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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2023 6:18:05 GMT
That's a lot of places to sign the recall petition. My mother won't need to Rushden.
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Post by Crimson King on Oct 28, 2023 15:36:14 GMT
That's a lot of places to sign the recall petition. My mother won't need to Rushden. are you sure she Wilby? |
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 28, 2023 18:08:17 GMT
If the petition launches on Monday, then it would end on December 11th 2024, Parliament rises for Christmas on December 19th and sits again on January 8th, so a by-election announced on that day would happen early to mid February with any May 2024 general election announced in late March, so there is still time to hold a Wellingborough by-election if the recall passes. According to the Recall Act, the petition is supposed to open on the 10th working day after the Speaker formally notifies the petitions officer of North Northamptonshire council. Assuming the Speaker does this today, it should open on Thursday 9 November and close on Wednesday 20 December. That is after the beginning of recess, so the by-election can’t be called until the House returns in January, with the earliest possible Thursday being 8 February and 15 February perhaps the most likely date. ( How about 29 February, for trivia fans?) The recess means that a short delay in the notification makes little difference to the timing of the by-election. If Sunak has decided on May and doesn’t mind people inferring this, then that almost certainly means no by-election, but I think that leaving it vacant until an autumn or winter General Election would be frowned on. The last parliamentary by-election on 29 February appears to have been in 1944 in Bury St Edmunds, to replace Conservative MP Frank Heilgers who had been killed in the Ilford rail disaster the previous month. The Tories fought off a strong challenge from an Independent Liberal candidate. Stanley Baldwin first entered the Commons at an unopposed by-election on 29 February 1908 in Bewdley, following the death of his father. |
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Post by uthacalthing on Oct 28, 2023 22:21:22 GMT
Feb 29 would be a thing of beauty.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2023 6:06:02 GMT
According to the Recall Act, the petition is supposed to open on the 10th working day after the Speaker formally notifies the petitions officer of North Northamptonshire council. Assuming the Speaker does this today, it should open on Thursday 9 November and close on Wednesday 20 December. That is after the beginning of recess, so the by-election can’t be called until the House returns in January, with the earliest possible Thursday being 8 February and 15 February perhaps the most likely date. ( How about 29 February, for trivia fans?) The recess means that a short delay in the notification makes little difference to the timing of the by-election. If Sunak has decided on May and doesn’t mind people inferring this, then that almost certainly means no by-election, but I think that leaving it vacant until an autumn or winter General Election would be frowned on. Stanley Baldwin first entered the Commons at an unopposed by-election on 29 February 1908 in Bewdley, following the death of his father. Nepo baby. |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 29, 2023 11:42:17 GMT
His son became an MP as well - but a Labour one!
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Post by maxque on Oct 29, 2023 14:02:45 GMT
His son became an MP as well - but a Labour one! The nepotism stopped there, as his son lost his seat (Paisley) when his father died and he inherited the earldom. His son, anyways, has no descendants, living with the same male partner for 40+ years. Which actually makes Stanley Baldwin unusually tolerant for its time. |
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Post by uthacalthing on Oct 29, 2023 15:17:26 GMT
Which actually makes Stanley Baldwin unusually tolerant for its time. all decent bigots abandon their bigotry when it's their child |
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Post by batman on Oct 29, 2023 20:58:43 GMT
That is not true sadly. Many gay people have been killed in "honour killings" by close family members (usually parents) and there are considerably more still whose parents have refused to speak to them after they came out as gay. It's true of some people though.
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Post by uthacalthing on Oct 29, 2023 21:41:41 GMT
Not all bigots are decent bigots.
Tell me more about these honor killings. What sort of people do such a thing?
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 29, 2023 22:21:15 GMT
Feb 29 would be a thing of beauty. We once called a by-election so it was held on 1st April. We were mocked ... until we won it! |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 29, 2023 22:28:51 GMT
Feb 29 would be a thing of beauty. We once called a by-election so it was held on 1st April. We were mocked ... until we won it! I think that it was in 2006 that the date for the annual round of elections was 4th May, so I was able to use the slogan “May The 4th Be With You” on election leaflets. |
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Oct 30, 2023 0:31:39 GMT
We once called a by-election so it was held on 1st April. We were mocked ... until we won it! I think that it was in 2006 that the date for the annual round of elections was 4th May, so I was able to use the slogan “May The 4th Be With You” on election leaflets. I am sure that this greatly added to the pitiful number of votes that you received. |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 30, 2023 1:21:07 GMT
I think that it was in 2006 that the date for the annual round of elections was 4th May, so I was able to use the slogan “May The 4th Be With You” on election leaflets. I am sure that this greatly added to the pitiful number of votes that you received. Yes, massively. In 2006 I got 200 votes, which was the biggest OMRLP vote in the whole of Greater London. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Oct 30, 2023 1:36:19 GMT
I am sure that this greatly added to the pitiful number of votes that you received. Yes, massively. In 2006 I got 200 votes, which was the biggest OMRLP vote in the whole of Greater London. And indeed the smallest OMRLP vote in the whole of Greater London. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 4:10:45 GMT
His son became an MP as well - but a Labour one! Is Harriet Baldwin related to Stanley? Also a Worcs MP. |
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Post by maxque on Oct 30, 2023 4:39:00 GMT
His son became an MP as well - but a Labour one! Is Harriet Baldwin related to Stanley? Also a Worcs MP. Not by blood, she is née Eggleston. |
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Post by batman on Oct 30, 2023 8:41:32 GMT
Not all bigots are decent bigots. Tell me more about these honor killings. What sort of people do such a thing? rhetorical questions don't require an answer. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 30, 2023 9:01:33 GMT
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Post by adlai52 on Oct 31, 2023 9:24:51 GMT
His son became an MP as well - but a Labour one! The nepotism stopped there, as his son lost his seat (Paisley) when his father died and he inherited the earldom. His son, anyways, has no descendants, living with the same male partner for 40+ years. Which actually makes Stanley Baldwin unusually tolerant for its time. True. One of many qualities that reflect well on Baldwin. Although his cousin Rudyard Kipling was - apparently - far less tolerant. |
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