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« Reply #175 on: December 17, 2014, 05:05:02 PM »

PR stunt for the bookies. I highly doubt Elizabeth II - a women who views her role with almost comic duty - would want to follow the footsteps of such a brilliant role-model as, err, Edward VIII.
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« Reply #176 on: December 17, 2014, 05:25:05 PM »
« Edited: December 17, 2014, 10:39:59 PM by politicus »

PR stunt for the bookies. I highly doubt Elizabeth II - a women who views her role with almost comic duty - would want to follow the footsteps of such a brilliant role-model as, err, Edward VIII.

It could be health reasons the public doesn't know about.
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« Reply #177 on: December 17, 2014, 05:28:02 PM »

PR stunt for the bookies. I highly doubt Elizabeth II - a women who views her role with almost comic duty - would want to follow the footsteps of such a brilliant role-model as, err, Edward VIII.

It could be health reasons the pubic doesn't know about.

The precedent if the monarch has health issues is for a regent to be appointed. I guess we could break with that tradition, but knowing the Windsor family I doubt it.
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« Reply #178 on: December 17, 2014, 10:42:26 PM »

PR stunt for the bookies. I highly doubt Elizabeth II - a women who views her role with almost comic duty - would want to follow the footsteps of such a brilliant role-model as, err, Edward VIII.

It could be health reasons the pubic doesn't know about.

The precedent if the monarch has health issues is for a regent to be appointed. I guess we could break with that tradition, but knowing the Windsor family I doubt it.

Okay, pretty embarrassing I actually wrote pubic in that post Wink
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« Reply #179 on: December 18, 2014, 01:22:59 PM »



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« Reply #180 on: December 18, 2014, 01:30:18 PM »

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« Reply #181 on: December 18, 2014, 01:56:26 PM »

Remember "We're all in this together"?

Anyway, it's noticeable that a lot of the high tier UKIP target seats are in areas that are brown in that map: Thanet, Tendring (Clacton), east Lincolnshire, Yarmouth.  I suspect these figures might appear in a few purple leaflets.  There are some Labour targets affected too, especially in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire which seem to have taken a big hit for some reason.
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« Reply #182 on: December 18, 2014, 02:20:43 PM »

While Havering is getting a raise...
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« Reply #183 on: December 19, 2014, 12:20:33 PM »

Mandy Rice-Davies has died.
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« Reply #184 on: December 19, 2014, 12:28:47 PM »


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/19/mandy-rice-davies

“My life has been one long descent into respectability”
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« Reply #185 on: December 19, 2014, 01:08:37 PM »


She would say that, wouldn't she?
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« Reply #186 on: December 20, 2014, 07:56:54 PM »

John Freeman - the last survivor of the 1945 Parliament and a pioneering television presenter - has died aged 99. He was a strange man and had a strange career. He was the Labour MP for Watford between 1945 and 1955 and served as a junior minister (at the War Office) in the Attlee government, famously resigning along with Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson over the introduction of prescription charges. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was one of the most prominent people on British television, and presented the groundbreaking interview programme Face to Face (famously viewers rarely saw Freeman's face during the interviews; attention was kept on the interviewee. The best known interviews were with Carl Jung, Tony Hancock and Gilbert Harding). For a time he also edited The New Statesman. In the late 1960s he was a diplomat (High Commission to India and then British Ambassador in the U.S.A) and in the 1970s and early 1980s he was a television executive (Chairman of LWT).
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« Reply #187 on: December 21, 2014, 02:24:52 PM »
« Edited: December 21, 2014, 02:54:26 PM by swl »

Is the police really investigating about paedophiles networks in the two Houses? That seems insane.

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Is this real life?
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« Reply #188 on: December 21, 2014, 05:55:56 PM »

Is the police really investigating about paedophiles networks in the two Houses? That seems insane.

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Basically there are all sorts of stories out there.  Some of them may be true, and if they are and they actually get out before the people concerned die, there's going to be a huge fuss.  But obviously you have to be very careful with them.
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« Reply #189 on: December 22, 2014, 01:19:20 AM »

Basically there are all sorts of stories out there.  Some of them may be true, and if they are and they actually get out before the people concerned die, there's going to be a huge fuss.  But obviously you have to be very careful with them.

"A witness who has played a critical role in the inquiry so far, known only as “Nick”, is understood to have told detectives he saw a Conservative MP strangle a 12-year-old boy to death at an orgy in around 1980."

If proven stuff like that should guarantee "a huge fuss" whether the perpetrator was dead or not.
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« Reply #190 on: December 22, 2014, 01:04:21 PM »

Not a very good day. I am well and everyone I've contacted is okay but horrific scenes.
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« Reply #191 on: December 22, 2014, 04:38:51 PM »

Alan Williams - who you may remember as Father of the House in the 2005-10 Parliament - had died aged 84. He was a respected and cerebral - though never flashy - member of the traditional Labour Right as well as a determinately unfashionable opponent of Devolution. He served as a junior minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments, and was a quietly effective bankbencher (it is thanks to his efforts that taxpayers no longer pay for a yacht for the Royal Family). He somehow managed to hold the usually marginal Swansea West from 1964 (when it was one of the critical marginals that Labour needed to gain power) until his retirement in 2010. Admittedly he was aided by boundary changes before the 1983 election, but it was mostly because of his local popularity.
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« Reply #192 on: December 28, 2014, 12:07:29 PM »

The character actor David Ryall has died aged 79. On screen he was a man of a thousand well-done bit parts (and appeared in everything from The Elephant Man to the Harry Potter franchise and countless TV crime dramas), but he could really shine in larger roles. Most of these were on stage, but an important exception was The Singing Detective in which he excelled as the loathsome Mr Hall.
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« Reply #193 on: January 15, 2015, 05:26:00 PM »
« Edited: January 20, 2015, 09:12:53 PM by Deus Naturae »

Cameron has promised to push for new surveillance powers if he wins.
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« Reply #194 on: January 21, 2015, 04:14:37 PM »

Jim Dobbin inquest rules "misadventure"
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« Reply #195 on: January 21, 2015, 07:24:20 PM »

Or, to be a little more specific, he died as a result of going on a massive bender on an official visit to Poland (a shot after every course because tradition). There are worse ways to go.
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« Reply #196 on: January 22, 2015, 11:06:10 AM »

Leon Brittan, former Home Secretary under Thatcher, dies.
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« Reply #197 on: January 22, 2015, 02:06:02 PM »

Cue insane conspiracy theories in five, four, three...
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« Reply #198 on: January 22, 2015, 06:08:58 PM »

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« Reply #199 on: January 28, 2015, 05:32:25 PM »

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