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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 14, 2013 9:44:39 GMT
The arrangements for the byelection to the House of Lords caused by the death of the Earl Ferrers have been published: www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/2012/candidates-list-e-ferrers.pdf.pdfThere are 27 candidates and 48 voters. Among the candidates are former MP Douglas Hogg (now Viscount Hailsham), former MEP the Earl of Stockton, and environmental writer Matt Ridley (Viscount Ridley). A quirk in the rules means that, although this is a designated Conservative seat, candidates do not have to be members of the Conservative Party. |
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Post by john07 on Jan 14, 2013 17:27:36 GMT
Interesting that the grandson of Harold Macmillan is up against the son of Quintin Hogg who tried to replace him as Prime Minister. I wonder if Ridley has put his chairmanship of Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007 predominantly on his CV? |
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 14, 2013 18:14:24 GMT
Surely Hogg as a former Cabinet Minister would get a life peerage automatically? Or has that been dropped or is he being obstinate for the sake of it?
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Post by greatkingrat on Jan 14, 2013 19:12:27 GMT
I suspect the Moatgate expenses row means he probably isn't very near the top of Cameron's prospective peers list.
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Post by piperdave on Jan 14, 2013 20:55:20 GMT
Should this thread not be in the Parliamentary By-elections area instead?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 14, 2013 21:49:33 GMT
Should this thread not be in the Parliamentary By-elections area instead? Yes. In the wrong place owing to thread starter failing to notice it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2013 14:14:50 GMT
Surely Hogg as a former Cabinet Minister would get a life peerage automatically? Or has that been dropped or is he being obstinate for the sake of it? I believe that he was always going to revive the hereditary title that his father renounced, so he couldn't have been a Life Peer as well, as things currently stand. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Jan 23, 2013 14:21:49 GMT
You can have both a hereditary peerage and a life peerage. Michael Ancram is both the Marquess of Lothian (hereditary) and Baron Kerr of Monteviot (for life). Only the latter title entitles him to sit in the House of Lords.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2013 20:15:26 GMT
I stand corrected. Thank you.
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Post by john07 on Jan 23, 2013 20:55:21 GMT
You can have both a hereditary peerage and a life peerage. Michael Ancram is both the Marquess of Lothian (hereditary) and Baron Kerr of Monteviot (for life). Only the latter title entitles him to sit in the House of Lords. If he was elected to repesent the hereditory peers, would he get two votes? |
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 24, 2013 14:33:21 GMT
No.
ISTR there were Irish representative peers who either inherited or were awarded British peerages - Curzon was one such - and probably some Scottish as well but I don't know if they vacated their existing seats.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 24, 2013 22:29:42 GMT
Every time I see this thread I think its about a by-election in the Lords ward of Westminster, until I remember that there has not been an y such ward for over ten years
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jan 29, 2013 23:45:33 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21233938'A self-confessed maverick explained his seventh bid to be elected to the House of Lords, in a race only open to hereditary peers from the Conservative Party.'
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 30, 2013 0:18:34 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21233938'A self-confessed maverick explained his seventh bid to be elected to the House of Lords, in a race only open to hereditary peers from the Conservative Party.' I remember hearing from one of the local campaign workers a few years ago that he'd done two hours taking numbers on a Westminster polling station opposite Lord Sudeley doing the same for the Conservatives. And Lord Sudeley gave a delightful performance. His official statement in the 1999 Hereditary Peers election he pledged "to keep an eye on all Measures from the Synod affecting the Prayer Book" and said that he had "planned many of the papers for meetings in the Lords of the Forum for Stable Currencies on bankruptcy". |
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Post by Andrew_S on Jan 30, 2013 15:21:37 GMT
Every time I see this thread I think its about a by-election in the Lords ward of Westminster, until I remember that there has not been an y such ward for over ten years Whoever ditched the Lords ward name was obviously a fanatically anti-cricket zealot. |
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Post by johnloony on Jan 30, 2013 15:49:19 GMT
Whoever ditched the Lords ward name was obviously a fanatically anti-cricket zealot. ...which is of course a synonym for "ordinary normal person". |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 30, 2013 17:16:36 GMT
Every time I see this thread I think its about a by-election in the Lords ward of Westminster, until I remember that there has not been an y such ward for over ten years Whoever ditched the Lords ward name was obviously a fanatically anti-cricket zealot. Or maybe just anti Middlesex, since it was the same people who didn't ditch Oval ward in Lambeth. Or maybe they were just more fanatical Beatles fans than cricket fans |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 18:17:45 GMT
Whoever ditched the Lords ward name was obviously a fanatically anti-cricket zealot. ...which is of course a synonym for "ordinary normal person".  I like y criced  |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 30, 2013 22:30:33 GMT
Every time I see this thread I think its about a by-election in the Lords ward of Westminster, until I remember that there has not been an y such ward for over ten years Whoever ditched the Lords ward name was obviously a fanatically anti-cricket zealot. Not really. With the way the ward boundaries were drawn, Lords cricket ground was put into a ward going round Regents Park and extending down to Marylebone Road. Most of the ward is quite far away from the cricket ground. The areas near it which were part of Lords and aren't part of Regents Park ward are now in Abbey Road ward, and you don't want to upset Beatles fans. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jan 30, 2013 23:57:47 GMT
Whoever ditched the Lords ward name was obviously a fanatically anti-cricket zealot. Or maybe just anti Middlesex, since it was the same people who didn't ditch Oval ward in Lambeth. Or maybe they were just more fanatical Beatles fans than cricket fans Sensible folk then.  |
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