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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 7:44:46 GMT
He'll be at the head of the queue. To be fair he doesn't live in London though - isn't he in Frome? i think hes from Frome I don't know if he lives there though |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Dec 20, 2018 9:20:39 GMT
To be fair he doesn't live in London though - isn't he in Frome? i think hes from Frome I don't know if he lives there though My understanding is that he does live there, or at least somewhere nearby. |
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Post by AdminSTB on Dec 20, 2018 11:50:13 GMT
i think hes from Frome I don't know if he lives there though My understanding is that he does live there, or at least somewhere nearby. He does live near there, I spent sometime talking to him at the Stoke by-Election. He‘s one of the few journalists who seem to be able to get a good feel for places, |
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Post by greenhert on Dec 20, 2018 12:18:00 GMT
Did have a majority of 22 in February 1974. Yes. Peterborough has had a large number of very close finishes. I believe that Sir Harmar Nicholls holds the record for the largest number of recounts undergone by any parliamentary candidate. I think there was one last year too. Indeed there was-in Kensington of all places, won by Labour by 20 votes on the final recount. |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 20, 2018 12:22:58 GMT
Yes. Peterborough has had a large number of very close finishes. I believe that Sir Harmar Nicholls holds the record for the largest number of recounts undergone by any parliamentary candidate. I think there was one last year too. Indeed there was-in Kensington of all places, won by Labour by 20 votes on the final recount. I think barnaby means that there was a re-count in Peterborough last year, as well as in elections past. |
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Post by Jack on Dec 20, 2018 15:07:53 GMT
Fiona Onasanya and Jesus. Basically the same.
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Post by beastofbedfordshire on Dec 20, 2018 19:04:21 GMT
This was the most pro-Brexit seat that labour picked up in 2017, no? Interesting...
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Post by Foggy on Dec 21, 2018 2:25:52 GMT
My understanding is that he does live there, or at least somewhere nearby. He does live near there, I spent sometime talking to him at the Stoke by-Election. He‘s one of the few journalists who seem to be able to get a good feel for places. According to the ever-accurate and up-to-date Wikipedia he's resident in Hay-on-Wye, but I'd sooner believe your recollection of a conversation with him. @priceofdawn has clearly never heard Harris speak, though. He's originally from Cheshire! |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 21, 2018 9:08:29 GMT
He does live near there, I spent sometime talking to him at the Stoke by-Election. He‘s one of the few journalists who seem to be able to get a good feel for places. According to the ever-accurate and up-to-date Wikipedia he's resident in Hay-on-Wye, but I'd sooner believe your recollection of a conversation with him. @priceofdawn has clearly never heard Harris speak, though. He's originally from Cheshire! His Wiki does seem very odd- that description of him going to Oxford neither sounds right nor appears anywhere else that I can see. But he is indeed from Cheshire. He went to Wilmslow High, which does have a bit of a reputation as one of those Selection By Houseprice comps, but it would be a stretch to call him posh! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 10:16:28 GMT
He does live near there, I spent sometime talking to him at the Stoke by-Election. He‘s one of the few journalists who seem to be able to get a good feel for places. According to the ever-accurate and up-to-date Wikipedia he's resident in Hay-on-Wye, but I'd sooner believe your recollection of a conversation with him. @priceofdawn has clearly never heard Harris speak, though. He's originally from Cheshire! I've actually watched every episode of anywhere but Westminister on youtube. I've no idea what someone from Chesire sounds like |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 21, 2018 10:23:23 GMT
Cheshire has several different accents. The north-eastern bit and Wirral is a slightly refined Scouse accent. Chester is similar but sounds slightly more Welsh. In the north-west you get a middle-class Manchester/Stockport accent. Congleton and south east Cheshire are mostly Potteries-influenced. Crewe is almost impossible to separate because the railway has drawn people from all over.
