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Post by finsobruce on Mar 1, 2021 16:10:28 GMT
Didn't Stuart Mole write a book called "The Strange re-birth of Liberal England?". No that was his precisely younger brother Adrian. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 1, 2021 20:58:31 GMT
How about Manuela Sykes? She came closest with Labour (within 3,000 votes twice) and was a rather interesting character.
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 2, 2021 21:28:00 GMT
Some people from the Conservative A List of candidates who probably assumed they would be an MP at some point:
James Bethel- now Health Minister as Lord Bethel
Dr David Bull - television doctor and former Brexit Party MEP
Joanne Cash - infamously bad Westminster North candidate in 2010
Iain Dale - LBC host and author who contested Norfolk North in 2005
Wilfred Emmanuel Jones - The so-called "Black Farmer" who contested Chippenham in 2010
Jacqueline Foster - former MEP and now Baroness Foster
David Gold - prominent candidate in Eltham in 2010
Annunziata Rees Mogg - former Brexit Party MEP
Kulveer Ranger - Boris Johnson's former Transport Adviser when Mayor of London
Adam Rickitt - former Coronation Street actor
Caroline Righton - stood in St Austell & Newquay in 2010 and former TV Am presenter
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Post by sirbenjamin on Mar 2, 2021 21:42:31 GMT
James Bethel- now Health Minister as Lord Bethel
I remember meeting this chap a couple of times when he was the Tooting candidate. And that's chap with at least three Capital Cs. Not a good fit for the area.
Or possibly any area...
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Post by sirbenjamin on Mar 2, 2021 21:48:18 GMT
David Gold - prominent candidate in Eltham in 2010
This is a different person from the David Gold who lives down the road from me, though both are Tories.
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 2, 2021 22:33:32 GMT
James Bethel- now Health Minister as Lord Bethel
I remember meeting this chap a couple of times when he was the Tooting candidate. And that's chap with at least three Capital Cs. Not a good fit for the area.
Or possibly any area...
Definitely a marked improvement on his sucessor as Conservative candidate in Tooting to be fair. |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Mar 2, 2021 22:38:22 GMT
Some people from the Conservative A List of candidates who probably assumed they would be an MP at some point: I'm sure if you go back, there will be other less stupidly named lists of people whom party hierarchs favoured, but who were not elected. Beata Brookes springs to mind. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 2, 2021 22:43:37 GMT
Beata Brookes is an example of someone selected in a safe seat but who ended up never standing (in her case because it was overturned in court). There were quite a few examples of Labour candidates selected for Labour seats in 1979-83 on old boundaries, who lost out when the new boundaries came in. Among them are David Hill (Islington Central), Albert Bore (Birmingham Ladywood), and, erm, Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool Toxteth).
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 2, 2021 22:55:09 GMT
How about Manuela Sykes? She came closest with Labour (within 3,000 votes twice) and was a rather interesting character. 1,178 votes short in the 1972 Uxbridge by-election, and 2,415 in the Feb '74 general.
In the by election the Labour percentage actually went down (-2.87%), but the Tory vote declined by more (-7.04%) and mostly appears to have gone to the National Front candidate John Clifton (+8.71%). There were also candidates from the Union Movement , National Independence ( a split from the NF) and the perennial anti Common Market candidate Reginald Simmerson (and the Liberals of course).
In the general election both Labour and the Tories declined again with the Liberals advancing by 9.9%.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 2, 2021 23:25:30 GMT
There's another category of "ended up never actually standing" that's occupied by the likes of Sharon Atkin (Nottingham East 1987) and Liz Davies (Leeds North East 1995).
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 2, 2021 23:33:32 GMT
There's another category of "ended up never actually standing" that's occupied by the likes of Sharon Atkin (Nottingham East 1987) and Liz Davies (Leeds North East 1995). There were dozens of candidates on record as being selected for the General Election of 1940, who did not contest the 1945 election. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 2, 2021 23:59:54 GMT
Jessie Chrystal Macmillan, the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh North at the 1935 General Election, had, in 1929 been Defence counsel in the first Old Bailey case where both barristers were women.
