Commtech Sio Bibble

Streamlined and updated, considering OP hasn't been active for 3 years and I can't see that anyone else has posted a more recent list. LAST UPDATED 25th FEB 2024 1959 - 1/630 Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP 1964 - 10/630 Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP Roy Hattersley (b.1932) - Labour Pat Duffy (b.1920) - Labour James Hamilton (b.1934) - UUP Shirley Summerskill (b.1931) - Labour Patrick McNair-Wilson (b.1929) - Conservative Dick Taverne (b.1928) - Labour Bill Rodgers (1928) - Labour Terence Higgins (b.1928) - Conservative Michael Jopling (b.1930) - Conservative 1966 - 20/630 Edwin Brooks (b.1929) - Labour Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP Roy Hattersley (b.1932) - Labour Ted Rowlands (b.1940) - Labour John Pardoe (b.1934) - Liberal David Winnick (b.1933) - Labour James Hamilton (b.1934) - UUP David Howell (b.1936) - Conservative Shirley Summerskill (b.1931) - Labour Alan Lee Williams (b.1930) - Labour Stanley Henig (b.1939) - Labour Dick Taverne (b.1928) - Labour Donald Anderson (b.1939) - Labour David Owen (b.1938) - Labour David Steel (b.1938) - Liberal John Nott (b.1932) - National Liberal Bill Rodgers (1928) - Labour Michael Heseltine (b.1933) - Conservative Michael Jopling (b.1930) - Conservative Terence Higgins (b.1928) - Conservative 1966-1970 by-elections Fred Silvester (b.1933) - Conservative Christopher Ward (b.1942) - Conservative Kenneth Baker (b. 1934) - Conservative 1970 - 49/630 Jim Sillars (b.1937) - Labour David Madel (b.1938) - Conservative Neil Kinnock (b.1942) - Labour Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP Roy Hattersley (b.1932) - Labour Robert Hicks (b.1938) - Conservative Dennis Skinner (b.1932) - Labour Laurance Reed (b.1937) - Conservative Tom King (b.1933) - Conservative Andrew Bowden (b.1930) - Conservative Gwynoro Jones (b.1942) - Labour Christopher Tugendhat (b.1937) - Conservative David Clark (b.1939) - Labour John Pardoe (b.1934) - Liberal Peter Trew (b.1932) - Conservative Gavin Strang (b.1943) - Labour Norman Tebbit (b.1931) - Conservative John Hannam (b.1929) - Conservative Frank McManus (b.1942) - Unity Barry Jones (b.1938) - Labour John Horam (b.1939) - Labour Sally Oppenheim-Barnes (b.1928) - Conservative David Howell (b.1936) - Conservative Shirley Summerskill (b.1931) - Labour Hugh Dykes (b.1939) - Conservative Joan Hall (b.1935) - Conservative John Prescott (b.1938) - Labour David Knox (b.1933) - Conservative John Gummer (b.1939) - Conservative Dick Taverne (b.1928) - Labour Jeffrey Archer (b.1940) - Conservative Janet Fookes (b.1936) - Conservative John Suttcliffe (b.1931) - Conservative Alan Haselhurst (b.1937) - Conservative Patrick McNair-Wilson (b.1929) - Conservative Norman Fowler (b.1938) - Conservative Les Huckfield (b.1942) - Labour David Owen (b.1938) - Labour David Steel (b.1938) - Liberal Ken Clarke (b.1940) - Conservative John Nott (b.1932) - Conservative Patrick Duffy (b.1920) - Labour Bill Rodgers (1928) - Labour Michael Heseltine (b.1933) - Conservative Bernadette D. McAliskey (b.1947) - Unity Eric Deakins (b.1932) - Labour Michael Jopling (b.1930) - Conservative Jack Cunnigham (b.1939) - Labour Terence Higgins (b.1928) - Conservative

I know it's been said before, basically every year, but maybe it's finally time for him to make his big return next year.

Patricia Prior dead.

According to my clock I believe you're now open for entry. I'll go for Dianne Feinstein. Thanks for hosting.

