OneGuyFromBarlick

Indeed - and some got re-elected ? Oddly Brighton and Hove remains Labour Hold, which given Gaza , Greens high student numbers and Kid Starver Starmer seems a mystery to me. Worcester Results seem more balanced Labour has gained three (for a total of 17), the Greens have gained two (bringing their t...

Maybe folk LIKE their independents and libs. Quite what they expect from Conservatives is beyond me

The BBC in the rolling headline noted Pendle remaining under NOC but the detail missed out 3 wards as still to return (or 3 seats in one ward?) Notable to me Oldham "pro Gaza" taking votes and seats off Labour (less so in Rochdale apparently) Tees Valley Con mayor holding position. Canvey ...

First migrant has gone to Rwanda! In my book not really deported as he went voluntarily after receiving a bribe of £3000 in cash. He also went via a scheduled flight. I would also assume that as he went voluntarily he will be under no rules to stay, Effectively he is a tourist with money. Not sure ...

What rankles me is the insistence of sticking an R in many perfectly good and already pronounceable words such as MASTER , CASTLE etc. There is no R in either example and many more that gets the treatment. It normally seems to automatically follow an A which in my book is pronounced Ah not Ar. :don...

I note that the forecasters have stopped talking about the wettest February since records began but it has still been a very wet month with higher temperatures than normal. Is this the reason why my stone and concrete flags are all turning bright green? I think rooves and flags not being green in t...

Obviously little support for them in the town. Reminds me of a shop I thought must have been there forever (but wasnt) that mum went to mainly for "foundation garments" for her and her family , located in the small block of shops at the tube station in London. Being London not counting the...

I read that Lord David Cameron has flown to the USA to speak to some chap called Donald Trump and urge him to support the supply of more weapons to the Ukrainian Government. I understand this Trump fellow may be a candidate in the next presidential election, and Dave is presently British Foreign Se...

Is Angela Rayner the thinking mans Liz Truss ? Meanwhile I see the right-leaning people are saying Muslims have taken over parliament, and left-leaning ones say the government is being run to the order of the state of Israel. defence spending to rise to 2.5% (of GDP). might be easier to achieve if i...

Anyone remember the School Board Man. I always thought so called cos they would come round your house with a clipboard and check on the reason - pregiven or otherwise - why you were not in school that registration period (they would check afternoons sometimes). I didnt realise at the time Local Educ...

I thought Sugar Beet was partly fed to cattle as cattle cake , etc. Meanwhile the Chancellor mentioned the removal of "Multiple Dwellings Relief" and the justification for it. Now this appears to be a Stamp Duty (SDLT) thing where if two or more Dwellings are purchased in a "linked tr...

. LV used to be the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (est. 1843). However: Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited was deregistered as a friendly society and registered as Liverpool Victoria Financial Services Ltd. on 2 January 2020 with the company focusing on life insurance, pensions and i...

Banking hub opens tomorrow. I will test it's services when I bank the weeks takings for the shop. That is unless Andrew 4 Andrew is in the way with his photo opportunity. :ohno: I am likely to have a lot of coinage as we have had a clearance sale this last week at the shop where all items were redu...

Household Support Fund I doubt many in need actually benefited from this , with admin costs , a lack of some folk to seek help when they need it . Of course decent benefits and cheaper housing havent been put in place to help either. the 2p NHI Cut for Lower Paid workers will be enough to pay the n...

Tripps wrote: ↑05 Mar 2024, 13:57 George Galloway took his seat in Parliament yesterday. , so he had to make do with a chap from the Alba party

I assume the workers whatsits of England did a deal not to stand against Alba in Scotland as part of the 63 target seats ?

Formula 1 Race Day being Saturday (as it will be next week) rather upsets ones routine of a post sunday lunch watch or listen. The reason is being in the middle east next Sunday is Start of Ramadan , so things had to come forward one day. (Thursday Practice is nothing new, Monaco has a religious hol...

Big Kev wrote: ↑02 Mar 2024, 19:25 I thought my cold was a bit heavy...

local news websites to me report 35 new admissions to hospital had covid this past week, that might be a rise.
Apparently the last year or so has seen overall a lower number of "expected deaths" compared with (ahh, which 5year average) in the UK

Schools Looking at Crystal Structures From my MSN news feed , apparently some High Schools have been engaged by Hartwell (?) Oxon to look at calcuim carbonate crystal growth in sea shells. (results read / dealt with by high speed x-rays ) Interesting as chemical compounds (and elements) arranged in...

Gaza Truck, 100 lost their lives BBC Verify https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68445973 at best , a muddle, certainly a result of unnecessary military action , (<insert date of your choice here>) deliberate by "one side"? who knows but should never have got to this state of affairs

Rishi keeps saying Labour will take us back to square one. Honestly , do some of us think that might be no bad thing ?

Upcoming is the last in the present series of Call The Midwife. The timeline comes crashing into my memories, which I dont think were quite the same of London compared to how scriptwriting portrays it , but then my wanderings to East London were more on what was shown on TV (Town and Around in pre N...

Binge watching YT, Dealing with issues in/with Mum's Flat (permanently ongoing) , Forgetting to go to some local council/community meetings, getting annoyed at Banks and Banking Apps/Onlines etc. loosing Mobile Phones (and sorting new/replacement ones), posting facebook local history to do with mum'...

Nice to know the more frequent trips to the loo are less painful than fewer in pain! I only need about 100ml of the juice daily for the potassium to stop the leg pain and it's not enough to make a significant change to frequency of bowel movements. Oh, I normally have 1 litre a day, oops. Please te...

Slightly disappointed that a local candidate didnt get enough votes. I am told that the islamic proportion of voters is about 25percent in Rochdale, which is high , but if Galloway's 37percent of votes is proportional to turnout then he has a following beyond that demographic. Sunak and Starmer seem...

Rochdale Turnout 40percent roughly. Good Grief there were plenty of candidates to choose from