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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 2, 2024 12:34:59 GMT
He speaks very highly of you.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 1, 2024 13:53:12 GMT
Thanks. I managed to download it, but only after using the VPN to go to a US IP address. Very odd.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 1, 2024 13:22:47 GMT
Can anyone else access Worcester City Council's website? I have tried multiple times on different computers and although downforeveryoneorjustme.com/worcester.gov.uk?www=1 tells me it is working for everyone, I get absolutely nothing back. I am trying to download their notice of poll for the City Council elections.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 19:44:34 GMT
Monty Panesar comes from Luton - why Southall? I presume because he's Sikh, and Ealing Southall has the highest proportion of Sikhs in any constituency (although at only 19% of total population).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 10:20:10 GMT
Ali has not been reselected and there have been rumours that the NEC wants to get rid of him. Ali is on the list of candidates for 2024 GE on Labour party website. vote.labour.org.uk/results?search=birmingham(the party website has Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North still without a candidate but Byrne was a late re-selection last month and it hasn't been updated yet or the the approval hasn't gone through NEC organization committee yet). I'm not sure that site is proof that he has been selected. For instance, there has been no selection in Queen's Park and Maida Vale CLP. Search for it and you find it lists Karen Buck as sitting MP (in the same way as Tahir Ali is listed in Birmingham).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 9:11:46 GMT
Ali has not been reselected and there have been rumours that the NEC wants to get rid of him. However he swiftly gave an apology after his PMQs rant, which was humiliating but might have justified throwing him out if he hadn't. And judging by this, he seems well aware that a strong declaration of loyalty is needed after this rumour:
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 9:01:47 GMT
If it were up to the forum I suspect it would've been given a name like 'Keynsham' (which is certainly nicer) And conduct the subsequent Count by the fully validated Horace Batchelor 'Infra Draw' method. At least people of a certain age would know how to spell the constituency name.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 8:42:01 GMT
Claudia Webbe might as well go - she's got no way back to Labour and nothing to lose.
Tahir Ali would be throwing away a 26,507 Labour majority and the influence of being a government backbencher, and would have to be bonkers to switch. (On the other hand, unattributably flirting with defecting might shore up his vote)
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 22:58:44 GMT
Where the hell is Hanham? Surely one of the more obscure constituency nomenclatures? Lesmahagow is smaller, and also widely mispronounced.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 21:40:14 GMT
Because Cleveland had to be abolished, and that meant either Hartlepool became a unitary on its own, or it was force-merged with Stockton. Whereas taking Oxford out of Oxfordshire would destabilise service delivery from the County Council. Hartlepool and Stockton could have merged (back) into Durham, though the part of Stockton south of the Tees would have marched with pitchforks as a result. Likewise, Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh (now Redcar and Cleveland) could have "returned" to North Yorkshire, and no pitchforks would have resulted. But there was a reason that Teesside county borough, and subsequently Cleveland county, were created, and cross-river bodies still function for that reason. 1) All hail Emperor Thread-drift 2) The first proposals of the Banham Commission covered both Cleveland and Durham, but clearly recommended Hartlepool be a unitary council on its own; the main alternative considered was a unitary Hartlepool with Teesside forming a single unitary council instead of three separate ones. This was on the basis of "the very strong sense of identity and community in Hartlepool".
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Apr 29, 2024 19:49:34 GMT
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 19:49:34 GMT
Because Cleveland had to be abolished, and that meant either Hartlepool became a unitary on its own, or it was force-merged with Stockton.
Whereas taking Oxford out of Oxfordshire would destabilise service delivery from the County Council.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 19:34:03 GMT
The new Hornsey and Friern Barnet (2024-) has a very small part of the Wood Green seat before 1983 - the Alexandra Park area, which was the most Tory part of Wood Green.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 23:09:40 GMT
Probably because the pre-2010 version of the seat included Woodhouse ward, which is a pretty solidly Labour lead area.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 21:45:42 GMT
Jim Kilfedder founded the Ulster Progressive Unionist Party in January 1980 (quickly renamed Ulster Popular Unionist Party), but this was one of Northern Ireland's 'one man parties'. Gerry Fitt's 'Republican Labour Party' was in effect a merger between two 'one man parties' - his own Dock Labour Party and Harry Diamond's Socialist Republican Party.
Desmond Donnelly left Labour in 1968 and formed 'The Democratic Party' in 1969 - it had some attempt at a national organisation.
Arguably the Labour Independent Group of 1949 counts as a sort-of party.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 20:20:50 GMT
I’ll shut up after I promise, but do candidates know the results before they’re declared? Almost always (and if not, their agent will). The RO will first check the figures with the agents and candidates to ensure any of them have a chance to request a recount, or have spotted an error.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 16:39:27 GMT
The Greenwich half was in Woolwich was John Cartwright's (not that one) fiefdom; the SDP were also very strong in the Bexley half, although Erith and Crayford's SDP-defecting Jim Wellbeloved did not hold on.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 14:00:32 GMT
Because of the Sunday papers. Next question?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 13:31:03 GMT
There's no policy detail from Parker at all. It's just the generic "CREATE JOBS", "TACKLE CRIME", "REVITALISE HIGH STREETS". Not a single bit of detail on any of these. Apart from in his manifesto where such detail is normally put.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2024 16:11:43 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2024 13:25:38 GMT
Had the House of Commons not authorised a writ of supersedeas, the Manchester Gorton writ and byelection would have been cancelled automatically on 3 May (the eve of intended polling day) by the dissolution of Parliament. The RO would have been obliged to go through all the normal electoral processes up to then, which is why the writ was cancelled earlier.
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