stb12
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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 1:09:42 GMT
The Wrekin
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on May 29, 2024 14:48:25 GMT
It is being rumoured that Lucy Allen is considering running here for Reform, which I doubt Mark Pritchard would take particularly well.
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Rural Radical
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Post by Rural Radical on May 29, 2024 15:26:17 GMT
It is being rumoured that Lucy Allen is considering running here for Reform, which I doubt Mark Pritchard would take particularly well. That would be hilarious. |
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Post by greenhert on May 29, 2024 17:30:34 GMT
It is being rumoured that Lucy Allen is considering running here for Reform, which I doubt Mark Pritchard would take particularly well. Where did you hear this? And Ms Allan had already announced her retirement when she still had the Conservative whip. |
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YL
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Post by YL on May 29, 2024 17:33:50 GMT
It is being rumoured that Lucy Allen is considering running here for Reform, which I doubt Mark Pritchard would take particularly well. Where did you hear this? And Ms Allan had already announced her retirement when she still had the Conservative whip. Story in the i: |
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 29, 2024 18:09:54 GMT
Where did you hear this? And Ms Allan had already announced her retirement when she still had the Conservative whip. Story in the i: Ah, Wrekin For Reform. Lovely part of Shropshire. |
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john07
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Post by john07 on May 29, 2024 21:10:44 GMT
I was born in this constituency. My parents were struggling to find a house amid post-war shortages and were staying with my grandparents. They noticed that council were building some houses and went to apply for one. They were told that the houses were reserved for council employees. As the houses were completed and still remained empty, my father applied again only to be given the same answer. Eventually my father lost patience and gathered some of his mates with tools and broke into one of the houses and changed the locks and moved in. I was born there.
Subsequently he got a new job in Cheadle Heath and we moved north before the council got around to any eviction proceedings. My grandparents lived in Ketley Bank and the Trench, in neighbouring Telford Constituency. My maternal grandfather ran the signal box on the Market Drayton line at Newport until Beeching closed the line Previously he worked as a coal miner and a police constable. My paternal grandfather worked at Stanley-Sheldon (later GKN) in Wellington after leaving the coal mines.
I also spent time in Hodnet, which I assume has come into Wrekin from North Shropshire and had many relatives throughout the constituency as well as in Telford. I think that there have been fewer developments in the Wrekin constituency than for neighbouring Telford which has changed beyond recognition due to the New Town.
It appears that it would take a political earthquake to challenge the conservatives for the Wrekin given its predominantly rural and suburban makeup.
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Post by John Chanin on Jun 8, 2024 11:09:23 GMT
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The Bishop
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