There's not much I don't know about local govt elections, but I've never seen this before.
11.03.2026 11:27
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There's not much I don't know about local govt elections, but I've never seen this before.
Two electors have (ab?)used their right to trigger a byelection in Salford two weeks before the vacant seat would have been filled at the May 7th local election, costing the council Β£20k.
So does the winner contest it again on May 7th or get 4 years & 2 weeks?
www.salford.gov.uk/your-council...
Yes, it is.
Also @acjsissons.bsky.social of course, but you've probably clocked him.
I should just say that @stockfttp.bsky.social, about whom I know nothing other than bluesky name, is the most informed person on here I know when it comes to (UK) energy transition/emergency complexity, which they explain calmly in (as far as possible) in layperson terms, and they should be followed
Excellent. I donβt care if it is not true,
I also think a fresh local challenge to York University would be good, named in a way reflecting its newness, perhaps.
Oddly, βOrmskirk Universityβ did not make the shortlst back then. I do like that itβs geographical roots and emancipatory were retained though.
That was actually an option considered by Edge Hill University when it got university status in 2007. I have the board papers somewhere.
Yes we were all white. Totally fucking outrageous in 1986. But on day one we hadn't rebelled. We did later.
40 year ago at about hour, this photo was taken of our first day of nurse training 'cos that was what happened back then. So I'm in Sussex to reminisce, cos though the years pass and we meet decadely, there is a weird solidarity which enlivens the nearly dead. What totally ridiculous uniforms.
Two votes for UKIP is pretty impressive, given the need for ten nominations to even stand. Seen a few single figure ones, but this looks like a bet.
80s, the bank card years
90s, the tankard years
10s the lanyard years
20s, the try hard years
30s, the haggard years
And as special World Book Day bonus, a book at which I snorted with total derision pretty well all the way through.
Some books I like (though don't necessarily agree with), because it's World Book Day
Weirdly, just sent our forms in today for health and finance 2 x 2.
As the one likely to go first, it is a huge relief, It's necessarily a bit complicated but the govt website is actually very good.
Well done, Ian.
Indeed. Research on that (un)reliability would by consequence promote the idea of inter-party anti-fascist agreement, tho time is now short to develop that mechanism. This will be a central Q for the post-Starmer PM.
I was Chair of Govs at the receiving school when the old 'enemy' closed and we took in the remainder in 2019. Social media was full of portent. Nothing happened. It was all fine.
Blimey.
On Fri March 6th, International Women's Day, I will meet, Ψ₯Ω Ψ΄Ψ§Ψ‘ Ψ§ΩΩΩ, my final ever (paid) work deadline and invoice on it, 40 years to the very day that I started my nurse training (lots of odd jobs till then but they don't count).
Later that day, I'll meet my old mates.
Serendipity.
Yeah, yeah, I know that's an uncommon translation, but it's got the word Labour in it.
Great thing about this is it's a double mythology of sticking to the road towards doom while pretending the ones who don't want to are sticking to the road towards doom. Very Sophoclean:
Indeed.
Other obvious bit of this is that in 2029 the 55 year olds will be 58, and the 15 year olds will be 18 etc.
"When we we want the triggering of section 4 of the Energy Act 1973 in a way which neuters the impact of the soaring marginal price? Now!" should be the demonstration call.
Don't know too much about football, but I really don't get why this kind of thing keeps happening. Chelsea knew perfectly well it'd be 11 a side and yet, like so many other sides it seems this season, they just didn't bring enough players. It's not even as though it's long trip
V poor management.
In fact, if the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023 (which regulates so-called family voting) were tightened in the way Farage claims is needed, then its consequential effect on Sch 1 Rule 39 of the Representation of the People's Act would quite likely be such as to remove a voting right from disabled people.
One of Osborne's quieter crimes was that he stole the word austerity from the postwar period, applied it to public services than private consumption, and didn't give it back so it can be used correctly this time.
This headline is so extreme that you have to wonder if it constitutes an offence under s.19 of the Public Order Act 1986, namely "publish[ing] written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting [and] intend[ing] thereby to stir up racial hatred" (or likely to stir up racial hatred)
At current rate, Trump will have killed or captured > 10% of the leaders of the world's countries by the end of his term of office, if there is one.