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Alternatively they might have been pissed if he'd promised to do this if Heathrow expansion went through and then reneged. I'm not a fan of Goldsmith but I respect him sticking to his "promise" in his manifesto. It's a curious one as Goldsmith as good as admitted he ran as a Tory in 2010 as it was the best way to try and implement some of his views, so he might be more of a free thinking independent if returned to parliament, rather than a semi-detatched meber of the Tory party like Carswell. "Might" being key, there. As it's likely to return either an independent pissed off with the government, or a Lib Dem, so the majority falls by one. Although if the Lib Dems turn it into a referendum on Brexit, I think they'll lose. Never run a local byelection on a national issue, it nearly never works. Also, I'm wondering about the MP for Twickenham, who was elected largely on an anti-Heathrow expansion green Tory ticket.

Three years already? When I found out about Lou dying, I was on the phone to my mum (a huge fan of his) to tell her we'd got this place. At the time, my wife was heavily pregnant, and we lived in a bloody shithole of a flat. So midway through that talk, I had to segue into "Oh btw, Lou Reed's dead". I'm great at breaking news gently, me. For some reason, the intervening three years have passed in much of a sleep deprived daze...

Are you public sector or private sector? I think I understand where you are coming from but the accurate answer may not actually reflect the intention of your question. *reads between lines* He is Bond and/or a hitman!

Far as I'm aware, the issue with James is that he had an aggressive form of leukemia, but they tried some experimental new drugs on his cancer, and it worked surprisingly well. He'll see 2017, and I wouldn't write off 2018 just yet.

You going to sort out the peace? Luck. You'll need it then.

Do you know something about Prince Andrew? How do you go back to 1471 looking for reigning UK monarch - surely just UK monarch....? And there was me putting in all the qualifications so some sod didn't say "Hah, what about King Scottish the Thirteenth who only reigned for ten days". You know what I meant.

Speaking of all this, I do think the Deathlist should be looking towards replacing one of its long time bedblockers with the Queen. I don't think she's going to go imminently, but she is in her 90s now, so her continuing on can't really be taken for granted, and would be an astounding miss. You'd think Gorbachev would be due a bow one of these years too.

One team we should probably mention in the context of serial under-achievers are East Stirlingshire. Long the wooden spooners of the Scottish League and celebrated as such in the highly recommended book Pointless by Jeff Connor (wherein the author tries to discover why anyone would bother owning/managing.playing for or supporting such a shite team) "The Shire" are now in truly strange territory. The revised promotion and relegation system to the fifth tier in Scotland finally tipped them out of the national league. However, they're now enduring a season in which they are fairly good; though not really threatening to win the Lowland League. Rant over! Although they did manage to lose 7-4 to Selkirk a few weeks back, but aye, they're feeding a level at around 3rd-5th in the Lowlands this season. Although at the going rate, East Kilbride and Edinburgh City could wind up swapping leagues in May. Also, we bloody won last night! Away to the only side in the league who had been below us (Dundee as mentioned up thread) and now out of the drop zone with our first win in anything since 6th August. Result, as they say.

Do you know something about Prince Andrew? Was he on the Royal Knockout or was that Edward? Always mixing those two up. And no, but then, neither the Queen or Philip are dead yet.

Apart from Edward VIII, Elizabeth I, James III and others who had no kids, do you know the most recent reigning UK monarch and queen/prince consort to both die without outliving one of their children? Well, I got back as far as 1471 before getting bored, but the chances are it's yet to happen.

Newsnight last night did their bit for would be Deathracers and those struggling to fill out a DDP team, by interviewing Paul Reveley. One of the first BBC TV engineers, an assistant to John Logie Baird, and due to his connections and experiences, a surefire obit. Also, someone I thought was long dead, but alive and fairly lucid, although 104 years old. When it's on iplayer, it'll be towards the end of the episode, after all the Clinton stuff.

He has heart issues in recent times, iirc.

From all accounts he never mentally recovered from that, unsurprisingly.

Stage director Howard Davies, aged 71.

Has Saint talked about his cancer since April, when he was on a chemo-break, sans bladder or prostate,and his doctor was hoping for get him on a new trial drug. He's got Stage IV bladder cancer (so 10% and lower survival rate over 5 years), and his cancer was diagnosed in 2012. It spread at least three years ago. He seems like he's going on and on, and Greaves is in worse shape, but every Deathlist precedent and bit of history says 2016 will be his last Christmas.

He does have a point, but it's a bit early. I know Davey Jones posted one by mid-October last year, but that was stupidly early too.

Kevin Curran, writer of ten Simpsons episodes, dead aged 59 after cancer battle. The only episode which stands out is "I'm Spelling As Fast as I Can", where Lisa is asked to take a fall in a spelling contest. We're talking 2003 - not exactly quote a minute stuff by that point.

Slightly more than a few months, then! Time flies.

Supermarket Sweep dude? If so, Spade pointed out a few months back. That he was ill, not that he was dead.

Sue Carroll was on the first DDP team I ever sent in - properly, not counting the 2011 horror show. She died a week early, and I found out by my phone's web browser during the family Christmas weekend dinner. Had to pretend my inadvertent "Dammit!" aloud was due to stubbing my toe. Always get annoyed thinking of her.

Jackie Stallone's doing quite well in terms of outliving folk so far. Hang on, Big Ron was on CBB? I've hard of hardly any of these people, though what I do know of Season 15 sounds like a dinner party in hell.

A shame, but he's part of history forever, really. (Well, sporting history...) As for the post-70 captains, Zoff seems most likely to go next off that list, hasn't he had health issues in the recent past? Though I wouldn't put it beyond Matthaus or Dunga to suddenly snuff it one day.

The Sun and Mirror are reporting she has been told by the clinic that she will need several sessions meaning she needs to raise a lot more than the 60k she has on her go fund me page! Aye, her and Downie have a long way to go to reach the start line, as it were.

Last film I saw was Endless Night (1972). Remarkably faithful, for a 1970s film, to the Agatha Christie originally... right up to the point where Britt Ekland suddenly loses all her clothes. Christie herself actually saw this film, I wish I'd been in the room for that!

I wouldn't call the most inefficient deadpool - real life, as we say, must come first. I do think this is probably the finest deadpool to come along since the Deathrace itself, though, so am glad to see it continue in 2017. A team will be PM'd to you at some point before the bells.