Mid Dorset and North Poole

[stb12]

Mid Dorset and North Poole

[peterl]

Candidates:

John Dowling Social Democratic Party
Candice Johnson-Cole Labour Party
Ben Pantling Green Party
Vikki Blade Liberal Democrats
Michael James Tomlinson The Conservative Party Candidate

Green candidate lives somewhere in BCP, all others are within the constituency.

[peterl]

I've been able to track down the YouGov constituency level polling data I referred to in the Bournemouth East thread, so the full numbers for Mid Dorset are

Conservative 35.7%
Lib Dem 34.3%
Labour 14.1%
Reform 11.1%
Green 3.7%

So really the Bournemouth Echo were stretching a point describing this seat as leaning Tory. Its too close to call.

[ricmk]

Lib Dem candidate Vikki Slade rather than Blade.

And the YouGov 'poll' has Reform at 11% when they aren't even standing here....

[peterl]

Jun 10, 2024 15:19:55 GMT ricmk said:

Lib Dem candidate Vikki Slade rather than Blade.

And the YouGov 'poll' has Reform at 11% when they aren't even standing here....

Sorry Slade. I was rushing a little when posting the candidates.

The YouGov poll was run before the candidate lists were out, but it will be interesting to see how many of those potential Reform voters will instead favor the SDP.

[batman]

Slade is quite a well-known name in Lib Dem circles. The last GLC member for my constituency was a Liberal called Adrian Slade and I wouldn't be that surprised if this one is related to him. That family also included Julian Slade, famous for writing the musical Salad Days (mercilessly later lampooned in Monty Python).

[johnloony]

Jun 10, 2024 22:07:36 GMT batman said:

Slade is quite a well-known name in Lib Dem circles. The last GLC member for my constituency was a Liberal called Adrian Slade and I wouldn't be that surprised if this one is related to him. That family also included Julian Slade, famous for writing the musical Salad Days (mercilessly later lampooned in Monty Python).

I had long since forgotten about Adrian Slade, but I am surprised to discover that he still alive is (the explanation for which is that he was much younger than he looked when he was in the news a lot in 1987-88), so I have put him on the Not Dead Yet thread.

[batman]

Jun 10, 2024 23:44:57 GMT johnloony said:

Jun 10, 2024 22:07:36 GMT batman said:

Slade is quite a well-known name in Lib Dem circles. The last GLC member for my constituency was a Liberal called Adrian Slade and I wouldn't be that surprised if this one is related to him. That family also included Julian Slade, famous for writing the musical Salad Days (mercilessly later lampooned in Monty Python).

I had long since forgotten about Adrian Slade, but I am surprised to discover that he still alive is (the explanation for which is that he was much younger than he looked when he was in the news a lot in 1987-88), so I have put him on the Not Dead Yet thread.

I am very surprised that he is still alive.

[carlton43]

Jun 10, 2024 22:07:36 GMT batman said:

Slade is quite a well-known name in Lib Dem circles. The last GLC member for my constituency was a Liberal called Adrian Slade and I wouldn't be that surprised if this one is related to him. That family also included Julian Slade, famous for writing the musical Salad Days (mercilessly later lampooned in Monty Python).

And also the home of Stanley Fletcher.

[john07]

Jun 11, 2024 8:11:47 GMT carlton43 said:

Jun 10, 2024 22:07:36 GMT batman said:

Slade is quite a well-known name in Lib Dem circles. The last GLC member for my constituency was a Liberal called Adrian Slade and I wouldn't be that surprised if this one is related to him. That family also included Julian Slade, famous for writing the musical Salad Days (mercilessly later lampooned in Monty Python).

And also the home of Stanley Fletcher.

I thought that was Slade Prison?

[batman]

yes it was and that is what carlton was referring to. Was he known as Norman or Stanley? I can't recall, usually he was just called Fletcher IIRC

[finsobruce]

Jun 11, 2024 10:55:14 GMT batman said:

yes it was and that is what carlton was referring to. Was he known as Norman or Stanley? I can't recall, usually he was just called Fletcher IIRC

Only on the opening titles is he referred to as Norman Stanley Fletcher, when Ronnie Barker reads out the judges summing up. Unfortunately the only video i can find of them cuts off the Norman Stanley bit. The show was unusual for not having a theme tune.

The only time in the show i remember his first name being used is the episode when they pretend his wife has been having an affair and he's allowed to go home for a weekend. His wife calls him "Norman".

Godber called him "Fletch".

[peterl]

Lib Dem gain

Liberal Democrat Vikki Slade 21,442 43.3% +13.4%
Conservative Michael Tomlinson 20,090 40.6% -19.4%
Labour Candice Johnson-Cole 4,566 9.2% +1.9%
Green Ben Pantling 2,355 4.8% +1.9%
Social Democratic Party John Dowling 1,061 2.1% +2.1%

[Chris from Brum]

Jun 11, 2024 12:11:10 GMT finsobruce said:

Jun 11, 2024 10:55:14 GMT batman said:

yes it was and that is what carlton was referring to. Was he known as Norman or Stanley? I can't recall, usually he was just called Fletcher IIRC

Only on the opening titles is he referred to as Norman Stanley Fletcher, when Ronnie Barker reads out the judges summing up. Unfortunately the only video i can find of them cuts off the Norman Stanley bit. The show was unusual for not having a theme tune.

The only time in the show i remember his first name being used is the episode when they pretend his wife has been having an affair and he's allowed to go home for a weekend. His wife calls him "Norman".

Godber called him "Fletch".

The "theme tune" if that's what it was, played over the closing credits. It's easy to hear why it wouldn't have worked at the top of the programme.

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Jul 7, 2024 7:47:39 GMT Chris from Brum said:

Jun 11, 2024 12:11:10 GMT finsobruce said:

Only on the opening titles is he referred to as Norman Stanley Fletcher, when Ronnie Barker reads out the judges summing up. Unfortunately the only video i can find of them cuts off the Norman Stanley bit. The show was unusual for not having a theme tune.

The only time in the show i remember his first name being used is the episode when they pretend his wife has been having an affair and he's allowed to go home for a weekend. His wife calls him "Norman".

Godber called him "Fletch".

The "theme tune" if that's what it was, played over the closing credits. It's easy to hear why it wouldn't have worked at the top of the programme.

The Porridge TV theme tune was rubbish. It wasn't until the movie adaptation released in 1979 that Porridge got a theme tune that worked and summed up what it was about - Joe Brown's "Free Inside" (lyrics by Ian Le Frenais and Lem Lubin).

[batman]

I used to see Joe Brown quite frequently, he drank in a particular pub in Buckinghamshire where he lived, perhaps he still uses the pub, with his grown-up children. Nice fella. It's a pretty & unspoilt pub in a pretty area