Finchley: 1st September Lancaster: 26th July Burnley: 26th July Pendle: 15th September Blackpool North: 27th July Amber Valley: 27th July Pudsey: 8th September Elmet: 8th September Dunbartonshire East: 2nd September
Every time you try to patronise and dismiss Danny Alexander by using the nick name the 'park ranger' to describe him, you remind me of his previous very local links to his constituency before politics.
Kennedy and Ming Campbell,if he stands, will keep their seats.
More than likely. Which isn't to say they can take it for granted because they definitely can't. Yet I somehow doubt they will be struggling to get lib dem activists to help them in their seats while little little Danny could well find himself quite lonely, for some unfathomable reason.
I'd love to see the Lib Dem membership figures in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. Hope Danny has a dug to keep him company knocking doors.
His problem might well also be from those who used to be lib dem members joining in the campaigning against him. It's not as if there was any danger of there being a lack of willing folk keen to help defenestrate him from other parties.
The wee park ranger is a very big target. Maybe Clegg will pop by to 'help' him?
I hate to break it to you but he's a politician right now, he's going to face an election as a politician in 2015, and he's hardly a very popular politician.
His previous local links might have come in handy for a job after politics but I suspect he and Clegg will land on their feet with some lucrative city or Europe job.
Finchley: 1st September Lancaster: 26th July Burnley: 26th July Pendle: 15th September Blackpool North: 27th July Amber Valley: 27th July Pudsey: 8th September Elmet: 8th September Dunbartonshire East: 2nd September
You must be one of the last people left that believes New Labour's A&E waiting times weren't fiddled..
'Hundreds of NHS hospitals 'fiddled' casualty waiting times to meet Government targets, it emerged yesterday.
Two-thirds of accident and emergency departments brought in extra staff during the testing period or benefited from the cancellation of routine operations.
This allowed them to move patients off trolleys and on to wards within the target period of four hours.
The casualty con was caused by Ministers pressuring NHS trusts to hit targets so Labour could claim the health service was improving, it was alleged yesterday.
Doctors and MPs said the trick made a nonsense of a target that 90 per cent of patients should pass through A&E within four hours.
The deception was unearthed by a British Medical Association survey of the steps taken by trusts to hit their targets during one week's monitoring in March.
Don Mackechnie, chairman of the BMA's Accident and Emergency committee, said: 'I am appalled to see how A&E departments have been forced into taking extraordinary measures for a week-long period just to meet political targets.
'It is completely immoral of the Government to claim that it is raising the standard of performance in the NHS when this is how they measure it.'
"A group of Conservative MPs have demanded that Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, resign ahead of the publication of an official review. He was previously the health secretary until 2010. Official figures released in Parliament claimed that Labour ministers were sent about 1,500 notifications, mostly from patients, about problems at 14 NHS trusts that are now under scrutiny."
One for the tea party tories since it obviously still hasn't sunk in.
Stafford Hospital report: At a glance
Staffordshire NHS scandal
More than a year after it finishing sitting, the final report of the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal has been published.
It is long. It runs to three volumes and contains nearly 1,800 pages. The executive summary alone is more than 100 pages long.
And there are a total of 290 recommendations. But what does it actually have to say? The hospital's board should take ultimate responsibility
The report is clear - fault lies with the board at the time.
It was the board which took the decision to pursue a cost-cutting drive to achieve foundation trust status and it was the board which refused to listen to the complaints of patients and - at times - staff.
The report said it "failed to appreciate the enormity of what was happening and reacted too slowly, if at all".
An interesting future topic of discussion IMO would be on the chances of the number of female MPs reaching 200 at the next election. At the moment there are 147.
Not a problem,fiction is Saint Five bellies forte.
Re Salmond's alleged joke ;
" Addressing workers at Nigg Energy Park in the Cromarty Firth, he revealed he had played with American golfer Phil Mickelson in the pre-tournament pro-am at the Scottish Open earlier in the week.
“There were obviously a few nerves on the first tee when I was playing with Phil Mickelson,” he said.
“But I soon put Phil Mickelson at ease and he was all right after that.”
The joke was met with silence from around 100 factory staff in the audience "
It's doubtful if this was in fact intended as a joke . I read a report from a nationalist journalist describing a head to header between Salmond and Mickelson. According to the piece Salmond outclassed his opponent out on the links.
Not a problem,fiction is Saint Five bellies forte.
Re Salmond's alleged joke ;
" Addressing workers at Nigg Energy Park in the Cromarty Firth, he revealed he had played with American golfer Phil Mickelson in the pre-tournament pro-am at the Scottish Open earlier in the week.
