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That is the impression I've gotten from reading news over the years about British elections, that the person who stands for election is basically a place-holder for the party, and not necessarily the person who ends up holding the office. It is also my impression that independent candidates are effectively barred, as a person cannot run without a party's backing.
If you can point me to an online resource with correct information, I would be appreciative: I'm something of a political geek and I actually find this stuff interesting.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: That is the impression I've gotten from reading news over the years about British elections, that the person who stands for election is basically a place-holder for the party, and not necessarily the person who ends up holding the office. It is also my impression that independent candidates are effectively barred, as a person cannot run without a party's backing.
All of that is very not true.
There have been a number of independent MPs over the years, and even more independent Councillors.
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It seemed that Dave was being asked to stand for a local office. Are the election rules the same as for election to the EU Parliament?
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Kind of, because the European Elections are coming up this year across the country the website is running guidance on them. Dave is standing in a by-election (an election held out of the normal time because of the death or standing down of the incumbent).
I believe to stand for a council as Dave is doing you have to live or work in the area covered by the seat. Who can and cannot stand in local elections[^]
If you want to stand you have to pay a deposit (or get someone to pay it for you) and if 2.5% or more vote for you then you get the deposit back.
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Thanks for the link, this is just the kind of info I wanted.
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There is to be an election, Dave is hoping that his party* will elect him to stand in the election. He is telling us that his party has just him to choose from, but he must still win an election before he can take up the seat.
The electorate will then vote for him or someone else, they will not be voting (directly) for a party. And should whoever wins step down or die before the next election then no-one can be appointed to that seat by the party who previously won, there will have to be another election.
*(whichever party it is, he was Tory but after they refused to select him as a potential parliamentary candidate he was threatening to defect to UKIP to get a shot)
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Good luck. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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See Here For Rumours[^]
What is great is that it is coming out just as I reach my contract end and am due an upgrade.
Looks like I will be getting my grubby little protuberances on this beastie just as it is released!
Can't wait.
I do hope it will be Android and not an in-house OS.
I shall be in full Swank Mode!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Ooh drool, techno lust...
I really like my S4 - I have not yet been able to persuade myself yet to get an iPhone despite desperately trying to convince myself that I need one.
My S2 has been consigned to being used as a dashboard camera - it may come in use one day given what I would say is the 0.25% of numpty road users.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Anyone want to see the HTML5 canvas magic I come up with at 3 in the morning? 
Magik Canvas[^]
It's actually a crazy idea behind the code. I created a Javascript Thread Pool and off screen canvas to load into web workers. It can paint and count pretty damn fast. Once I am done, I will write an article about it.
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. 
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From here it looks like an HTML5 display of your signature.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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After certain count it stopped the painting.
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Yea, its a test to see how long it takes to paint 1024 off screen objects while counting in separate thread
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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That explains.
But painting stopped at around 600.
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You must have a fast video card. Its rendering above 100 fps
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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I thought IE 10 is HTML 5 compliant !
Its not displaying anything other than a counter !
Thanks,
Milind
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thats cause ie is crap lol, but probably because I havent tested on windows yet... im on linux
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. 
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Why did the counter stop at 5,345,323?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Because the sun's magnetic poles flipped?
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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All I saw was a square with a number incrementing in it.
What am I missing?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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very cool...
I would also call it the CPU cooler. When it was running (before reaching it's completion) I could see the CPU utilization get pegged and then the fan kicked on.
you want something inspirational??
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Yea I was having threading issues. I need to make one thread for running the callbacks from all the other threads. I only have it at 4 separate threads. Imagine if i filled the pools with threads, probably blow your computer up. lol
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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