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Post by finsobruce on Feb 25, 2020 22:18:12 GMT
Calais. Shocking omission so far. Hardly - the Forum was chatting about it for what seemed a couple of weeks at one point.  |
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Post by finsobruce on Feb 25, 2020 22:21:40 GMT
Both of which would likely be met with more than the usual pitchforks from the residents. Also, prior to restoring Dublin Rathmines, restoring the constituency of Dublin Harbour would be a more logical starting point. Oh, totally. And Rathmines was pretty much on the basis that its member was one of the few to bother to turn up in 1918. And whose son, and grandsons became Fine Gael TDs. |
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Post by tiberius on Feb 25, 2020 22:35:43 GMT
Oh, totally. And Rathmines was pretty much on the basis that its member was one of the few to bother to turn up in 1918. And whose son, and grandsons became Fine Gael TDs. Since when is being labelled a West Brit an insult?  |
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Post by AdminSTB on Feb 25, 2020 22:40:49 GMT
Calais. Shocking omission so far. I doubt anyone here is worried about reclaiming Calais from the French. |
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Post by La Fontaine on Mar 26, 2020 11:40:10 GMT
Just another reminiscence. This constituency should have been long abolished/merged, but the BC bottled it. Harry Cowans won the selection over Walter Wilson, I think by ten votes to nine. Walter was Member Relations Officer for the North Eastern Co-operative Society and worked in the next office to me. He was Chair of Planning at the City Council and CLP Secretary. So it was quite a surprise when Harry Cowans, from Gateshead, defeated him. Walter resigned his job and all his positions and I have never heard of him since. |
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Post by Merseymike on Mar 26, 2020 12:40:31 GMT
Just another reminiscence. This constituency should have been long abolished/merged, but the BC bottled it. Harry Cowans won the selection over Walter Wilson, I think by ten votes to nine. Walter was Member Relations Officer for the North Eastern Co-operative Society and worked in the next office to me. He was Chair of Planning at the City Council and CLP Secretary. So it was quite a surprise when Harry Cowans, from Gateshead, defeated him. Walter resigned his job and all his positions and I have never heard of him since. That does happen sometimes. Clare Curtis-Thomas announced that she wasn't planning to stand again about three months before the 2010 election. The boundary changes meant that the old Crosby seat had gone. She had already been selected for the new Sefton Central. By then there wasn't a single Labour Councillor left in the entire seat. Competing for the seat was a longstanding councillor on Sefton, Paul Cummins who lived in one of the south Crosby wards shifted into Bootle, and Paula Gouldborn who has stood unsuccessfully for a Crosby council ward before. The third candidate was Bill Esterson a Councillor in Medway who had no connection at all with the area. It's probably true to say that there was an assumption that whoever was selected would lose. Bill Esterson was selected on the first ballot. There was a view that perhaps Labour would come in third. The LibDems had hoovered up many local council seats. The Tories had stood a former Radio Merseyside presenter and shopping channel host, Debi Jones. But in the end Bill Esterson held on with a relatively decent majority. It's now viewed as a safe Labour seat with 57% of the vote even in 2019. Oh and amusingly the Tories were so confident that they set an automatic "congrats to your new Tory M P "message to come on at midnight. Noone remembered to switch it off. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 26, 2020 16:18:07 GMT
Just another reminiscence. This constituency should have been long abolished/merged, but the BC bottled it. Harry Cowans won the selection over Walter Wilson, I think by ten votes to nine. Walter was Member Relations Officer for the North Eastern Co-operative Society and worked in the next office to me. He was Chair of Planning at the City Council and CLP Secretary. So it was quite a surprise when Harry Cowans, from Gateshead, defeated him. Walter resigned his job and all his positions and I have never heard of him since. Ten votes to nine in a selection meeting! Those were the days, my friend. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 26, 2020 16:23:36 GMT
Just another reminiscence. This constituency should have been long abolished/merged, but the BC bottled it. Harry Cowans won the selection over Walter Wilson, I think by ten votes to nine. Walter was Member Relations Officer for the North Eastern Co-operative Society and worked in the next office to me. He was Chair of Planning at the City Council and CLP Secretary. So it was quite a surprise when Harry Cowans, from Gateshead, defeated him. Walter resigned his job and all his positions and I have never heard of him since. Ten votes to nine in a selection meeting! Those were the days, my friend. It was done by GCs in those days, of course. Newcastle Central was a very depopulated constituency. Edit: Or do I mean GMCs? Not many people now remember when they were called that. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 26, 2020 16:26:07 GMT
Ten votes to nine in a selection meeting! Those were the days, my friend. It was done by GCs in those days, of course. Newcastle Central was a very depopulated constituency. Edit: Or do I mean GMCs? Not many people now remember when they were called that. Indeed. Even so...
