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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 31, 2023 16:44:31 GMT
There were precisely 500 divisions in the 1979-80 session. The MPs who were recorded voting in over 430 of them were: 476 Michael Jopling (C, Westmorland) 469 John Cope (C, South Gloucestershire) 466 John Stradling Thomas (C, Monmouth) 464 David Waddington (C, Clitheroe) 463 John Wakeham (C, Maldon) 462 Robert Boscawen (C, Wells) –– Hon. Peter Morrison (C, City of Chester) 460 Tristan Garel-Jones (C, Watford) 458 Tim Brinton (C, Gravesend) 453 John Wheeler (C, Paddington) 452 Hon. Anthony Berry (C, Enfield Southgate) 450 Peter Lloyd (C, Fareham) 449 Spencer Le Marchant (C, High Peak) 448 Bob Dunn (C, Dartford) 447 Hon. Peter Brooke (C, City of London and Westminster South) 446 Antony Newton (C, Braintree) 444 Iain Mills (C, Meriden) 442 Sir Graham Page (C, Crosby) 441 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton (C, Edinburgh West) –– Keith Wickenden (C, Dorking) 438 John Blackburn (C, Dudley West) –– Graham Bright (C, Luton East) –– Bob Cryer (Lab, Keighley) 436 Kenneth Carlisle (C, Lincoln) –– John MacGregor (C, South Norfolk) 434 Peggy Fenner (C, Rochester and Chatham) –– Anthony Speller (C, North Devon) 432 Donald Thompson (C, Sowerby) 431 Christopher Murphy (C, Welwyn and Hatfield) I am surprised that this list only includes Conservative and Labour MPs. What divisions were the Liberals abstaining on during that time? The figures for the Liberal MPs were: 374 - David Penhaligon 364 - Alan Beith 324 - David Alton 303 - Geraint Howells 300 - David Steel 295 - Stephen Ross 225 - Richard Wainwright 213 - Clement Freud 200 - Russell Johnston 160 - Jo Grimond 158 - Cyril Smith
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 31, 2023 11:41:38 GMT
Early tip for Brenda Dacres as the likely candidate.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 31, 2023 9:46:09 GMT
Just six hours left to sign, hurry.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 30, 2023 22:21:28 GMT
I thought it was John Watson (Skipton and Ripon) who was more famous for having become an inactive MP. He stopped submitting written PQs at the end of 1985 and made only one speech in 1986 (supporting the Channel Tunnel but referencing the fact he was running a business in Kent).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 30, 2023 22:07:10 GMT
I doubt that- I wouldn't think he was at much risk of actually getting elected.Maybe he was one of those who enjoyed the excitement of an election campaign but was bored by the reality of actually winning and having a job to do. I've known a few like that, though maybe not to that extreme. In reading the newspaper articles about it , I found that he was, in his first year in the Commons, the MP who took part in most divisions. And the local press were full of his statements on this and that over the following years.
It seems to have been a sudden decline , which is perhaps why it was so noticeable.
