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The nights may be starting to draw in and people’s minds are starting to turn to the thoughts of Christmas presents, but for the electors in the 22 council wards where there were local by-elections in November, the main discussion point was who to vote for in those local by-elections.
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Not necessarily sterling governance, but we're not about to get that anyway.
How would anyone form a government?
Landseer was commissioned to design them. Problem was he had never been to Africa or seen a lion so he had no idea what they looked like. Fortunately (albeit not for the lion) one at London Zoo had recently died so he had them send over the remains.
Now this was obviously a very important commission so he was keen to get it just right. However he took so long about the sketches that the lion began to decompose and the hind quarters fell off before he’d drawn them. In a panic he did the only thing he could think of and used his pet Labrador as a model for the lion’s legs and back....
I guess that shows you have to be careful when working with a deadline.
Good as ever, sir: thank you.
#sadface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Square
In the Wantage and Grove one, for example, the Conservatives put out a late attack leaflet on the retiring Lib Dem Councillor, accusing her of fleeing the electorate and calling an unnecessary by-election.
Unfortunately, she was fairly well-known, so the fact that she'd been fighting cancer for some time, was physically exhausted, and had still been keeping up a long schedule of public engagements, wasn't unknown to the electors. This made the Conservatives look extremely unpleasant.
The thing is - the people on whom it would have worked to try to swing around were probably the less engaged and less likely to turn out anyway. Those who were more engaged became more likely to turn out against them. On a wet and dark November evening, that sort of thing really helps the attackee.
Long story short - there can be local factors in these local elections. I'd say it's encouraging for the Lib Dems (and very necessary), yes, but not necessarily (yet) a sign of wider recovery. To be honest, I think that Brexit being resolved one way or another is necessary for a wider Lib Dem revival - they've become associated almost solely with "anti-Brexit" to the point where any non-Brexit policies or stances are ignored or forgotten.
Good night.
The only thing the H of L does is bring in some expert knowledge from experts but they could give advice to H of C select committees and elected officials could validate the contribution or discard it.
The reduction seems almost incidental to just the need to review because of the updated figures. Outrageous suggestion - there were barely any cheetahs.
And today Pickford made an absolute horlicks of a mistake against Liverpool at Anfield in added time handing Liverpool victory
Is there anyone Mourinho doesn't destroy. He has to go
So I wouldn't get your hopes up that it would be swift, even if Corbyn gets in - no doubt there would be plans to abolish it, but seems like the parties are still keeping it flexible on how they would do it.
Same thing really..... "
Runs off screen ..
How could trying to deliver a policy that people voted for possibly do otherwise?
Pass the popcorn.
And since there is cabinet collective responsibility...
But seriously I was making a wider point.
It surely therefore has a right to see what it likes.
Mind you tomorrow with Cox at the despatch box will be very interesting.
He is a brexiterr and a powerful speaker
I can see why governments would want to resist this precedent but it is right that they lost this one and now they really must comply.
All that must happen is they must be approved by Commons and Lords and then approved by the next Privy Council meeting (which happens about once a month).
As long as the above happens any time before dissolution of Parliament the new boundaries then apply at next GE.
It's even possible to have the next GE on old boundaries and then all the above could happen after the next GE in which case they would be used at GE after that.
Don't vote, don't moan about the result.
I think that was more a point of clarification than a point of order.
When it rains it pours.
And, again in their slight defence, it is not only they are who are peddling delusions about better deals, that is shared across left and right, leave and remain. At leas those openly wanting remain or no deal are a bit more realistic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46417991
The most significant being the stark and yawning age divide between those who vote Tory (overwhelmingly old) and Labour (overwhelmingly young). The latter are much more likely to come and out and vote in a General election than a local, and this differential turn-out is magnified further in local by-elections.
The continuing emasculation of local government, which has little power anywhere these days beyond deciding which vital service to cut deeper, has only increased this apathy.
So local elections have become pretty meaningless, both as predictors of the wider political landscape, or directly in terms of political power.
Basically the Tory gammon horde pouring out dutifully to cast their vote rain or shine in more or less meaningless local contests doesn't tell us much.
Labour's shadow Attorney General is Shami Chakrabarti
So who replies for the opposition
Labour's shadow Attorney General is Shami Chakrabarti
So who replies for the opposition