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Post by lennon on Jul 4, 2016 8:47:56 GMT
I feel for the good folk of County Durham who get moved from 'Sedgefield' to 'Blair' under this approach...
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 4, 2016 8:54:12 GMT
All right then
Powell Constituency in the Black Country!!!
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Post by islington on Jul 4, 2016 9:24:35 GMT
I was hesitating whether to call one of my proposed seats 'Spelthorne' or 'Staines' but maybe I'll compromise on 'Ali G'.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 10:03:25 GMT
Does this mean that the poor sods in Belper would have to reside in a constituency called 'Brown'?
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 4, 2016 13:32:36 GMT
Does this mean that the poor sods in Belper would have to reside in a constituency called 'Brown'? I prefer Brown to Belper.
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 4, 2016 14:13:45 GMT
could we have a 'Poulson' somewhere in Bradford depends on how much you are offering....
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Post by greatkingrat on Jul 4, 2016 14:35:54 GMT
Does this mean that the poor sods in Belper would have to reside in a constituency called 'Brown'? No, Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath has priority on the name Brown, Belper will have to be called George-Brown.
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Post by froome on Jul 4, 2016 14:38:47 GMT
Maybe we should adopt the Australian practice of naming some constituencies after important political figures. For example Old Bexley and Sidcup could be re-named "Heath". Knowsley would become "Wilson". Naming North Devon Thorpe would, I think, be ... not popular.
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 4, 2016 14:40:38 GMT
Does this mean that the poor sods in Belper would have to reside in a constituency called 'Brown'? No, Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath has priority on the name Brown, Belper will have to be called George-Brown. Not at all Belper has seniority of incumbent and was an earlier association. But the name Lord George would be rather good.
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 4, 2016 14:42:43 GMT
Maybe we should adopt the Australian practice of naming some constituencies after important political figures. For example Old Bexley and Sidcup could be re-named "Heath". Knowsley would become "Wilson". Naming North Devon Thorpe would, I think, be ... not popular. What about 'Woof'? Or 'The Hitman and Him'? Or 'Bunny Thorpe is Missing'?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 4, 2016 14:45:41 GMT
Walsall North will have to be called Stonehouse.
And imagine the joy in north Lincolnshire when their constituency is named 'Archer'.
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Post by islington on Jul 4, 2016 14:55:00 GMT
Does this mean that the poor sods in Belper would have to reside in a constituency called 'Brown'? No, Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath has priority on the name Brown, Belper will have to be called George-Brown. Well, we already have a seat called 'Gordon'. Incidentally, the seat I'm proposing for that area is called 'Gordon and Deeside' because, compared with the current Gordon seat, it extends into the upper Dee valley (Ballater, Braemar, &c). But I note that 'Deeside' has also been suggested as a component in names for seats in the Wirral and Flintshire areas, in reference to another river Dee in a completely different part of the UK. And it is a fact that we are a dull and unimaginative nation where it comes to river names, with Dees and Dons and Avons and Stours and Ouses all over the place - which reinforces my feeling that rivers don't make good constituency names. Oh yes - and Derwents.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 15:16:44 GMT
islington, at the Zombie Review, one seat in England , one in Wales, and one in Scotland all had "Deeside" in their names
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Post by John Chanin on Jul 4, 2016 19:09:52 GMT
islington , at the Zombie Review, one seat in England , one in Wales, and one in Scotland all had "Deeside" in their names Which just goes to show the persistence of the Celtic substrate. It has long been a curiosity well known to linguistic students that rivers tend to have a stickiness in name that other geographical features don't.
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Post by Foggy on Jul 4, 2016 20:11:12 GMT
That's a fascinating bit of onomastics, but it further shows why it's not a good idea to name constituencies after bodies of water.
Incidentally, pictures of rivers with the same name marked on a map of Great Britain came up in a visual round during the most recently aired series of University Challenge.
Sadly it wasn't on the episode in which I featured.
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Post by Clarko on Jul 5, 2016 11:25:18 GMT
islington , at the Zombie Review, one seat in England , one in Wales, and one in Scotland all had "Deeside" in their names To be fair, the English and Welsh examples were on opposite banks of the same body of water.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2016 17:17:36 GMT
islington , at the Zombie Review, one seat in England , one in Wales, and one in Scotland all had "Deeside" in their names To be fair, the English and Welsh examples were on opposite banks of the same body of water. Fair point
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Post by Crimson King on Jul 5, 2016 22:34:13 GMT
missed a trick there, didnt they. Dee Banks was crying out to be proposed
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Post by Foggy on Jul 5, 2016 23:29:58 GMT
Except it would fall foul of the spoilsport clause in the legislation that states every constituency must be contained entirely within England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 12, 2016 11:09:34 GMT
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