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Post by Foggy on Feb 5, 2018 0:44:15 GMT
A map I've made for a bit of fun - local government in England loosely based on the pre-1974 arrangements showing two-tier shire counties, county boroughs/unitary counties and metropolitan counties. Whilst I'd be pleased to see Huntingdonshire, Rutland and Westmorland redeemed by the single-tier option, I'd still oppose the creation of 'Tyne & Wear', the 'West Midlands', 'Cleveland' and the People's Republic of South Yorkshire. The continued division of Sussex also irks, plus why does Leicester get to be a unitary if Derby and Nottingham aren't ones too? The decision to create a buffer zone between 'Merseyside' and 'Greater Manchester' is an interesting one. Overall I'd say it's an improvement on the map we actually ended up with in 1974.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 3, 2018 21:02:35 GMT
Blue Room you saw me posting alone without a picture of Creagh A half point of my own Pure Black Magic. I never had you down as a fan of Little Mix!
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Post by Foggy on Feb 2, 2018 21:21:53 GMT
The City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is also classed as a 'Metropolitan Borough', n'est-ce pas? No but Newcastle upon Tyne might be Ooh, good point. I'm from a town which has hyphens in its name, but which is sometimes misspelt by people who omit them. It's easy to forget that the reverse is the case for certain other places!
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Post by Foggy on Feb 2, 2018 20:21:33 GMT
I presume that's Newcastle-under-Lyme, rather than Newcastle-upon-Tyne? Newcastle Borough, not Newcastle City, so yes. The City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is also classed as a 'Metropolitan Borough', n'est-ce pas?
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Post by Foggy on Feb 1, 2018 23:15:55 GMT
Parliament approved a piece of secondary legislation recently that makes it even more difficult for any region-wide by-elections to be held to fill vacancies among MEPs, but there appears to be no word on the cancellation of the 2019 elections in the UK as of yet.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 1, 2018 19:33:33 GMT
I'm afraid I'm not aware that anybody was trying to link ITV regions to local government upthread, unless you have suddenly started objecting to being referred to as a councillor when you are posting on here instead of speaking ex cathedra. It's very unusual on this forum to refer to elected members by their "real world" title. It is, as old members of this forum know very well, only acceptable to refer to "David", not "Dave". Don't worry, I wasn't about to refer to Mr Boothroyd by a shorter version of his first name... or to J G Harston as 'John' for that matter! I'll keep this in mind in future, though. I've been a member of this forum for 2 years now and lurked for about a year before that, and this is the first time I've noticed anyone take exception to the use of a title from outside the forum.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 31, 2018 23:27:26 GMT
ITV branding is not part of any local government responsibilities, so any remark on that subject can't be linked to any post in local government. I'm sorry but I do get strict on that, given the local government Code of Conduct states it applies "to Members ... whenever they are acting in a capacity as a Member ... of the City Council". I'm afraid I'm not aware that anybody was trying to link ITV regions to local government upthread, unless you have suddenly started objecting to being referred to as a councillor when you are posting on here instead of speaking ex cathedra.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 30, 2018 18:40:30 GMT
That premia di maioranza in case of reaching 40% in the FirstRound wasn't rejected by the ConstitutionalCourt, was it? Yes, I believe it in fact was. The current electoral law is totally different from the one proposed under Renzi (especially as the last one was only intended for the lower house, until the electorate rejected Senate reform in the December 2016 referendum).
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Post by Foggy on Jan 30, 2018 18:32:25 GMT
Were you a child before 1990, then? There was nothing wrong with referring to it as Channel 3 from that year onwards because that was its name in statute. It's never been referred to on air or in TV listings as Channel 3 those has it - only the channel which used to be found by pressing button 3 on your remote/TV? Born in 1985. You're very slightly younger than I am, in that case. My grandmother sometimes referred to HTV as 'Channel 3' back in the day, and even though that didn't match up with what it said in the Radio Times, it would take a lot more than that for me to get angry at her. I can't see how that has anything to do with autism. I wasn't aware of the attempted rebranding from another region that Councillor Boothroyd mentioned. I can well imagine that more viewers viscerally loathed it than welcome it, though. He wouldn't be allowed to now. Steve Rotheram wanted to stay on for 6 months and the party said no - Labour MPs are expected to be full time and so are metro mayors. I think this should be a statutory rule rather than just a convention or an internal party policy. I can understand why there's sometimes double- and triple-jobbing on local councils, but it's time to put an end to the practice at all higher levels of governance.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 29, 2018 20:14:41 GMT
I believe ITV was enshrined in law as 'Channel 3' when I was 5 years old, so I can only recall it being referred to by that alternative name and never as 'Channel 9'. I can, on the other hand, remember having to know that BBC1 corresponded to 58, BBC2 to 61, HTV (as it was round here) to 64 and Channel 4 to 54. This was apparently some sort of reference to UHF channel bands and was necessary in order to tune in old black-and-white televisions and to record programmes onto VHS cassettes. I think Channel 5 was allocated an even lower number when it launched. ETA: It occurs to me now that those numbers were only required if you needed to set the VCR to record a show that was on while you expected to be out. It's proably the autistic side of me as a kid but I used to dislike it when people refered to ITV as Channel 3. Were you a child before 1990, then? There was nothing wrong with referring to it as Channel 3 from that year onwards because that was its name in statute.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 29, 2018 0:54:04 GMT
I believe ITV was enshrined in law as 'Channel 3' when I was 5 years old, so I can only recall it being referred to by that alternative name and never as 'Channel 9'.
