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Huuuuuu are you? Hu, Hu. Hu, Hu.

Hu do you all think you are mocking drol's new thread?

The Guido list has 72 named backers. It's obvious that there will be at least a couple of dozen shy backers. A reminder that only the proposer and seconder must be named on the list of 100+ nominations for the ballot. The other 98+ names will remain anonymous. I don't doubt he's reached the threshold now.

The membership and the parliamentary party are totally different in their mindset...

I do think it will be Boris again now actually. I didn't think the support amongst MPs was there to get him over the 100 line. Now that he's through to the membership, I can see him thumping Rishi.

Yoshimi Osawa (wiki) dead from pneumonia at 96.

Doubt it. The needle moved as far as is possible in 2019 for a seat like Chester. The demographics are just not there for the Conservatives to win it.

Peter Lloyd OBE died back in August, aged 101. @chilean way A pick in the Centenarian Dead Pool...

Sidney Poitier KBE Monica Vitti Gail Halvorsen Tom Parker June Brown OBE Tom Smith Jean-Louis Trintignant Frank Williams Larry Storch Dame Olivia Newton-John Mikhail Gorbachev Bill Turnbull Dame Angela Lansbury Jimmy Millar 14/50

Who says she won't go on to bigger and better things now? For example, perhaps she'll make an appearance in a future Identity Parade lineup on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

OK.

Doubt it will be him. This is quite a common view:

Yes please. She's the only one I like now.

I've restored it to his page with a book source. It's crazy what's happening over on Wiki atm. Lots of users and admins scrubbing vital dates for being unsourced, rather than doing a 10 second Google search and copy+paste job to back it up. Careless arsonists. Alas, Wikipedia is lawless and even worse, what they're doing isn't technically "wrong" by standards on there. I think scrubbing information that isn't sourced BUT can be easily sourced should be against guidelines.

Sunak is very divisive. I would be genuinely shocked if it was him.

I'm sure he'd be humbled knowing that he constantly lives in your head.

I hear it’s nice there that time of year.

On the Wiki page for the Carter administration, these positions are listed under "Carter cabinet". Same goes for the Reagan one. On the Reagan page there are 20 positions listed (incl. Office of Management and Budget Director and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) and next to it there's a photo captioned "the cabinet of President Reagan in 1981". There are exactly 20 faces in that photo. Given how well looked after these type of Wiki pages are, I'm sure this issue will have been discussed at length in the past on there before between editors. I think it's safe to say they're Cabinet jobs, even if the ins and outs are somewhat different. In the UK we have the same sort of thing. We have "ministers without portfolio" who attend Cabinet, but are not "Cabinet members", and yet whenever the photos are taken or the cabinet list is drawn up, they're included in it. EDIT: News article here about Trump removing U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. role from the Cabinet. It was restored under Biden. White House website lists them as Cabinet positions.

Tweet reporting the death of Alastair Fowler CBE (wiki), aged 91–92, Scottish literary critic, editor and authority on Edmund Spenser, game theory and Renaissance literature.

Times death notice for Adam Clapham (wiki), aged 82, BBC director and producer of television programmes and films, including "Doomsday Gun" (1994), which starred Frank Langella and Alan Arkin. Also wrote an illustrated history on nudists... and was surprisingly unmarried.

Yes, and they also forgot Donald McHenry (wiki, b. 1936) and James T. McIntyre (wiki, b. 1940). There are seven still living, as the Office of Management and Budget Director and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. were Cabinet positions within his administration. Could be another 15+ years before the last surviving member of Carter's Cabinet dies.

Guardian obit for British clown Arthur Vercoe Pedlar (wiki), aged 89. He was also President of the World Clown Association... yeah, apparently that's a thing. Lost my patience with the search function trying to see if we had a thread on clowns. Hundreds of results came up, but nearly all from the Boris Johnson thread.

Duncan's obit says he died from a fall... I'm getting rather suspicious now...

Taken from FB. A picture of Ray Marshall circa November 2021 celebrating his 75th wedding anniversary with his wife. She died in January. There's another pic of him on a Zoom call around the same time period. He looks frail but "normal" for a man of 93 (now 94).

NY Times obit as confirmation. This means that Ray Marshall (b. 1928) and Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) are the last living U.S. Cabinet Secretaries to have served in WWII.