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Post by innocentabroad on Apr 19, 2013 17:34:04 GMT
Please forgive me if this has been discussed already, but I'm a bit surprised by the Labour candidate's name - I presume she's one of these women who's added her husband's name to her father's to come up with the double barrel. Her council e-mail address as per her website is only "Lewell" though. Does the Labour Party have a policy about what its women candidates should call themselves?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 19, 2013 17:37:37 GMT
Re The Independent Socialist Party, they're a registered party (No. 2064) but only registered earlier this week. Leader and nominating officer Gillian Griffiths, Treasurer Paul Melvin.
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Post by mboy on Apr 19, 2013 17:49:14 GMT
Lady MacBeth?? LOL.
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Post by andrea on Apr 19, 2013 18:07:02 GMT
David Miliband was back in town today to join the campaign trail /photo/1 Please forgive me if this has been discussed already, but I'm a bit surprised by the Labour candidate's name - I presume she's one of these women who's added her husband's name to her father's to come up with the double barrel. Her council e-mail address as per her website is only "Lewell" though. Does the Labour Party have a policy about what its women candidates should call themselves? I don't think they have any policy (and rightly so, I would say). For ex City of Durham MP calls herself Roberta Blackman-Woods. She was born Woods, Blackman is her husband. I think she added Blackman just because the LibDem opponent was called Carol Woods and so 2 Woods could have created confusion. Tessa Jowell was born as Tessa Palmer and she still keeps her first husband's surname after 30 and more years since their divorce. Harriet Harman has kept her maiden name and she didn't become Harriet Dromey or Harriet Harman-Dromey. Helen Clark, the infamous Peterborough one, was born as Helen Dyche. She was elected in 1997 as Helen Brinton and then she became Helen Clark. In the first release of 2010 leadership contest votes, Glenda Jakcson was mysteriously styled as Glenda Hodges (even if I don't think she ever used her former husband's surname). Re The Independent Socialist Party, they're a registered party (No. 2064) but only registered earlier this week. Leader and nominating officer Gillian Griffiths, Treasurer Paul Melvin. A G Griffiths is the first signature in their nomination papers. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Apr 19, 2013 18:10:41 GMT
I assume Phil Brown, the Independent Socialist, is the same person who stood in Beacon & Bents ward in 2012, coming 4th with 147 votes.
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Post by mboy on Apr 19, 2013 19:13:14 GMT
Dawn Primarolo has kept her husband's name, despite being long divorced from him and remarried.
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Post by Philip Davies on Apr 19, 2013 19:32:31 GMT
Edwin's Currie is another. She could be Edwina Cohen-Currie-Major-Jones.
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Post by Tony Otim on Apr 19, 2013 19:48:54 GMT
Unusual to have an "L" at the bottom of the ballot paper with that many candidates. Also noted is the absence of any Green, Respect or TUSC candidate here....... From a Green point of view - for this one given the timing, unlike Eastleigh, I'd say it's better for us to concentrate on the counties than a by-election where we were unlikely to save the deposit, so I'm not really disappointed by that. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 19, 2013 19:59:55 GMT
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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 19, 2013 21:10:26 GMT
Also noted is the absence of any Green, Respect or TUSC candidate here....... From a Green point of view - for this one given the timing, unlike Eastleigh, I'd say it's better for us to concentrate on the counties than a by-election where we were unlikely to save the deposit, so I'm not really disappointed by that. So just where & when would be a by-election worth the Greens concentrating on? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 19, 2013 21:14:59 GMT
Is this a BNP nomination paper I see before me? |
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Post by Sibboleth on Apr 19, 2013 21:59:41 GMT
Whoever knew that Nick Griffin had so much blood in him?
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 19, 2013 23:11:16 GMT
Please forgive me if this has been discussed already, but I'm a bit surprised by the Labour candidate's name - I presume she's one of these women who's added her husband's name to her father's to come up with the double barrel. Her council e-mail address as per her website is only "Lewell" though. Does the Labour Party have a policy about what its women candidates should call themselves? Speaking as the bearer of a double-barrelled surname, I don't think her council e-mail address necessarily signifies anything. The institutional usernames and email addresses I've been assigned by different places of work or education seem to have picked one part of the surname or the other almost at random, but pretty much never both. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 20, 2013 0:28:57 GMT
Full names of candidates appear to be as follows:
C: Karen Anne Allen
L Dem: Hugh Martin James Annand
BNP: Dorothy MacBeth Brooke (NB not Brookes as given on SOPN. She stood in Tynemouth in 2010)
Ind Soc: Philip George Brown
Ind: Thomas Faithful Darwood
UKIP: Richard Peter Elvin
MRLP: Howling Laud Hope
Ind: Rao Mohammed Ahmed Khan
Lab: Emma Louise Lewell-Buck
The origin of Brooke's assumed title and the reason for changing her surname to Brookes (assuming this is not a transcription error by the Returning Officer) are uncertain.
Hope's name was previously Alan Hope.
Lewell-Buck was known as Emma Louise Lewell before her marriage.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 20, 2013 0:35:43 GMT
Hope's name was previously Alan Hope. It still is. The name "Howling Laud" is only of the "commonly known as" type; he hasn't actually changed his name by deed poll (although of course he wouldn't have to anyway), unlike R.U. Seerius (who has). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2013 2:50:42 GMT
If it pleases the forum, I understand Lee Nelson to be a comedian.
Thomas Darwood stood in Barking, and had/has a thoroughly bonkers/barking website.
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Post by andrewteale on Apr 20, 2013 7:57:32 GMT
If it pleases the forum, I understand Lee Nelson to be a comedian. Did he withdraw because he isn't well good? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2013 9:57:45 GMT
Is this Lady Macbeth titled through marriage, inheritance, or five pound internet certificate?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 20, 2013 10:14:57 GMT
Hope's name was previously Alan Hope. It still is. The name "Howling Laud" is only of the "commonly known as" type; he hasn't actually changed his name by deed poll (although of course he wouldn't have to anyway), unlike R.U. Seerius (who has). That's more of an open question. Under common law in England, anyone can use any name they choose, so long as it is not for the purposes of fraud. To change your name does not require a deed poll, but it may help answer difficult questions about any difference in names on official documents. |
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Post by Tony Otim on Apr 20, 2013 13:18:47 GMT
From a Green point of view - for this one given the timing, unlike Eastleigh, I'd say it's better for us to concentrate on the counties than a by-election where we were unlikely to save the deposit, so I'm not really disappointed by that. So just where & when would be a by-election worth the Greens concentrating on? I think I'm on record here as being very disappointed that we didn't have a candidate in Eastleigh. Ideally I would like to see a Green candidate in most UK by-elections. However, when they coincide with nationwide local elections a party with limited resources has to decide whether it's worth it. IMO, it's worth standing if you're actually going to run a campaign. If there are other priorities at the same time, probably not worth standing at the moment. In this parliament I'd only apply that as valid excuse here and Leicester South. I would have liked to have seen a Green candidate in the other contests. |
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