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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 22:35:56 GMT
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Post by birkinabe on Jun 7, 2024 15:39:02 GMT
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jun 7, 2024 17:26:38 GMT
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Post by birkinabe on Jun 7, 2024 17:55:12 GMT
In any case, their political history notwithstanding, here and Knowsley strike me as odd seats for the Workers Party to stand in.
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Jun 26, 2024 10:21:36 GMT
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Post by Merseymike on Jun 26, 2024 10:21:36 GMT
Not a thing re: leaflets. None at all!
Just a thought...there is a lot of black and Middle East people in the Bootle area. I use the bus and it's certainly recent...
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Jun 26, 2024 13:04:24 GMT
Post by Clark on Jun 26, 2024 13:04:24 GMT
Not a thing re: leaflets. None at all! Just a thought...there is a lot of black and Middle East people in the Bootle area. I use the bus and it's certainly recent... Same in Aberdeen. When I walk home from work through the city centre, about a third of people I see are black now, maybe close to half are foreign I'd say. |
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Post by Merseymike on Jun 26, 2024 13:20:20 GMT
Lebanese tahini, Iranian mixed pickle, flatbreads, sheeps feta, Turkish blackberry or rose jam, labneh, sujuk, good baklava, can't be beaten!
And the new Mama Africa shop looks good too, starting a couple of weeks.
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Jun 26, 2024 13:48:45 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 26, 2024 13:48:45 GMT
Lebanese tahini, Iranian mixed pickle, flatbreads, sheeps feta, Turkish blackberry or rose jam, labneh, sujuk, good baklava, can't be beaten! And the new Mama Africa shop looks good too, starting a couple of weeks. One of the weird things about Germany is a surprising lack of good Turkish restaurants. Every single one I have ever tried is really poor compared not just to Turkey but to North London. |
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Post by Merseymike on Jul 2, 2024 14:55:40 GMT
Well, two leaflets - Labour and Green.
However, Royal Mail has not delivered - that was paid for Labour. Its too late now. Royal Mail will have to refund the leaflets - it should have been sent last week.
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Post by Merseymike on Jul 2, 2024 15:12:46 GMT
Ah - 4pm, and two leaflets. One is the Royal Mail communication - Labour. There is a Reform UK leaflet.
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 11, 2024 8:59:33 GMT
....and yes, I voted for Labour and the safest Labour seat!
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Post by iainbhx on Aug 11, 2024 10:08:26 GMT
Lebanese tahini, Iranian mixed pickle, flatbreads, sheeps feta, Turkish blackberry or rose jam, labneh, sujuk, good baklava, can't be beaten! And the new Mama Africa shop looks good too, starting a couple of weeks. One of the weird things about Germany is a surprising lack of good Turkish restaurants. Every single one I have ever tried is really poor compared not just to Turkey but to North London. This is very true, but some great Persian ones. |
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Aug 26, 2024 10:39:57 GMT
Post by The Bishop on Aug 26, 2024 10:39:57 GMT
Irving being "in the closet" was one of the worst kept secrets at Westminster back in the day.
Also, that piece says "Greater Manchester has never had an openly LGBT Labour MP". That is true, but note the "openly".
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 26, 2024 10:58:22 GMT
Irving being "in the closet" was one of the worst kept secrets at Westminster back in the day. Also, that piece says "Greater Manchester has never had an openly LGBT Labour MP". That is true, but note the "openly". George Morton, who was Manchester Moss Side. He was a moderate Labour MP - but he has an encounter with 'gross indecency' in 1980. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morton_(Labour_politician). I can't find about the article written by George Morton. Also, Gerald Kaufman was gay. |
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 26, 2024 11:10:21 GMT
Irving being "in the closet" was one of the worst kept secrets at Westminster back in the day. Also, that piece says "Greater Manchester has never had an openly LGBT Labour MP". That is true, but note the "openly". George Morton, who was Manchester Moss Side. He was a moderate Labour MP - but he has an encounter with 'gross indecency' in 1980. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morton_(Labour_politician). I can't find about the article written by George Morton. Also, Gerald Kaufman was gay.Another badly kept "secret". I once heard a rumour that PM Wilson tried to arrange a "sham" marriage for him in GK's Number 10 days. |
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Post by john07 on Aug 26, 2024 14:06:15 GMT
Irving being "in the closet" was one of the worst kept secrets at Westminster back in the day. Also, that piece says "Greater Manchester has never had an openly LGBT Labour MP". That is true, but note the "openly". George Morton, who was Manchester Moss Side. He was a moderate Labour MP - but he has an encounter with 'gross indecency' in 1980. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morton_(Labour_politician). I can't find about the article written by George Morton. I knew George Morton from the 1974 General Elections. He was a member of the Greater Manchester Council for Hulme/Moss Side. He worked in the Manchester City Architects Department so was not eligible to stand for the City Council. He was the coordinator for the election campaign for Frank Hatton in the elections based in Hulme Labour Club. Subsequently Hatton was diagnosed with cancer shortly after the October 1974 election and Morton was selected to replace him, after he died, to fight the 1977 by-election. We took a few days in Manchester to help with the by-election campaign despite living in Coventry by then. He was reelected in 1979 with Moss Side no longer a marginal seat. Moss Side disappeared in the revised boundaries for 1983 and George went back to working as an Architect/Planner with the City following his ‘mishap’. |
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 26, 2024 14:11:00 GMT
The article was 'A Gay MP' written by George Morton. I have read it,but I can't find it....
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 26, 2024 17:32:34 GMT
The article was 'A Gay MP' written by George Morton. I have read it,but I can't find it.... I can't find it either but I have found this from 1842 , a mock obituary of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe MP (Hertford 1826-32, Finsbury 1834-61) and known, among other things, as "the parliamentary dandy".
"Here lies Tom D, A Gay MP Who live in 'hope and trust' The men whose parts he took ,drove carts himself, now turn'd to dust"
Duncombe didn't actually die until 1861, but the writer had taken it upon himself to write a lot of obituaries for contemporary politicians. This was in a newspaper I've never come across before called "The Argus, or Broad Sheet of the Empire".
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