Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 05-10-2013

andrewducker

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helflaed October 5 2013, 16:33:54 UTC

To be fair, my local council was a Con/Lab alliance where I grew up!

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helflaed October 5 2013, 18:09:13 UTC

Well it was a stormy night that did it- the Liberals said that it wasn't necessary to spend money on sea defences- the year before the sea walls proved inadequate and a large part of the town flooded. After that the Conservatives and Labour Party agreed to the coalition to keep the Liberals out... they kept going in coalition for quite a few years.

Local politics can be odd.

andrewducker October 5 2013, 18:55:52 UTC

Seems reasonable in that case. It's government's job to keep an eye on the long-term, and if they weren't able to make sure that intermittent disasters were catered for then they didn't deserve to be running the council (and I say that as a generally Lib-Dem voter).

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mair_aw October 5 2013, 17:35:25 UTC

I also enjoyed http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2013/10/04/the_meanest_mother_in_the_world_.html which seems at first glance to be the opposite of the "give kids more autonomy" school, but I think is really talking about a different class of events.

Twitter 1914 danieldwilliam October 7 2013, 11:37:13 UTC

Thanks for the shout out.

Re: Twitter 1914 andrewducker October 7 2013, 11:59:02 UTC

No problem. I got a couple of hundred click throughs from Twitter - I should have suggested you put some contact information on it...

Re: Twitter 1914 danieldwilliam October 7 2013, 12:20:58 UTC

Yeah - I should have done.

Still - there will be twitter based stuff going up soon.