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Post by meurig on May 29, 2012 10:20:02 GMT
Isn't he related to Owain Williams? Which one ?? The leader of Llais Gwynedd? If so, that must have been galling for Llinos Merks, the LLG candidate in Nefyn, having a relative of the party leader stand against you, beat you, and then join your party. LLG did remarkably well on the Llyn peninsula. They lost pretty much everywhere else (holding, I think, only Llangelynin and their byelection gain in Caernarfon) but have established a mini regional powerbase. Some of these seats are under threat from boundary changes next time, though. A lot of the Llyn ones are pretty under-sized. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 29, 2012 10:23:22 GMT
Another one is Owen Watkin James of Scleddau, Pembs, now listed as unaffiliated rather than Conservative. Is he another one the independents have promised an SRA to? |
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Post by meurig on May 29, 2012 10:36:06 GMT
Seemingly not, as he's one of the (rather numerous) unaffiliated councillors, rather than part of the indy group.
Pembrokeshire has been hit by an unusual outbreak of independent thought this year; or to put in another way a number of independent councillors have discovered a dictionary.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 29, 2012 14:17:23 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on May 29, 2012 14:29:24 GMT
That's a fairly unusual one. Maybe our resident Liberal might have a comment??
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Post by john07 on May 29, 2012 14:35:31 GMT
The Kidderminster Liberals were always a funny lot.. My wife used to work with Fran Oborski. Not that Fran actually showed up for work very often! |
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Post by Pimpernal on May 29, 2012 14:37:40 GMT
That's a fairly unusual one. Maybe our resident Liberal might have a comment?? who be that then? has our old one - I forget his name now - rejoined us? I hope so - he was a good contributor... |
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Post by john07 on May 29, 2012 14:45:53 GMT
That's a fairly unusual one. Maybe our resident Liberal might have a comment?? who be that then? has our old one - I forget his name now - rejoined us? I hope so - he was a good contributor... Name2Remember? If so, the answer is yes. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 29, 2012 14:51:13 GMT
who be that then? has our old one - I forget his name now - rejoined us? I hope so - he was a good contributor... If so, the answer is yes.  |
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Post by john07 on May 29, 2012 14:54:55 GMT
Name2Remember?If so, the answer is yes. I am glad that someone spotted the irony in my reply. |
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Post by Pimpernal on May 29, 2012 15:00:25 GMT
hmph - it was supposed to be me being ironic...  |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 29, 2012 15:00:27 GMT
I wasn't sure if it was deliberate irony in Pimp's question.
Incidentally I think this defection gives the Conservatives technical control of the council which they lost in May, it gives them 21 of 42 councillors anyway
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Post by iainbhx on May 29, 2012 15:21:29 GMT
I wasn't sure if it was deliberate irony in Pimp's question. Incidentally I think this defection gives the Conservatives technical control of the council which they lost in May, it gives them 21 of 42 councillors anyway I wonder if there might have been a SRA dangled? |
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Post by iainbhx on May 29, 2012 15:24:21 GMT
The Kidderminster Liberals were always a funny lot.. Very, very odd, but effective local representatives. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 29, 2012 15:26:15 GMT
I wasn't sure if it was deliberate irony in Pimp's question. Incidentally I think this defection gives the Conservatives technical control of the council which they lost in May, it gives them 21 of 42 councillors anyway The Chair is a Conservative, so the answer would appear to be yes. |
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Post by AdminSTB on May 29, 2012 16:07:57 GMT
The Chair is a Conservative   |
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Post by thirdchill on May 29, 2012 16:10:43 GMT
Have an exalt Kris, that made me laugh!
Hate the new method of referring to the 'chair'. How about 'Chairman' for men and 'Chairwoman' or even 'Madam Chairman' for women?
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Post by AdminSTB on May 29, 2012 16:11:58 GMT
I usually at least opt for chairperson...
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Post by john07 on May 29, 2012 16:46:42 GMT
I usually at least opt for chair person... Surely that should be chairper child! |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 29, 2012 16:53:53 GMT
All this talk of how it's "silly to call a person an object" is itself silly. It's quite common in English to refer to people by the symbol of their office: "the suits" for the management of a company, "the bench" for Magistrates, and even "Black Rod".
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