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Thatcher raised the deposit amount to try and kill off Lord Sutch, who ran against her in 1983.

Turnbull Hutton, former Raith Rovers owner and scourge of the SFA/SPL/Rangers during that whole Summer of 2012 debacle, has died after a long cancer battle.

Someone on here - possibly a guest - was foretelling the imminent demise of old Denis, as he hadn't appeared in the media for a year. Well, he's not appeared here, but a journalist from The Guardian has visited him in recent days. No change there then.

No, shurely the biggest loser PMs are those who lose a vote of no confidence. Or "win" one if you like. Which PMs have actually lost a vote of confidence in the modern era? Also on the whole speech thing it's the queens duty to read, refusing to do so would be interfering as it could be seen as expecting the speech to fail. Callaghan in 1979. That, and issues in 1924 involving Baldwin and MacDonald, are the only ones since Victoria. Earl Rosebery "technically" lost one in 1895, but in actuality, he lost a minor vote, and was so annoyed he retconned it into having been a vote of no confidence, and so resigned. That was more looking for an excuse though. They are, as you can image, quite rare.

Most of these seat projections aren't taking in the swing from Tory to Labour, I think. And I'd rather have my Tory leader to be someone like Jacob Rees-Mogg. You know where you stand with his brand of anachronistic insane Toryism. None of this Tony Blair Auton Assembly Line David Cameronites.

Bloody hell.The House of Commons s going to have more fathers in the next parliament than Katie Prices children ! There will be only one Father. Assuming they all get re-elected then it will be the one who made their maiden speech first. Which one will that be? Its actually who got sworn in first by the Speaker back in 1970, which happens to be Gerald Kaufman. Hence why he opened the Speaker debate last week.

Bushwhackers inducted into the Hall of Fame. Luke looked no different, Butch looked hideous, and had a walking stick. Wiki suggests he has issues with septicemia, and some digging brings this up from earlier in the week from Luke. One to watch.

PR, D'Hondt method. Ah yes, thats what Scotland uses for its regional lists.

As in seats or as in percentage of votes? Seats for sure. Vote percentage, it depends. I think UKIP will take more votes over larger areas but Lib Dems will take them in their held seats. Certainly I don't see the Greens overtaking either! That's what I was thinking. I'm going positive on the Liberal Democrats too (only half their MPs going *is* positive, currently!). Assuming they hold onto Kennedy, Cable, Clegg, Hughes, etc. If those types start dropping, they're really fucked on the night. I think the Fixed Terms thing will go swiftly into the new parliament though with these types of numbers.

Labour c300, Tories c.260, Liberal Dems c.30 SNP c.30 UKIP c.4 Greens 1 or nothing is my guess. The SNP surge will prevent a Labour majority, the swing from Tory to Labour every poll has shown will do for the Tories.

Thanks all. I owe it to my ability to put forward really old people. And thanks to MPFC, for running this fine game, and for allowing me to put the annual winnings towards Chest Stroke and Heart Scotland. Same time in December then!

Bloody hell! The achievement was nowt much, of course.

Did I say Roy Douglas was a bad joker? Well, he wasn't because he has died aged 107 (RIP to him) and here is the Telegraph on it.

Hans Erni has died. Now to see if a very old Swiss painter gets a mention of his death in English somewhere acceptable.

If you're going to end a run, end it in style, I say.

Fucking hell!

Verified does not equal absolute. It just means the person comes from a country with better record keeping. She was very old either way (c.115 at the youngest if she did work with Pancho Villas as the Mexican government suggest in the Mail obit), and clearly obitable for the people who go for the old.

Scots are only part of the UK if they vote the right way, naturally. Of course, coalitions were perfectly fine in May 2010!

Dang that Mail is reliable! I assume that's what Hitler said around 1938.

I just been catching up on raw and came here to post the exact same thing, does he have cancer ? I would say he has a 2 or 3 years by the looks of him. I think he has a case of "70 years old and suddenly all those hardcore matches are catching up with body" more than anything.

Wagstaff was a good pick. There was a few tweets he was in seriously ill health in late December, but I didn't think he'd get much coverage over here. Full Daily Mail obit. At least I put him down on the Hare's pool, I thought he might hang on longer than the Deathrace ran!

Updates... 2011 - Dr Sree Sree Swaniji, Roy Douglas, Nicholas Winton, Johan Van Hulst, Ebby Halliday, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Clare Hollingworth, Mary Carlisle, Douglas Slocombe (9/50) 2012 - Penny Marshall, Harper Lee, Peregrine Worsthorne, Manuel Noriega, Clive James, Mary Wilson, Leslie Philips, (7/20) 2013 - Robert Mugabe,Judy Blume, Roy Mason, Nicholas Edwards, Danny Kirwan, Bob Dole, Joao Havelange, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jopling, Mark Eden, Ryan Buell, Freddie Starr (12/20) 2014 - Asa Briggs, Ryan Buell, George Cole, Liz Dawn, Helen Fawkes, Valerie harper, Jimmy Hill, Wilko Johnson, Chris Moncrieff, Pat Rice, Joost, Ian Watkins, Chris Woodhead 13/20 2015 - 19/20

Stuart Wagstaff died on the 10th March. Obit of sorts in the Daily Mail.

MacNee I'm always wrong so might as well vote for one of my favourites off the list then!

The other year he built a tennis centre for her, I think they might be on good terms.