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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 10, 2023 8:45:54 GMT
The Conservatives have undoubtedly been saved in multiple elections by the inability of the Liberal Democrats to get tactical votes from Labour in Hounslow, and the equal inability of Labour to persuade Kingston and Richmond Lib Dem supporters to tactically back them (as they do in Mayoral elections). If either of those happen the seat will fall.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 10, 2023 8:21:26 GMT
He wasn't among the frontrunners, although the election is a bit of a free-for-all with the incumbent centre right President Lasso not standing and he might have made the run-off.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2023 22:50:45 GMT
I suspect that will be the case until the new ones actually become law (which they still aren't yet) The new boundaries will now apply automatically as Parliamentary approval is no longer needed. Parliamentary approval is not needed, but constituency boundaries are now to be set by an Order in Council. The Privy Council has not yet approved the Order; evidently it was not drafted by the time of the 19 July Council. It is not usual to hold a Privy Council meeting in August so mid-September is when they become legally effective.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2023 22:46:54 GMT
Given the Member of Parliament represents (and takes casework concerning) every person in their constituency regardless of age or nationality, redistribution should be on the basis of usual resident population regardless of age or nationality.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2023 22:32:45 GMT
Featured in Private Eye today. Distinct lack of due diligence in candidate selection there. Ed Green was also Deputy Chairman (Political) of Upminster Conservative Association - if I remember right, that means he was the official in charge of candidate selection.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2023 10:18:45 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 8, 2023 23:29:21 GMT
Perhaps, like Paddy Ashdown's puppet in Spitting Image, she will neither resign nor will she not resign - but something in between. Leave her in a closed room with a typed out letter applying for a Crown Stewardship and a pen, and she will be Schrödinger's MP.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 8, 2023 19:41:19 GMT
It's the attempted fix today - raising the threshold for constitutional amendments in advance of the actual abortion rights referendum in November.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 7, 2023 21:34:46 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 7, 2023 9:51:49 GMT
The Dunwoody situation was after the 2001 general election, at a time when select committee memberships were nominated by the party whips. The Labour whips put forward a list of names in which Gwyneth Dunwoody wasn't nominated for the Transport select committee which she had chaired in the previous Parliament, and Donald Anderson was not on the list of the Foreign Affairs select committee. When the motions to appoint members to those committees was debated, they were voted down.
Not until 2010 was a new procedure adopted, under which Select Committee chairs are elected and members had to be chosen by a ballot of backbenchers within each party.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 6, 2023 21:22:02 GMT
The South East region increases from 84 to 91 constituencies. 15 constituencies are unchanged: Crawley, East Worthing and Shoreham, Gillingham and Rainham, Gosport, Gravesham, Havant, Hove and Portslade (formerly Hove), New Forest East, New Forest West, Portsmouth North, Portsmouth South, Southampton Itchen, Southampton Test, Spelthorne, Tunbridge Wells One current constituency is not the base for any new constituency - Meon Valley. There are eight current constituencies which are the base for two new constituencies: * Ashford is 77.6% of the new Ashford and 46.5% of Weald of Kent * Banbury is 79.0% of the new Banbury and 50.2% of Bicester and Woodstock * Fareham is 55.2% of Fareham and Waterlooville, and 47.2% of Hamble Valley * Isle of Wight is divided into Isle of Wight East (50.8%) and Isle of Wight West (49.2%) * Milton Keynes South is 55.6% of Buckingham and Bletchley, and 56.5% of Milton Keynes Central * South West Surrey is 64.2% of Farnham and Bordon, and 45.5% of Godalming and Ash * Wokingham is 42.3% of Earley and Woodley and 59.5% of the new Wokingham. The Index of Change for all altered constituencies is: Constituemcy | Index of Change | Dover and Deal CC | 0.8 | Brighton Pavilion BC | 1.5 | Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven BC | 1.6 | Canterbury CC | 5.7 | Woking BC | 5.9 | Aldershot BC | 6.6 | Hastings and Rye CC | 7.7 | Beaconsfield CC | 7.9 | Eastbourne BC | 8.0 | Sittingbourne and Sheppey CC | 8.4 | Henley and Thame CC | 8.5 | Oxford East BC | 8.6 | Wycombe CC | 10.3 | Slough BC | 10.6 | Rochester and Strood CC | 12.5 | Dartford CC | 13.2 | Newbury CC | 14.4 | Sevenoaks CC | 14.9 | Folkestone and Hythe CC | 20.9 | Basingstoke BC | 21.1 | Faversham and Mid Kent CC | 21.4 | Romsey and Southampton North CC | 21.7 | Horsham CC | 21.7 | North East Hampshire CC | 21.9 | Esher and Walton BC | 22.0 | Didcot and Wantage CC | 23.8 | Surrey Heath CC | 24.2 | Chatham and Aylesford CC | 25.1 | Worthing West CC | 25.5 | Epsom and Ewell BC | 25.7 | Bexhill and Battle CC | 26.1 | Bracknell BC | 26.4 | Lewes CC | 27.6 | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton BC | 29.8 | Reigate CC | 30.4 | North West Hampshire CC | 30.7 | Oxford West and Abingdon CC | 31.1 | East Surrey CC | 31.3 | Tonbridge CC | 31.9 | East Thanet BC | 33.5 | Chesham and Amersham CC | 36.0 | Chichester CC | 38.2 | Runnymede and Weybridge CC | 38.6 | Herne Bay and Sandwich CC | 38.6 | Sussex Weald CC | 43.3 | Guildford CC | 45.1 | Mid Sussex CC | 45.4 | Maidenhead CC | 46.8 | Winchester CC | 47.3 | Isle of Wight East CC | 49.2 | Milton Keynes North CC | 49.8 | Isle of Wight West CC | 50.8 | Aylesbury CC | 54.2 | Ashford CC | 54.7 | Banbury CC | 55.2 | Windsor CC | 55.8 | Arundel and South Downs CC | 57.8 | Reading Central BC | 58.3 | East Hampshire CC | 58.9 | Witney CC | 59.0 | Maidstone and Malling CC | 66.7 | Dorking and Horley CC | 67.0 | Eastleigh BC | 67.9 | Reading West and Mid Berkshire CC | 69.0 | Farnham and Bordon CC | 74.0 | Wokingham CC | 83.8 | Milton Keynes Central BC | 89.7 | Fareham and Waterlooville CC | 89.9 | Buckingham and Bletchley CC | 91.5 | Bicester and Woodstock CC | 99.8 | Hamble Valley CC | 105.4 | Weald of Kent CC | 105.4 | Godalming and Ash CC | 108.1 | Mid Buckinghamshire CC | 110.6 | Earley and Woodley BC | 114.1 | East Grinstead and Uckfield CC | 124.4 |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 6, 2023 0:08:08 GMT
