Mr Tarry, a former political officer at the TSSA trade union, has been the MP for Ilford South since 2019. In the summer of 2022 he faced a trigger ballot, a Labour Party mechanism that lets local parties force a re-selection vote, losing the subsequent vote that October.
Mr Athwal, the Redbridge council leader, won the selection. He had been endorsed by Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary and one of the party’s leading moderate figures.
Mr Tarry is understood to have won 57 per cent of the in-person votes at the selection but just 35 per cent of the Anonyvoter votes, plus a small number of postal votes. Mr Athwal won 43 per cent of the in-person votes but 65 per cent of the Anonyvoter and postal vote.
The vote breakdown was provided by Mr Tarry’s team. No record is published by the party. Labour and Mr Athwal did not dispute the accuracy when approached for comment.
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Ms Winter competed against Gerald Jones, the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, who was made shadow Scotland minister by Sir Keir in September.
She won 56 per cent of the postal votes but 47 per cent of the Anonyvoter votes, according to a breakdown recorded by her team. There were no in-person votes.
Mr Jones won 43 per cent of the postal votes – there was one abstention – but 53 per cent of the Anonyvoter votes, meaning he will be the candidate for the new seat.
Before and after the June 2023 selection, Ms Winter’s lawyers Howe+Co sent letters to senior figures in both the UK Labour Party and Welsh Labour raising concerns about the process.
A letter sent to Jo McIntyre, the general secretary of Welsh Labour, before the selection raised concerns about using online voting, saying: “As you are aware from previous trigger ballots and selections, there is serious disquiet among some parliamentarians and party members that online processes have produced and will continue to produce undemocratic results which lack fairness and transparency.”
Well its always been a matter of time before we start genetically modifying humans I guess he's just ahead of the times. But yeah incredibly risky if ya gonna genetically modify a human do it to yourself.
He said the three genome-edited children were “perfectly healthy and have no problems with their growth”, according to the newspaper, adding that the twins, now aged 5, were attending kindergarten.
This motherfucker is playing William Tell with baby genes and claiming it's safe because he didn't put an arrow into somebody's forehead. He won't even know if he hit the apple unless he exposes the children to HIV.
Yeah but the babies also wouldn't have been born without him, had an HIV positive parent and he did a ton for crispr research. He was only disgraced 'disappeared' and jailed because PR was bad. He really didn't do anything too awful (I think he was too manipulative of the parents) but most of the media you see paints him like doctor fucking Mengele.
Those are not the same things... Glass is better for the environment, for one it doesn't break down into microplastics which get everywhere.
And glass can be recycled indefinitely (minus some loss due to impurities) whereas plastic can be recycled up 0-1 times usually.
Plus the whole "it's up to consumers to solve this" is just corporate propaganda to absolve themselves of any responsibility, all the while not offering any alternatives that a consumer could pick from. Like literally, they paid for marketing campaigns to convince the public that it was our fault.
But the problem is that these plastics even if disposed of properly by the consumer are still waste.
In the EU most of the bottles for soda have a deposit-scheme attached so they are returned in high percentages.
The issue is everything comes in plastic nowadays.. even cucumbers are wrapped.
The manufacturers are the ones that select the packaging. They should be made responsible for the recycling. That will immediately make them switch to packaging that can be recycled. Glass, paper, cardboard.. whatever. But plastics are bullshit for many applications.. especially for those vanity packaging's that make the product look larger by being in massive trays of plastics.
Yes... I thought 'WTF... that can't be right" then read the first sentence, went back to the title "Oh... no I didn't misunderstand, I was mislead". Bad OP.
I have a long history in the financial industry so maybe it’s just experience around terms like that. But saying something jumped X% is pretty normal, even if it’s a percent that jumped (so a percent of a percent).
Jumped to X% is entirely different.
For instance, consider “the percentage of people that owned homes dropped 50%” aka “home ownership dropped 50%”
You have to love that Charlie Brooker's first Black Mirror episode is about a PM fucking a pig and then that story came out not all that long afterward.
That's exactly what happened in Oregon, where they only took half measures and then bitched and complained that it didn't work. They recently are recriminalizing hard drugs.
That's what's happening in Germany right now. with cannabis.
They legalized it on April 1st and at the same time somehow not.
They call it partial legalization. You can have 25g in public and theoretically smoke weed in public. but not in sight to schools, playgrounds, sports clubs, etc. All around there is a 100m spell. In cities that's like everywhere .And you're not allowed to smoke in front of children. The law is so vague that it can be in such a way that you have to change the side of the street when a child comes towards you. Or you would have to put out the joint.In reality, it is very difficult to really consume 100% publicly.
At home you can grow up to 3 plants. But you may only have 50g of dried material, the rest must be destroyed.
You are not allowed to make chemical extracts .
You can only buy in cannabis social clubs which are allowed to be at.
You must be a registered member there. You can buy 50g a month there.
The cherry on top at the moment is that the CSC are only allowed to start in July, so there will only be harvests at the end of the year. Since you can't have any selfgrow yourself since the beginning of April, you can't have legal weed yet.
The whole law is planned to make it fail. You can later say 'we tried'. And make it impossible to really legalize for the next few decades.
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You cannot sell or share any material. To a party you have to smoke your own joint.
All around there is a 100m spell. In cities that's like everywhere .
Its out of sight, but at most 100m. So if you're not visible where you smoke you're fine.
you can't have legal weed yet.
Online apothecary is a way but also growing before April has been retroactively legalized. So as long as the police can't proof you imported it illegally it's also fine.
The law is not perfect, but its the best possible outcome given the political realities and i think of it as dooropening with further reforms still coming.
I am not a marijuana patient, so I would have to lie about that.
And again I would have lie to the police.
It's exactly about the fact that as a leisure consumer I have to lie after an alleged legalization to get weed.You're still in the prohibition mindset. I don't want to lie, trick or hide after it's legalized.
Why weren't her male guardians arrested for not properly controlling her? I mean, honestly, the law she was protesting says she can't be responsible for herself then she shouldn't be punished for her actions.
Selective enforcement probably, especially towards a known women's right advocate.
They were pretty brave to go through with these sort of protests, but at the same time, Saudi Arabia is just not the country to do this sort of thing. It is a harsh religious dictatorship that only respects the richest of its citizens. The best thing to do is to leave, and encourage others to do so. I know that's not an easy thing to do, but it's certainly better than to spend the rest of your life being beaten in a prison cell.
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