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 27, 2020 12:55:03 GMT
Just another reminiscence. This constituency should have been long abolished/merged, but the BC bottled it. Harry Cowans won the selection over Walter Wilson, I think by ten votes to nine. Walter was Member Relations Officer for the North Eastern Co-operative Society and worked in the next office to me. He was Chair of Planning at the City Council and CLP Secretary. So it was quite a surprise when Harry Cowans, from Gateshead, defeated him. Walter resigned his job and all his positions and I have never heard of him since. That does happen sometimes. Clare Curtis-Thomas announced that she wasn't planning to stand again about three months before the 2010 election. The boundary changes meant that the old Crosby seat had gone. She had already been selected for the new Sefton Central. By then there wasn't a single Labour Councillor left in the entire seat. Competing for the seat was a longstanding councillor on Sefton, Paul Cummins who lived in one of the south Crosby wards shifted into Bootle, and Paula Gouldborn who has stood unsuccessfully for a Crosby council ward before. The third candidate was Bill Esterson a Councillor in Medway who had no connection at all with the area. It's probably true to say that there was an assumption that whoever was selected would lose. Bill Esterson was selected on the first ballot. There was a view that perhaps Labour would come in third. The LibDems had hoovered up many local council seats. The Tories had stood a former Radio Merseyside presenter and shopping channel host, Debi Jones. But in the end Bill Esterson held on with a relatively decent majority. It's now viewed as a safe Labour seat with 57% of the vote even in 2019. Oh and amusingly the Tories were so confident that they set an automatic "congrats to your new Tory M P "message to come on at midnight. Noone remembered to switch it off. Esterson represented River ward on Medway council, which takes in the Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham riverfront. At the time it was politically marginal and Esterson's ward colleague was the Conservative Craig MacKinlay, who is now the MP for South Thanet. Bill Esterson resigned from Medway council pretty much immediately and the Conservatives gained the resulting by-election. The new Conservative councillor lasted less than two weeks before having to resign due to a conflict with his position as a special constable; that resulted in another by-election where Labour got the seat back. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 22, 2020 20:21:43 GMT
I know that two of them are still current constituency names, but can anyone explain why Aldridge-Brownhills is not Aldridge and Brownhills, Ruislip-Northwood was not Ruislip and Northwood and Welwyn Hatfield (both the constituency and the district) is not Welwyn and Hatfield? It used to be Welwyn and Hatfield, from 1974 until 1983 when it was renamed in line with the borough. Easier on the tongue? It should have been named Hatfield And The North. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 22, 2020 20:56:02 GMT
It used to be Welwyn and Hatfield, from 1974 until 1983 when it was renamed in line with the borough. Easier on the tongue? It should have been named Hatfield And The North. and had a field of concrete Henry Cows. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 22, 2020 20:59:12 GMT
It should have been named Hatfield And The North. and had a field of concrete Henry Cows. The problem is that it might prove suspectible to Soft Machine politics. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Apr 23, 2020 8:01:27 GMT
and had a field of concrete Henry Cows. The problem is that it might prove suspectible to Soft Machine politics. But would have a fine National Health service. And a Caravan park. |
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Post by neilm on Apr 23, 2020 14:32:49 GMT
That does happen sometimes. Clare Curtis-Thomas announced that she wasn't planning to stand again about three months before the 2010 election. The boundary changes meant that the old Crosby seat had gone. She had already been selected for the new Sefton Central. By then there wasn't a single Labour Councillor left in the entire seat. Competing for the seat was a longstanding councillor on Sefton, Paul Cummins who lived in one of the south Crosby wards shifted into Bootle, and Paula Gouldborn who has stood unsuccessfully for a Crosby council ward before. The third candidate was Bill Esterson a Councillor in Medway who had no connection at all with the area. It's probably true to say that there was an assumption that whoever was selected would lose. Bill Esterson was selected on the first ballot. There was a view that perhaps Labour would come in third. The LibDems had hoovered up many local council seats. The Tories had stood a former Radio Merseyside presenter and shopping channel host, Debi Jones. But in the end Bill Esterson held on with a relatively decent majority. It's now viewed as a safe Labour seat with 57% of the vote even in 2019. Oh and amusingly the Tories were so confident that they set an automatic "congrats to your new Tory M P "message to come on at midnight. Noone remembered to switch it off. Esterson represented River ward on Medway council, which takes in the Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham riverfront. At the time it was politically marginal and Esterson's ward colleague was the Conservative Craig MacKinlay, who is now the MP for South Thanet. Bill Esterson resigned from Medway council pretty much immediately and the Conservatives gained the resulting by-election. The new Conservative councillor lasted less than two weeks before having to resign due to a conflict with his position as a special constable; that resulted in another by-election where Labour got the seat back. Esterson was, I think, also a member of the old Rochester City Council (when it was still a city) representating a ward with Borstal in the name. |
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Post by casualobserver on Jun 17, 2020 23:57:11 GMT
Chepping Wycombe
Calne
Beaumaris Boroughs
Haddingtonshire
New Shoreham
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