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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Also Eton & Oxford will mean you meet certain people that will give you a head start. It isn't what you know most of the time, but who you know.....
     
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    I think this has been produced in response to Sangita Myska being removed from LBC almost immediately after she interviewed an Israeli spokesperson about the bombing of the Iranian embassy compound in Syria, an interview in which she was extremely careful about what she said.

     
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  3. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Are you referring to LTL? :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  4. StJabbo1

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    From the Electoral Reform Society. No wonder the government imposed FPTP, gerrymandering or what?
    Dear StJabbo

    As the results of the local elections across England continue to come in, it's clear that the First Past the Post system is once again failing to reflect the views of voters about who runs their local community.

    Voters in England are being let down by their local democracy. In this year's election, some parties secured 90% of the seats up for election to the council despite barely winning half the vote.

    These local councils are just a few examples of results where voter choices have been ‘distorted’ by England’s winner-takes-all First Past the Post system.

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  5. StJabbo1

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    Some good examples here, good graphics that demonstrate the distortion that FPTP brings.
    https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk...show-the-warped-world-of-first-past-the-post/
     
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  6. PompeyLapras

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    **** first past the post
     
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  7. StJabbo1

    StJabbo1 Well-Known Member

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    What's the point in Hinckley?
    https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1621/in-the-back
    "FROM the start of EDF's two new nukes at Hinkley Point in Somerset, we were promised big efficiencies thanks to EDF's prior experience with the same design at Flamanville (France) and Olkiluoto (Finland). Yet every year EDF announces Hinkley will cost even more and will start operations even later.
    If you've ever wondered why, here's an example recently uncovered by the Eye."
     
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    Still no result for West Midlands mayor. It'll be interesting to see if Andy street will hold on. And not such a victory for m the tories as I believe he's distanced himself from the party
     
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    Looks like Andy street is gonna lose.

    Damn it
     
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  10. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Richard Parker wins West Midlands mayoralty by a smidge over 1,000 votes.

    Absolutely massive victory for Labour.
     
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    The independent candidate here was the wild card. He was running on a support Gaza ticket, imploring voters to l lend their vote to Gaza. While I'm not entirely sure what the major of the Midlands has to do with Gaza, given he got 11% of the vote, it seemed to work
     
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  12. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Akhmed Yakoob is now rumoured to be thinking of joining George Galloway’s crew and standing for Parliament.
     
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    Breaking News: AstraZeneca withdraws covid vaccines world wide after admitting it causes side effects

    Another victory for the “conspiracy theorists”
     
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    For commercial reasons as there are other vaccines that now supersede the one that is being withdrawn.
     
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    Whatever helps you sleep at night.

    I was right. There wasn’t enough testing done and people got hurt, exactly as I said.
     
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  16. tomw24

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    If you read the actual story they say the extremely rare side effect isn't the reason they are stopping supply. There are now newer vaccines which are more effective against the newer variants of Covid so it's not worth keeping this one in production.

    So no, you're not right.
     
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  17. StJabbo1

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    No victories for the conspiraloons either.
     
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  18. thereisonlyoneno7

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    One thing I will say is that in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic, how much testing can be done? The world was at a standstill and we got out a vaccine that made the world livable again. It wasn’t unsafe, but had rare side effects. Remember it was applied to 20-30m people in a short time so any side effect will show up and then get seized by the internet. All drugs can cause serious side effects and do.
     
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  19. StJabbo1

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    The checks were fast tracked not bypassed. The vaccines already had a large amount of research ongoing so developing them didn't start from square one.
     
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  20. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Agreed. I think it showed that when we work together what can be achieved.
     
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