keda1981
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@blaiklockBP We could fix this by having people to oversee the process.
Probably from each party, and the indies, to prevent bias.
Oh wait...
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"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." Attributed to Stalin.
The counting staff are chosen by the returning officer from a pool of generally council employees.
The Returning Officer is appointed by the councillors!
Council Staff are overwhelmingly left-wing.
No Independent recruitment process
No Political balance requirement
No Vetting for party membership or affiliation
No External oversight of who is selected

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@al_caholic666 @bwfast The difference is the possibility of going up to the majors.
OF COURSE fans will find it hard to follow a team that has a massive concrete ceiling to their achievements.
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@bwfast No it won't retard, anericans dint care about mibor league sports idiot
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This is what the 10th tier of USA soccer will look like under the future USA soccer promotion/relegation system.
Imagine this across hundreds of U.S. cities.
#ProRelforUSA
Sooty@Laharna1889
Insane Penalty shoot out at the Butchers Arms. Droylsden beat Maghull 3-2 winning it with the 16th spot kick. Promotion from Non League Tier 10 to Tier 9 in front of 1940 spectators
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@MichaelDistazio @bwfast 10th level in England don't get much more than that for the most part - doesn't stop them.
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@bwfast The 10th tier in the USA would look like a youth soccer game with maybe a 100 people at it, the pro/rel crowd are morons.
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@Mike_Leach1976 @ItzKyleHomie87 @bwfast Tbf it's hard to engage with a lower league team if there's no possibility of advancing to a higher level.
Literally every country on Earth with pro/rel has proved that it is sustainable. I don't see the US or Canada being any different in that regard.
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@ItzKyleHomie87 @bwfast Fans in US/CAN traditionally don’t support lower leagues. That’s why MLS still struggles to break into the mainstream. An MLS team drops into USL/CPL, fans disappear. Crowds of 20k drop to 2-3. For clubs who are gate driven for survival it’s not sustainable.
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Wednesday and their fans have certainly gone through it over the last 18 months no question.
But regardless of getting no points deduction next season is it not unfair on the other 23 League 1 teams that Wednesday get to carry their 2025/2026 points through to next season too?
EFL Communications@EFL_Comms
EFL Statement: Sheffield Wednesday under new ownership 📘 efl.com/news/2026/may/… #EFL
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@RealCounties England is slowly moving towards single-tier councils across the country.
Perhaps once this is complete, it would be a good time to reinstate the historic counties to official status.
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@evrybdy_mvurbdy @simongerman600 I'd argue Italy need to be fully in the rugby circle as things stand.
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@simongerman600 Italy and Japan can honestly contend to be part of the Football/Rugby overlap, the first one plays the Six Nations every year and is improving and the second one has a respectable continental record and generally always pushes through to the WC knockouts
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@cjsnowdon You can get away with anything if you look like you're meant to be there. In my roadie days some guys nicked a catamaran, in two trips.
A mate used to test airport security. He said the people who most easily made it airside were ones like on their first day at Tie Rack...
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There’s no way you’re putting a statue up in central London without some assistance from the authorities.
TheRealThelmaJohnson@TheRealThelmaJ1
The new Banksy sculpture in London is brilliant
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@The_Steph_Says @BrilliantMaps Where do I sign up for a dacha in Hemsby?
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@keda1981 @BrilliantMaps We have eradicated filthy western diseases in the Democratik Republik of East Norfolk. Not for nothing do we say "Workers of the world, unite!"
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@BrilliantMaps Yes, as a citizen of the Neu East Norfolk, can somebody point me to the smuggling routes for western goods (cigarettes, nylons, washing machine parts, etc.).
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@kit_wrinkle @rjb_1998 It's more that the town is Borehamwood (one word), but the team splits it in two because...reasons?
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@rjb_1998 What is your parameters for determining what football team names are acceptable and not? E.g. is wood not allowed, but forest is I suppose? Where’s your hard and soft lines? Please lay it out, I need to know!
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@SpursArmyTweets Parrott isn't leaving AZ for the Championship. Not even for Spurs.
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@WatchedToffee This is going to be around 50ish tickets out of the allocation, I'd imagine.
And being the THS, that's one of the larger allocations.
Minimal disruption for £150k extra revenue for the club.
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@nocntxtreplyguy @elerianm Wouldn't be worth it in the US as they have a lower voltage system than most of the rest of the world.
This is also why this socket lacks the holes for Type A/B pins.
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@elerianm is it legal? i wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal in america because america is extremely regulated and authoritarian
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@BenGrahamUK Nowadays we build fast instead of taking the time for intricacies like these.
Sagrada Familia excepted, of course.
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Lincoln Cathedral was built nearly 1,000 years ago, without modern machinery, engineering degrees, or materials.
Today with every advantage imaginable, we rarely create anything that comes close.
This isn’t a question of capability.
It’s a question of standards.
Why can’t we build like this anymore?

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Anyone else expecting Vegeta to emerge from this thing?
China Now@ChinaNow24
Chinese astronauts from the Tiangong space station return to Earth. 😲
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