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You could be right, but his programme was more like UKIP's:http://vote-2012.proboards.com/post/59368TUSC might have got more votes if they stood under their other namehttp://www.tusc.co.uk/
http://www.englishelections.org.uk/england/wby/eastleigh.phpLucky we didn't contest. Or perhaps not, as we could probably have beaten TUSC. Everybody else did except the Wessex Nationalists but including the 3 loony candidatesThis must surely be the worst result they will ever get, but it will probably take them longer than us to realise that contesting parliamentary by-elections can be counter-productive. It's actually worse than we got at the Little and Sad by-election.How long before serious trade union officials (the TUSC candidate was an RMT full-timer) agree to make fools of themselves in this way? When will Bob Crow pull the plug?
Don't know if this is relevant: http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2013/feb/grave-abraham-lincolns-chiropodist-found-highgate-cemeteryBut I'm sure Marx would be turning in his grave if he knew that Corin Redgrave was buried in the same cemetery.
Actually, as you know, this allegation is not being ignored. At your request, and on the basis of what you have been able to provide, it is being examined in another place.
They seem to have been occupied by militant feminists. Still, better than by currency cranks. But whatever happened to "anti-capitalism"?
Glad to hear that, Steve. I gladly retract what I said. It was not meant to be taken literally. Let by-gones be by-gones is what I say, and let's start again.
Methodology, smetholodology. Don't complicate things. We don't need a complete scale of infringements and sanctions. It's simple. If you call someone a "fucking arsehole" twice, you're sent to the sin bin for a couple of days.
Make up your mind, Steve. What do you want: a practical solution to the problems that have arisen or the moderator's head on a plate?
As everybody seems to be agreed, let's do it, i.e. revert to the original position on this forum where the only sanction was suspension. I'm sure the moderators too would be relieved if they didn't have to monitor the posts of anyone on moderation.
This article from June 2011 "Windy Nimbies mean nothing can get done" by David Aaronovitch showed how Nimbies also misuse science to protect their backyards.http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/davidaaronovitch/article3057289.eceUnfortunately, you have to pay to see it, but the part you can see gives the gist of it:
Quote:Whether it’s turbines or high-speed rail, the vocal and time-rich will dredge up any argument to stop progressWhat is it you want, SP? Would you be satisfied with the ending of "mod queues" and the only sanction against persistent rule-breakers, after due warning, being suspension (for, say, 72 hours)?
A list of "top" historians have a letter in today's Times supporting Gove's history plans. When you see some of the names this is not surprising: Niall Ferguson, Andrew Roberts and David Starkey, hardly serious, objective historians but ardent nationalists.The Times does have the honesty to quote some critics too:
Quote:Sir Richard Evans, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, condemned plans to restore "rote learning of the patriotic stocking-fillers so beloved of traditionalists".Quote:… Greg Jenner, who describes himself as "chief fact nerd" for Horrible Histories, said that the new curriculum "represents an ideological shift back towards the moral didactism of yesteryear".What next? They're thinking of introducing "negative interest rates":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21589128This was tried in Japan but didn't work. They seem be running around like headless chickens clucking at straws.
The full list of candidates was published at noon today. There are 6 including the BNP:http://www.islington.gov.uk/publicrecords/library/Democracy/Publicity/Public-notices/2012-2013/%282013-02-25%29-SOPN-Junction.pdfTUSC are not standing but seem to be concentrating on the Gospel Oak by-election on 14 March in nearby Camden where their candidate is an official of the RMT union. The BNP is standing there too and in the other by-election in Islington in St George's ward the same day as in Junction ward.
