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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2024 6:03:22 GMT
Karol Sikora blocked me on Twitter a long time ago for pointing out that he was falsely using the title professor. Since then he has become a professor at the rather eccentric private University of Buckingham.
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Post by john07 on Jun 25, 2024 11:03:21 GMT
Karol Sikora blocked me on Twitter a long time ago for pointing out that he was falsely using the title professor. Since then he has become a professor at the rather eccentric private University of Buckingham. But it was granted a Royal Charter in 1983 and can call itself a University so there was no deception. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2024 12:14:29 GMT
Karol Sikora blocked me on Twitter a long time ago for pointing out that he was falsely using the title professor. Since then he has become a professor at the rather eccentric private University of Buckingham. But it was granted a Royal Charter in 1983 and can call itself a University so there was no deception. Well no, because he called himself a Professor (and specifically at Imperial College, where he had no ties) for a long time when he wasn't one. Then suddenly he was in the limelight and a lot of attention was drawn to his claimed academic title, and that's when the University of Buckingham stepped in and appointed him as one. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 1, 2024 22:37:50 GMT
Based on what I've heard about their campaign I still think the Conservatives have a chance here.
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Post by batman on Jul 2, 2024 4:08:49 GMT
Based on what I've heard about their campaign I still think the Conservatives have a chance here. it would be quite something if they didn’t even have a chance in a seat with a majority as high as here |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2024 5:06:08 GMT
This area is quite dilapidated and there's a lot of voters who will switch to Reform as well as Labour. I think it's a three-way marginal. Nothing 'Great' about Yarmouth though. LAB 36% RFM 30% CON 27% OTH 7%. We need to encourage more short-haul holidays and ban easyJet, Ryanair etc to help the area.
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Post by flagman on Jul 2, 2024 7:03:57 GMT
Labour 4/9 Reform13/8 Conservative 16/1 Bet 365
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Post by yernemuth on Jul 4, 2024 16:02:58 GMT
Voted at about ten past eleven and was told that I was the 200th voter at the polling station. I asked if I'd won anything but just democracy, apparently.
In total we had seven leaflets and a knock on the door from Labour, two flyers from each of the Tories and Reform, and one from the Lib Dems; also a form letter from Hope Not Hate asking us to vote for whoever was best-placed to defeat Reform.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2024 2:44:16 GMT
Reform gain
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Post by right on Jul 15, 2024 9:20:33 GMT
Is the new Reform MP Rupert Lowe very rich? He's promised to give away his MPs salary every month to a different local good cause every month. yernemuth has this been noticed locally? |
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Post by yernemuth on Jul 15, 2024 9:33:02 GMT
I think that was in his literature, of course he made the same promise when he ran in Kingswood. (https://www.reformparty.uk/kingswood-constituency-by-election). I couldn't tell you to what extent people are aware of that, but he's quite active on Facebook and I imagine he'd highlight donations there.
Edit - £4k to Great Yarmouth Town FC.
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Post by right on Jul 15, 2024 10:01:51 GMT
I think that was in his literature, of course he made the same promise when he ran in Kingswood. (https://www.reformparty.uk/kingswood-constituency-by-election). I couldn't tell you to what extent people are aware of that, but he's quite active on Facebook and I imagine he'd highlight donations there. Edit - £4k to Great Yarmouth Town FC. Yes, I can imagine knowledge of these donations will start to trickle down. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 15, 2024 16:14:13 GMT
Is the new Reform MP Rupert Lowe very rich? He's promised to give away his MPs salary every month to a different local good cause every month. yernemuth has this been noticed locally? He's pretty loaded...and not a name to mention in front of Southampton fans. |
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Post by hengog on Jul 15, 2024 16:30:27 GMT
Is the new Reform MP Rupert Lowe very rich? He's promised to give away his MPs salary every month to a different local good cause every month. yernemuth has this been noticed locally? He's pretty loaded...and not a name to mention in front of Southampton fans. I suppose this is ok under electoral law? It feels like something out of Trollope. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2024 16:35:01 GMT
So Reform made Yarmouth great again?
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Post by Yaffles on Jul 15, 2024 16:40:42 GMT
Is the new Reform MP Rupert Lowe very rich? He's promised to give away his MPs salary every month to a different local good cause every month. yernemuth has this been noticed locally? He's pretty loaded...and not a name to mention in front of Southampton fans. I really don’t like this - smacks of 19th Century paternalism to me and surely comes dangerously close to vote buying. Maybe I’m over reacting but do we really want to go down such an obviously patrician road? |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 15, 2024 16:44:14 GMT
He's pretty loaded...and not a name to mention in front of Southampton fans. I really don’t like this - smacks of 19th Century paternalism to me and surely comes dangerously close to vote buying. Maybe I’m over reacting but do we really want to go down such an obviously patrician road? It's one of those things that looks good at first glance and then you realise what it actually entails. Ironically it isn't that different to the old Militant line of a workers wage for a workers rep, and handing the rest over to certain chosen causes. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 15, 2024 16:49:12 GMT
This result throws up a question. How many MPs have been Chairmen of top flight football clubs? I know Geoffrey Robinson was Chairman of Coventry City but I don't think that was when they were in the Premier League.
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Post by right on Jul 15, 2024 16:51:09 GMT
He's pretty loaded...and not a name to mention in front of Southampton fans. I really don’t like this - smacks of 19th Century paternalism to me and surely comes dangerously close to vote buying. Maybe I’m over reacting but do we really want to go down such an obviously patrician road? Vote buying is pretty ineffective with a secret ballot. |
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Post by spqr on Jul 15, 2024 16:53:04 GMT
This result throws up a question. How many MPs have been Chairmen of top flight football clubs? I know Geoffrey Robinson was Chairman of Coventry City but I don't think that was when they were in the Premier League. Jack Dunnett was (I think) chair of Notts County when they were in the old First Division. |
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