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I’m a dutiful son and I visit my parents regularly. They live in Hadleigh, a quiet market town in south Suffolk. Hadleigh has never quite made it onto the tourist trail. This is a little odd because Kersey, a couple of miles away, is a staple of Christmas cards and meerkat adverts and Lavenham, a few miles further away, is besieged with visitors.
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Though given how the Police failed to take action against Sarah Olney, perhaps another blind eye will be turned.
If Dent Coad is found to have broken electoral law, her chances of still being allowed to stand as a candidate must surely be in date at any by-election.
Would be a very interesting campaign.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5884845/Hungary-warns-EU-faces-economic-devastation-without-post-Brexit-trade-deal.html
I agree. I can’t see any harm in these.
It's the Christmas Truce all over again. Anyone for footy?
I think, however, trying to draw broader lessons from it is fraught with difficulties. Our politics is unstable enough without having pressure groups pushing for additional elections when frustrated with the direction of progress. Sometimes elected governments have to govern. And make decisions. And just get on with it.
I do think that the power to recall individual MPs guilty of misconduct should be put in place though.
all without every much evidence at all, of course.
Interesting article, and a nice photograph too.
I do dislike this heat.
http://www.iniref.org/local-referendum.html
Became more of an issue under the Localism Act, which grated greater powers to parish councils (cf 'Big Society'....)
On betting and parents: I did just mention it in passing but don't bang on about it. A year or two ago, my father asked me to put a bet on the Grand National (something or other Arthur was the horse's name). I put a little on for myself, on the basis I'd be pissed off if he won via my account and I didn't actually make anything.
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The horse won.
We had a useful parish poll demonstrating support for a controversial housing development - yes really. People took it quite seriously.
I've always supported full recall for MPs and councillors - if you have 10% of your residents who want you out at any time you have really stuffed up. Would Boris be feeling the heat this week?
Looks like a beautiful if sleepy town - anyone famous from Hadleigh?
Certainly though, when I was a student at St David's University College, Lampeter (as it was then) in the late 80s, Ceredigion was still "dry" on Sundays and so the Cwmann Arms just across the Teifi in Carmarthenshire did a brisk trade every weekend.
Pretty disastrous first half of 2018 for me. I've misjudged some F1 things but I've never known such a streak of misfortune either. Even at the last race, the bloke I backed was taken out (recovery drive but still) at the first corner, and the chaps I backed for qualifying were because of potential rain, which happened before and after qualifying but not during.
*sighs*
Although that isn't quite as bad as the time he got the capital of Brazil wrong. When he was Foreign Secretary.
Says man who now permanently resides in America.
Still, if he wants to move back here, stand as an MP, and promote open borders, that's his right. Daft sod.
https://twitter.com/philaldrick/status/1011561871642628096?s=21
Khalid Ali, 28, was arrested in April 2017 in Parliament Street, where he was caught carrying three knives.
Ali had recently returned from Afghanistan, where he made and detonated bombs, the Old Bailey heard.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44613587
Where there is no approved area plan (as in Aylesbury District Council) the neighbourhood plan is the sole statutory plan.
The Government's varying shades of rubbish, yet the Opposition is markedly worse.
Mr. Urquhart, a British man has been found guilty of planning a coup.
Boris Johnson, 54, returned recently from Afghanistan, where he was hiding under a table to avoid following a three line whip. Mr. Johnson, who left his dignity behind in Kabul, said he couldn't possibly resign as he wanted to be Prime Minister.
Theresa May was too busy laughing to comment.
Miliband is in Aspen?
https://twitter.com/anonymityiskey4/status/1009764773062369282
But it did seem apt. For him and the Jezbollah.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Is that too much to ask?
https://twitter.com/camusson/status/1011617207019851778
Or Farage?
My daughter, who works in Tayside NHS, tells me that a series of wards have been closed, expensive medication is no longer available and a series of budgetary cuts have been made in Ninewells (the largest hospital in the Board) as they seek to claw back the deficit that the previous Board was not able to address. It has been made clear in an e-mail to staff that there is now a lot of direct control by the Scottish Government.
