Sandy
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Post by Sandy on Aug 7, 2020 22:04:14 GMT
Can we rename Moray to "Macbeth" ?
That should cause some amusement as the superstitious struggle to come up with an alternative.
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Post by andrewteale on Aug 7, 2020 22:14:15 GMT
We should probably avoid naming constituencies after living or very-recently dead people (as is done with blue plaques). Otherwise we might have ended up with a Savile division of Leeds.
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Post by Sandy on Aug 7, 2020 22:17:01 GMT
Glasgow Central - Connolly
Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock - Bruce
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 22:33:04 GMT
Some Gloucestershire ones
Cheltenham: Holst, after the composer
Tewkesbury: Priestley, after a local-born geologist
Gloucester: Raikes, after the founder of the Sunday School movement
Cirencester: Ayres, as in Pam
Forest of Dean: Whittington, after Dick Whittington who was born there
Stroud: Picton-Turberville, a locally well-know character who ended up as MP for Telford & the Wrekin. Pedersen and Tyndale are options as well
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Post by cj on Aug 7, 2020 22:47:28 GMT
Halesowen and Rowley Regis could be Attwood. There's a clear problem with this idea which is that women will be badly underrepresented in the names. That's why it's good to respect historical figures without naming things after them. Thetford (SW Norfolk) probably get Boudica which is too cool for school |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Aug 7, 2020 23:09:21 GMT
Reading East - Palmer or perhaps Mikardo if Palmer is not acceptable. I would love to name it after Lorenzo Quelch, a key figure in the early figure of Reading's TUC,but I'm not sure enough people know who he is ;(.
Reading West - Blagrave,after the family who owned what is now the Mansion House in Prospect Park,which is a prominent viewpoint close to the middle of the seat.
Henley - Gainsborough.
Newbury - Walcott.
Maidenhead - I don't think anyone would object to Winton.
Wokingham - Young, for multiple reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 23:27:17 GMT
North West Hampshire - Austen
Chelsea & Fulham - Radcliffe
Hackney North & Stoke Newington - Wollstonecraft
Beaconsfield - Shelley
Keighley - Brontë
Manchester Central - Gaskell
Putney - Eliot
Holborn & St Pancras - Richardson
Kensington - Sinclair
Lewes - Woolf
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Post by johnloony on Aug 7, 2020 23:31:59 GMT
Croydon Central - Corbett
Croydon South - Brown (as in June Brown) (or (if "Brown" is not distinctive enough) Cotton (as in Dot Cotton))
Croydon North - Ebenezer
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Aug 8, 2020 5:21:56 GMT
Dave, Dave, Dave and Dave.
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Post by arnieg on Aug 8, 2020 7:16:03 GMT
Reading East - Palmer or perhaps Mikardo if Palmer is not acceptable. I would love to name it after Lorenzo Quelch, a key figure in the early figure of Reading's TUC,but I'm not sure enough people know who he is ;(. Reading West - Blagrave,after the family who owned what is now the Mansion House in Prospect Park,which is a prominent viewpoint close to the middle of the seat. Henley - Gainsborough. Newbury - Walcott. Maidenhead - I don't think anyone would object to Winton. Wokingham - Young, for multiple reasons. Given your choices for Reading East and West, surely Newbury should be Benyon constituency. Why Young for Wokingham? I'd call it California just to confuse people. |
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 8, 2020 7:37:15 GMT
Most people are approaching this from the point of view of applying a name to a constituency. I would much prefer to compile a list of persons and then think of an appropriate constituency to house them. So I would wish to have
Walpole
Pitt
Gladstone
Disraeli
Attlee
Thatcher
Clive
Harding
Powell
Trevithick
Brunel
Stephenson
Wellington
Nelson
Spencer
Constable
Hardy
Britten
Nash
Elgar
Thomas
Larkin
Bates
Christie
Scott
Hobbes
Hume
Churchill
Foot
Benn
Keats
Dickens
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 8, 2020 7:46:22 GMT
Bury North - Peel Bury South - Wood Bolton North East - Whitehead Bolton South East - Dibnah Bolton West - Lofthouse I was just about to suggest that Tamworth could be named Peel. Maybe you could have Peel I and Peel II. Or name it 'Manifesto'. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 8, 2020 7:49:28 GMT
If we had Australian style names provided by the Scottish boundary commission, Lewisham Deptford would be Drake, Evelyn, Grinling Gibbons, Marlowe & Pepys
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Post by cibwr on Aug 8, 2020 7:54:27 GMT
We did have Glyndwr as a district
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 7:55:46 GMT
Tower Hamlets - Ripper (that would work in the Aussie sense as well)
Chippenham of course would be Corbyn
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Post by peterl on Aug 8, 2020 8:15:06 GMT
Bournemouth's two seats could be Shelley and Tolkein, perhaps cheating a little as the later only lived in the town for about a year, but there is not a massive list to choose from with a connection to the area.
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 8, 2020 8:33:37 GMT
Dave, Dave, Dave and Dave. Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. *
* Salisbury
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 8, 2020 8:38:39 GMT
Bournemouth's two seats could be Shelley and Tolkein, perhaps cheating a little as the later only lived in the town for about a year, but there is not a massive list to choose from with a connection to the area. Wasn't Tony Hancock brought up in Bournemouth? |
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 8, 2020 8:40:59 GMT
Can we rename Moray to "Macbeth" ? That should cause some amusement as the superstitious struggle to come up with an alternative. "I being the returning officer and stage manager for the Scottish Play". |
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 8, 2020 8:44:59 GMT
Bournemouth's two seats could be Shelley and Tolkein, perhaps cheating a little as the later only lived in the town for about a year, but there is not a massive list to choose from with a connection to the area. Wasn't Tony Hancock brought up in Bournemouth? Tony Blackburn certainly was! |
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