Unhatched chickens
The Devonwall Bill is due to start its Report stage in the House of Lords next week. Which makes this extract from a Cornwall Council press release a model of restrained understatement:
"To enable the referendum to be held on 5 May the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill needs to be passed by Parliament by 16 February. While there is still some uncertainty over this being achieved, the Council is launching a recruitment campaign to ensure that it has enough trained staff if the referendum does take place on that day."Anyone interested in finding out more is being invited to attend one of a series of election recruiting workshops which are being held across Cornwall between Monday, 21 February and Friday, 25 February. Elections service staff will be on hand to provide information and advice or just to have an informal chat about what is involved.
These workshops are taking place on:
Monday 21 Feb St Austell One Stop Shop (OSS) 2.00pm
Tuesday 22 Feb Carrick House OSS, Truro 10.00am
Wed 23 Feb Luxstowe House OSS, Liskeard 10.00am
Thursday 24 Feb Roskear School, Camborne 10.00am
Thursday 24 Feb Wadebridge OSS 2.30pm
Friday 25 Feb Penzance OSS 10.00am
I'm ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Devon’s Graham Smith, blogging on news, views and some fresh insights into West Country life, particularly the way government works locally and nationally.
Comment number 1.
At 7th Feb 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:Let me give you a free clairvoyant reading Graham, the referendum will take place on that date and will fail as planed by the Tories, also the west Cornwall borders will be joined to Devon after the electoral commission investigate and discover East Cornwall and west Devon share the same values, lifestyles and social scene, with a large number of people from east Cornwall being employed in Devon, I know I am stating the obvious but we have to start on the bottom run of clairvoyant steps and work our way up to the level of most hauted and predicting the next election which I would hate to call
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