I've never found anywhere in this country to be as rough as it's supposed to be, although I haven't visited the Thamesmead area yet, where some of the famous scenes in A Clockwork Orange were filmed.
Indeed. I live in Kingstanding. (In bottom 5% of areas by deprivation.) It's actually quite nice. (Though that fact hides not a little misery.) I find some of the inner-city terraced streets more depressing - I can understand why there was such a push to demolish them from 1930-1970.
I quite liked living in a terraced inner city neighbourhood. I would happily do so again if downsizing. I did rent one grim place in London for a year. Freezing in winter, dreadful plumbing and above a takeaway, but cheap. One of the other rooms was rented to a prostitute, but she was no trouble, apart from having to answer the door late at night.
That house in Fitzwilliam is luxury compared to the two up two down in Gosport I lived in around 25 years ago.
Our taxi driver said he hopes Trump wins because he doesn't like Obamacare or any of the Democrats, they're either old or women or gay. He voted for Clinton once.
I saw three lawn signs: one Buttigieg, one Yang, one Gabbard.
The Telegraph this evening are reporting that four former Labour MPs are now urging voters to vote Tory. Three of them former Ministers/frontbenchers. I know Woodcock and Austin are two of them. Any idea who the other two are?
If we're talking about former Labour MPs, there must be a lot more than four. But I'm interested to know who these particular ones are.
That was my point. The way it is phrased (calling them senior ex MPs) makes it sound like they are all in the same boat as Austin. Trouble is with the Telegraph they could be referring to someone like Gisela Stuart who hasn't been a Labour MP for 2 years. That would have a very different complexion to Austin and Woodcock.
The other two are Tom Harris & Michael McCann, both ceased to be MPs in 2015.
McCann was only elected in 2010 so calling him senior is stretchier than knicker elastic. When I worked in E.Kilbride I drove past his big fat face on a billboard for several months.
If he's urging voters to back BJ I assume he's given up on any idea of returning to front line Scottish politics.
The Telegraph this evening are reporting that four former Labour MPs are now urging voters to vote Tory. Three of them former Ministers/frontbenchers. I know Woodcock and Austin are two of them. Any idea who the other two are?
If we're talking about former Labour MPs, there must be a lot more than four. But I'm interested to know who these particular ones are.
That was my point. The way it is phrased (calling them senior ex MPs) makes it sound like they are all in the same boat as Austin. Trouble is with the Telegraph they could be referring to someone like Gisela Stuart who hasn't been a Labour MP for 2 years. That would have a very different complexion to Austin and Woodcock.
The other two are Tom Harris & Michael McCann, both ceased to be MPs in 2015.
McCann was only elected in 2010 so calling him senior is stretchier than knicker elastic. When I worked in E.Kilbride I drove past his big fat face on a billboard for several months.
If he's urging voters to back BJ I assume he's given up on any idea of returning to front line Scottish politics.
Labour had some truly horrific MPs in Scotland, can't help but wonder if the SNP did us a favour in some ways, sort of tough medicine.
A former Labour MP has confirmed he will run as an independent in the general election after the party withdrew its support for him after he backed protesters in an LGBT teaching row.
Roger Godsiff, 73, who had been the Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green, was told this week by the national executive committee (NEC) that he would not be endorsed as a candidate in the December poll and someone else would run in his place.
On Thursday Godsiff announced he would run for election in his former constituency as an Independent Labour candidate.
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http://britainelects.com/2019/11/07/previews-07-nov-2019/
You have to scroll down, these are very detailed.
Give us a clue, lads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dsylqp/picture_of_a_political_prisoner_in_one_of_chinas/
If he's urging voters to back BJ I assume he's given up on any idea of returning to front line Scottish politics.
https://twitter.com/jim45cotland/status/1192586962143784963?s=20
https://twitter.com/SallyGimson/status/1192447566249635841?s=20
Roger Godsiff, 73, who had been the Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green, was told this week by the national executive committee (NEC) that he would not be endorsed as a candidate in the December poll and someone else would run in his place.
On Thursday Godsiff announced he would run for election in his former constituency as an Independent Labour candidate.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/08/ex-labour-mp-to-run-as-independent-after-being-dropped-over-lgbt-row
https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1192618341988474886