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Oct 17, 2016 22:21:41 GMT
Post by Andrew_S on Oct 17, 2016 22:21:41 GMT
Does anyone have a spreadsheet or other document containing information on how many MPs: (a) are still living today, and (b) are still elected members of the House of Commons for each general election, for example since 1945? For instance, the answers to those two questions for the 1979 election might be something like (a) 100 and (b) 20. (I'm just guessing the answers).
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Post by David Ashforth on Oct 17, 2016 22:30:25 GMT
Does anyone have a spreadsheet or other document containing information on how many MPs: (a) are still living today, and (b) are still elected members of the House of Commons for each general election, for example since 1945? For instance, the answers to those two questions for the 1979 election might be something like (a) 100 and (b) 20. (I'm just guessing the answers). Living Former Members of the House of Commons researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN05324 |
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Oct 21, 2016 16:43:03 GMT
Post by hullenedge on Oct 21, 2016 16:43:03 GMT
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 24, 2016 13:55:33 GMT
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Oct 24, 2016 21:40:27 GMT
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Oct 24, 2016 23:04:13 GMT
Post by carlton43 on Oct 24, 2016 23:04:13 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 25, 2016 22:34:32 GMT
I was interested to know how many MPs elected at the 1979 election are still alive today: I thought the answer wouldn't be more than 200 but in fact the answer is 247 which is almost 40% of the 635 elected. There were some interesting names in the list such as John Eden who was first elected for Bournemouth West at a 1954 by-election, and David Myles who was MP for Banff from 1979 to 1983.
The number jumps to 348 for the 1983 election, which is 53.5%.
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Post by David Ashforth on Nov 5, 2016 23:47:56 GMT
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Nov 6, 2016 1:50:51 GMT
Post by Foggy on Nov 6, 2016 1:50:51 GMT
"Shear personality"?! I know it was written on a typewriter, but still...
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Post by hullenedge on Dec 8, 2016 15:32:32 GMT
The 1904 Thanet By-election
Harry Marks was the Tory candidate. His nomination was not universally popular within Tory ranks. A perusal of Marks' career reveals a rather 'fruity' background.
The Liberal candidate, Joseph King, put up a strong fight but was defeated by 382 votes in this safe Tory constituency. Marks accused King of 'muck raking' during the bitter campaign.
One rather peculiar incident stands out during the contest. This account, from the London Daily News, begins:-
"...let me revert to an incident that befell Mr Marks on Saturday night. Mr Marks has now the support of Mr Vernon Harcourt. Mr 'Vernon Harcourt', as he calls himself, in violation of the rights of a great Liberal family, is perhaps the man with the most lurid past in Europe!
Mr Marks, with the weight of his own past sitting upon him like a nightmare, has been straining every nerve to limit his supporters to people with reputations as mild and bland and wholesale of that of a curate. And now out of the darkness, unannounced, unprepared for, unexpected, there steps this fearsome figure of 'Vernon Harcourt'.
It happened thus: A solemn crowd stood gaping in a small backyard in St. Lawrence, round a wagon surmounted by a swinging paraffin lamp.
Up out of the confused and moving shadows bobbed a bucolic chairman, whose rosy face shone out in the halo of the lamp – 'Gentlemen, we have met to hear Mr Marks expound the things that is in his mind for the benefit of the country. Which the same I will call upon him.'
At this fateful moment a tall figure approached the candidate. Its grey motor-cap was doffed, and in dulcet tones came the words – 'Mr Marks, I am Mr Vernon Harcourt, of the Imperial South African Labour League I have come to support your cause'.
Mr Marks, evidently surprised and puzzled, and trying to recollect where he had heard the name before, shook hands, and, after speaking himself, called upon the distinguished stranger. Little did Mr Marks know that this Vernon Harcourt has written a book about his own past, full of stories so shocking that you would not believe them of your worst enemy. Mr Vernon Harcourt charges himself in this book with having killed a man in a drunken brawl, and been tried for murder. He tells how in the American Civil War he joined one side that deserted to another, and gave information which led to the sinking of a battleship and the drowning of her crew. He admits that the name 'Vernon Harcourt' was assumed during a profligate career upon the stage.
Additional particulars are to hand regarding the career of Mr 'Vernon Harcourt'. We learn that he has been an Australian gold-digger, a British Man-of-Wars' man, an English evangelist, and a Scottish actor; he has also been a vendor of pills, a writer of plays and verses, a parachutist, a scientific boxer, and a tract distributor."
Harcourt had duped other Tory meetings as he toured the British Isles lecturing on the Boer War, the Labour League and Chinese Slavery. It's unclear what happened to him but there are later reports of 'Vernon Harcourt' lecturing on Irish affairs and also advising people, for better fuel economy, to sprinkle salt water on coal.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 9, 2016 22:13:42 GMT
An issue raised in very tangential relation to the Sleaford byelection, here are the Labour MPs who voted in favour of capital punishment after 1969.