“There were obviously a few nerves on the first tee when I was playing with Phil Mickelson,” he said.
“But I soon put Phil Mickelson at ease and he was all right after that.”
The joke was met with silence from around 100 factory staff in the audience "
It's doubtful if this was in fact intended as a joke . I read a report from a nationalist journalist describing a head to header between Salmond and Mickelson. According to the piece Salmond outclassed his opponent out on the links.
Politicians should rarely make jokes, and if they absolutely have to then only in front of very favourable audiences.
"MPs ask Charles: Why DO you pay lower tax rate than your servants?"
What the Daily Mail really means is: Your Excellency, why does one pay taxes at all ?
At which point the journalist is summarily executed for incorrect protocol in the form of address and Charles returns to his castle to dine off a servant.
Comments
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/08/nine-unite-candidates-labour-nominations
For example (assuming dates are correct):
Finchley: 1st September
Lancaster: 26th July
Burnley: 26th July
Pendle: 15th September
Blackpool North: 27th July
Amber Valley: 27th July
Pudsey: 8th September
Elmet: 8th September
Dunbartonshire East: 2nd September
I hate to break it to you but he's a politician right now, he's going to face an election as a politician in 2015, and he's hardly a very popular politician.
His previous local links might have come in handy for a job after politics but I suspect he and Clegg will land on their feet with some lucrative city or Europe job.
http://www.labourinlondon.org.uk/parliamentary-selections
20 July Brighton Pavillion
21 July Croydon Central
25 July Morecambe and Lunesdale
3 August Broxtowe
You must be one of the last people left that believes New Labour's A&E waiting times weren't fiddled..
'Hundreds of NHS hospitals 'fiddled' casualty waiting times to meet Government targets, it emerged yesterday.
Two-thirds of accident and emergency departments brought in extra staff during the testing period or benefited from the cancellation of routine operations.
This allowed them to move patients off trolleys and on to wards within the target period of four hours.
The casualty con was caused by Ministers pressuring NHS trusts to hit targets so Labour could claim the health service was improving, it was alleged yesterday.
Doctors and MPs said the trick made a nonsense of a target that 90 per cent of patients should pass through A&E within four hours.
The deception was unearthed by a British Medical Association survey of the steps taken by trusts to hit their targets during one week's monitoring in March.
Don Mackechnie, chairman of the BMA's Accident and Emergency committee, said: 'I am appalled to see how A&E departments have been forced into taking extraordinary measures for a week-long period just to meet political targets.
'It is completely immoral of the Government to claim that it is raising the standard of performance in the NHS when this is how they measure it.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-180540/Hospitals-fiddling-waiting-lists.html#ixzz2Z9sB4VAs
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"A group of Conservative MPs have demanded that Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, resign ahead of the publication of an official review. He was previously the health secretary until 2010. Official figures released in Parliament claimed that Labour ministers were sent about 1,500 notifications, mostly from patients, about problems at 14 NHS trusts that are now under scrutiny."
Are the selections all done on the day or can votes be cast ahead of the event? If the former I hope NP's backers dont head off on holidays!
There are postal votes!
In Ladywood, they had postal votes with Pakistan's stamps last time.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At91c3wX1Wu5dDRiT1FSRTF2bjVYRThSTnRaNzFXMlE#gid=0
Stockton South
Bradford East
Dewsbury
Brent Central
Brentford & Isleworth
Dundee East
Erewash
Keighley
Mick , a job for you ;
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-orders-speechwriters-make-2054488
You'll have them crying with chortles in no time.
Stockton South have selected Louise Baldock. Erewash is currently taking place, they are still at nomination stage though.
Wouldn't have thought Saint five bellies needed any help with fiction..
'The First Minister is also hoping fiction writers will help spell out his official vision for an independent Scotland.'
That means a majority of women selected so far in Labour's top 50 targets are women, 17 out of 33.
Sadly , George Orwell, Franz Kafka , and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn are no longer available.
Not a problem,fiction is Saint Five bellies forte.
" Addressing workers at Nigg Energy Park in the Cromarty Firth, he revealed he had played with American golfer Phil Mickelson in the pre-tournament pro-am at the Scottish Open earlier in the week.
“There were obviously a few nerves on the first tee when I was playing with Phil Mickelson,” he said.
“But I soon put Phil Mickelson at ease and he was all right after that.”
The joke was met with silence from around 100 factory staff in the audience "
It's doubtful if this was in fact intended as a joke . I read a report from a nationalist journalist describing a head to header between Salmond and Mickelson. According to the piece Salmond outclassed his opponent out on the links.