I can, on the other hand, remember having to know that BBC1 corresponded to 58, BBC2 to 61, HTV (as it was round here) to 64 and Channel 4 to 54. This was apparently some sort of reference to UHF channel bands and was necessary in order to tune in old black-and-white televisions and to record programmes onto VHS cassettes. I think Channel 5 was allocated an even lower number when it launched.
ETA: It occurs to me now that those numbers were only required if you needed to set the VCR to record a show that was on while you expected to be out.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 28, 2018 20:27:31 GMT
Seats in the Landtag: ÖVP 29 (-1), SPÖ 13 (-)*, FPÖ 8 (+4), Greens 3 (-1), NEOS 3 (+3)*, TS 0 (-5)**
Seats on the executive: ÖVP 6 (-), SPÖ 2 (-), FPÖ 1 (+1), TS 0 (-1)**
Turnout was down slightly compared to last time. The Social Democrats won quite a few municipalities, including an outright majority in a handful of them. The Greens even managed a second place in one!
*The initial projection had the SPÖ up to 14 seats and NEOS winning only 2. **Team Stronach didn't stand this time.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 28, 2018 0:32:39 GMT
I hate to break it to you, but the international media will scarcely be passing comment on the Lower Austrian election at all. Normally, not when FPÖ provides the possibility for sensationalism and ScareMongering. The regional elections in Carinthia for example were overrun by hundreds of journalists. In 2013 there wouldn't have been a sensationalist narrative, but if there were journalists from abroad there you can bet they would've been masterful at ignoring the context behind the sharp drop in the FPK vote on that occasion.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 28, 2018 0:30:26 GMT
I see your Average White Band and raise you an above average white woman:
But yeah, the last couple of pages are full of circular arguments.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 27, 2018 22:20:03 GMT
I hate to break it to you, but the international media will scarcely be passing comment on the Lower Austrian election at all.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 27, 2018 22:17:41 GMT
Tina Heath (1979-80) I hardly remember at all except that I remember her being pregnant and had somehow conflated her with Janet Ellis for that reason, to the extent that when Sophie Ellis- Baxter became a thing I remember saying how old it made me feel as I remembered her as a bump on Blue Peter (obviously incorrectly). I was surprised at how early Valerie Singleton left, I would’ve been seven, and yet seem to remember her quite well. We were discussing Dr Who on another thread a while ago and I was shocked to discover how young I was when John Pertwee played the Doctor and particularly some of the serials which I clearly remember watching - the Green Death was on when I was four and the Sea Devils when I was three! Who is Ellis-Baxter? Who was Jon. The lessons of The Green Death were clearly lost on you at that delicate age. I recall both the stories you mention being repeated on BBC2 in the early 1990s, but even before then I must've been 3 years old when Paradise Towers aired and I remember that from its first-run broadcast.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 27, 2018 20:23:57 GMT
Lets say there are two voters (lets call them Mr and Mrs Schrödinger) who both attend the polling station and complete a ballot paper. Once the box is opened, it is found one vote is valid, and the other is spoilt. Has Mr Schrödinger turned out? Has Mrs Schrödinger turned out? As the ballot is secret, have they both turned out and not turned out at the same time? My thinking was along these lines too, with all the references to physically turning out. The first time I voted, I went to the polling station and cast a valid vote for the Parish Council but deliberately spoilt my ballot paper in the District Council contest. According to the criteria advocated by @benjl, did I both turn out and fail to turn out simultaneously, in the same place?
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Post by Foggy on Jan 27, 2018 19:07:00 GMT
Freedom for Junction!!
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Post by Foggy on Jan 27, 2018 18:55:05 GMT
I had the intention to present You a - shorter - PreView for tomorrow's Landtag-election in LowerAustria (campaigns, polls). But caught by the flue and having no real computer at home, i cannot do so - i am sorry! Georg, dear chap. Cosset yourself and shake off that infection. Plenty of liquid and keep warm. 2-paracetamol every few hours and plenty of honey, lemon and whiskey. Hot water NOT boiling. What infection? Our good friend Herr Ebner said he was stuck in a flue, not suffering from influenza! Do get out of there soon and enjoy the electoral results coverage tomorrow evening, dear fellow.
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