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Hornby Castle on Richmondshire (Con Defence)
Result: Conservative 127 (46%), Independent 98 (36%), United Kingdom Independence Party 50 (18%)
Conservative HOLD with a majority of 29 (10%)
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Edit: Iver Village and Richings Park, eh? *chortle*
I think you are muddling the Liberals with the BBC.
I have voted...
I think the comparison is from May 2011
Three seats C 868, LD 772, C 767, 697, LD 462, 419
Lib Dems 584 (51.27%)
UKIP 324 (28.44%) ANN DAY
Labour 120 (10.53%)
Cons 70 (6.7%)
Green 30 (2.6%)
22.7% Turnout
Parent: 'Isn't he there? Hang on, I'll just check his room.'
*long silence*
Parent: 'Hello? Yes. He's still here. He's asleep.'
'Any chance you could wake him up and send him into school?'
Parent: 'Well he must be tired. He was still up playing that war game when we went to bed. And that was gone one.'
The irony is that the aspiration nation is apparently natural Tory territory. They need to get on to it and get their asses into those so called slums.
Cyril Smith was indeed a Liberal.
I was 30!
The truth remains, though, that some people have no motivation, aspiration or ambition. Labour rely on those unfortunates to provide their core vote.
Obama the preacher comes clean; he loves his enemies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10516110/Americas-friends-are-left-behind-in-Barack-Obamas-new-plans.html
There are increasing straws in the wind that things are going to get very bumpy early in the new year. There was a very good article by Jeremy Warner a few days ago and now this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10516124/Bank-of-America-advises-China-default-contracts-to-hedge-debt-storm.html
My guess, since central bankers have screwed almost everything else up in recent times, is that the tapering of the US QE program will be mishandled and that we will have some serious dislocations early in 2014.
Tories had been not get too full of themselves about the economic recovery. We are better placed than we were but a serious bump in the far east or the EZ or the US could still knock us out of our stride. I just have a feeling that things are going adrift again, not here so much but internationally.
There is too much tolerance of intolerance in the name of tolerance
Feel free to quote me
I hope the universities have really backed down but they - and others - need to be watched like hawks to make sure there's no backsliding. The Quakers, for instance, allow their meeting rooms to be used by Islamist speakers preaching violence and anti-semitism. Why? What's the point of posturing about pacifism if you allow your buildings to be used - in return for money - by those preaching violence?
As for Sean T's friend, why is he surprised? Labour's Mayoral candidate was quite willing to embrace the Islamist preacher, Qaradawi - a man who endorsed suicide bombings, wife beatings, killing of gays and FGM - and provide a public platform for him at our expense. And Labour MPs and would-be MPs (including our own Nick P) were willing to canvass for such a candidate. Labour's record is shameful when it comes to confronting crypto-religious fascists.
I'd like to thank Morris Dancer for his post for me several threads back. I particularly liked his elegant formulation - "There's a yawning chasm of difference between choice and force."
Orwell had the measure of cowardly and pusillanimous pygmies such as our university leaders.
To my mind, female genital mutilation is ABH or GBH, and any doctor practicing it should prosecuted. Parents are clearly accessories and should be prosecuted too.
Families doing this must realise that they will lose control of their daughters. Since they do it in order, apparently, to make them marriageable, we need to stop them having such control. It may even be necessary to take the children away from them. But we must take drastic action to stop such barbarity.
We owe it to the girls, some as young as 4, who suffer the most appalling pain - not just at the time but throughout their lives - as a result of what can only be properly described as barbarism.
Seems a bit pointless worrying about local by-elections or Jack and Harriet, given this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2523177/Could-universe-collapse-TODAY-Physicists-claim-risk-likely-started.html
Firstly, they already practise segregation - ever heard of Men's and Women's lavatories.
Secondly, whatever you may think of them, Muslims pay taxes. Unless public institutions accommodate them and their beliefs, then they have lost the right to public money or money should be made available for Muslims to found their own institutions.
I must say I am enjoying "liberals" discomfort on this issue. They proclaim tolerance and an open door immigration policy, but then squeal when those immigrants fail to check their religion in at the border. Hilarious.
