Denmark's Novo Nordisk investing £115m in UK research facility

The global economic apocalypse predicted by Project Fear has taken a step closer with the devastating news that Danish pharmaceutical giant, Novo Nordisk, is investing £115m over the next 10 years into a diabetes research facility at Oxford.

Up to 100 academics and scientists will have to take up new jobs the firm is creating at its new science centre at Oxford University.

The way things are going with all this investment and job creation following the Brexit vote and the prospect of slashing economic immigration, there's a real danger that there will be nobody left to vote for Labour and that would be just terrible ...

Green Party candidate calls for election re-run because Green Party voters were on holiday

A Green Party general election candidate is calling for a by-election to be re-run because it was held when Green Party voting students were on their holidays. He has described it as a "rotten borough" election.

Adam Ramsay, who was the Green Party PPC for Oxford Carfax, complains that the timing of the resignation of Ann-Marie Canning was "clearly planned for many months" so the by-election would be held during the summer holidays and that this is unfair on the Green Party because students vote for them whilst the grown ups who haven't had their heads filled with ideological nonsense and would have to pay for the crazy communist policies of the Greens tend to vote for parties that aren't far left extremists.

Ramsay says that the Labour candidate who won the by-election, Alex Hollinsworth, should refuse to take up his seat and call another by-election so that the Green Party can get votes from all the students who are apparently incapable of registering for a postal vote before they go on holiday.

The only salient point in the whole diatribe is that the by-election apparently had the lowest turnout of any election in the UK in history and that 40% of 8.6% of the electorate is hardly much of a mandate. That is probably as much a reflection on the quality of the candidates as it is the timing of the by-election.