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Sir Creep waiting for a June Brown, Prunella Scales, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, or Vera Lynn QO.

Only issue is you aren't getting indie until we get in which if you lot keep voting for the SNP will be never....

Yeah Rag tag &Bobtail on Thursday's the day I was born.

To be fair Blair was the last PM to beat the apathetic.... 2019 47,587,254 (Registered) 31,829,630 (Voted) 15,757,624 (Non-Voters) 13,966,565 (Winning Party) 2017 46,843,896 (Registered) 32,204,184 (Voted) 14,639,712 (Non-Voters) 13,636,684 2015 46,354,197 (Registered) 30,697,525 (Voted) 15,656,672 (Non-Voters) 11,334,226 (Winning Party) 2010 45,597,461 (Registered) 29,687,604 (Voted) 15,909,857 (Non-Voters) 10,726,614 (Winning Party) 2005 44,180,243 (Registered) 27,148,510 (Voted) 17,031,733 (Non-Voters) 09,552,436 (Winning Party) 2001 44,374,047 (Registered) 26,367,383 (Voted) 18,006,664 (Non-Voters) 10,724,953 (Winning Party) 1997 43,714,673 (Registed) 31,286,284 (Voted) 12,428,389 (Non-Voters) 13,518,167 (Winning Party)

Patricia Driscoll is 92 today. Not a well-known name but she will get many obituaries when she dies. An actress but best known for presenting Picture Book over 60 years ago as one of the 5 Watch with Mother programmes - the others being Andy Pandy, The Woodentops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail and The Flower Pot Men.

Ah, that's why Carlisle man was up that chimney a few weeks back trying to relive those glorious times Sadly for him his stay at the top was even shorter.

Yep. Bit like the hilarious stat that 3% of Brexit Party supporters back remain.

Paul Manafort hospitalized due to a "cardiac event"

Just a reminder that there’s about 2 weeks left to submit a crowdsource entry. Yes, we are really that close to the new year already...

[Aside: Been told this is a ‘robin’, which created a brief international uproar]

Almost the right order. The Flower Pot Men were on Wednesdays, and Friday was The Woodentops (with the biggest spotty dog you ever did see).

Sir Thomas Pearson, who was, until his death, the oldest living British full general, has died aged 105. DDP pick and here's the QO.

West Indies batter Basil Butcher, dead at 86: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28316293/west-indies-batting-great-basil-butcher-dies-86

I'd say your dream ticket is Liz Kendall with Rayner as Deputy. Benn as Shadow Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. No longer fighting Remain/Leave, try looking fiscally responsible while also attempting to save UK plc. I'll give you a wave from an independent Scotland, ha!

Gentle reminder of this rule before everyone adds Pervez Mushkaraf to their teams.

Labour. I'd rather be eating worms than ever vote Conservative

Can't imagine why she's estranged.

Former US Commerce secretary Frederick Dent has died at 97 . That leaves only Henry Kissinger and George Schultz as the last 2 living members of Richard Nixons cabinet. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/us/frederick-dent-dead.html

Who let the dogs out...? Norman Bridwell let Clifford the Big Red Dog out 5 years ago (86), and he never returned.

I found it rather amusing in that article that the DJ who refused to play Fairytale of NY because of the word 'faggot' in the lyrics was called Alex Dyke.

The yokels from the shire's have taken over the asylum.

The EU is not a dictatorship, rather the polar opposite. And Corbyn is a pacifist. This is all I'm saying. I could elaborate, but I tend not to waste time explaining things to suspected idiots.

I think the Ted Mulry Gang song "Jump in My Car" would be a tough sell these days. There are a few cover versions that would be ballsy. Gary Glitter or Rolf Harris doing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" wouldn't go platinum. But I would've liked Michael Jackson to fund his legal bills by putting out an EP with a cover of The Divinyls "Young Boys are My Weakness" on one side and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" on the other.

Former member of british band The Communards Richard Coles has announced that his civil partner has sadly died aged 42.

Vladimir Tsyplakov, who played more than 300 NHL games in the mid-to-late 1990s, has died. He was 50. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/28311557/former-nhl-player-vladimir-tsyplakov-dies-50