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Post by Sandy on Aug 8, 2020 17:04:39 GMT
What could possibly go wrong...  Midlothian has a good claim for Gladstone as well imo. |
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Post by Sandy on Aug 8, 2020 17:08:27 GMT
West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine - Brown (John)
Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath - Brown (Gordon)
One of the Glasgow seats - Broon (Maw, Paw, Hen, Joe, Maggie, Daphne, Horace, The Bairn, The Twins, Grandpaw)
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 8, 2020 17:18:12 GMT
What could possibly go wrong... If you swapped Elvis with Picton, it could be Elvis Preseli. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 8, 2020 17:38:59 GMT
Divisions are (very sensibly) never named for living persons. A lot also have geographical names (often verging on 'names of geographical origin', mind), often in an Aboriginal language. Theoretically names of electorates that existed at the time of the first election are supposed to be preserved where possible, but in practice this isn't respected particularly.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Aug 8, 2020 18:40:11 GMT
Divisions are (very sensibly) never named for living persons. Is that an objection to my Elvis? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 8, 2020 18:46:27 GMT
I was sorry to hear of the tragedy that took away Peter Hain, Rowan Williams, Carwyn Jones, Neil Kinnock and Michael Heseltine among several others.
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Post by cj on Aug 8, 2020 19:18:33 GMT
Suffolk Coastal - Britten ("The honourable member for Britten"...tee hee) Ipswich - Wolsey South Suffolk - Constable Central Suffolk & North Ipswich - St Edmund (because of the Hoxne connection, and to piss off Bury St Edmunds  ) Great Yarmouth - Falstaff Maidenhead - Grahame (Cookham being closely associated with The Wind in the Willows) Chelmsford - Marconi Pah, why are we Yarcos getting saddled with minor gentry/fictionalised characters? We Could have Manby (George William inventor) or Paget (early pathologist) |
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Post by swindonlad on Aug 8, 2020 19:19:14 GMT
South Swindon could be named after Diana Doors, but using her actual name. Can't see any problems with calling it Fluck.
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Aug 8, 2020 19:29:44 GMT
Suffolk Coastal - Britten ("The honourable member for Britten"...tee hee) Ipswich - Wolsey South Suffolk - Constable Central Suffolk & North Ipswich - St Edmund (because of the Hoxne connection, and to piss off Bury St Edmunds ) Great Yarmouth - Falstaff Maidenhead - Grahame (Cookham being closely associated with The Wind in the Willows) Chelmsford - Marconi Pah, why are we Yarcos getting saddled with minor gentry/fictionalised characters? We Could have Manby (George William inventor) or Paget (early pathologist) What is the connection between Falstaff and Great Yarmouth? Is it through Sir John Fastolf, in which case you could have the historical figure? (He also had a connection with Southwark). The merit of Britten is that it would contain a fair few bitterns, cheering up crossword compilers. |
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Aug 8, 2020 19:32:50 GMT
West Dorset could be Hardy. Winchester could be Alfred. One of the Portsmouth seats could be Dickens. Born in Berkshire as was, OxWAb now. |
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Post by bjornhattan on Aug 8, 2020 19:35:49 GMT
West Dorset could be Hardy. Winchester could be Alfred. One of the Portsmouth seats could be Dickens. Born in Berkshire as was, OxWAb now. I could be wrong, but I thought he was from Wantage? He's certainly a major local figure, with a huge Alfred statue in the town centre and the town's football ground named after him too. |
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 8, 2020 19:36:06 GMT
Maidenhead should be Spencer, Wycombe Dashwood, of Hell Fire Club fame,. Aylesbury can be Otway, and Beaconsfield, Blyton.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 8, 2020 19:37:16 GMT
Maidenhead should be Spencer, Wycombe Dashwood, of Hell Fire Club fame,. Aylesbury can be Otway, and Beaconsfield, Blyton. Aylesbury should be Duck surely? |
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Aug 8, 2020 19:42:12 GMT
Born in Berkshire as was, OxWAb now. I could be wrong, but I thought he was from Wantage? He's certainly a major local figure, with a huge Alfred statue in the town centre and the town's football ground named after him too. Correct. It's in the opening line of Bishop Asser's Life and Asser knew him personally. Asser also tells us that Berkshire means shire of the box-woods EDIT so yes, Wantage not OxWab, I wasn't thinking properly, was just thinking of the Vale of White Horse |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Aug 8, 2020 19:48:44 GMT
Maidenhead should be Spencer, Wycombe Dashwood, of Hell Fire Club fame,. Aylesbury can be Otway, and Beaconsfield, Blyton. Aylesbury should be Duck surely? Illustrating how quackers this proposal is. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 8, 2020 19:51:14 GMT
Aylesbury should be Duck surely? Illustrating how quackers this proposal is. Wouldn't changing all these names be expensive? Who would meet the bill? Anser please! (I'm quite proud of that last one) |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 8, 2020 19:52:54 GMT
What could possibly go wrong... Too many politicians. But I love the idea of a Mickey Thomas constituency. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 8, 2020 19:55:38 GMT
What a brilliant idea! In a similar vein, we could have: Belfast South → Bradford, after the Rev Robert Bradford Doubt you'll get away with naming a constituency after a shady far right politician. May as well call Belfast West "Sands" or "Adams" if going down that route. For South, could go with the people's champion: Higgins, but less controversial would be either Thomson or Kelvin for Baron Kelvin. North can be "Carson." Whether Frank or Edward can be left deliberately ambiguous to annoy everyone. If you wanted to annoy nationalists there more than calling it after Edward Carson, Herzog for the former Israeli president will do. East has many possibles. Bell for the physicist, Lewis for the writer, Blanchflower if going for a footballer (shamefully, the local airport is already named after a wife beating alco) I think the purpose of using Bradford is to cause maximum confusion. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 8, 2020 19:58:17 GMT
By the way, who or what is Rovi as applied to Arfon?
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 8, 2020 20:15:23 GMT
Crewe & Nantwich is a tricky one. The obvious course might be to go for a Crewe railway engineer, but - apart from being obvious - they tend to fall into three categories, none of which fit the bill:
Trained in Crewe but excelled elsewhere e.g. Gresley
Excelled in Crewe but trained elsewhere e.g. Stanier
Were ****s e.g. Webb
So I'll offer 3 Nantwich nominees:
Admiral Beatty
"Monkey" Hornby, one of only two men to have captained England at both rugby and cricket, and captain for the Test which led to the Ashes
The herbalist Gerard
(It's just struck me that Hornby is buried in Acton, so he may be a better fit for Eddisbury)
So Gerard it is then.
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