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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 10, 2023 22:49:59 GMT
Yes but physically these countries are far bigger than we are.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 11, 2023 5:34:42 GMT
The statistics are per capita.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 11, 2023 8:58:15 GMT
That news had gone off the link.
Even so we have nothing like the space of France or Germany.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 27, 2023 21:07:13 GMT
We have a local elections here next week. One is for the post of City Mayor and one for the city council. Leicester has always been staunchly Labour (aside from a few years in the mid 70s)...our Mayor (Peter Soulsby) has been in local politics for years and has held the post of city mayor since it was established.
There are several candidates for mayor...the Greens, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats promise a referendum over the city mayor post and promise to abide by the decision of the electorate...there is a lot of anger about the amount of power the position currently holds..plus they hold a huge budget...employing several 'deputy mayors' with big pay packets. Soulsby is unpopular especially with small local businesses..Leicester's centre is rammed with student accommodation, hotels and arty farty pubs. Small shops that had been thriving for years have lost business due to Soulsby and his team turning roads into pedestrian precincts and making other roads one way or not allowing parking so passing trade has been lost. Ever since Richard iii was discovered in the old grammar school car park Soulsby is convinced that Leicester could become a destination for tourists! Delusional. Day trips maybe but an overnight stay? Nope. Altho we do have a few good theatres.
ANYWAY...it wont be a surprise if Labour lose the mayor's post...
As for the council....the tories have been pounding the streets brandishing their blue rosettes and making questionable promises to voters as they try to take over the city council. Around here we have had a few demonstration trying to prevent building on the old municipal golf course sold (by the mayor) to a property developer. The golf course has returned to nature and is bursting with wildlife, birds of prey nest there! Badgers, foxes, hares and other mammals have taken over the putting greens (now full of wild grasses) and the trees are stunning. A notice went up in the window of a local store calling for folk to attend a meeting about the golf course plans. When we got there it was just the tory candidates handing out leaflets saying that if we voted them onto the council they'd stop the planned building on the golf course! Then the meeting turned into a "Vote for us" thing...none of our questions were answered. We walked out....but a lot stayed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2023 21:54:59 GMT
The golf course sale is outrageous! Fingers crossed that you all get a council with a wide pragmatic yet human streak.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 28, 2023 4:20:05 GMT
Sounds like an interesting election, but the world is moving on whether we like it or not. Small businesses will never get back to the way they think the world should be. I hope the old golf course can be saved from development.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 6, 2023 4:34:52 GMT
Are the Conservatives hitting the end of the road?
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Post by mickthecactus on May 6, 2023 7:17:57 GMT
Very pleased to see the Green result.
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Post by whatagain on May 6, 2023 8:18:47 GMT
My UK friends don't like Sunak very much. 'Our non elected PM ?'
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 6, 2023 9:26:10 GMT
Slight improvement on the one the British idiots public did vote for...Boris.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 6, 2023 9:27:04 GMT
Very pleased to see the Green result. Me too
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Post by whatagain on May 6, 2023 10:31:18 GMT
I hope your greens are less ... stupid or psychorigid than ours.
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Post by lugg on Jun 9, 2023 21:16:45 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 10, 2023 2:12:40 GMT
He's sure to get up to some other mischief.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2023 4:41:40 GMT
Oh -- hooray!! I missed this piece of news because of being so distracted by the US's great news. I imagine & hope that the UK is celebrating and gloating as Boris walks off into the sunset.
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Post by mossie on Jun 10, 2023 6:50:18 GMT
The news was totally dominated by two of the most divisive characters in public life, what a strange coincidence. And it couldn't have happened to two more likeable people.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 10, 2023 7:10:03 GMT
He's sure to get up to some other mischief. Indeed. There is a rumour that Nadine Dorries's acceptance of a peerage was to make a comfily safe majority available if BJ wishes to return without having to worry about the vulnerable majority in Uxbridge: which (depending on the relevant committee's report) he might have had to risk in a bye-election - and we know he wasn't universally popular there:
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2023 22:18:59 GMT
The news was totally dominated by two of the most divisive characters in public life, what a strange coincidence. And it couldn't have happened to two more likeable people. Amen, amen I say to you!!! The toerag lady is my new idol.
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Post by lugg on Jun 12, 2023 19:05:56 GMT
The toerag lady is my new idol. And mine !
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Post by mossie on Jun 13, 2023 6:56:05 GMT
How can you be so cruel!!
I had two names for him. Boris the Bullshitter, or Boris the Bounder. And just watch him bullshit or bound his way out of trouble
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 19, 2023 4:19:53 GMT
If I didn't already know that the political elite in every country feel that the rules they make for other people don't apply to them, I would be appalled by the 'partygate' video.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 22, 2023 13:32:05 GMT
This made me laugh so much I'm framing it to hang in my craft room...every time I look at it I start laughing again....
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2023 18:05:20 GMT
Perfect!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 14, 2023 16:08:06 GMT
Why is it that when our politicians visit hospitals that they tuck their ties inside their shirts?
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Post by whatagain on Sept 14, 2023 17:49:17 GMT
I was told to do so when visiting factories so that it doesn’t get caught in a machine. (I was shown once a conveyor where a guy was killed because his tie was caught). Maybe there are dangerous machines in hospitals or they don’t want their germs contamination something when they bend over…
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Post by htmb on Sept 14, 2023 18:22:46 GMT
To prevent the spreading of germs from patient to patient is what I’ve always heard.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 14, 2023 18:29:11 GMT
Are ties particularly germ laden then?
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Post by htmb on Sept 14, 2023 19:10:37 GMT
I suppose, theoretically, ties could become germy. Hospitals can be very germy places. I remember when my brother was once hospitalized, he caught the staph infection MRSA. Supposedly, the infection spread throughout the hospital infecting my brother as well as many others. It was possible a medical person had unknowingly spread MRSA throughout the hospital as they met with patient after patient. A droopy tie could come into contact with germs, and spread them from room to room. I’m not a medical person, but perhaps Cheery or someone else will have a better explanation.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 15, 2023 19:12:19 GMT
"One study showed that laboratory testing found that 20 of 42 doctors’ neckties carried bacteria, compared with one out of 10 of the ties worn by security guards. A doctor was eight times more likely to carry potential disease-causing bacteria on his tie, compared with a security guard."
As an aside, someone explain the maths to me of that statement. If 10% of security guards had bacteria and (rounding up) 50% of doctors did, how is that eight times more likely?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 15, 2023 19:17:08 GMT
Indeed. So why wear ties if they are so dangerous?
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