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Post by yellowperil on Feb 13, 2018 13:54:50 GMT
Scottish Borders UA, Selkirkshire
Con resigned after appointment as MSP
7 candidates:
Trevor Adams (Con)
Jack Clark (Lib Dem)
Kenneth Gunn (Ind)
Barbra Harvie (Green)
John Mitchell (SNP)
Caroline Penman (Ind)
Scott Redpath (Lab)
And a Labour candidate called Redpath - you are really spoiling us this week. and Scott Redpath because he's Scottish Labour= you really do think I'm making this up, don't you? |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Feb 13, 2018 13:56:25 GMT
some pretty good names in there too yp. I hope Rapier's election leaflets are to the point, and Mr Wildgust's are not full of wind... ...and Mr Browne the green candidate has the most determinedly English set of names for a Welsh seat Browne's ultimately Irish, isn't it? |
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Post by yellowperil on Feb 13, 2018 14:09:45 GMT
...and Mr Browne the green candidate has the most determinedly English set of names for a Welsh seat Browne's ultimately Irish, isn't it? depends what you mean by "ultimately Irish"- it clearly has roots in both Norse and Anglo-Norman names, so at best its Anglo-Irish. Certainly not Celtic Irish. Anyway my comment was about the whole name including the double- barrelling and the name Rupert, taken together it all sounded terribly English Upper-Class. |
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Post by finsobruce on Feb 13, 2018 15:15:30 GMT
Browne's ultimately Irish, isn't it? depends what you mean by "ultimately Irish"- it clearly has roots in both Norse and Anglo-Norman names, so at best its Anglo-Irish. Certainly not Celtic Irish. Anyway my comment was about the whole name including the double- barrelling and the name Rupert, taken together it all sounded terribly English Upper-Class. |
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Post by finsobruce on Feb 13, 2018 15:24:42 GMT
...and Mr Browne the green candidate has the most determinedly English set of names for a Welsh seat Browne's ultimately Irish, isn't it? Old Norse. First reliably recorded (ironically) in 1066. Bruno Brown is Mr Brown Brown. |
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Post by yellowperil on Feb 20, 2018 18:10:50 GMT
I am drawing people's attention here as well as on the original post - the 2015 results for OL&W were wrong - another case of going off line and you had the result for Coastal Ward instead. Now corrected.
I will also say my eyes and ears with local connections in OL& W were firmly of the opinion that the Tories would be a shoo-in and were under-impressed by Blue Revolution - might pick up a few of the departing UKIP votes was the view.
As we all know to our cost,the local horse's mouth is not infallible.
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Post by Andrew_S on Feb 21, 2018 3:29:22 GMT
Lichfield DC, Stowe WardConservative resigned5 candidates:Jayan Anketell (LibDem)Jeanne Kay Grange (Con)Mat Hayward (Green)Don Palmer (Lab)Philip John Peter (Something New )2003 election results: Con 846/843/807, Lab 540/522/478 2007 election results: Con 945/933/900, Lab 488/484/477 2011 election results: Con 841/799/729, Lab 483/440/411, LD 294/249/210, UKIP 159 2015 election results: Con 1791/1484/1443. Lab 989(Palmer)/ 862/857, Green 635 (Hayward) Very minor correction: according to Andrew Teale's site the top Labour vote in 2015 was 898. www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2015/325/ |
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Post by yellowperil on Feb 21, 2018 8:05:46 GMT
Lichfield DC, Stowe WardConservative resigned5 candidates:Jayan Anketell (LibDem)Jeanne Kay Grange (Con)Mat Hayward (Green)Don Palmer (Lab)Philip John Peter (Something New )2003 election results: Con 846/843/807, Lab 540/522/478 2007 election results: Con 945/933/900, Lab 488/484/477 2011 election results: Con 841/799/729, Lab 483/440/411, LD 294/249/210, UKIP 159 2015 election results: Con 1791/1484/1443. Lab 989(Palmer)/ 862/857, Green 635 (Hayward) Very minor correction: according to Andrew Teale's site the top Labour vote in 2015 was 898. www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2015/325/thank you- obviously my brain can't tell its 8s from its 9s. More significant maybe as it is the candidate standing this time -Corrected now |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Feb 21, 2018 13:45:25 GMT
Browne's ultimately Irish, isn't it? Old Norse. First reliably recorded (ironically) in 1066. Bruno Brown is Mr Brown Brown. But Brown and Browne are different surnames, and there's no particular reason that the latter form would have been adopted (it would have to have been adopted from an Old Norse weak adjectival form, which isn't that common). Certainly Browne turns up relatively early in an Anglo-Irish context, often fairly close to areas where you might expect to find surnames like Ua Briain, which under certain forms of normalisation could certainly head in the direction of Browne. Browne is fairly common in Norfolk, but the first recorded examples (mid 16th century) are of somebody whose family had come from Ireland via Carlisle. (Though I suspect a fair amount of Norfolk Brownes probably just added on an e for social purposes or because it was the dominant local form.) |
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Post by robbienicoll on Feb 21, 2018 16:04:47 GMT
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Post by ricmk on Feb 21, 2018 16:11:45 GMT
Have seen that the council disagree with the decision but will not appeal. Wouldn't like to be their chief legal officer tonight...
