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Given that context is everything I thought it might be useful to show the national polling gap between the main two parties this year compared with what it was in 2014 when most of the seats up on Thursday will last fought.
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I suppose the counter argument is that the polls in 2014 might have been wrong - or did the error occur towards the end?
1. It voted Leave* (unlike Richmond or Kingston)
2. 2014 was an exceptional year for the LDs in Sutton, where they gained seats
3. UKIP stood and had an impact in the Borough
4. The council makeup understates how close it is, with a lot of split wards, and some very marginal LDs over Cons
5. The LDs are polling no better than 2014, while the Conservatives are well up
6. There appear to be local factors which may weigh against the LDs
If anybody wants to back the LDs at 1-4 (better than Shadsy's 1-5), I'll take small bets.
* I think. Certainly Burstow's seat voted Leave, and that's most of the Borough
LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.
Though the food waste, plastic, bottles and cardboard remain weekly
You don't own a house if you doubt this.
Edit to add: I'm being dim. I thought Barnes was a council like Richmond Upon Thames, when it's just a part of Richmond...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5677717/Colourful-parades-rallies-place-world-mark-Day.html
The sort of people that are part of the cult here, thankfully our "tradition" of May Day riots have been something that hasn't happened for quite a few years now.
I heard there's a council up north where there are something like 7 different types of waste bin, but here' sit's just 3, thank goodness.
As for McDonalds, you wonder about modern protesters. People used to go on hunger strikes now they protest by eating burgers?
The fact that no council took up Eric Pickle’s offer to pay to bring back weekly collections suggest most agree too.
It is a good reason to want to get potty training over and done with. And once you've mastered it, to teach your child as well ...
Even allowing for a few losses, that sounds pretty safe.
On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'
I humbly suggest that OGH looks up the difference between accuracy and precision.
Enough of being picky, I agree entirely with the sentiment of the header.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millions-Women-are-Waiting-Meet/dp/0747585563
On internet dating, it's how I met my wife. It can work; it doesn't always.
We also have a charge for garden waste collection but we don't generate too much and just take it to the tip ourselves.
That's with a Tory council.
I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).
Edit: (We think an HP 8644a)
(* £46 per year for fortnightly collections here, versus the £118 it would cost using your pricing model.)
As far as basketball is concerned,my Lithuanian taxi-driver told me his team would overcome Spain to beat Putin's Russia for the championships.
Our truck is collecting much less trash, and so having more people on the truck wouldn't help you. They'd be sitting around if there was only one house in 20 with collections, and then had a single bag.
Bins aren't a big deal for us - but we're only two in a two bedroom house, without kids, and get most of our food delivered to the door by Abel and Cole, so it is largely not covered in wrapping, and in boxes that the company then takes away. People live different lives, and so have different needs.
The 200-year-old book printers that produced the bestselling Harry Potter series has been sold for close to £24. Clays Ltd prints and binds 150 million books every year at its 19-acre production and distribution site in Bungay, Suffolk.
For just £24, can I please nominate for bargain of the century? Would be impressive to beat that in the next 82 years. It knocks the Louisiana Purchase into a cocked hat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-43924576?app=news.business.live_coverage.43924576.page&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5ae89d68e60e5d067b752818&Harry Potter book printers sold&&ns_fee=0#post_5ae89d68e60e5d067b752818
Apparently it is Mondays
The Government of all the talents they ain't.
"Remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas about the Holocaust have been condemned as anti-Semitic by Israeli politicians and rights activists.
Mr Abbas told a meeting in the West Bank the Nazi mass murder of European Jews was the result of their financial activities, not anti-Semitism."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43967600
Urrrm, no, BBC. I am not an Israeli politician, and I am not a rights activist, and that is absolutely anti-Semitic. End of.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/01/last-week-saw-glimpse-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-threw-away/
Yes, I know I am being flippant.
If they put 'And most right thinking people would agree with them' at the end, then that isn't reporting, it's a comment.
That would be accurate, and would stop gits from seeing who has criticised the comments, and disregarding their complaints because they don't like the groups involved.
I think most of us would agree that the comments are anti-Semitic. The BBC should say they are anti-Semitic.