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« Reply #50 on: July 22, 2015, 04:08:53 AM »

Ian Austin   (Labour - Dudley North)

Former PPS to Gordon Brown. Elected in 2005, he's been met with a Tory underperformance all three times.
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« Reply #51 on: July 23, 2015, 05:29:12 AM »

Richard Bacon (Conservative - South Norfolk)

Right-winger who is dovish on foreign policy (voted against the Iraq War, against action in Syria etc).
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« Reply #52 on: July 24, 2015, 07:15:13 AM »
« Edited: July 24, 2015, 07:18:26 AM by Phony Moderate »

Adrian Bailey (Labour - West Bromwich West)

Contested four parliamentary elections and one European election in the 1970s, losing them all. Finally elected to the slightly amusingly named West Bromwich West in 2000. His constituency seems to always give a respectable vote to right-of-the-Tories parties; the NF did well there in the 1970s - most notably in the 1973 by-election for the predecessor seat of West Bromwich (in which future Speaker Betty Boothroyd was elected) when they got (if I'm not mistaken) their highest ever share in a Westminster election of 16% or so. The National Democrats also broke 10% in 1997; presumably some Tories didn't think Boothroyd was right-wing enough. More recently the BNP have done relatively well and UKIP scored 25% this year.

Interestingly, Bailey's first-ever defeat was to the well-known Tory right-winger Gerald Nabarro.
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« Reply #53 on: July 24, 2015, 01:43:36 PM »

1959-64 was for a different constituency: he narrowly gained Nottingham West in one of the biggest upsets of the election (Labour did terribly in Nottingham that year, I think partly due to a nasty row between the city council and the local police chief) and then inevitably lost it in 1964. There is actually an MP who served in the 1960s who's still in the Commons, but he's had interrupted service: David Winnick was elected for Croydon South (which is mostly in the current Croydon Central) in 1966, lost it in 1970, and was then out of the Commons until he regained Walsall North for Labour in 1979. Winnick was the defeated candidate in the 1976 by-election there, a by-election triggered by the resignation of John Stonehouse (who famously faked his own death in 1974 in order to escape from the consequences of his fraudulent business activities). Stonehouse was first elected for the Wednesbury constituency at a by-election in 1957: the defeated Conservative candidate was Peter Tapsell.

The continuous requirement stopped Tony Benn from being Father of the House himself; he lost his seat in Labour's 1983 blowout and won a by-election a few months later. Which reminds me, we're not far from his son, I believe.
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« Reply #54 on: July 24, 2015, 01:57:58 PM »
« Edited: July 25, 2015, 05:48:35 AM by Sibboleth »

Ian Austin   (Labour - Dudley North)

Former PPS to Gordon Brown. Elected in 2005, he's been met with a Tory underperformance all three times.

The West Midlands Labour Right machine politician's West Midlands Labour Right machine politician and probably not someone to bump into in a dark alley. I suspect he would regard that description as a compliment as well. His handling of certain contentious issues in his constituency in the last parliament was not liked in some quarters (even described by some as foolish), but it seems to have paid off electorally: he had a good result in May (notable as other Dudley Borough results were dismal) even if most of the increase in his majority happened because of certain surreal events regarding the original Tory candidate. Anyway I don't know whether 2005 was exactly a Tory underperformance: it's more that Labour underperformed in 1997 and 2001 because obvious parachute Ross Cranston was not well liked.
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« Reply #55 on: July 24, 2015, 02:12:48 PM »

Adrian Bailey (Labour - West Bromwich West)

Old school Party Right stalwart (background in local government and the Co-op Party) with a strong interest in complex policy issues. He represents a constituency that is bizarrely named for two reasons: the first is obvious, the second is that it includes none of West Bromwich.

