sphenisc
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I guess they can stand as independents, there are probably rules against them standing using the name they've got in all their publicity materials.
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UK - December 2019 General Election
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I guess they can stand as independents, there are probably rules against them standing using the name they've got in all their publicity materials.
Ian Osborne
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Probably, but this might be muddied by the Brexit party being a limited company, not a political party. In any case, they could probably get away with using the leaflets and posters they already have by stickering them with 'Independent' or some such.
a_unique_person
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Can the Brexit party actually stop them standing? As far as I can tell they have done all the necessary work, paid the fees and registered. Can Nigel stop them legally?
Ian Osborne
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The only thing I can think of is claiming trademark on 'The Brexit Party'.
Dave Rogers
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More to the point, does he actually want to? I suspect he'd rather have something else to complain about in case we actually do leave the EU. I foresee years of him moaning about betrayal.
Dave
That's what Wayne "I spent 10k, and all Nige gave me was this T-shirt" is planning on doing.
Information Analyst
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I doubt there would be anything he could do against candidates who chose to instead stand as "independent anti-Brexit," or some such.
Matthew Best
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But they would be pro-Brexit.
sphenisc
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Well obviously they'd BE pro-Brexit, but they'd campaign as anti-Brexit in order to split the anti-Brexit vote, thus allowing the pro-Brexit candidate who actually campaigned as pro-Brexit to win.
It's all quite simple really.
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Penultimate Amazing
D'oh!
Under the Conservatives' decade-long stewardship, NHS performance has fallen off a cliff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50397856
I guess the issue is that the NHS is a monolithic state enterprise, once the Tories can get around to selling it off piece by piece to US healthcare companies, performance will increase and costs will fall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50397856
I guess the issue is that the NHS is a monolithic state enterprise, once the Tories can get around to selling it off piece by piece to US healthcare companies, performance will increase and costs will fall
Rolfe
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Under the Conservatives' decade-long stewardship, NHS performance has fallen off a cliff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50397856
I guess the issue is that the NHS is a monolithic state enterprise, once the Tories can get around to selling it off piece by piece to US healthcare companies, performance will increase and costs will fall
It's worth noting that health policy is devolved and there are four independent health services in the UK, with reciprocal agreements for treating each other's patients. Also, at least as far as Scotland is concerned, this didn't begin with devolution at the turn of the century. The Scottish NHS has always been an entirely separate beast. Performance varies quite a lot between the four organisations, and that's worth a mention.
However I take your point. I was living in England from 1982 unti 2006 and I saw a dreadful decline under Thatcher and Major, and if Blair did anything to be proud of it was that he increased investment in the NHS and brought performance up to fairly acceptable levels. When Cameron was elected I hoped that his rhetoric about protecting the NHS might even be sincere, particularly in view of his personal experience with his epileptic son, but alas it was not to be. It all seems to be back in the state it was in the 1990s, or even worse.
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Penultimate Amazing
Not being flippant, but even failing to reach the 95% target, the vast majority of people are still admitted or treated within four hours, and obviously it's all about individual urgency, rather than everyone being dealt with in the order they arrive.
As it happens, what I thought was going to be a routine ECG a few weeks back (referral from GP to the hospitals drop-in service, with no specific appointment), resulted in me being immediately sent to A&E, and I was seen in less than ten minutes. They then didn't let me leave until some three hours after I'd arrived in the first place.
As it happens, what I thought was going to be a routine ECG a few weeks back (referral from GP to the hospitals drop-in service, with no specific appointment), resulted in me being immediately sent to A&E, and I was seen in less than ten minutes. They then didn't let me leave until some three hours after I'd arrived in the first place.
Archie Gemmill Goal
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If not meeting the target isn't really an issue then they have the wrong targets surely? Which would be a different but equally serious problem
Rolfe
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If they win three elections in a row. Don't hold your breath.
And maybe some free food for children and indeed anyone who is hungry would be a better use of the money.
And maybe some free food for children and indeed anyone who is hungry would be a better use of the money.
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Penultimate Amazing
Of course. Targets in themselves can have adverse consequences more serious than not meeting the targets.
Mid
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I hate to say it, but they almost deserve to lose if that's an early campaign pledge. It's so easy to label it as "crackpot communism" and BT has already put their own much higher (100B) costing on it.
Pathetic politics.
All new British homes are going to be carbon neutral and all homes will have 1000/1000mbit fiber broadband, even out in the country. This actually happening.