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Post by john07 on Jul 31, 2019 22:28:29 GMT
It’s a pity the whole thing wasn’t flooded out when I stood in a local by-election in Hazel Grove (Norbury/Torkington) Ward for Stockport Metropolitan District Council, back in 1976.
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Post by john07 on Jul 31, 2019 16:14:06 GMT
I know Owlerton stadium well. I have been there several times to watch Sheffield Tigers v Edinburgh Monarchs speedway. A fixture I have also seen. One of only a handful of pre-war greyhound stadiums still staging speedway (I think Newcastle, Wolverhampton and Birmingham are the only others) Edinburgh Speedway ride at Armadale Stadium which started as a dog track in 1939.
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Post by john07 on Jul 31, 2019 13:44:19 GMT
It is very difficult for the country to go to the dogs anymore. When John referred to a stadium near the "United ground" I immediately thought of the original United rather than the newcomers from Newton Heath. But the dog track (still going) in Sheffield is near the Wednesday ground I know Owlerton stadium well. I have been there several times to watch Sheffield Tigers v Edinburgh Monarchs speedway.
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Post by john07 on Jul 30, 2019 23:12:01 GMT
Maybe john07 remembers this, but I found yesterday that Hazel Grove once had a greyhound stadium. It appears to have been sold for development in 1960. I did live in Hazel Grove as a child before the family moved to Cheadle Hulme but had no recollection of the dog track. There was another at White City near to United's stadium that survived until 1981 and the Albion Stadium in Salford that closed in 1976. Belle Vue is the only remaining dog track in the Manchester area and even that is under threat. I have been to that for both dogs and speedway although the latter have moved to a new purpose built stadium.
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Post by john07 on Jul 30, 2019 22:43:32 GMT
The General Teaching Council for Scotland ran, at least until recently, a racket obliging teachers from other UK countries to register with them via a long, expensive and tedious process. Teachers from other EU countries were exempt! England's teaching council was abolished some years ago and does not seem to have been missed. It used to be (maybe still is) very difficult to get a teaching post in Scotland with an English PGCE qualification. One of my former colleagues’ wife had a Northern Irish qualification and had to jump through hoops to get qualified. My late wife, with a PGCE from Warwick, didn’t even bother to try when we moved to Edinburgh. She went into the University sector instead.
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Post by john07 on Jul 30, 2019 21:02:25 GMT
Germany has all sorts of rules about required qualifications you need for particular jobs. Which you can only get in Germany.... The point is that we did have issues with freedom of movement because of the draw of the English language. But our own deregulation hardly helped. Ah yes, another racket. A friend of mine found another oddity in Belgium. She is English, a teacher, and applied for a job as a teacher having been an assistant. The Walloon authorities refused her application, on the grounds that although she had a degree in French and German from a British university, it was deemed that she could not prove that she spoke English to degree level! Try applying for a teaching post in North Wales unless you were born in the area and went to somewhere like Bangor Normal College.
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Post by john07 on Jul 30, 2019 15:07:25 GMT
From Farnborough? It is not that central to the global aerospace industry. Quite. It'd be a bit like protesting against shipping emissions by standing in the ward that the NEC is in because it hosts a boat show. One of my former students was sponsored by British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield. He told us that anyone who even mentioned a slightly anti-nuclear statement in a local pub there was likely to be beaten up. They were very protective of their jobs. I can image what would have happened to anyone standing in a local election on an anti-nuclear programme.
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Post by john07 on Jul 29, 2019 19:06:34 GMT
Councillor Alain Dekker, St Marks ward, Farnborough, Rushmoor Borough Council has resigned. He was elected May 2019 and is moving to Berlin. His partners Employment is being relocated to Germany. He gained the seat from the Tories as a Lib Dem in May. By-election confirmed for 12th September. Would I be right in thinking that's the ward that contains the airfield where the international air show is held? If so, I wonder if the Greens will stand and raise their concern about airline travel? From Farnborough? It is not that central to the global aerospace industry.
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Post by john07 on Jul 28, 2019 21:31:23 GMT
Whereas you've been termed "irrelevant". TTFN. As I haven't run as an MP, that statement is irrelevant... It’s still true though!
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Post by john07 on Jul 24, 2019 22:44:07 GMT
Or in numbers (which makes it look more impressive): John Ernest EDWARDS (Independent) 85 Virginia ROUNDING (Independent) 84 David James BARKER (Independent) 50 Paul Andrew O'BRIEN (Labour Party) 42 Ciara Marie MURPHY (Independent) 22 Emma PALMER (Indepedent) 3 Is that a big swing to or from the Independents?
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Post by john07 on Jul 23, 2019 18:01:34 GMT
Most of them are hounded from office, as voters think they were sold a pup. You may be barking up the wrong tree there.
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Post by john07 on Jul 19, 2019 0:27:30 GMT
Frankly, looking at that result Downs North would have been a good place for Lib Dems to have stood aside for the Greens? Not so much 'stood aside' as not butted in.
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Post by john07 on Jul 16, 2019 0:58:23 GMT
No fine days, as it might as well rain until september. That would be Brill. Just like the Building.
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Post by john07 on Jul 13, 2019 17:44:55 GMT
Tell that to EU citizens during a general election Or, for that matter, 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland during the same. Interesting article: www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=3051Confirms my long-held view that the voting age should be raised. It confirms that people do not think fully rationally until they are 25 or so; this explains why so many youngsters are lefties. This comment tends to confirm my view that senile old farts should have to pass a test to retain voting rights.
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Post by john07 on Jul 6, 2019 0:01:50 GMT
Well! Only some minds Lord Copper. Followed closely by .... FujairahHave you considered Umm Al Quwain?
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Post by john07 on Jul 5, 2019 23:54:03 GMT
An Austrian joke is no laughing matter.
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Post by john07 on Jul 4, 2019 1:54:53 GMT
A daft thread I know, but a bit of fun What elections or events would be fun to discuss? How would the political group membership change? But it did exist years ago!
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Post by john07 on Jun 23, 2019 20:25:38 GMT
First of all, Guto Bebb is not that liberal or pro-European. Secondly, Jane Dodds was selected as Liberal Democrat candidate for Brecon & Radnorshire before the recall petition closed. According to his Wiki he only joined the Conservatives after failing to get the Plaid nomination for Caernarfon, where he was Constituency Chair, on Dafydd Wigley’s retirement. I would have thought being a North Walian standing in a Mid or South Wales seat was also somewhat akin to Alex Ferguson standing in Liverpool. Or in Manchester?
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Post by john07 on Jun 23, 2019 14:55:10 GMT
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