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Post by michaelarden on Sept 2, 2024 21:27:31 GMT
Obviously - but why pick someone so flaky? I've also heard that she was subject to some internal complaints at the time. It seems very strange when they could have simply pickednany number of dull, loyal functionaries. To be a Lib Dem parliamentary candidate you have to go through an approval process (centrally run). That approval then means you are available for selection. The approval in this case could have been some years ago. Interesting thanks. But surely with a snap election there would have been a rush to fill all sorts of hopeless seats - would every Lib Dem candidate have to go through a full approval process?
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Post by iang on Sept 2, 2024 21:36:11 GMT
Yes they would, but the process might become more perfunctory as there was a rush to approve candidates for hopeless seats. Maybe she expected to be selected for a better prospect? But that would be down to the local / regional party
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Post by Khunanup on Sept 2, 2024 21:38:10 GMT
To be a Lib Dem parliamentary candidate you have to go through an approval process (centrally run). That approval then means you are available for selection. The approval in this case could have been some years ago. Interesting thanks. But surely with a snap election there would have been a rush to fill all sorts of hopeless seats - would every Lib Dem candidate have to go through a full approval process? Yes. From the start of the year there were more panels done (because the election was definitely coming this year) to ensure that we had as many as possible approved ready for selection so we had significantly more than enough prior to the election for all candidates to have been through the full process.
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Post by carolus on Sept 3, 2024 10:30:56 GMT
Folkestone & Hythe, New Romney (2027). David Wimble, Independent to Reform UK.
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Post by cathyc on Sept 3, 2024 11:46:51 GMT
Folkestone & Hythe, New Romney (2027). David Wimble, Independent to Reform UK. Re-member you're a Wimble.
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Post by batman on Sept 3, 2024 12:31:30 GMT
Perhaps Madame Chilet?
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Post by uthacalthing on Sept 3, 2024 19:11:39 GMT
It's a long way away from me, so I have no knowledge to impart. Is Folkstone connected to the Underground? Or just overground?
And is the defection related to the frequency of bin collections and recycling targets?
Is he pro the council coalition? Or NoCo?
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Post by carolus on Sept 3, 2024 19:33:10 GMT
It's a long way away from me, so I have no knowledge to impart. Is Folkstone connected to the Underground? Or just overground? And is the defection related to the frequency of bin collections and recycling targets? Is he pro the council coalition? Or NoCo? This ward is of course served by the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch railway.
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Post by uthacalthing on Sept 3, 2024 19:38:49 GMT
Time flies by when you're the driver of a train
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Post by Foggy on Sept 3, 2024 20:49:59 GMT
It's a long way away from me, so I have no knowledge to impart. Is Folkstone connected to the Underground? Or just overground? And is the defection related to the frequency of bin collections and recycling targets? Is he pro the council coalition? Or NoCo? This ward is of course served by the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch railway. Isn't Folkestone a place from which one can enter the Chunnel? Which would make it connected to the underground, just not directly to the Tube.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Sept 3, 2024 21:25:48 GMT
I'm sure we've done all these puns about this group of councillors before. You lot really orca know better. dont get the hump(back) You sei that ...
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Post by gwynthegriff on Sept 3, 2024 21:30:04 GMT
This ward is of course served by the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch railway. Isn't Folkestone a place from which one can enter the Chunnel? Which would make it connected to the underground, just not directly to the Tube. I remind Hon Members that the Tube forms part of the Underground, but not all of the Underground is Tube. Visit a station served by both and you'll be struck by the differences.
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Post by batman on Sept 4, 2024 5:41:38 GMT
Well even the parts (actually a majority) which are not actually underground, for example my local station Kew Gardens, are often colloquially called the Tube. However some people do get confused and think that the London Overground is the part of the Underground that isn’t actually underground. It isn’t, it’s a separate network like the DLR.
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Post by sanders on Sept 4, 2024 5:43:39 GMT
Tubes from 1863 referred to tunnels. The train goes through the tunnels. So the Overground doesn't really count. Richmond to Stratford's a nice line. I used to fear the tube, That was because of watching 7/7. The news coverage was really harrowing. I was with my grandparents then. I think we saw C4 coverage.