There is a precedent, but not a nice one. When John Stonehouse was discovered in Australia he eventually announced he intended to resign, but did not do so. The Select Committee appointed to consider the position of Mr John Stonehouse as Member for Walsall North reported on 11 March 1975 that should Stonehouse not return from Australia, and take no steps to resign, "the House would then wish to consider vacating the seat on the grounds of non-representation" (HC 273 1974-75). They recommended to the House on 29 April 1975 that a motion to expel Stonehouse "would now be justified" but should not be moved for one month to allow him either to attend or to resign (HC 357 1974-75). On 22 May the Leader of the House of Commons announced that a motion to expel the right hon. Member for Walsall North would be taken on 12 June 1975. The business was withdrawn when Stonehouse was charged with criminal offences and the House was advised that the motion might be prejudicial to his trial. On what date did he actually return and carry on being an MP? He returned involuntarily (extradited) on 17-18 July. He was not granted bail until 27 August, but did attend the House of Commons' next sitting which was 13 October. Stonehouse was a very active MP from October 1975 until the recess in summer 1976 (during which time he defected to the English National Party).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 5, 2023 22:40:56 GMT
There is a precedent, but not a nice one. When John Stonehouse was discovered in Australia he eventually announced he intended to resign, but did not do so.
The Select Committee appointed to consider the position of Mr John Stonehouse as Member for Walsall North reported on 11 March 1975 that should Stonehouse not return from Australia, and take no steps to resign, "the House would then wish to consider vacating the seat on the grounds of non-representation" (HC 273 1974-75). They recommended to the House on 29 April 1975 that a motion to expel Stonehouse "would now be justified" but should not be moved for one month to allow him either to attend or to resign (HC 357 1974-75). On 22 May the Leader of the House of Commons announced that a motion to expel the right hon. Member for Walsall North would be taken on 12 June 1975.
The business was withdrawn when Stonehouse was charged with criminal offences and the House was advised that the motion might be prejudicial to his trial.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 5, 2023 14:11:39 GMT
Noting an obvious website malfunction: democracy.thanet.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=8688George Kup is in fact the Conservative councillor for Birchington North ward and deputy Leader of the Opposition. The job details of Cllr Heather Keen seem to have been copied on to him.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 5, 2023 11:33:56 GMT
Let's go back to hundreds and wapentakes. Makes it easier.. South of the Trent/Mersey = hundred North - wapentake. Sorted. 👍 It was the areas subject to Danelaw which generally had Wapentakes, so Lancashire has Hundreds. Also note that in Kent, the Hundreds are grouped into five Lathes. And some counties have their own names: Cumberland: Wards Durham: Wards Northumberland: Wards Sussex: Rapes Westmorland: Wards
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 5, 2023 8:58:37 GMT
Is there a long historical and etymological background to "division" in this context, or is it something that first came into use in the 20th or 19th centuries? (Genuine question!) From the very earliest version of the Reform Bill (Bill 247 in the 1830-31 session) the wording is that the larger Counties are "to be divided in manner herinafter particularly directed" and that Knights of the Shire shall serve "for the respective divisions of the said Counties". Accordingly the Divisions of Counties Act (1832 Cap. LXIV) was passed as part of the Reform Act and refers consistently to divisions. The term 'Constituencies' as a way of referring collectively to Counties, divisions of Counties, Boroughs, Burghs, and Universities returning Members to Parliament, first appeared in the 1884-85 redistribution. This was also the process which introduced the concept that Parliamentary boroughs could also have divisions. The term 'ward' as a division of a Borough or City is of ancient usage. The City of London's wards are pre-Norman. When county councils were established by the Local Government Act 1888, the Act directed that each county be divided into electoral divisions and this terminology has continued to be used for county level authorities. One exception was the GLC - the London Government Act 1963 referred to 'electoral areas'. Not until the local government reforms of the 1970s was the term 'ward' used for local elections in the more rural areas.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 4, 2023 9:02:29 GMT
Most monitoring officers will advise that members who were absent for part of the presentation and debate on a planning issue should not vote, through fears the decision would then be judicially reviewable - though I don't know there is firm case law on it.
Full council decisions on the local plan are a bit different, but they're far more likely to attract a Judicial Review action.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 2, 2023 22:56:57 GMT
yes we knew that, what we don't know is why there is fresh speculation about a by-election now. Murmurs that Essex Police are about to act on the file from the Met? Action on the Politico allegations of three weeks ago? I think it's only that the local Liberal Democrats have begun their selection procedure to get a candidate in place.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 1, 2023 21:38:54 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 1, 2023 21:16:38 GMT
Ewan Hoyle will be the UK Volt candidate. That's current news, is it? There's a potential difference of opinion on that.
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