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[Nov. 26th, 2007|06:40 pm] |
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Well the Liberal Democrats are up to 21% in the polls (with the initial article reading 23% initially!) which is much improved. Vince Cable is doing a good job as acting leader.
However one of our two Liberal Democrat MEPs here in North West England (Saj Karim) has defected to the Conservatives. This it seems is partly in response to party members putting him 2nd on the list of candidates for 2009. So as he's left the party now, whoever was number 3 gets bumped up to position 2 (or maybe we'll just have to run the whole thing again). Personally I wish Cllr. Flo Clucas (Liverpool councillor) hadn't withdrawn her name from the list. She lost votes because of the postal strike in Liverpool (the timing of which was unfortunate).
Oh well, at least at the university our Liberal Democrat Society is going from strength to strength - we're going to have a social after the meeting tomorrow and Christmas Party the week after. Students like a good party, especially if it involved alcohol! :D |
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| a little bit of excitement |
[May. 11th, 2007|12:34 am] |
Well it's quarter past midnight and the police knock on my door asking for a Mr. Rule.
There are five of them - CID plus 4 uniforms. I just happened to be wearing my suit - ha! I asked them what address they were looking for - sure enough it was my address.
Anyway I go get my ID - show them I'm not Mr. Rule and they go away.
After they'd gone I checked - there is a Mr. Rule was one of the people that could've voted for me last Thursday. The police mentioned something about a disturbance.
He lives about 1.2 miles away. Of course the police could've just got Falkland Road mixed up with Falkland Street I suppose.
There's one in Wallasey (next town) - ~ 2.6 miles away. The Royal Mail in their "wisdom" put it down as Birkenhead, although it's well within Seacombe really. That area is where my cycle helmet was nicked recently, so I wouldn't be surprise if it's a source of calls to the police.
- at my number two people called KILKELLY live. This is only 3 1/2 miles from where Mr. Rule lives.
So my guess is this - someone calls in a disturbance at 28 Falkland Road, the police go to 28 Falkland Street. In fact I heard one of the uniforms mention something about Wallasey so maybe they figured this out themselves! |
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