Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Lets just bury our heads in the sand then eh
Just wait a while. The live commentary is embarrassing, and very often wrong.
The turnout for the #Blacon by-election is 25.4% The result is expected after 11.45pm: http://cwac.co/FCFKM 0 replies 4 retweets 0 likes
Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
Just for the record, I have no problem with Jack Monroe calling themself whatever the hell they want, or with anyone wearing whatever the hell clothes they want (as long as they wear something, though. Nakedness does not appeal). Why do some posters want to force people into conformity? Some of the comments have been close to bigotry this evening.
A little more love and tolerance would not go amiss. On this site and in the rest of the world.
Going to bed, thinking of Paris.
I take offence at your patronising tone and assumptions - it has nothing to do with tolerance or forcing people into conformity, my objection was going by 'they' is just needless confusing and so bloody pointless. I could ask people call be the great gonzo and it'd be as much of a statement, reading sinister motivations into peoples' annoyance at grammatical silliness and calling it bigotry is absurd, and demonstrative of the pointlessness of being so prissy about such a label, in that you make it a much bigger deal than it needs to be.
I agree that 'they' is a bad choice of pronoun, considering it already has other uses. It looks awkward. Be better to start using an entirely new pronoun, Xe, Ze, something distinctive.
The turnout for the #Blacon by-election is 25.4% The result is expected after 11.45pm: http://cwac.co/FCFKM 0 replies 4 retweets 0 likes
Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
The ward has 10k electors? Seems on the large side.
Just for the record, I have no problem with Jack Monroe calling themself whatever the hell they want, or with anyone wearing whatever the hell clothes they want (as long as they wear something, though. Nakedness does not appeal). Why do some posters want to force people into conformity? Some of the comments have been close to bigotry this evening.
A little more love and tolerance would not go amiss. On this site and in the rest of the world.
Going to bed, thinking of Paris.
I take offence at your patronising tone and assumptions - it has nothing to do with tolerance or forcing people into conformity, my objection was going by 'they' is just needless confusing and so bloody pointless. I could ask people call me the great gonzo and it'd be as much of a statement, reading sinister motivations into peoples' annoyance at grammatical silliness and calling it bigotry is absurd, and demonstrative of the pointlessness of being so prissy about such a label, in that you make it a much bigger deal than it needs to be. In keeping with your wild assumptions and responding in kind, i can only assume 'they' and you do so because it makes you feel superior to the bigots (or those you exaggerate to appear so in your heads), those terrible bigots, who think adopting an exiting plural pronoun for singular use is silly. The horror!
If I may permit myself a little smug self satisfaction, I think I'm generally polite and tolerant, but your seeing bigotry where none exists in the false presentation of defending toleration, has really got my back up.
Hard to see the LDs going above their previous high water mark, similarly hard to see Labour matching their last effort. Therefore I reckon that it will be a Con gain, but the swing will be much below UNS.
Just for the record, I have no problem with Jack Monroe calling themself whatever the hell they want, or with anyone wearing whatever the hell clothes they want (as long as they wear something, though. Nakedness does not appeal). Why do some posters want to force people into conformity? Some of the comments have been close to bigotry this evening.
A little more love and tolerance would not go amiss. On this site and in the rest of the world.
Going to bed, thinking of Paris.
I take offence at your patronising tone and assumptions - it has nothing to do with tolerance or forcing people into conformity, my objection was going by 'they' is just needless confusing and so bloody pointless. I could ask people call be the great gonzo and it'd be as much of a statement, reading sinister motivations into peoples' annoyance at grammatical silliness and calling it bigotry is absurd, and demonstrative of the pointlessness of being so prissy about such a label, in that you make it a much bigger deal than it needs to be.
The use of the neuter (plural) pronoun is unnecessary - anyone who read the judge's report of Monroe vs Hopkins (a work of genius) would have read that Ms Monroe is happy to be referred to as 'she'.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
The turnout for the #Blacon by-election is 25.4% The result is expected after 11.45pm: http://cwac.co/FCFKM 0 replies 4 retweets 0 likes
Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
They could but why should they?
Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
Just for the record, I have no problem with Jack Monroe calling themself whatever the hell they want, or with anyone wearing whatever the hell clothes they want (as long as they wear something, though. Nakedness does not appeal). Why do some posters want to force people into conformity? Some of the comments have been close to bigotry this evening.
A little more love and tolerance would not go amiss. On this site and in the rest of the world.
Going to bed, thinking of Paris.
I take offence at your patronising tone and assumptions - it has nothing to do with tolerance or forcing people into conformity, my objection was going by 'they' is just needless confusing and so bloody pointless. I could ask people call be the great gonzo and it'd be as much of a statement, reading sinister motivations into peoples' annoyance at grammatical silliness and calling it bigotry is absurd, and demonstrative of the pointlessness of being so prissy about such a label, in that you make it a much bigger deal than it needs to be.
The use of the neuter (plural) pronoun is unnecessary - anyone who read the judge's report of Monroe vs Hopkins (a work of genius) would have read that Ms Monroe is happy to be referred to as 'she'.
I'm still assuming the use of they was whatever it is called when you use the wrong word in the manner of a typo, otherwise its silly. But getting superior about people being annoyed by it, turning it into a great liberal rallying cry, is the sort of thing that gets mocked by otherwise totally liberal people, who feel like they are lumped in with cromagnons for not using a trendy sub-culture term.
BetfairSports haven't as yet cancelled my 25/1 bet on the LibDems in Richmond Park.
I am hopeful - for you and me - that they won't.
The earlier cancellations were where Tories in strong Tory seats were priced at 100-1 rather than 1-100 (and similar). It was obvious in those cases that it was an error as the other candidates were also on long odds. So you could've easily covered all major parties and won even in the (hugely unlikely) case of the Tory losing.
Richmond Park was different - it appears to have been priced based on 2015 result, neglecting to consider the by-election. The Tories were priced as very strong favourites, balancing the long Lib Dem odds. It absolutely wasn't that the bookies intended to price at 1-25 (which would be extremely ungenerous - Olney has a good chance but could well lose). This was a mistake by the bookie, but not an obvious error - the numbers added up. So I'd be annoyed if they cancelled.
I recall a few years ago the bookies offering very generous odds on Weymouth's opponents in a non-league match. Weymouth had gone bust and were going to play the youth team (and consequently be thrashed almost for sure). It was public knowledge but the bookie was just slow on the uptake. I believe they had to honour it - it was a failure of intelligence but not an obvious "fat finger" error.
Just for the record, I have no problem with Jack Monroe calling themself whatever the hell they want, or with anyone wearing whatever the hell clothes they want (as long as they wear something, though. Nakedness does not appeal). Why do some posters want to force people into conformity? Some of the comments have been close to bigotry this evening.
A little more love and tolerance would not go amiss. On this site and in the rest of the world.
Going to bed, thinking of Paris.
I take offence at your patronising tone and assumptions - it has nothing to do with tolerance or forcing people into conformity, my objection was going by 'they' is just needless confusing and so bloody pointless. I could ask people call be the great gonzo and it'd be as much of a statement, reading sinister motivations into peoples' annoyance at grammatical silliness and calling it bigotry is absurd, and demonstrative of the pointlessness of being so prissy about such a label, in that you make it a much bigger deal than it needs to be.
I agree that 'they' is a bad choice of pronoun, considering it already has other uses. It looks awkward. Be better to start using an entirely new pronoun, Xe, Ze, something distinctive.
Yes - it will seem contrived and silly at first, but it will be clear, and if people truly want that option it will catch on and become normal.
Just for the record, I have no problem with Jack Monroe calling themself whatever the hell they want, or with anyone wearing whatever the hell clothes they want (as long as they wear something, though. Nakedness does not appeal). Why do some posters want to force people into conformity? Some of the comments have been close to bigotry this evening.
A little more love and tolerance would not go amiss. On this site and in the rest of the world.
Going to bed, thinking of Paris.
I tap.