16 December 1969 - motion to make the five year suspension of capital punishment permanent
Peter Doig (Dundee, West)
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, Central)
David Ensor (Bury and Radcliffe) - Teller
11 December 1974 - amendment (Dame Jill Knight) supporting return of capital punishment
Peter Doig (Dundee, West)
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
11 December 1975 - motion (Ivan Lawrence) calling for capital punishment for terrorist murders
Peter Doig (Dundee, West)
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
19 July 1979 - motion (Eldon Griffiths) calling for the sentence of capital punishment to be again available to the courts
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
Leslie Spriggs (Wigan)
11 May 1982 - new clause (Vivian Bendall) to the Criminal Justice Bill to make people convicted of murder liable to capital punishment.
Robert Cant (Stoke-on-Trent, Central)
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
Albert Roberts (Normanton)
Leslie Spriggs (Wigan)
11 May 1982 - new clause (Vivian Bendall) to the Criminal Justice Bill to make people convicted of terrorist murder liable to capital punishment.
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
Albert Roberts (Normanton)
Leslie Spriggs (Wigan)
11 May 1982 - new clause (Vivian Bendall) to the Criminal Justice Bill to make people convicted of murder by firearms or explosives liable to capital punishment.
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
Leslie Spriggs (Wigan)
11 May 1982 - new clause (Vivian Bendall) to the Criminal Justice Bill to make people convicted of murder of a police or prison officer liable to capital punishment.
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
Leslie Spriggs (Wigan)
11 May 1982 - new clause (Teddy Taylor) to the Criminal Justice Bill to make people convicted of murder during the course of robbery liable to capital punishment.
Jack Dunnett (Nottingham, East)
Arthur Lewis (Newham North West)
Leslie Spriggs (Wigan)
Since 1983 no Labour MP has voted for capital punishment.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 10, 2016 18:40:47 GMT
Fascinating fact:
In the 2016 GLA elections the Assembly constituency with the strongest swing to Labour was:
West Central
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 10, 2016 20:59:45 GMT
Fascinating fact: In the 2016 GLA elections the Assembly constituency with the strongest swing to Labour was: West CentralClear evidence of a conspiracy involving Progress, the Metropolitan Police, the returning officer and the Bilderberg group I'd say. Would anyone care to give me a bunch of money so that I can launch a legal challenge? |
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Post by David Ashforth on Dec 12, 2016 20:36:09 GMT
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Post by hullenedge on Dec 18, 2016 9:42:15 GMT
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Post by hullenedge on Dec 21, 2016 21:06:24 GMT
Win £2 per week for life!!! (That's about £100 per week today).
The Daily Mail offered a cash prize in 1923 for correctly forecasting the number of seats parties would hold after the General Election. There was no entrance fee nor a limit to the number of forecasts that a competitor could submit. In the event of a tie £2,000 was to be divided amongst the winning competitors.
The parties were forecasting the following outcomes:-
CON 332, Lib 157, Lab 120, Others 6
LIB 240, Con 248, Lab 120, Others 7
LAB 160, Con 310, Lib 139, Others 6
Over 2,000,000 entries were received. (Over ten tons of postal matter). The Daily Mail employed 200 staff to process the forms. Elaborate procedures were put in place to stop anyone submitting a correct entry within the sorting room.
The competition result was delayed owing to the postponed poll at West Derbyshire (death of Liberal candidate). The Editor decided that the position of the parties was:-
CON 257, LAB and COMMUNIST 192, LIB 158, Others 8
(These figures do not tally with most official returns).
There were two winners – Miss Graham from Coventry and Mr Harper from South East London. They received £1,000 each.
There's no further information about Miss Graham but Mr Harper is described as an athletic-looking bachelor of about 40, well educated and now employed with Siemens. Mr Harper said that he studied the parties' own forecasts and then made allowances accordingly. He submitted thirteen entries and the 13th was his winning forecast. The prize money would be invested although a celebratory dinner had been arranged with friends.
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Dec 29, 2016 12:26:27 GMT
Post by hullenedge on Dec 29, 2016 12:26:27 GMT
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Dec 31, 2016 10:05:34 GMT
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Post by David Ashforth on Jan 3, 2017 20:23:48 GMT
List of the members of Barnes Urban District Council in 1932.
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Jan 3, 2017 21:18:14 GMT
Post by finsobruce on Jan 3, 2017 21:18:14 GMT
List of the members of Barnes Urban District Council in 1932. Wasn't Barnes the smallest borough in the country at this point? or just the smallest in London? or something like that.....  |
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