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The experience of postal voting is that electors tend not to leave their ballots hanging around and fill them in very quickly. So a week today we must assume that a sizeable proportion of the selectorate will have filled in their ballots and put them into the post.
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"Wilson, who has since left the force, was not indicted on any charge, and a Justice Department report found "no evidence" that he had shot at Brown while the teenager was running away or trying to surrender."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33856907
Just miss out the bit about Brown was a criminal that threatened the officer, attacked him and tried to seize his gun, before refusing to be arrested.
They were still repeating on the radio this morning the "unarmed black teenager shot by a white police officer" line.
This is highly irresponsible reporting.
Are we seeing the power of the press in reverse: 'You said he was rubbish, so he must be OK.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33847293
Compared to...
http://news.sky.com/story/1533281/teen-gets-11-years-for-stabbing-supply-teacher
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/teacher-stabbed-pupil-racist-attack-court-bradford
They could be right (they are the experts after all), but it does look like a thumb in the air guestimate.
Perhaps we are seeing one of the side-effects of the phone hacking scandal?
Labour supporters want him to win. Conservative supporters want him to win. And UKIP supporters want him to win.
I'd have thought this bit was more pertinent than his race:
http://order-order.com/2015/08/11/great-corrections-and-clarifications-of-our-time/
Thank you for providing so much entertainment over the usually quiet summer months.
Yours sincerely etc...
Just seen Mrs Balls on Sky - as we say in Lancashire, "she has got a face that would stand clogging."
Rumour has it, Gordon Brown is waiting in the wings to intervene and Mrs Balls is taking "the gloves off." zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Very impressive investigative journalism from Sky on the I.S. threat. Victoria Derbyshire show doing an item on "KNITTING" !!!!!
Perhaps he can be reformed to be a valuable member of society, but 3 years behind bars (Which is what he'll most likely serve) is far far too short a sentence. Will he even show any contrition or remorse by the time he's let out ?!
"...Sally Jones, a former punk from Chatham, Kent, is also in Syria working alongside Hussain in Raqqa but dealing with female IS-supporting jihadists."
Be surprised if he's the only one.
Perhaps he can be reformed to be a valuable member of society, but 3 years behind bars (Which is what he'll most likely serve) is far far too short a sentence. Will he even show any contrition or remorse by the time he's let out ?!
Given he was "yawning" as sentence was handed down, I fear not.
Perhaps he can be reformed to be a valuable member of society, but 3 years behind bars (Which is what he'll most likely serve) is far far too short a sentence. Will he even show any contrition or remorse by the time he's let out ?!
Given he was "yawning" as sentence was handed down, I fear not.
At the very least he should not be paroled after 3 years if he turns up to the parole board with the same attitude one would hope.
Perhaps he can be reformed to be a valuable member of society, but 3 years behind bars (Which is what he'll most likely serve) is far far too short a sentence. Will he even show any contrition or remorse by the time he's let out ?!
Can't we send him off to join ISIS?
I have just been talking about this story with my Dad, who is a 68 year old teaching assistant in a quite rough school on the outskirts of East London, asking him to be careful as he likes a confrontation..
We both agreed the kid had to be white as you don't hear of much Asian/Black racism...
Turns out it was Muslim vs Christian - much more understandable
Mind you, we read the story in the Daily Mirror
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/deplorable-east-fife-slam-section-6230737
Given, however, that "East Stirlingshire won 1-0 in front of 382 fans", could East Fife not have gone round to talk to the troublemakers individually?
I know you're not keen on them at all, do you know if techniques have improved?
His record is... not good.
Indyref - Intervention aka The Vow. That's worked out well...
May2015 - Intervention to save SLAB. That worked even better...
Now Labour Leader Contest.
I do hope he intervenes in May 2016.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/glasgow-city-council-rejects-bid-to-have-hope-over-fear-independence-rally-in-george-square.6220?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_term=Autofeed#link_time=1439273297
I hope there is a market on Labour ending up with zero councillors in Glasgow after 2017.
Stuart Ramsay and Sam Kiley are very plugged in. Terrible I can't remember the name of the lady who reported from the front line in Libya for Sky, but she was also top notch at getting intel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZzBOt5v88
Well now we have
"Powell had spent much of the 1940s in India, and had seen the communal violence which had swept the country around the date of its independence. The deep divisions between individual groups within the country had led to social discord, and eventually violence. In the year before India’s independence on August 15th, 1947, over half a million people lost their lives as a result of civil strife. It was this fear of communalism that spurred Powell into action.