Hard to see the LDs going above their previous high water mark, similarly hard to see Labour matching their last effort. Therefore I reckon that it will be a Con gain, but the swing will be much below UNS.
Sounds sensible. Maajid Nawaz was an interesting candidate, to say the least, I do wonder how he'd have done any year but 2015.
The frustrating thing for the French authorities is that the didn't merely suspect something (singular or plural) was going to occur over this week, they knew. They had been working to interdict it, but they often seem to be getting the outside borders of the jigsaw but not the bits in the middle that allow you to see a clear picture.
Suggestions there might be a Belgian connection but this may be early stage 2+2 = 5.
BBC reporting Pres Hollande as confirming it is terror, and also Reuters saying that there is a second suspect at large.
Belgian connection confirmed then. This was an organised IS controlled attack.
What was the target? The attack took place close to the Marks and Spencer store at no.100 on the Champs Elysées. The footage I have seen shows trouble occurring outside the Yves Rocher store next door, at no.102. If the attackers' car was driven on the right side of the road, then it came from the direction of the Place de la Concorde, in the direction of increasing numbers. The Jewish Chabad organisation has premises at no.122.
Yes. I think Yokel is right.
This was meant to be a massacre, and the French cops got in early (and let's salute the dead and wounded gendarmes). They averted something that was intended to be, and very nearly was, much much worse.
Certainly and kudos to them, coming just 2 days before the first round of the presidential election we will see if it has any repercussions politically on Sunday
Taking their time tonight these by-election counters.
Harrow not counting till tomorrow , Blacon should be another 15 minutes or so
Ugh, having to wait until morning to find out the result in an area I've never been to and know nothing about? It makes me sick.
Cheers.
Turnout in Blacon 25.4%
I think you may have just written a classic and iconic PB comment; a remark which, unintentionally, will resonate through the ages, or at least as long as pb-ers live.
"Turnout in Blacon 25.4%"
I actually love this sort of minutiae (sp?). It's Thursday night, I've finished work for the week, I can care deeply about the turnout in Blacon or Coulby Newham or wherever. All the fun of a real election without any of the unpleasantness. Plus Blacon may be the only ward in the country to rhyme with 'Bacon'. It's a big rough council estate on the edge of Chester. My mother-in-law used to teach there.
Taking their time tonight these by-election counters.
Harrow not counting till tomorrow , Blacon should be another 15 minutes or so
Ugh, having to wait until morning to find out the result in an area I've never been to and know nothing about? It makes me sick.
Cheers.
Turnout in Blacon 25.4%
I think you may have just written a classic and iconic PB comment; a remark which, unintentionally, will resonate through the ages, or at least as long as pb-ers live.
"Turnout in Blacon 25.4%"
I actually love this sort of minutiae (sp?). It's Thursday night, I've finished work for the week, I can care deeply about the turnout in Blacon or Coulby Newham or wherever. All the fun of a real election without any of the unpleasantness. Plus Blacon may be the only ward in the country to rhyme with 'Bacon'. It's a big rough council estate on the edge of Chester. My mother-in-law used to teach there.
If Labour lose this seat they really are in trouble.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Lets just bury our heads in the sand then eh
Just wait a while. The live commentary is embarrassing, and very often wrong.
You think the president has it wrong?
Probably not. But I'd rather listen to him than the geniuses on here. In the past, I've seen PBers write - in all seriousness- that Jo Cox was a false flag operation by the Remain campaign. The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't). A third case had some morons getting very excited that an assailant was called something Middle Eastern sounding when he turned out to be a French Canadian called Alexandre. PB's record on this is fucking embarrassing.
Betfair Sportsbook has Con favourites in these Lab seats:
Barrow & Furness B’ham Edgbaston B’ham Northfield Bishop Auckland Blackpool South Bolton NE Bristol East Brentford & Isleworth City of Chester Dewsbury Ealing Central & Acton Enfield North Hove Ilford North Wirral West Wolverhampton South West Clwyd South Newport West Wrexham
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Lets just bury our heads in the sand then eh
Just wait a while. The live commentary is embarrassing, and very often wrong.
