Hat tip: Martin Rowson and his most excellent comment cartoon in The Guardian and the following comment by 'lightcandle' - Exactly! - Don't forget it was the conservatives who said trade union ballots of just 20% turnout would be in effect no mandate. So put that in your pipe and smoke it Dave - oh and Mr Shapps too - and no don't think you'll find any more in there. Can someone just shove the ballot box a bit it looks like Dave might fall in. And is that the ghost of Louise back to haunt us - oh dear - although not Corby I would think....
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The Conservatives yesterday where at pains to point out that even though the turnout for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections where at new historic lows (all well below 20%), the new commissioners would still have a popular mandate and legitimacy.
As reported by BBC News 'The Prime Minister David Cameron denied the low number of voters meant the role lacked a popular mandate and predicted the public would become more interested when PCCs began their work.'
And Mr Green, Policing Minister said to BBC News 'people are traditionally "slow to warm up" to new ideas, but insisted the low turnout would not affect the commissioners' legitimacy.'
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A strike called by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this summer in protest at planned job cuts and pay freeze . The ballot for the strike had a turnout of 20 per cent, and of those 57 per cent voted to strike.
As reported by The Telegraph 'Conservative MPs are urging the Government to change the rules so that unions cannot call industrial action on the basis of a low ballot turnout......
.....Damian Green, the [then] immigration minister, said: “This is a completely selfish and irresponsible decision by the PCS leadership. With only around one in 10 voting for industrial action, they have no authority to call their members out on strike.” '
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The Conservatives yesterday where at pains to point out that even though the turnout for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections where at new historic lows (all well below 20%), the new commissioners would still have a popular mandate and legitimacy.
As reported by BBC News 'The Prime Minister David Cameron denied the low number of voters meant the role lacked a popular mandate and predicted the public would become more interested when PCCs began their work.'
And Mr Green, Policing Minister said to BBC News 'people are traditionally "slow to warm up" to new ideas, but insisted the low turnout would not affect the commissioners' legitimacy.'
Contrast
A strike called by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this summer in protest at planned job cuts and pay freeze . The ballot for the strike had a turnout of 20 per cent, and of those 57 per cent voted to strike.
As reported by The Telegraph 'Conservative MPs are urging the Government to change the rules so that unions cannot call industrial action on the basis of a low ballot turnout......
.....Damian Green, the [then] immigration minister, said: “This is a completely selfish and irresponsible decision by the PCS leadership. With only around one in 10 voting for industrial action, they have no authority to call their members out on strike.” '
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Regarding the Corby By-election result:
Mr Cameron said: "It's a classic mid-term result ..."
Now seeing as Labour haven't won Tory held by-election since 1964 he obviously wasn't saying 'This is a typical (bog-standard) mid-term result'.
WikiP defines 'classic' as: something that is a perfect example of a particular style, something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality.
So one has to assume that Cameron has had an intuition of the future where the Corby result presages 'the shape of things to come' ... either that or Eton are failing in teaching their pupils how to properly use the English language.
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