Date: 2023-05-31 11:13 am (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
#1: in a quick look, that's the only thing in your "race" category which means the word in that sense :-)

Date: 2023-05-31 11:41 am (UTC)
bens_dad: (Default)
From: [personal profile] bens_dad
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-serving_soap_opera_actors
has him at number 27 in the list of currently serving actors and he doesn't make the top fifty all time.

There are ten members of the Archers cast (Radio Four) above Charlie, and Ken Barlow/Kevin Roach has twenty four years on him in Coronation Street.

I don't know whether it has changed now but the original opening credits shot in Casualty, with the Ambulance rushing down a hill in the dark, was shot where I lived at the time.
Edited (spelling) Date: 2023-05-31 11:44 am (UTC)

Date: 2023-05-31 12:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Nicholas Parson served 50 years on Just a Minute, and so without hesitation.

Or deviation or repetition.

Date: 2023-06-01 05:29 pm (UTC)
mtbc: photograph of me (Default)
From: [personal profile] mtbc
Ha, cool. I'd guessed (2) before clicking, my mother watched it from the start.

Date: 2023-05-31 12:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
4) The Labour Party are currently a Brexit Party. I suspect that will soften in their second term.

The SNP might as well be a Brexit Party given that they appear to have stopped actually campaigning for Scottish independence.

Date: 2023-05-31 05:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam

I think it would look like one of 1) sticking with their original plan for a de facto plebiscite (which was bonkers but was at least doing something) 2) declaring that they have a mandate for a referendum from having won all those elections with that mandate and that if the UK government won't honour that mandate then the UK is an undemocratic tyranny and then publicly withdrawing MPs and perhaps MSPs from Parliament (s) 3) ignoring the Supreme Court case that they lost and daring the UK government to put them in prison a la Catalonia (or more properly a Catalunya.

Or taking the sort of disruptive action at Westminster that you and I have discussed before as a protest.

Or stating publicly that they would keep the Tories in government in exchange for a DUP-style bribe in the event of a hung parliament unless Labour agrees to transfer constitutional powers to Holyrood. If we can't have freedom we can at least have sandwiches.

That at least would be doing something.

Now, they don't have to stand on a platform of independence. They could actually stand on what they appear to be doing which is beige social democracy with occasional bouts of madness and authoritarian over reach and a vague hat tip on sidling up to provisionally accepting the principal of asking for greater devolution at some point. (But I did not lend them my vote for that and if that is their position I shall take my vote back at the next opportunity.)

As for the special conference Yousef is going to bottle it and he has neither the gallus charm of Salmond or the homespun earnestness of Sturgeon to carry off disguising that he has. More accurately, the special conference appears to my jaundiced eye to be the vehicle by which Yousef bottles it and is designed to be that vehicle.

Not my circus, not my monkeys but if Yousef is SNP leader at the next general election you and I can kiss goodbye to our Scottish and EU passport this side of our UK pension.

Date: 2023-06-03 05:28 pm (UTC)
mountainkiss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mountainkiss
I like the juxtaposition of 'cheese' and 'consciousness'.

Date: 2023-06-04 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] penta
4. Not from the UK, not a UK resident, but the link-blurb (ie, what you're saying while linking, not sure of the proper term or even a good term describing it) doesn't appear to be reflected by the article you linked to?

By which I mean that I get the sense from the article that Starmer is being pragmatic, in the sense of "Wish Brexit didn't happen; it did, though, and so now we have to 'play the ball as it lies', and from that perspective is much less clear that rejoining the EU (and the concessions that would have to be made as opposed to the terms under which the UK was a member) would be in the UK's interest now." In short, "the UK will get a worse deal than it previously had, and that worse deal might not be worth it". Is there something I'm missing?
Edited (adding an end quotation mark I had forgotten.) Date: 2023-06-04 01:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2023-06-05 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] penta
Ah, okay. I see what you mean.

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