You think the president has it wrong?
Probably not. But I'd rather listen to him than the geniuses on here. In the past, I've seen PBers write - in all seriousness- that Jo Cox was a false flag operation by the Remain campaign. The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't). A third case had some morons getting very excited that an assailant was called something Middle Eastern sounding when he turned out to be a French Canadian called Alexandre. PB's record on this is fucking embarrassing.
The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't).
The turnout for the #Blacon by-election is 25.4% The result is expected after 11.45pm: http://cwac.co/FCFKM 0 replies 4 retweets 0 likes
Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
They could but why should they?
Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
Council By elections are a rare event for most authorities - maybe one a year? Why don't the Electoral Registration people do it as part of their job? It's a special occasion, after all, and I expect the Councillors would be interested in the outcome as well as us.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Lets just bury our heads in the sand then eh
Just wait a while. The live commentary is embarrassing, and very often wrong.
You think the president has it wrong?
Probably not. But I'd rather listen to him than the geniuses on here. In the past, I've seen PBers write - in all seriousness- that Jo Cox was a false flag operation by the Remain campaign. The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't). A third case had some morons getting very excited that an assailant was called something Middle Eastern sounding when he turned out to be a French Canadian called Alexandre. PB's record on this is fucking embarrassing.
The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't).
That would be the BBC reports then.
It was also a PB poster who broke the news to ITV that their chief suspect was still in jail. Me.
Smart for him to do so, makes him look like a President in waiting. Obama remains very popular in France and even more so when compared to Trump. Obama obviously didn't make any back of the queue comments to the French so hasn't dented his reputation there either.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Pot something, kettle something.
A genius writes. All for free, on PB.
Are you drunk bob?
How could we tell?
He seems a tad irritable
Bobajob can see Labour losing heavily on June 8th?
No, I totally agree. My response wasn't derogatory. This is one of the reasons I love PB and keep coming back. Terrible things are happening around the world (and wondrous things, too) and, in the middle of it all, some super-informed dude like Mark Senior will just come on here and say:
"Turnout in Blacon 25.4%"
Tremendous.
It's the fact that you can be having five conversations simultaneously on different subjects, ranging from the tragic to the trivial, which is so great.
Incidentally, I have the answer to the question as to whether it's worth spending north of £450 on a meal for two. The answer is Yes, at L'Enclume.
Tiger Woods just announced on his website that he has has had another back surgery. That makes 4 back operations, 4 knee surgeries, plus elbow problems etc. As always he says the surgery was successful. If it was all successful why have 4 of them?
It seems less and less likely he'll be playing competitive golf again.
Taking their time tonight these by-election counters.
Harrow not counting till tomorrow , Blacon should be another 15 minutes or so
Ugh, having to wait until morning to find out the result in an area I've never been to and know nothing about? It makes me sick.
Cheers.
Turnout in Blacon 25.4%
I think you may have just written a classic and iconic PB comment; a remark which, unintentionally, will resonate through the ages, or at least as long as pb-ers live.
"Turnout in Blacon 25.4%"
I actually love this sort of minutiae (sp?). It's Thursday night, I've finished work for the week, I can care deeply about the turnout in Blacon or Coulby Newham or wherever. All the fun of a real election without any of the unpleasantness. Plus Blacon may be the only ward in the country to rhyme with 'Bacon'. It's a big rough council estate on the edge of Chester. My mother-in-law used to teach there.
No, I totally agree. My response wasn't derogatory. This is one of the reasons I love PB and keep coming back. Terrible things are happening around the world (and wondrous things, too) and, in the middle of it all, some super-informed dude like Mark Senior will just come on here and say:
"Turnout in Blacon 25.4%"
Tremendous.
Seconded.
And I find mundanity and diversion calms things down too.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
The turnout for the #Blacon by-election is 25.4% The result is expected after 11.45pm: http://cwac.co/FCFKM 0 replies 4 retweets 0 likes
Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
They could but why should they?
Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
Council By elections are a rare event for most authorities - maybe one a year? Why don't the Electoral Registration people do it as part of their job? It's a special occasion, after all, and I expect the Councillors would be interested in the outcome as well as us.
Again probably way more expensive. Local councils will have local people who can do the job. If it was outsourced like you suggest then you could see someone having to commute from their home to all over the country every Thursday. One week they'd be travelling to Cornwall, the next week to Scotland. And given that it's happening on a Thursday night there's no chance of them being back home after they've finished so they'd have to get a hotel and travel down the next day. Who'd want to do that and why?
Or you can get someone who already lives locally to work a couple of hours. Far more efficient and cheaper.
Smart for him to do so, makes him look like a President in waiting. Obama remains very popular in France and even more so when compared to Trump. Obama obviously didn't make any back of the queue comments to the French so hasn't dented his reputation there either.
It will certainly go down well in most of France and especially in Paris but I think the more depressed industrial areas of France are as unenthused by 'progressive politics' as the rustbelt was in the US and that will be the base for Le Pen's vote in the runoff
Tiger Woods just announced on his website that he has has had another back surgery. That makes 4 back operations, 4 knee surgeries, plus elbow problems etc. As always he says the surgery was successful. If it was all successful why have 4 of them?
It seems less and less likely he'll be playing competitive golf again.
Tiger Woods just announced on his website that he has has had another back surgery. That makes 4 back operations, 4 knee surgeries, plus elbow problems etc. As always he says the surgery was successful. If it was all successful why have 4 of them?
It seems less and less likely he'll be playing competitive golf again of a handicap of less than 10 .
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Lets just bury our heads in the sand then eh
Just wait a while. The live commentary is embarrassing, and very often wrong.
You think the president has it wrong?
Probably not. But I'd rather listen to him than the geniuses on here. In the past, I've seen PBers write - in all seriousness- that Jo Cox was a false flag operation by the Remain campaign. The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't). A third case had some morons getting very excited that an assailant was called something Middle Eastern sounding when he turned out to be a French Canadian called Alexandre. PB's record on this is fucking embarrassing.
Ah yes - he was still a Muslim though wasn't he (the French Canadian)
Most people on here wait - the early signs on this one were pretty clear.
Is there value in finding a marginal where Labour could hold on against the national swing? If its anywhere you'd assume its London constituencies surely.
BetfairSports haven't as yet cancelled my 25/1 bet on the LibDems in Richmond Park.
I can't see it on the constituency list.
They've suspended the market but not cancelled any bets. They'd obviously forgotten to account for the by-election, but it was not a "fat finger" error - the odds added up, but the Lib Dem odds were far too generous and Tory odds far too mean.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Pot something, kettle something.
A genius writes. All for free, on PB.
Are you drunk bob?
How could we tell?
Admittedly sobriety or otherwise is hard to discern with your good self, given that all your posts are auto-generated from a Central Office script.
Ashfield at 7-2 looks worth a small punt, especially as Bassetlaw is at a rather more unappealing 5-4.
As it happens, I was just paging through the odds, and the three seats I noted as possible goodies that I haven't yet bet on were Ashfield, Bassetlaw and B'rum Selly Oak.
The Times front page story that the EU will demand that its 3,000,000 citizens in the UK will indefinitely be subject to rulings from the ECJ looks more than a little problematic.....
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Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
They could but why should they?
Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
Council By elections are a rare event for most authorities - maybe one a year? Why don't the Electoral Registration people do it as part of their job? It's a special occasion, after all, and I expect the Councillors would be interested in the outcome as well as us.
Again probably way more expensive. Local councils will have local people who can do the job. If it was outsourced like you suggest then you could see someone having to commute from their home to all over the country every Thursday. One week they'd be travelling to Cornwall, the next week to Scotland. And given that it's happening on a Thursday night there's no chance of them being back home after they've finished so they'd have to get a hotel and travel down the next day. Who'd want to do that and why?
Or you can get someone who already lives locally to work a couple of hours. Far more efficient and cheaper.
