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Post by Robert Waller on Jun 22, 2016 8:54:16 GMT
Can't remember if anything else is going on on that day, but there is a local government by-election:
23rd June
Windsor & Maidenhead UA, Sunninghill & South Ascot - Conservative resigned - 4 candidates: Con, Lab, LD, UKIP
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Post by maxque on Jun 22, 2016 9:05:36 GMT
Sunninghill and South Ascot - Windsor and Maidenhead UA - George Bathurst (Conservative) resigned to focus on his project since a few years, the Windsor Link Railway, which aims to link Great Western and South West Trains together in Windsor and link both to Heathrow Airport. He was a councillor for Sunninghill and South Ascot since 2015 and for Castle Without from 2011 to 2015.
2015: Con 2012/1852/1635, LD 621/499, Ind 604, Grn 542, Lab 504, UKIP 492
2011: Con 1334/1326/1318, LD 430/268/235, Lab 420, Grn 339
2007: Con 1076/1072/1058, LD 542/455/441, Lab 163
Apr 2006 by: Con 1039, LD 679
2003: Con 914/904/896, LD 698/686/678, Grn 145, Lab 136
Tamasin Barnbrook (Liberal Democrats)
Nicole Fowler (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Spike Humphrey (Labour Party Candidate)
Julian Sharpe (The Conservative Party Candidate)
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 22, 2016 12:33:55 GMT
Sunninghill and South Ascot - Windsor and Maidenhead UA - George Bathurst (Conservative) resigned to focus on his project since a few years, the Windsor Link Railway, which aims to link Great Western and South West Trains together in Windsor and link both to Heathrow Airport. He was a councillor for Sunninghill and South Ascot since 2015 and for Castle Without from 2011 to 2015.2015: Con 2012/1852/1635, LD 621/499, Ind 604, Grn 542, Lab 504, UKIP 492 2011: Con 1334/1326/1318, LD 430/268/235, Lab 420, Grn 339 2007: Con 1076/1072/1058, LD 542/455/441, Lab 163 Apr 2006 by: Con 1039, LD 679 2003: Con 914/904/896, LD 698/686/678, Grn 145, Lab 136 Tamasin Barnbrook (Liberal Democrats) Nicole Fowler (UK Independence Party (UKIP)) Spike Humphrey (Labour Party Candidate) Julian Sharpe (The Conservative Party Candidate) Is this the first recent by election to be caused by railway enthusiasm? |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 22, 2016 18:13:11 GMT
Sunninghill and South Ascot - Windsor and Maidenhead UA - George Bathurst (Conservative) resigned to focus on his project since a few years, the Windsor Link Railway, which aims to link Great Western and South West Trains together in Windsor and link both to Heathrow Airport. He was a councillor for Sunninghill and South Ascot since 2015 and for Castle Without from 2011 to 2015.2015: Con 2012/1852/1635, LD 621/499, Ind 604, Grn 542, Lab 504, UKIP 492 2011: Con 1334/1326/1318, LD 430/268/235, Lab 420, Grn 339 2007: Con 1076/1072/1058, LD 542/455/441, Lab 163 Apr 2006 by: Con 1039, LD 679 2003: Con 914/904/896, LD 698/686/678, Grn 145, Lab 136 Tamasin Barnbrook (Liberal Democrats) Nicole Fowler (UK Independence Party (UKIP)) Spike Humphrey (Labour Party Candidate) Julian Sharpe (The Conservative Party Candidate) Is this the first recent by election to be caused by railway enthusiasm? It's surprising, given how many councillors we have here, that we haven't had more as a result of people dying of boredom caused by other people's railway enthusiasm! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2016 18:24:09 GMT
Sunninghill and South Ascot - Windsor and Maidenhead UA - George Bathurst (Conservative) resigned to focus on his project since a few years, the Windsor Link Railway, which aims to link Great Western and South West Trains together in Windsor and link both to Heathrow Airport. He was a councillor for Sunninghill and South Ascot since 2015 and for Castle Without from 2011 to 2015.2015: Con 2012/1852/1635, LD 621/499, Ind 604, Grn 542, Lab 504, UKIP 492 2011: Con 1334/1326/1318, LD 430/268/235, Lab 420, Grn 339 2007: Con 1076/1072/1058, LD 542/455/441, Lab 163 Apr 2006 by: Con 1039, LD 679 2003: Con 914/904/896, LD 698/686/678, Grn 145, Lab 136 Tamasin Barnbrook (Liberal Democrats) Nicole Fowler (UK Independence Party (UKIP)) Spike Humphrey (Labour Party Candidate) Julian Sharpe (The Conservative Party Candidate) Is this the first recent by election to be caused by railway enthusiasm? That caused by the death of William Huskisson in 1830, when he was run over by Stephenson's "Rocket", presumably doesn't count as recent. |
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Post by lancastrian on Jun 22, 2016 18:38:04 GMT
They appear to be using the same polling stations for the referendum, contrary to some reports.
