Election Year or Fear!

[swaledale]

Interestingly I entirely agree that recruitment should be colour blind (and gender bling, ***ualty blind etc) but I will never hire anyone with a visible tattoo. Is this discriminatory?

No if the company or you have a specific policy which states as such and there are valid reasons for it. SO if your hiring someone in a public facing position for instance you may well be within your rights, a fork lift driver not so much.

Though frankly if you are only going to have an issue if you make it clear the reason your not hiring them is down to their tattoos and I'm assuming you would be more subtle than that.

[Trickytreesreds]

Jenkyns is awful. I know her comments about housing immigrants in tents will be popular with a lot of people, despite it being cruel. Then her pathetic attempt at joking about another candidates south African accent was just painful to watch.

France does it. Matbe its part of the reason a 4 star hotel in England is very tempting

[Trickytreesreds]

Lee Dargue is with Paguk Billy at Rochdale Borough Council.
2 May at 05:57 ? Rochdale ?
Very Serious Election Fraud Attempt Tonight In Rochdale!
Chaos tonight in the Kirkholt & Balderstone by-election count as Billy Howarth (Independent) caught the election staff putting several of his bundles of votes in the wrong pile- ‘the Labour Party tally box’
One hundred of Independent William Howarth's votes (4x 25 bundles) were fiddled into the Labour Party pile in desperation by Rochdale Council's election counting staff (pictured) as Reform looked set to win, also fifty Conservative votes (2x 25 bundles) were also placed into the labour party box, That's no mistake!!! The two individuals on the left looked to be responsible for filling up the tally boxes.
This was witnessed by many of the candidates, current councillors, election agents and observers- myself being one. Chaos erupted- the police moved in, votes were sheepishly put into the right places and Reform were declared the winners.
how many more elections have been rigged this way in Rochdale and beyond? Labour would have won fraudulently if this was not spotted last night. Ever wondered why an election count sometimes seems to take an unexpected turn towards the end? this is how they do it.
Complaints have been made to the Police and Electoral Commission.

The woman doing the counting was a well known Labour activist.
Tip of the iceberg with this lot. Postal vote cheating is bad enough

[SithHappens]

That you Donald?

[Trickytreesreds]

That you Donald?

whats up sith, labour corruption hard to talk about, even when caught red handed?

[Trickytreesreds]

So here I am in Thailand, where I've bolted to, after my fathers death.

I look at the news stories, BBC dont want to talk about it, Sky treat it as a minor story, yet a massive terror attack by Iranian terrorists thwarted on British soil? Another inconvenient issue raises its ugly head, that no one wants to face up to. How did these lovely people arrive on British soil I wonder. Who granted them leave to stay? Years ago, ISIS said it would flood Europe with sleeper cells.

Then again, I suppose being a Donald is just scare mongering. Shocking way to deal with this and the press are complicit in hiding it.

As the IRA once said to the Tories. You was lucky this time. You have to be lucky every time, whilst we only have to be lucky once.
Then another bunch of innocents and kids die on the table of diversity appeasement

[SithHappens]

whats up sith, labour corruption hard to talk about, even when caught red handed?

If they were I'd find it disgusting, but no one else other than the thug independent MP had an issue, they all accepted it was a mistake.

Still not sure why you think I'd have an issue discussing labour's transgressions.

[SithHappens]

So here I am in Thailand, where I've bolted to, after my fathers death.

I look at the news stories, BBC dont want to talk about it, Sky treat it as a minor story, yet a massive terror attack by Iranian terrorists thwarted on British soil? Another inconvenient issue raises its ugly head, that no one wants to face up to. How did these lovely people arrive on British soil I wonder. Who granted them leave to stay? Years ago, ISIS said it would flood Europe with sleeper cells.

Then again, I suppose being a Donald is just scare mongering. Shocking way to deal with this and the press are complicit in hiding it.

As the IRA once said to the Tories. You was lucky this time. You have to be lucky every time, whilst we only have to be lucky once.
Then another bunch of innocents and kids die on the table of diversity appeasement

I'm sorry to read you've lost your Dad.

[Andy_Faber]

Lee Dargue is with Paguk Billy at Rochdale Borough Council.
2 May at 05:57 ? Rochdale ?
Very Serious Election Fraud Attempt Tonight In Rochdale!
Chaos tonight in the Kirkholt & Balderstone by-election count as Billy Howarth (Independent) caught the election staff putting several of his bundles of votes in the wrong pile- ‘the Labour Party tally box’
One hundred of Independent William Howarth's votes (4x 25 bundles) were fiddled into the Labour Party pile in desperation by Rochdale Council's election counting staff (pictured) as Reform looked set to win, also fifty Conservative votes (2x 25 bundles) were also placed into the labour party box, That's no mistake!!! The two individuals on the left looked to be responsible for filling up the tally boxes.
This was witnessed by many of the candidates, current councillors, election agents and observers- myself being one. Chaos erupted- the police moved in, votes were sheepishly put into the right places and Reform were declared the winners.
how many more elections have been rigged this way in Rochdale and beyond? Labour would have won fraudulently if this was not spotted last night. Ever wondered why an election count sometimes seems to take an unexpected turn towards the end? this is how they do it.
Complaints have been made to the Police and Electoral Commission.

