Election Year or Fear!

[swaledale]

Meanwhile on the subject of the abuse of minors, it seems very likely that trump is going to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, probably in return for her cooking up some ****e that he was never Epstein's friend. Right wing media talking heads claiming she was a victim not a perpetrator apparently.

[Andy_Faber]

Just maybe, as you feel it inappropriate to "rock up in Scotland", you might be able to "rock up" in your Clacton constituency for once...

Have you spoken to any Clacton constituents to see if they're bothered? My impression is that they see a bigger picture

[ramAnag]

Have you spoken to any Clacton constituents to see if they're bothered? My impression is that they see a bigger picture

I suspect MA has much the same knowledge of the average Clactonian as the rest of us.
Maybe worth pointing out though that, in terms of ethnicity, the town is 95.3% white and 1.6% Asian but has a 64% higher crime rate than the average for Es*ex with violent crime and *ex offences featuring particularly highly. Make of it what you will.

[Andy_Faber]

I suspect MA has much the same knowledge of the average Clactonian as the rest of us.
Maybe worth pointing out though that, in terms of ethnicity, the town is 95.3% white and 1.6% Asian but has a 64% higher crime rate than the average for Es*ex with violent crime and *ex offences featuring particularly highly. Make of it what you will.

I will. I?ll make of it that you are cherry picking stats to support your own agenda/POV. Who?s to say whether or not ALL the crime therein is being caused by the 1.6%? I don?t. Neither do you.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I think the crime is down to the remaining 3.1% "other" that rA has failed to account for! Maths again, old chap, maths

[SithHappens]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74jgdd9p89o

Bet it's not

[Andy_Faber]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74jgdd9p89o

Bet it's not

Ah Franky, such a let down

[MadAmster]

Clacton residents complain that their MP doesn't hold surgeries. It's repeated in interviews with them on the news. It's repeated in the newspapers reporting those interviews...

Of course, it might just all be a load of bolleaux but I'm trying to work out why all those interviewed would lie about there being no surgeries? Why Farridge doesn't go all pantomime on the subject by exclaiming "oh, yes there are [surgeries]". Might that be because... there haven't been surgeries?

[Geoff Parkstone]

maybe those interviewed all voted for someone other than NF?

[Geoff Parkstone]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74jgdd9p89o

Bet it's not

Ah Brown - so thats one of rA's 1.6%