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  3. Posted

    On 06/04/2024 at 10:19, YoungWillz said:

    Source claims to be great great nephew.

     

    Dickie Rooks, former Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Bristol City player, reportedly dead: 

    Awaiting the usual confirmations.

     

    If true, I think he's a current Hare's Pool pick. Also a former DDP pick for Blueberry Crumble in 2022, so List of the Missed @Death Impends if and when something more solid comes along: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_R.html#rooks9d022

    Dickie Rooks' death announced by a source at Scunthorpe: https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2024/april/in-memoriam-dickie-rooks/

     

    So a definite List of the Missed now.

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  4. Posted

    1 minute ago, Kenny said:

     

    You have only exposed your authoritarian desire to deprive the offspring of politicians from having the same political rights as everyone else.

     

    I don’t want the Commons to be filled with authoritarians like you who have contempt for democracy and equal rights.

    Ha! 

     

    I despise most politicians, you haven't been paying attention to my posting history.

     

    I'm all for democracy and equal rights. But how is the field levelled by giving a candidate an inbuilt advantage with the electorate simply by luck of birth?

     

    I'm hardly authoritarian for wanting a just system, not one dictated by genes. It's unfair You are free to disagree with me without resorting to slurring my character, rather than addressing that point. :P

  5. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Kenny said:

     

    So you want MPs’ children to enter Parliament through unelected appointment to the Lords rather than democratic election to the Commons? It would only encourage more corruption rather than expose it. I want the Lords to be replaced by an elected senate, not filled with the offspring of MPs.

     

     

    And I don't want a Commons filled with the offspring of politicians. There you go.

     

    My point about patronage, nepotism and corruption in the Lords clearly espoused, thank you.

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    4 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

    Such a rule would have disqualified Tony Benn.

    Well, that's a matter of dispute which of a Sunday evening I'm not prepared to debate at length.

     

    Benn could have held on to his hereditary title and worked from the Lords. You have heard of ministers being appointed from the Lords, I take it?

     

    Once again there's a dynasty still crackling along in Parliament. 

     

    The divine right of kings did for some of the Stuarts, the divine right of power and nepotism is exposed nicely by Tony and his son who currently sits in the Commons.

  7. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Kenny said:

     

    You forgot Hilary Benn, son Tony. Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary. She is the daughter of ex MP Sir Robert Atkins. The “kids”, as you patronisingly describe them, did not choose their parents or inherit their politics genetically. The voters can reject them at the ballot box. 

     

    The European Court of Human Rights (the UK is still a signatory to the Convention) would rule that such a ban breached their human rights. Your example Stephen Kinnock (Neil was an EU Commissioner and Glenys was an MEP) would go straight to the ECHR if banned from standing. IIRC his wife was the PM of Denmark.

     

     

    Way round it obviously is to permit their appointment to the Lords. They would still have a "political" career, and they would be where the true hereditaries are - thus continuing the exposure of the whole stinking corrupt system.

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    Ah, those good old political dynasties, they always work, don't they?

     

    The Kennedys and Bushes in America,  the inherited politics of North Korea, etc etc.

     

    Will you only listen when all of Boris' kids are in charge? :lol:

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  11. Posted

    I find myself holding up the tower of names on my zero points.

     

    I should warn you, my upper body strength isn't good. That tower could come tumbling down at any time!

     

    (I feel it likely though that I may be stuck there for some considerable time to come!).

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  12. Posted

    5 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

    If the public do not want them they don’t have to elect them.

    This is true.

     

    It's also true that the hoi polloi are influenced by family connections. The great unwashed like stability, continuity and the idea that their old ma or pa will still have influence over them. There's an inbuilt advantage, quite apart from actual policy, ability or promise, over other contenders. We may like to believe that doesn't exist, but it does.

     

    Of course, we are in seismic times, when the public are as disaffected as they are now, that goes out the window. But in quieter times, that advantage counts.

     

    Imo.

  13. Posted

    3 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

    Labour are not in favour of removing him as a speaker and the polls predict they will have a majority. And if they don’t them and The Lib Dem’s (Also supportive of him) may have a combined majority. 

    Personally, I have never been in favour of nepotism in any form.

     

    I like Hoyle, I think he's generally above reproach (except for that huge mistake recently). But I am all in favour of the children of MPs or former MPs being barred from standing for the Commons. And yes, that includes Stephen Kinnock from Labour and former Tory MP Nick Hurd.

     

    Otherwise the place just becomes another hereditary-like aristo system. Skipping a generation, maybe. A couple of generations, better.

     

    Ban the kids though. Ban them all.

