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Post by tonygreaves on Aug 21, 2020 14:58:36 GMT
Only in Burnley... Cosima Towneley is also a Conservative Lancashire County Councillor and one the saner Tories in Burnley.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Aug 21, 2020 17:30:48 GMT
Only in Burnley... Cosima Towneley is also a Conservative Lancashire County Councillor and one the saner Tories in Burnley. The niece of SIr Peregrine Worsthorne and daughter of the wonderfully eccentric Sir Simon Edmund Cosmo William Towneley, who took the Towneley name when he inherited the baronetcy. Sir Simon is still going strong (as is his brother) at 98 years old. She is an impressive character and of the "stuff and nonsense" brigade. I am descended from Alice Towneley, daughter of Sir John Towneley, born at Towneley Hall, which now belongs to Burnley Council. The family have been part of local politics for 892 years and, as Recusants, suffered a lot of hardship. So I am something like a 16th cousin to Cosima, but that shouldn't distract from the Reivers, Irish potato merchants and serial Jacobite fornicators and divers others that also populate my family tree.
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Aug 21, 2020 20:15:04 GMT
Preston Tabois. Labour, Tottenham Green, Haringey.
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 21, 2020 20:47:43 GMT
Preston Tabois. Labour, Tottenham Green, Haringey. So that's two Tottenham councillors suspended or excluded at the moment....
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Post by neilm on Aug 22, 2020 15:21:05 GMT
His other stuff is high up on the loony stakes. He sends ridiculous emails to other councillors as well, with pseudo Court paperwork attached. Oh yeah, he's full-on freeman-on-the-land anti-5G anti-vax crazy time. I'm sure there were responses to this, but I can't see them. Anyway, Dobbo has been going into independent shops in Piccadilly ward (so not his own) and issuing 'fines' for asking him to wear a mask, payable to his company, on a handwritten invoice note, in green ink. He's a full on loon.
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Post by lancastrian on Aug 22, 2020 17:43:30 GMT
Oh yeah, he's full-on freeman-on-the-land anti-5G anti-vax crazy time. I'm sure there were responses to this, but I can't see them. Anyway, Dobbo has been going into independent shops in Piccadilly ward (so not his own) and issuing 'fines' for asking him to wear a mask, payable to his company, on a handwritten invoice note, in green ink. He's a full on loon. This appears to be his Twitter account: What does that even mean?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Aug 22, 2020 19:18:12 GMT
That's not lunacy. That looks like a shakedown.
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Aug 22, 2020 19:28:04 GMT
That's not lunacy. That looks like a shakedown. I feel the rozzers ought to inform him that it could be interpreted that way, in order to get the nuisance to cease. You've got to admire the lack of self-awareness involved in using actual green ink.
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Post by neilm on Aug 22, 2020 20:20:11 GMT
That's not lunacy. That looks like a shakedown. I feel the rozzers ought to inform him that it could be interpreted that way, in order to get the nuisance to cease. You've got to admire the lack of self-awareness involved in using actual green ink. I believe that he's been reported to the police now. One wonders how long he's been doing this, if anyone has paid and whether he deliberately walks into businesses with his invoice pad at the ready.
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Post by tonygreaves on Aug 22, 2020 20:34:36 GMT
I love the green ink.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 22, 2020 20:43:11 GMT
We have all met one. (Or more. My introduction was in the 1970s in Cardiff - Crimson King to note - and a guy who was firing off letters to the Duke of Edinburgh, in said green ink, claiming the Ruskies were flooding the UK with fake decimal currency.)
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Aug 22, 2020 21:30:46 GMT
We have all met one. (Or more. My introduction was in the 1970s in Cardiff - Crimson King to note - and a guy who was firing off letters to the Duke of Edinburgh, in said green ink, claiming the Ruskies were flooding the UK with fake decimal currency.) Apparently back in colonial days in Hong Kong green ink was reserved for the Governor, which made me wonder if that was some sort of back-handed comment on said official.
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Post by Crimson King on Aug 23, 2020 16:46:32 GMT
We have all met one. (Or more. My introduction was in the 1970s in Cardiff - Crimson King to note - and a guy who was firing off letters to the Duke of Edinburgh, in said green ink, claiming the Ruskies were flooding the UK with fake decimal currency.) Apparently back in colonial days in Hong Kong green ink was reserved for the Governor, which made me wonder if that was some sort of back-handed comment on said official. Thats a new one on me, my version of ‘whats wrong with green ink’ was something to do with bank people using it to make note on documents to distinguish it from the original writers, and thus people using green ink being a major pain
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Post by tonygreaves on Aug 23, 2020 16:48:08 GMT
It's the people who write in green ink and underline words in red...
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 23, 2020 22:30:14 GMT
Apparently back in colonial days in Hong Kong green ink was reserved for the Governor, which made me wonder if that was some sort of back-handed comment on said official. Thats a new one on me, my version of ‘whats wrong with green ink’ was something to do with bank people using it to make note on documents to distinguish it from the original writers, and thus people using green ink being a major pain In Lloyds green and patrician purple was reserved out to senior HO officials to make notes on memoranda and for Inspection Dept staff to annotate branch records and to list observations, recommendations and faults needing correction. It was a disciplinary offence for any other staff to use it or to be in possession of such a pen (or ink) at whilst at work.
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Post by neilm on Aug 24, 2020 0:43:32 GMT
When I was at school, I was told that examiners marked in red and moderators in green. I was lucky enough to get a copy of one of my A Level papers and noted that that was indeed the case, despite it being a photocopy.
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Aug 24, 2020 7:50:43 GMT
Thats a new one on me, my version of ‘whats wrong with green ink’ was something to do with bank people using it to make note on documents to distinguish it from the original writers, and thus people using green ink being a major pain In Lloyds green and patrician purple was reserved out to senior HO officials to make notes on memoranda and for Inspection Dept staff to annotate branch records and to list observations, recommendations and faults needing correction. It was a disciplinary offence for any other staff to use it or to be in possession of such a pen (or ink) at whilst at work. I presume that was the reason for the HK Governor thing. At top level you don't write original material, people bring you theirs and you get to approve or condemn it in a few words, and the startling colour makes the reader sit up. Hadn't heard of purple ink in banks before, I had a vague idea that was limited to popes or Byzantine emperors.
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Post by yellowperil on Aug 24, 2020 8:00:33 GMT
In Lloyds green and patrician purple was reserved out to senior HO officials to make notes on memoranda and for Inspection Dept staff to annotate branch records and to list observations, recommendations and faults needing correction. It was a disciplinary offence for any other staff to use it or to be in possession of such a pen (or ink) at whilst at work. I presume that was the reason for the HK Governor thing. At top level you don't write original material, people bring you theirs and you get to approve or condemn it in a few words, and the startling colour makes the reader sit up. Hadn't heard of purple ink in banks before, I had a vague idea that was limited to popes or Byzantine emperors. I think that's more or less how top people in banks view themselves.
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 24, 2020 9:09:12 GMT
When I was at school, I was told that examiners marked in red and moderators in green. I was lucky enough to get a copy of one of my A Level papers and noted that that was indeed the case, despite it being a photocopy. Prompted by these posts I've been doing a bit of digging into the history of green ink and its associations but presumably should post it somewhere else to avoid further thread drift...?
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