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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 23:01:49 GMT
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Post by bsjmcr on Jun 9, 2024 12:25:02 GMT
Con: Horatio Lovering. Address in Chelsea and Fulham. Bristol graduate, now Political Advisor at 10 Downing Street. If there is an award for major party candidate who is the worst fit for any seat (no matter how unwinnable), this must be it. Hope he loses his deposit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2024 12:45:25 GMT
Con: Horatio Lovering. Address in Chelsea and Fulham. Bristol graduate, now Political Advisor at 10 Downing Street. If there is an award for major party candidate who is the worst fit for any seat (no matter how unwinnable), this must be it. Hope he loses his deposit. Many people around here may aspire to achieve similar things. I've met political advisers from as far north as humberside before. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 9, 2024 19:35:16 GMT
Con: Horatio Lovering. Address in Chelsea and Fulham. Bristol graduate, now Political Advisor at 10 Downing Street. If there is an award for major party candidate who is the worst fit for any seat (no matter how unwinnable), this must be it. Hope he loses his deposit. What a nasty chav remark! Moan moan if no candidate is put up. Accusations of disorganization and incompetence. But if one is put up without the bsjmcr 'seal of uber class-consciousness approval' then we must witness rank hostility of a triumphalist nature. An attack on his name for being too upper, his address for being too upper class and in the horrid London where in fact the left hold most of the seats! And his job for being obviously 'bad' in serving an administration of which you do not approve! And being at a university that is known for horrid right winger and nasty upper class people. Get over yourself you tart little prig! You on the left are going to win and to win big! Is that not enough? Will there be punishment duties, gulags and re-education centres started up now to cleanse the minds of horrid people like me? |
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Post by bsjmcr on Jun 9, 2024 20:29:18 GMT
Con: Horatio Lovering. Address in Chelsea and Fulham. Bristol graduate, now Political Advisor at 10 Downing Street. If there is an award for major party candidate who is the worst fit for any seat (no matter how unwinnable), this must be it. Hope he loses his deposit. What a nasty chav remark! Moan moan if no candidate is put up. Accusations of disorganization and incompetence. But if one is put up without the bsjmcr 'seal of uber class-consciousness approval' then we must witness rank hostility of a triumphalist nature. An attack on his name for being too upper, his address for being too upper class and in the horrid London where in fact the left hold most of the seats! And his job for being obviously 'bad' in serving an administration of which you do not approve! And being at a university that is known for horrid right winger and nasty upper class people. Get over yourself you tart little prig! You on the left are going to win and to win big! Is that not enough? Will there be punishment duties, gulags and re-education centres started up now to cleanse the minds of horrid people like me? Calm down dear. I'm sure you will agree that the political 'advice' that No.10 has been receiving of recent has not been the best to say the least, and the only thing that would make it worse is if such incompetence is rewarded with a safe seat, which fortunately this isn't. Had he been given a safe seat to which he had no connection I would say to the hilt that it represents everything wrong with politics at the moment. Unfortunately this seems to be the case in West Suffolk where that awful advisor to Theresa May (that went well) has been 'rewarded' - if anyone could make me actually like Matt Hancock, that would be it. I will hold my hands up (not that I have to, as I'm not a member of any party) and say Labour isn't immune to this either be it historically and some of the selections of recent. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 9, 2024 21:00:19 GMT
What a nasty chav remark! Moan moan if no candidate is put up. Accusations of disorganization and incompetence. But if one is put up without the bsjmcr 'seal of uber class-consciousness approval' then we must witness rank hostility of a triumphalist nature. An attack on his name for being too upper, his address for being too upper class and in the horrid London where in fact the left hold most of the seats! And his job for being obviously 'bad' in serving an administration of which you do not approve! And being at a university that is known for horrid right winger and nasty upper class people. Get over yourself you tart little prig! You on the left are going to win and to win big! Is that not enough? Will there be punishment duties, gulags and re-education centres started up now to cleanse the minds of horrid people like me? Calm down dear. I'm sure you will agree that the political 'advice' that No.10 has been receiving of recent has not been the best to say the least, and the only thing that would make it worse is if such incompetence is rewarded with a safe seat, which fortunately this isn't. Had he been given a safe seat to which he had no connection I would say to the hilt that it represents everything wrong with politics at the moment. Unfortunately this seems to be the case in West Suffolk where that awful advisor to Theresa May (that went well) has been 'rewarded' - if anyone could make me actually like Matt Hancock, that would be it. I will hold my hands up (not that I have to, as I'm not a member of any party) and say Labour isn't immune to this either be it historically and some of the selections of recent. I am calm my dear just as you are calm in a political world of dreamlike calmness. I note that phrase is one I have employed! Not a lot to disagree with in your analysis or some of your conclusions, but there is a form of insidious nastiness in the underlying mode of expression which I do warn against and deplore. More forgivable in the midst of a collapse of dreams and general mayhem where a disliked party in triumphing (as with say GE 2019!). But here that party is set for an evisceration and there is no need for the personal abuse. That candidate is who he is and standing in a hopeless situation as so many have done before. He doesn't deserve that flak as well. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 10, 2024 8:29:10 GMT
I guarantee he's the first Horatio to ever set foot in Oldham.
