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Post by greenchristian on Jun 21, 2020 0:37:07 GMT
I assume the two Green peers communicate with each other! You assume correctly. Jenny and Natalie are very much working as a team, |
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Post by tonygreaves on Jun 21, 2020 14:02:04 GMT
I assume the two Green peers communicate with each other! You assume correctly. Jenny and Natalie are very much working as a team, You miss my irony, not unreasonably. |
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Post by tonygreaves on Jun 27, 2020 20:23:28 GMT
Baroness (Diana) Maddock died last night. Diana was a long-time friend and colleague from her days as leader of the Liberals on Southampton Council in the 1980s. She won the Christchurch by-election in 1993 and joined the Lords after she lost her seat at the General Election and married Alan Beith (Berwick on Tweed MP) in 2001 and was more recently a Councillor in Northumberland. She has played a big part in organising our party in the Lords. Not a well-known figure outside her local stamping grounds but a genuine Liberal and a real loss to the party.
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Post by peterl on Jun 27, 2020 21:26:51 GMT
Certainly a name I'm familiar with but I did live for years in the next constituency over. RIP.
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Post by greenhert on Jun 27, 2020 22:08:16 GMT
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jun 29, 2020 10:46:29 GMT
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Post by neilm on Jun 29, 2020 11:36:58 GMT
I wonder how many people will think that's (the late) David Frost and take a few seconds to realise.
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 29, 2020 12:11:44 GMT
I wonder how many people will think that's (the late) David Frost and take a few seconds to realise. Hello, Good evening and Welcome. |
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Post by curiousliberal on Jun 29, 2020 12:57:11 GMT
Lord Andrew Feldman (a member of the blue team and former Conservative Party chair) has taken leave of absence. Richard Luce, a crossbencher and former governor of Gibraltar, has resigned.
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Post by pl on Jun 29, 2020 13:02:55 GMT
Lord Andrew Feldman (a member of the blue team and former Conservative Party chair) has taken leave of absence. Richard Luce, a crossbencher and former governor of Gibraltar, has resigned. As in former Conservative MP Richard Luce? Anyone got any idea why he wasn't taking the Conservative whip? |
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 29, 2020 13:08:10 GMT
Lord Andrew Feldman (a member of the blue team and former Conservative Party chair) has taken leave of absence. Richard Luce, a crossbencher and former governor of Gibraltar, has resigned. As in former Conservative MP Richard Luce? Anyone got any idea why he wasn't taking the Conservative whip? Possibly because he was Lord Chamberlain when entered the Lords. |
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Post by pl on Jun 29, 2020 13:21:51 GMT
As in former Conservative MP Richard Luce? Anyone got any idea why he wasn't taking the Conservative whip? Possibly because he was Lord Chamberlain when entered the Lords. Ah yes, it appears the current Lord Chamberlain Earl Peel become a crossbencher (rather than a Conservative) once he took over from Lord Luce in 2006. |
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Post by tonygreaves on Jul 10, 2020 18:55:22 GMT
Nowadays he would be non-affiliated - the Crossbenches have got a bit stiffy about who they let in.
Labour peer Lord Morris of Handsworth is to retire on 21st July. This is Bill Morris, one-time Gen Sec of the T & G, and a very nice man. It's sad that he is going but I don't think his health has been wonderful.
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Post by robert1 on Jul 11, 2020 10:26:27 GMT
Think they may be 'sniffy'. Unlikely they have got a 'stiffy'
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Post by tonygreaves on Jul 13, 2020 13:22:36 GMT
Both.
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Post by tonygreaves on Jul 17, 2020 15:03:59 GMT
Another good person is going. Joan Hanham (Bness Hanham) has given notice of retirement on 22nd July. Joan has not been well of late. She was leader of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough (or Royal Borough if you insist) before becoming a Conservative peer. She was an excellent local government minister during the Coalition when we had a number of enjoyable and successful joint plots!
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Post by tonygreaves on Jul 22, 2020 20:09:25 GMT
Bill Morris has now gone, Joan Hannam goes tomorrow.
Lord Williams of Oystermouth will retire on 31st August. This is Crossbencher Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Post by neilm on Jul 23, 2020 10:44:28 GMT
Bill Morris has now gone, Joan Hannam goes tomorrow. Lord Williams of Oystermouth will retire on 31st August. This is Crossbencher Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Has Williams given a reason? He's barely 70 and would seem to have plenty of life in him. |
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Post by timmullen1 on Jul 23, 2020 10:53:17 GMT
Bill Morris has now gone, Joan Hannam goes tomorrow. Lord Williams of Oystermouth will retire on 31st August. This is Crossbencher Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Has Williams given a reason? He's barely 70 and would seem to have plenty of life in him. Possibly not particularly incentivised, according to this he’s not voted since 2018, but I assume he’s done something in the interim to prevent his disqualification www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/101156&showall=yes#divisions. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 24, 2020 8:24:38 GMT
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