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I’ve been quite overwhelmed with the number of responses from PBers, both posters and lurkers, who’ve emailed to say they’s like to join an informal get together in Birmingham on Monday evening. A lot of them, but by no means all, are attending the Lib Dem conference in the city and I’ve asked PB’s leading Brummie, racing tipster and Christmas cross-word compiler, StJohn, to advise on where to go. I’ll post here when we’ve got something firm. This all started…

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Will any PBers be in Birmingham on Monday evening? Next week I’m planning to spend a couple of days at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham and I wondered if there were an PBers with easy access to the city who could make a very informal gathering on Monday evening. This is NOT just for conference attendees. Nick Palmer’s going to be there and we were thinking of having a curry. Are there others who would like to join us…

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Update 2: Yes, I know there are problems with the current discussion system. But I need to get some sleep, so you’ll all have to wait until tomorrow before they’re fixed. In no particular order, the things that will be changed are: 1. No nesting of replies 2. A reintroduction of comment numbering 3. A removal of the image posting facility 4. Absolute, rather than relative, timestamps on comments 5. Some pretty-fying, so the commenters’ name is not so large…

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As my son Robert, who handles the technical side of PB, has reported there’ll be periods of outages overnight as enhancements are made to PB’s technical infrastructure. He’ll give advanced warnings and hopefully the site will return to normal tomorrow. I’ve been tied up with medical tests for most of today and haven’t been able to monitor the political or technical developments although I was a guest on Iain Dale’s LBC programme earlier in the evening. Have a good evening….

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Political Betting will be off-line tonight between about 1am and 4am. Hopefully, come tomorrow morning it will all be working perfectly. Thanks, Robert

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