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Post by carlton43 on Apr 25, 2024 21:16:45 GMT
I regret I don't know anything them or the candidate. They are a UKIP splinter led by former London Assembly member David Kurten, so I thought they might be at least somewhat to your taste, or at least more to your taste than to mine. (Not that they are standing in my ward.) I know nothing about the candidate. Thanks. Possibly a mistake on my part, but it doesn't matter as they won't win, anymore than any of those other would have done, or indeed the Conservative.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 25, 2024 15:53:45 GMT
I don't like tactical voting and only indulged in it in Scotland to try and defeat Kennedy. Even then I rather despised the action even if it was in a very good cause.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 25, 2024 15:42:30 GMT
Just going out to make our postal votes for Mayoral (SDP) and Beauchief and Greenhill (Conservative). There were no UKIP, Reform or allied parties available so I did it on which candidate do you least dislike basis. It's really about LibDem or Labour for the council - the Tories third, then Green, then either Heritage or TUSC. Mayoral, Labour to win, the SDP last. Well not for me old chap. I dislike the Labour candidate and would never vote LD under any circumstances. TUSC is totally out of my frame and know nothing at all about Heritage. I assume it is not the political wing of National Trust? The Conservative is OK but won't win. I don't actually care very much who wins the ward, the city or the GE.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 25, 2024 15:33:52 GMT
I regret I don't know anything them or the candidate.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 25, 2024 14:58:40 GMT
Just going out to make our postal votes for Mayoral (SDP) and Beauchief and Greenhill (Conservative). There were no UKIP, Reform or allied parties available so I did it on which candidate do you least dislike basis.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 21:58:10 GMT
I’m actually supporting NVA, I’m just saying that Belgium really shouldn’t exist. Despite all the political squabbling, Belgium is a good example of a state where 2 language groups generally cooperate to create a relatively successful state. That's something I'd think an Israeli would be interested in... You've not been there have you?
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 14:48:45 GMT
I came across a little gem entirely by accident called Saint-Hubert which is insular, upper crust and very old school (or it was when I visited?) and I liked the built environment which was classy and distinguished. I got on very well with people I encountered in hotels and on the streets. For about 10-years I detoured to spend the night there and was very spoiled by the hotel and sometimes asked to join a large party for a bit of a feast at no expense to me. Best end Belgian cuisine is superb. Couldn't agree more. When it comes to classic European cooking, the Belgians really know what they're doing. Even down to meatballs and potato croquettes in a pub. I found Belgian wine in the supermarket the other day. Really unusual. I haven't opened it yet so no idea how bad or good it is! This really is a matter of taste. I am a French classics appreciator, but also best end of Italian, Californian, Australian and South African. The Hock scandals put me off from German. I have never taken to Alsace, Belgium or Switzerland for wines despite being coaxed to some of their best products.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 14:19:18 GMT
The whole length of the coast tram, with time in both termini, and Ostend. It wasn't the place so much, I found the people quite cold and unfriendly. Quite a contrast to Antwerp and Ghent and a world away from a lot of Wallonia That does surprise me. Knokke is definitely pretty cold but De Haan struck me as very friendly. There are definitely some very hostile spots in Wallonia! I've found the friendliest Belgians are in Limburg, Luxembourg and the two halves of Brabant. I came across a little gem entirely by accident called Saint-Hubert which is insular, upper crust and very old school (or it was when I visited?) and I liked the built environment which was classy and distinguished. I got on very well with people I encountered in hotels and on the streets. For about 10-years I detoured to spend the night there and was very spoiled by the hotel and sometimes asked to join a large party for a bit of a feast at no expense to me. Best end Belgian cuisine is superb.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 12:11:42 GMT
When canvassing I knocked on a door with male and female residents of the same surname on the electoral roll (names changed for obvious reasons) A female answered the door. Me - Mrs Smith? Female- No. I've replaced her I have many such memories of similar responses. "Did you mean Valerie? Happy to report she died in an accident two years ago." "No. I never married the twerp. But we still live together." "No. But I live here with Valerie. It is Mr Smith who got the push." etc., etc.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 11:57:57 GMT
Whenever I hear that word 'vibrant' used in that context I reach for my metal baseball bat. Same when I hear boomers talk :-) My remark was jocular, abstract and impersonal. Your rejoinder is nasty, personal and very broad. I don't really know what purpose is served by those silly phrases like boomers or generation X and frankly I don't want to know and have no interest the whole daft confection. I am pretty sure that whatever a boomer is I am not one, so it doesn't apply to me anyway.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 11:03:48 GMT
In what way was Blackpool a suitable Conference venue back in the 60s/70s /80s in a way that it has ceased to be? At one time Scarborough was also regularly chosen - but appears to have been dropped even further back than Blackpool /Brighton. In the 60s/70s/80s conferences were largely platform based, with very little beyond the main hall and only one item at a time occurring and crucially with very few external attendees. In terms of the main event a quick Google says the Winter Gardens auditorium has a capacity of 7,000. Manchester Central and Liverpool ICC both have seating for 11,000 The move from coastal resorts to cities allows larger conferences in more vibrant surroundings (bars, restaurants etc as well as a wider set of accommodation options). Back to Blackpool, another major problem it has of course is it is somewhat geographically isolated. Whenever I hear that word 'vibrant' used in that context I reach for my metal baseball bat.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 24, 2024 10:58:45 GMT
