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music, art and culture / Re: The right to counter-protest

« Last post by mrjonathanr on Today at 09:05:20 am »

The Guardian reports that John Woodcock’s ‘independent’ report on protest groups will recommend proscribing Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

No doubt the curbing of these groups will be welcomed by BP and the arms manufacturer Leonardo, both clients of the PR firm Purpose Business Coakition, which he chairs.

Similarly, Glencore (mining, coal) and Enwell Energy may well welcome the restriction of these groups’ activities. Woodcock is a paid adviser at Rud Pedersen Public Affairs, another lobbying firm, which acts for both companies.

How much longer will we have to suffer this damaging and corrupt administration?

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by jwi on Today at 09:01:11 am »

But it improved your autograph I hope

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shootin' the shit / Re: Balls to Fiend (The Football Thread)

« Last post by cheque on Today at 08:32:40 am »

Cheque obviously picking players from Mansfield reserves.

  I forgot all about FPL when I moved house in December and haven’t dared look at it since…

Also this season Stags went unbeaten until late November, won one game 9(nine)-2 and won automatic promotion. For the first time in my life I tried to get a ticket for a home game and was unable to! Who needs fantasy when reality is this good? 

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 08:20:25 am »

I did that for when I became a famous footballer. Didn't help unsurprisingly, I was shite at it.

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diet, training and injuries / Re: Bunion but not a bunion?

« Last post by stone on Today at 06:40:19 am »

I've got what I think is a ganglion cyst on my toe but it isn't bone like. I can squish it flat and it then fills up again. It's not a problem. I've had it for years.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by shark on Yesterday at 11:05:57 pm »

Without resignations to signal accountability it's an unavoidable MONC isn't it?

Too late for a member led MoNC in the short term and hopefully we will get something less chaotic and more stage managed than that.
An EGM tacked onto the AGM led by a newly elected President where the old Board is replaced is a mooted scenario 🤞

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by Will Hunt on Yesterday at 10:59:21 pm »

Doylo, if you're reading this can we have a ColdWarSteve style image showing the infamous Innsbruck debauchery where they burned £600k on taxis and blow? Maybe Bosi wearing a floor-length fluffy white coat and carrying a pimp cane, heading to the comp in a diamante-encrusted limo? You get the idea.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by Tony on Yesterday at 10:56:26 pm »

Throughout this debate Offwidth was attempting to obstruct progress of Shark's proposals and bewilder with his usual pomposity and political BS'ing,

You’re really playing the populists card here Pete.

There is a difference between disagreeing and obstructing.

Tbh, you generally come across more pompous (self-righteous?) than Offwidth, and I find it unlikely that a person capable of (apparently) understanding complicated financial instruments, such as yourself, has been “bewildered” by anything Offwidth has written. Cut the ::

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by Aussiegav on Yesterday at 10:53:19 pm »

With so many gyms in Sheffield and high quality ones at that. Why would they pay for Unit E??


The BMC, to me, has always been about outdoor climbing, mountaineering and out doors pursuits including access and promotion of the ‘great outdoors’.


Some people will disagree with this, but I’d love to see new executives at the board who are brave enough to drop competition climbing altogether.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by petejh on Yesterday at 10:36:20 pm »

Yeah, total shit-show. No surprise.

The train-wreck of the finances is a risk inherent when you attract managers to build an opaque empire in a 'glamorous' (using the definition very loosely!) - read 'expensive' - niche like elite sport, funded/incentivised with 'free' money unconnected to the department's own profit & loss; while trying to combine that kind of setup within a decent, boring, steady-income, historic grass-roots member's organisation reliant for funding on members subs. It was bonkers to mesh the two together as I've said for the last 5 years. The two ethos are unlikely to mix well. It seems like merging organisational oil and water. Even less likely to succeed when any financial oversight of the flashy expensive full-time professional part is mostly done by part-time volunteers from the boring steady mundane voluntary part. Madness.


Btw..
Throughout this debate Offwidth was attempting to obstruct progress of Shark's proposals and bewilder with his usual pomposity and political BS'ing, by claiming Shark's proposed motions shouldn't be allowed due to 'being founded in a misrepresentation of the facts' (or words to that effect). Even I didn't expect any such 'misrepresentation' to actually turn out to be an underestimation of the deficit.   


The MC failed in their role to: 'act as a representative body of the members, consulting with and constructively challenging the Board of Directors, and holding the Board to account on behalf of the members.

While the board utterly failed in their role: 'responsible for overall operation of the organisation, as well as setting and implementing organisational strategy in consultation with Members' Council.'

Without resignations to signal accountability it's an unavoidable MONC isn't it?