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Post by carlton43 on Mar 18, 2017 21:25:00 GMT
Engineering the total independence of the Shetland Islands Group as on the same status as the Channel Islands, so that they own the oil and gas fields within the terms of the map drawing from their extensive boundaries. We assist with protection, police and NHS back-up, financial and fiscal provision for a proportion of the take. The rest is theirs and they go non-tax and become a tax haven. I also buy an island first. I have one in mind. This has important side effect of removing a considerable slice of revenue from Scotland and thus ensuring the barmy independence pretensions become less popular and less practical.
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Post by Richard Allen on Mar 18, 2017 22:16:41 GMT
Surely an evil billionaire would do something rather more significant than spend £5 million on a "pointless political cause".
In the spirit of the thread I will however answer that I would aim to have Liverpool Football Club banned from ever playing a football match again.
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Post by baloo on Mar 19, 2017 7:04:19 GMT
The Bar Chart Standardisation (Leaflets and Other Campaign Material) Act 2017. As the name suggests this would require a standardised representation of bar charts showing previous election results. It would also include a provision requiring all 16 year olds to attend a class on bar chart representation. If the correct wording could be devised it would also standardise what data could be represented in bar chart form to influence voters (i.e. you wouldn't be able to do a bar chart based on the heights of the candidates) and you would have to disclose what data was being shown in size 12 font.
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Post by peterl on Mar 19, 2017 15:45:21 GMT
I am hearing a rumour that Christchurch, under its new leadership, will be holding a referendum on the proposed council merger in Dorset. If so I would happily give my hypothetical £5 million to the No Campaign.
Otherwise, a heavy lobbying campaign in promotion of a law I would dearly love to see passed outlawing "shared space areas" and other contrivances that allow cyclists to ride on the pavement. I like the sound of the Bicycle Regulation Act.
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Post by Foggy on Mar 19, 2017 19:32:53 GMT
The Bar Chart Standardisation (Leaflets and Other Campaign Material) Act 2017. As the name suggests this would require a standardised representation of bar charts showing previous election results. It would also include a provision requiring all 16-year-olds to attend a class on bar chart representation. If the correct wording could be devised it would also standardise what data could be represented in bar chart form to influence voters (i.e. you wouldn't be able to do a bar chart based on the heights of the candidates) and you would have to disclose what data was being shown in size 12 font. I'd really like to think that this part would not be necessary. I am hearing a rumour that Christchurch, under its new leadership, will be holding a referendum on the proposed council merger in Dorset. If so I would happily give my hypothetical £5 million to the No Campaign. I'd give it to any serious campaign to get Christchurch (and Bournemouth!) back into Hampshire. |
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Post by peterl on Mar 19, 2017 19:38:54 GMT
If you ever fancy standing for Parliament in Bournemouth on that platform, my mother would probably vote for you. She's pretty darned keen on that idea.
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Post by Foggy on Mar 19, 2017 19:44:06 GMT
I don't particularly fancy spending £500 on that at this stage in my life, but it's nice to know I'd have a proposer (my cousin could be the seconder, I suppose). That's why I'd want the billionaire to fund the campaign.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Mar 19, 2017 20:03:21 GMT
The Bar Chart Standardisation (Leaflets and Other Campaign Material) Act 2017. As the name suggests this would require a standardised representation of bar charts showing previous election results. It would also include a provision requiring all 16-year-olds to attend a class on bar chart representation. I'd really like to think that this part would be necessary. Is that not already in the Maths curriculum? We were certainly taught bar, pie, line, etc. graphs when about ten or so. Definitely Primary School 'cos I can remember doing data sampling by wandering around the classroom and possible asking about peoples' pets. And, apropo that, we were taught /how/ to do data sampling. ie, don't all ask the same table about pets and then add up all the results and say 42 children in this class of 30 has a cat. If representation of data isn't in the Maths curriculum, then what the **** /is/ in the Maths curriculum nowadays? |
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Post by Foggy on Mar 19, 2017 20:09:03 GMT
I'd really like to think that this part would be necessary. Is that not already in the Maths curriculum? We were certainly taught bar, pie, line, etc. graphs when about ten or so. Definitely Primary School 'cos I can remember doing data sampling by wandering around the classroom and possible asking about peoples' pets. And, apropo that, we were taught /how/ to do data sampling. ie, don't all ask the same table about pets and then add up all the results and say 42 children in this class of 30 has a cat. If representation of data isn't in the Maths curriculum, then what the **** /is/ in the Maths curriculum nowadays? Yes, that was my thought about maths too. French, on the other hand, clearly does not enter onto the syllabus until later.  |
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Post by Richard Allen on Mar 19, 2017 20:16:19 GMT
If we're causing constitutional fun with our billions, I'll bribe Herefordshire, half of Shropshire, and the Forest of Dean into Wales. Strategic planning would be better that way, and elections less dispiriting. In that case I will be using my billions to offer a counter bribe to oppose your dastardly scheme and furthermore to bring parts of Wales along the Shropshire border into England. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 20:19:08 GMT
Id give it all to Momentum.