Surely the Electoral Registration people work for the local Council?
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Pot something, kettle something.
A genius writes. All for free, on PB.
Are you drunk bob?
How could we tell?
He seems a tad irritable
Yes, I am irritated by the dull rubbish on here this evening. Has anyone got anything interesting to say? Even Sean's insults - normally a reliable form of entertainment - are dismal.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Pot something, kettle something.
A genius writes. All for free, on PB.
Are you drunk bob?
How could we tell?
Admittedly sobriety or otherwise is hard to discern with your good self, given that all your posts are auto-generated from a Central Office script.
Smart for him to do so, makes him look like a President in waiting. Obama remains very popular in France and even more so when compared to Trump. Obama obviously didn't make any back of the queue comments to the French so hasn't dented his reputation there either.
It will certainly go down well in most of France and especially in Paris but I think the more depressed industrial areas of France are as unenthused by 'progressive politics' as the rustbelt was in the US and that will be the base for Le Pen's vote in the runoff
Macron will be quite content for it to be him v Le Pen in the runoff. He'd be a locked-on certainty by that point.
The biggest risk for Macron is that his vote doesn't turnout and he gets pipped out of a Fillon v Le Pen runoff.
Is there value in finding a marginal where Labour could hold on against the national swing? If its anywhere you'd assume its London constituencies surely.
The turnout for the #Blacon by-election is 25.4% The result is expected after 11.45pm: http://cwac.co/FCFKM 0 replies 4 retweets 0 likes
Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
They could but why should they?
Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
Council By elections are a rare event for most authorities - maybe one a year? Why don't the Electoral Registration people do it as part of their job? It's a special occasion, after all, and I expect the Councillors would be interested in the outcome as well as us.
Again probably way more expensive. Local councils will have local people who can do the job. If it was outsourced like you suggest then you could see someone having to commute from their home to all over the country every Thursday. One week they'd be travelling to Cornwall, the next week to Scotland. And given that it's happening on a Thursday night there's no chance of them being back home after they've finished so they'd have to get a hotel and travel down the next day. Who'd want to do that and why?
Or you can get someone who already lives locally to work a couple of hours. Far more efficient and cheaper.
Surely the Electoral Registration people work for the local Council?
So you want local people to do the counting? Isn't that what happens already.
If you're expecting extra local people to do the job then they would deserve to be paid for the overtime.
Francois Fillon calls for election to be suspended The French presidential candidate has called for Sunday's presidential election first round to be suspended following the Paris attack.
Ashfield at 7-2 looks worth a small punt, especially as Bassetlaw is at a rather more unappealing 5-4.
As it happens, I was just paging through the odds, and the three seats I noted as possible goodies that I haven't yet bet on were Ashfield, Bassetlaw and B'rum Selly Oak.
Agree that Ashfield and Selly Oak look good, Bassetlaw less so with John Mann standing again.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Pot something, kettle something.
A genius writes. All for free, on PB.
Are you drunk bob?
How could we tell?
Admittedly sobriety or otherwise is hard to discern with your good self, given that all your posts are auto-generated from a Central Office script.
Go back to whining about child tax credits......
A topic I haven't mentioned for about five years. The Central Office IT data systems are clearly in desperate need of an upgrade.
Is there value in finding a marginal where Labour could hold on against the national swing? If its anywhere you'd assume its London constituencies surely.
Tiger Woods just announced on his website that he has has had another back surgery. That makes 4 back operations, 4 knee surgeries, plus elbow problems etc. As always he says the surgery was successful. If it was all successful why have 4 of them?
It seems less and less likely he'll be playing competitive golf again.
Jesus, how stressful on the body is professional golf!?
Depending on your swing it can be very stressful on your back. Tiger's swing is so vicious and violent it has damaged both his left knee and his back. I doubt all the Seal Team training he did helped either.
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Ridiculous! That's only a few hundred votes- maybe a thousand, tops. Why is Local Government so inefficient? A few bank tellers (or bookies) used to handling lots of small bits of paper could do the job in a few minutes.
