Friday 16th August 2019

Post by **refitman** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 7:04 am

Morning all.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 8:43 am

Morning all.

Another triumph for outsourcing!

I wonder how many people calling AF knew that it was being run by a private sector company?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:36 am

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:38 am

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:47 am

Labour indeed didn't win adam's byelection yesterday, but their vote held up decently. Whilst the winning Tories were down significantly.

More later......

GetYou · Post by **GetYou** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:58 am

Things are heating up

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2019/0 ... ongue.html

[Jo Swinson] Can you confirm that you HAVE NOT been in discussions with [Boris Johnson] specifically between the 9th - 12th of this Month of August ? Cause nothing gets passed the Nats. A simple YES or NO, will suffice. I’ll wait, but not too long

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 11:26 am

Well if that is at all true, she is in deep bother. Though despite my low rating of her, I find it hard to believe Swinson would be *that* gullible.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 11:28 am

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 11:44 am

Next village,Parish level Labour fought off the Libdem challenge last night.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 12:42 pm

HindleA wrote:Next village,Parish level Labour fought off the Libdem challenge last night.

They all count, even if not necessarily for my review

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 12:48 pm

Another of Susan Oosthuizen's threads...

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Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 12:59 pm

Crazy Gemini divorce! Tory rebel will not support Corbyn (7,6).

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 2:24 pm

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 2:35 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Crazy Gemini divorce! Tory rebel will not support Corbyn (7,6).

Quite in line with his past behaviour. Remember when he voted against *his own* amendment?

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 2:52 pm

Unforgettable!

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 5:51 pm

Really good from Goodall, you can almost hear him banging his head on the desk.

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 6:40 pm

When he's good, he's good.

That is very good indeed.

(and we didn't even need to do any puns on his name!)

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 7:03 pm

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 7:07 pm

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 7:55 pm

One local council byelection yesterday:

Shropshire - Tory hold, but with a 17 point drop since the last election in 2017 to under 40 per cent. The first election for the unitary council in 2009 saw the Tories beat a single LibDem opponent by over 2 to 1, but Labour comfortably took second in 2013 and retained that spot in a previous byelection in 2015 as well as two years ago. Though they only had a small drop in share since then, they had to concede second place now to the LibDems who increased 14 points to over a quarter of the vote (their best showing since that original 2009 poll) Greens also more than doubled their share on last time as they scored 11%.

A single contest again next week.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 8:01 pm

Thanks

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:25 pm

Boris Johnson to head to Paris and Berlin in bid to break Brexit deadlock

PM set to meet Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron ahead of next week’s G7 meeting

Boris Johnson is expected to make a diplomatic dash to meet Emmanuel Macron in Paris and Angela Merkel in Berlin early next week as he seeks to break the Brexit impasse.

The prime minister, who has yet to leave the UK to meet any of the EU’s leaders since entering Downing Street, will also speak to the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, and Donald Tusk, the European council president, by phone, the Guardian understands. (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eal-brexit

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:26 pm

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:29 pm

Meanwhile WW3 continues and Australia has sunk,but mere trivialities.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:31 pm

Constance in training for the up-coming lick-box championships.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:34 pm

Nephew going to Sheffield to do Maths,it must hurt mum not around to witness,the boy done good in shitty circumstances.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:35 pm

HindleA wrote:Constance in training for the up-coming lick-box championships.

I think she's just trying to keep warm (it being freezing August and all).

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:37 pm

Brexit,innit.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:38 pm

Brrr-exit!

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:41 pm

Children/the young can teach supposed adults the concept of resilience despite the propaganda of Tory arsehole patronising Ministers arse about faceisms.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:42 pm

We should be on the stage..

Sweeping it.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:47 pm

Not actually that cold here(although hours in a fridge/freezer may inure somewhat)just torrential rain

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:48 pm

Still it provides an opportunity for the canoe/dinghy buying just in case consumers.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:54 pm

HindleA wrote:Not actually that cold here(although hours in a fridge/freezer may inure somewhat)just torrential rain

Torrential rain - which shows no sign of easing off - here, too. But it's bloody cold. Must check the thermometer. Not that that will change anything.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 9:56 pm

Socks and jumpers (not for goalposts).

Post by **adam** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:25 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:One local council byelection yesterday:

Shropshire - Tory hold, but with a 17 point drop since the last election in 2017 to under 40 per cent. The first election for the unitary council in 2009 saw the Tories beat a single LibDem opponent by over 2 to 1, but Labour comfortably took second in 2013 and retained that spot in a previous byelection in 2015 as well as two years ago. Though they only had a small drop in share since then, they had to concede second place now to the LibDems who increased 14 points to over a quarter of the vote (their best showing since that original 2009 poll) Greens also more than doubled their share on last time as they scored 11%.

A single contest again next week.

The ward splits something like 60/40 between really quite comfortable (and moving up from there) private housing in the larger part and a big ex-council estate for the smaller part. The turnout on the estate was about a third of the turnout in the rest of the ward. So, in a simplistic way, there you go. It's an annoying result because we didn't see any sign of the lib dems campaigning at all - they weren't telling or knocking their vote out on the day.

Post by **adam** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:25 pm

HindleA wrote:We should be on the stage..

Sweeping it.

They should be on TV - 'local news - body discovered'.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:52 pm

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 10:54 pm

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 11:00 pm

Of course the obvious denial/barrier/discrimination was for "illustrative"purposes,given a nano-second of thought would have prevented it.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 11:02 pm

No not your voices,obviously"positively"segregated.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 16 Aug, 2019 11:04 pm

If you can't access you are clearly not working class