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Post by Chris from Brum on Sept 4, 2024 7:17:12 GMT
There are just two lines that are completely underground - the Victoria line and the Waterloo & City Line (the Drain). All the others emerge into the daylight in the outer reaches.
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Post by batman on Sept 4, 2024 8:00:44 GMT
The Waterloo & City is the oldest deep-level (i.e. tunnelled, not cut & cover) surviving underground railway in the world. Younger forum members may not know that it was not until as recently as the 1990s that it finally became part of the London Underground. Before that it was British Rail & predecessors. It had very strange sausagey rolling stock but nowadays the trains are very similar to those found on the Central Line. I used it as part of my journey back from a family wedding two nights ago. A few Underground lines are now entirely in Labour constituencies, this being one of them.
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Post by bigfatron on Sept 4, 2024 8:07:17 GMT
The Waterloo & City is the oldest deep-level (i.e. tunnelled, not cut & cover) surviving underground railway in the world. Younger forum members may not know that it was not until as recently as the 1990s that it finally became part of the London Underground. Before that it was British Rail & predecessors. It had very strange sausagey rolling stock but nowadays the trains are very similar to those found on the Central Line. I used it as part of my journey back from a family wedding two nights ago. A few Underground lines are now entirely in Labour constituencies, this being one of them. Known by regular users as ‘the Drain’…
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Post by timrollpickering on Sept 4, 2024 10:21:10 GMT
The Waterloo & City is the oldest deep-level (i.e. tunnelled, not cut & cover) surviving underground railway in the world. The City & South London Railway opened eight years earlier and part of it survives within the Northern Line.
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Sept 4, 2024 10:31:07 GMT
The Waterloo & City is the oldest deep-level (i.e. tunnelled, not cut & cover) surviving underground railway in the world. Younger forum members may not know that it was not until as recently as the 1990s that it finally became part of the London Underground. Before that it was British Rail & predecessors. It had very strange sausagey rolling stock but nowadays the trains are very similar to those found on the Central Line. I used it as part of my journey back from a family wedding two nights ago. A few Underground lines are now entirely in Labour constituencies, this being one of them. Remarkably few of them, considering just how few London constituencies are not Labour now - apart from the Waterloo & City, the only ones seem to be the Circle, the Hammersmith & City - and the Bakerloo, provided one counts only stations or discounts the section of line between Kenton and Harrow & Wealdstone where it runs alongside the West Coast Main Line along the boundary between the Labour Harrow West and Conservative Harrow East constituencies. Otherwise: - The Central Line runs through Woodford (Chingford, Conservative)
- The eastern end of the District Line is at Upminster (Hornchurch and Upminster, Conservative) and two of the western branches end at Richmond (Richmond Park, Liberal Democrat) and Wimbledon (Wimbledon, Liberal Democrat)
- The northern end of the Jubilee Line is at Stanmore (Harrow East, Conservative)
- The Metropolitan Line runs through Northwood (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, Conservative)
- The Northern Line runs through Archway (Islington North, Independent)
- The Piccadilly Line runs through Finsbury Park (Islington North, Independent)
- The Victoria Line also runs through Finsbury Park (Islington North, Independent)
For completeness, the Elizabeth Line runs through Romford (Romford, Conservative), and into various other Conservative and Liberal Democrat constituencies outside London; and, on the Overground: - The Liberty line runs entirely through Conservative constituencies, from Romford (Romford) to Upminster (Hornchurch and Upminster)
- The Lioness line runs through Hatch End (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, Conservative)
- The western end of the Mildmay line is at Richmond (Richmond Park, Liberal Democrat), and it also runs through Canonbury (Islington North, Independent)
- The Suffragette line runs through Upper Holloway (Islington North, Independent)
- The northern end of a branch of the Weaver line is at Chingford (Chingford, Conservative)
- The Windrush Line also runs through Canonbury (Islington North, Independent)
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Post by batman on Sept 4, 2024 11:28:11 GMT
It’s that bloody Corbyn. He ruins everything.
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