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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2024 19:04:08 GMT
J.D. Vance is the first member of a Presidential ticket to have facial hair since Thomas Dewey in 1948.
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 23, 2024 20:08:15 GMT
J.D. Vance is the first member of a Presidential ticket to have facial hair since Thomas Dewey in 1948. I hope his ticket loses by a whisker. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2024 20:09:14 GMT
J.D. Vance is the first member of a Presidential ticket to have facial hair since Thomas Dewey in 1948. I hope his ticket loses by a whisker. It could be a close shave. |
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Post by therealriga on Oct 26, 2024 10:10:13 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 29, 2024 22:37:51 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 3, 2024 9:00:03 GMT
Following the death of James Bond (Con, Hatfield North) I now have no Conservative representatives at any level.
When I moved to my current address just under three years ago, I had a Conservative MP who was a senior member of a Conservative government. A Conservative controlled district council with all three of my local councillors Conservative and a Conservative representative on Conservative controlled Herts county council. The only exception was a single Labour town councillor (alongside another Tory) in my parish ward. Now all my district and parish councillors are Labour as well as my MP
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2024 9:09:42 GMT
Following the death of James Bond (Con, Hatfield North) I now have no Conservative representatives at any level. When I moved to my current address just under three years ago, I had a Conservative MP who was a senior member of a Conservative government. A Conservative controlled district council with all three of my local councillors Conservative and a Conservative representative on Conservative controlled Herts county council. The only exception was a single Labour town councillor (alongside another Tory) in my parish ward. Now all my district and parish councillors are Labour as well as my MP You should stand in the by-election. For my area you have to go back over 30 years for any Tory representation, excluding the Mayor of London and Tory Londonwide AMs or MEPs. The old Archway ward elected a Tory in 1990. For a Tory council and MP at the same time you have to go back to 1968 when the Tories landslided the council. Hugh Rossi had narrowly won the Hornsey seat in the 1966 election. |
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Post by edgbaston on Nov 3, 2024 9:44:54 GMT
Following the death of James Bond (Con, Hatfield North) I now have no Conservative representatives at any level. When I moved to my current address just under three years ago, I had a Conservative MP who was a senior member of a Conservative government. A Conservative controlled district council with all three of my local councillors Conservative and a Conservative representative on Conservative controlled Herts county council. The only exception was a single Labour town councillor (alongside another Tory) in my parish ward. Now all my district and parish councillors are Labour as well as my MP Meanwhile within the same time frame I’ve gone from living in a Labour constituency Maj just under 30,000, to living in a Labour constituency Maj just over 3,000. Efficiency! |
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Post by johnloony on Nov 6, 2024 13:45:53 GMT
I have met all five of the five most recent prime ministers. In all five cases, I met them before they became prime minister. I have also met Kemi Badenoch, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner - so if any of them is the next prime minister, I will have met six consecutive prime ministers.
Now I am wondering who the next prime minister is likely to be, if it’s a man rather than a woman…
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 6, 2024 13:57:21 GMT
The obvious answer before the GE would have been Wes Streeting, but that is less certain after the result in his seat. The stock of Darren Jones does seem to be rising though.
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Post by November_Rain on Nov 6, 2024 18:18:57 GMT
The obvious answer before the GE would have been Wes Streeting, but that is less certain after the result in his seat. The stock of Darren Jones does seem to be rising though. One of our SDP candidates stood against him this GE. Said Mr Jones has the makings of a future PM and a friendly chap. |
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Post by November_Rain on Nov 6, 2024 18:22:02 GMT
Where I have lived, all bar two have changed hands in 2024:
Weston-super-Mare - now Labour
Birmingham Perry Barr (our old road moved into a new ward under that constituency) - now Independent
A close shave with Birmingham Hodge Hill which nearly went to the Workers Party, and Bristol South Labour had a challenge from a strong and likeable Green candidate. Throw in pre-2023, Birmingham Ladywood nearly went Independent.
Council level, I've moved from safe Lib Dem seat (WsM Hillside) to safe Lib Dem seat (Hengrove and Whitchurch Park). Guess my next move will be Westbury-on-Trym lol
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Post by greatkingrat on Nov 9, 2024 14:15:49 GMT
The London Borough of Wandsworth has 3 MPs as it has since 1983. All are female, and all have first names unique in parliamentary history. That also applies to the surnames of two of them. Not quite, you forgot Marsha Singh. |
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Post by Merseymike on Nov 9, 2024 14:27:18 GMT
The London Borough of Wandsworth has 3 MPs as it has since 1983. All are female, and all have first names unique in parliamentary history. That also applies to the surnames of two of them. Not quite, you forgot Marsha Singh. Or Hyacinth Morgan... |
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Post by batman on Nov 9, 2024 15:26:29 GMT
The London Borough of Wandsworth has 3 MPs as it has since 1983. All are female, and all have first names unique in parliamentary history. That also applies to the surnames of two of them. Not quite, you forgot Marsha Singh. dammit you're quite right. Remembering the new Tory MP for Bridgwater, Ashley Fox, I was trying to think if there had been a previous MP with the forename Ashley, and of course realised very soon that the female MP for W Lancashire also has that name (although her first forename, which she doesn't use, is Ruth). Duly deleted. |
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Post by batman on Nov 9, 2024 15:28:28 GMT
And I only found out this moment that Ashley Fox has a knighthood.
