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May 2021
2:50pm, 11 May 2021
4,680 posts
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um
Alice, at first I was surprised, but 30 secs googling and the electoral commission guidance is fairly clear. And after 2 pages of things that disqualify someone, this is highlighted.
The full range of disqualifications is complex and if you are in any doubt about whether you are disqualified, you must do everything you can to check that you are not disqualified before submitting your nomination papers.
You must be sure that you are not disqualified as you will be asked to sign one of the required nomination papers to confirm that you are not disqualified.
It is a criminal offence to make a false statement on your nomination papers as to your qualification for being elected, so if you are in any doubt you should contact your employer, consult the legislation or, if necessary, take your own independent legal advice.
The Returning Officer will not be able to confirm whether or not you are disqualified.
At firs I thought it may be pure accident - but now I'm failry sure it's incompetence or slapdash behaviour. He must have signed a declaration just below a statement like that on the application form - not his party or his agent, him. So now he has another criminal offence against him.
I don't quite see, though, how the others decided this wil cost us £1.5m
That's £10 a vote, and quite a lot for 3-400 polling stations for a day.
And the second election will probably only get 50-100,000 votes vs ths one?
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May 2021
3:07pm, 11 May 2021
7,352 posts
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Alice the Camel
He seems a “seedy” character all round, um. Personally I’d like the role of PCC to be apolitical but I suspect the party concerned will parachute in another candidate, who will win because of the colour of rosette they wear.
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May 2021
4:30pm, 11 May 2021
15,141 posts
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MarkyMarkMark (3M)
Sadly, AtC, that's exactly what has happened in N. Yorks. As long as it wears a blue rosette, the proverbial donkey is a shoe-in for election as PCC.
Oddly, the largest city in the county, York, also voted in a partisan fashion, only for a Labour candidate.
What grinds my gears? Party politics in the election of what ought to be a non-partisan, non-political role. 
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May 2021
9:25am, 12 May 2021
59,799 posts
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Diogenes
Disc jockeys (sic) and the trend for them to have "theme tunes" such as Sarah Cox using The Muppets "Life's A Happy Song" (FFS, such an awful song).
Chris Evans is to blame, but at least he changed his every so often. Worst of all is the way that Steve Wright *spit* has appropriated the coda from Wichita Lineman as his close out credits.
This is why I don't listen to the radio (but Mrs D does, so I often catch parts bits).
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May 2021
9:54am, 12 May 2021
75,420 posts
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swittle
[I'd listen avidly to Jimmy Webb casually whistling in his garden tbf ...]
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May 2021
9:57am, 12 May 2021
59,801 posts
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Diogenes
[agreed, which is why it annoys me that Wright has a) used it as a bit of incidental music and b) tried to associate himself with it]
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May 2021
10:00am, 12 May 2021
75,424 posts
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swittle
[This has brought to light a gear grinding issue: tv adverts that edit pieces of modern music so clumsily that I am left, mid-line or mid-hum, expecting a lyric or melody that never comes.]
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May 2021
11:28am, 12 May 2021
12,205 posts
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XB
Barely visible indicators. The number of times I’ve wondered why a car has stopped in the middle of the road to find, on real close inspection, a faint glimmer of orange from an obscure part of the car.
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May 2021
11:33am, 12 May 2021
634 posts
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stilldreaming
With you there XB! Or those ones (Audi's?) that don't flash, but kind of 'sweep' across the light when indicating.
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May 2021
10:38pm, 12 May 2021
1,815 posts
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beebop
To be fair, mmm, the labour candidate for York PCC is on record as supporting cycling and pedestrian initiatives. Agree it should not be a party political thing, though.
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