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 19, 2017 20:43:39 GMT
If we're causing constitutional fun with our billions, I'll bribe Herefordshire, half of Shropshire, and the Forest of Dean into Wales. Strategic planning would be better that way, and elections less dispiriting. In that case I will be using my billions to offer a counter bribe to oppose your dastardly scheme and furthermore to bring parts of Wales along the Shropshire border into England. This is already more exciting than the last series of Game of Thrones. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Mar 19, 2017 20:52:10 GMT
I am hearing a rumour that Christchurch, under its new leadership, will be holding a referendum on the proposed council merger in Dorset. If so I would happily give my hypothetical £5 million to the No Campaign. I'd give it to any serious campaign to get Christchurch (and Bournemouth!) back into Hampshire. They are already in Hampshire. That's not the same thing as being in the area governed by Hampshire CC. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 20:57:45 GMT
I would consider purchasing all of Caithness from its various owners and offering it free of charge to all Green Party supporters so thst they could form an co-operative ecocommune there. Id spend any money left over on huge fences and security cameras so I could watch as it descended into Lord of the Flies.
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Post by Foggy on Mar 19, 2017 21:07:46 GMT
I'd give it to any serious campaign to get Christchurch (and Bournemouth!) back into Hampshire. They are already in Hampshire. That's not the same thing as being in the area governed by Hampshire CC. Fair point. Would be nice to make that an administrative reality once again, though. I find it especially alarming that Bournemouth and Christchurch don't even appear to fall under the jurisdiction of Hampshire CCC anymore these days. |
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Post by baloo on Mar 19, 2017 21:30:48 GMT
In that case I will be using my billions to offer a counter bribe to oppose your dastardly scheme and furthermore to bring parts of Wales along the Shropshire border into England. This is already more exciting than the last series of Game of Thrones. I look forward to the red rose wedding which leads to Furness being reincorporated back into Lancashire. |
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Post by Foggy on Mar 19, 2017 21:35:46 GMT
I look forward to the red rose wedding which leads to Furness being reincorporated back into Lancashire. FTFY. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 19, 2017 22:15:39 GMT
This is already more exciting than the last series of Game of Thrones. I look forward to the red rose wedding which leads to Furness being reincorporated back into Lancashire. And in an instant the conflict has escalated. Skirmishes are reported on the Berks/Bucks border. It's just like 1914 all over again. |
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Post by Foggy on Mar 19, 2017 23:07:52 GMT
I look forward to the red rose wedding which leads to Furness being reincorporated back into Lancashire. And in an instant the conflict has escalated. Skirmishes are reported on the Berks/Bucks border. It's just like 1914 all over again. They have already caused £10million worth of improvements! I am working on the assumption that they are using Slough as a battleground, rather than fighting over Slough. |
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Mar 20, 2017 0:58:38 GMT
If we're causing constitutional fun with our billions, I'll bribe Herefordshire, half of Shropshire, and the Forest of Dean into Wales. Strategic planning would be better that way, and elections less dispiriting. In that case I will be using my billions to offer a counter bribe to oppose your dastardly scheme and furthermore to bring parts of Wales along the Shropshire border into England. I think you'll find that Powys is quite unambiguously Welsh, so attempting to put any part of it into England is a no-go. Now, putting parts of Flintshire and Wrexham into Cheshire, on the other hand... |
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