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Town on Doncaster (Lab defence) Result: Labour 1,084 (47% +8% on last time), Yorkshire 570 (25% -1% on last time), Green 294 (13% -1% on last time), Conservative 260 (11% -11% on last time), Liberal Democrat 66 (3%, no candidate last time), Independent 43 (2%, no candidate last time) Labour HOLD with a majority of 514 (22%) on a swing of 4.5% from Yorkshire to Labour
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44496427
Mr. W, is upkilting also illegal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chope
Did Jefferson and co really build a democracy that can withstand a demagogue? We may have to find out in next few years...
Christopher Chope (knob head) was born in Putney
ETA: earlier was, Sir Christopher Robert Chope OBE MP (born 19 May 1947) is a useless British barrister and Conservative politician.
"Sir Christopher Robert Chope OBE MP (born 19 May 1947) is an utter twat and absolute muppet with no conscience whatsoever. He is unfortunately the Member of Parliament for Christchurch. A Brexit advocate, he has been supportive of Leave Means Leave, a Eurosceptic pressure group.[2]"
In any case I'm not sure how sustainable their approach is in the social media age.
I don't think it's particularly contentious to say that Brexit fits into a conservative small c, right wing, traditionalist outlook.
Look, I'm a Conservative too and, having just googled those who opposed gay marriage, I'm very disappointed at some of the names in there, to say nothing of Br*x*t. But that's the party for you.
In any case, it has support of the Government, so they'll probably be able to put it in somewhere.
It does seem bloody weird.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0174/18174.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chope#Blocking_and_filibustering_of_bills
This, and people like him make me despair to be a 'right-winger' and to be anyway associated with him. There should be no place for people like him in the Tories.
This is the culmination of such self satisfied wankery.
I'm surprised that people who do this can't be charged with assault.
Bring it!
FPT, I don't see anything wrong about referendums. They are a conventional means of determining public opinion.
I think that few people (on either side of the debate) would consider it fair that a government which got elected with c.40% of the vote could simply exercise Article 50, without bothering to consult the public.
I’m not saying that this applies to this particular case at all. All I’m saying is that law-making should never be done lightly, and in general, we have a surfeit of law and regulation rather than a deficit.
Surely shoving a camera up a woman's skirt is bound to attract attention. You may as carry a sign around your neck saying "I'm a sad and lonely pervert."
A case for psychiatric intervention?
As more and more people with mental problems are being dealt with by the Police and criminal justice services one would have thought this, too, was a Bill to at least consider.
"Cameras are so small, they can be worn on shoes...so I hear."
Thanks. But that begs the question why would someone make so much effort to look at a picture of women's underwear. OK, I'm probably showing my age now. Forget I asked.
Later it became official Labour policy to leave, it was in their 1983 election manifesto, presumably without a referendum. Later it became their policy to stay in and not have a referendum.
Now we have had another referendum and it said leave, large numbers of them think we should ignore it and stay in.
Most people agree that the Tories are in a mess over Brexit, the only party that's not in a mess over Brexit is UKIP.
For the next decade, they will say: We would have gotten all the advantages of the single market, with absolutely none of the disadvantages.
They are not required to implement policy and will be able to claim - at every point - that they would have done better. Especially if the Labour leader is not Corbyn, it is likely to be an effective approach.
I pity you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44496427
Not content with blocking the upskirting bill, Chope just blocked another government-backed bill to make it a specific criminal offence to attack police dogs and horses.
In addition to the upskirting bill, Chope has also blocked:
Pardoning Alan Turing (which was supported by The Queen);
Same-sex marriage;
An investigation into Bercow bullying allegations;
The use of wild animals in circus performances;
Pay gap transparency;
Blocked free hospital car parking for carers;
Making revenge evictions an offence.
https://order-order.com/2018/06/15/9-things-chris-chope-blocked/
Gina and ME!!!
youhe know about the presence or otherwise of the underwear which is, I understand, what the criminality turns on?An ice cream van, which will carry the slogan “Ice cream lovers of the world – unite” and play a jingle version of The Red Flag.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/15/labour-live-festival-jeremy-corbyn-clean-bandit
Will the ice cream be massive subsidized like in Cuba?
But it's the Sun talking, so I don't take it seriously.
Apparently Philip Davies spoke unbroken for two hours so that Chope could object there was no debate. Cynical behaviour from the pair of them. A disgrace.
That being said, what Manafort "wants" (I suspect) is no jail time, followed by a guilty plea followed by an immediate presidential pardon. Can he be pardoned pre-trial?
And so it will remain thanks to the sagacious and principled stand of Messrs. Chope and Davies
Better than the dross from Uruguay Egypt.
Just for fun I also put £1 on them at 1000/1 which I'll lay off if they get to the quarter finals.
Trump has form in stretching convention past its limit, and the pardon powers are ill defined.
If that doesn't encourage the onshoring of some US production I am not sure what would.
The traditional view is that this is reckless and damaging to international growth and trade but the fact is that the current system has not worked well for the US (or the UK) for more than 20 years now. The growth that is generated is not shared around and neither is the increase in living standards.
A great deal of that is the US's own fault (ours as well) because we don't save enough, we consume too much and we are too prone to electing irresponsible governments who run large deficits. But long term the consequences are seriously adverse. Too much of our future earnings actually belong to people outside this country. Improving the standard of living of those resident in the US or the UK becomes increasingly difficult, as does maintaining public services. Bluntly, the US and the UK really cannot go on like this. Trump is a bull in a china shop but it is difficult to pretend (as I expect the BBC to do) that the current system of trade does not need shaken up.
The Franco-German alliance is becoming strained with the lack of enthusiasm in Germany for Macron's plans and the French are starting to look around for new allies whether the Germans like the proposals or not.
Interesting times and all that.