It is around 2,600 votes
OK, sorry! In that case I take most of it back - but I still reckon that for one by-election the Council would have more people at their disposal to get the thing processed a lot quicker than in 1Hr 45Mins.
They could but why should they?
Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
Council By elections are a rare event for most authorities - maybe one a year? Why don't the Electoral Registration people do it as part of their job? It's a special occasion, after all, and I expect the Councillors would be interested in the outcome as well as us.
Again probably way more expensive. Local councils will have local people who can do the job. If it was outsourced like you suggest then you could see someone having to commute from their home to all over the country every Thursday. One week they'd be travelling to Cornwall, the next week to Scotland. And given that it's happening on a Thursday night there's no chance of them being back home after they've finished so they'd have to get a hotel and travel down the next day. Who'd want to do that and why?
Or you can get someone who already lives locally to work a couple of hours. Far more efficient and cheaper.
Surely the Electoral Registration people work for the local Council?
So you want local people to do the counting? Isn't that what happens already.
If you're expecting extra local people to do the job then they would deserve to be paid for the overtime.
Why? I frequently used to work unpaid overtime - it was expected of me. Why shouldn't Council Officers do the same occasionally?
Is there value in finding a marginal where Labour could hold on against the national swing? If its anywhere you'd assume its London constituencies surely.
Ilford North might be an example.
Wes's majority is only 589!
He's one of the most impressive newish Labour MPs. If anyone bucks the trend it'll be him.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Au revoir, dickhead.
Another gem from the "you okay, hun" repertoire. Shape the fuck up.
Pot something, kettle something.
A genius writes. All for free, on PB.
Are you drunk bob?
How could we tell?
Admittedly sobriety or otherwise is hard to discern with your good self, given that all your posts are auto-generated from a Central Office script.
Go back to whining about child tax credits......
A topic I haven't mentioned for about five years. The Central Office IT data systems are clearly in desperate need of an upgrade.
Smart for him to do so, makes him look like a President in waiting. Obama remains very popular in France and even more so when compared to Trump. Obama obviously didn't make any back of the queue comments to the French so hasn't dented his reputation there either.
It will certainly go down well in most of France and especially in Paris but I think the more depressed industrial areas of France are as unenthused by 'progressive politics' as the rustbelt was in the US and that will be the base for Le Pen's vote in the runoff
Macron will be quite content for it to be him v Le Pen in the runoff. He'd be a locked-on certainty by that point.
The biggest risk for Macron is that his vote doesn't turnout and he gets pipped out of a Fillon v Le Pen runoff.
Probably, though if Macron does get through polls now suggest Le Pen will run him closer than Fillon would
Is there value in finding a marginal where Labour could hold on against the national swing? If its anywhere you'd assume its London constituencies surely.
Ilford North might be an example.
Very big Jewish community, which should be bad for Corbyn's Labour. Wes Streeting is very anti-Corbyn of course, but I doubt that will save him.
Tiger Woods just announced on his website that he has has had another back surgery. That makes 4 back operations, 4 knee surgeries, plus elbow problems etc. As always he says the surgery was successful. If it was all successful why have 4 of them?
It seems less and less likely he'll be playing competitive golf again.
Jesus, how stressful on the body is professional golf!?
Depending on your swing it can be very stressful on your back. Tiger's swing is so vicious and violent it has damaged both his left knee and his back. I doubt all the Seal Team training he did helped either.
I wonder how many of the 24hrs in a day does Tiger sit there and think f##k what have I done? Not all the hookers....I mean the why did I fall out with Butch Harman?
Butch told him this would happen. Did he listen, no he sacked him.
Tiger + Butch, he would still be wiping the floor with the Rory, Justin, Dustin et al.
Popped in for a bit of Aberlour-fuelled banter after the football to see PB's usual suspects live commentating on a terrorist attack. To the penalty shoot out in the Lyon match instead.
Lets just bury our heads in the sand then eh
Just wait a while. The live commentary is embarrassing, and very often wrong.
You think the president has it wrong?
