Day 64: Brokenshire

[Silent Hunter]

James Brokenshire, Con, Hornchurch.

A new MP (gaining this seat off John Cryer). It's pronounced "bro-ken-shire".

The boundary changes mean his seat will be abolished at the next election and he's not been selected to fight the Hornchurch and Upminster seat (Watkinson will). He'll have to go seat hunting.

[merseysider]

Looked him up on Wikipedia and he seems like a very standard Tory - used to work in the City before becoming an MP.

He doesn't seem to be particulary right-wing which might explain why he hasn't been selected for the new seat (plus Angela Watkinson, MP for Upminster, has been around for longer). The Thames Gateway (outer east London and south Essex) must be one of the most right-wing places in Britain.

[Rural Radical]

Looked him up on Wikipedia and he seems like a very standard Tory - used to work in the City before becoming an MP.

He doesn't seem to be particulary right-wing which might explain why he hasn't been selected for the new seat (plus Angela Watkinson, MP for Upminster, has been around for longer). The Thames Gateway (outer east London and south Essex) must be one of the most right-wing places in Britain.

It certainly is.

However I can see us (Labour) picking up support (if not seats) at the next election.

[minionofmidas]

James Brokenshire, Con, Hornchurch.

A new MP (gaining this seat off John Cryer). It's pronounced "bro-ken-shire".

Is that a spelling variant for Breconshire, I wonder?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

James Brokenshire, Con, Hornchurch.

A new MP (gaining this seat off John Cryer). It's pronounced "bro-ken-shire".

Is that a spelling variant for Breconshire, I wonder?

The traditional spelling of that was Brecknockshire or something like that IIRC.