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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 23:49:44 GMT
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iain
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batman
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Post by batman on Jun 27, 2024 6:38:44 GMT
The north Kent seats haven’t had a lot of attention from us, apart from when we had that rather random poll in Gillingham. Is the assumption that Labour will win the lot except Herne Bay/Sandwich, and perhaps Sittingbourne/Sheppey?
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Post by batman on Jul 23, 2024 8:30:05 GMT
I don't think there's been an MP called Lauren before, and now we have 2 Labour MPs called Lauren in neighbouring constituencies
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2024 10:33:21 GMT
I don't think there's been an MP called Lauren before, and now we have 2 Labour MPs called Lauren in neighbouring constituencies Have you looked Bacall the way to 1948? |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 23, 2024 11:08:19 GMT
I don't think there's been an MP called Lauren before, and now we have 2 Labour MPs called Lauren in neighbouring constituencies Have you looked Bacall the way to 1948? The modern popularity of the name seems to be entirely down to her, which is ironic as of course it wasn't her real name, and had been chosen for her by the film director Howard Hawks. And it was originally a man's name. |
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Post by ccoleman on Jul 23, 2024 11:24:55 GMT
I don't think there's been an MP called Lauren before, and now we have 2 Labour MPs called Lauren in neighbouring constituencies It's a name I associate with people born in the 1990s. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2024 12:18:12 GMT
Have you looked Bacall the way to 1948? The modern popularity of the name seems to be entirely down to her, which is ironic as of course it wasn't her real name, and had been chosen for her by the film director Howard Hawks. And it was originally a man's name. Hawks was good at the perfect name. It just seemed to be redolent of upper class sexiness : plus that voice! |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 23, 2024 12:22:00 GMT
The modern popularity of the name seems to be entirely down to her, which is ironic as of course it wasn't her real name, and had been chosen for her by the film director Howard Hawks. And it was originally a man's name. Hawks was good at the perfect name. It just seemed to be redolent of upper class sexiness : plus that voice! She apparently developed the voice by shouting passages from Shakespeare for hours on end, as the studio didn't like her naturally more high pitched tone. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 23, 2024 12:27:43 GMT
I don't think there's been an MP called Lauren before, and now we have 2 Labour MPs called Lauren in neighbouring constituencies It's a name I associate with people born in the 1990s. I'm surprised so many people bovvered. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2024 12:56:42 GMT
I don't think there's been an MP called Lauren before, and now we have 2 Labour MPs called Lauren in neighbouring constituencies It's a name I associate with people born in the 1990s. I know a girl of 16 here in Greenhill, Sheffield with that name. |
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Post by ccoleman on Jul 23, 2024 16:42:36 GMT
It's a name I associate with people born in the 1990s. I know a girl of 16 here in Greenhill, Sheffield with that name. It was apparently the 51st most popular baby girl name in 2008, so I guess that's not too unusual. |
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Post by batman on Jul 23, 2024 18:46:36 GMT
The modern popularity of the name seems to be entirely down to her, which is ironic as of course it wasn't her real name, and had been chosen for her by the film director Howard Hawks. And it was originally a man's name. Hawks was good at the perfect name. It just seemed to be redolent of upper class sexiness : plus that voice! not sure how widely known it is that she was a cousin of former Israeli President Shimon Peres. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Aug 6, 2024 17:17:35 GMT
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Post by john07 on Aug 6, 2024 18:33:06 GMT
Hawks was good at the perfect name. It just seemed to be redolent of upper class sexiness : plus that voice! She apparently developed the voice by shouting passages from Shakespeare for hours on end, That sounds like Brian Blessed? |
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 7, 2024 12:45:01 GMT
Thank you for that heslingtonian. I knew Jacques from my Kent associations but not very well and he was not quite my type of conservative : Or was he? For I agree just about all he says and agree the great damage done. I used to have ConservativeHome on my Pins but stopped reading it completely and unpinned it during the 'bad times'! Modernisers tend to be a bloody nuisance wherever they occur. They ruined pubs and brewing, banking, slow food, some wine making, R3, cinema going, repertory theatre, public art and much architecture, quite as much as the Conservative Party. Where I believe him to be correct is in the sovereignty of the Constituency Association and the use of a local unmediated staff under a full-time constituency agent. Go back to Central Office, Independent Constituencies, Constituency Agents, strong independent Constituency Chairman, Membership through a constituency only; and an elected Party Chairman at a distance to the PM rather than 'his creature'. But the MPs choose the Parliamentary Leader themselves without intrusion of the party membership. Central Office provides advice, assistance and central vetting of candidates as a form of due diligence; BUT has no other input to the choice of MPs. If the membership choose the candidates and thus the MPs, they are likely to choose the 'Right' Leader. |
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