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Coker on Somerset (Deferred Election)
Last Council Election (2013): Con 28, Lib Dem 18, Lab 3, UKIP 3, Ind 2 (Conservative majority of 2)
Last Ward Election (2009): Lib Dem 1,454 (45%) Con 1,365 (43%) Green 249 (8%) Ind 131 (4%)
Last Ward Election (2009 Notional): Lib Dem 1,687 (46%) Con 1,559 (43%) Green 271 (7%) Ind 151 (4%)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006vm6j
Hardly.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325679/Nigel-Farage-bundled-police-van-barricaded-inside-pub-going-promote-Scottish-election-candidate.html
"The Church of England is a Catholic Church. Adherents to the Church of Rome are Romanists."
Excuse my (atheist) ignorance, but isn't the CoE protestant (not catholic)?
The Labour candidate is related to half of the Rotherham council past and present....cutting and pasting from my post on another place
"Rawmarsh contest is caused by the resignation of the South Yorkshire PCC Shawn Wright. Lisa Wright is his wife. Her mother is Cllr Lindsay Johnston from Wingfield ward. Her grandmother is former Cllr Joan Johnston (joined the council in the 60s and served as Mayor in 1981-82). Her great-grandfather is Bill Skelton (who joined the local council in the 40s and served as mayor in 1969)."
http://www.churchofengland.org/about-us/history.aspx
No Sharia
No caste system
No dress code (particularly for women)
No headgear
No dietary laws
Very well.
The tory press it is. There's plenty to choose from but here's a start.
We could of course go on. Now unless you find any of those protestors were councillors or any violence actually occurred against Farage, then I fear this comical outrage and whining from the right wingers at some noisy barracking protesters looks just a bit pitiful.
let's face it mick the Nats have fked up.
This is the kind of cringe I used to get when the Irishnats took people out and shot them on TV. If you're sensible you'll just say shouldn't have happened, not good for any Scot.
Oh dear, the right wingers were getting so excited too.
An opinion poll has painted a picture of a divided Britain – with Scottish voters rejecting independence for their country while English voters support it.
Try growing a pair.
Clegg is loathed and he gets paint thrown on him by his own side when he comes to scotland yet he doesn't whine like a child because some protesters turn up and start shouting at him.
I expect the Lib Dems to win in Weymouth, Labour to win in Rotherham (with UKIP a very strong second) and Somerset is anybody's guess.
So it has to descend into violence for you to condemn thuggish behaviour does it Mick? The fact that the police had to step in and the racist anti-English chants are all ok and acceptable in a democracy? All fair as it just balances out in the end eh?
I'm not defending Farage or other UKIP members. Racism and thuggery are not ok, no matter who displays it.
As I said earlier, the lack of self awareness is shocking.
Welcome to pb.com, Miss (?) B.
Just ordered a book which I think was recommended to me by Mr. Thomas some time ago (when I was asking for recommendations regarding medieval history). It's called By Sword and Fire: Cruelty and Atrocity in Medieval Warfare. Hopefully it'll help me get the level of horribleness (or the lack thereof) right.
It feels like bloody ages since I read some classical history. After this I'll have to see about finding some.
Who is supporting them? They're noisy idiots but they have the right to protest and every party leader knows that protesters are a fact of life which is why most are competent do enough preparatory groundwork to know how to deal with them and how to minimise their disruptive effect.
Most people are just laughing about it, don't see anyone all that angry on here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-worlds-racist-countries-answers-surprise-you.html
I happen to support the right to protest. The fact that this bunch were idiotic does not nullify that right as long as they remain non-violent. The police, as you just pointed out were there and public order was maintained.
Sorry but do you live in a bubble? Clegg, Mliband and Cameron all have conferences surrounded by a so called 'ring of steel' because protest is inevitable and accepted by grown up politicians.
Your point of view seems to be that the protestors acted like idiots, but anyone who complains about them acting like idiots is a whining right-winger.
Mick , maybe the pub landlord should put up a sign saying ; " No English , No UKIP , No dogs ."
I'm not an explicit (when it comes to sex anyway) sort of writer, though I imagine I'll have to deal with torture and rape at least indirectly. Uncertain right now precisely how much of that I'll have, hence buying the book.
