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I use Facebook exclusively for Pokemon Go, it's really the only place that have active local groups. Apart from that the only time I've used it recently is for deadpooling purposes. For keeping in touch with friends it's Instagram or Twitter mainly.

Cy Town is unlikely to be getting an obituary at this point, but just for the sake of completion when adding him to the LotL, the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine has given his date of death as March 26th.

Ray Chan, art director on a lot of Marvel movie projects from Thor 2 to the upcoming Deadpool 3 has died.

Angharad Walsh makeup artist on Doctor Who for 2018-2022 has died aged 37, numerous credits on other TV dramas.

MP for Birken-Dead 5/50 23rd April 2024 Veteran Labour politician, Frank Field has finally succumbed to cancer after a decade long battle. Field first entered the realm of politics in 1964 when he became a councillor on the Hounslow borough council but he lost his bid for reelection in 1968 and instead became director of The Child Poverty Action Group. His first attempt to join parliament in 1966 was unsuccessful as he failed to usurp the incumbent Conservative MP in the South Buckinghamshire constituency, however in 1979 he was elected MP for the Birkenhead constituency, where he remained until 2019. Throughout Thatcher’s government Field occasionally sat on the front benches of the opposition, holding minor roles and chairing committees. In 1997, Tony Blair appointed him Minister for Welfare Reform but didn’t last long in the role as he was constantly clashing with other ministers and he eventually resigned after only 14 months, with Blair describing his ideas as “unfathomable”. Upon returning to the backbenches, he became a vocal critic of both Blair and Brown’s governments, even at one point before the 2010 election attempting to have Brown replaced. Field was a strong supporter of Brexit and increasingly lost support from his party and constituents for his views. In 2018 he left the Labour party citing internal racism as his reason, however some commentators have suggested he only left to save the embarrassment of being sacked. In the 2019 election he stood as an independent candidate in his constituency and much to no-one’s surprise didn’t win, but was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020. In October 2021 he announced he had terminal cancer and had been in hospice care; he had initially been diagnosed with prostate cancer around 2013. He died yesterday aged 81. He was making his third appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist, this year at no.9

Frank is a hit for me too, I'll go for Jim Lovell please.

To change the subject slightly I find it laughable that currently the unelected prime minister is forcing parliament to keep voting until they give up trying to stop a policy not supported by the majority of the public. Democracy in action.

I hate this argument because it's never a guarantee, since 2010, 2 of the 4 election haven't produced majority governments (2010 & 2017). And the less said about the debacle in 1974 the better. And then there's 1951 which did produce a majority government for the Conservatives despite them getting 0.8% less of the vote than Labour.

Unless we get another coalition govt, I doubt it will be attempted any time soon, and even then it'll probably be another attempt at AV, which in my opinion isn't that much better. I studied different electoral systems for my politics A-level and I think the one that I was most in favour of was Single Transferable Vote like they have in Northern Ireland, but I doubt we'll ever get that nationwide.

It certainly seems that way but to be honest I could not tell you what position Starmer holds on any political issue, if you'd have asked me when he was first elected leader I might have had some idea and would have been a lot more positive towards him but now he's flip-flopped on almost every issue that I don't trust him. A lot of what the Labour party says now is inline with the Tories but I have no idea if that's what they actually stand for or if they're just trying to get Tory voters on side, either way it's not great.

This doesn't actually work for me as I'm in one of the many constituencies that have been gerrymandered by the Tories for the upcoming election, consequently I find that The Electoral Calculus site is more effective and up to date.

I fully understand that, the reason I'm so confident in saying that is because there is no chance at all of the Tories winning in my constituency. My postal vote for the upcoming local elections arrived the other day and because local branches of the parties are quite different to the Westminster branches I felt confident voting on who I thought would make a better councillor/mayor, and I'll probably have a similar mindset going into the GE and vote for who will make a better local representative and not who I want in government, as at the end of the day that is what I'm actually voting for.

No, literally everyone who I've seen outside of the news who has mentioned the Rayner 'scandal' is saying how stupid it is that this is getting all the focus when there are Conservative party members doing much worse on a daily basis and it goes ignored. The only people who care about it are the people who vote Tory. I won't be voting Labour, not because of someone slightly diddling their council tax for a small payout but because I despise Starmer and the current ideological position of the party.

As there is no benefit to PMing, I'll just drop my team here and let everyone steal my list of very unconventional picks. 1. Jimmy Carter 2. Sven-Göran Eriksson 3. Bob Newhart 4. William Russell 5. Linda Nolan 6. Frank Field 7. David Graham 8. Jean-Marie Le Pen 9. Noam Chomsky 10. James Whale 11. Joanne Woodward 12. Esther Rantzen 13. Phil Collins 14. Nigel Starmer Smith 15. Dennis Skinner 16. Charles III 17. Harrison R. Tyler 18. Pope Francis 19. Julie Goodyear 20. Jim Lovell 21. Jack Hanna Subs 1. Albert II of Belgium 2. Edward, Duke of Kent 3. Patrick Murray

I refuse to read all three pages of argument that I've missed since being on here last night, but as long as Ulitzer has a history of being a reliable source on these things then I trust him