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Your edits to Football hooliganism
Please note that the article only covers hooliganism. Neither the Celtic incident nor the incidents in Iraq are hooligan related which is why they have both been reverted by myself and another user. ♦Tangerines♦ · Talk 03:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

John's edits were O.K.!--My name is Prunella (talk) 19:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

=RAC 124 (energy drink)=

It's a minor UK energy drink of the mid 2000's.

The Drink.
It was a stimulation drink that was designed by both the RAC and the makers of the drink Sprite (soft drink) to help get tired motorists home safely if they felt sleepy at the wheel. It was intended to give the driker a 15-30 minuet boost at most.

The taste.
It was a more lemony variant of Sprite, which proved very popular in the UK.

Controversy.
Many motorists took it as an apparent cure for fatigue, but of coarse it was not, and some drivers even crashed as a result of it. It was later withdrawn since the RAC felt it was sadly being abused by people who should have known better.

Background
Late on the night of 11 June 2008, a parliamentary vote was held on whether to extend the limit on the period of detention of terror suspects without charge in England and Wales, from 28 to 42 days. The issue had been a contentious issue in the media in the preceding weeks, with the prime-minister urging for the extension, following past dropped proposals of 90 days, as being a vital tool in the protection of the British public, in the War on Terrorism.

The vote was narrowly passed in the commons by 9 votes, after the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, together with 36 rebel Labour MPs, voted against the government. The vote was passed with the support of the government by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who had nine elected MPs.

Speaking after his resignation, Davis stated that he intended to induce a wider public debate, and stop "the insidious and relentless erosion of civil liberties in Britain", in which the detention vote was a "watershed" in the debate, which also encompassed recent legislation about the increased use of CCTV, the introduction of identity cards and the expansion of the DNA database, which represented "the slow strangulation of fundamental freedoms by this (Labour) government".

Timeline
Davis's resignation announcement came on 12 June 2008, a day after the passing of the initial vote on detention. Davis gave a post-resignation press conference outside parliament, having been refused the opportunity to do so in the House of Commons by the Speaker. His resignation speech came on the back of a similar newspaper column written by previous Conservative Prime Minister John Major a week earlier. Davis would be the official Conservative candidate.

Critics initially described Davis's decision as an emotional and knee-jerk reaction, however Davis later stated that the idea to resign if the vote was passed came as early as the previous weekend, and he had discussed standing down with his local party earlier in the week.

On suggestions that the Labour Party might not field a candidate, given the nature of the campaign, the safeness of the seat, and the previous bad result for Labour in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, 2008, Davis stated that "we will have the campaign anyway, and find people to argue on both sides of the debate".

On the 13 June, the former editor of The Sun newspaper, Kelvin MacKenzie, announced that he was 90% certain to contest the election, should Labour not stand. He would stand on a pro-42-day detention platform, stating: "I have been associated with The Sun for 30 years. The Sun is very, very hostile to David Davis because of his 28 day stance and The Sun has always been very up for 42 days and perhaps even 420 days".

On 16 June 2008 an official campaign website, www.daviddavisforfreedom.com, and a YouTube channel daviddavisforfreedom were launched.

Davis formally stood down as an MP on 18 June 2008, by accepting the position of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, which he immediately renounced in order to be able to stand for the by-election; this is the traditional method of resigning from Parliament, since MPs are not permitted to hold most positions in the gift of the Crown without approval from their constituencies. Immediately after the announcement, Labour announced they would not field a candidate.

On 19 June 2008, comments by Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham contrasting Davis's past political record on libertarian issues, with the views of Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, who Davis asked for advice prior to his resignation, brought a threat of litigation from Chakrabarti to Burnham pending an apology.

In an appearance on the panel of Question Time on 20 June 2008, Davis conceded that the he was unlikely to be "offered his job (in the shadow cabinet) back", and the likely set-back to his political career was a "cost he would have to bear" as a result of his decision to resign.

On 11 July 2008, Davis was subsequqently re-elected to his seat with 72% of the vote. Davis recieved 17,113 votes, with the closest challenge coming from the Green Party and English Democrats with 1,758 and 1,714 votes respectively. All other candidates lost their deposit due to polling less than 5% of the vote.

In his acceptance speech after the by-election, Davis stated that "today is not the end of this campaign", pledging to continue campaigning against 42 day detention, ID cards and governmental invasion of privacy. Davis will return to Parliament as a backbencher, with no immediate likelihood of a return to the Shadow Cabinet.

Reaction
While the Conservative party voted against the 42 day extension in the initial poll, in the days following his resignation, Davis's move was characterised by Conservative party leader David Cameron as a "very courageous and brave" decision, but a "personal decision, and not one of the Shadow Cabinet or Conservative Party". Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti described the move as "very brave".

Opinion is sharply divided over Davis's actions. Many media commentators have poured scorn on Davis for precipitating an unnecessary by-election, characterising his actions as "quixotic","egotistical" or even "mad". Equally, he has been described as "new voice of the people", and as setting a "powerful example". The varying opinions have been characterised as "a torrent of conflicting views".

A poll carried out in the constituency for the The Mail on Sunday on the day after Mr Davis's resignation found that 57% of respondents (and more than seven out of ten Conservative voters) supported Davis's decision to force a by-election against 32% who opposed his decision; 69% said they thought his actions were "principled". However, a national poll for the The Independent reported that 48% thought Mr Davis was wrong to resign over 42 days detention against 39% who believed he was right.

Funding
Immediately following his resignation, Conservative party leader David Cameron stated that he would campaign for Davis, but he would receive no funding from Conservative Party HQ. On the day after the by-election, Davis stated on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show that this lack of party funding had produced an unexpected demonstration of grass roots support for the campaign, with the subsequent donation of £40,000 toward the campaign in small amounts from many sources around the country.

Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham called on Davis to fund the cost of the by-election to the taxpayer, estimated at £80,000, from his own pocket.

R.O.H.H.A.D.!
Not all fat kids enjoy it! Haven never even wanted to be fat, because ROHHAD syndrome forced it on to her against her will! We must be fair to obese children, since some genially can't help what they are becoming!--86.29.140.64 (talk) 15:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

P.E.
Let's add this photo to to premote P.E.--86.29.140.64 (talk) 15:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

--86.29.140.147 (talk) 10:06, 16 March 2010 (UTC)