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Post by lbarnes on May 13, 2020 22:27:48 GMT
Most piscine MPs in recent years seem to have been Tories. These include Stephen Crabb, Marcus Fysh, Chris Grayling and Amber Rudd. We in the Labour Party of course hope to winkle them out in due course Labour have had Peter Pike, Ann Chovy, Jimmy Ray, Ulf Dabs and more flounders and minnows than you could shake a fishing rod at. |
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Post by yellowperil on May 14, 2020 7:54:23 GMT
I once canvassed a voter called Brian Codd and he was a Tory, too. Haddock is a known surname but I don't think there's ever been an MP called that. Of course fishiness is also something found in the SNP too. I would do anything to knock them off their perch. AP Herbert in his alter ego of Albert Haddock? |
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Post by finsobruce on May 14, 2020 7:59:46 GMT
I once canvassed a voter called Brian Codd and he was a Tory, too. Haddock is a known surname but I don't think there's ever been an MP called that. Of course fishiness is also something found in the SNP too. I would do anything to knock them off their perch. Admiral Nicholas Haddock, MP for Rochester (1734-46) - a seafaring haddock!
and his son also Nicholas, MP for Rochester (1754-61)
and before the Admiral, his father Sir Richard Haddock, MP for Aldeburgh (Feb-Aug 1679) and New Shoreham (1685)
Edit: Pete got there first with his dad, while I was working my way backwards in the History of Parliament...
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 14, 2020 8:07:12 GMT
Also Sir Richard Haddock who was MP for New Shoreham (1685-89?) and was thought to be the inspiration for Sir Francis Haddock (Captain Haddock of Tintin fame's ancestor)
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Post by Merseymike on May 14, 2020 8:18:27 GMT
I really should self flagellate for continuing this line of discussion but didn't Austin Mitchell when MP for Grimsby, change his name to Austin Haddock by deed poll for a couple of months (he was a well known Lexiteer and resolutely opposed to the Common Fisheries policy)
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Post by yellowperil on May 14, 2020 8:37:22 GMT
I really should self flagellate for continuing this line of discussion but didn't Austin Mitchell when MP for Grimsby, change his name to Austin Haddock by deed poll for a couple of months (he was a well known Lexiteer and resolutely opposed to the Common Fisheries policy) We should all thank Mike for his Gladstonian intervention, but now the question is, if Mitchell changed his name to Haddock by deed poll, did he then get caught? |
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