There were precisely 500 divisions in the 1979-80 session. The MPs who were recorded voting in over 430 of them were: 476 Michael Jopling (C, Westmorland) 469 John Cope (C, South Gloucestershire) 466 John Stradling Thomas (C, Monmouth) 464 David Waddington (C, Clitheroe) 463 John Wakeham (C, Maldon) 462 Robert Boscawen (C, Wells) –– Hon. Peter Morrison (C, City of Chester) 460 Tristan Garel-Jones (C, Watford) 458 Tim Brinton (C, Gravesend) 453 John Wheeler (C, Paddington) 452 Hon. Anthony Berry (C, Enfield Southgate) 450 Peter Lloyd (C, Fareham) 449 Spencer Le Marchant (C, High Peak) 448 Bob Dunn (C, Dartford) 447 Hon. Peter Brooke (C, City of London and Westminster South) 446 Antony Newton (C, Braintree) 444 Iain Mills (C, Meriden) 442 Sir Graham Page (C, Crosby) 441 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton (C, Edinburgh West) –– Keith Wickenden (C, Dorking) 438 John Blackburn (C, Dudley West) –– Graham Bright (C, Luton East) –– Bob Cryer (Lab, Keighley) 436 Kenneth Carlisle (C, Lincoln) –– John MacGregor (C, South Norfolk) 434 Peggy Fenner (C, Rochester and Chatham) –– Anthony Speller (C, North Devon) 432 Donald Thompson (C, Sowerby) 431 Christopher Murphy (C, Welwyn and Hatfield)
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 30, 2023 19:04:26 GMT
I think that's two actual speeches. One short speech in the debate on the Windsor Framework, and leading a Westminster Hall debate on a constituency topic. The others are all brief interventions. Still it's more than Nadine Dorries has managed.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 29, 2023 23:00:15 GMT
What is the change in Stalybridge and Hyde (and what is the point of it?). Was it a ward boundary change? It is shown on the map as two separate alterations to the boundaries of Stockport and Tameside districts, to the east of Woodley where the boundary moves slightly west, and south of Werneth Low Road in the area of Uplands Road where the boundary moves slightly north.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 29, 2023 12:24:20 GMT
The North West region has an overall reduction of two constituencies from 75 to 73. 12 constituencies are unchanged: Altrincham and Sale West BC Bootle BC Cheadle BC Hyndburn CC Macclesfield CC Oldham East and Saddleworth CC Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton BC (name changed from Oldham West and Royton BC) St Helens North CC Stretford and Urmston BC West Lancashire CC Wigan CC Wythenshawe and Sale East BC In addition, Stalybridge and Hyde has had a boundary alteration involving no electors. Four constituencies are not the base for any new constituency: Denton and Reddish: 39.4% to Gorton and Denton, 31.5% to Stockport, 29.0% to Ashton-under-Lyne Penrith and The Border: 43.4% to Penrith and Solway, 30.3% to Westmorland and Lonsdale, 26.4% to Carlisle Wirral South: 40.3% to Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, 38.9% to Wirral West, 20.8% to Birkenhead Wyre and Preston North: 30.9% to Ribble Valley, 24.4% to Lancaster and Wyre, 16.3% to Fylde, 15.9% to Blackpool North and Fleetwood, 12.5% to Preston However two constituencies are the base for two new constituencies: Eddisbury is 58.5% of Chester South and Eddisbury, and 41.5% of Mid Cheshire. Manchester Central is 63.4% of the new Manchester Central, and 51.2% of Manchester Rusholme. The Index of Change in the changed new constituencies is: Constituency | Index of Change | Stalybridge and Hyde CC | 0.0 | Warrington North CC | 0.2 | Makerfield BC | 2.8 | Rossendale and Darwen CC | 3.1 | Blackburn BC | 3.1 | Chorley CC | 4.4 | Crewe and Nantwich CC | 6.2 | Wallasey BC | 9.4 | Rochdale CC | 10.3 | St Helens South and Whiston BC | 10.8 | Barrow and Furness CC | 11.5 | Warrington South CC | 11.7 | Bury North BC | 12.6 | Congleton CC | 14.1 | Bolton North East BC | 14.4 | Burnley CC | 16.1 | Manchester Withington BC | 16.5 | Hazel Grove CC | 16.7 | Birkenhead BC | 18.7 | Tatton CC | 21.2 | Knowsley BC | 21.8 | Sefton Central CC | 22.5 | Bury South BC | 23.2 | Preston BC | 25.1 | Fylde CC | 25.4 | Bolton West CC | 28.6 | Heywood and Middleton North CC | 29.6 | Leigh and Atherton BC | 29.7 | South Ribble CC | 30.2 | Salford BC | 32.8 | Southport CC | 33.2 | Blackpool South BC | 33.7 | Liverpool Garston BC | 35.9 | Carlisle CC | 36.5 | Morecambe and Lunesdale CC | 42.3 | Chester North and Neston CC | 48.7 | Pendle and Clitheroe CC | 48.7 | Stockport BC | 48.9 | Ashton-under-Lyne BC | 50.9 | Wirral West CC | 51.3 | Westmorland and Lonsdale CC | 52.2 | Liverpool Riverside BC | 61.6 | Ribble Valley CC | 63.7 | Ellesmere Port and Bromborough BC | 64.9 | Widnes and Halewood CC | 65.1 | Whitehaven and Workington CC | 65.2 | Bolton South and Walkden BC | 66.5 | Lancaster and Wyre CC | 73.9 | Worsley and Eccles CC | 74.1 | Liverpool West Derby BC | 75.2 | Blackley and Middleton South BC | 75.7 | Liverpool Walton BC | 76.0 | Manchester Central BC | 78.7 | Blackpool North and Fleetwood BC | 80.1 | Liverpool Wavertree BC | 81.1 | Chester South and Eddisbury CC | 83.6 | Runcorn and Helsby CC | 94.5 | Gorton and Denton BC | 95.1 | Manchester Rusholme BC | 98.2 | Penrith and Solway CC | 109.9 | Mid Cheshire CC | 116.0 |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 28, 2023 17:18:02 GMT
David Morton of Hammersmith and Fulham is resigning from Labour:
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 28, 2023 15:44:52 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 28, 2023 15:27:28 GMT
That issue was not taken in the case so the judgment doesn't say. But given the original ULEZ zone was defined in terms of roads (the inner ring road) and the current one is also (the north and south circulars), I doubt it's arguable. The Mayor has a right to set a boundary wherever the Mayor considers appropriate.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 23:24:48 GMT
PLYMOUTH Plymstock Dunstone
Stefan Krizanac (Labour Party) 1,072 Julie Ann Hunt (Conservative) 919 Peter Edwards (Liberal Democrats) 596 Grace Stickland (Independent) 480 Bruce Douglas Robinson (Green Party) 97 Darryl Christian Ingram (Heritage Party) 55 Jackie Hilton (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) 12
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 23:19:22 GMT
PLYMOUTH St Peter and the Waterfront
Alison Jane Raynsford (Labour Party) 1,126 Ian Thomas Fleming (Conservative) 488 Shayna Chrissie Gwyneth Newham-Joynes (Green Party) 206 Hugh Janes (Liberal Democrats) 175 Andy Gibbons (Reform UK) 174 Chaz Singh (Independent) 126 Ryan John Aldred (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) 52
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 23:16:10 GMT
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Denham
Jaspal Singh Chhokar (Conservative) 848 Julie Cecilia Cook (Liberal Democrats) 634 Barry James Harding (Independent) 404 Nadeem Siddiqui (Labour Party) 125
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 23:10:10 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 22:04:23 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 19:51:07 GMT
A referral to the Standards Committee must be in order, surely? It could engineer her removal by one way or another. The Standards Commissioner has no remit over the level of an MP's activity.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 14:25:52 GMT
Yep. Three out of the four being marginal seats flipped by the boundary changes; in Crewe and Cathcart the sitting MP was re-elected anyway, while in Erdington a new candidate took the seat. Only Broadgreen was a clearcut addition of a Labour MP representing somewhere the MP used to be from a different party.
In fact the three were all slightly different. Cathcart was on a long term trend to Labour and had changed hands at the previous election. Erdington was also not out of line with similar inner-city areas - there was a swing to Labour across urban Birmingham in 1983. However in Crewe there was a distinct campaign to keep Gwyneth Dunwoody and keep a Labour MP, coupled with a feeling the Boundary Commission had conspired to get an extra Tory seat. Perhaps this led to the belief that Gwyneth Dunwoody was an exceptionally popular local MP.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2023 9:32:04 GMT
There's a reason why Bob Blackman is the no. 1 Parliamentary supporter of Narendra Modi and Hindutva politics.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 26, 2023 23:09:43 GMT
Looked just like a TIA.
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