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Post by neilm on Dec 16, 2022 10:02:44 GMT
It is good to see local radio coverage (in Chesham that volunteer station was the only media outlet there), but also rather annoying that there are no by election specials. It isn't like the BBC is miles away. I don’t think the BBC even carried the result; they were interviewing some American who doesn’t like feeling feminine and by the time I’d got to Sky News the Mayor was reading the SDP candidate’s numbers. Oh it was the Mayor? I suppose they don't get the chance that often, and if it was my civic year I would.
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Post by neilm on Dec 16, 2022 9:07:23 GMT
Steve Topping from MEN at count, a single tweet so far :- link Haven't found anything on Trafford council web site. Result to be posted here, perhaps? link I guess Sky news, Radio5Live & BBC news will cover result, but I don't hold out much hope of some background analysis. Bizarrely, the local radio station, Hits Radio News, seem to be Tweeting from the count (@hitsmcrnews); they’ve already got an interview with Lucy Powell up. As they’re counting at Old Trafford the result could be very late depending on how much Fergietime there is… It is good to see local radio coverage (in Chesham that volunteer station was the only media outlet there), but also rather annoying that there are no by election specials. It isn't like the BBC is miles away.
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Post by neilm on Dec 15, 2022 17:57:37 GMT
"On a services per platform per hour basis, Cornbrook is the busiest station in the UK and one of the busiest in the world." That's a good pub quiz fact.
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Post by neilm on Dec 15, 2022 14:02:56 GMT
I particularly like the chap who talks about rebelling and how Keir Starmer is shafting people.
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Post by neilm on Dec 14, 2022 0:39:29 GMT
Hutchinson sounds like he's in the Councillor Party.
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Post by neilm on Dec 13, 2022 19:25:14 GMT
Lincoln has a university campus in Holbeach. I think it's a food science and manufacturing place.
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Post by neilm on Dec 13, 2022 18:38:41 GMT
They also have a 'brewing science' department, which is probably duller than it sounds. They invited me and a few other beer writer types to some sort of open day thing a few months ago, but it clashed with my trip to tick off a bunch of Spoons around Glasgow. The consensus was indeed that I didn't miss all that much and I almost certainly had a better time than those who attended.
Apart from disliking most of the stuff they do, my principle reason for disliking Thornbridge stuff when I worked in pubs in Sheffield was how they used to go on about how they were brewing chemists, that it was all about science and so on. I've just looked and they don't say that on their website anymore.
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Post by neilm on Dec 13, 2022 12:28:34 GMT
To paraphrase David Boothroyd, bankruptcies no longer mean automatic disqualification. Hold on a second, WHAT? Bankrupts can now be MP's? When did that happen? The legislation is the Enterprise Act 2002 which came into force in, I think, 2005. As I understand it, a bankrupt can't be elected but a member in office stays in post. I may be wrong, I haven't had time to check. I also haven't checked whether a parliamentary salary is counted as earnings for bankruptcy purposes although that was previously the case.
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Post by neilm on Dec 12, 2022 23:04:48 GMT
Number ten seems a bit out of synch with the rest I absolutely do not want to get into a discussion about the EU or covid, but my personal impression is that the most fanatical rejoiners are also the most fanatical about covid restrictions. Maybe to do with that. Or maybe they worry that a Lib Dem meeting will get taken over by EU related discussion. I'm guessing a bit admittedly.
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Post by neilm on Dec 12, 2022 20:33:54 GMT
Welcome Mark. You have joined in time to elect a new admin! Is he in time to be the new admin? (This is how things work in Lib Dem local parties; someone observed in the Yellow Room that in the Conservatives being the local Party Chair(man) would be a position of power and responsibility, but in the LDs it just means you were the last one standing when everyone else had dodged it.) Nominations close tomorrow... In some associations it is very much like that!
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Post by neilm on Dec 12, 2022 19:41:01 GMT
Welcome Mark.
You have joined in time to elect a new admin!
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Post by neilm on Dec 12, 2022 13:01:04 GMT
Who do they think is responsible? One of the two left on the Executive? Probably the World Economic Forum.
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Post by neilm on Dec 8, 2022 15:30:54 GMT
Stephen Hulme, Plymouth, Con to Ind.
This puts the council on 24 C, 24 L, 2 Green, 2 Ind and 3 Ind group.
There are two by elections looming as the councillors who moved to Gloucester have resigned. Both seats are, on paper, Con holds.
Hulme has left over budget decisions (specifically rubble and green waste charges) and the planned changes to the layout of, and specifically trees on, Armada Way which have gone down like a bucket of cold sick locally. He had previously left the group but rejoined after the election last year to give the Conservatives a majority.
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Post by neilm on Dec 8, 2022 0:06:54 GMT
Linked with Nottingham, the more quintessential student city, but it's probably at capacity, so yes they recently created a Lincoln 'base' for the medical degree. Ironically, aspiring vets who choose to study at Nottingham are based in Sutton Bonington, which is a small rural campus 10 miles away (in Rushcliffe if you really want to know, but off-campus students choose to live in Kegworth, NW Leicestershire, and the campus itself is closer to Loughborough.) A friend who read Genetics there was also sent to Sutton Bonington because it has a seed archive. Allegedly they had a project to genetically model a new cattle breed but they knocked it on the head when it looked like it would similar to Heck cattle, and who wants to be the one breeding second generation Nazi super cows. They also have a 'brewing science' department, which is probably duller than it sounds.
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Post by neilm on Dec 7, 2022 10:36:51 GMT
I'm going to found a third just to annoy rockefeller You'll make me (Lincoln) green if you do.
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Post by neilm on Dec 7, 2022 6:52:59 GMT
Lincoln has two universities now.
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Post by neilm on Dec 7, 2022 1:52:02 GMT
Not in a competitive race and a good deal of suspicion that he was controlled opposition. By the way, Jim DeMint delenda est. I'm glad Greens has been mentioned. I have a question that has been at the back of my mind: his Wikipedia entry says that he tried to pay the filing fee from his own money rather than from a campaign account, but then later says that he was required to pay the filing fee from his own money. Which is correct? Was he required to pay into a campaign account and specifically use those funds?
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Post by neilm on Dec 6, 2022 11:15:54 GMT
People on Plymouth Live moan about the market there too. "It used to have some great stalls, I used to go to [insert name] for shellfish and [insert name] used to do great pasties. NOW IT IS TERRIBLE AND THE COUNCIL IS TO BLAME" and so on. All from people who live in Australia or Spain or wherever and who clearly haven't been in decades.
I suspect that Reach deliberately encourage this sort of thing to get clicks.
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Post by neilm on Dec 5, 2022 11:27:14 GMT
but voted down at the full DNC allegedly at the behest of then Chairman Howard Dean who, it is rumoured according to Dingell, was trying to frontload pro-Clinton States. This was totally unrelated, of course, to Dean angling for a job in a putative Clinton administration.
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Post by neilm on Dec 5, 2022 10:24:22 GMT
Epping Forest, Grange Hill (2023). Sheree Rackham, Conservative to Independent. Warwick, Bishop's Tachbrook. David Norris, Conservative to Independent. Sheree Rackham was a councillor I think in Waltham Forest previously. Is this a deselection issue? london(ex)tory might know, I think she was the candidate in his ward this year.
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