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Post by The Bishop on May 10, 2024 9:53:00 GMT
Get well soon young man
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 13:05:43 GMT
Well the first named is Labour's youngest in the entire country, I would be interested to know how many older than 85 there now are.
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 13:00:51 GMT
Isn't his old seat basically being abolished though?
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 12:58:54 GMT
I wonder when the first council vacancy from last week's elections is going to occur? Don't think it took very long a year ago.
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 12:55:05 GMT
Ah, had been wondering if that explained it.
Did some other lower level councils carry on voting in November after that?
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 12:51:51 GMT
Some of those other polls were at least partly before last week's election results were known?
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 12:47:23 GMT
Obvious outlier is obvious, but equally obviously still amusing.
Some are trying to rubbish this because YouGov got their last London mayor survey wrong, but the efforts in other mayoral races they polled were much closer to the mark.
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2024 12:42:39 GMT
So which year out of 1948 and 1949 did not have any local elections, and why did it move to a three year cycle subsequently?
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Post by The Bishop on May 8, 2024 15:35:58 GMT
Jan Ludvik Hoch *was* MP for Buckingham, that is a historical fact. Yes the seat back then contained what would become Milton Keynes, but also the eponymous town.
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Post by The Bishop on May 8, 2024 15:31:36 GMT
Southport were offered the chance to become a Lancashire district a while ago IIRC, they declined saying only unitary status would do.
They are likely too small for that to be viable now, even if they were a county borough in the good old days.
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Post by The Bishop on May 8, 2024 15:09:26 GMT
Thinking more about it, an MP, who misses Boris, defecting to Labour is quite a coup. Lots of traditional Labour supporters voted Tory for the first time because they liked Boris Johnson. They are the people Labour needs back. So, putting aside my emotional gut reaction to her, it is, from a psephological point of view, pretty smart. I doubt the target electorate are quite at that level of 4D chess understanding. Well obviously, but nor do they have the detailed knowledge of her "foibles" that very online people like us do.
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Post by The Bishop on May 8, 2024 15:03:36 GMT
is her husband coming with her or his he keeping his hands to himself this time Genuine question, didn't she totally wash her hands of him after his appeal failed? Unlike some, this at least is something I am reluctant to be too censorious about - I have personal knowledge of how hard it can be for those affected in such a situation.
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Post by The Bishop on May 8, 2024 14:59:52 GMT
Apropos of the previous discussion, I would not be happy to see George Osborne in the Labour Party. Any particular reason or is it a tribal issue? I repeat, he did a great deal to create the distinctly sub-optimal state we are now in - both economically and politically. At the very least, I would expect some repentance for that first - and indeed more than a token amount.
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Post by The Bishop on May 8, 2024 14:43:34 GMT
Are you absolutely sure about that?? I'm pretty convinced Mike Tapp was selected by us to fight Dover some time ago.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 13:52:00 GMT
Well that may be true in some cases but certainly not all. Seen their candidate for Stoke North?
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 13:45:40 GMT
I have no doubt of your last point in particular, but would still be surprised if that ever adds up to an actual Labour endorsement.
His representative on earth (ie Janan Ganesh) remains highly sniffy about Starmer and his party, which may or may not be an indicator here.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 13:25:34 GMT
Too tribally Tory, surely?
Which is maybe just as well, given that his "endorsement" would be at best a mixed blessing for us.
Not least because he is quite arguably THE architect of so much that is wrong with this country today.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 11:41:11 GMT
IMO in those circumstances the next willing candidate from any party (or none) who missed out in the original list election should get the nod.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 11:33:05 GMT
That is the official version, yes - but I believe other accounts are available.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 11:29:02 GMT
Mothin Ali, newly elected Green councillor for Gipton & Harehills, Leeds MBC, has apparently been suspended from the party for his tweet talking about white supremacists etc. Well I’m sure nobody could have foreseen that problem arising. Maybe the really interesting question is how many other Greens (and indeed LibDems) elected on an anti-Labour Gaza protest vote will end up embarrassing their party?
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