Rochester and Strood

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The bottom bar graph is the model I'll use from now as a tester

[greenchristian]

Nov 26, 2014 17:22:26 GMT doktorb🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ said:

The bottom bar graph is the model I'll use from now as a tester

Can I request that you put the earliest result at the top?

[johnloony]

It would also be much easier if the parties were listed in political order: Lab-Green-LD-Con-UKIP (with perhaps Others in between Green and LD)

[Pimpernal]

Nov 26, 2014 17:22:26 GMT doktorb🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ said:

The bottom bar graph is the model I'll use from now as a tester

the bottom bar graph was worse than your weird shapey graphs to be frank...

[Pete Whitehead]

It would be better with the amendment suggested by JOhn (though I would put Greens to the left of Labour)

[Richard Cromwell]

Would a fair observation be that the Greens are a Hard Left product with a Soft Left presentation and that Labour are a Soft Left product with a Hard Left presentation?

It certainly feels that way to me. The Labour Party has managed to maintain a reputation for financial incompetency and tribalism whilst ditching, once you face the facts, any commitment to the historic political left. 

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“The Rochester and Strood Constituency Conservative Association have lodged a claim against its former MP Mark Reckless to claw back thousands of pounds it spent on 2015 General Election campaigning literature before he defected to Ukip. Members of the association say Mr Reckless and his agent, Cllr Chris Irvine, who are both now Ukip members, were approving expenditure for campaign literature for next year’s general election, up to two days before Mr Reckless defected to Ukip Saturday, September 27. They say they had no alternative but to throw away the campaign leaflets.”

[carlton43]

Dec 17, 2014 21:25:02 GMT doktorb🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ said:

“The Rochester and Strood Constituency Conservative Association have lodged a claim against its former MP Mark Reckless to claw back thousands of pounds it spent on 2015 General Election campaigning literature before he defected to Ukip. Members of the association say Mr Reckless and his agent, Cllr Chris Irvine, who are both now Ukip members, were approving expenditure for campaign literature for next year’s general election, up to two days before Mr Reckless defected to Ukip Saturday, September 27. They say they had no alternative but to throw away the campaign leaflets.”

I can imagine the planning, budgeting and approving of proofs and expenditure, but it seems very early to achieve that quantity and value of material a full 6-months early? So, much can happen in half a year to upset arrangements! (death, accident, illness, retirement, 'personal circumstances', another job and defection).

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“It is almost Christmas: a time for caring, reflection, and forgiveness,” Mark Reckless tells UKIP supporters in a mass email this afternoon, before asking for festive donations to fund his defence against the Tories’ “sour grapes” legal action against him:

“The fact that the Tories are bickering over £3,000 when we all know they may have a £78m election war chest put together by their secretive clubs, and dodgy donors shows that this is just another cynical attack on democracy, on UKIP, and on the British people. It’s time for us to stand up and fight back, don’t you think?”

[gwynthegriff]

Dec 21, 2014 9:57:10 GMT doktorb🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ said:

“It is almost Christmas: a time for caring, reflection, and forgiveness,” Mark Reckless tells UKIP supporters in a mass email this afternoon, before asking for festive donations to fund his defence against the Tories’ “sour grapes” legal action against him:

“The fact that the Tories are bickering over £3,000 when we all know they may have a £78m election war chest put together by their secretive clubs, and dodgy donors shows that this is just another cynical attack on democracy, on UKIP, and on the British people. It’s time for us to stand up and fight back, don’t you think?”[/quote]

QTWTAIN

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Michael Crick's got a report on Channel 4 News this evening about how the Conservatives have massively overspent on three recent byelection campaigns - I expect this one will be featured.

[markgoodair]

Along with Newark.

[gwynthegriff]

What did you say bears did in woods?

[Sibboleth]

Issue encyclicals, I believe.