtracted". Eventually there were 24 members. Butler gives the names of the following as seeming to have attended regularly: Sir John Anderson Ralph Assheton Brendan Bracken Patrick Buchan-Hepburn R.A. Butler Lord Cherwell Henry Crookshank Anthony Eden Walter Elliot Richard Law Oliver Lyttelton Harold Macmillan David Maxwell Fyfe William Morrison Marquess of Salisbury Oliver Stanley James Stuart Henry Willink Viscount Woolton
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Post by Chris from Brum on Sept 27, 2018 8:31:46 GMT
I was taught at school by Willink's son. I had no recollecton of either Stuart, Lord Cherwell or Law until you posted that David. Very small point - Crookshank was called Harry not Henry. Henry was probably his Sunday name, as it is for the Duke of Sussex.
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Post by ricmk on Sept 27, 2018 9:57:35 GMT
Just to clarify. I will make the 2019 election boards accessible either tonight or tomorrow night. I will archive the 2018 election boards (which will still be accessible like previous years) on Sunday. Thanks very much. Are we missing a Milton Keynes thread in the unitary section? Not that there's a lot to talk about yet.
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Post by Sibboleth on Sept 27, 2018 16:24:25 GMT
Sometimes Harry can be short for Harold - in the 1983 general election I voted for Harry Spillman but his real name is Harold (assuming he's still with us). Growing up I always assumed it was short for Harold and was very surprised to discover that it sometimes wasn't.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Sept 27, 2018 16:54:43 GMT
How can Harry (5 letters) be "short" for Henry (5 letters)?
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Post by swanarcadian on Sept 27, 2018 17:00:53 GMT
How can Harry (5 letters) be "short" for Henry (5 letters)? It's easier to say if not shorter in letters.
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Post by Adrian on Sept 27, 2018 17:54:07 GMT
How can Harry (5 letters) be "short" for Henry (5 letters)? The same way Jack is short for John.
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Post by greatkingrat on Sept 27, 2018 18:07:32 GMT
And Molly is short for Mary!
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Post by Andrew_S on Sept 27, 2018 20:04:10 GMT
Henry was probably his Sunday name, as it is for the Duke of Sussex. Harry was his given name. Prince Harry's given name however is Henry. Many people have the given name of Harry and it's not as common as all that for it to be an abbreviation of Henry, and hasn't been for many years, though that is Harry's origin as a name (Colin was originally an abbreviation, and still is in France, but never is nowadays). Sometimes Harry can be short for Harold - in the 1983 general election I voted for Harry Spillman but his real name is Harold (assuming he's still with us). Do you know whether the Tories were ever worried about losing Brighton Kemptown during 1980, 1981 and early 1982, before the Falklands War?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 27, 2018 21:46:36 GMT
I just looked up the Report of the 1983 Labour Party Conference, which was held in Brighton. The chair of Brighton Labour Party gave a welcoming speech which said "our two constituencies did significantly better than many other CLPs in the country", putting that down to being "a socialist campaigning party".
(Also an interesting reminder that there was a welcome from the Mayor - who happened to be a Conservative councillor who also had the casting vote that sustained a Conservative council. It was usual for the local Mayor to give a brief speech opening party conferences; the practice ended after a Conservative conference, also in Brighton, in the late 1980s when the very left-wing Labour Mayor decided to tell the assembled Thatcher cabinet exactly what she thought of them)
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