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Post by neilm on Jul 14, 2021 9:39:43 GMT
The Bishop is broadly correct: elections in Northern Ireland operate under different political 'rules.' Parliamentary elections don’t. That is indeed the case. Except they aren't in GB and vote shares for major parties should exclude them. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jul 14, 2021 9:44:49 GMT
The Bishop is broadly correct: elections in Northern Ireland operate under different political 'rules.' Parliamentary elections don’t. Bish means, as you very well know, that in NI normal socio-economic debate (as in most of GB) plays very much second fiddle to the constitutional question, with elections having a large element of sectarian headcount about them. Electoral law may be the same as in the rest of the UK, but the people operating under that law are a very different community of folk. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 14, 2021 11:15:31 GMT
And in a more concrete sense, the main GB-wide parties don't stand there (save for mostly token Tory and Green candidates in *some* seats)
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jul 14, 2021 11:22:31 GMT
And in a more concrete sense, the main GB-wide parties don't stand there (save for mostly token Tory and Green candidates in *some* seats) Aren't the NI Greens a separate party from the GPEW? |
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Post by greenchristian on Jul 14, 2021 18:43:18 GMT
Aren't the NI Greens a separate party from the GPEW? It has been a regional branch of the Green Party of Ireland for 15 years. It's never been affiliated with any of the Green parties on the mainland. It's been affiliated with GPEW and SGP in a similar way to the way they are affiliated with each other, despite not having its origins as a part of the original PEOPLE/Ecology/Green Party. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 23, 2021 12:33:42 GMT
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Post by cogload on Aug 23, 2021 13:10:00 GMT
Uh huh. So what happens now? |
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Post by greenhert on Aug 23, 2021 14:19:26 GMT
Uh huh. So what happens now? Nothing unless the police can find enough evidence to charge said candidate with election expenses fraud or a related offence. The deadline for election petitions in relation to this Hartlepool by-election has long since passed. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2021 14:25:18 GMT
Why is this only coming out now? The expenses should have been returned a while ago shouldn't they?
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 23, 2021 15:51:49 GMT
Uh huh. So what happens now? Nothing unless the police can find enough evidence to charge said candidate with election expenses fraud or a related offence. The deadline for election petitions in relation to this Hartlepool by-election has long since passed. It seems Rayner is after Boris for breach of ministerial code... But as we know, the PM marks his own homework on that. Tick. |
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Post by grahammurray on Aug 23, 2021 16:02:18 GMT
Uh huh. So what happens now? Nothing unless the police can find enough evidence to charge said candidate with election expenses fraud or a related offence. The deadline for election petitions in relation to this Hartlepool by-election has long since passed. The deadline is from when the expenses are published not polling day, and I think it's six months. |
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Post by peterl on Aug 23, 2021 16:06:03 GMT
Nothing unless the police can find enough evidence to charge said candidate with election expenses fraud or a related offence. The deadline for election petitions in relation to this Hartlepool by-election has long since passed. The deadline is from when the expenses are published not polling day, and I think it's six months. Its somewhat complicated depending on the circumstances, the provisions can be found here but it is certainly a lot less generous than six months. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Aug 23, 2021 16:12:37 GMT
Uh huh. So what happens now? Boris Johnson resigns, just like every minister who breaks the ministerial code. That's right, isn't it? Well, isn't it?  |
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Post by cogload on May 19, 2022 15:48:18 GMT
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Post by neilm on May 19, 2022 18:09:45 GMT
The judgement seems to have disappeared from the ET case list.
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Post by The Bishop on May 23, 2022 10:00:19 GMT
His spin before the last GE that he had been "cleared" looks all the more disgraceful. An absolutely shameful episode for the party all round, and one reason why its actually quite hard to argue that the byelection outcome wasn't deserved. |
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Post by stb12 on Oct 18, 2022 15:54:50 GMT
Who could have guessed the position the two parties would be in now about 18 months after this by-election?
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 18, 2022 15:57:45 GMT
Who could have guessed the position the two parties would be in now about 18 months after this by-election?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2022 2:14:25 GMT
Who could have guessed the position the two parties would be in now about 18 months after this by-election? … And 18 months from now. 🙂 |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 30, 2022 9:58:41 GMT
.....we will have a Labour government, hopefully?
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