Another comment in that thread was that there was literally no space for customs facilities at the UK terminus of the channel tunnel.
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1011610133267406849
Yes, no space:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0983661,1.1281326,4580m/data=!3m1!1e3
Whereas Lorries going out what do we need to check "Got your papers, Mate?" "Yup, sure do" "On you go then."
Where are all these delays, on the French side as far as I can see.
Let me guess your aerial shot is nowhere near where you live.
Over the last few weeks there has been a co-ordinated attack on Brexit from the EU, politicians in the UK, pressure groups and now the manufactures including Airbus, BMW (though they have now withdrawn their threat to leave the UK) and today by the car manufacturers. Indeed this full on anti Brexit crescendo seems to be timed for the EU meeting this week which ironically, due to the chronic problems in the EU over migration and other matters, seems now to be at the bottom of the EU’s agenda, which seems very unwise.
These scare stories do not help the dialogue but as far as I see it, and having run a business before I retired, there is a considerable amount of sense in the expressions of concern and we are now at decision time.
Theresa May needs to step up to the plate in her Chequers meeting and act in the Country’s interest, and not the hard line Brexiteers, and demand a business friendly Brexit with serious consideration of ‘a’ customs union and allowing the ECJ some role, especially over the transition period that needs to be extended by at least a year and maybe more. As far as the Brexiteers are concerned let them resign as I believe she will be strengthened both in Parliament and the Country by taking the difficult decisions that are incumbent on her as Prime Minister.
Boris has lost all respect and integrity and should have voted against Heathrow runway and resigned. That he did not do so must signal the end of his ambition to succeed TM.
As for Williamson he is immature and promoted way above his pay grade and needs putting back in his box
Yesterday’s decision to overwhelmingly back Heathrow (which I strongly support) was the wrong time to reject the Swansea lagoon scheme, especially as it and a lagoon for North Wales had united the Welsh conservatives, was in the 2015 manifesto, and was supported by most of the Country. I have spoken to a Welsh Conservative MP and he is bitterly disappointed. It seems anything for England and the DUP is fine but Wales can be forgotten as it is not important. Coming on top of the cancellation of the electrification to Swansea it is just crass politics and will cost conservatives votes. These decisions on Wales have put into question my membership but ultimately I have nowhere else to go, however it is frustrating in the extreme
I did know, having looked into the history of referendums in Britain, that parish polls of this nature do indeed predate the larger national, regional and local polls that have abounded in more recent years and, as Alastair says, that there've been many of them. I didn't know, however, how easy they were to call or that they could be called on such wide subject matter. Cheers for the primer.
That said, even the bigger referendums have quite a long history now. The first, inglorious, one was held in Northern Ireland in 1973 (on whether the province should remain with the UK or join the RoI), and was boycotted by nationalists. That's 45 years ago now - before most people in the country were born. That was followed, more famously, by the EEC referendum in 1975 and, infamously, the devolution referendums of 1979 with their super-majority requirements - a history with its associated grievance conveniently forgotten by Remain refuseniks in search of an excuse for illegitimising the 2016 poll. Since 1997, there've been a further nine referendums at regional level or above, plus many more at district level, on local government reform.
That said, I'm not convinced of the merits of widespread popular democracy. For all that they're a part of our constitution now, I don't think them a good way of determining any but the biggest decisions, given how advocates for any position have the luxury of not being the ones charged with delivering the result and, as such, do not have the inhibiting factor that politicans do at general elections, of the foreknowledge of the costs of over-promising.
Yeah, the US isn’t just going to go back to normal after Trump’s presidency. I don’t think Dems will ever move past what happened with Garland.
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration's travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries.
Lower courts had deemed the ban unconstitutional, but the US top court has reversed this decision in a 5-4 ruling announced on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44619976
I am sure he will be very gracious in victory.
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1011625523750096896
No change.
Neither the port of Dover, nor the Channel tunnel terminal, have enough space to build the necessary lorry parks.
They may be able to buy space, but they don't have it today
He;ll be rubbing his hands if Eurotunnel needs the space as he'll be able to charge what he likes for the land !
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