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[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by garinda

I've got a builder giving me a quote this afternoon.

Two bad winters has meant frost damage caused the rendering in my backyard to come off.

Damn there being no election for me this year.

Think I'll move to Rishton.

I didn't actually realise that we could promise to renovate private homes as part of our election campaign. There's a loft conversion required at 9 Bridge Street that I know needs doing.

Here's one for the HBC reader to feed back to HQ: I've been told by the legal department that I am perfectly within my rights to film the count on election night.

Let's see how long it takes for some form of warning to be issued.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I am perfectly within my rights to film the count on election night.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

No, quite the reverse after the past couple of months' worth of 'good news' and handing out £2m from the reserves.

I'll amend that, it's actually £2m from the transitional funding.

The figure from the reserves is quite quite different....

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I'll amend that, it's actually £2m from the transitional funding.

The figure from the reserves is quite quite different....

Do you have to have a little lawyer, sat at your side, when you post now?

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by garinda

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

So long as everything is above board on election night there shouldn't be any problem really, should there?

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by garinda

Do you have to have a little lawyer, sat at your side, when you post now?

You never know who's waiting to twist your every word, do you?

On a completely different note, I understand that a Conservative leaflet in Great Harwood has been the cause of a legal dispute with the Independents.

'If you want things to get nasty.....' Those words were fired at me in full council and then a month later this happens.

Funny how karma works, isn't it?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

So long as everything is above board on election night there shouldn't be any problem really, should there?

No, there shouldn't.

TV crews quite legally film these events.

I think I'll put a tender in to do the costumes, and hair and makeup.

Time for some to dust off their muffs.

[gynn]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

So long as everything is above board on election night there shouldn't be any problem really, should there?

Having sat through many an election count at Hyndburn Sports Centre, the thought of watching a re-run on video doesn't fill me with enthusiasm!

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

'If you want things to get nasty.....' Those words were fired at me in full council and then a month later this happens.

Funny how karma works, isn't it?

You hoping a certain someone gets a few red dots, come May the fifth?

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by garinda

You hoping a certain someone gets a few red dots, come May the fifth?

Are we talking conversion here ?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Are we talking conversion here ?

I was more picturing someone getting a bindi.

Being repeatedly jabbed on the forehead, and covered in red dots.

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by gynn

Having sat through many an election count at Hyndburn Sports Centre, the thought of watching a re-run on video doesn't fill me with enthusiasm!

Believe me, it will certainly only end up being the edited highlights.

For myself, I'm only interested in the Rishton result but who knows what might be worth capturing on the night?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

There's nothing at all wrong with rented social housing.

There's waiting lists to live in some areas of the borough.

All works perfectly well.

As long as you don't move a house full of chavs in the middle of elderly residents' homes, or visa versa.

Well vetted tenants, equal happy tenants.

Which doesn't happen believe me

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by gynn

Having sat through many an election count at Hyndburn Sports Centre, the thought of watching a re-run on video doesn't fill me with enthusiasm!

It's looking like it could well be an interesting count this year.

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Believe me, it will certainly only end up being the edited highlights.

For myself, I'm only interested in the Rishton result but who knows what might be worth capturing on the night?

I'll have to remember to put a tie on Ken.