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Post by john07 on May 1, 2024 21:20:21 GMT
No constituency should be lumbered with a triple barrel name. How many not from the area have an arse-clue where Great Wyrley is? It sounds like a fairground ride. Pick the biggest settlement and use that name or alternatively use a Staffordshire compass point name. We had the nonsense of the Shrewsbury constituency being called Shrewsbury and Atcham. The former has a population of 76,782 while the latter has 243. The whole system of naming constituencies is riven with anomolies. Why is Hazel Grove so named despite the fact that bits of Hazel Grove (including Norbury) are now within Cheadle Constituency? You could argue that the seat should be renamed as Bredbury, Romiley, Marple, and High Lane (plus a few bits of central Stockport)? The alternative would be to call the seat Stockport East and really bring the pitchforks out. On balance it would be better left as Hazel Grove. That reminds me, which constituency does Alton Towers now fall under? Even that would be a more recognisable and concise name, and spellable, for some reason I keep reading it as Great Wryley. As for HG, Marple alone would be a pretty and literary name. In fact the abandoned review suggested (IIRC) Marple and Hyde, which sounds like a good novel. And a seat that Wragg would have struggled to hold, even without any scandal, though I suspect would have just scraped in, in 2019. I’m surprised you picked on HG when there is Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton. Perhaps on that basis I should have suggested Bury South, Radcliffe South, Whitefield, Prestwich, Kersal and Broughton Park, and Bury North, Radcliffe North, Tottington and Ramsbottom. I picked on Hazel Grove because I lived there briefly (in a bit that is probably no longer in the Constituency) before moving to Adswood and then Cheadle Hulme. I stood in Hazel Grove Ward (Stockport District) and Bredbury & Romiley (GMC) as well as the constituency in 1979. I am sure you can find issues everywhere. The problem is that the Boundaries Commission need to balance out producing Constituencies of approximate equal electorate with trying to keep coherent communities together. It is not always possible to do both.
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Post by john07 on May 1, 2024 19:06:00 GMT
Questions asked in this poll, in the order they appear in the tables, which I assume is the order in which they were asked: - "What is your main source of getting local news?" - "What are the main national problems?" - "What are the main problems in the area where you live?" - "Can you tell me the name of the MP representing your area?" (83% answered correctly) - "How would you rate Penny Mordaunt?" (only asked to those who had named her on the previous question, ratings from 1 to 10) - "If there was a General Election tomorrow, would you go to vote?" - "Which political party would you vote for?" - "If Penny Mordaunt was not the Conservative Party candidate, which political party would you vote for?" I've seen worse, but this is hardly ideal survey design. Edit: oh, and it might not come as a great surprise to know that the client was Portsmouth North Conservative Association. About as useful as the eponymous leaked Lib Dem ‘canvas returns’.
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Post by john07 on May 1, 2024 11:44:21 GMT
Nigel Fisher, MP for Surbiton from 1955 to 1983, was a very liberal Tory and friend of Iain Macleod, and came up against opposition from his own party activists. Harold Wilson referred to them as 'skinheads'. His son Mark became Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central,
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Post by john07 on May 1, 2024 11:29:29 GMT
No constituency should be lumbered with a triple barrel name.
How many not from the area have an arse-clue where Great Wyrley is? It sounds like a fairground ride. Pick the biggest settlement and use that name or alternatively use a Staffordshire compass point name.
We had the nonsense of the Shrewsbury constituency being called Shrewsbury and Atcham. The former has a population of 76,782 while the latter has 243.
The whole system of naming constituencies is riven with anomolies. Why is Hazel Grove so named despite the fact that bits of Hazel Grove (including Norbury) are now within Cheadle Constituency? You could argue that the seat should be renamed as Bredbury, Romiley, Marple, and High Lane (plus a few bits of central Stockport)? The alternative would be to call the seat Stockport East and really bring the pitchforks out. On balance it would be better left as Hazel Grove.
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 23:08:15 GMT
Yes, because these are now to a significant degree PERSONAL contests. Back in 2017 both Street and Houchen were barely known - and they also actually campaigned as Tories (remember them?) This really isn't hard to understand, so I don't know why an obviously intelligent person like yourself so disingenuously pretends not to. And wasn't the entire point of introducing metro mayors *was* to make the contests and position personal? "Get some enthusiastic local who will bypass the staid political parties" stuff. It was indeed. This happened when Ken Livingstone won London as an Independent.
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 22:53:46 GMT
You can easily make the argument that independence is a Scottish issue and won't be solved in Westminster (that's what being used in Canadian federal elections in case of "sovereignists" running for "federalist" parties). I suppose it’s odd because Galloway himself has been hard core unionist for a number of years, indeed his 2021 Scottish Parliament campaign was entirely an anti-independence one issue effort But since that failed he clearly sees more advantage in Batley and Rochdale type campaigns they heavily focus on foreign policy issues, hence him now saying that he’s withdrawn from Scottish politics He will clearly run with any lunatic who is prepared to go on his ticket.
