Another day, another debate

After campaigning this morning and afternoon in glorious weather, I attended a debate at St Bees School to which all candidates had been invited: VI formers from a number of other schools in the area had also been invited and several of the other schools were indeed represented.

The candidates who attended were:

Myself (Conservative)
Jamie Reed (Labour)
Frank Hollowell (Lib/Dem)
Jill Perry (Green)

Our hosts were at pains to say that the UKIP and BNP candidates had also been invited, but neither attended.

On the measure of turning up (and I recognise that one candidate was ill yesterday) this makes the score

Conservative, Lib/Dem, Green: 3/3
Labour: 2/3
UKIP: 1/3
BNP: 0/3.

Comments

Anonymous said…
When you rise to power will you be doing all your numeracy in the Roman style or will it be reserved for when you can sound most pretentious?
Chris Whiteside said…
The school I attended used two numbers or letters to denote classes, one for the year group and one for the individual form. To avoid confusion about which was which, they used Roman numerals for the year group, and arabic numerals for the specific classes.

For example third form classes included III 6 and III 8, the fifth form classes included V 1 and V 2.

Hence I habitually refer to year groups within schools using roman numerals without even realising that I'm doing it.

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