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Post by johnloony on Feb 19, 2017 10:38:13 GMT
T. Myers (Labour) 11,962 (39.4%) (-5.0%) J. A. Simon (Liberal) 10,244 (33.8%) (n/a) B. C. Fairfax (Coalition Liberal) 8,134 (26.8%) (-28.8%) Labour gain from Coalition Liberal Because Douglas Carswell mentioned it on the Andrew Marr show P.S. Wikipedia says the result was seen as "sensational" as a turning point for the newly insurgent Labour Party (which, indeed, seems to be why Carswell referenced it in the first place, comparing the situation with UKIP in Stoke) even though Labour's share of the vote went down. Labour gained the seat due to the split in the Liberals, which I suppose is the other side of the same coin historically. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spen_Valley_by-election,_1919 |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 19, 2017 10:44:21 GMT
Why the Batley and Spen CLP headquarters is called "Tom Myers House".
It was regarded as a shocking win at the time and severely damaged the Lloyd George Coalition. Maurice Cowling goes into detail about it in "The Impact of Labour 1920-24". One aspect needs to be mentioned - John Simon, the runner-up Asquithite, later became a Conservative-allied Liberal National, but in 1919 he was firmly on the left-wing of the Liberals.
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Post by finsobruce on Feb 19, 2017 11:03:12 GMT
Why the Batley and Spen CLP headquarters is called "Tom Myers House". It was regarded as a shocking win at the time and severely damaged the Lloyd George Coalition. Maurice Cowling goes into detail about it in "The Impact of Labour 1920-24". One aspect needs to be mentioned - John Simon, the runner-up Asquithite, later became a Conservative-allied Liberal National, but in 1919 he was firmly on the left-wing of the Liberals. The "Globe" newspaper thought that Labour's victory showed that the Coalition should have selected a local candidate rather than imposed one with no local connections (stop me if you've heard this one before) and also that their desire (for which read Lloyd George's desire) to defeat Sir John Simon had blinded them to the fact that neither of them might win. Their solution.....? the creation of a new centre party (stop me if you've heard this one before) .... |
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 19, 2017 19:12:54 GMT
By-elections are, in reality, never turning points in that sense.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 17, 2017 17:20:21 GMT
Wow, look around long enough on here and you find all sorts. Am doing the decline of the liberal party and does that compare with Labour today for my EPQ. This will be a good point to reference 👌 Forgive my ignorance, but what is an EPQ? |
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Post by curiousliberal on May 18, 2017 4:06:39 GMT
Wow, look around long enough on here and you find all sorts. Am doing the decline of the liberal party and does that compare with Labour today for my EPQ. This will be a good point to reference 👌 Forgive my ignorance, but what is an EPQ? The 'Extended Project Qualification' is a relatively minor qualification typically taken alongside A-levels or AS-levels. The final work that is actually graded tends to be in the form of a short dissertation, although that depends on the area of study the EPQ is taken in (students have a lot of freedom of choice when deciding its focus). |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 18, 2017 5:18:19 GMT
Forgive my ignorance, but what is an EPQ? The 'Extended Project Qualification' is a relatively minor qualification typically taken alongside A-levels or AS-levels. The final work that is actually graded tends to be in the form of a short dissertation, although that depends on the area of study the EPQ is taken in (students have a lot of freedom of choice when deciding its focus). Thanks. Is it new? I don't remember it from my own A-Level years. |
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Post by curiousliberal on May 18, 2017 5:31:29 GMT
The 'Extended Project Qualification' is a relatively minor qualification typically taken alongside A-levels or AS-levels. The final work that is actually graded tends to be in the form of a short dissertation, although that depends on the area of study the EPQ is taken in (students have a lot of freedom of choice when deciding its focus). Thanks. Is it new? I don't remember it from my own A-Level years. It was devised in 2006, apparently, although it's not compulsory and I know some schools are much more prone to foist it upon their students (in some cases, only academically successful students) than others. IIRC it was a key component of the IB programme, but several schools that have since dropped the IB kept the EPQ element anyway as a standalone, optional qualification. |
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