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This story by @MrHarryCole requires a lot of mind bleach.https://t.co/8E6cBX4INm
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Hmm.
I agree, and made this point a couple of days ago - that Labour were a shambles and an unexpectedly good campaign didn't change that. Didn't make me terribly popular with a certain poster, but it's true.
Question is, will they learn from this mistake the way Corbyn (to his credit) has learned from other errors he's made?
Not a bad gig all in all for a job he got without interview and barely any checks of his CV and mainly because he was not Nick Clegg.
Wolfenstein II is a game set in an American taken over by Nazis. The game is generating massive word of mouth amongst people who would never play a first person shooter bit are strongly attacted to ads like
https://twitter.com/wolfenstein/status/919684333207568385
And as for 'if they cannot do x how can they run the country?', well, unfortunately parties, governments and oppositions often do things than raise that sort of question.
Really though it does seem like Hallam would have been better off with Clegg.
Everything Counts in large amounts"
Mr Clegg said he had settled for a "modest" version because of "Conservative Party resistance"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27705901
I confess I had forgotten whether any form of recall had been passed into law.
Personally I'm not sold on the idea. The principle that it's up to the electorate to judge at the next election is flawed, given the strength of partisan voting and distance from any wrongdoing, but if not careful it seems like a system which can easily be abused.
The Bill provides for a recall petition to be triggered if a Member is sentenced to a prison term or is suspended from the House for at least 21 sitting days. If either occurred, the Speaker would give notice to a petition officer, who in turn would give notice to parliamentary electors in the constituency.
A petition would then be open for signing for eight weeks. If at the end of that period at least 10 per cent of eligible electors had signed the petition, the seat would be declared vacant and a by-election would follow. The Member who was recalled could stand in the by-election.
The Bill also introduces rules on the conduct of the recall petition, including campaign spending limits for those supporting and opposing recalling the Member.
https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/recallofmps.html
This surprises me. I must have missed the Sinn Fein contributions.
In all seriousness, if it is really true he is the only one (bar Sinn Fein MPs) not to speak and doesn't hold regular surgeries, he seems not only an arse but a lazy arse at that. Does he at least vote often?
Edit:
Has voted in 76.92% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs
Loved playing that on my Spectrum 128k +3
Edit: My bad - you were talking about PMQs and debates separately!
I've often wondered about that - who was the last MP sentenced to less than a year but who didn't resign anyway?
Chris Huhne was jailed for 8 months but did resign as did most of the expenses scandal MPs.
Bobbie Sands was elected from prison which was why the original law was passed.
I am hoping, in the interests of equality, a male MP defies the rules and wears a hat in the chamber (lady's may wear hats, you see).
Potentially important - Con / DUP majority is 13.
I think they can afford to lose 3 by-elections and continue in office (ie majority of 7).
Lose 4 by-elections and majority is 5 which is then just too unstable (for any period of time) with risk of random events causing votes to be lost.
But if O'Mara isn't turning up, then they can lose 4 by-elections, rather than 3.
President Donald Trump has ordered the release of nearly 3,000 files on John F Kennedy assassination. But he blocked the release of other files, citing national security concerns.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41771923
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27488254
Gillespie. His vote has been creeping up over the past few months and PaddyPower has him at 5/2, in from 3/1 a few weeks ago http://www.paddypower.com/bet/politics/other-politics/us-politics?ev_oc_grp_ids=3768456
If I had world enough and time, I'd do a proper Bayesian workup (which would involve me looking up "Bayesian workup" - it's been a while...
Characters no longer bleed when injured, and they fade away when blown up rather than gib. The scientists and security guards do not collapse upon death. Instead, they calmly sit down on the floor and shake their head in disappointment when killed. The Marines were replaced with Robot Grunts and have their own unique lines delivered with robotic modulation. The death animation of the female assassin was altered so that her eyes remain covered by her night vision goggles rather than become visible after the goggles slide off. The assassin's breasts also do not bounce while walking. Barnacles vomit mechanical parts such as springs and cogs when killed due to the original human body part gibs being replaced. In the multiplayer portion of the game, the only available player model is Helmet. Despite all of these changes, corpses and blood decals already placed in the levels can be still be found throughout the campaign.
http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Censored_versions_of_Half-Life
I did laugh at the 'calmly sit down' bit..
http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/
Think of poor sods at various media outlets currently having to wade through all of this...
MinionsInterns assemble...Asteroids, Battlezone, Missile Command, Tempest, Star Wars, Marble Madness, Gamesmaster, snarky mention of "purple joystick"...
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/923677917439291397
One for the aficionados. Loughborough is a marginal, and a bellwether for who forms a government.
The Hastings ward is the more WWC area of Loughborough, largely social housing and with little to do with the university. Town not gown.
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/923687563562487808
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41753022
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/trump-opioid-crisis.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
FWIW, both sides are flooding the TV ad market with nasty negative attack ads (for both Governor and Attorney General votes). Hard to say which is the more effective - I have no liking for either candidate, but Gillespie has one ad that verges on the Willy Horton - accusing Northam of supporting the automatic restoration of rights of child sex offenders. Maybe that is what is boosting his number or, more likely, depressing Northam's.
The big news seems not to be the election, but the Board of Governors agonizing over how to rename J.E.B. Stuart High School.
When that is the level of a country's political debate, it clearly doesn't have too many real problems. Ain't America so lucky to be governed so well. Wait ...
WannaCry was almost exclusively a GCHQ/NSA f*ckup.
That she's appointed a replacement home secretary who doesn't even understand encryption indicates how far up sh*t creek we are.
The tories are a serious threat to national security.
possibly labour expectations were just very very low in 2017... they didn't really expect to be gaining seats.
So when he was selected as the Labour candidate the perception was Labour was in for a shellacking on June 8th, (net) seat gains weren’t on the agenda for them.
Hmmm.
As it looks like he’s just throwing mud and hope it sticks.