Obviously I'll be killing lots of people, but I'm much more comfortable with that.
I rather think the stone is named after the place, not vice versa?
Aside from that, another brilliant write-up Harry.
(Incidentally, Portland cement has nothing to do with Portland; it is named because the dried concrete looks like Portland stone. I'll get my coat).
Remind me which party leader loathes Cameron because he branded UKIP "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists"?
Thatcher was a woman ,mother of twins and didn't have testicles.
Farage is a testicular cancer survivor with four children.
Salmond is childless.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/16/nigel-farage-edinburgh-protesters-van
" The Ukip leader was finally whisked away in a police riot van under a tirade of abuse from a crowd of about 50 young demonstrators – students, anti-racist campaigners and activists in the radical left pro-Scottish independence movement"
"the demonstrators chanted: "Nigel, you're a bawbag, Nigel you're a bawbag, na, na, na, hey!" with gusto."
Which tells you all you need to know about the protest and indeed the predictable screeching and plainly false outrage it has provoked.
We could point out one of the most infamous incidents in scotland of a politician diving for cover from protest and how well turned out for them but let's not spoil the fun.
I think I see why you feel the need to defend them though:
So, we’re anti British and anti English because we protest at his presence.
I would imagine such a statement might be enough to shift a few more ‘dinnae kenners’ over to the Yes camp.
Never been prouder of Scotland. :-D
BUT NOW THE HEAD IS UP & MY SOUL IS SOARING, to hear and see Scotland show the ‘UKIP’ shite exactlly what we think of their rotten politics and views.
Send Farage and his ilk back hame where they belong.
Oh Nigel. LOL.
It`s so pleasing to read the comments from outraged BritNat Tories on Twitter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22559526
That makes all this pant wetting false outrage far more then just risible. It makes it hilarious.
As for throwing people out of windows, I just wrote a chapter with such an occurrence (comedy, though).
Sean McGlynn had suggested not too long ago that Robin Hood lived in Tunbridge Wells.
I'll remember that come the inevitable 'discussions' about the debates. I await Cammie running and hiding in a pub from the debates because he's "frit".
Don't see anything racist or anti-English there.
And I'm sure you looked.
They still regard themselves as members of the universal catholic church (vs. orthodox or protestant). The Romanists tend to guffaw slightly at this propostion - they claim that Apostolic Succession was broken at the time the CoE separated.
Mick get real, this is a cringe moment for Scotland. I had 30 years of every time someone in NI did something constructive some dickhead would drag the place down into the mire. Now it's Scotland's turn, if you think this sells Glasgow 2014 or the great gathering grow up, to the rest of the british isles it says Scotland's shit. That's your homeland. You either get a grip of the nutters and stop Sturgeon egging them on or they'll drag you down into the dirt with them.
Don't tell OGH!!!
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 9m
I've just put a bet on at Ladbrokes on 2013 general election at 16/1. Hard to see how the CON & LDs can divorce without early election.
When did ever Mick_Pork ever get real about anything worthwhile. The fact is a braying leftist/nationalist mob, threatened real physical harm to Farage after calling him a Nazi thug and telling him to go back to England. It's ok to protest, it's not ok to threaten violence and in time the police were sensible enough help Farage leave the scene. I suppose that had real harm been done to Farage, the lefty response would have been: well he had it coming.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/109173-watch-a-live-stream-of-scotland-tonight-scotlands-current-affairs-show/
Nothing funnier than watching kippers resort to the same smear tactics Cammie used against them.
So you won't have any defence when it happens again. And unless you've been living in a bubble Cammie plans to do it again with CCHQ and Crosby watching every single councillor and high profile UKIP MEP you have from now on and feeding anything untoward to the rightwing papers.
I suppose it's possible, although since that isn't what happened, it seems a bit churlish to extend the criticism of them to include it as though it may as well have, just because some see no issue in what did occur. Surely that in itself is enough fuel for a soothing argument.
Personally it feels like a tad more than the usual sort of political antipathy, which surprised me as I'd have thought the response would be simple apathy to his visit given the disdain for others 'intruding' into Scottish affairs, but nothing to get too worked up about.