Particularly amusingly, they have only just realised this when the liberal bastion of education has been stormed, the rest of the country having had close contact with Muslims and Islam for years and having been derided as "racists" when they have complained.
For anyone complaining about FGM, please post a link to your posts on male-to-female sex changes, which, of course, involve the removal of the penis and testicles. Also, it most definitely takes place in this country. On the NHS.
Finally, what ever happened to the multi-culturalists and diversity lovers in this country? They seem to have gone very quiet.
Being the BBC the response was not: "ya think???"
Good on her. These people should not be taken seriously at any point. Their ideas are simply ridiculous.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/447673/Labour-MP-Simon-Danczuk-Sex-trafficking-crimes-ARE-a-racial-issue
And this from a former Labour MP
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/15/former-labour-mp-ann-cryer-clames-cultural-practices-from-pakistan_n_3277536.html
Maybe it's just the southern ones that are luvvies ?
FGM - done on children, often pre-school.
Muslims may well pay takes, but they should do so under the firm belief that they're required to obey the laws and customs within this country. I wouldn't expect otherwise if I lived in Jeddah or Islamabad. If it's an issue, then perhaps one should consider residing elsewhere.
Those undergoing sex changes do so voluntarily - it's their choice. Do the young girls being forcibly mutilated have any option? Somehow I doubt it. It's an abhorrent act, and those inflicting such injuries on children should be prosecuted accordingly
FGM is a very big fish, that needs frying, and stopping now.
There is nothing illegal about sex segregation. Perhaps you should ask David Cameron where he went to school?
As for your ridiculous citing of "customs", these change over time and would certainly change due to ......immigration! Perhaps this should have been considered before mass non-European immigration was allowed?
The "chuck 'em out" argument is hardly the way to treat British citizens when they exercise their democratic rights, just because you disagree with them. How illiberal.
You seem strongly against violence acts being committed children. Please point me to your anti-abortion posts in the past.
You can bet that British Muslims can smell the cant and hypocrisy emanating from the British political class just as well as I can.
'As for your ridiculous citing of "customs", these change over time and would certainly change due to ......immigration!'
Nope,the minority adapt to the majority.
WRT Muslims, there are genuine legitimate criticisms to make. What isn't fair is to blame them for not embracing the sexual revolution.
Also, it doesn't actually seem to be happening. Why should it? Britain has opened its borders to the World, communications are cheap, TV (and internet) can be brought easily from throughout the World. Also, Muslims actually have children, hence their population growth.
Point of information: White British are a minority in London.
And it is hardly taking place in British Universities, is it?
And again, it is to be noted the failure to mention abortion rates in this country. The poor child is certainly forced to endure that.
Perhaps sexual separation has its uses, after all.
Some government employees know perfectly well which females have been circumcised. The NHS finds out when they go to hospital to give birth. No questioning or prosecutions have resulted.
The truth is as long as abortion is legal in this country and takes place in NHS hospitals, the government hasn't a moral leg to stand on.
'The only way to stop FGM is for girls at risk to be examined on a regular basis by doctors.'
For a start they could make it mandatory for medical professionals to report cases they come across.
Anyway, I feel that now I've been unnecessarily insulted by you, I have now lost my PB virginity.
For Labour to win a majority in 2015 they need to win 93.4% of the seats they would have won in 2005 under the current boundaries. The notional result for 2005 was Labour on 349 seats and a majority of 48, so the calculation is 326/349.
Two threads ago there was a mini-quiz about what connected three people who bla-bla-bla, or whatever it was.
As a variation, here is an arithmetic quiz. Connect the numbers using standard arithmetical operations, to make each line equal 6. You're not allowed to write in any extra numbers, so (for example) you can't do a little 2 to make "squared", and you can't do a little 3 to make a cube-root sign. :
0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 2 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6
Some obvious ones
(2^2)+2 =6
(3*3)-3 = 6
(5/5)+5 = 6
(6*6)/6 = 6 or (6-6+6)
-(7/7)+7 = 6