They miscalculated on the importance of a solid membership, infrastructure and experience in local Govt.
6/. They rejected a merger and made an appalling error in developing a strategy designed to steal LD members, voters and destroy the party.
That really fertilised a gritty determination to prove they had miscalculated.
A very big fight back and resulted in a loss of support.
7/. If I am honest I am not sure they had done the D’Hondt maths before they decided to field MEP candidates.
Did they realise how much a 3rd (in England) Remain Party would split the vote just enough to cost seats
8/. SO in both NE and Wales the CHUK vote was just enough to ensure the BXP got an extra seat that could have gone to the LDs.
I don’t think that was their intention and I suspect they will feel sorry for it today.
They simply miscalculated and were over confident.
What now?
9/. I understand that there is a difference of opinion between @Anna_soubry and @heidiallen75 and @sarahwollaston as to the best way to manage the dilemma that was evident even before the race started.
I am not sure what the other @ForChange_Now MPs’ opinions were.
10/. What close attention to D’Hondt would have shown is there really isn’t room for a 3rd Remain Party.
Also that in the areas with a small number of seats (eg NW, Wales and maybe East Midlands) making strategic political party alliances between Remain parties is critical.
11/. Trying to rely on tactical voting is too risky.
Once one allows for the reality, that most people - when presented with choice - will vote for their preferred party (which is fair enough) and it will only be those who waiver who can be persuaded to a tactical vote.
12/. This makes deciding how to advise on how to place a tactical vote a very high risk strategy unless the margin to gain an extra Remain seat is small and obvious.
The advice could just as easily backfire.
That should be “NE” not NW!
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We’re just pausing over tea to discuss the location of the DC solar panel isolation switches as the loft is not a good location for me up a wobbly loft ladder and very awkward loft hatch
They are going in the spare bedroom cupboard so easy for me to get to
The team is absolutely lovely.
Tomorrow the roofing panel team will arrive: James and Rhys who have both been doing this for 4 years.
James is ex military
Rob and Andy (electricians and survey team)
Geoff (sales consultant) has been in solar for years.
Just thinking about my young Ukrainian Refugee today.
Two years ago today she was awoken by her brother in law, a customs official, telling her to get out of Kyiv straight away. Forget her home and job there. The Russians were invading.
She left to go to her parents
So did her sister and her two young children. To a tiny village in the Poltava Region. All living together in their parents house.
What must it have been like for her? Realising that the war was not going to be over quickly and her lost home and lost job were now her reality
Meanwhile her cousins were fighting at the front. The loss of life and destruction of property all too real and the grim stories of torture, rape and deportation of children growing louder.
Suddenly having to take off to a foreign country she had never visited to survive
Extraordinary: “On 11 June 2020 a Supplemental Deed was signed by (HOUCHEN) & (Corney & Musgrave). “The innocuous title & diminutive page count contrasts with the practical impact of this legal document, which amends the…agreements signed in March 2020”
The March 2020 deal which granted options to TWL over the entire Teesworks site,” comments the review (16.31).
“The amendments added wording which provided express permission for TWL to enter any of the option land & to remove all minerals, aggregates, metals & equipment”
“ & title to such items passes to TWL on removal from the property. The effect of this was to transfer to the JV Partners 50% of the value of the recyclable materials”
TWL = Tees Works Ltd which WAS owned 50/50 by South Tees Development Corp (public) and Corney & Musgrave (JV)
Ladies & gentlemen : I give you Steve Gibson, Houchen’s then vice chair at South Tees Development Corp. “You’ll be fucking shaking your head very soon. I’ll be fucking shaking it…you are going to get a fight like you have never fucking experienced…and I want your walls…”
“..and I want your eyes out of your head; I want the fucking roof off your house; I want your kids out of private school; I want no shoes on your fucking feet”
That’s his idea of a professional negotiation with PD ports.
He went on to say that he didn’t pay over any money to the PO but he did have a conversation with Geoff Hoon who was Defence Minister in Blair’s Gov at the time
He advised this postmaster, who had 3 post offices at the time and oversaw or provided relief for 20, to get out of PO
Now what did Geoff Hoon know back in the early 2000s to make him say that?
In any event this clip seems particularly important as he says the remote alteration they all saw together disappeared a couple of days later…also done remotely.