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  1. Slipping under the radar are the following who took their seats in the Lords today.

     

    Franck Petitgas - French banker, Sunak's personal investment manager.

     

    Stewart Marks - Conservative party treasurer and donor to the party.

     

    So we have another foreigner and a moneyman for the Tories. Sickening, isn't it?

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  2. 15 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

     

    Yep, not sure why the link didn't work, sorry about that.

    If I had to guess, I'd say copying from the title bar has only caught the second half of the link - easy to do if you click more than once to copy. That's why I always copy out the whole link, if there's something wrong with it, it's obvious. 

     

    We've all been there, I'm sure.


  3. On 13/12/2021 at 20:21, msc said:

     

    You'll Never Find Us in the Guardian Obits at Parties. The moment Spade probably thought "right, that fucker is going to replace me..."

     

    GOT AN OBIT - Fred Rister (cost me money, the bastard), Manohar Parrikar, Edmund Capon

     

    DIED, DIDNT OBIT - Chris Wilson, Jonny Savile (?), Dennis Richardson, Derek Maitland, WT Johnson, Tanya Gendle, John Cocks, Paul Dewar, Spencer Bohren, Jeff Blackshear, Syed Islam, Dave Agosti

     

    DIED LATER - Bill Freehan, Karen Lewis, Joe Vento

     

    NOT SURE - Gillian Lee, Andy Anderson

     

    And my penance was siphoning through all those WEP teams...

    Ah. You misspelt Jonny Saville here, but he has only just died. Andy Anderson also died in 2019 according to my researches. Gillian Lee is either the last survivor of that team or died so far off radar we never knew.

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  4. 18 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    Third sitting Labour peer to die since the start of the year.

    9th former MP to die since the start of the year.

    This looks like it's going to be a brutal year for former MPs and peers.

    Except the immortal Frank Field. I've picked him, so he's got a bye to 2025. :lol:

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    You're not wrong on that.

    Oh I know. 

     

    Too busy enjoying his job as a Whip. The move to get Rutherglen out of Glasgow into South Lanarkshire was very much Robert Brown's (LibDem) baby, he became a hanger on to that. There's almost nothing he did of any consequence to the community.

     

    Turned up like a bad penny come election time. 

     

    Personal experience - he was the only local elected official who didn't turn up to any fundraiser for my brother after his accident. 

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  6. My former Labour MP Tommy McAvoy reportedly dead: 

    Absolute fat waste of space who went to London and did nothing but write a column for the Rutherglen Reformer once a month.

     

    Very much typical of those Labour MPs who took their vote for granted.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    Still how you remember them tasting back in 19oatcake?

    Haven't opened them yet, had to have a ciggie when I returned from the shops!

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  8. Well, well, well.

     

    All these discussions are moot, really. A modern day Mrs Thatch said Bon Scott. One thing you could say about her was she had a vision for the future, and a re-shaping of the United Kingdom. Whether she was right or not and how that affected then and now obviously is divisive.

     

    I'm afraid to say that the current incumbents are squandering the opportunity of Brexit if there is one is to re-shape the UK once more. However, it is all short-termism, narrow-minded and blinkered running of the country. Not one of the Government benches has a vision of what that could be, not one. Instead, we are landed with high tax rates (on an economy which essentially has full employment), a larger debt and state with ever more layers of government while the things they are in charge of fall to bits around us. EU migration has simply been replaced by migration from the Indian sub-continent and other places - those figures currently dwarf what we were getting under the EU.

     

    May's legacy is nothing as leader and horrific as Home Secretary. Since 2010, there really seems to have been no grand plan, with a succession of leaders willing to form an orchestra while the country burns.

     

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