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Post by gwynthegriff on Sept 26, 2020 17:48:23 GMT
Yes I’d heard that too. Wasn’t there a spell where there were several rumours of a Lib Dem defection to the Tories in the early years of the Cameron leadership- the Conservatives were very keen for one in order to prove they were changing. A couple but they were always vaguely tied to Northern seats. In the end it was Sajjad Karim. In my opinion that was a defection which had little to do with ideology. In fact, nowt to do with ideology.
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Post by tonygreaves on Sept 26, 2020 17:56:59 GMT
John Burnett is a slightly eccentric but loyal member of the Lords party, though one would not say mainstream. He tends to speak on planning matters. A curiosity of course is that his predecessor as MP in West Devon was Emma Nicholson who defected from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats. The rumours about him in the Cameron opposition days seemed to be true - there were witness accounts of him going in and out of CCO. Some people have suggested that his elevation was part of the deal he did with Paddy but that might just be flippant gossip. Paddy did elevate Nicholson of course as Bness N of Winterbourne and she was altogether semi-detached from the LD group. Much more recently she defected to the cross-benches and then to the Tories, ostensibly over Brexit. There was not a lot wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the Liberal peers.
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Post by Merseymike on Sept 26, 2020 20:15:34 GMT
John Burnett is a slightly eccentric but loyal member of the Lords party, though one would not say mainstream. He tends to speak on planning matters. A curiosity of course is that his predecessor as MP in West Devon was Emma Nicholson who defected from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats. The rumours about him in the Cameron opposition days seemed to be true - there were witness accounts of him going in and out of CCO. Some people have suggested that his elevation was part of the deal he did with Paddy but that might just be flippant gossip. Paddy did elevate Nicholson of course as Bness N of Winterbourne and she was altogether semi-detached from the LD group. Much more recently she defected to the cross-benches and then to the Tories, ostensibly over Brexit. There was not a lot wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the Liberal peers. I am pretty sure he had strong links with the School of Economic Science, a rather curious organisation sometimes viewed as cultish. what-when-how.com/religious-movements/school-of-economic-science-religious-movement/
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Post by neilm on Sept 26, 2020 20:23:15 GMT
John Burnett is a slightly eccentric but loyal member of the Lords party, though one would not say mainstream. He tends to speak on planning matters. A curiosity of course is that his predecessor as MP in West Devon was Emma Nicholson who defected from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats. The rumours about him in the Cameron opposition days seemed to be true - there were witness accounts of him going in and out of CCO. Some people have suggested that his elevation was part of the deal he did with Paddy but that might just be flippant gossip. Paddy did elevate Nicholson of course as Bness N of Winterbourne and she was altogether semi-detached from the LD group. Much more recently she defected to the cross-benches and then to the Tories, ostensibly over Brexit. There was not a lot wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the Liberal peers. I am pretty sure he had strong links with the School of Economic Science, a rather curious organisation sometimes viewed as cultish. what-when-how.com/religious-movements/school-of-economic-science-religious-movement/They've got a chunky property portfolio.
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Post by greenhert on Sept 26, 2020 21:24:02 GMT
John Burnett is a slightly eccentric but loyal member of the Lords party, though one would not say mainstream. He tends to speak on planning matters. A curiosity of course is that his predecessor as MP in West Devon was Emma Nicholson who defected from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats. The rumours about him in the Cameron opposition days seemed to be true - there were witness accounts of him going in and out of CCO. Some people have suggested that his elevation was part of the deal he did with Paddy but that might just be flippant gossip. Paddy did elevate Nicholson of course as Bness N of Winterbourne and she was altogether semi-detached from the LD group. Much more recently she defected to the cross-benches and then to the Tories, ostensibly over Brexit. There was not a lot wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the Liberal peers. I am pretty sure he had strong links with the School of Economic Science, a rather curious organisation sometimes viewed as cultish. what-when-how.com/religious-movements/school-of-economic-science-religious-movement/The interesting note about what happened in 1984 explains why Roger Pincham did not contest any elections in Leominster in 1983, causing that constituency to lose its marginal status permanently.
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Post by tonygreaves on Sept 27, 2020 12:32:55 GMT
Roger was an important figure in the party though always on the rightish wing (what is now called an economic liberal). Radical Bulletin used to call him "Huntem Shootem and Pinchem). He was a pillar of he Gladstone Club which produced a very useful compendium (in the days before the internet) of Liberal Party policy resolutions over the years. I last met him when John Shipley joined the Lords - I think there is a family relationship.
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Post by iang on Sept 27, 2020 21:15:27 GMT
Matthew Green is the one is struggled with, I knew Ludlow had had a Lib Dem MP but just couldn't remember any part of his name. I got Crockart and Swales (Swales because he's related to someone I was at school with). You'd struggle to recognise him these days. He's spent most of the time since his defeat eating. Harsh. He's still playing cricket, and says that in lockdown, walking more regularly etc, he's lost weight. Maybe your info is a little out of date with the new svelte Matthew?
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Post by Sibboleth on Sept 27, 2020 21:28:25 GMT
You'd struggle to recognise him these days. He's spent most of the time since his defeat eating. Harsh. He's still playing cricket, and says that in lockdown, walking more regularly etc, he's lost weight. Maybe your info is a little out of date with the new svelte Matthew? It's about a year old, so probably
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Sept 28, 2020 17:26:17 GMT
73/127 on the Lib Dem quiz. Struggled with the Cornish MPs and some of the 2019 intake.
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Sept 28, 2020 18:55:16 GMT
44. Ooft.
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Post by akmd on Sept 28, 2020 20:36:13 GMT
70/127. Quite a few of them were on the tip of my tongue but I couldn’t recall them correctly.
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Sept 28, 2020 21:05:34 GMT
Not even trying it as I know I'd do worse than that.
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Post by timrollpickering on Sept 28, 2020 21:17:16 GMT
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Post by greatkingrat on Oct 1, 2020 14:28:47 GMT
Can the mods please edit this post as it does not refer to a person by their proper name. Thanks.
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Post by carlton43 on Oct 1, 2020 14:48:05 GMT
Can the mods please edit this post as it does not refer to a person by their proper name. Thanks. Sauce for the Goose is NOT sauce for the Dave it seems? What a surprise!
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 1, 2020 14:57:06 GMT
Can the mods please edit this post as it does not refer to a person by their proper name. Thanks. Sauce for the Goose is NOT sauce for the Dave it seems? What a surprise! Everyone knows he is the artist formerly known as Magic Grandad.
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Oct 1, 2020 15:00:36 GMT
Children Play Nice Pensioners Play Nice Middle Agers Play Nice Every ******* ******* Play Nice
Please
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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 1, 2020 15:10:07 GMT
And back in the world of parliamentary defections...
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Post by carlton43 on Oct 1, 2020 15:18:55 GMT
Sauce for the Goose is NOT sauce for the Dave it seems? What a surprise! Everyone knows he is the artist formerly known as Magic Grandad. It had occured to me that our artist might wish to be addressed as 'Prince'!
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 1, 2020 16:52:12 GMT
Can the mods please edit this post as it does not refer to a person by their proper name. Thanks. Passing lightly over the major point that Mr Corbyn is not, and never has been, a member of this forum - let me bring out the minor point that this was intended to convey that such a tweet was characteristic of someone considerably younger and therefore highly unlikely to have actually been written by him anyway.
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