This by the same nepo toff that wrote the article about the marsh farm estate in Luton. Does he get off on dramatised poverty. It’s highly unedifying shit journalism. The truth always hurts. But it is the truth.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 23, 2024 12:06:27 GMT
Is there a dog/s? Is it at large in the garden? Does the bell work? Is there anyone in? Are they shift workers asleep? Is it a meal time? Am I interrupting a soap or a match on TV? Did I wake the baby? Where is the letter box? Has it got a kocker hanging over it? Does it have a strong spring flap and a stiff brush behind it? Is it a toe level? Is it vertical? Are there dog's teeth close behind it? Have I just dropped al the other leaflets in a puddle? Woden, I need a toilet? Will they ever stop talking? What should I say? Well are they for or against? What about other members of the household and voting? Is it safe to enter and drink their tea? Am I wasting more time? Is she/he serious about 'going upstairs'? Will this lead to front page of the Argus next week? An offer to join them for dinner and to stop working today? Another oral lambasting! A very detailed reason why the events of 1981 caused her to hate us! Can you help me move this grand piano? Do you still offer transport? Yes. What time on Polling Day? I mean down the shops now! Can you sit in and watch the kid while I go? It is a rich and eventful life on the knocker. You forgot small child saying "My mummy only sees men by arrangement". I tended to know all those addresses and got them on someone else's list! It was the enthusiastic amateurs who always caught me out.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 23, 2024 11:54:11 GMT
Will be interested to see whether the issues around Gateshead FC being barred from the National League promotion play-offs affect the outcome in any wards. There does seem to be palpable anger around. To compile with EFL rules - and to stand a chance of getting promotion to League Two if successful in the National League playoffs starting this evening - there was a requirement of a 10 year security of tender required on EFL club's stadium. Gateshead Council which owns the stadium did not provide this - as they are in process of transferring ownership of the site to a third party (as they say the stadium runs up a deficit of over £800k) - and they did not want to make any commitments if they could not transfer the site. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gateshead-fc-play-hopes-rocked-29034318www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gateshead-fc-national-league-play-29040781comply tenure
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 23, 2024 11:48:34 GMT
We're keen on canvassing too - we were the first party to adopt a proper phone app to record it - but we do major on leaflets because they substitute for the media coverage that the Big Two get. I'm surprised not to have been canvassed by Labour, as I have been in the past, but I'm in a side street and you can't cover every house. Personally I thought the Labour candidate's cv appeared more impressive than the Green and if that's borne out I would expect canvassing to be effective What’s it like door knocking and how do you deal with it. Is there a dog/s? Is it at large in the garden? Does the bell work? Is there anyone in? Are they shift workers asleep? Is it a meal time? Am I interrupting a soap or a match on TV? Did I wake the baby? Where is the letter box? Has it got a kocker hanging over it? Does it have a strong spring flap and a stiff brush behind it? Is it a toe level? Is it vertical? Are there dog's teeth close behind it? Have I just dropped al the other leaflets in a puddle? Woden, I need a toilet? Will they ever stop talking? What should I say? Well are they for or against? What about other members of the household and voting? Is it safe to enter and drink their tea? Am I wasting more time? Is she/he serious about 'going upstairs'? Will this lead to front page of the Argus next week? An offer to join them for dinner and to stop working today? Another oral lambasting! A very detailed reason why the events of 1981 caused her to hate us! Can you help me move this grand piano? Do you still offer transport? Yes. What time on Polling Day? I mean down the shops now! Can you sit in and watch the kid while I go? It is a rich and eventful life on the knocker.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 23, 2024 10:32:58 GMT
An AfD staffer in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Quite why China needs to bother when the German economic and political establishment are happy to help, who knows. It's probably a blind to cover their backs and to damage their major opposition.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 23, 2024 10:17:43 GMT
And Leicester has popped up in Norfolk... 'Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once ... Essex to Suffolk ..... And Leicester to Norfolk go'
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 22, 2024 18:21:18 GMT
If I were a Mr or Mrs Solesbury-Timms I would definitely avoid giving my child a name beginning with an R. Why? What’s wrong with the initials RST? This is Remove Lower 5th humour for gigglers in the back rows who are 'slow' and who don't do girls. R Solesbury = R Soles = RSoles = Arseholes Geddit? They are ecstatic with mirth and glue substances now on the back row.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 22, 2024 13:05:36 GMT
Who thinks late night sittings would be a viable option in this day and age? 😳 A generation of tired tim, shallow wimps, would find it all too much. When used to "working" from home and spending more time with a screen than their partner, it would be unconscionable.
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 22, 2024 11:13:17 GMT
If this is true it's a massive polling fail. If it is 'true', why is it a polling 'fail'? If it is a polling 'fail', can it still be true?
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