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Registering to vote in the European elections is very easy if you're not registered or you're unsure if you are registered or not. Deadline to do so is 7th May... http://getvoting.org/

It's disappointing that the 3 remain parties, LibDems, Change UK, and Greens haven't agreed some form of umbrella grouping remainers can vote for, or agree a strategy to stand aside and let just one of the parties stand in each area. In lieu of such pragmatic, sensible cooperation, and also because the elections are based on the D'Hondt PR system, my vote will go to the party that is doing best in the polls for whatever area we come under. Here's an explainer how D'Hondt works...

Labour's European Election manifesto...

Week 32 points... Week 32 table...

From Peston...Labour MPs and MEPs are signing letter to party?s ruling NEC calling for its EU elections manifesto to contain unambiguous commitment to confirmatory Brexit referendum. Attached is crucial section. Momentous decision for the NEC on Tuesday.

3 weeks left. Week 32 fixtures... Friday 26th April Liverpool v Huddersfield Town Saturday 27th April Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United Crystal Palace v Everton Fulham v Cardiff City Southampton v AFC Bournemouth Watford v Wolverhampton Wanderers Brighton & Hove Albion v Newcastle United Sunday 28th April Leicester City v Arsenal Burnley v Manchester City Manchester United v Chelsea

Mind the gap! Week 31 points... Week 31 table...

Billy McNeill...https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1120607950563958784

Indeed, my predictions have downed tools in recent weeks, expect there will be a summer overhaul of future predictions strategy...

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?ve seen one house painted a dark dark, almost black, > bottle green, with a non-gloss flat red front > door. It looked beautiful, but it?s on a 3 story > large terrace house, so scale is also relevant. Great post Sb. There's a couple of small scale terrace maisonettes on Upland Road just after the cafe heading towards LL that have been painted a dark green up to what would've been the old shopfront signage height, that are worth a look. This is a pic of them, they are definitely dark green and not bluey green as shown https://www.purplebricks.co.uk/property-for-sale/2-bedroom-maisonette-dulwich-640332 Next door they've done the whole frontage in what looks like a much lighter sage green. Therefore also important to think about what colours would go if your neighbours already have a coloured frontage...

Several extra mid-week games this week, suspect that this is the last chance for someone to make inroads into LadyG's lead, have you got a squeaky bum yet LG? :) Week 31 fixtures... Saturday 20th April Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur AFC Bournemouth v Fulham Huddersfield Town v Watford West Ham United v Leicester City Wolverhampton Wanderers v Brighton & Hove Albion Newcastle United v Southampton Sunday 21st April Everton v Manchester United Arsenal v Crystal Palace Cardiff City v Liverpool Monday 22nd April Chelsea v Burnley Tuesday 23rd April Tottenham Hotspur v Brighton & Hove Albion Watford v Southampton Wednesday 24th April Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal Manchester United v Manchester City

Another poll, this one by ComRes, figures in brackets refer to last EU elections where UKIP got 27%, same as BP in the earlier poll... LAB: 33% (+8) CON: 18% (-6) BREX: 17% (+17) CHUK: 9% (+9) LDEM: 9% (+2) UKIP: 5% (-22) GRN: 5% (-2)

What are you painting exactly? front door? windows? rendered walls?...

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > wow. what does that say! BREX: 27% LAB: 22% CON: 15% GRN: 10% LDEM: 9% UKIP: 7% CHUK: 6% When TIG first formed they were polling at 18%, but have quickly fallen, BP is currently enjoying a similar new party bounce. Regardless, with only 5 weeks until the vote there's no time for complacency from the remain side. This is already going to be less about manifestos and instead a straight forward re-run of the referendum, the difference being that the vote is fragmented, affecting Remain more than Leave. At the moment there isn't a party that remainers can clearly identify with and get behind, like there is with the Brexit Party...it does what it says on the tin. BP obviously picking up most of it's votes from disgruntled Tory Brexit voters. If Labour backed a 2nd referendum/confirmatory vote then they would pick up a lot of the remain vote. I know that despite not wanting to vote for anything to do with Corbyn, on this issue I would vote for Labour thinking they had the best chance of beating Farage and winning seats...

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw a great thing online about how, when they > replaced the timber in the cathedral 160 years > ago, they planted enough oak trees at Versailles > replace those trees and to be able to do it again > the next time it was needed. Whether these will > be mature enough yet I don't know but amazing > forethought in supposedly less enlightened times. Alas, this doesn't appear to be true...

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So people unable to get rid of garden waste will > Pave over their back yards or deck them. > > There will be less plants and flowers which will > affect our wild life, Birds, Butterflies Bees and > insects. I doubt that anyone who has spent time creating a garden will then decide to pave/deck it over because of these changes, besides, the cost of paving/decking far outweighs the yearly cost of a brown bin, it would take many years to offset the cost. I expect the Council have factored this in and see gardeners as a soft target...

Week 30 points... Week 30 table...

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nxjen it's not about the amount, it's about the > principle of charging for a currently provided > free service that is generating all this upset I don't see it as a free service, as far as I'm aware it's paid for via our Council Tax, unless someone knows different?...

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hope the heron hasn't had the rest (haven't seen > any herons lately). Haven't seen the swan either recently...

?30 a year equates to ?2.50 per month. June '18 to Mar '20 is 10 months, which on the monthly rate equates to ?25...

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Faisal Islam is off (Sky News) ... but then he's > back (BBC News) > > One of the best Polictical hacks IMHO. > > https://news.sky.com/story/faisal-islam-a-front-ro > w-seat-in-a-roller-coaster-of-mutating-political-c > rises-11691196 Sky's news is mileskilometers better than the BBC's, far more factual than the Beeb's perceived 'balance'. Will be interesting to see whether FI changes how he reports and tweets...

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sigh...such a golden age. Britain booming, 240 > pence to the pound, yards, feet, inches, > fractions, pounds, ounces, gallons, pints, fluid > ounces etc etc > > None of this EU Monopoly money and metric nonsense I swing both ways, can't beat a good old fashioned foot and inch, and have even been known to go the extra mile and exchange fluid ounces. But when I'm feeling really adventurous I like to dabble in grams and candelas. Does that mean I'm bimetric, or should that be biimperial, or perhaps it's bimetricimperial, although a bit of a mouthful that last one, so to speak...

Friday night game and an extra game mid-week. Week 30 fixtures... Friday 11th April Leicester City v Newcastle United Saturday 13th April Tottenham Hotspur v Huddersfield Town Brighton & Hove Albion v AFC Bournemouth Burnley v Cardiff City Fulham v Everton Southampton v Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester United v West Ham United Sunday 14th April Crystal Palace v Manchester City Liverpool v Chelsea Monday 15th April Watford v Arsenal Tuesday 16th April Brighton & Hove Albion v Cardiff City