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Post by greenhert on Nov 9, 2024 16:48:01 GMT
Not quite, you forgot Marsha Singh. Or Hyacinth Morgan... Or (Sir) Mancherjee Bhownaggree or Dabadhai Naoroji. |
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Post by nyx on Nov 10, 2024 3:03:59 GMT
The obvious answer before the GE would have been Wes Streeting, but that is less certain after the result in his seat. The stock of Darren Jones does seem to be rising though. Whilst his seat is reasonably secure, the Greens do probably have a chance of gaining any of the Bristol seats. |
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Post by Foggy on Nov 10, 2024 3:13:00 GMT
North West would be the least likely of the Bristol seats to fall to the Greens though. Jones only won it off the Tories in 2017.
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Post by andrewp on Nov 19, 2024 9:27:41 GMT
Based on the Times Guide and digging out a few DOBs from other sources, I have at least a year of birth for all bar about 6 MPs, and am fairly confident from photos that none of those other 6 would feature in these lists
10 oldest Labour MPs
1. Marie Rimmer - St Helens South & Whiston ( DOB 27/04/47) age 77
2. Clive Betts- Sheffield South East ( 13/01/50) 74
3. Graham Stringer- Blackley & Middleton South ( 17/02/50) 74
4. Jon Trickett- Normanton & Hemsworth ( 02/07/50) 74
5. John McDonnell- Hayes & Harlington (08/09/51) 73
6. Diane Abbott - Hackney N & Stoke Newington (27/09/53) 71
7. Hilary Benn - Leeds South (26/11/53) 70
8. Valerie Vaz- Walsall & Bloxwich (07/12/54) 69
9. Fabian Hamilton- Leeds NE (12/04/55) 69
10. Sir Nic Dakin - Scunthorpe (10/07/55) 69
10 oldest Conservative MPs
1. Sir Roger Gale - Herne Bay & Sandwich ( DOB 20/08/43) age 81
2. Sir Christopher Chope- Christchurch ( 19/05/47) 77
3. Sir David Davis- Goole & Pocklington (23/12/48) 75
4 Sir Edward Leigh- Gainsborough (20/07/50) 74
5. Martin Vickers- Brigg & Immingham (13/09/50) 74
6. Sir Julian Lewis - New Forest E (26/09/51) 73
7. Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown- Cotswolds N (23/03/53) 71
8. Sir Iain Duncan-Smith - Chingford & Woodford Green (09/04/54) 70
9. Andrew Mitchell- Sutton Coldfield (23/03/56) 68
10. Bob Blackman - Harrow East (26/04/56) 68
10 oldest Liberal Democrat MPs
1. Jamie Stone - Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross (16/06/54) age 70
2. Susan Murray - Dunbartonshire E (26/05/57) 67
3. Charlotte Cane- Ely & E Cambridgeshire (03/06/58) 66
4. Clive Jones- Wokingham (10/07/58) 66
5. Andrew George- St Ives (02/12/58) 65
6. Paul Kohler- Wimbledon- (15/03/59) 65
7. Tessa Munt- Wells & Mendip Hills (16/10/59) 65
8. John Milne- Horsham (??/01/60) 64
9. Wera Hobhouse- Bath (08/02/60) 64
10. Brian Mathew- Melksham & Devizes (25/07/60) 64
10 oldest MPs from other parties
1. Jeremy Corbyn- Ind, Islington North ( 26/05/49) age 75
2. Gregory Campbell- DUP, Londonderry E (15/02/53) 71
3. Jim Allister- TUV, Antrim N (02/04/53) - 71
4. Sammy Wilson- DUP, Antrim E (04/04/53) 71
5. Jim Shannon - DUP, Strangford (25/03/55) 69
6. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker- Chorley (10/06/57) 67
7. Rupert Lowe, RefUK- Great Yarmouth (31/10/57) 67
8. Seamus Logan, SNP- Aberdeenshire N & Moray E (??/01/58) 66
9. Peter Wishart, SNP- Perth & Kinross-shire (09/03/62) 62
10. Ann Davies, PC- Caerfyrddin ( 22/12/62) -61
I make it that there are 27 MPs who were elected for the first time,( not retreads) and who were 60 or over on 4 July - 14 Labour MPs, 8 Lib Dems, 2 RefUK, 1 PC 1 SNP and 1 TUV
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