If you weren't a maverick or continuity member, then in the end, that's where your vote had to go.

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"Because of continuity we weren't allowed to pick up chocolate off the set, and it was melting under the lights, but I had some very good chocolate in my dressing room!"

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Pitney says having relatives take each others' seats creates a kind of continuity that simply isn't permissible under the rules of term limits.

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"It (the project) requires continuity, the council hasn't - as far as I know - got anybody else on line, " he added.

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But like a Hollywood movie with continuity issues, his stories don't mesh.

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"Continuity's important and you can't swap and change, " he told BBC Bristol.

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"It gives me a little bit of continuity with them that is more than I sometimes don't get, " he said.

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They have had six head coach appointments in eight years and the latest incumbent, Paul Grayson, says, with some understatement, "continuity in coaching and playing staff over the last few years hasn't been ideal".

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