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Post by johnloony on May 22, 2022 21:40:00 GMT
presumable someonewho stood in Knutsford or Clitheroe on 1/3/79? 1990s. So I suspect we're talking about someone in Wirral South on 27/2/1997; is the Richard North who stood for UKIP the same one who stood for the Referendum Party in South Derbyshire in the General Election? Just because it was someone who stood in two elections in the 1990s (9 weeks apart) doesn't mean that they couldn't also have stood in 1979. |
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Post by greenhert on May 22, 2022 21:46:00 GMT
1990s. So I suspect we're talking about someone in Wirral South on 27/2/1997; is the Richard North who stood for UKIP the same one who stood for the Referendum Party in South Derbyshire in the General Election? Just because it was someone who stood in two elections in the 1990s (9 weeks apart) doesn't mean that they couldn't also have stood in 1979. No, but in this case they did not. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on May 23, 2022 8:13:14 GMT
On Thursday Nicola Sturgeon will equal Alex Salmons’s record of 7 years, 185 days as First Minister and will overtake him on Friday.
She’s now been a Cabinet Minister for just over 15 years.
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Post by greatkingrat on May 23, 2022 8:38:57 GMT
1990s. So I suspect we're talking about someone in Wirral South on 27/2/1997; is the Richard North who stood for UKIP the same one who stood for the Referendum Party in South Derbyshire in the General Election? Just because it was someone who stood in two elections in the 1990s (9 weeks apart) doesn't mean that they couldn't also have stood in 1979. Which raises another question - which person has the longest gap between two parliamentary candidatures without standing anywhere in between? |
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Post by The Bishop on May 23, 2022 10:08:48 GMT
The former Labour MP Neil Turner stood for Oswestry in 1970, and then nothing until he was elected MP for Wigan in the 1999 by-election.
I expect this record is beatable, though.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jun 20, 2022 9:09:45 GMT
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 21, 2022 9:27:58 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Jun 21, 2022 11:12:52 GMT
Not sure which thread to put this in. How about the "(not yet) resting in peace" thread? |
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Post by michaelarden on Jun 21, 2022 13:41:43 GMT
Coloured: Thanks - does the other include the Liberals and the Liberals include the Lib Dems? |
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Post by casualobserver on Jun 23, 2022 19:57:20 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 5, 2022 17:48:21 GMT
The election of a Labor government and Prime Minister in Australia marks the first time since 1945 when there was a Conservative PM in the UK and heads of government on the left in the other four Anglosphere countries. Given that Churchill led a coalition government, it is the first time ever that a Conservative government in the UK has been in this situation (allowing that it is sometimes debatable whether the Democrats should always have been classed as 'the left' and the Republicans as 'the right')
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 5, 2022 21:12:47 GMT
Boris is the first PM since Thatcher to have had three Chancellors.
Her final one lasted a year…before replacing her.
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Post by johnloony on Jul 7, 2022 12:56:00 GMT
When Boris Johnson leaves office, there will be (for the first time ever) 6 living former prime ministers.
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Post by greatkingrat on Jul 7, 2022 12:59:02 GMT
When Boris Johnson leaves office, there will be (for the first time ever) 6 loving former prime ministers. Not sure there is anyone who loves all 6 of them! |
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Post by batman on Jul 7, 2022 13:47:40 GMT
perhaps the Queen would say she does.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 7, 2022 16:50:46 GMT
A Gin and Dubonnet says she doesn’t.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2022 0:11:20 GMT
Boris is the first PM since Thatcher to have had three Chancellors. Her final one lasted a year…before replacing her. I bet Blair wishes he'd had the chance to have three Chancellors  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2022 0:17:11 GMT
When Boris Johnson leaves office, there will be (for the first time ever) 6 living former prime ministers. And none are even 80 yet. |
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Post by greenhert on Jul 11, 2022 18:46:03 GMT
In 1931 Labour lost their deposit in these constituencies despite being the only opposition candidate to the Conservatives/National Liberals: South Moulton Petersfield Horsham & Worthing Ripon The list would have been longer had not many Conservative MPs representing rural constituencies been elected unopposed. I have just discovered that this also occurred in Chichester in 1931 (Conservative: 87.79%, Labour: 12.21%). |
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Post by sirbenjamin on Jul 12, 2022 1:19:20 GMT
it is sometimes debatable whether the Democrats should always have been classed as 'the left' and the Republicans as 'the right') when did the Democrats switch from being supporters of segregation to supporters of black rights?
2030?
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