  17. Posted

    On 25/07/2023 at 11:23, Ulitzer95 said:

    Two retirements from the House of Lords today:

    Lord Quentin Davies (wiki), 79, Conservative (then defected to Labour) MP (1987–2010), served as a minister under Gordon Brown
    Lord Doug Hoyle (wiki), 93, Labour MP (1974–1997) and father of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle

    One more due on Thursday:

    Lord Hylton (wiki), 91, Crossbench hereditary peer, longest serving crossbencher, sat in Parl since 1968

    Just two years ago I frequently saw Hylton downing pints in the Lord Riverside Bar, but he looked pretty frail. I know nothing of the other two, but I think these could be 3 names worth watching.

    Doug Hoyle dead: 

     

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  18. Posted

    On 04/04/2022 at 18:33, Gisooo said:

    This is a list of oldest surviving foreign actors/actresses

     

    Mexico

    Armando Silvestre (Wiki) - born 1926

    Sara Montes (Wiki) - born 1926

    Maria Victoria (Wiki) - born 1927

    Virginia Gutiérrez (Wiki) - born 1928

    Sergio Corona (Wiki) - born 1928

    Ana Luisa Peluffo (Wiki) - born 1929

    Alma Rosa Aguirre (Wiki) - born 1929

    Queta Lavat (Wiki) - born 1929

    Silvia Pinal (Wiki) - born 1931

    Anabel Gutiérrez (Wiki) - born 1932

    Elsa Aguirre (Wiki) - born 1932

    Yolanda Montes (Wiki) - born 1932

    Elsa Cardenas (Wiki) - born 1932

    Elda Peralta (Wiki) - born 1932

    Francisco Colmenero (Wiki) - born 1932

    Alfonso Arau (Wiki) - born 1932

    Ernesto Gomez Cruz (Wiki) - born 1933

    Ana Ofelia Murguia (Wiki) - born 1933

    Rosita Arenas (Wiki) - born 1933

    Manolo Villaverde (Wiki) - born 1934

    Irma Dorantes (Wiki) - born 1934

    Eric Del Castillo (Wiki) - born 1934

    Adriana Roel (Wiki) - born 1934

    Luis Bayardo (Wiki) - born 1935

    Luz Maria Aguilar (Wiki) - born 1935

    Aurora Clavel (Wiki) - born 1936

    Lucha Villa (Wiki) - born 1936

    Jose Carlo Ruiz (Wiki) - born 1936

    Carlos Bracho (Wiki) - born 1937

    Raquel Olmedo (Wiki) - born 1937

    Lorena Velasquez (Wiki) - born 1937

    Maria Duval (Wiki) - born 1937

    Jacqueline Andere (Wiki) - born 1938

    Jorge Rivero (Wiki) - born 1938

    Eduardo Manzano (Wiki) - born 1938

    Lucha Moreno (Wiki) - born 1939

    Ernesto Gomez Cruz reportedly dead: https://www-expreso-com-mx.translate.goog/estelar/cine/quien-fue-ernesto-gomez-cruz-muere-a-los-90-anos/206182?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

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  20. Posted

    14 minutes ago, HDS said:

    Would you consider it bad form to post a critical health update for a potential pick while a competition such as the Deathlist Cup is underway and one is not participating/already eliminated?

    Nope.

     

    All's fair in love and dead pooling imo.

     

    Spill.

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  23. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    An earthquake has to be 7+ to be considered major. There are only on average 15 of those per year on the entire planet.

    There are variations from year to year. It goes up and down, but there's no evidence to suggest they're becoming more or less frequent in general.

    Cheers, it's not something I pay much attention to, living in a country where your earthquakes are rare and having forgotten everything about tectonic plates I ever learned in Geography (might have been my second year of Secondary School, I gave the subject up).

     

    So that was a looong time ago. 

     

    I guess I see the reports on here and on the tellybox and am more aware of them.

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  25. Posted

    6 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

    I agree, living in Israel, I'm going to have to admit that there are far too many genocidal freaks lurking around, but most of the people are kinda apathetic towards the whole thing and silently accept their government's actions and one could argue that this is even worse. Some of them balantly argue that they 'lost all their empathy to the people of gaza', some of them try to find excuses, others are just ignorant to what their government is doing within its own borders and in other places.

    There was an extraordinary notion of revenge during the first few months that crossed barriers to the so-called centre-left, even some of the biggest opposers of Netanyahu didn't think for a second that they should refuse to participate, even until this very moment.

    Netanyahu is imo putting the people of Israel in more danger. That is unforgiveable, given what happened on October 7th.

     

    He seems hell bent on bringing Lebanon, Hezbollah and Iran into this and the attack on Syrian soil? 

     

    He may be the destruction of Israel, not its saviour and that is an horrific prospect as well. 

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