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After their extraordinary gain of a by-election seat from LAB in Copeland we have heard very little of the blue team’s prospects in Manchester Gorton which is expected to take place on May 4th. Yet as the panel shows the Tories got very close to victory in the seat in 1967.
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As part of the local government reform he took Middlesbrough out of Yorkshire.
So I see Theresa and Nicola have legs!!!!!!!!!!
Who knew? Who knew?
THE exact opposite of anything Theresa May says is correct, concerned Britons have realised.
May claimed Brexit will make the UK more united, sparking fears that she lives in a delusional fantasy world where grass grows on clouds.
Office worker Tom Logan said: “I don’t see how we’re more united if Scotland is trying to leave and half the population thinks the other half are gullible racists or liberal ponces. May also said we’d cut red tape and become a great trading nation, but we’re employing loads more civil servants and it turns out all we’ve got to sell is Reggae Reggae Sauce."'
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They would be out on a limb otherwise
He chose his enclosed wheelchair simply to avoid superficial headlines like that of the Daily Mail. That's why the daleks are fully enclosed. If it weren't for the Daily Mail, there would be no daleks.
The most noticable difference the early days of Brexit will make is the complexity of the forms we will have to fill in. This morning I received something which is known as a W-8BEN-E which I understand relates to a small investment I have in the US. It is 10 pages long and a flavour can be seen from question 1 under the title 'status'.
"Are you a non participating FFI including a limited FFI or an FFI related to a reporting IGA FFI other than a deemed compliant FFI participating FFI or exempt beneficial owner?"
Imagine the 'Leavers' of Clackton Hartlipool and Stoke who require aids such as 'open other end' on the bottom of milk-bottles grappling with FORMS like this?
Because once we are on our own this is going to be the norm. Years of non bureaucratic existance will be over. It'll be like dealing with the US every day
2001-9.9%
2005-9.8%
2010-11%
2015-9.7%
I'm going to stick my neck out and predict the Tories will get between 9.5 and 12%
But...it seems wholly at odds with the intended direction of red tape:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/27/cut-eu-red-tape-choking-britain-brexit-set-country-free-shackles/
Brexit was the Pro-EU side's fall of Singapore, but we all know who won the war.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2016/10/18/the-brexiteers-junckers-fifth-columnists/
If thew Queen were to visit Middlesbrough (yes, I know), which Lord Lieutenant would greet her?
Agree.
Being a Tory and a Liverpool FC fan in Manchester Gorton would not go down well.
http://www.nyll.org.uk/about/county-facts/
Clearly, Middlesbrough is a small town in Yorkshire!
We needed Grimmond :>
You seem to know what you are talking about. Is it crap?
"I am writing to you as you currently hold a number of US stocks within the Portfolio we manage on your behalf. As you are aware from previous correspondence, we are moving the custody of investments to SEI on 28 April 2017. As they are a replacement custodian the US Internal Revenue Service (‘IRS’) rules insist that a new W8 form is completed.
By way of a reminder, the purpose of this form is to permit the payment of 15% withholding tax, instead of the usual 30% for income arising from your US stocks and due to the above transfer date, I need to ask you to return this form to our London office no later than Friday 21 April. This will then able us to make sure you pay the correct level of tax".
Blair's election record: 3 elections - 2 massive landslide voctories, 1 other workable majority.
Heath's election record: 4 elections - 1 working majority, 2 narrow defeats, 1 heavy defeat.
Hardly the same.
Heath's greatest achievement was in proving both that the post-war consensus was unworkable and that it couldn't - at the time - be reformed. In his proof, he enabled the maturing of what would later become Thatcherism but it would take the Winter of Discontent for the Conservative Party to be ready to accept the price that would need to be paid for the reforms to become embedded.
His government failed but in that failure were germinated the seeds of recovery.
Not bad for a TINO, out of curiosity how many Tory MPs did you help get elected at the last general election.
An innocent oversight, no doubt....
Mrs T in October 1990
Btw why has Winston Churchill's middle initial been included and not those of the other candidates?
However, they are right about the withholding tax aspect, if your investment portfolio is such that you fall under the FATCA regime. Personally, in your position I'd talk to my financial advisor about how to structure my investment holdings to avoid this exposure. It's perfectly possible to own US investments through custodial arrangements that leave the filing responsibilities with the investment managers.
The ranks of those who were activists during Heath's leadership are heavily depleted now, but in many Tory associations you will still find a horror story or two about Heath coming to canvass in the 1970s, especially in seats near to his own in SE London.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39417239
As for making a film ....Sacha Baron Cohen got there first
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03156/grimsby1_3156581b.jpg
Again.
In the same month there was another by election where the Tory candidate saw his share of the vote go up by 7.1% compared to Winston S Churchill's piddling 4.6% increase.
The other Tory candidate didn't have a name as illustrious as Churchill. Ergo we can infer the boost was down to Heath's Pro-EC views.
Of course I gave it all away when I did watch it on the plane by laughing like a drain all the way through thereby attracting more attention than I would have wished.
In this proof, he might have enabled the maturing of a responsible, independent self-governing UK match-fit and ready to face the world that accepts the price of exit as something that needs to be paid to enable these reforms to be realised.
Did either candidate campaign on a pro-EEC platform?
The Gorton one was his grandson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(1940–2010)
It did not strike me as Tory territory.
For the culturally interested, ‘Rusholme Ruffians’ by the Smiths gives a snapshot of Manchester Gorton in the late sixties and early seventies; a once-grand area on the slide.
In the unlikely event that there is a coherent Brexit strategy, and this is it, it'd be entertaining seeing all the reverse ferreting Tessyphiles informing everyone this was what was intended all along.
In any case, the guard dogs will be keeping Tessy right.
https://twitter.com/paulnuttallukip/status/846644866570489856
The number of customs checks on goods would soar from 17m each year to 350m, he pointed out.