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The largest town in his constituency is Tipton. 'nuff said.
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« Reply #56 on: July 25, 2015, 05:13:14 AM »

Steven Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)

On the libertarian, Eurosceptic right.
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« Reply #57 on: July 25, 2015, 05:17:49 AM »

Adrian Bailey (Labour - West Bromwich West)

Old school Party Right stalwart (background in local government and the Co-op Party) with a strong interest in complex policy issues. He represents a constituency that is bizarrely named for two reasons: the first is obvious, the second is that it includes none of West Bromwich.

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The largest town in his constituency is Tipton. 'nuff said.

Not for non-Brits.

West Bromwich West sounds like a parody of British constituency names.
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« Reply #58 on: July 25, 2015, 07:13:01 AM »


Probably for non-Midlanders actually. Like many other Black Country towns Tipton has a bit of a reputation for insularity and has had a far-right undercurrent for ages, much of which stems from a no-longer-exactly-what-you'd-call-healthy-frankly working class Tory tradition and specifically what happens when you combine that with, you know, lots of non white people living in other towns nearby.
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« Reply #59 on: July 26, 2015, 06:18:46 AM »

Harriet Baldwin (Conservative - West Worcestershire)

Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
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« Reply #60 on: July 27, 2015, 04:55:18 AM »

Stephen Barclay   (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Now there is a Tory surname. Tongue Also he's an assistant Treasury whip.
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« Reply #61 on: July 28, 2015, 03:24:29 AM »

Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston)

Robin Cook's old seat.
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« Reply #62 on: July 29, 2015, 05:30:30 AM »

John Baron (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)

Army veteran and a right-wing Eurosceptic rebel. 
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« Reply #63 on: July 29, 2015, 11:08:39 AM »

A useless blowhard's useless blowhard.
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« Reply #64 on: July 30, 2015, 05:03:23 AM »

Sir Kevin Barron (Labour - Rother Valley)

MP since 1983. Was a PPS to Neil Kinnock. Seems like yet another leftie-turned-moderniser type.
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« Reply #65 on: July 30, 2015, 11:20:33 AM »

Professional Yorkshireman to the point of stereotype and an interesting character, I think it's fair to say. He was an NUM activist and ally of Arthur Scargill - actually not just an ally but the man who ran his Presidential campaign in 1981 - and when first elected he was a member of the SCG. He was (quite famously) attacked by a police officer while on a picket line during the Miners Strike and won damages. He later became an ally of Kinnock's (and later a supporter of Blair's), a critic of Scargill and the head of the New Clause IV Campaign... and was eventually expelled from the NUM on political grounds. His later career has been less dramatic - much of it spent on Committee work: he has chaired the Standards and Privileges Committee since 2010 and chaired the Health committee 2005-10 - and has been characterised by endless campaigning on health issues especially against the tobacco industry.
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« Reply #66 on: July 31, 2015, 03:59:53 AM »
« Edited: July 31, 2015, 04:01:48 AM by Phony Moderate »

Gavin Barwell (Conservative - Croydon Central)

Longtime Tory hack. His seat was one of the most hotly contested Lab-Con battles and he scrapped back in by 165 votes. To be fair he has worked to reduce discrimination against the mentally ill.
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« Reply #67 on: July 31, 2015, 05:09:52 AM »

Gavin Barwell (Conservative - Croydon Central)

Longtime Tory hack. His seat was one of the most hotly contested Lab-Con battles and he scrapped back in by 165 votes. To be fair he has worked to reduce discrimination against the mentally ill.


His seat was our twinned seat, and we literally threw everything at that seat. Apart from sheffield Hallam it was the worse result of the night for me.

