General Election 2015
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For instance, I had my polling cards through yesterday and if there is one thing that discourages me from voting it's where we have to go to exercise our democratic right (thank you, Mr.Cromwell). You are really lucky if you have to go to the school hall or church hall to vote. But on May 7th, I have to go to a seedy 'private members' club' that stinks of stale beer, has a sticky, crunchy carpet, and with posters everywhere advertising cheap entertainment that, after several units of beer will not seem as cheap. But the worst thing about having to go there is that when you get home, your clothes have the distinct aroma of alcohol and unwashed old blokes and Febreze needs to be deployed. I do think there should be a vote on where we have to go to vote.
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Oh, he will have been there in anagram form without a doubt.dave brum wrote:I went for a balti last night at David Camerons' favourite curry house, the Paprika in Longbridge (oddly enough it's in one of his party's 40 target seats) and there was a picture of David and Sam sat at a table in the restaurant tucking in. He had a bowl of what looked like pickles at his table, mango, lime, but no sign of Eric.
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dave brum wrote: I do think there should be a vote on where we have to go to vote.
But where would we go to vote on where we have to go to vote?
Perhaps it was a form of aversion therapy...? To get peoples'money then put them off their food to clear the table to get in more people to put them off their food...etc., etc.dave brum wrote:I went for a balti last night at David Camerons' favourite curry house, the Paprika in Longbridge (oddly enough it's in one of his party's 40 target seats) and there was a picture of David and Sam sat at a table in the restaurant tucking in.
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The Not the 9 O'clock News Government statement on the unemployment crisis is good. Was thinking about it yesterday. (and the hand dryer in the Gents that plays Thatcher speeches when you push the metal button)
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They may get more poler's in if they offered a free pint or two when you votedave brum wrote:
on May 7th, I have to go to a seedy 'private members' club' that stinks of stale beer, has a sticky, crunchy carpet, .
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It's strictly members only, one of the many private clubs in the locality that hasn't gone under with the closure and demise of the gargantuan Longbridge car plant, which occured ten years ago this week. Every time I venture past there there s always some a billboard full of dodgy tribute acts performing, with the obvious exception of Grappelli, du Pre or Artur Rubenstein tributes. Or Des O'Connor for that matter.Barrie Heaton wrote:They may get more poler's in if they offered a free pint or two when you votedave brum wrote:
on May 7th, I have to go to a seedy 'private members' club' that stinks of stale beer, has a sticky, crunchy carpet, .
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Don't know about beer but some lighting would be good as it's pitch dark in there without any windows. We want to vote for the Monster Raving Loonies and we end up voting Labour just because we just cannot see the text on the blooming ballot paper!
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dave brum wrote: We want to vote for the Monster Raving Loonies and we end up voting Labour just because we just cannot see the text on the blooming ballot paper!
Not a lot in them is there could have been the
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Even my own party has some interesting definitions. Jason Kitcat, leader of Brighton Council - to take a brief sabbatical from front line politics is to take a kitcat or to have a kitcat.
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What goes around comes around.....
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Sound like the right background for a UKIP candidatedave brum wrote:Just made an alarming but not that surprising discovery - a kid at school who made my life a bloody misery and called me a 'mentally retarded (censored)' has now grown up to be a UKIP organiser and candidate in London.
What goes around comes around.....
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They launch their 'well thought out' manifesto today. Or should I say 'Bully's Charter'? Though I'd better stop being negative on here, people will only think I'm a closet 'Kipper'!Barrie Heaton wrote:Sound like the right background for a UKIP candidatedave brum wrote:Just made an alarming but not that surprising discovery - a kid at school who made my life a bloody misery and called me a 'mentally retarded (censored)' has now grown up to be a UKIP organiser and candidate in London.
What goes around comes around.....
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Then there are regional and local multiplexes which carry BBC and other local stations. London has 4 regional plexes so you may receive those. The London plexes carry stuff mainly aimed at London's different communities plus LBC News 1152 (not available nationally on DAB as 97.3 FM is) BBC London 94.9 and small scale stations. Possibly Resonance FM?