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 3, 2021 7:54:34 GMT
There's another category of "ended up never actually standing" that's occupied by the likes of Sharon Atkin (Nottingham East 1987) and Liz Davies (Leeds North East 1995). Several Conservatives were selected for seats the Party ended up winning at the 2010 General Election but ended up not standing for a variety of reasons. Paul Offer (Chester) and Ian Oakley (Watford) immediately spring to mind but there were others I think. |
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Post by andrewp on Mar 3, 2021 7:58:21 GMT
Beata Brookes is an example of someone selected in a safe seat but who ended up never standing (in her case because it was overturned in court). There were quite a few examples of Labour candidates selected for Labour seats in 1979-83 on old boundaries, who lost out when the new boundaries came in. Among them are David Hill (Islington Central), Albert Bore (Birmingham Ladywood), and, erm, Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool Toxteth). I didn’t realise Albert Bore had been selected. Do you know if he entered the selection for the new seat which Clare Short won? |
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 3, 2021 7:58:36 GMT
Beata Brookes is an example of someone selected in a safe seat but who ended up never standing (in her case because it was overturned in court). There were quite a few examples of Labour candidates selected for Labour seats in 1979-83 on old boundaries, who lost out when the new boundaries came in. Among them are David Hill (Islington Central), Albert Bore (Birmingham Ladywood), and, erm, Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool Toxteth). Why did Labour select on the old boundaries? It would have been interesting to see how far Albert Bore would have gone in the Blair/Brown Governments. I reckon he'd have made the Cabinet at some stage. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 3, 2021 9:08:43 GMT
Beata Brookes is an example of someone selected in a safe seat but who ended up never standing (in her case because it was overturned in court). There were quite a few examples of Labour candidates selected for Labour seats in 1979-83 on old boundaries, who lost out when the new boundaries came in. Among them are David Hill (Islington Central), Albert Bore (Birmingham Ladywood), and, erm, Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool Toxteth). I didn’t realise Albert Bore had been selected. Do you know if he entered the selection for the new seat which Clare Short won? He did, but lost out. Labour selected on old boundaries partly because of pressure to start the mandatory reselection process for MPs. It later probably fed into the party's decision to try to prevent the new boundaries coming into effect. |
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Post by Crimson King on Mar 3, 2021 9:14:19 GMT
not quite sure what universe that could have happened in! I’m not sure I would have been any good either |
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Post by greenhert on Mar 3, 2021 14:12:36 GMT
Beata Brookes is an example of someone selected in a safe seat but who ended up never standing (in her case because it was overturned in court). There were quite a few examples of Labour candidates selected for Labour seats in 1979-83 on old boundaries, who lost out when the new boundaries came in. Among them are David Hill (Islington Central), Albert Bore (Birmingham Ladywood), and, erm, Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool Toxteth). David Hill? The same David Hill who stood as a TUSC candidate in Hove in 2015? Tony Mulhearn stood for them in Liverpool Riverside (which when created contained most of Liverpool Toxteth in addition to Liverpool Scotland Exchange) that same year. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 3, 2021 14:20:34 GMT
Beata Brookes is an example of someone selected in a safe seat but who ended up never standing (in her case because it was overturned in court). There were quite a few examples of Labour candidates selected for Labour seats in 1979-83 on old boundaries, who lost out when the new boundaries came in. Among them are David Hill (Islington Central), Albert Bore (Birmingham Ladywood), and, erm, Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool Toxteth). David Hill? The same David Hill who stood as a TUSC candidate in Hove in 2015? Tony Mulhearn stood for them in Liverpool Riverside (which when created contained most of Liverpool Toxteth in addition to Liverpool Scotland Exchange) that same year. No, not that one, and not the founder of OnLondon either. The David Hill who went on to be Alastair Campbell's successor as Director of Communications at 10 Downing Street: www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/29/marketingandpr.politics1 |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 3, 2021 15:31:32 GMT
David Hill? The same David Hill who stood as a TUSC candidate in Hove in 2015? Tony Mulhearn stood for them in Liverpool Riverside (which when created contained most of Liverpool Toxteth in addition to Liverpool Scotland Exchange) that same year. No, not that one, and not the founder of OnLondon either. The David Hill who went on to be Alastair Campbell's successor as Director of Communications at 10 Downing Street: www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/29/marketingandpr.politics1And came reasonably close to becoming an MP when he stood for Burton back in the 1974 GEs. |
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