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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 19, 2016 14:50:30 GMT
Liberal Democrats reject STV!
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Apr 19, 2016 15:29:31 GMT
Liberal Democrats reject STV! I'm just amazed given how we've managed to fu.ck most things up lately we didn't end up with a three way tie. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 19, 2016 15:45:21 GMT
Would have been funny if it were the three leaders' heirs though!
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 12, 2016 14:15:25 GMT
The Earl of Cork and Orrery has been elected to the House of Lords to fill the vacancy for a Crossbench peer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 17:32:21 GMT
The Earl of Cork and Orrery has been elected to the House of Lords to fill the vacancy for a Crossbench peer. See, as a Cork man I should have a say in this. The Boyles are a bunch of gobshites, gombeens and cod-politicos. A proper Irish byelection would have brought this out. |
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Post by mrhell on Jul 15, 2016 17:51:24 GMT
The Earl of Cork and Orrery has been elected to the House of Lords to fill the vacancy for a Crossbench peer. The only reason I've heard of Cork and Orrery was because there's a race at Royal Ascot which used to have that name. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 17:56:56 GMT
The Earl of Cork and Orrery has been elected to the House of Lords to fill the vacancy for a Crossbench peer. See, as a Cork man I should have a say in this. The Boyles are a bunch of gobshites, gombeens and cod-politicos. A proper Irish byelection would have brought this out. What? The Great Earl was a kind of genius, albeit of a fascinatingly horrible kind. His children, Hon. Robert Boyle and Lady Katherine Boyle were geniuses pure and simple, and later members of the family like William Kent's patron the 3rd Earl of Burlington were far from insignificant. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 18:22:28 GMT
See, as a Cork man I should have a say in this. The Boyles are a bunch of gobshites, gombeens and cod-politicos. A proper Irish byelection would have brought this out. What? The Great Earl was a kind of genius, albeit of a fascinatingly horrible kind. His children, Hon. Robert Boyle and Lady Catherine Boyle were geniuses pure and simple, and later members of the family like William Kent's patron the 3rd Earl of Burlington were far from insignificant. A late Norman-English invader, intent on crushing the Irish, was not 'great' if you were an Irish Catholic. Whig history is nonsense in its treatment of Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was a big fan. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 18:26:10 GMT
What? The Great Earl was a kind of genius, albeit of a fascinatingly horrible kind. His children, Hon. Robert Boyle and Lady Catherine Boyle were geniuses pure and simple, and later members of the family like William Kent's patron the 3rd Earl of Burlington were far from insignificant. A late Norman-English invader, intent on crushing the Irish, was not 'great' if you were an Irish Catholic. Whig history is nonsense in its treatment of Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was a big fan. Very late - he arrived in Ireland in 1588. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 15, 2016 18:30:54 GMT
The Earl of Cork and Orrery has been elected to the House of Lords to fill the vacancy for a Crossbench peer. The only reason I've heard of Cork and Orrery was because there's a race at Royal Ascot which used to have that name. One of his ancestors also gave the beautiful name 'Orrery' to a model of the solar system. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 18:39:51 GMT
A late Norman-English invader, intent on crushing the Irish, was not 'great' if you were an Irish Catholic. Whig history is nonsense in its treatment of Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was a big fan. Very late - he arrived in Ireland in 1588. I know, an Elizabethan import. |
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Post by mrhell on Jul 15, 2016 20:55:38 GMT
The only reason I've heard of Cork and Orrery was because there's a race at Royal Ascot which used to have that name. One of his ancestors also gave the beautiful name 'Orrery' to a model of the solar system. Yeah, thanks for that. I've heard the name used by a few astronomy programmes but I hadn't made the connecttion. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jul 15, 2016 21:25:49 GMT
The Earl of Cork and Orrery has been elected to the House of Lords to fill the vacancy for a Crossbench peer. See, as a Cork man I should have a say in this. The Boyles are a bunch of gobshites, gombeens and cod-politicos. A proper Irish byelection would have brought this out. But would those qualities be disadvantages in a proper Irish by-election? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 23:24:59 GMT
See, as a Cork man I should have a say in this. The Boyles are a bunch of gobshites, gombeens and cod-politicos. A proper Irish byelection would have brought this out. But would those qualities be disadvantages in a proper Irish by-election? Aye.... 'cos he's Orange. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jul 18, 2016 9:09:41 GMT
But would those qualities be disadvantages in a proper Irish by-election? Aye.... 'cos he's Orange. A bad spray-tan is practically de rigeure for a proper west of Ireland independent candidate. |
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Post by nick10 on Jan 12, 2017 9:01:17 GMT
There is a vacancy in the peers elected by the whole House following the death of Lord Lyell on Tuesday. Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell became a member of the House of Lords on his 21st birthday in 1960, taking his seat in 1961 and was elected in 1999. He was a whip and junior minister in the 1980s and later a deputy speaker. Lyell succeeded to the title aged four in 1943 when his father was killed in action in Tunisia.
The peerage, created in 1914, and baronetcy, created in 1894, are now extinct.
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Post by tonygreaves on Jan 12, 2017 15:31:56 GMT
This is sad. Charlie was a delight, one of the pleasantest Tories in the House, and fuller of anecdotes than anyone I have known.
Although it is a by-election of the whole House (he was one of the ?16 elected in 1999 as a potential officer of the House) and any eligible hereditary peer (who is not already a member of the Lords) can stand and be elected, under the Carter Convention the winner should be a Conservative. This will be "arranged" in the usual way.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 12, 2017 22:23:04 GMT
The peerage, created in 1914, and baronetcy, created in 1894, are now extinct. It appears the 2nd baron had a sister, so the 3rd baron may well have had cousins who could've inherited the peerage if only the government had made time for the Succession to Peerages Bill to pass by now. |
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Post by peterl on Jan 13, 2017 11:17:34 GMT
This is sad. Charlie was a delight, one of the pleasantest Tories in the House, and fuller of anecdotes than anyone I have known. Although it is a by-election of the whole House (he was one of the ?16 elected in 1999 as a potential officer of the House) and any eligible hereditary peer (who is not already a member of the Lords) can stand and be elected, under the Carter Convention the winner should be a Conservative. This will be "arranged" in the usual way. Tony How exactly do you "arrange" an election? |
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Post by Crimson King on Jan 13, 2017 11:40:27 GMT
usual channels old chap
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