The woman doing the counting was a well known Labour activist.
Tip of the iceberg with this lot. Postal vote cheating is bad enough

Any written report of this?

[SithHappens]

Any written report of this?

https://www.rochvalleyradio.com/news/local-news/skullduggery-claims-and-ballot-row-as-reform-snatches-balderstone-and-kirkholt-seat/

Not quite the corruption angle TTR stated

[ramAnag]

https://www.rochvalleyradio.com/news...kirkholt-seat/

Not quite the corruption angle TTR stated

Lol…Quelle surprise!

[ramAnag]

More than a little ironic that, as people celebrate the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazism, Reform UK have announced the banning of all flags being flown from public buildings in ‘their authorities’ other than the Union Jack and the flag of St.George.

So well thought through was the policy that the party of small minded bigots has apparently already had to backtrack to allow the continuation of the flying of county emblem flags, but no more signals of solidarity with causes from Ukraine to Gay Pride etc. All seemingly now verboten!

[swaledale]

More than a little ironic that, as people celebrate the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazism, Reform UK have announced the banning of all flags being flown from public buildings in ‘their authorities’ other than the Union Jack and the flag of St.George.

So well thought through was the policy that the party of small minded bigots has apparently already had to backtrack to allow the continuation of the flying of county emblem flags, but no more signals of solidarity with causes from Ukraine to Gay Pride etc. All seemingly now verboten!

Good to see that they have policies that really address the concerns and issues that really matter!!!

[Andy_Faber]

More than a little ironic that, as people celebrate the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazism, Reform UK have announced the banning of all flags being flown from public buildings in ‘their authorities’ other than the Union Jack and the flag of St.George.

So well thought through was the policy that the party of small minded bigots has apparently already had to backtrack to allow the continuation of the flying of county emblem flags, but no more signals of solidarity with causes from Ukraine to Gay Pride etc. All seemingly now verboten!

So, looking at both current issues from an independent viewpoint, the voting thing appears to be somewhat less of a ‘thing’ that TTR claims, thanks for rooting that out Sith, albeit I’m not sure how biased the press source is. Lets assume they aren’t, in which case ‘nothing to see here’

The flag thing is altogether more complex, and way more so than your (rA) out of hand dismissal when I mentioned it recently. Flag flying (on flagpoles and in (my words) ‘controlled places’ (schoolrooms, inside other public buildings etc) has just got a bit out of control, Pride and Palestine flags having taken over from the now discredited or out of fashion BLM flags as devices for ‘liberal’ folk (ie teachers but by no means only them) to express their current allegiances, usually without reference to anyone else let alone a quorum. Reform’s action, crude as it is, is IMO a REaction to an unwholesome action which until recently, the (un)silent majority have felt too polite or too unempowered to react to

I think that’s a balanced opinion, one against the ‘dark side’, one for

[ramAnag]

So, looking at both current issues from an independent viewpoint, the voting thing appears to be somewhat less of a ?‚?‘thing?‚?’ that TTR claims, thanks for rooting that out Sith, albeit I?‚?’m not sure how biased the press source is. Lets assume they aren?‚?’t, in which case ?‚?‘nothing to see here?‚?’

The flag thing is altogether more complex, and way more so than your (rA) out of hand dismissal when I mentioned it recently. Flag flying (on flagpoles and in (my words) ?‚?‘controlled places?‚?’ (schoolrooms, inside other public buildings etc) has just got a bit out of control, Pride and Palestine flags having taken over from the now discredited or out of fashion BLM flags as devices for ?‚?‘liberal?‚?’ folk (ie teachers but by no means only them) to express their current allegiances, usually without reference to anyone else let alone a quorum. Reform?‚?’s action, crude as it is, is IMO a REaction to an unwholesome action which until recently, the (un)silent majority have felt too polite or too unempowered to react to

I think that?‚?’s a balanced opinion, one against the ?‚?‘dark side?‚?’, one for

Lol…I knew the flag man of Etwall wouldn’t be able to resist, but just to clarify.

There was no ‘out of hand dismissal’. It was just another example of you exaggerating to try and make your point. Just as you were wrong with your outdated passport story (it wasn’t), just as you’ve been unable to come up with examples of me ‘claiming victory’ (I haven’t) and just as your flagpole hijackings in Etwall wasn’t a group at all but just, by your own admission, one person.

Now, because you know I’m a retired teacher you’ve gone down the ‘liberal folk i.e. teachers’ route. I’ve no idea why. Never seen a flag, other than ones belonging to various football clubs and national flags belonging to a country being studied at the time, in any classroom.

The point surely is that Reform UK have been in control of ten local authorities for four days and almost immediately they are exercising a level of censorship, displaying muddled thinking and invoking a meaningless policy which will please only those narrow minded enough to object to displays of tolerance or support for anything other than patriotism.

Personally I think we might well be better off with no flags. They seem to often cause more trouble than they’re worth however I recognise the importance some people attach to them and would simply advocate a more tolerant attitude rather than the almost immediate adoption of supposedly patriotic and confrontational muscle flexing.