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news On 03/09/2019 20:06, michael adams wrote:
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On 03/09/2019 17:12, Stephen Cole wrote:
I was watching the Commons this afternoon and was genuinely
surprised to
see just how badly Boris was performing; shifty, evasive, bumbling,
stumbling, totally lost more often than not. About on a par with
Theresa
May on her bad days. What's more, he looked terrified at points,
like he's
just realising for the first time that he's not actually remotely
competent
for the job. LOL!

So, the forthcoming General Election campaign is going to be
quite the
spectacle as we see the real Boris Johnson exposed and crushed.
It's going
to be great!...

Well, he won't get the devout Jewish vote, unless he moves the date
away from the startÂ* of a religious festival that would stop them
from voting.

Er,

quote

" People who will not be able to vote on the chosen day
can register to vote by post or via a proxy vote.

Applications to vote by post must be received by 17:00 BST
on 26 September, for those not already registered to vote.

Proxy voting - where another registered voter votes on another's
behalf -
must be applied for at least six working days before election day, in
England, Scotland or Wales."

/quote

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49561792

So that's Margaret Hodge sorted, at least.

I got the impression that the main objection was that he hadn't
taken the Jewish population into account when setting the date,

how many non-Jews have even heard of this holiday (let alone know
when it is)

Or that there is one day when they arent allowed to write;

There isn't one day, there are lots of days

Just most of them are Saturdays (technically from sunset on Friday to
sunset on Saturday)

Even driving counts as working

Presumably cooking also, so perhaps they have to eat pre-prepared food
on the day

I wonder if opening the fridge door is also disallowed :-)

tim


We just bought a new fridge which has something called a 'Sabbath Mode'.
I've only skimmed the details in the manual; but it seems to be mostly
there for disabling the alarms and displays. I believe it is German
(although no doubt made in China), so there may be a heightened
sensitivity about such things.