Probably not. But I'd rather listen to him than the geniuses on here. In the past, I've seen PBers write - in all seriousness- that Jo Cox was a false flag operation by the Remain campaign. The Westminster Bridge incident saw several posters claim there was a second shooter (there wasn't). A third case had some morons getting very excited that an assailant was called something Middle Eastern sounding when he turned out to be a French Canadian called Alexandre. PB's record on this is fucking embarrassing.
Ah yes - he was still a Muslim though wasn't he (the French Canadian)
Most people on here wait - the early signs on this one were pretty clear.
No, he was a white supremacist who supports Marine Le Pen. Clear... as fucking mud.
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Assuming those counting are paid to do the counting, it's generally cheaper to pay one person for four hours than four people for one hour (as people will have minimum shift lengths, its unreasonable to expect someone to work for only one hour etc)
The earlier cancellations were where Tories in strong Tory seats were priced at 100-1 rather than 1-100 (and similar). It was obvious in those cases that it was an error as the other candidates were also on long odds. So you could've easily covered all major parties and won even in the (hugely unlikely) case of the Tory losing.
Richmond Park was different - it appears to have been priced based on 2015 result, neglecting to consider the by-election. The Tories were priced as very strong favourites, balancing the long Lib Dem odds. It absolutely wasn't that the bookies intended to price at 1-25 (which would be extremely ungenerous - Olney has a good chance but could well lose). This was a mistake by the bookie, but not an obvious error - the numbers added up. So I'd be annoyed if they cancelled.
I recall a few years ago the bookies offering very generous odds on Weymouth's opponents in a non-league match. Weymouth had gone bust and were going to play the youth team (and consequently be thrashed almost for sure). It was public knowledge but the bookie was just slow on the uptake. I believe they had to honour it - it was a failure of intelligence but not an obvious "fat finger" error.
https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/855178805463445504
Labour vote will hold up much better than elsewhere but Tory gain due to the small majority IMO.
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/855129811144118274
It's a big rough council estate on the edge of Chester. My mother-in-law used to teach there.
https://twitter.com/Sean_Kemp/status/855187978364350464
Barrow & Furness
B’ham Edgbaston
B’ham Northfield
Bishop Auckland
Blackpool South
Bolton NE
Bristol East
Brentford & Isleworth
City of Chester
Dewsbury
Ealing Central & Acton
Enfield North
Hove
Ilford North
Wirral West
Wolverhampton South West
Clwyd South
Newport West
Wrexham
LDs favourites in Lab seats:
Bermondsey
Cambridge
Cardiff Central
Burnley
That would be the BBC reports then.
Incidentally, I have the answer to the question as to whether it's worth spending north of £450 on a meal for two. The answer is Yes, at L'Enclume.
It seems less and less likely he'll be playing competitive golf again.
http://www.tigerwoods.com/news/2017/04/20/225438912/tiger-undergoes-successful-back-surgery-to-alleviate-pain/
And I find mundanity and diversion calms things down too.
Night all.
Your generally ok - go take a break
Or you can get someone who already lives locally to work a couple of hours. Far more efficient and cheaper.
Ashfield at 7-2 looks worth a small punt, especially as Bassetlaw is at a rather more unappealing 5-4.
Most people on here wait - the early signs on this one were pretty clear.
The biggest risk for Macron is that his vote doesn't turnout and he gets pipped out of a Fillon v Le Pen runoff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m8z3b
Cliff of my Labour supporting friends...F##king Shambles...repeated again and again.
If you're expecting extra local people to do the job then they would deserve to be paid for the overtime.
Lab 1556
Con 574
Ind 434
LDem 70
LAB: 59.1% (+1.6)
CON: 21.8% (+4.0)
IND: 16.5% (+16.5)
LDEM: 2.7% (+2.7)
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/855192589464686594
Are they expecting 15 LibDem gains from Labour ?
Butch told him this would happen. Did he listen, no he sacked him.
Tiger + Butch, he would still be wiping the floor with the Rory, Justin, Dustin et al.