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Post by neilm on Oct 8, 2021 13:14:09 GMT
Horam was a Tory MP for Orpington, no? He was, it occurred to me as I looked at a map due to the geographical closeness.
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Post by neilm on Oct 8, 2021 13:10:56 GMT
I wasn't counting any of the candidates as right-of-centre in 1992 apart from the Tories. Though of course some might not consider the Tory candidate then (and 1997) as "right of centre" either Building on the Dennis Howell comments, Horam is one of only a few people to have been a minister for two parties. Reg Prentice is probably the only other one from that era.
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Post by neilm on Oct 8, 2021 11:36:50 GMT
The Blue Wall and Johnsonism. Let's brace ourselves for a barrage of lazy journalism.
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Post by neilm on Oct 7, 2021 14:32:28 GMT
I lived through over two years of it you stupid prick. That is why I loath the Krauts and Nips and despise the Frogs. In that case, you'll have to explain to this "stupid prick", preferably without racial epithets, why views so abhorrent we went to war with them in the 1930s should not bar a politician from mainstream politics in the 2020s. Is that why we went to war with them, though? Or was it because there was an existential, physical threat to the security of the UK?
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Post by neilm on Oct 7, 2021 14:30:45 GMT
Especially given that Reform UK were having their conference in Manchester at the same time as the Conservatives, so a perfect opportunity, particularly given the views expressed by some of our Conservative forum members who are not unfamiliar with defecting! I didn’t see or hear a single person at CPC mention the Reform Party, let alone know their conference was also happening in the city. Me neither, and I live here.
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Post by neilm on Oct 5, 2021 23:18:53 GMT
Hannah Stanislaus of Wandsworth is now shown as having formed the Wandsworth Independent Alliance group with Malcolm Grimston (ex Tory, councillor for West Hill). They make a very odd couple. Technical group maybe?
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Post by neilm on Oct 3, 2021 19:03:26 GMT
“A deranged constituent’s fantasy”? You mean the guy who got five years (on top of a life sentence he was already serving at HMP Birmingham after being convicted of attempted murder of his cellmate at a Ashworth Secure Hospital where he’d been sent after being convicted of indecent assault and threatening to kill a police officer) for threatening to kill and rape Cooper, Jess Phillips and Theresa May, and would later be charged with threatening to kill Johnson and Ms Symonds? Yeah, that was nothing at all. Or this one: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jack-renshaw-trial-jail-sentence-rosie-cooper-labour-neo-nazi-a8918206.html ? Hardly a terrorist plot, though.
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Post by neilm on Oct 2, 2021 8:04:29 GMT
She wants another chance to prove she is simply the best. And not just a private dancer.
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Post by neilm on Sept 30, 2021 21:26:40 GMT
It's actually quite surprising how few defections there have been in London - most of the selections are happening, and there must have been more deselections than normal because of the ward boundary changes in most boroughs. Isn't councillor turnover on some London boroughs pretty high with a lot of people stepping down after a term? A university friend of mine is an elected member in Southwark (in his third term now) and told me during his original selection that he had plenty of wards to choose from.
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Post by neilm on Sept 30, 2021 20:48:52 GMT
Aah, it's Deselection Defection time.
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Post by neilm on Sept 29, 2021 7:26:49 GMT
At a meeting held at the Spiritualist Meeting Rooms, Bond Street, Dewsbury on the 21st of April, the minutes of the previous meeting revealed a row between the ILP and the District Trades and Labour council. Surprised they didn't have the minutes of the next meeting.
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Post by neilm on Sept 28, 2021 6:51:13 GMT
Must be something to do with the haar.. Haar today, gone tomorrow. I wouldn't have the foggiest.
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Post by neilm on Sept 24, 2021 14:50:14 GMT
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Post by neilm on Sept 24, 2021 14:48:38 GMT
Far mori interesting than expected with 4 ministers losiing their seats - in all, 7 MHKs failing to defend their seats. The Manx Labour Party reenter the House of Keys with 2 their candidates, Party leader Joney Faragher and Sarah Maltby topping their respective polls in Douglas East and Douglas South (incidentally, both seats made history in electing 2 women),their third candidate, Gareth Young, just failing to gain their third target of Garff by 91 votes. Only Liberal Vannin leader, Lawrie Hoopers was elected for his party,topping the poll in Ramsey. Two other LV MHKs did not defend their seats and their replacement candidates did not fare well. The Greens came close in Rushden, with Andrew Langan-Newton missing out by 54 votes. Of course, this is a polity dominated by Independents and the most interesting aspect of the poll was the election of a record 10 women MHKs. A couple of those ministers who lost their seats were really badly beaten; check out Geoffrey Boot in Glenfaba & Peel. That is some pasting. I wonder what he did. Formerly a Conservative councillor in Folkestone.
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Post by neilm on Sept 24, 2021 14:29:00 GMT
Green councillors aren't allowed to take the label unless elected as Green, no? (Although I suppose the GPEW can't stop them forming a group of two called the Green Group or whatever).
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Post by neilm on Sept 22, 2021 11:33:12 GMT
The other question would be did Weston’s offence carry the option of a prison term, and as he was only 14 at the time of the offence I’d very much doubt it, if not then he would have been eligible. The Guardian report seems to indicate there were other contributory factors to his withdrawal, notably the politicisation of the campaign, which given that the Labour candidate was a former Cabinet member, former First Secretary in the Welsh Assembly and former acting Shadow Home Secretary, was probably inevitable. When was he acting Shadow Home Secretary? 1994 after Smith died and prior to Straw getting the job? I thought Blair had just continued in post.
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Post by neilm on Sept 21, 2021 13:10:09 GMT
They're certainly the politest people. I spent a week in Vancouver being apologised to a few years ago. Kiwis and Canadians are very different to each other if you take away the politeness thing (if that is even universal). Kiwis can be a bit humourless with it. Whereas Canadians are very good company and provide many of America's best comedians! Someone has to supply them, America's homegrown comedians often aren't funny even in America.
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Post by neilm on Sept 21, 2021 0:21:25 GMT
I was hoping for a gain by the Excalibur Party.
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Post by neilm on Sept 21, 2021 0:13:45 GMT
The Tories would know that, since the LibDems enabled plenty of the worst excesses of the Tories. Yet the Labour Party with its continued support of FPTP are the biggest enablers of the Tories ever so what exactly is your point? Perhaps his point is that the Lib Dems, when in government, enabled some of the worst excesses of the Tories? I say perhaps because that's how I read pericles' statement, but maybe you read his pretty explicit statement in a different way?
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Post by neilm on Sept 19, 2021 19:37:39 GMT
I always say Apeth.
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