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I thought the increase in Parachute Payments came into force at the end of NEXT SEASON?

Nice try love It IS a modern party and it is possible to join on-line. Is that facility offered by the dinosaur Tory party?

As an aside - I was interested to see that 2,000 more people joined the Labour Party after Friday (and that was before GB announced his resignation).

Chilli flavour would work a treat - instant evaporation :shock:

What it says - just announced on BBC. Gulp!

MRIs don't always show up everything. Recently Mr TF had an arthroscopy although, prior to the procedure, the surgeon had been unable to detect the cause of his problem. He thought it was meniscus but wasn't sure so did an exploratory. It turns out that there was some tissue connecting the two parts of the knee cap that normally dissipates at / soon after birth. His hadn't. But that wasn't apparent from the MRI. Time from visit to GP to surgery was about 6 weeks (on the NHS)!

He keeps a hula hoop handy in the bathroom.

On reflection, I'm not sure now. He stood in the election as 'Speaker' although on the BBC election map, his constituency is coloured blue. So I'm not sure whether he counts in the 306 Conservative seats.

They do now, apparently: "The election of a Speaker takes place at the beginning of every Parliament and every time a Speaker steps down from the post. The timetable and procedure for the election of a Speaker are set out in Standing Orders 1, 1A and 1B. Standing order 1A has been used before in the re-election of the Speaker in 2001 and 2005, but this is the first time the system of exhaustive secret ballot introduced in 2001 and set out in Standing Order No. 1B will have been used to elect a new Speaker." http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/principal/speaker/

John Bercow (sp?). He's the MP for Buckingham and was unsuccessfullly challenged in this election by Nigel Farage. He'll stay as Speaker until he retires or dies or is forced out (as the last Speaker was). His wife Sally is a dyed-in-the-wool Labour supporter. Edit Just checked and he has to be elected at the start of every Parliament. It's unlikely he'll be opposed though.

Isn't the 'inner quad' that you mention actually the adductor? An easy strengthening exercise for the adductor is to sit on the floor with a large ball (football or bigger) between the knees and then try to squash it with your knees.

I'm not sure that it does. I don't think the Speaker's political affiliation is considered when totting up the number of seats won by each party. But I'm not absolutely sure

Well, I don't know how you managed to do that I voted for Mr ......., the Labour Party candidate in my constituency. Gordon Brown's name wasn't on my ballot paper FYI and I only had one vote, not three.

No - read back a bit. It was a clear choice between Labour, Conservative and LibDem. We vote for MPs / parties - not party leaders.

The constitution of the Labour Party requires that the leader is elected by all the membership. I can remember voting after John Smith's untimely death. However, to be able to choose a leader the membership has to have a choice of two or more candidates. There were no other candidates up for election when Blair resigned. So - unless there are no other candidates available to replace GB, there WILL be an election for leader. Oh and it's 'baton', not batton BTW

Swimming's a good thing to do afterwards, too. I remember the wonderful feeling of being able to move in the hydrotherapy pool even though I had no strength in my knee once the brace was back on and I was out of the water.

It won't - the Speaker is neutral: http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/principal/speaker/

Had my medial ligament reconstructed after rupturing it in a skiing accident. My ACL was left hanging 'by a thread' at the same time,according to the orthopod. But, 10 years later, it's still OK and the medial reconstruction has turned out fine. I was scared to do anything too extreme for a couple of years afterwards but I did go skiing again eventually. You've just got to strengthen the quads to support the knee after an op like that.

There you go

I think I've asked a couple of times WHY AA appointed a CEO? My (limited) understanding of administration is that the Administrator takes over that function as he (supposedly) runs the company once administration is in place. Am I right?

I need Divine Intervention

If you google "eu law precedent over uk law" you will find many articles that indicate that the precedence applies 'where there is conflict [with national law]'. Some of the articles suggest that many member states (Germany for example) challenge this assumption.