Here in the south of Birmingham the strongest signals are from the BBC national multiplex, Digital 1 and the Birmingham regional multiplex. The regional plexes for Black Country/Shropshire, Coventry and Hereford and Worcester are also receivable here but the signals are weak and that means intermittent burbling, the DAB equivalent of hiss on FM.
To be totally unbiased, DAB is future proof and in stereo, but it's also about squeezing as many channels into a certain amount of bandspace as is possible to do so. So audio quality suffers. Listen to Radio 3 on DAB for a while and then switch over to FM and you get a louder, better quality and more rounded sound. So my honest advice is - bearing in mind the Government are hellbent on switching off the analogue FM signal eventually, for quantity of stations and freedom of choice invest in DAB, but for quality of sound then stay with analogue FM. Hope that helps.
Naughty boy, going off topic and on my own thread as well! Smackybumbum!!!!
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I may cautiously invest then...but get a grown up to plumb it in for me. As long as I can get R3 (bearing in mind what you said) R2, Radio Berkshire, Three Counties Radio and LBC I will be content.
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The world snooker starts today with red balls, blue balls, yellow balls and green balls. In the interests of impartiality I think there should also be a purple ball this year to stop our Nigel from getting jolly cross and crying into his ale (and when he does, all of Britain will know about it!)
And fifteen red balls. One of those must surely be Ed.
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Marlow FM tramples all over LBC here on FM when I use the little personal radio (so I don't wake His Lordship)...
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I listen to French, RT and al jazeera news in Eng you tend to ger news that is not normalcy aired on the UK mainstreamdave brum wrote:Top Tip! If like me you're a bit sick of British media election overkill, then you can try the BBC World Service on DAB. Or RTE Radio 1 on long wave.
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DAB is good when works but is very bad when its bad. We only now use DAB in the house but we have a big Twig in the loft as my wife is more into Radio than TV except for the usual soaps. But if you have a smart phone then Tune in Radio is a good free app you can get Radio from all-over the world
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it takes photos as well thenGill the Piano wrote:Smart phone? I have a pay as you earn thing which makes/receives calls. O, and it has a torch, as I accidentally found out!
do you have an Ipad or tablet as you can use them
I use my phone and ipad for booking in all my appointments still print out the days work
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I LIKE it in the nineteenth century. The whole house is like it, Barrie!
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Sad that I am, been counting leaflet over the last week
Con about 2 a day Hand and by Royal mail 16 in all
Lab 3
UKIP 1
Lib 1
others 0
So the Cons must have more money to spend round hear
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though Rachel Maclean has only dropped as many leaflets here as the incumbent Richard Burden. The only other party that has dropped here is UKIP so far.
The forecasters say Richard Burden will keep is seat and I suspect his majority would be increased on the loss he suffered in 2010. As for UKIP, they look poised to hoover up the extreme right BNP's racist vote from 2010 here. The Green vote is growing here but slowly.
Whereas the Lib Dems hardly have any support here. However it's not like that everywhere in Birmingham. They had an MP in Solihull (also with a strong Green Party) Lorely Burt but it's a very tight marginal and Julian Knight is tipped to retake it for the Tories. But the Lib Dems are gaining in the polls so Solihull could benefit from this.
They also had an MP in Birmingham Yardley (in the east of the city) John Hemming - who is also a jazz pianist and still does jazz gigs across the city.
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I always assumed, as the Queen and Royal Family are 'above' party politics, then they have no right to vote. The Queen is constitutionally forbidden to enter the House of Commons and so She appoints a representative - Black Rod.
But is seems that this is not the case. The British Head of State does have the vote but she chooses not to use it, being unconstitutional. You learn something new every day!!
By the way, Cameron, Sturgeon, Clegg, Wood, Bennett, Laud Hope, Walker, Galloway, Golding, all do not activate my spellchecker - but Farage, Miliband, Tilbrook (leader of neofascist outfit English Democrats) Harvie (leader of Scottish Greens) and Nattrass (leader of one man party AIP - An Independence From Europe - he was in UKIP until he fell out with old Delboy) all are not grammatically recognised by Windows.
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If the Greens send them out are they using recycled paper keeping up the green bitdave brum wrote:Had two this morning, one from the British Conservative Party, and one from the American Conservative Party, otherwise known as UKIP. Nothing yet from Lib Dem or Green.
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