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Post by yellowperil on Aug 9, 2022 6:25:48 GMT
Come to think about it I did know about Somoto. The Polish one is news to me- maybe its since my time. I haven’t been to Fougères for two or three years but have visited many times since the 1980s. Fougères appears to have moved to the left. After electing Christian Democrat, Gisgardist, and Gaullist mayors from 1945 until 1983, it returned a Socialist and then a DVG mayor since then. It was definitely socialist in my years of going to Fougeres, and very proud of its shoemaking heritage- cobblers are always of the left, I thought. Most of my many friends in Fougeres in those times were definitely socialists, including of course mayor Jacques Faucheux- Jacques died in 2013. You might like the fact that (Tory) Ashford named one of the most important roads in the town, the one leading to the international station, as Jacques Faucheux Avenue,as well as the link road to Junction 9 on the M20 being Fougeres Avenue. |
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Post by maxque on Aug 9, 2022 14:00:11 GMT
Come to think about it I did know about Somoto. The Polish one is news to me- maybe its since my time. I haven’t been to Fougères for two or three years but have visited many times since the 1980s. Fougères appears to have moved to the left. After electing Christian Democrat, Gisgardist, and Gaullist mayors from 1945 until 1983, it returned a Socialist and then a DVG mayor since then. And now the DVG mayor is a DVC one, being a Macron supporter. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 11, 2022 14:03:35 GMT
The EU referendum is half way between today and the general election which brought the Conservative Party to power.
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Post by greenhert on Aug 14, 2022 21:41:02 GMT
As it happens, Kingston & Surbiton ended up with 8 candidates on the ballot paper this year.
The leaderboard of longest aggregate ballot papers since 1983 (by-elections are not counted for this purpose) now stands at:
| Constituency: | Total # of candidates since 1983 | Average candidate #s per election | | Hackney South & Shoreditch | 84 | 8.4 | | Bethnal Green & Stepney/Bow | 74 | 7.4 | | Sheffield Central | 72 | 7.2 | | Cities of London & Westminster | 72 | 7.2 | | (Camberwell &) Peckham | 70 | 7 | | Vauxhall | 69 | 6.9 | | Cardiff Central | 69 | 6.9 | | Oxford East | 69 | 6.9 | | (Windsor &) Maidenhead | 68 | 6.8 | | Uxbridge (& South Ruislip) | 67 | 6.7 |
Kensington has been excluded from the leaderboard because it was split in 1997 between Regent's Park & Kensington North and Kensington & Chelsea (both abolished in 2010); otherwise it would have qualified on candidate numbers.
Several other constituencies have also had aggregate candidate numbers of 67 over the last ten general elections. However, because of the high candidate number surge in Uxbridge & Ruislip South recently, attributed to current Prime Minister Boris Johnson having been its MP since 2015, I have awarded that particular constituency the 10th and final spot on the leaderboard.
By comparison, the constituency with the lowest number of total candidacies since 1983 is Bolsover, with just 38 (3.8 per general election). Birkenhead, the only constituency in the 2010 general election with only three candidates, is not far ahead with 46. |
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Post by John Chanin on Aug 16, 2022 5:27:06 GMT
From peterl 's profiles Wasn't sure whether to put this in the amazing stupidity thread |
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Post by peterl on Aug 16, 2022 10:59:08 GMT
From peterl 's profiles Wasn't sure whether to put this in the amazing stupidity thread These days, there seems to be a desire in ward and council names to place locations in alphabetical order. |
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Post by john07 on Aug 18, 2022 18:37:19 GMT
From peterl 's profiles Wasn't sure whether to put this in the amazing stupidity thread These days, there seems to be a desire in ward and council names to place locations in alphabetical order. It never applied with Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth or Ross and Cromerty. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Aug 18, 2022 18:47:34 GMT
Fulham and Hammersmith? Chelsea and Kensington?
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Post by rockefeller on Aug 25, 2022 7:47:53 GMT
Bush did very well with Hispanics in 2004, but the GOP outperformed him in the TX-34 special election.
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Post by rockefeller on Sept 4, 2022 13:41:27 GMT
Kwasi Kwarteng could be the first Cambridge graduate to hold one of the great offices of state since Charles Clarke and the first University Challenge winner to do so
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2022 12:33:14 GMT
Is Liz Truss the first PM to represent a Norfolk constituency?
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 5, 2022 13:02:23 GMT
Is Liz Truss the first PM to represent a Norfolk constituency? The first PM Robert Walpole was MP for Kings Lynn IIRC. 1702-1712 and 1713-38. Five other Walpoles (Two Horatios, one Horace, a Thomas and a John) went on to represent the same constituency, with the latter two doing so as Tories rather than Whigs.