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 22:42:49 GMT
What do we think of Tottenham? A very lowly, inferior team that gave us a bit of a shock at the weekend. Tottenham are probably Arsenal's last hope of winning the Premier League this season, if they can beat City in a couple of weeks,
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 22:28:33 GMT
Why are police not armed, if they shot him that young lad would still be here And, as we see in USA, tens of young lads would be dead, killed by trigger-happy policemen. And of course there are never any mass shootings in the USA!
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Post by john07 on Apr 30, 2024 12:29:34 GMT
If it were up to the forum I suspect it would've been given a name like 'Keynsham' (which is certainly nicer) And conduct the subsequent Count by the fully validated Horace Batchelor 'Infra Draw' method. That’s K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M. A major con from the start. Create a huge block perm and split it up between your followers and collect 10% on any winnings. The only real outlay was the Radio Luxembourg adverts.
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 21:26:13 GMT
If the kebab shop has a one star rating then it’s the one to go to, that’s all that’s good about Slough tbh Are most of your posts devoid of any honesty? Devoid of any brain activity more like.
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 18:56:14 GMT
Cabinet minister for three years, particularly significant area you’re from back then Replying to your own posts is a sign of madness.
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 16:56:59 GMT
Do we have complete sets from 2011 and 2016? Considering the first PCC elections took place in November 2012, getting results from 2011 would be an achievement even beyond the power of these boards! Notional results that would have happened had there been elections in 2011?
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 16:51:55 GMT
Yvonne Ridley. Major player in Alba and want's to break up the UK, Muslim convert, gigantic antisemite Hamas apologist One of the Ridley clan?
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Post by john07 on Apr 29, 2024 16:47:15 GMT
As it happens I was in this constituency last evening, in the Greyhound pub in the very pleasant area of Hendon Village which I had only discovered quite recently (just behind The Burroughs). I also hadn't realised that Hendon had previously had quite an important Greyhound stadium - roughly on the site of the Brent Cross shopping centre. That's interesting. A quick Google suggests that Greater London once had a whopping 25 dog tracks, and now it is just two. Some are clearly well-known ones that survived for a long time (Walthamstow, Catford, Wimbledon). But there are some on the list that have surely faded well out of memory- Brixton, Edmonton, Temple Mills (which was apparently out towards Stratford), and a second Catford track. Regardless of people's views on greyhound racing, it's strange to think that these landmarks have been obliterated not just physically but mentally too. They would have been enormously important focal points. Fancy having a dog track in Catford?
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Post by john07 on Apr 28, 2024 15:09:31 GMT
Takes you two hours to walk from one end to the other, don’t try it! And how many constituencies can you walk from one end to the other in less than two hours? Are you contributing rubbish to get your post count up?
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Post by john07 on Apr 25, 2024 18:03:29 GMT
The Manchester Britannia remains the only hotel I have ever walked out of. I am amazed anywhere stops there twice. Obviously, I've never stopped in the Birmingham one but I remember that it had to be frequently visited by council officers because of a lot of complaints and we shut it down a couple of times for infestations. Not warnings, they were ignored as you'd expect, actual shut downs. I stayed at the one on Princess Parkway half way to the Airport. I was really struggling to find a hotel anywhere in Manchester. It was pretty grim on my first stay. The TV in the room didn’t work and there was a general aura of grime. I had already booked another stay around three weeks later and paid. In absence of any alternative I did go back again.
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Post by john07 on Apr 25, 2024 10:15:58 GMT
That boundary proposal looks like someone was trying to draw a poodle?
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Post by john07 on Apr 24, 2024 20:28:13 GMT
You’ve stayed at the Britannia then? How did you guess?! I stayed there twice. The second time was booked before my first visit.
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Post by john07 on Apr 24, 2024 17:12:16 GMT
Even if it’s a dingy B&B that hasn’t seen a lick of paint this century? If it's somewhere to sleep and get changed that's good enough for many an attendee. And you should see some of the hotel rooms in Birmingham and Manchester I've been in... You’ve stayed at the Britannia then?
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Post by john07 on Apr 24, 2024 1:10:30 GMT
As a delegate at one of the last Labour Party conferences that was held at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, I can say exactly why Labour stopped coming there after 2002 and the Conservatives stopped coming after 2007. It's simply not suitable as a modern conference venue. I went to numerous Labour Party Conferences at Blackpool, one as a delegate and others ex-officio as a Parliamentary Candidate. Back then it alternated between Blackpool and Brighton. Once, as a PPC, I was sitting next to Fenner Brockway. He gave me a lot of advice for the future. He would have been in his nineties back then. I did attend Regional Conferences at Blackpool. That meant that you could get to stay at the Imperial. At Party Conferences in Blackpool, everyone wanted to drink at the Imperial. After hours, non-residents could not buy alcohol. That was unless you could offer to buy a drink for a resident and get hold of their key and present it to the night porter.
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