In article ,
(Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:

wrote:

A bit of personal P Hain spitefulness.

I seem to remember Labour trying to introduce it for Scotland as
well but failing, possibly because they were directly and openly
targetting Alex Salmond. They still haven't explained why various
Labour candidates for the London Assembly stood for both
constituency and list (e.g. Nicky Gavron).

I have to say I don;t remember it in Scotland, maybe because the
Welsh legislation was put through Westminster rather than Cardiff.

Wasn't the Scottish election also covered by Westminster
legislation? Certainly the issue came up a bit at PMQs with
Scottish Labour MPs expressing fake moral outrage that it was
possible for this to happen. I suspect the difference may have been
the ability of other parties to make an issue of this in Scotland
compared to Wales.

ISTR that happening too, I have to say. Perhaps it was just ministerial
support that was lacking.

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Colin Rosenstiel

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

Not the first time. I believe the last Tory government polled fewer
votes than Labour.

No, the Conservatives in 1992 polled 14,093,007 votes (the largest
number ever cast for a single party) and Labour polled 11,560,484.

Though Blair/Brown polled less in 2005 (9,562,122) than Major did in 1997
(9,600,943) - this could be the statistic that Guy misremembered?

John B wrote in
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On Aug 1, 4:39*pm, nospam_lonelytraveller_nospam
wrote:
OTOH carrying on with a policy regardless of all the evidence for
it be
ing a
bad idea and with cost cutting going on already in public transport
whi
ch
really didn't need the cost of a new fleet of buses imposed on top
smac
ks
of bloody mindedness at best. It seems Boris isn't a big enough man
to
admit
when he's wrong, so I suppose in that sense he's not at all rare in
pol
itical
circles.

It seems Boris is a big enough man to carry out one of the major
headline grabbing manifesto commitments that got him elected by the
majority of the voting electorate. If you don't like that, remember
you're in the minority.

Presumably you were also well in favour of the[*] US state
legislature that passed a law deeming the value of pi to be 4?

Was that a manifesto pledge?

Lucas wrote:

The 29 is awfully busy along the whole route I feel, even after Manor
House it stays incredibly busy; and gets busier even because of the
big gap between Manor House and Turnpike Lane tube stations that is
Harringay.
The problem is simply Green Lanes itself which is ridiculously
congested and always the slowest part of the route, but I can't think
of much of an alternative, given that the only parallel road is also
quite busy (Wightman Rd)

Introduce a new bus from Piccadilly Circus via Portland Place, Hampstead
Road, Junction Road and Tottenham Lane to Wood Green, extended at night to
Enfield. It should be quicker than the 29 day and night, so it will get most
of the long distance traffic. Cut the frequency of the 29, and terminate it
at Wood Green day and night. No-one going from Wood Green to Camden will
ever have to suffer Green Lanes again.