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 22, 2016 19:00:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2016 19:12:14 GMT
President Paul Deschanel of France also fell from a train, though was not badly hurt - From Wikipedia - As president, [...] late one night, 24 May 1920, he fell out of a large window of the presidential train near Montargis after taking some sleeping pills and was found wandering in his nightshirt by a platelayer, who took him to the nearest level-crossing keeper's cottage. [...] His resignation was offered on 21 September 1920, and he was placed in a [sanitorium] . Nevertheless, he [recovered and] was narrowly elected to the senate in January 1921, serving until his death.I remember reading somewhere else that the level-crossing keeper's wife "could see he was a gentleman by his clean feet" ( "J'avais bien vu que c'était un monsieur : il avait les pieds propres")! |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 22, 2016 19:22:35 GMT
President Paul Deschanel of France also fell from a train, though was not hurt - From Wikipedia - As president, his eccentric behaviour caused some consternation; on one occasion, after a delegation of schoolgirls had presented him with a bouquet, he tossed the flowers back at them one by one. On another occasion he received the British Ambassador to France wearing only the ceremonial decorations of his office. It all culminated when, late one night, 24 May 1920, he fell out of a large window of the presidential train near Montargis after taking some sleeping pills and was found wandering in his nightshirt by a platelayer, who took him to the nearest level-crossing keeper's cottage. Soon afterwards, Deschanel walked out of a state meeting, straight into a lake, fully clothed. His resignation was offered on 21 September 1920, and he was placed in an institution. Nevertheless, he was narrowly elected to the senate in January 1921, serving until his death.I remember reading somewhere else that the level-crossing keeper's wife knew he must be a gentleman "because his feet were so clean"! Deschanel's father was shot at by a young Polish woman who then accidentally killed her own friend who tried to stop her getting another shot off. His son was killed in the Saarland at the beginning of World War Two. When they realised who he was the Germans gave him a military funeral. |
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Post by thirdchill on Jun 23, 2016 11:52:09 GMT
The turnout figure should be interesting.
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 23, 2016 11:58:39 GMT
Is this the first recent by election to be caused by railway enthusiasm? That caused by the death of William Huskisson in 1830, when he was run over by Stephenson's "Rocket", presumably doesn't count as recent. Oh I'll accept recent, but not enthusiasm. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 23, 2016 12:03:21 GMT
President Paul Deschanel of France also fell from a train, though was not badly hurt - From Wikipedia - As president, [...] late one night, 24 May 1920, he fell out of a large window of the presidential train near Montargis after taking some sleeping pills and was found wandering in his nightshirt by a platelayer, who took him to the nearest level-crossing keeper's cottage. [...] His resignation was offered on 21 September 1920, and he was placed in a [sanitorium] . Nevertheless, he [recovered and] was narrowly elected to the senate in January 1921, serving until his death.I remember reading somewhere else that the level-crossing keeper's wife "could see he was a gentleman by his clean feet" ( "J'avais bien vu que c'était un monsieur : il avait les pieds propres")! Wot! At night......bare feet.....walking along the track.....French feet must have been filthy then? On my first visit to Paris...........long ago........the smell of BO on the Metro was breath-taking and I had been on morning buses in Stoke! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 12:24:33 GMT
President Paul Deschanel of France also fell from a train, though was not badly hurt - I remember reading somewhere else that the level-crossing keeper's wife "could see he was a gentleman by his clean feet" ( "J'avais bien vu que c'était un monsieur : il avait les pieds propres")! Wot! At night......bare feet.....walking along the track.....French feet must have been filthy then? On my first visit to Paris...........long ago........the smell of BO on the Metro was breath-taking and I had been on morning buses in Stoke! The same thought passed through my mind: people in the past were less fastidious than now, but really! We must hope he was wearing slippers. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 12:35:50 GMT
On my first visit to Paris...........long ago........the smell of BO on the Metro was breath-taking and I had been on morning buses in Stoke! In 1985 I went on a tour of the Soviet Union, and the smell of cigarettes, cheap perfume and B.O. on a bus in Odessa suddenly transported me back to my childhood in the East End in the 60s. It was like Proust's Madeleine, only nasty. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 23, 2016 12:43:23 GMT
On my first visit to Paris...........long ago........the smell of BO on the Metro was breath-taking and I had been on morning buses in Stoke! In 1985 I went on a tour of the Soviet Union, and the smell of cigarettes, cheap perfume and B.O. on a bus in Odessa suddenly transported me back to my childhood in the East End in the 60s. It was like Proust's Madeleine, only nasty. Yes.....One doubts that Marcel would have used the Metro. And I agree the analogy.....sounds and scents being so potent. My baseline measure for distaste is the smell of the toilets on the Ferries in Istanbul. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 13:04:08 GMT
My worst toilet experience was on the same trip, in Gori, birthplace of Stalin (We were among the last tourists to see the Stalin Museum before the Gorbachev regime closed it indefinitely for "restoration").
The facility in question was of the squat variety. It had clearly stopped working a very long time before, but had continued to be used until it had become completely invisible, being buried under a cone of ...material... more than a foot high, and perhaps two in diameter. I think this nightmare vision said more about some of the realities of Soviet life than the writings of Bernard Levin ever could.
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 23, 2016 14:23:54 GMT
My worst toilet experience was on the same trip, in Gori, birthplace of Stalin (We were among the last tourists to see the Stalin Museum before the Gorbachev regime closed it indefinitely for "restoration"). The facility in question was of the squat variety. It had clearly stopped working a very long time before, but had continued to be used until it had become completely invisible, being buried under a cone of ...material... more than a foot high, and perhaps two in diameter. I think this nightmare vision said more about some of the realities of Soviet life than the writings of Bernard Levin ever could. There is - if you'll pardon the expression - a new thread in here.... |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jun 23, 2016 14:24:41 GMT
Sounds a bit shit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 14:28:54 GMT
My worst toilet experience was on the same trip, in Gori, birthplace of Stalin (We were among the last tourists to see the Stalin Museum before the Gorbachev regime closed it indefinitely for "restoration"). The facility in question was of the squat variety. It had clearly stopped working a very long time before, but had continued to be used until it had become completely invisible, being buried under a cone of ...material... more than a foot high, and perhaps two in diameter. I think this nightmare vision said more about some of the realities of Soviet life than the writings of Bernard Levin ever could. There is - if you'll pardon the expression - a new thread in here.... It started with the state of President Deschanel's feet... |
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