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Post by yellowperil on Jun 10, 2024 8:38:37 GMT
I guarantee he's the first Horatio to ever set foot in Oldham. There was another Lancashire town, just a bit further north, which might have been more appropriate? |
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Post by cathyc on Jun 10, 2024 8:46:16 GMT
I guarantee he's the first Horatio to ever set foot in Oldham. There was another Lancashire town, just a bit further north, which might have been more appropriate? Bottomley is in Yorkshire. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 10, 2024 8:49:11 GMT
I guarantee he's the first Horatio to ever set foot in Oldham. You should know better than to make such rhetorical flourishes dok. 
In 1907 the Manchester Evening News recorded the wedding of Mr Horatio Chadwick, (no less than a former Mayor of Oldham, 1903-4 ) to Miss Emily Bolton, daughter of Mr T Bolton, a Tory Alderman in Oldham. Chadwick was a Liberal .
The report even helpfully notes that control of Oldham council had switched from the Liberals to the Tories since Chadwick's mayorlty , although hopefully not because of it.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 10, 2024 9:15:41 GMT
I guarantee he's the first Horatio to ever set foot in Oldham. You should know better than to make such rhetorical flourishes dok.
In 1907 the Manchester Evening News recorded the wedding of Mr Horatio Chadwick, (no less than a former Mayor of Oldham, 1903-4 ) to Miss Emily Bolton, daughter of Mr T Bolton, a Tory Alderman in Oldham. Chadwick was a Liberal .
The report even helpfully notes that control of Oldham council had switched from the Liberals to the Tories since Chadwick's mayorlty , although hopefully not because of it.
You know I pressed send and then instantly thought of you 😂 |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 10, 2024 9:26:20 GMT
You should know better than to make such rhetorical flourishes dok.
In 1907 the Manchester Evening News recorded the wedding of Mr Horatio Chadwick, (no less than a former Mayor of Oldham, 1903-4 ) to Miss Emily Bolton, daughter of Mr T Bolton, a Tory Alderman in Oldham. Chadwick was a Liberal .
The report even helpfully notes that control of Oldham council had switched from the Liberals to the Tories since Chadwick's mayorlty , although hopefully not because of it.
You know I pressed send and then instantly thought of you 😂 Everyone expects the Finso intervention.
Horatio, being the first name of that there Nelson feller, was a very popular name for quite a long time after he expired at Trafalgar.  The next story down was of a Horatio Roberts found guilty of being drunk in Bolton town centre on a saturday night/sunday morning in Feb 1869.
And i wouldn't be surprised if Horatio Bottomley inspired a newish wave of little Horatios in the early twentieth century.
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Post by batman on Jun 10, 2024 9:52:22 GMT
You know I pressed send and then instantly thought of you 😂 Everyone expects the Finso intervention.
Horatio, being the first name of that there Nelson feller, was a very popular name for quite a long time after he expired at Trafalgar. The next story down was of a Horatio Roberts found guilty of being drunk in Bolton town centre on a saturday night/sunday morning in Feb 1869.
And i wouldn't be surprised if Horatio Bottomley inspired a newish wave of little Horatios in the early twentieth century.
perhaps the best known working class Horatio was Horatio “Raich” Carter, a postwar England football international star |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 10, 2024 9:59:57 GMT
Everyone expects the Finso intervention.
Horatio, being the first name of that there Nelson feller, was a very popular name for quite a long time after he expired at Trafalgar. The next story down was of a Horatio Roberts found guilty of being drunk in Bolton town centre on a saturday night/sunday morning in Feb 1869.
And i wouldn't be surprised if Horatio Bottomley inspired a newish wave of little Horatios in the early twentieth century.
perhaps the best known working class Horatio was Horatio “Raich” Carter, a postwar England football international star His son (also Raich) used to come along on our Hull City Southern Supporters trips, Carter having been the City player manager at one point. He was once given the microphone to encourage the crowd. That was a mistake, though an entertaining one. |
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Post by right on Jun 18, 2024 21:16:05 GMT
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The next story down was of a Horatio Roberts found guilty of being drunk in Bolton town centre on a saturday night/sunday morning in Feb 1869. 