No body probably cares but following Johnson's MP resignation, I thought I'd see how long former Prime Ministers stayed in the House of Commons after leaving the job of PM. Only doing post-war because I'm not that sad. 1) Ted Heath - 27 years, 2 months (lost election in 1974, stepped down at 2001 election) 2) Alec Douglas-Home - 9 years, 11 months (lost election in 1964, stepped down at 1974 election) 3) Winston Churchill - 9 years, 5 months (resigned as PM in 1955, stepped down at 1964 election) 4) Sunny Jim Callaghan - 8 years (lost 1979 election, stepped down 1987) 5) Harold Wilson - 7 years, 1 month (resigned as PM 1976, stepped down 1983) -6) Theresa May - 4 years, 10 months (resigned 2019, stepped down 2024) -6) Gordon Brown - 4 years, 10 months (lost 2010, stepped down 2015) 8) Clement Attlee - 4 years, 2 months (lost 1951, resigned as MP in 1955) 9) John Major - 4 years (lost 1997, stepped down 2001) 10) Liz Truss - 1 year, 7 months (resigned 2022, lost re-election 2024) 11) Maggie Thatcher - 1 year, 4 months (resigned 1990, stepped down 1992) 12) Harold Macmillan - 11 months (resigned 1963, stepped down 1964) 13) Boris Johnson - 9 months (resigned 2022, stepped down 2023) 14) David Cameron - 2 months (resigned July 2016, stepped down in September) 15) Anthony Eden - 1 day (resigned 9th Jan 1957, stepped down on 10th Jan) 16) Tony Blair - 0 days (Left both 27th June 2007) Most seem to stay on until at least the next general election, but Attlee, Eden, Blair, Cameron and Johnson didn't. And there's obviously still May and Truss in the House of Commons, but I doubt either will beat Heath's respectable 27 years.

Been skydiving this weekend to raise money for charity.

Colin McFarlane voice actor for a lot of British Children's TV, narrator on the Cube, Actor in the Dark Knight trilogy and a few episodes of Doctor Who reveals he has Prostate Cancer.

Wikipedia reporting it as Leukemia, looks like you were on the money with this.

Silvio Berlusconi a hit for me and few others here. BBC

This past few week has been good for overdue deaths of bad people. Rolf Harris, Pat Robertson, Ted Kaczynski and now Silvio

I'd say it's more the long term impact. Kaczynski is obviously a bad person, but he hasn't had a major impact aside from being seen as a key figure in Anarcho-primitivism. His actions don't really affect modern day to day life. Whereas Robertson was one of the key people responsible for the rise of evangelicalism within (traditionally) right-wing politics. His (and other's) actions can still be seen today in the (personal bias here) vile, hate-filled rhetoric being used by certain mainstream politicians, which dare I say has indirectly led to the deaths of many more than Kaczynski's actions. There's also the fact that Robertson is still a widely praised figure making him more dis-likeable, whereas with Kaczynski, some who support his ideas but very few support his methods, so hating him goes without saying.

Another one.

And he's gone

Looks like it's the latter. I've also seen rumours that Boris is planning on doing the same.

Good bloody riddance

Seems pretty fit and well presenting at the Soap Awards on ITV, probably got a few good years yet.

I've always though that Willie Whitelaw looks like Bernard Cribbins

IGNORE. t'was ninja-ed.

Esther Rantzen

I don't think so but there was James F. Leonard (1920-2020) who held the 'cabinet level' position of UN ambassador in the late 70s.

Found this on Twitter, odd that no-one noticed

That means that Anneke Wills is the last surviving actor from Power of the Daleks. Bringing the number of episodes with only one survivor to two (the other being The Deadly Assassin having just Tom Baker)

Everyone just give up voting for Carter and accept the immortality.

Snail pace seems to have sped back up again. I don't know why that happens, the servers seemed fine when the Queen died in September and that was a massive influx, if I remember rightly it was Pele who initially broke it down, I wonder what changed in that time.

7th death of 2022 was the Queen of England 7th death of 2023 was the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll