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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2019 15:35:46 GMT
I no longer have that problem at my remaining council. And it's a task for the Chairman rather than the Clerk. Of course it is Gwyn. I had both roles and tend to forget that it is much better split. Do your lot navigate by person rather than location? "There's a collapsed culvert needs sorting on Mill Lane" Clerk: Whereabouts on Mill Lane? "By Wilsons' Farm" Who are the Wilsons? Where do they live? "Well, they don't live there now" But where is it? "What? Where they live now?" No - the culvert. "Well, it's not really by the Wilsons' is it? It's more toward the Harrisons'..." Where do the Harrisons live? "Just down from where the Wilsons used to live"And so on ... and on ... and on ...
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 2, 2019 15:43:42 GMT
Of course it is Gwyn. I had both roles and tend to forget that it is much better split. Do your lot navigate by person rather than location? "There's a collapsed culvert needs sorting on Mill Lane" Clerk: Whereabouts on Mill Lane? "By Wilsons' Farm" Who are the Wilsons? Where do they live? "Well, they don't live there now" But where is it? "What? Where they live now?" No - the culvert. "Well, it's not really by the Wilsons' is it? It's more toward the Harrisons'..." Where do the Harrisons live? "Just down from where the Wilsons used to live"And so on ... and on ... and on ... Both. Everything has a name (often a raft of names) and everyone knows everyone else and everything about them, even unto the 17th generation back. Never a problem here. The areas are hugely greater but the number of people vanishingly small.
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Post by warofdreams on Jul 2, 2019 15:46:40 GMT
Martina Anderson got 159,813 for the European Parliament in Northern Ireland in 2014, the highest ever total for a women candidate. (The highest total overall was 230,251 for Ian Paisley in 1984.) Another notable European Parliament total was 144,907 for Glenys Kinnock in South Wales East in 1994 - I believe the highest total for any Euro candidate under FPTP.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jul 2, 2019 16:24:39 GMT
Do your lot navigate by person rather than location? "There's a collapsed culvert needs sorting on Mill Lane" Clerk: Whereabouts on Mill Lane? "By Wilsons' Farm" Who are the Wilsons? Where do they live? "Well, they don't live there now" But where is it? "What? Where they live now?" No - the culvert. "Well, it's not really by the Wilsons' is it? It's more toward the Harrisons'..." Where do the Harrisons live? "Just down from where the Wilsons used to live"And so on ... and on ... and on ... Both. Everything has a name (often a raft of names) and everyone knows everyone else and everything about them, even unto the 17th generation back. Never a problem here. The areas are hugely greater but the number of people vanishingly small. We get roads refered to by names that have never appeared on any maps or signs anywhere. Donkey Path, Switchbacks, Danger Bank, Pond Hill, Jacob's Ladder, Cally Beck, The Railway; or features that have not existed for decades, Gallows Close, The Convent (confusing as there were three, there's now one).
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Post by andrewp on Jul 2, 2019 18:15:31 GMT
You don't get paid for that work you know...?
If you spend 40 or 50 years doing it you might get an MBE eventually, maybe...
Are you on some sort of mission to post nonsense on every conceivable subject? The vast majority of Parish Councils in England employ paid clerks. A few of the smallest have volunteer clerks, but that is considered poor practice. The pay is generally around £10 per hour. The volume of work varies enormously. My one remaining council pays me for 9.5hrs per week. I suspect that's about right; Mrs TheGriff is convinced they get more than that out of me. It can be very satisfying work; it can also be deeply frustrating (generally where each meeting turns into an interminable rerun of the same moans as every other meeting on issues outside the control of the Council). Thankyou for the reply. And aside from the meetings, can the work generally be done when you want or is a lot of it time critical?
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2019 18:16:10 GMT
Both. Everything has a name (often a raft of names) and everyone knows everyone else and everything about them, even unto the 17th generation back. Never a problem here. The areas are hugely greater but the number of people vanishingly small. We get roads refered to by names that have never appeared on any maps or signs anywhere. Donkey Path, Switchbacks, Danger Bank, Pond Hill, Jacob's Ladder, Cally Beck, The Railway; or features that have not existed for decades, Gallows Close, The Convent (confusing as there were three, there's now one). Which reminds me that the same parish had two stretches of road with the same name. One was a trackway, the other had houses on it, some of which also had another (different) steeetname attached to them. The local authority, Royal Mail and local residents all applied different names to the same stretch of road; and the same name to different stretches. Radway Green Road, meanwhile, was the shape of the Mercedes Benz badge! Smithy Lane, which had existed for centuries, was split by a new trunk road and became Smithy Lane West and Smithy Lane East. We requested that the Smithy Lane sign be replaced by a Smithy Lane West sign to avoid lorries getting lost on a narrow cul de sac. The County Council provided such a sign. But erected it at the western end of a different Smithy Lane several miles away. Happy days.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2019 18:24:41 GMT
Are you on some sort of mission to post nonsense on every conceivable subject? The vast majority of Parish Councils in England employ paid clerks. A few of the smallest have volunteer clerks, but that is considered poor practice. The pay is generally around £10 per hour. The volume of work varies enormously. My one remaining council pays me for 9.5hrs per week. I suspect that's about right; Mrs TheGriff is convinced they get more than that out of me. It can be very satisfying work; it can also be deeply frustrating (generally where each meeting turns into an interminable rerun of the same moans as every other meeting on issues outside the control of the Council). Thankyou for the reply. And aside from the meetings, can the work generally be done when you want or is a lot of it time critical? The flexibility is the main reason I went into that line of work. I had health difficulties which meant I couldn't work full-time, and found mornings a particular challenge. The only absolutely fixed commitments in my councils were the (evening) Council meetings. Everything else could be done when it suited me, which was ideal. But my councils were monthly (in one case) or bi-monthly (in two cases) meetings; little or no property owned; Clerk as the sole employee etc In larger authorities (e.g. some Town Councils) they may expect you to man an office one morning a week or similar, but that's not the type of council I've been involved with. (Nor want to ...)
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2019 18:27:32 GMT
Both. Everything has a name (often a raft of names) and everyone knows everyone else and everything about them, even unto the 17th generation back. Never a problem here. The areas are hugely greater but the number of people vanishingly small. We get roads refered to by names that have never appeared on any maps or signs anywhere. Donkey Path, Switchbacks, Danger Bank, Pond Hill, Jacob's Ladder, Cally Beck, The Railway; or features that have not existed for decades, Gallows Close, The Convent (confusing as there were three, there's now one). Which reminds me of Conwy where there are often 3 names for each street - the English name (widely used), an "official" Welsh name (used by nobody) and the real Welsh name (also widely used). My favourite was Rosemary Lane. Or in Welsh, Stryd Baw Ieir. Chicken Shit Street.
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Post by edgbaston on Jul 6, 2019 10:29:01 GMT
Which 3 seats did Labour lose in 1945?
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 6, 2019 10:35:31 GMT
Carmarthen, Stepney Mile End, Hammersmith North ?
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 6, 2019 10:44:19 GMT
Who was the last living former MP to have sat in the 19th Century?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 6, 2019 11:15:37 GMT
Who was the last living former MP to have sat in the 19th Century? Probably Winston Churchill.
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Post by middyman on Jul 6, 2019 11:57:34 GMT
Probably Winston Churchill. No, he wasn't first elected until the 1900 "Kaki" election. It might have been Lloyd George who was elected in 1890 and sat until 1945 1900 was the last year of the nineteenth century.
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Post by middyman on Jul 6, 2019 13:03:49 GMT
1900 was the last year of the nineteenth century. So you say.. Not just me.
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Post by greenchristian on Jul 6, 2019 13:28:13 GMT
1900 was the last year of the nineteenth century. So you say.. If 1900 was in the 20th century then 1BC would be in the first century AD, since the Christian calendar does not have a year 0.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jul 6, 2019 13:49:49 GMT
1900 was the last year of the nineteenth century. So you say.. So people in 1900 said.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jul 6, 2019 14:16:15 GMT
What year did we celebrate the millennium then? was it 2000 or 2001... Which millennium?
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Post by middyman on Jul 6, 2019 14:20:54 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Jul 6, 2019 16:33:47 GMT
What year did we celebrate the millennium then? was it 2000 or 2001... We celebrated the start of the 3rd millennium in 2001, and the end of the 2nd millennium in 2000. But of course those facts are completely irrelevant to the question, for which (as has been stated already) the correct answer is probably Winston Churchill.
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Post by andrewp on Jul 6, 2019 16:48:26 GMT
Who was the last living former MP to have sat in the 19th Century? Linked to that,, in years to come I wonder who will be the last MP to be sitting in the Commons who was there in the 20th century? Are David Lammy and Yvette Cooper the youngest current members to have sat in the 20th century?
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