YoungWillz

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Well, perhaps looking at its recent Parliamentarians including the latest inductee, that explains a lot!

So, I sat up until 04:30 watching the fun. By the time I went to bed, I was humming the old tune: "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone, a comedy tonight!" My takeaways? Well, I don't really know. Somerton was always going back to the LibDems - my goodness, she was precisely what those who normally vote Tory love, from local stock, family in the area for over 200 years, I knew her granny - lovely woman, that kind of shit. Abandon your farmers and shit up your waterways and you will get exactly that result there. Selby wasn't even close in the end. Seems to be some kind of condemnation that the Labour winner is an Oxford boy with little life experience - that came from the Tories, the Eton boys and Roedean girls who got their money from Grandpapa and Grandmama. Ah, well do I recall Mhairi Black getting elected - underestimate youth at your peril. Again, that area isn't going to vote in a Dennis Skinner/John Prescott/Angela Rayner type. Labour have played a blinder by giving a candidate the normal Tory voters can recognise. Uxbridge - despite all the hype, I had a feeling this would stay blue. I don't know the area but nothing will trump the true blue voters with three cars in the driveway ("one of them is a classic y'know old boy") who spend all their spare cash on Glasto, Wimbledon, Henley Regatta, blah blah blah. Now you don't bring in a policy which hits them on top of all the other shite going on without having the necessary infrastructure in place - are the charging points there, for example? That doesn't mean this isn't now in play - still a swing to the red flag which shows the punters there this is a marginal. And if they think a Labour Government is a reality next time, they might decide to have a candidate who is on the inside. No news on the Ferrier saga? I should know, really, I'm there.

Rachid Sfar of Tunisia reportedly dead: https://kapitalis-com.translate.goog/tunisie/2023/07/21/tunisie-deces-de-rachid-sfar-ancien-premier-ministre-sous-bourguiba/?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Guardian Obit for Hugh Lennon, originator of the canine magic act Hypnodog: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jul/20/hugh-lennon-obituary Hugh's neice Krystyna Lennon took over the act with another dog Princess who appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2015, only to later confirm (fnah fnah) that the whole thing was a fake. The obit says that Hugh Lennon was a stormtrooper in Star Wars: A New Hope - I can't find anything to back that up.

IIRC the same was said of Charles Aznavour (look he's still touring) and Josephine Tewson (looking very well and out and about) and both were dead within the year. There's been a few like that while I've been here. I pay no heed to the "they look really great" brigade.

Greg Cook of The Unifics reportedly dead aged 72: https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2023/07/20/the-unifics-singer-gregory-cook-dies-at-72/

Stage Obit for Richard Mills, who rose from being a humble stage electrician to best buddies with Bernard Delfont and a board member of the National Theatre: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/richard-mills-prolific-presence-in-british-theatre-whose-50-year-career-took-him-from-stage-management-to-the-top-job-at-delfont-mackintosh-theatres Just spent a good hour and a half trawling his website which has incredible stories from his early days especially on Eric Morecambe, George Cole, Peter Sellers, etc etc. Worth a read: http://www.richardmmills.com/ Harry Secombe doing one of his landladies across the kitchen table - lawdy!

Pat Boone turned up on Fox News in the past few hours: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6331503855112 Waving his gun around. By the time he dies he'll be so right wing even Satan will think twice about admitting him.

Married: https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/20/dolph-lundgren-65-marries-emma-krokdal-27-amid-battle-with-cancer-19160621/?ico=just-in_home_just-in

FTFY. If I was there and Fowler was there....

The clues were there:

Musician and composer Mark Thomas has reportedly died: Nominated for a prime time Emmy for music for the series Episodes. Played violin on notable films such as A View To A Kill, Clockwise, Highlander and Willow. Composed the theme music for Shaun The Sheep - Farmageddon. Extensive music composer in TV and film, what caught my eye were The Magic Roundabout: The Movie, Dalziel And Pascoe, the Shaun The Sheep TV series and Benidorm.

Lauren Harries to undergo operation for a spinal tear, it says here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12312205/Lauren-Harries-undergo-emergency-operation-suffering-life-threatening-spinal-tear.html It's almost time for this soap opera to have its own thread.

A search of Rex Heuermann's house reveals the normal accoutrements of American life: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66205088 200-300 firearms, a life sized doll in a glass case and a portrait of a woman with a battered face. It's a free country, he can keep what he wants. What they need to establish is motive, means and opportunity.

Richard Barancik reportedly dead: https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/post/the-last-remaining-monuments-man-dies-at-98 All gone.

Mike Hellawell, 2 international appearances for Englandshire, otherwise QPR, Birmingham City, Sunderland, Huddersfield and Peterborough, reportedly died this morning after I assume being hella ill:

Formally splits from hubby Dalton Gomez, with a nice little potted history on her relationships here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12310027/Ariana-Grandes-relationship-history-Wanteds-Nathan-Sykes-late-Mac-Miller-failed-whirlwind-engagement-Pete-Davidson-splits-husband-Dalton-Gomez.html

Yeah, edited, see above.

Jane Birkin QO: https://news.sky.com/story/singer-and-actress-jane-birkin-has-died-12921798 Edit: Wait, not picked? Not PICKED? Last picked in 2021: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_B.html#birkinj021 Astonishing List of the Missed @Death Impends.

Report of the death of theatre and TV actor Russell Dixon, who had 3 roles in Coronation Street most notably as Harry Potts a crooked Councillor who was an enemy of Alf Roberts in the early 90s: Smaller roles in Eastenders and Emmerdale. Crown Court, Heartbeat and Shelley. Toured with the RSC and the National Thatre.

Lady Jane Williams (aka Jane Portal aka Jane Welby), former personal secretary to Winston Churchill, niece of RA Butler and mother of Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, dead aged 93: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/16/justin-welby-says-it-was-a-privilege-to-be-her-son-after-mother-dies-at-93 Interviewed for various Churchill shows so she might have qualified for the DDP. Certainly last picked for the DDP in 2017, so one for the List of the Missed @Death Impends, https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_W.html#willj0

Shaun Udal reflects on various things, mentioning his Parkinson's diagnosis in 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/14/shaun-udal-shane-warne-seemed-invincible-i-cant-get-my-head-around-the-fact-hes-gone

Tony Butler BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66210171 Acht, well, we've all had drops die on us.

Cops believe they have caught the perp responsible for the Bodies on the Beach murders: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12301665/Gilgo-Beach-Inside-hunt-serial-killer-sex-worker-killing-spree.html Wealthy architect Rex Heuermann.