Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Posted: Fri 31 Oct, 2014 1:13 pm
So as both Labour and the Lib Dems have said they'll scrap 'em, this PCC is pretty much on a 6 month contract.
Britain Elects @britainelects · 54s 54 seconds ago
Labour take Rotherham on first preferences.
Bloody marvellous. Well done to them. I will be having a drink to celebrate that tonight.PorFavor wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... es-housingLandmark legal victory for allotments over redevelopment
Farm Terrace plot-holders in Watford quash decision by Eric Pickles to turn site into housing and car park (Guardian)
Edited to, hopefully, get quote right,
More news to celebrate. Looks like I may be in a bit of a state by the end of the evening.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Labour have won Rotherham apparently
PHEW
That's no way for the Home Secretary to behave.rebeccariots2 wrote:More news to celebrate. Looks like I may be in a bit of a state by the end of the evening.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Labour have won Rotherham apparently
PHEW
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/o ... g-familiesBritain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
Last January, the Wilsons sparked a national outcry after it was revealed they were evicting anyone on housing benefit. They sent the eviction notices to 200 tenants, saying they preferred eastern European migrants who defaulted much less frequently than single mums on welfare. They said at the time that the move was purely an economic decision and was entirely legal as landlords do not have to give a reason before obtaining a possession order on a home.
But, in a bizarre twist, the Wilsons have begun evicting many of their eastern European tenants – because they are having too many children. “I have taken the decision to evict all families with more than two children and also three-generation households,” said Fergus Wilson in a statement sent to the Guardian
I can kick off my kitten heels with the best of em ...PorFavor wrote:That's no way for the Home Secretary to behave.rebeccariots2 wrote:More news to celebrate. Looks like I may be in a bit of a state by the end of the evening.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Labour have won Rotherham apparently
PHEW
rebeccariots2 wrote:I can kick off my kitten heels with the best of em ...PorFavor wrote:That's no way for the Home Secretary to behave.rebeccariots2 wrote: More news to celebrate. Looks like I may be in a bit of a state by the end of the evening.
T'was a pleasure - I love 'real' electionsrefitman wrote:@PK - thanks for the updates. I've been copying them over to the Graun.
I'm not sure. We can carry on being enjoying it for a while before they start on why it's bad for Ed.pk1 wrote:T'was a pleasure - I love 'real' electionsrefitman wrote:@PK - thanks for the updates. I've been copying them over to the Graun.
Wish they would bloody well hurry up & officially announce the result though....
Paul Waugh @paulwaugh 36m36 minutes ago
Close but no cigar for Farage. RT @Markfergusonuk: Labour wins Rotherham by 800 votes and avoids 2nd round of voting by 0.02%!
UKIP would be entitled to ask for that under the rules, tbf.....PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Rumour of a recount
yahyah wrote:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 49m 49 minutes ago
A failure to win S Yorkshire PCC by-election is bad news for UKIP given background & effort it's put in.
Really ? The difference is said to be 800 votes & I thought it had to be 500 or less ??AnatolyKasparov wrote:UKIP would be entitled to ask for that under the rules, tbf.....PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Rumour of a recount
Mark Ferguson @Markfergusonuk 7m7 minutes ago
UKIP called for a recount in the South Yorks PCC by-election. What a bunch of absolute time wasters. It was refused.
Even if he pushes Labour to 49.9% I suspect second preferences won't save him. Not everybody will give one. Do all those Tory voters want UKIP as second choice? How many English Democrats read the voting rules?pk1 wrote:Really ? The difference is said to be 800 votes & I thought it had to be 500 or less ??AnatolyKasparov wrote:UKIP would be entitled to ask for that under the rules, tbf.....PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Rumour of a recount
Representative for some of the victims was on TV earlier having met with the Home Office officials & stated categorically that they had no faith in any process if Woolf was to be involved.PoliticsHome @politicshome 24s25 seconds ago
Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz summons Fiona Woolf for fresh questioning by MPs
On euphemisms (if that is one) one of the things I've noticed while travelling recently is hotel toiletries labelled as "renewing body bar" or similar.PorFavor wrote:I've not heard\seen anything on the news (BBC) about the PCC election (although I've been fielding 'phone calls so I could have missed it - but there's nothing on the breaking news tickertape thingy at the bottom of the TV screen). Endless coverage of the Labour-in-Scotland story, though.
And as an irrelevant aside - students at my daughter's university have been told not to use the phrase "brain-storming" as it's offensive to epileptics (or people with epilepsy as I prefer to call them - labelling people as ,,,,,ics anything is offensive, in my view, as it reduces them to being defined by their medical condition). The students been told that "thought-showering" is the phrase du jour.
TBF Hodges was spot on today.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Perhaps we should Tweet DFH and ask him if the South Yorkshire result is "Bad news for Nigel Farage"
That's yet another shocking shocking indictment of this government's disastrous 'policies' (they're not policies are they - they're just cuts and punishments of the poor).HindleA wrote:#failinggrayling
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Senior judge calls on justice secretary Chris Grayling to attend hearing to answer how justice can be delivered
"brain showering" sounds very socks-and-sandals.PorFavor wrote:students at my daughter's university have been told not to use the phrase "brain-storming"
https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/services/co ... -elections" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Police and Crime Commissioner By-Election 2014
The election took place on Thursday 30 October.
Total number of valid first preference votes: 148,062
ALLEN David
English Democrats - "Putting England First!"
8,583 (5.8%)
BILLINGS Alan
Labour Party Candidate
74,060 (50.02%)
CLARKSON Jack
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
46,883 (31.66%)
WALKER Ian
The Conservative Party Candidate
18,536 (12.52%)
Number of ballot papers rejected at first count: 2,299
The turnout in the South Yorkshire Police Area at this election was 14.88%.
Alan Billings, Labour Party Candidate, has been elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire.
TorygraphLabour have clung onto the post of South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, but Ukip saw a surge in support.
The survivors' representative was pretty categorical that the groups he was speaking on behalf of (quite a few of them) had now decided they would not participate in an enquiry with Woolf at its head - and that they wanted nothing less than a statutory inquiry with full powers.pk1 wrote:Representative for some of the victims was on TV earlier having met with the Home Office officials & stated categorically that they had no faith in any process if Woolf was to be involved.PoliticsHome @politicshome 24s25 seconds ago
Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz summons Fiona Woolf for fresh questioning by MPs
Sky news has done it's job by highlighting the differences between the draft letters.
'clung onto' .....????PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Here we goTorygraphLabour have clung onto the post of South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, but Ukip saw a surge in support.
tinyclanger2 wrote:"brain showering" sounds very socks-and-sandals.PorFavor wrote:students at my daughter's university have been told not to use the phrase "brain-storming"
(apologies in advance to anyone wearing both).
Try CTRL + it should make the text largerPorFavor wrote:According to the BBC David Cameron is unwavering (or glossy and unbending, or something) in his support for Fiona Woolf. The legal representative of the survivors was interviewed and was very good.
Apologies if I make more errors than usual. I've somehow reduced the font-size to microscopic and don't know how to undo it. I can't see a bloody thing.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!minch wrote:Try CTRL + it should make the text largerPorFavor wrote:According to the BBC David Cameron is unwavering (or glossy and unbending, or something) in his support for Fiona Woolf. The legal representative of the survivors was interviewed and was very good.
Apologies if I make more errors than usual. I've somehow reduced the font-size to microscopic and don't know how to undo it. I can't see a bloody thing.