Poet of the Macabre Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie will make a direct appeal to independence supporters to back his party at next year's Scottish Parliament election. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 They'll be holding their annual conference in Aberuthven village hall. Still tickets available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 It's in Dunfermline somewhere. The traffic for that AND Dunfermline vs Forfar will be INSANE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Malkmus Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 The man is literally named after a penis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I might pop along to see the Renniemeister in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotbawmad Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 The man is literally named after a penis.You've got that the wrong way round,no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Wonder if they'll pay the security costs this year? How many polis will they need? How many Lib Dems will be attending? Can't be many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 How many polis will they need? How many Lib Dems will be attending? Can't be many.Pccabe has got it covered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I have no idea, all I know is the last full party conference when they were in government was supposed to be paid for by the home office think the costs bandied about were £800k, home office paid £15k (full cost would have been given to an English force) and said the rest should come from the lib Dems. Lib Dems refused to pay. It's funny when willie Rennie constantly makes cheap digs about policing if his party paid the security costs alone it would have paid for around 30 brand new police officers for an entire year. Police costs always seem pretty expensive. How many police were involved to rack up costs of £800k? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarusQPFC Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Pretty sure the Lib dems will have to pay people to attend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirez Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Willie Rennie primed for the big kick off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Police costs always seem pretty expensive. How many police were involved to rack up costs of £800k? Bribery, particularly at a Lib Dem conference, doesn't come cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 It's worked out at around £40 per hour per cop, slightly more per rank after (not that much more) ((that's not what cops get btw they don't get the cash for it, it's just classed as being away from your normal duty on mutual aid, there's no overtime shift type thing with it)). So over 3 shifts per day several cops, over a week I think, plus the associated costs of the equipment used (operating road closures the cost of searching and sealing the buildings , fuel costs, police radios are billed in a similar way to mobile phones, not exactly the same but similar enough) etc it's probably a reasonable enough estimate.So how many cops would be policing something like the Lib Dem conference? £800k for a 5 day conference seems excessive. Unless that cost had been agreed up front, then I'm not surprised they stiffed the bill. You would have thought Police Scotland would have agreed numbers and costs before the conference started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Looking forward to ad libs speech "Your all stupid im the only one with a brain" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubic Pube Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Looking forward to ad libs speech "Your all stupid im the only one with a brain" Diatribe incoming!!! My guess is, a 7 paragraph rebuttal in legalese.... Probably pick you up on "your" "you're" for starters and end up saying lying is expected from our elected officials. You've been warned, unless he's gone for a haircut or eventually got his hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUFC90 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Diatribe incoming!!! My guess is, a 7 paragraph rebuttal in legalese.... Probably pick you up on "your" "you're" for starters and end up saying lying is expected from our elected officials. You've been warned, unless he's gone for a haircut or eventually got his hole. Which banned poster are you anyway ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubic Pube Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 You can decide for yourself due to my contributions to the site whether you THINK I am a banned poster. Not really sure why that would matter. The fact is, I've been reading the site for a few months, mainly the politics forum, and today decided to contribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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