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May 2019
11:15am, 14 May 2019
7,498 posts
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larkim
I don't recall that - I can see how that would be a positive thing though.
What was the fall out from that deegee?
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May 2019
11:16am, 14 May 2019
27,673 posts
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LindsD
I think the charter is pretty clear.
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May 2019
11:16am, 14 May 2019
66,875 posts
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Gobi
I just want to run and drink coffee.
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May 2019
11:17am, 14 May 2019
12,668 posts
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Homer
In that order or at the same time?
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May 2019
11:18am, 14 May 2019
10,737 posts
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Badger
I think he has a special insulated camelbak.
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May 2019
11:19am, 14 May 2019
17,574 posts
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Dvorak
I was also thinking about the MPS/ MSPS/ Councillors thing - a bit different and it rather depends on what they do there. And also on whether maybe they supported the parkrun's development or are running down the local parks.
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May 2019
11:19am, 14 May 2019
22,556 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Drinking coffee and running at the same time, at Gobi's pace, would be a bit messy and an expensive waste.
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May 2019
11:19am, 14 May 2019
1,073 posts
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bonners
Re the above, I feel exactly the same about Remembrance commemorations, absolutely nothing to do with parkrun and has become more and more a political football.
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May 2019
11:21am, 14 May 2019
10,738 posts
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Badger
I don't remember the MP thing, but there's a difference between inviting your local MP, whatever party they might represent, and inviting representatives of a specific party.
Coldhams Common had several people from the local council recently, but they were responsible for deciding whether the parkrun should be allowed to continue on council land, there was no specific political element to it.
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May 2019
11:25am, 14 May 2019
18,653 posts
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DeeGee
The issue I had with the "invite an MP day" was that our run actually serves a wider community. Geographically, Cleethorpes parkrun is in the blue parliamentary constituency of Cleethorpes, but the parliamentary constituency entirely surrounds the constituency of Great Grimsby, which always elects an MP of a different colour to Cleethorpes, the council who own the land were of the red persuasion also, and the council provided some of the funding and free use of some of the facilities.
A majority of the participants wouldn't have voted for the MP, and I was under pressure from my core team and the community as a whole to also invite the red MP, who is my MP.
Regardless of my own political viewpoint - I vote for neither party - balance would have been welcome in this area.
However, I was encouraged not to invite other local MPs.
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