peterl
Green
Monarchic Technocratic Localist
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Post by peterl on Mar 15, 2021 20:29:50 GMT
I only asked because we are doing this at a distance so I'll have to post a new partially completed form. But I will just to be safe.
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Post by johnloony on Mar 17, 2021 5:06:12 GMT
Is there ever going to be a review of the current London Assembly seats, especially due to forecast electorate growth around the River Thames? Also, some of these London Assembly single member constituencies are poorly constructed: Waltham Forest should be paired with Redbridge, not Hackney and Islington, and Barking & Dagenham should be joined up with Havering, not the City, Newham and Tower Hamlets; the City of London should be with West Central. There was a review in 2014 which concluded that no change should be made. That brief report / statement doesn't mention any specific numbers; I notice that the current electorates of the 14 constituencies range from 321,042 (West Central) to 495,574 (City & East). That is a bigger differential than they would have been when the groupings of the boroughs was decided 22 years ago (and if the decision were being made now, ab initio, it would be likely that the groupings would be slightly different) but that in itself is not sufficient reason for change. If anything, the AMS system has the feature of accommodating different sizes of electorates in the lower layer of constituency seats because the proportionality is ensured in the top-up seats anyway.
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Georg Ebner
Non-Aligned
Roman romantic reactionary Catholic
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 22, 2021 21:18:18 GMT
These 2 map refer to the 1997-referendum: Can anyone tell me, what they mean? Is the right one Welsh spoken as primary language?
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Post by greatkingrat on Mar 22, 2021 21:28:10 GMT
I think it must be the left map that shows Welsh language speakers. Not sure what the right map would be.
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Mar 23, 2021 6:49:06 GMT
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Post by redvers on Mar 24, 2021 15:28:18 GMT
Does anyone know where I could find a recording of the 1995 local elections coverage?
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ColinJ
Labour
Living in the Past
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Post by ColinJ on Mar 24, 2021 17:19:15 GMT
Does anyone know where I could find a recording of the 1995 local elections coverage? I would suggest checking David Boothroyd's YouTube channel. There's loads of stuff on there.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 24, 2021 17:38:51 GMT
Does anyone know where I could find a recording of the 1995 local elections coverage? I would suggest checking David Boothroyd's YouTube channel. There's loads of stuff on there. Not of the 1995 local election coverage though. Didn't have access to a VHS machine at the time.
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Post by therealriga on Mar 24, 2021 19:40:58 GMT
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nodealbrexiteer
Forum Regular
non aligned favour no deal brexit!
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Mar 25, 2021 11:04:31 GMT
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Post by greatkingrat on Mar 25, 2021 11:33:40 GMT
The House of Commons Library gives the figures for 1979 as Lab 27598, Con 12442, SNP 5260. It looks like someone has copied the by-election result and forgotten to update the SNP total.
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Post by therealriga on Mar 25, 2021 17:30:39 GMT
The House of Commons Library gives the figures for 1979 as Lab 27598, Con 12442, SNP 5260. It looks like someone has copied the by-election result and forgotten to update the SNP total. Much appreciated, thanks. That 1982 by-election was apparently the last time SNP support declined in a Westminster by-election.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 2, 2021 0:38:20 GMT
Generally speaking, how did the CPGB MPs vote during the 1945-50 parliament? Did they tend to support the Labour government's social reforms on most issues, or oppose for reasons of technicalities?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 2, 2021 9:04:31 GMT
Generally speaking, how did the CPGB MPs vote during the 1945-50 parliament? Did they tend to support the Labour government's social reforms on most issues, or oppose for reasons of technicalities? Looks like they were pretty consistently voting in favour - even in favour of the American loan in December 1945 (against which 23 Labour MPs rebelled). They seemed to ration their opposition, opposing continuation of National Service, a Civil List allowance to Princess Elizabeth, against terminating the British Mandate in Palestine, and against ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty.
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 2, 2021 9:26:11 GMT
Generally speaking, how did the CPGB MPs vote during the 1945-50 parliament? Did they tend to support the Labour government's social reforms on most issues, or oppose for reasons of technicalities? Looks like they were pretty consistently voting in favour - even in favour of the American loan in December 1945 (against which 23 Labour MPs rebelled). They seemed to ration their opposition, opposing continuation of National Service, a Civil List allowance to Princess Elizabeth, against terminating the British Mandate in Palestine, and against ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty. The CPGB voted in favour of imperialism? The other votes make obvious sense, but this one looks at least a little bit counter-intuitive.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 2, 2021 9:38:15 GMT
Looks like they were pretty consistently voting in favour - even in favour of the American loan in December 1945 (against which 23 Labour MPs rebelled). They seemed to ration their opposition, opposing continuation of National Service, a Civil List allowance to Princess Elizabeth, against terminating the British Mandate in Palestine, and against ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty. The CPGB voted in favour of imperialism? The other votes make obvious sense, but this one looks at least a little bit counter-intuitive. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1948/mar/23/clause-i-termination-of-his-majestys#S5CV0448P0_19480323_HOC_471
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Post by hullenedge on Apr 2, 2021 10:11:05 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Apr 2, 2021 17:27:38 GMT
Interesting. The reason I asked was because I was thinking about what the Alternative History of the world would have been if Arthur Horner (the South Wales miners' leader) had been elected as Communist MP for Rhondda East in 1945, and if the CPGB had therefore had 3 MPs instead of 2. The main difference seems to be that the answer to quiz questions about Communist MPs would have been different; otherwise not much difference. If, however, the CPGB MPs had spent their 5 years ranting about the betrayal and imperialist warmongering of the revisionist / reactionary social-democratic Labour government (instead of being constructive on social reforms) then the Labour government's majority in divisions would have been 2 less each time.
The book "Social Democracy: the Enemy Within" by Harpal Brar (of the CPGB(ML)) has lengthy diatribes against the thoroughly imperialist nature of the Labour Party in Britain throughout its entire history, including the record of the Attlee government. It condemns the Attlee government for upholding the British Empire, suppressing the Greek liberation struggle after WW2, restoring French imperial power over Indo-China and Dutch power in Indonesia, staying in Suez, setting up NATO, and so on. If Brar's attitude to the Attlee government is so different from the attitude of Gallacher & Piratin, then it arguably shows how far the CPBG had already succumbed to revisionism and parliamentary cretinism.
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sirbenjamin
IFP
True fame is reading your name written in graffiti, but without the words 'is a wanker' after it.
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Post by sirbenjamin on Apr 2, 2021 17:51:09 GMT
Looks like they were pretty consistently voting in favour - even in favour of the American loan in December 1945 (against which 23 Labour MPs rebelled). They seemed to ration their opposition, opposing continuation of National Service, a Civil List allowance to Princess Elizabeth, against terminating the British Mandate in Palestine, and against ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty. The CPGB voted in favour of imperialism? The other votes make obvious sense, but this one looks at least a little bit counter-intuitive.
They were friends of Comintern and the USSR, so can't have been that much against it.
I guess they didn't mind Empires if they had a different name and they got to decide how they were run...
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Post by minionofmidas on Apr 4, 2021 17:02:05 GMT
These 2 map refer to the 1997-referendum: Can anyone tell me, what they mean? Is the right one Welsh spoken as primary language? Al says he thinks it's Welsh national identity, 2001 census. (Left is obviously Welsh speakers.) It's also his artwork; I thought so right away.
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