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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 20, 2015 9:04:15 GMT
The man is a clown and the Conservatives are stupid to have him back. I recall disliking him even when he was a Tory MP as he was a militant anti-smoking Nanny-statist
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Post by neilm on May 20, 2015 13:38:03 GMT
He was a funny one. Pro death penalty but anti smoking. Was he married before the Hampstead Heath incident or did he come out after it?
A complete chancer whatever. I think everyone on this forum and it's predecessor who has commented has come to the same conclusion. The likes of Peter Temple-Morris and Alan Howarth one can believe but Amos was so right wing he was almost a parody. I met him when he was a LBTH councillor and didn't immediately realise who it was.
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Post by The Bishop on May 20, 2015 13:53:52 GMT
Don't think he was ever married.
He did have a "girlfriend" when campaigning to become Hexham's MP in 1987 but they "split up" the day after his election - strange, that.
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 20, 2015 16:43:26 GMT
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Post by Merseymike on May 21, 2015 13:16:32 GMT
This one will bring back a few memories ... not good ones. Worcester City Council: Alan Amos, elected for Labour in Warndon ward, left to sit as an Independent a year ago when the Labour group refused to make him Deputy Mayor - and then voted out a Labour administration and voted in a Conservative one, has now joined the Conservatives. Or should I say "rejoined". It does rather emphasise why sometimes it's a good idea to be suspicious of defectors |
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Post by Merseymike on May 21, 2015 13:19:50 GMT
He was a funny one. Pro death penalty but anti smoking. Was he married before the Hampstead Heath incident or did he come out after it? A complete chancer whatever. I think everyone on this forum and it's predecessor who has commented has come to the same conclusion. The likes of Peter Temple-Morris and Alan Howarth one can believe but Amos was so right wing he was almost a parody. I met him when he was a LBTH councillor and didn't immediately realise who it was. Well, yes, because he presented himself as a Bennite left winger. I used to know a girl who worked alongside him at Conservative central office (Tory family who got her the job and she has never voted for them since!) and she wasn't very complimentary |
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Post by bungle on May 21, 2015 21:34:38 GMT
He was a funny one. Pro death penalty but anti smoking. Was he married before the Hampstead Heath incident or did he come out after it? A complete chancer whatever. I think everyone on this forum and it's predecessor who has commented has come to the same conclusion. The likes of Peter Temple-Morris and Alan Howarth one can believe but Amos was so right wing he was almost a parody. I met him when he was a LBTH councillor and didn't immediately realise who it was. In those LBTH days he lost the Labour Group nomination for Chair of O&S in 2003 to a councillor who was, how can I put it kindly, neither very bright nor very articulate. Amos didn't see it coming but I did. He was a man who couldn't build empathy with colleagues and had a very high opinion of his abilities and status. I remarked to him at the time that he could always re-defect and become the first ever LBTH Tory councillor....and then 12 years later  I wonder if he will pop down and campaign for Peter Golds? I somehow doubt he will be welcomed with open arms... |
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Post by wallington on May 22, 2015 7:33:27 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on May 22, 2015 8:10:39 GMT
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Post by Tony Otim on May 22, 2015 9:09:27 GMT
IT does mean that Bristol now has the joint largest Green group in the country, level with Norwich.
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Post by carlton43 on May 22, 2015 9:15:10 GMT
Fi is an ugly abbreviation and it does not fit with Hance. It could confuse with fiance or finance! Ming was another very silly abbreviation from a rather old school and sensible man. Over the years I got used to it up to a point but it had an air of comic baddie of minor part in an asian martial arts dreadful. What on earth possessed him? Menzies is a nice enough name and having been given it why not use it? |
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Post by neilm on May 22, 2015 10:28:29 GMT
Fi is an ugly abbreviation and it does not fit with Hance. It could confuse with fiance or finance! Ming was another very silly abbreviation from a rather old school and sensible man. Over the years I got used to it up to a point but it had an air of comic baddie of minor part in an asian martial arts dreadful. What on earth possessed him? Menzies is a nice enough name and having been given it why not use it? I know a Menzies who goes by Ming. Isn't it because the name is pronounced ming-iss rather than men-zeez? |
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Post by carlton43 on May 22, 2015 11:18:22 GMT
Fi is an ugly abbreviation and it does not fit with Hance. It could confuse with fiance or finance! Ming was another very silly abbreviation from a rather old school and sensible man. Over the years I got used to it up to a point but it had an air of comic baddie of minor part in an asian martial arts dreadful. What on earth possessed him? Menzies is a nice enough name and having been given it why not use it? I know a Menzies who goes by Ming. Isn't it because the name is pronounced ming-iss rather than men-zeez? Yes it is. There is a men-ziss faction of whom the Australian PM was the most notable. It seems thuswise more as a surname rather than Christian name. It is the contraction to occasion a spelling not forming out of the original I dislike and the clunky sound. It just seems odd. I don't like contractions even though I put up with my own being shortened. In my case it is convenient to save a near inevitable misspelling and getting it wrong. |
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Post by neilm on May 22, 2015 11:20:47 GMT
Do people call you Carl?
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Post by marksenior on May 22, 2015 16:51:04 GMT
Fi is an ugly abbreviation and it does not fit with Hance. It could confuse with fiance or finance! Ming was another very silly abbreviation from a rather old school and sensible man. Over the years I got used to it up to a point but it had an air of comic baddie of minor part in an asian martial arts dreadful. What on earth possessed him? Menzies is a nice enough name and having been given it why not use it? Because Menzies is at least in part a heterophonic name as for example Fe(a)therstonhaugh which is pronounced Fanshaw . |
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 22, 2015 19:24:00 GMT
Cholmondeley.
(I was there last Friday. Lovely! Nesting Marsh Tit.)
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Post by Crimson King on May 22, 2015 19:41:18 GMT
Fi is an ugly abbreviation and it does not fit with Hance. It could confuse with fiance or finance! Ming was another very silly abbreviation from a rather old school and sensible man. Over the years I got used to it up to a point but it had an air of comic baddie of minor part in an asian martial arts dreadful. What on earth possessed him? Menzies is a nice enough name and having been given it why not use it? Because Menzies is at least in part a heterophonic name as for example Fe(a)therstonhaugh which is pronounced Fanshaw . and the ex MP would be Lynn Fansh |
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Post by carlton43 on May 22, 2015 19:51:49 GMT
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Post by greenchristian on May 22, 2015 20:38:21 GMT
As mentioned in the Coventry thread, Mark Taylor - chairman of Coventry UKIP. He hasn't officially said which party he is moving to, but it's almost certainly the Conservatives.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 23, 2015 10:11:51 GMT
I wonder if we have another from the classic taxonomy of defectors- the lesser-spotted Bandwagon Jumper. |
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