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Post by john07 on Dec 21, 2018 11:58:25 GMT
Cheshire has several different accents. The north-eastern bit and Wirral is a slightly refined Scouse accent. Chester is similar but sounds slightly more Welsh. In the north-west you get a middle-class Manchester/Stockport accent. Congleton and south east Cheshire are mostly Potteries-influenced. Crewe is almost impossible to separate because the railway has drawn people from all over. You missed out Macclesfield, one of the most puzzling accents to me. My first job was in an office in Wilmslow and the staff came from various places including Macclesfield. We had a couple of exiled Yorkshiremen and a couple of Mancs. The working class rural Macc accent was certainly the hardest to pin down. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Dec 21, 2018 12:49:20 GMT
Cheshire has several different accents. The north-eastern bit and Wirral is a slightly refined Scouse accent. Chester is similar but sounds slightly more Welsh. In the north-west you get a middle-class Manchester/Stockport accent. Congleton and south east Cheshire are mostly Potteries-influenced. Crewe is almost impossible to separate because the railway has drawn people from all over. You mean north-western bit and Wirral is scouse-sounding whilst the north-eastern bit is more Manchester/Stockport. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Dec 21, 2018 13:15:19 GMT
Cheshire has several different accents. The north-eastern bit and Wirral is a slightly refined Scouse accent. Chester is similar but sounds slightly more Welsh. In the north-west you get a middle-class Manchester/Stockport accent. Congleton and south east Cheshire are mostly Potteries-influenced. Crewe is almost impossible to separate because the railway has drawn people from all over. Rural S Cheshire is/was distinctive, but rapidly vanishing. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Dec 21, 2018 13:15:35 GMT
Cheshire has several different accents. The north-eastern bit and Wirral is a slightly refined Scouse accent. Chester is similar but sounds slightly more Welsh. In the north-west you get a middle-class Manchester/Stockport accent. Congleton and south east Cheshire are mostly Potteries-influenced. Crewe is almost impossible to separate because the railway has drawn people from all over. You mean north-western bit and Wirral is scouse-sounding whilst the north-eastern bit is more Manchester/Stockport. Much of Flintshire and north Denbighshire sounds sort of Scouse, and not stereotypically Welsh at all, to my ears at least. Taekwondo champion Jade Jones is from Flint, but until I was told I wouldn't have thought she was Welsh. But perhaps it's more that the Scouse accent has been influenced by the north Walian accent than the other way round. It's suggested that the Liverpool accent has changed quite a bit over the last 150 years, due to inward migration both from Ireland and from Wales. Contemporaneous accounts suggest that Liverpool native Wm Ewart Gladstone's accent was much more typical of Lancashire as a whole - think how folk from St Helens sound today and you get the idea. |
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Post by Foggy on Dec 21, 2018 19:32:37 GMT
According to the ever-accurate and up-to-date Wikipedia he's resident in Hay-on-Wye, but I'd sooner believe your recollection of a conversation with him. @priceofdawn has clearly never heard Harris speak, though. He's originally from Cheshire! I've actually watched every episode of anywhere but Westminister on youtube. I've no idea what someone from Chesire sounds like My point was more that you don't seem to know what someone from Somerset sounds like.  |
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Post by WJ on Dec 21, 2018 20:04:59 GMT
Cheshire has several different accents. The north-eastern bit and Wirral is a slightly refined Scouse accent. Chester is similar but sounds slightly more Welsh. In the north-west you get a middle-class Manchester/Stockport accent. Congleton and south east Cheshire are mostly Potteries-influenced. Crewe is almost impossible to separate because the railway has drawn people from all over. Rural S Cheshire is/was distinctive, but rapidly vanishing. It's also present south of the border, My Dad's side of the family are from Whitchurch and they have that accent. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Dec 21, 2018 20:30:06 GMT
Rural S Cheshire is/was distinctive, but rapidly vanishing. It's also present south of the border, My Dad's side of the family are from Whitchurch and they have that accent. Indeed. And farming folk in N Staffs sound more Cheshire than Potter. |
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Post by redtony on Dec 21, 2018 22:33:41 GMT
Fiona has got religion badly
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 22:57:54 GMT
I've actually watched every episode of anywhere but Westminister on youtube. I've no idea what someone from Chesire sounds like My point was more that you don't seem to know what someone from Somerset sounds like. why didn't you say then I was actually interviewed by him once as well |
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