Powell’s contention, based upon his experience in India, was that a failure to integrate foreign communities into the social fabric of a nation would lead to them forming their own separate social groups, and that this being the case, in times particularly of economic strife, violence would emerge as the cleavages between the interests of the local community and that of the newcomers became increasingly apparent and caused inter-ethnic friction. Powell had previously cited an example of this in 1967 in Birmingham. There, Sikh bus conductors objected to being constrained to wear the bus company’s uniform, and threatened violence if their demands for an exception to the rule on the basis of religion were not met. Despite initially refusing, after the threat of violence emerged, the local authority eventually acquiesced and changed the rules. Powell saw in this a dangerous precedent and predicted that this could be the beginning of a wave of communal violence.12 "
http://amsterdamlawforum.org/article/view/50/65
"This means while Kids Company boss Camila Batmanghelidjh was trying to obtain a £3million emergency bailout from the Cabinet Office in July, there was no way of knowing if the charity was operating the school with authorisation and oversight, the lack of which could be illegal. "
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/597373/Officials-probing-if-Kids-Company-school-was-UNREGULATED-when-ministers-paid-out-3m
That's on the same days as the English locals, Welsh Assembly, London mayoral and PCC elections, so it's a big round but I'd expect Scotland to lead the news.
Why on earth did Ed not limit the election to those who were members on May 7th or before or those who had at least a year under their belts? Doesn't take Einstein to work out that "anyone can vote for three quid" was open to abuse. He really was deeply crap.
On a further note I think you suggested earler that Labour electing Corbyn was like Arsenal having Gunnersaurus as manager. What has the cheerful sauropod done to deserve such a slur I ask?
Their brand is fine for targeting this market, they just need the right kind of tone on leaflets and party political broadcasts.
I think the facts speak for themselves. What's worrying is that the left of the Labour party is not listening.
Is this his brother:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Corbyn
"At the end of 2007, WeatherAction predicted that temperatures in January could plummet to −17 °C in the Midlands, and that the average temperature for January would be close to freezing. This prediction was dismissed by the Met Office in a Guardian article on 2 January.[21] After the January prediction proved false, Corbyn blamed the incorrect forecast on an undefined 'procedural error,"
"In August 2014 Corbyn confidently predicted that August 2014 would be dominated by southerly winds bringing very warm air across the British Isles resulting in the warmest August for at least 300 years as measured by the CET.[24][25] In the event, August 2014 was dominated by northerly winds resulting in a rather cool month "
"Corbyn is well known for his opposition to the idea of anthropogenic global warming. Corbyn has stated that the anthropogenic contribution to global warming is minimal with any increase in temperature due to increased solar activity"
But now, it really seems that they might well be.
Bloody Hell............
It will be interesting to see if the Vice Chair of KC and Chairman of Dauntsey's governors declared any conflict of interest when discussions about any bursary awarded to Batman's chauffeur's daughter took place.
Could we get dragged in there?
EDIT - also, of course, although this may sound a strange point to make, the prices of sugar and bananas. OK, we can live without bananas. But sugar's in a lot of things, many that people don't know about (bread, for instance) and that would have an impact on food prices.
The Green logic is Labour is led by someone who doesn't believe in AGW Labour activists and voters will switch to the Greens
Equally, given that the Trustee's names are public and there are only about 12 of them it wouldn't exactly have taken a huge amount of investigative time or effort to find out who.
'However, there are two important differences: (1) Lansbury was already a senior member of the Labour party, and had served in government and (2) he was elected unopposed because he was pretty much the only plausible leader to hold his seat (that the realistically canvassed alternative was Oswald Mosley is some indication of how desperate the party was). '
Surely point 2 is mistaken. Mosley fought the 1931 election as leader of the New Party and lost his seat.
There are worse jobs than being Gunnersaurus. I watched him on Sunday before the match finding all the most attractive women in the front row and giving them a hug. They all seemed pretty happy about this too.
You are part right - in the sense that he was no longer a party member. However, it was suggested that they offer him the leadership partly to get him back, because they thought he would be more effective than anyone else. At that time, there was no requirement that the party leader be an MP (there was a separate role, Chairman of the Party, although these had been combined since 1924). So he could have been leader and parachuted into a safe seat when one came up.
Meanwhile it was seriously proposed - and again, I am not making this up - that David Lloyd George, who had effectively left the Liberals and was sitting as an independent, be invited to act as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of the Labour Party until Mosley came back. In fact, Lloyd George had several conversations with Henderson on that very basis.
Neither of them happened, of course. Henderson in fact remained the leader until the following year, with Lansbury as party chairman, and then when he resigned Lansbury took over more or less by default as nobody else had been found. But it is tantalising to speculate what might have happened had either gone ahead. Tantalising - and rather frightening.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11796026/VAT-revolt-as-thousands-refuse-to-show-boarding-passes-to-airport-shops.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11794109/The-real-reason-airport-shops-want-to-see-your-boarding-pass.html
There are two focal points of blame, the trustees who behaved improperly even corruptly, and the organisations that have a duty to monitor. That the press didn't pick up on the story is regrettable but not culpable.
#AskingForAFriend
"Since 10pm on May 7th it has been a dream to be a Tory"
That's like saying after the Express imploded it's a dream being a Mail reader.
Well no it isn't. A Mail reader is still what a Mail reader's always been....
Some thought the left should be represented as a point of principle.
Some thought the left should be allowed to stand so they could suffer abject humiliation and never rise again (we all make mistakes).
Some were ordered to nominate him by Burnham, because Burnham thought it would...well, who knows?
Some were bullied into it by huge pressure on social media.
They added up to the required number and here we are.