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Reply | Question about Evans
at 14:18 2 Feb 2024
To clarify, as long as released by their previous club before the end of the transfer window, a free agent can sign at any time. |
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Reply | Medical emergencies in the crowd
at 06:52 14 Jan 2024
Timing may be a factor too - an incident at half time when players already stopped and players are off the pitch being less disruptive than one involving stopping the game. |
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Reply | Sarmiento
at 06:48 14 Jan 2024
Except he was only on loan at WBA, they're not his parent club. |
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Reply | May election it is then
at 08:56 30 Dec 2023
June 6th unlikely. Parliament has to be dissolved 25 working days before an election. So that would mean calling it before the May 2nd local election results which could potentially be disastrous for the government were known - not news they would want early in election campaign. If it's a spring election it's more likely they would go for alongside the local elections. |
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Reply | TEAM
at 19:53 7 Nov 2023
Only 8 on Rotherham bench? |
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Reply | Canada or Edinburgh - decision time
at 18:16 24 Jul 2023
As a former resident of the Okanagan Valley I'd second that recommendation. It's less wet than Vancouver, less cold in winter than going further inland to e.g. Calgary. A great place to live if your lifestyle tends towards the outdoors - amazing skiing, golf, lakes and rivers you can canoe, etc.
If you want a more European style Canadian city have a look at Ottowa too. Still a lot of French influence but English speaking. |
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Reply | So...the Gov wants us to work longer
at 18:19 17 Mar 2023
But the pension age has already gone up over that period, which you've ignored in that calculation. In the case of females by more than the increase in life expectancy. |
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Reply | Election result prediction
at 18:39 22 Nov 2019
Telephone polls - via landline when an increasing number of younger people may only have mobile phones, and often conducted during hours when working people are not at home to answer phones anyway - are always going to struggle to produce a truly representative sample. Almost always overly skewed towards older people, and in particular those who are not economically active. |
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Reply | Anyone live in an area where their vote matters?
at 15:02 21 Nov 2019
Lab-Con marginal. Lab majority of 1200 at last election, but previously conservative. District council (which has boundaries almost as per the parliamentary constituency) elections and Euro Elections for the Constituency LibDems were top though. And greens also polled higher than both Con and Lab. Could go any way probably, depending upon how tactical voting pans out. |
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Reply | Bolton Wanderers now with a positive number of points
at 18:18 16 Nov 2019
10 points from 6 now I think. Compared to the current form figures for Southend, Milton Keynes, Accrington they could well end the season out of the relegation zone, depending upon future deductions. |
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Reply | Equal pay arguement
at 14:02 14 Nov 2019
The wider corporate group my company is part of collects the figures not only for each company within the group but for various categories / levels within each company. Which has laudable aims, but is just leading to manipulation, certainly within my organisation, by redesignating roles to make the figures appear that the gap doesn't exist / exists to other way round. If that's happening across the group then the headline "our gender pay gap has decreased" announcement is meaningless. |
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Reply | Equal pay arguement
at 13:15 14 Nov 2019
"Then you are into realms of extremely vaired job descriptions to allow you to pay different wages to different people that do fundamentally the same job.
It's easier to do that (tweak a job description) than to evidence and justify the alternative."
Or you can just offer them different terms. So paid overtime/on-call, and more holiday for your male staff, but not the female ones in the same role. You justify by saying terms are an individual negotiation, not admitting that your starting offer will vary. (Also works on the probability that women are assumed less likely to drive a hard bargain and negotiate up).
Even the gender pay gap reporting can be manipulated - so you put your Female SysAdmin (a technical role) into "administration" for reporting (which makes your female average there go up, and gives you an excuse to only offer pay rises to the male staff to close that gap!) rather than IT technical where it shows up as a gender pay gap when you only have one female who is then evidently lower paid than the male staff. |
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Reply | I see Johnson is talking a load of old sh!te right now
at 08:19 26 Sep 2019
If the late John Smith was in charge of the Labour Party he’d get my vote by a mile. But centre ground representation is dead. Sadly because of where I live a pile of dog mess would get in with a blue rosette - and would be better than the berk who is my MP. My hope is that from this shambles there is true constitutional change where the majority of the people in this country can be properly represented. Maybe that will come when the UK breaks up.
Time for a change in change in our FTP voting system? A transferable vote system with larger constituencies electing multiple MPs, where people can choose between the candidates of a party (not in predefined party order as per Euro elections) would give a choice (as long as the parties put up a variety of candidates) between points of view. So if you'd prefer a (for example) Rory Stewart to a Jacob Rees-Mogg, or a Keir Starmer to a Jeremy Corbyn you could make that choice, rather than having it pre-decided for you by the parties. Reduces the chance of people feeling unrepresented, and incentivises people to actually know what their local representatives views are rather than blindly voting for a particular party. |
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