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 21, 2018 16:50:23 GMT
Confirmed:
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Post by yellowperil on Feb 21, 2018 17:33:16 GMT
And who pays the costs of all the other parties' election expenses? (ok I think I know the answer so the question was rhetorical really)
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Post by ColinJ on Feb 21, 2018 17:45:39 GMT
I find this puzzling. Steve Jones, by deciding to be a nominated candidate in the by-election, was indicating to some degree that he accepted its legality. If he had stood back from the by-election whilst pursuing legal action it would been more convincing. But he won, anyway.
What happens next?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 19:18:42 GMT
I find this puzzling. Steve Jones, by deciding to be a nominated candidate in the by-election, was indicating to some degree that he accepted its legality. If he had stood back from the by-election whilst pursuing legal action it would been more convincing. But he won, anyway. What happens next? Presumably nothing. It’s pretty standard legal practice to openly declare an auxiliary position in the event that your main request is denied. It would be totally inequitable to view his choice to stand in the event he lost the action as endorsement of the argument that he handed in his notice. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Feb 21, 2018 20:35:36 GMT
some pretty good names in there too yp. I hope Rapier's election leaflets are to the point, and Mr Wildgust's are not full of wind... ...and Mr Browne the green candidate has the most determinedly English set of names for a Welsh seat I would remind the Hon Member of the Wales scrum-half by the name of Rupert StJohn Moon. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Feb 21, 2018 20:53:58 GMT
I would remind the Hon Member of the Wales scrum-half by the name of Rupert StJohn Moon. Rupert Henry St John Barker Moon, if you please, who's about as Welsh as I am, having been born in Birmingham. Is alleged to have "Made in England" tattooed on his @rse. There was the memorable match when he was at 9 for Wales, while Dewi Morris, born in Crickhowell, was opposite him for England. His elder brother, Richard Moon, also a fine scrum-half, opted to be English, but never played for the England 1st XV, otherwise we could have had the interesting spectacle of two brothers playing in the same position for opposite international sides. |
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Post by johnloony on Feb 21, 2018 21:01:38 GMT
The most puzzling thing is why the officers of Wigan Council so flagrantly misinterpreted the letter of resignation to mean that he was resigning on a date other than the date which he specifically stated as the date of resignation. |
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Post by yellowperil on Feb 21, 2018 21:23:25 GMT
The most puzzling thing is why the officers of Wigan Council so flagrantly misinterpreted the letter of resignation to mean that he was resigning on a date other than the date which he specifically stated as the date of resignation. So they were over-anxious to get rid of him. Is that so puzzling? |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Feb 21, 2018 21:49:34 GMT
The most puzzling thing is why the officers of Wigan Council so flagrantly misinterpreted the letter of resignation to mean that he was resigning on a date other than the date which he specifically stated as the date of resignation. So they were over-anxious to get rid of him. Is that so puzzling? Not their job though. |
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