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Kingswood and Hazel Leys on Corby (Ind defence, elected as Labour, caused by disqualification of sitting member) Result of council at last election (2015): Labour 24, Conservatives 5 (Labour majority of 19) Result of ward at last election (2015): Emboldened denotes elected Labour 1,522, 1,472, 1,450 (54%) United Kingdom Independence Party 606 (22%) Conservatives 399, 314, 303 (14%) Green Party 275, 218 (10%) EU Referendum Result: REMAIN 11,470 (36%) LEAVE 20,611 (64%) on a turnout of 74% (No local ward data published) Candidates duly nominated: Stan Heggs (Con), Michael Mahon (Green), Isabel McNab (Lab) Weather at close of polls: Cloudy, but dry 0°C Estimate: Labour HOLD
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Should they really pair up Great and Little Oakley? The great should never be brought down by the lesser.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38920860
1°C with snow flurries in Waterside on North Norfolk.
Very low turnout with the angriest, most determined electors actually going out to vote.
So I predict a LibDem gain in at least two of these seats.
Trump being blamed for Twitters negative success story.
Richard Kramer of Arete Research told CNBC that the president’s tweeting may deter brands from advertising on Twitter due to fear of the current extreme polarization among Americans over politics. “I think whatever your political views, it’s clear that Trump is extremely divisive, and this isn’t really a positive for advertisers,” said Kramer.
dont they read William Glenn ?
An interesting and sad case. Agoraphobia is a terrible illness, and it seems this chap felt he was able to do a reasonable job using phone and IT.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38918804
I must say, as someone who is a genuine germanophile, this really is Germany at its worst.
They knew the Greeks should never have gone in to the Euro, but contrived to turn a blind eye
Now when its all gone tits up they have run from their repsonsibility to help them out of a mess they helped create and are piling endless misery on a helpless people
Appalling
'Trump’s EU ambassador pick was ‘head’ of non-existent Scots body
But in his book, he suggests his role in Scottish education was far more extensive, involving oversight of the accounts at not only Aberdeen, but Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrew’s universities. He wrote that as part of the position, “my charge was to bring them into the twenty-first century financially.” However, there is no record of an Ancient Scottish Universities Trust. A spokeswoman for Universities Scotland, the representative body of Scotland’s 19 higher education institutions, told The Scotsman it had no knowledge of an organisation by that name.'
http://tinyurl.com/j7dnxh8
I sense a 'selective quotes taken out of context' statement is in the offing.
The major block to Eurofederalism will always be Germany's unwillingness
To leave the current cushy position.
Germany is a fantastic country, I worked there for 5 years
Unless you are expecting his agrophobia to be miraculously cured then it's not unreasonable that he should step aside and let someone else represent his constituents
remember the days when our politicans said they aspired to a high wage high skill economy ?
whereas now its just shit cheap immigrant labour
combining a high wage, manufacturing economy with liberal democracy. Breaks all the rules of the protectionist nationalists.
2. It's beggar-thy-neighbour economics. You sell stuff to the deficit nations until they begin to buckle under the weight of the debts they need to take out to buy it. They don't thank you for your policies, and you lose their custom at the same time.
Large and continuous trade surpluses are unsustainable in the long term. If something can't continue forever then, logically, it MUST - at some point - stop. And then you have to pay the price for this.
And trust me, the adjustment from too large a surplus is a lot less painful than the one from too large a deficit.
The Germans are being encircled.
Europe bent the rules to let them in, they are complicit in the mess
Who is the anomaly in the EZ? The Greeks or the Germans?
but the germans havent the moral platform to realise they should man up and help sort out the mess
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/01/angora-rabbit-world-fluffiest-bunny.html
Where's Plato when you need her to appreciate a post?
Sterling was $1.05 to the £ in 1985 and far closer to parity with the € in 2008/2009 than it is now.
As for the "Large and continuous trade surpluses are unsustainable in the long term"...well yes, just like humanity and the sun and the universe, it will one day stop.
A trade surplus happens when you export more goods (and services and payments) that you import, yes? Imagine a magic machine that produces free food, medicine and shelter to all humanity instantaneously and uses no power to do so. A tremendous boon to all humanity. Would you switch it off?