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I'd also like to see an alternative system of campaigning to students. Normally dickhead student Union officers will encourage their students to register to vote in their University Town. Please stop with this nonsense unless its a marginal seat. In Liverpool for example they should be campaigning for students to vote at home, absolutely no use in them voting in Liverpool

Old people deserting Tories too Peter Kellner Blog (yes I know its a blog post but I'm only quoting it for the YouGov data)

So the Supreme Court didn't decide that Trump SHOULD be on the ballot then? Glad we've cleared that up

No they didn't, they came to a unanimous decision that the state didn't have the power to make that decision, only congress could do that. And that is a completely different matter.

Hmm I'd rather have Maddison & Son with Spurs defender tbh

By coincidence, I played this as my second choice album this morning

Kinda like a pacifist version of Mogwai

Not if that person was responsible for an insurrection aimed at overturning the will of the people. There are many reasons all over the world that people aren't allowed to be an elected representative. For example bankrupts cant be an elected MP in the UK, neither can judges or police officers or active service personnel

Depends who goes first you'd think. If sausage fingers goes first, she's the queen

Yep, like I said yesterday, I'm prepared to wait a few extra months, the longer this goes on just speeds up their ultimate demise. More of their core voters will also be dead by the autumn plus more younger non-tory voters will also be eligible to vote. Those on their own should give a back of the fag packet estimate a further swing to Not-Tory of about 450,000+ (death rate for 6 months is about 300,000 , people reaching voting age about 500,00 in 6 months)

My daughter reckons from a friend of a friend that may or may not move in circles of the civil service that both of them will kark it before Xmas I keep trying to tell her that space lizards don't obey normal rules but she's insistent

I've been allowed to carry over three days holiday to next year (starts April 1st) So not only are there less than the normal amount of bank holidays in the next leave year I now have my it's ""OK for the King and Princess of Wales to Die this year" insurance policy

technically its 25 working days so for May 2nd the deadline is actually by my reckoning Monday 25th March because of the two easter bank holidays, not one article I've read has that date but there's always a chance I'm wrong Institute of Government

my only issue is do I go Haaland to Toney for a -4 which would give me 8 players My other move is Estupinan to Udogie So I guess the real question is do I want Haaland or Salah for the run in. It's make or break time in my quest for third place in my main ML

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Just announcing they aren't standing again The GE announcement will no longer be soon

Plenty of weapons grade thobbers out there but the more pertinent question might be how many new "Red Wall" MPs are going to attempt to change to a much safer constituency considering the wall is mostly demolished

Well considering the state of this government, you have to admire them for their honesty at this stage. Possibly the most truthful thing a minister has said on or off the record for months

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme. Only today I discovered that this copy is a dodgy unofficial Russian release. Which kind of answers the question about why it was rather cheap to buy (pre-sanctions). It’s pissed me off a little tbh.

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This whole policy is as a result of the court case yesterday, where a "family of touts" used resale sites like Viagogo to make vast amounts of money fraudulently. Selling tickets for the likes of Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga et al at vastly inflated prices. As usual it was presented as protecting the fans when in reality it was as it always has been about making more money for the big promoters That's the Corbynesque element of this new policy and its also the likes of Ticketmaster that this is also aimed at but you won't find promoters taking Ticketmaster to court over their "surge" pricing because they all benefit. Everytime these issues come about, the Govt of whatever flavour, f*** it up and end up making the promoters more money. That's exactly what happened last time they had a consultation on it and that's how the secondary market came about In the good old days, if an event sold out, you'd return the tickets to box office, they'd sell them at face value (plus booking fee) then return the original ticket price to the original customer. Box office makes two booking fees, original customer gets money back minus booking fee. Anything that operates differently to that will be gouging someone somewhere along the line. It never gets sorted like that though Labour allowing a 10% mark up is very silly, that still encourages touting. Tickets to a big gig can be in excess of £100 add your 10% enough times and you start to make a decent wage. Also setting a limit of 10% will virtually guarantee that any sold out show will always be 10% more for a resale ticket Corbyns populist policy unit seems to be still active

Quite silly really Street touts don't really exist any more because the ticket sellers were allowed to start a "fan resale" facility aka the secondary ticket market and tickets have gone electronic. Fans with spares get ripped off by a corporation now, fans buying secondary tickets get ripped off by a corporation. Reduce the corporations head room, they just reduce the offer price to the fan with the spare to maintain their margin. Fan gets further ripped off, fan decides he might be better off trying to pass it on outside the venue Trying to regulate this market will just push it back to individuals trying to punt their own spares outside venues But anyway great headline but they've just decided to lower the price the fan with the spare gets which in turn will lower the amount of legal spare tickets there are Dare I say it, it's quite the Cortbynesque policy statement. Made up on the fly with little actual thought about the consequences of the actions

He's a word removed, so don't bother. The nice guy image is all an act

If @lapal_fanis there, they've already left

It has all the makings of a The XX secret gig given that Jamie and Romy are both on, maybe Oliver Sim is yet to be announced