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Post by neilm on Sept 12, 2021 13:07:30 GMT
At least you know what he's up to now.
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Post by neilm on Sept 8, 2021 14:34:55 GMT
"now looking for a job in the Barcelona area as an agronomist". Is that a metaphor?
Maybe he wants to maximise bread and fish production.
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Post by neilm on Sept 6, 2021 18:34:56 GMT
He'll always be Tampax to me. Another bloody scandal.
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Post by neilm on Sept 5, 2021 9:16:29 GMT
George Galloway's vehicle was campaigning in Leicester today.👀 Has he got a bus or something?
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Post by neilm on Sept 4, 2021 14:19:01 GMT
Although I think the flying bishops are on an archdiocesan basis, with Richborough looking after one half of the province and Ebbsfleet the other half. Which apparently has caused some annoyance in the dioceses of Truro and Exeter who wanted a flying bishop named after somewhere over there. I think that's because they had quite a lot of anti-WP anglo-Catholic parishes there. Generally in RC areas the Church of England is low, whereas in areas with a lot of nonconformity it's often High. Market forces: come to us for an alternative. I wonder if it's especially low in places that were hotbeds of recusancy. EDIT: typo
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Post by neilm on Sept 4, 2021 13:41:47 GMT
I believe that the suffragan bishopric is named for Ebbsfleet, Thanet rather than the rather odd new place. No idea whether that's for an historical reason, like there was a minster or large abbey there years ago. Richborough and Ebbsfleet (which are next to each other) is the supposed place where St. Augustine landed to convert England, according to Wikipedia. Every day is a school day! I didn't know that.
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Post by neilm on Sept 4, 2021 13:41:08 GMT
Ebbsfleet is a very strange place to have a bishop It's a suffragan bishop with a nominal see to title a flying bishop rather than an area bishop and the post was specifically created to handle parishes opposed to ordinating women. The Bishop of Richborough was created the following year for the same reason and has also seen one incumbent resign to convert to Roman Catholicism. I suppose they wanted places in the Diocese of Canterbury (east Kent) that were not otherwise in use and neither of these is exactly a bustling metropolis. Although I think the flying bishops are on an archdiocesan basis, with Richborough looking after one half of the province and Ebbsfleet the other half. Which apparently has caused some annoyance in the dioceses of Truro and Exeter who wanted a flying bishop named after somewhere over there.
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Post by neilm on Sept 4, 2021 13:18:49 GMT
Ebbsfleet is a very strange place to have a bishop I believe that the suffragan bishopric is named for Ebbsfleet, Thanet rather than the rather odd new place. No idea whether that's for an historical reason, like there was a minster or large abbey there years ago.
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Post by neilm on Sept 4, 2021 11:52:28 GMT
& he is married with 2 daughters. So discussions similar to Ronaldo keeping the no:7 shirt will have come to nothing . An historical footnote, some years ago a fellow HMP RC Chaplain and I had to stop an Anglo-Catholic colleague from quitting as he said he had heard of a done deal where the vast majority of Forward in Faith priests and bishops were to be accepted, en-bloc, into communion with Rome. We pointed out the unlikeliness of this - there was a lot of wishful thinking by a number of Anglican bishops that they could be "grandfathered" into the Church as married bishops, but this was never going to happen, not least due to the much more important ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox and Oriental churches, with whom it would never wash. When the Personal Ordinariate came along, only a handful of bishops crossed the Tiber as the loss of ecclesiastical authority and status (not my words, but those of former C of E bishops disappointed in their former colleagues) seemed to be too much for them. The drop in salary from the CofE to the Roman Church probably didn't help either.
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Post by neilm on Sept 1, 2021 9:31:14 GMT
Be careful Harry. We've discussed this before. No vulture behaviour about byelections. We have indeed discussed this before. You are on one side, and almost everyone else is on the other.
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Post by neilm on Aug 25, 2021 22:38:45 GMT
That's what happens when you take too much Methodism with your Marx Flippant of course, but I've long tried to figure out what exact tenets of Methodism the Labour Party coopted. Moralising.
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Post by neilm on Aug 25, 2021 7:51:14 GMT
I wonder if there's also an issue in the Labour Party related to activity. AIUI, Labour groups have requirements that you must attend n campaign sessions every year if you're on the panel, and that those are whipped for councillors. Could prove to be a pain in the bum for even the most committed activist.
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Post by neilm on Aug 25, 2021 7:39:28 GMT
He's a busy man, what with being made a trade envoy this week.
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Post by neilm on Aug 24, 2021 20:19:57 GMT
Didn't she get into some hot water for saying that the leader of LB Wandsworth was a race traitor or something similar?
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Post by neilm on Aug 24, 2021 20:17:19 GMT
Is conversion therapy a type of spiritual abuse? I'm struggling to think of another example of something, that on the face of it, seems to be nonsense.
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Post by neilm on Aug 24, 2021 14:11:45 GMT
Can we get sight of this report?
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Post by neilm on Aug 24, 2021 14:09:23 GMT
It was early in the morning and I think the fact that neilm may have been playing a little joke on us went over my head No I hadn't read the original post correctly. I knew one was Southall Broadway anyway (but missed that) and couldn't work out the other. As you say, very early in the morning.
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Post by neilm on Aug 24, 2021 6:28:43 GMT
Euro 2004 is an excellent election because the main parties got a similar vote share, small parties did well; and above all because we have the results by ward in London (it was held on the same day as the mayoral election). Note this is without allocating postal votes, so in reality it's a tad more blue. Shades: 20-25, 25-30, 30-35, 35-40, 40-45, 45-50, 50-55, 55-60, 60-65 Blue - Conservative Red - Labour Orange - Lib Dem Green - Respect Purple - UKIP Best ward for Conservatives: Royal Hospital (K&C) - 58.2%. Labour: Southall Broadway (Ealing) - 63.4%. Lib Dem: Chaucer (Southwark) - 36.9%. Respect: Green Street West (Newham) - 46.5%. UKIP: Gooshays (Havering) - 28.0%. Which are the two good Labour results in the far west? One is Southall Broadway but which is the other?
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Post by neilm on Aug 22, 2021 18:23:00 GMT
What is this stuff about moral turpitude? Have we wound the clock back to 1905? No, the point is that Harold Wilson drove a coach and horses through the criminal law in 1967. So we can't just ban felons now, because felony has been abolished. And really the system of declaring just about anything spent for certain purposes based on time elapsed does not achieve the same thing. I'd much rather turn the clock back to about 1964. But as an alternative I was suggesting importing a useful common law concept from another common law jurisdiction. Christ alive, the Americans are a puritanical bunch.
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Post by neilm on Aug 21, 2021 14:25:34 GMT
Centralising power over policing in one individual is the problem. The problem is that the individual has no real power. I'd give them operational control.
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