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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 22:42:49 GMT
What do we think of Tottenham? A very lowly, inferior team that gave us a bit of a shock at the weekend. Tottenham are probably Arsenal's last hope of winning the Premier League this season, if they can beat City in a couple of weeks,
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 22:28:33 GMT
Why are police not armed, if they shot him that young lad would still be here And, as we see in USA, tens of young lads would be dead, killed by trigger-happy policemen. And of course there are never any mass shootings in the USA!
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 12:29:34 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. That’s K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M. A major con from the start. Create a huge block perm and split it up between your followers and collect 10% on any winnings. The only real outlay was the Radio Luxembourg adverts.
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 21:26:13 GMT
If the kebab shop has a one star rating then it’s the one to go to, that’s all that’s good about Slough tbh Are most of your posts devoid of any honesty? Devoid of any brain activity more like.
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 18:56:14 GMT
Cabinet minister for three years, particularly significant area you’re from back then Replying to your own posts is a sign of madness.
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 16:56:59 GMT
Do we have complete sets from 2011 and 2016? Considering the first PCC elections took place in November 2012, getting results from 2011 would be an achievement even beyond the power of these boards! Notional results that would have happened had there been elections in 2011?
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 16:51:55 GMT
Yvonne Ridley. Major player in Alba and want's to break up the UK, Muslim convert, gigantic antisemite Hamas apologist One of the Ridley clan?
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 16:47:15 GMT
As it happens I was in this constituency last evening, in the Greyhound pub in the very pleasant area of Hendon Village which I had only discovered quite recently (just behind The Burroughs). I also hadn't realised that Hendon had previously had quite an important Greyhound stadium - roughly on the site of the Brent Cross shopping centre. That's interesting. A quick Google suggests that Greater London once had a whopping 25 dog tracks, and now it is just two. Some are clearly well-known ones that survived for a long time (Walthamstow, Catford, Wimbledon). But there are some on the list that have surely faded well out of memory- Brixton, Edmonton, Temple Mills (which was apparently out towards Stratford), and a second Catford track. Regardless of people's views on greyhound racing, it's strange to think that these landmarks have been obliterated not just physically but mentally too. They would have been enormously important focal points. Fancy having a dog track in Catford?
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Post by john07 on Apr 28, 2024 15:09:31 GMT
Takes you two hours to walk from one end to the other, don’t try it! And how many constituencies can you walk from one end to the other in less than two hours? Are you contributing rubbish to get your post count up?
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Post by john07 on Apr 25, 2024 18:03:29 GMT
The Manchester Britannia remains the only hotel I have ever walked out of. I am amazed anywhere stops there twice. Obviously, I've never stopped in the Birmingham one but I remember that it had to be frequently visited by council officers because of a lot of complaints and we shut it down a couple of times for infestations. Not warnings, they were ignored as you'd expect, actual shut downs. I stayed at the one on Princess Parkway half way to the Airport. I was really struggling to find a hotel anywhere in Manchester. It was pretty grim on my first stay. The TV in the room didn’t work and there was a general aura of grime. I had already booked another stay around three weeks later and paid. In absence of any alternative I did go back again.
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Post by john07 on Apr 25, 2024 10:15:58 GMT
That boundary proposal looks like someone was trying to draw a poodle?
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Post by john07 on Apr 24, 2024 20:28:13 GMT
You’ve stayed at the Britannia then? How did you guess?! I stayed there twice. The second time was booked before my first visit.
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Post by john07 on Apr 24, 2024 17:12:16 GMT
Even if it’s a dingy B&B that hasn’t seen a lick of paint this century? If it's somewhere to sleep and get changed that's good enough for many an attendee. And you should see some of the hotel rooms in Birmingham and Manchester I've been in... You’ve stayed at the Britannia then?
