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Post by carlton43 on Jun 9, 2024 23:01:45 GMT
I don't believe that you actually have experience clearing out hippopotami or hippopotamuses. I don't think carlton43 has either, although he has had a very long working life. My working life started immediately post-school in 1960 and lasted roughly 33-years until enhanced early retirement in May 1993 on eve of my 50th birthday. It is therefore probably not a long working life and certainly not a very long working life! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2024 3:18:41 GMT
I stick to my view that Labour missed a trick here. Izzard would show Sian the door in this seat.
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Post by batman on Jun 19, 2024 6:13:07 GMT
I really don’t think so. Eddie isn’t as popular as you think. Tom Gray is a strong candidate but so is Sian Berry
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Post by right on Jun 19, 2024 7:47:25 GMT
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Post by rcronald on Jun 19, 2024 7:51:28 GMT
Labour is too right wing! The Tories have no chance! You should vote Berry! |
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Post by right on Jun 19, 2024 7:56:16 GMT
Labour is too right wing! The Tories have no chance! You should vote Berry! That's the gist |
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Post by right on Jun 19, 2024 7:59:27 GMT
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jun 19, 2024 10:55:22 GMT
There were 2 of them-1 in the Gower by-election and 1 in the Mitcham & Morden by-election, both in 1982. The press reported at the time that they chose their candidates by drawing names out of a hat. Donovan, the candidate in Gower, was quoted as saying that every elector should have a computer terminal installed in their home, so they could vote on anything at any time. It'll never catch on!  The Wolverhampton Press and Star reported the following year that the pupils at Colton Hill Comprehensive were having a mock election, with the winner getting to be headteacher for a day. One of the kids chose to be a Computer Democrat.
Was the candidate called 6⅞? |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 19, 2024 11:47:59 GMT
The press reported at the time that they chose their candidates by drawing names out of a hat. Donovan, the candidate in Gower, was quoted as saying that every elector should have a computer terminal installed in their home, so they could vote on anything at any time. It'll never catch on! The Wolverhampton Press and Star reported the following year that the pupils at Colton Hill Comprehensive were having a mock election, with the winner getting to be headteacher for a day. One of the kids chose to be a Computer Democrat.
Was the candidate called 6⅞? ARTHUR How does one find fractions on an old-style 'clackety-clack' keyboard? It is quite new, free-standing and wired into my CPU. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jun 19, 2024 12:06:58 GMT
Was the candidate called 6⅞? ARTHUR How does one find fractions on an old-style 'clackety-clack' keyboard? It is quite new, free-standing and wired into my CPU. I can never remember so used Google to search for it, then copied and pasted from the result. I do the same for accents when typing in Italian on a keyboard (whereas I have an Italian keyboard on my phone). |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2024 5:26:02 GMT
I really don’t think so. Eddie isn’t as popular as you think. Tom Gray is a strong candidate but so is Sian Berry I'm only going on what friends in Brighton & Hove tell me. This person went to Lewes Priory school and has lived in Hove for 15 years and speaks highly of Eddie. He was planning to campaign for Izzard (since Kyle is safe in Hove & Portslade) but not now. I don't know how representative of Brighton & Hove Labour that view is. My dad has also seen Izzard and concluded that he would be too much of rebel on the green benches and hence might have been trouble for "Keith" (not my word). |
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Post by batman on Jun 20, 2024 6:45:29 GMT
Your dad with the greatest of respect is not right. Despite appearances Eddie Izzard is politically very orthodox and is a straight-down-the-line Starmer supporter whose candidacies for the NEC have been supported by the party’s factional right.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2024 7:34:10 GMT
Your dad with the greatest of respect is not right. Despite appearances Eddie Izzard is politically very orthodox and is a straight-down-the-line Starmer supporter whose candidacies for the NEC have been supported by the party’s factional right. My dad's 'hot take' was that Izzard, although fairly establishment by your metrics, would pivot left to keep the Greens out in Brighton Pavilion at the next election. |
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Post by Kristofer Keane on Jun 20, 2024 19:47:34 GMT
Been in this constituency and Lewes the last couple of days. The main thing I noticed about Brighton was there was very little visible electioneering going on at all, aside from a couple of Green windows. Lewes had Lib Dem posters all over the place.
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Post by batman on Jun 20, 2024 20:32:28 GMT
that's unusual for Brighton. Normally there are plenty of posters up especially in the more central wards.
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Post by right on Jun 21, 2024 14:25:41 GMT
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Post by tonyhil on Jun 21, 2024 16:09:48 GMT
Not really sure what is 'close to the wind' about it - hard hitting maybe, but completely defensible.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 21, 2024 16:49:55 GMT
It's not merely similar to Labour leaflet design, it's extremely similar to an extent which looks like 'passing off'.
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Post by jamesdoyle on Jun 21, 2024 20:38:51 GMT
It's not merely similar to Labour leaflet design, it's extremely similar to an extent which looks like 'passing off'. If it was promoting a candidate, giving the impression that candidate was Labour, and that a vote for that candidate was a vote for Labour. But it's promoting voting Green, prominently so. There is no pretending there. |
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Post by tonyhil on Jun 22, 2024 15:59:30 GMT
I reported getting a generic A5 Labour leaflet in Winchester yesterday, but now I look at it again I see it is addressed to my son-in-law, his son and my grandson - and has been forwarded from the address they have recently moved from in Brighton Pavilion. I find this astonishing in a seat that I presume they are contesting seriously.
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