Recent content by CheeseRolls

Might be of interest to some. Tracing the history of the Steyning railway line (Shoreham-By-Sea to Horsham) Last season's Brentford away fixture was marred by the closure of the Coastway west line as a signalman had gone off sick, the evening before a strike. As explained here the remaining...

Couldn't decide which Southern Water thread to bounce. (Mods any chance of a merge, so we can have a single clusterf*ck thread) For anyone following or impacted by the water supply issue around Hastings. This is just so predictable...

I think you are mis-interpreting the message. Labour wants a general election sooner rather than later. Sunak resigning and forcing another Tory leadership farce would delay a general election by months, so they are not calling on him to resign but to call a general election.

My theory is that most of the hard core voters would have been out yesterday. Those who only vote in general elections will include a large number who subconsciously don't want to vote for losers. Unless there is some momentous shift over the coming months, I think we can see the way the wind is...

They are being asked to vote for someone who will be in post for a matter of months before having to do it all again.

The football league had refused to accept a promoted team due to ground sharing, which really pissed off some of the Conference Chairmen. The conference were not about to accept known trouble makers without a stadium of their own. I believe we would have been forced to enter further down the...

A source within Downing Street has just fed me a huge whopping lie, which I am going to repeat unqualified. I am obviously not going to declare my source, otherwise they will just pass on the next huge lie to another "respectable journalist". You mean knowledgeable in that kind of a way?

The MoJ Victims Code see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime/code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-in-england-and-wales-victims-code Outlines the role of the PCC as follows; Police and Crime Commissioners are locally elected to secure efficient...

Cronyism.

Non-executive directors are supposed to provide some independent oversight, shareholders get to vote at the AGM. We elect the PCC who then gets to appoint the Chief Constable and control the budget for the force. They are also increasingly looking to take on responsibilities for the local Fire...

Good point - Still not a huge risk compared to say signing a young player who has played half a dozen games in France for £23m. Conversely If we keep him and he then gets chopped from the premier league squad, it does leave him unable to play for anyone, which helps neither the club or the player.

I also had a council vote this morning. Shoreham Beach will almost certainly vote to retain its residence association council representative. Given there is no Conservative, Labour have fielded a paper candidate and the greens and lib dems are not expected to make much of an impact either.

You can find details on the PCC candidates and their election statements at https://choosemypcc.org.uk/area/sussex Other areas are available. I don't think PCCs are the right way to govern policing. For me it skews attention to local issues such as anti-social behaviour and away from the huge...

An odd one really. I don't really care what happens with Abdallah Sima, who is also 22 and likely to leave, yet worry we haven't really taken a good look at Leonard, who may be a late developer. Admitedly there is a big gap from League One. These are fine judgement calls. I think Tottenham in...

Three maximum for the first team squad for the start of the season and probably at least the same number of prospects for the U21s. Numbers could go up if we get any unexpected departures.