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General Election Results !
Sunday 19th June 20:15
With
the
Polls
closed
just
15
minutes
ago
normally
extremely
reliable
exit
polls
(released
at
8pm)
show
France’s
President
Emmanuel
Macron
failing
to
win
a
majority
in the French Parliament.
(We’re talking about the French elections here).
Marine
Le
Pen’s
far-right
‘National
Rally’
was
expected
to
fill
a
record
89
seats
-
up
from
their
previous
8
-
although
the
British
papers
have
been
full
of
potential
‘Left-wing’
success
stories.
This
turns
them
into
a
serious
parliamentary
group
capable
of
challenging the government at every opportunity.
Scotland’s SNP have 47 MPs at Westminster.
This
follows
the
second
and
final
round
of
a
nationwide
election
in
which
577
places
in
the Paris National Assembly were to be chosen.
The
National
Assembly
is
the
most
powerful
house
of
the
French
Parliament
(their
equivalent
of
our
House
of
Commons)
and
the
President
needs
to
control
it
to
push
through
promised
tax
cuts
and
welfare
reforms
including
raising
the
retirement
age
from
62 to 65.
Exit
Polls
show
a
projected
National
Assembly
made
up
of
224
for
Mr
Macron's
coalition,
a
figure
which
does
not
secure
the
broad
majority
that
the
Macron
administration has enjoyed since coming to power in 2017.
The
‘Republicans’,
the
current
name
for
the
Gaullist
conservatives
who
were
traditionally viewed as the natural party of government in France, gained just 78 seats.
In
the
first
round
of
the
elections
last
Sunday,
a
pro-Macron
centrist
alliance
known
as
Together
(Ensemble)
tied
on
votes
cast
with
Nupes,
the
radical
alliance
led
by
far-Left
firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Mr Melenchon's coalition was tonight projected to win 149 seats.
In
‘good
news’
for
British
fishermen
(of
both
genders)
the
election
also
cost
Mr
Macron
his
recently
appointed
Secretary
of
State
for
the
Sea,
Justine
Benin,
appointed
last
month to deal with a range of issues including fishing rights in the English Channel.
Early
voting
in
France's
overseas
territories
on
Saturday
saw
Ms
Benin
lose
her
National Assembly seat in Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean.
Election turn-out was low .. just 46%
Even ‘paper’ money is now plastic !
We
have
100
days
(from
23/06)
to
change
our
paper
£20
and
£50
notes
into
the
‘new’
polymer
varieties
..
so
its
“farewell”
to
economist
Adam
Smith
and
industrialists
Matthew
Boulton & James Watt .. and we must rely on Bletchley Park’s very-own Alan Turing.
From 30/09 only your bank will accept them.
“No spell-checker, he !”
A
plaque
unveiled
to
mark
the
Queen's
Platinum
Jubilee,
unveiled
by
the
Earl
of
Wessex
only
last
Friday,
will
now
need
to
be
replaced
..
due to a string of spelling mistakes !
The panel in Birmingham's Victoria Square had eight errors, misspelling _
Colmore Row as 'Colomore Row' _ the name of sculptor William Bloye as William Boyle _ Queen Victoria as ‘rulling’ the country _ with
‘sovereignity’ _ and the whole event being the ‘Planinum’ Jubilee.
Well .. that’s how they pronounce things in ‘Brummagem’ .. !
“Five Strikes .. and they’re ‘OUT’ !”
Five
MPs
have
all
received
thousands
of
pounds
each
in
donations
from
the
Rail,
Maritime
and
Transport
union
(RMT)
in
2020
-
this
is
the
Union who expect 50,000 of its members to down tools later this month, in the largest walkout since 1989.
•
Rebecca Long Bailey
(Labour - Salford and Eccles) received £3,000 in donations in 2020
•
John McDonnell
(Labour - Hayes and Harlington - former shadow chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn) received more than £8,000
•
Diane Abbott
(Labour - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) received a donation worth £2,000
•
Jo Stevens
(Labour - Cardiff Central) received a donation worth £2,000
•
Ian Lavery
(Labour - Wansbeck) received £5,000 from the railway union in 2020
Unions
have
moved
to
worsen
and
lengthen
the
upcoming
rail
strikes
as
members
on
CrossCountry,
East
Midlands
and West Midlands trains were asked to walk out in action that could disrupt the Commonwealth Games.
It’s a case of “Watch this Space”
So .. no Glades Leisure Centre anymore .. and now no Cinema and Leisure Complex either.
Covid,
Inflation,
Building
Costs,
Lack
of
Builders,
etc,
etc,
have
scared-off
the
developers
leaving
our
District
Council
‘cabinet
member
for
economic
regeneration,
planning
and
localism’
with
somewhat
of
a
white
elephant
(in
a
site
now
to
be
known
as
“Lionfields”
..
though
“Why”, many of us fail to understand even given its close proximity to the West Midlands Safari Park).
Some local wag once said that, if they installed a water-slide, would they rename it the “Surf-ari” Park ?
So,
bags
of
re-generation
with
house-building
and
warehouse-building
on
the
south
side
of
the
town
..
lots
of
road-building
on
the
north
side .. many, many house threatened to be built on green farm-fields, almost everywhere .. just no progress in the centre.
Why did the Tories lose Tiverton & Honiton ?
It wasn’t the state of the economy .. it wasn’t the state of the NHS … it wasn’t the state of the Union … it was …
the (dire) state of the local High School which, though graded ‘Good’, is falling apart .. ceilings crumbling .. asbestos in the loos .. damp in
the walls .. mould growing in the corners .. ! ! !
Well, you’d vote for something better .. wouldn’t you ?