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Post by john07 on Apr 24, 2024 1:10:30 GMT
As a delegate at one of the last Labour Party conferences that was held at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, I can say exactly why Labour stopped coming there after 2002 and the Conservatives stopped coming after 2007. It's simply not suitable as a modern conference venue. I went to numerous Labour Party Conferences at Blackpool, one as a delegate and others ex-officio as a Parliamentary Candidate. Back then it alternated between Blackpool and Brighton. Once, as a PPC, I was sitting next to Fenner Brockway. He gave me a lot of advice for the future. He would have been in his nineties back then. I did attend Regional Conferences at Blackpool. That meant that you could get to stay at the Imperial. At Party Conferences in Blackpool, everyone wanted to drink at the Imperial. After hours, non-residents could not buy alcohol. That was unless you could offer to buy a drink for a resident and get hold of their key and present it to the night porter.
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Post by john07 on Apr 23, 2024 20:50:49 GMT
The regions have been around for nearly sixty years long before the European Parliament elections. They were established initially as part of the Regional Policy initiative under George Brown and the Department of Economic Affairs. There were Regional Economic Planning Councils and Regional Economic Planning Boards. The former were talk shops with local worthies and the latter were composed of civil servants.
The idea was revived under Blair following Scottish and Welsh devolution (plus similar for Greater London) to do the same for the English Regions. This was strangled at birth when the referendum for the North End failed to deliver much support.
The regions may have shifted in shape in line with local government boundaries and with the transfer of Cumbria from the North to the North West. They are still retained for statistical reasons and for parliamentary seat redistribution. The Regions are not going to disappear .
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Post by john07 on Apr 23, 2024 9:55:49 GMT
Are Conservative and Labour transposed in Newcastle and Gateshead? I have been transposed as a newt in Newcastle a time or two. Never in Gateshead though.
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Post by john07 on Apr 23, 2024 9:36:21 GMT
If they are capable of making such a basic mistake, why should anyone believe anything they publish? I tend to be suspicious of polls for an election where a low turnout is expected regardless of the methodogy employed.
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Post by john07 on Apr 22, 2024 20:45:24 GMT
and their father of course was a Tory MP too. Not to be confused with Ronald Atkins, Labour MP for nearby Preston North, who died a few years back aged 104.
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Post by john07 on Apr 21, 2024 17:49:26 GMT
I presume someone is working on a more detailed rebuttal, could prove very interesting. Does everything it touches turn to shit?
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Post by john07 on Apr 21, 2024 9:43:27 GMT
So we have a situation where local and national politics don't mesh. In local political terms what they did made sense, in national political terms it didn't and in the end national politics will trump local politics where it is troublesome. They ought to mesh, though. Let's go through it again. Galloway, especially since being thrown out of the Labour Party 20 years ago, has had a consistently terrible record on antisemitism, quite apart from his uncritical support of bloody autocratic, and sometimes genocidal, régimes including Syria & Iran's clerical fascists - and before someone goes for the tu quoque, I am absolutely not a supporter of Israel's current administration, indeed I hate them with a passion, even though I believe in the state's right to exist within secure borders, and to defend itself where necessary. He goes far, far further than simply being an anti-Zionists, and this is why he was endorsed by the neo-Nazi and Jew-hater Nick Griffin. He also scandalously attempted to blame Naz Shah for what was essentially her statutory rape. He constantly pathetically but very nastily attempts to undermine legitimate free speech via threats of legal action. The list goes on and on. If Galloway wishes to say Vote Lib Dem in Spotland, there's nothing the LDs can do to stop him doing that; but even if he is currently the local MP, he should be totally beyond the pale in terms of posing for pics with him, and so on, and someone active in the Lib Dems at whatever level should be aware of that, surely. The endorsement of Galloway OUGHT to be something to be actively avoided, and repudiated if it happens; voters need to be made aware of what he really is, what he really stands for. Instead of which he wins elections from time to time, then swans around the country or indeed to other countries neglecting his constituents, and second time around they realise that he is not a good representative. You forgot him toadying up to Saddam Hussain and saluting his ‘indefatigability’!
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