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Post by john07 on Apr 14, 2024 19:34:35 GMT
Seems he was deselected due to a failure to declare he was one of the founder of the Christian People Alliance. He claims he was deselected due to being an active Christian. Bring back Graham Tope.
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Post by john07 on Apr 14, 2024 18:34:50 GMT
Michael Foot advised voters to vote for his brother Dingle, the liberal candidate in a neighbouring constituency. For the Tory party to suspend a member for supporting her husband is a shameful rejection of family values and the institution of marriage. There was an incident a few years back when a Conservative councillor was suspended (or possibly expelled) for signing her UKIP husband's nomination papers for a council election. In Stockport for the inaugral 1973 Metropolitan District elections, Labour candidate Maureen Marston was opposed by her husband who stood for the Communists in Offerton-Vernon Ward. He took 129 votes and helped the Liberals to take two of the three seats and ensure that Maureen was not elected. Maurice Mendleson did take one seat for Labour. He was a Jewish emigree who had fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was a market trader and my mother always bought her handbags from him. He had earlier acquired some attention when his daughter Anna was arrested and jailed as a member of the Angry Brigade.
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2024 18:50:57 GMT
Neville Chamberlain's seat 1918 - 1929! And much later Brian Walden’s seat.
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2024 18:35:51 GMT
Aah - dwi ddim yn deall jocs saesneg! on the contrary, I never fail to season my egg My hovercraft is full of eels.
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2024 3:04:36 GMT
So she hasn't won an election since 1992. Mind you, that's better than my record I haven't won an election since 1981. Mind you I haven't lost one since 1979!
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2024 1:47:38 GMT
He has no chance of a Champions League place but could sneak Europa Conference League if the other candidates all bottle it. More like the Vauxhall Conference?
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2024 1:04:29 GMT
He looks like a cross between Ned Kelly and the Terminator!
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2024 0:11:15 GMT
What is the general platform of the Yorkshire Party?
Centre-left regionalists or something else?
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Post by john07 on Apr 11, 2024 23:58:05 GMT
That seems like a terrible Conservative showing. Is this symptomatic of the meltdown of the Conservative Party grass roots?
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Post by john07 on Apr 11, 2024 21:12:23 GMT
was he dead when selected or not? I'm not totally clear How would anone tell?
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Post by john07 on Apr 11, 2024 21:01:00 GMT
Dalry in Edinburgh is mostly working-class Protestant too isn't it? It’s the slightly posher counterpart to Gorgie. Tenemented area throughout near to Haymarket Station. Definitely Hearts’ territory. I don’t know much of Dalry in Ayrshire.
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Post by john07 on Apr 11, 2024 18:26:18 GMT
Oh good god, I reached my limit for badly written drivel and I still haven't seen anything resembling an actual policy there... Very Trumpian.
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Post by john07 on Apr 11, 2024 14:41:58 GMT
This sounds rather like a Monty Python dead parrot sketch.
‘Bereft of life.,…..’
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Post by john07 on Apr 10, 2024 17:50:50 GMT
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Post by john07 on Apr 8, 2024 20:18:46 GMT
This is one of the new seats that is less recognisable with a predecessor constituency. For what that's worth, its been analysed to be Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, i'm not sure if the new name is better or worse. She gets everywhere!
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Post by john07 on Apr 8, 2024 0:36:41 GMT
Interesting. Coventry City Council seems to have a history of producing successful MP's. Kevin Foster comes to mind. Never worked for me.
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Post by john07 on Apr 6, 2024 21:32:16 GMT
he keeps coming back like certain other undesirable things The turd that will not flush? I was based in Leicester East when Vaz was first elected. I met him several times during the campaign and after. Even then would not trust in the slightest. At the time I was pleased to get rid of the poisoned dwarf Peter Bruinvels.
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Post by john07 on Apr 5, 2024 21:13:23 GMT
He is fairly senior, though I agree it's a moniker used far too often. Especially on this forum 😉 He wrote Senior not Senile.
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Post by john07 on Apr 5, 2024 17:15:19 GMT
The salmon-faced Tory incumbent won’t need to take much time away from his daily routine of laughing at the people who pay him almost £100,000 a year for doing fuck all, thanks to the gerrymandering of the voting system. Whatever you think of FPTP it is absurd to claim that it is gerrymandering. It's not necessarily so in itself, but FPTP can lend itself to gerrmandering in certain circumstances.
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Post by john07 on Apr 5, 2024 12:13:06 GMT
I think Labour would be foolhardy to throw a lot at Hazel Grove if it were to happen, in the same way I thought Mid Beds was foolhardy was us. The simple truth is that, at the moment, the majority of the electorate only care about who is the best vote to defeat the Conservatives. In Mid Beds, that position was up for grabs. Labour successfully used early polling, backed up by a large and early campaigning effort, to establish themselves, and no amount of LD campaigning could undo that. The inverse would be true in Hazel Grove - the LDs simply have too much evidence and history for any amount of Labour campaign to supplant the LDs as the challengers to the Tories. I suspect they could get themselves into 2nd, but would find a very hard upper ceiling of 25%. I certainly agree with most of the above. The problem for Labour is that there is such a history of anti-Tory tactical voting by Labour supporters and even members in the area going back 50 years or more, that it will be difficult to break the habit. This happened in local elections more so than general elections. The odd pockets of Labour support such as Bredbury, Woodley, Adswood, and the Midland Road estate (Manchester overspill) in Bramhall were subject to tactical voting. When I stood in 1979, we had a serious go at the Midland Road estate and while many the older generation were prepared to return to Labour, the same could not be said of their children who had grown up Bramhall. It's a question of what impact the addition of Manor ward will have to Hazel Grove. Very little, I suspect as it has usually been marginal, initially between Labour and Conservative and subsequently between Lib Dem/Alliance/SLD and Labour. A by-election would give Labour a free hit to put some resources into the seat and have a go at taking advantage of the Tory meltdown and finishing second behind the Lib Dems. That might provide the platform to eliminate tactical voting from the mindset in future elections.
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