And he was MP for the Norfolk rotten borough of Castle Rising for a year before that (1701-2). Previous MPs included Samuel Pepys and the Cavalier playwright Robert Howard.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2022 17:55:45 GMT
Kwasi Kwarteng could be the first Cambridge graduate to hold one of the great offices of state since Charles Clarke and the first University Challenge winner to do so It's surprising how dominant Oxford has been, relative to Cambridge. You'd think the latter would've had a few more high-flighers over the past couple of decades. They haven't really shone bright since the 'Cambridge Mafia' days. |
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Post by rockefeller on Sept 5, 2022 21:00:33 GMT
Kwasi Kwarteng could be the first Cambridge graduate to hold one of the great offices of state since Charles Clarke and the first University Challenge winner to do so It's surprising how dominant Oxford has been, relative to Cambridge. You'd think the latter would've had a few more high-flighers over the past couple of decades. They haven't really shone bright since the 'Cambridge Mafia' days. Merton, Oxford doing well, first PM and topped the 2021 Norrington Table (ranks Oxford colleges by Finals results). The next PM could end the Cambridge drought in No. 10 - Burnham, Kwarteng, or Streeting could all get the top job. |
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Post by johnloony on Sept 6, 2022 0:38:02 GMT
The UK was the 5th country in the world to get a woman prime minister. (z) The UK was the 11th country in the world to get a 2nd woman prime minister. (a) If the UK gets a woman prime minister in 2022, the UK will be the 8th country to have 3 woman prime ministers. (b) (z) 1. Sri Lanka 1960 2. India 1964 3. Israel 1969 4. Central African Republic 1975 5. United Kingdom 1979 (a) 1. Sri Lanka 1994 2. Bangladesh 1996 3. New Zealand 1999 4. São Tomé & Principe 2005 5. Haiti 2008 6. Finland 2010 7. Peru 2011 8. Senegal 2013 9. Norway 2013 10. Poland 2014 11. United Kingdom 2016 (b) 1. Haiti 2014 2. Peru 2014 3. Poland 2015 4. New Zealand 2017 5. Moldova 2019 6. Finland 2019 7. Lithuania 2020 Peru has had 6 woman prime ministers, but this “record” is debatable / open to interpretation, because the executive leader of the government in Peru is the President, who appoints the “prime minister” as the chair of the cabinet of ministers; he / she has much less power than the (e.g.) prime minister of France, and it is debatable whether he / she should be counted as a PM at all. The list of statistics is also flexible in the sense that some of the prime ministers (e.g. in Haiti) have been “acting prime minister” - so, depending on what the laws and constitutions say in various countries, it is also debatable whether they should be counted. bump |
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Sept 6, 2022 21:00:20 GMT
David Cameron is now the most recent Prime Minister, the length of whose term of office was longer than that of his two most immediate successors combined. Perhaps not a particularly impressive record - the previously most recent such Prime Minister was Tony Blair (one of whose two most immediate successors was, of course, David Cameron).
And George Osborne is now the most recent Chancellor of the Exchequer, the length of whose term of office was longer than that of his four most immediate successors combined. The previously most recent such Chancellor was either Frederick Robinson (Chancellor from 1823 to 1827) or, if one does not include an interim appointment as one of the successors, Nicholas Vansittart (Chancellor from 1812 to 1823 - in this case, the immediate four successors are Robinson and his three immediate non-interim successors).
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Post by rockefeller on Sept 7, 2022 13:37:19 GMT
Tory PMs since 2010
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Sept 7, 2022 17:07:38 GMT
Tory PMs since 2010 Old Etonian Woman Old Etonian Woman
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Sept 8, 2022 19:11:56 GMT
Queen Elizabeth II had 15 Prime Ministers - a record for a British monarch. If she had died just four days earlier, she would have had only 14, and tied with George III.
Also, the three-day interval between Elizabeth II's appointment of Liz Truss as Prime Minister and her death is by far the shortest in British history - all previous Prime Ministers had been in office for at least a couple of months before the death of the monarch who appointed them.
(Did Elizabeth II hang on in there to get the record? Or to see the back of Boris Johnson? Or, as I do regard as far the most likely, just to avoid the messiness of forcing a royal accession to overlap with a prime ministerial one?)
Something to note is that, before 1867, the death of the monarch automatically triggered a general election within six months. Though before 1688, the death of the monarch actually dissolved any sitting Parliament - and a general election for a new Parliament only needed to be called when the new monarch decided that they wanted (or needed) one.
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Post by rockefeller on Sept 8, 2022 20:46:38 GMT
The UK has had an Elizabeth as head of state or PM continuously since 1952
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