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Unfortunately this means that the pressure is on Corbyn. Cameron can get his excuses in earlier and argue that even if he picked Harry Styles as the Conservative candidate they are never going to win in Oldham. There will be a lot of analysis of turnout and voting share. Labour have to win big on a good turnout. Might be a gift to UKIP. An organised Ukip with a good ground game and a decent list of candidates would put up a fight against Labour in this seat, they polled 20.6% there last time out. As it is, they'll just field whichever retired Tory councillor they can find who hasn't upset Nige recently.

It will be the first by-election in Oldham West and Royton (then known as Oldham West) since 1968, when Meacher himself was the losing candidate. Also, as a safe Labour seat, it'll be interesting to see who Corbyn picks as the anointed one for it.

I may, _may_ submit a theme team in 2016 called "The Matthew Smiths". The Doctor Who actor, the former ITV sports anchorman, the guy who wrote "Manic Miner", the Fulham striker... there's gotta be 20 there.

Would be amiss not to post this

British government report suggests that the 'army council" of the 'Ra is still in existence. Don't think we've seen the last of the Provos settling a few old scores in the streets.

https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/lactrice-dani%C3%A8le-delorme-est-d%C3%A9c%C3%A9d%C3%A9e-184500490.html It appears on Yahoo UK's Screen section as well, which is obviously more fitting. She'll get her broadsheet obituary within a week though, so don't worry.

Dynamite Kid back in hospital

Lord Ashcroft has spent 18 days in Belize in intensive care suffering from septic shock and renal failure.

Might bestow a bit of my knowledge on the plebs on how to win a DDP later on. We'll see.

He's giving a two-to-three year estimate on his life, but something tells me he's being slightly optimistic. I'd make him 60/40 to see it out of 2016 alive. Guardian obit would be guaranteed given all the G*m*rg*te quagmire.

Obvious sub-head for a Howard Marks thread: "No more Mr Nice"

Isn't that photo from about five years ago?

Gaz Top

I am actually David Quantick, though.

Presumably: Although, of course, he was actually born in Canning Town.

Happy 75th birthday SCR!

Love the fact that people are still posting on Artmis Pyle's Facebook page without mentioning the fact that, you know, he fucks kids.

Vernon Dobtcheff turns up in La Grande Bellezza, which really took me out of that film for a bit.

Finest Irish cultural product in history >>>> bootleg Steptoe and Son staring a tax cheat and a cunt.

Conor "Romeo Sensini" Evans died last year. Only needed one nun to get him out of a chair, mind.

YoungWillz, if you're happy to keep doing this spreadsheet mania for the rest of your time posting on these forums, the dream of a DDP run by committee rather than an exhausted T-Mib crying in the foetal position every time he releases that it's January 1st and he has to do another 600 wrestler bios could finally be a reality.

I just checked and there is no Ella Enchanted thread already,so if anything happens to Jimi Mistry this might be the only thread for proper inclusion for him besides dead of (whatever year) Soap opera stars due to his career-defining run as Dr Fonseca in Eastenders.

ngl, big fan of the lovely Daniel O'Donnell dressed up as Danny Zuko on Saturday night. Has had a top 40 album every year for the past 24 years you know, a record.

Feel sorry for Jason Wood, must be the most forgotten non-Channel 5 "celebrity" reality show contestant of all time. Willie Thorne's liver failure/suicide/beating to death by a bunch of very angry loan sharks is long overdue.