For an MP you have to respect him for his political skills-he's been a leading 'moderniser' in the party and distanced himself from the Tories in the election. He's one of the active MP's who really uses every single issue to get publicity
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« Reply #68 on: August 01, 2015, 03:29:12 AM »

Guto Bebb   (Conservative - Aberconwy)

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« Reply #69 on: August 02, 2015, 06:48:49 AM »

Margaret Beckett (Labour - Derby South)

Once a Bennite, she moved rightwards (though not actually all the way to the Right) following Benn's 1988 challenge to Kinnock. Elected Deputy in 1992 and subsequently stood in as acting Leader following the death of John Smith in 1994. Failed in her bid of that same year to became Leader outright and also lost the Deputy role to John Prescott (who had made a deal with Tony Blair). Served in various Cabinet positions in the 1997-2010 government, including that of Foreign Secretary.

Most would probably be surprised to learn that she is still an MP.
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« Reply #70 on: August 03, 2015, 04:32:34 AM »
« Edited: August 03, 2015, 04:35:00 AM by Phony Moderate »

Henry Bellingham (Conservative - North West Norfolk)

First elected in 1983, he was defeated in 1997 before becoming one of the few Tory gains in 2001. The Labour candidate in his constituency in 2010 made the national headlines by declaring Gordon Brown to be the worst Prime Minister ever. The Labour vote, as you might imagine, dropped dramatically in that election and saw a significant rise this year.
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« Reply #71 on: August 03, 2015, 07:26:28 AM »

Henry Bellingham (Conservative - North West Norfolk)

First elected in 1983, he was defeated in 1997 before becoming one of the few Tory gains in 2001. The Labour candidate in his constituency in 2010 made the national headlines by declaring Gordon Brown to be the worst Prime Minister ever. The Labour vote, as you might imagine, dropped dramatically in that election and saw a significant rise this year.
Is there any particular reason they changed the name from King's Lynn to NW Norfolk?
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« Reply #72 on: August 03, 2015, 11:05:07 AM »

Margaret Beckett (Labour - Derby South)

Once a Bennite, she moved rightwards (though not actually all the way to the Right) following Benn's 1988 challenge to Kinnock. Elected Deputy in 1992 and subsequently stood in as acting Leader following the death of John Smith in 1994. Failed in her bid of that same year to became Leader outright and also lost the Deputy role to John Prescott (who had made a deal with Tony Blair). Served in various Cabinet positions in the 1997-2010 government, including that of Foreign Secretary.

Most would probably be surprised to learn that she is still an MP.

And her post 1983 stint for Derby South isn't the first time she was an MP either: she was the MP for Lincoln 1974-79, defeating proto-SDPer Dick Taverne in the October GE. As that was before she married she was Margaret Jackson at the time.
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« Reply #73 on: August 03, 2015, 11:21:14 AM »

Bellingham is a descendant of John Bellingham, the man who assassinated Spencer Perceval in 1812. When he lost his seat in the 1997 landslide the Labour majority (1,339) was significantly less than the vote polled by the Referendum Party candidate (2,923) one Roger Percival who claimed descent from none other than Spencer Perceval.

But that whole thing aside, Bellingham is a remarkably uninteresting shires Tory MP except to the extent that he is stereotypical to the point of archetype: Eton, Cambridge, a short stint in the military, a brief period as a practicing barrister, extensive business interests outside Parliament.

Is there any particular reason they changed the name from King's Lynn to NW Norfolk?

Because the Boundary Commission is boring. The justification will have been that only a minority of the constituency lives in Lynn: they used the same to rename Leominster as North Herefordshire for the 2010 election.
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« Reply #74 on: August 04, 2015, 04:22:52 AM »

Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)

Son of the late Labour left-wing giant Tony Benn. His political career began in Ealing where he served on the Council (including as Deputy Leader) and unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Ealing North in 1983 and 1987. Elected to Parliament in 1999 in Leeds Central on what was then a record low by-election turnout of 19.9% (since surpassed by the 2012 Manchester Central by-election). Served in the cabinet through the second half of the previous Labour government and has remained a frontbencher since 2010. Current Shadow Foreign Secretary. Known for being the spitting image of his father and for having virtually the same speech delivery, he describes himself as a "Benn, not a Bennite".
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