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  1. Sean

    By-Election Bingo

    According to The Daily Telegraph, there's still a few to come yet. Other journalists are also saying they think more will follow.I would say the odds are high.I wonder how many it would take for Corbyn to say sod it and throw in the towel. The entire party. I can definitely see him standing back and watching dozens of people go.
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    By-Election Bingo

    According to The Daily Telegraph, there's still a few to come yet. Other journalists are also saying they think more will follow.I would say the odds are high.I wonder how many it would take for Corbyn to say sod it and throw in the towel. Chuka Ummuna, hopefully. Michael Dugher and Rachel Reeves, perhaps. Chuka won`t as he will see himself as a potential successor if 2020 is an epic failure.Dugher or Reeves wouldn`t surprise me.I also reckon next one could be Smeeth Kevan Jones or Pat McFadden.
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    By-Election Bingo

    According to The Daily Telegraph, there's still a few to come yet. Other journalists are also saying they think more will follow.I would say the odds are high.I wonder how many it would take for Corbyn to say sod it and throw in the towel.
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    The Dead Of 2017

    I always put on the news channel during coffee breaks.Mainly because the weather outside is too shite and daytime TV is just so awful now.
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    Biggest Misses By The Committee 2017

    True but he did retire from the Lords last year which is proving to be a sign the end is near.
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    The Dead Of 2017

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38611497?ns_mchannel=social&&post_id=960528780664773_1348828045168176#38;ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central :Link
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    The Dead Of 2017

    Breaking News:Lord Snowden dead at 86 according to BBC news channel.Link to follow.
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    By-Election Bingo

    I remember reading somewhere last year that one of the potential plans by the blairite MPs to get rid of Corbyn was for them to constantly trigger by elections and put pressure on corbyn . Labour will lose Copeland and think there is a good chance they will lose Hunt's seat too. After that will Corbyns position become untenable? In 2015 election stoke central (Hunt's seat) 45% voted either UKIP or Conservative 39% labour but the corbyn effect will mean labour losing a good chunk of that to ukip and lib dems. UKIP got 23% percent they take 5 to 7% off labour and hold their votes from 2015 UKIP have a serious chance of winning this! I don`t think anything can get rid of Corbyn before 2020.I was talking about the morale of Labour MP`s with a Tory MP who was attending the same function as me a few months back.Although he is of course biased he gave a good theory about Labour MP`s.He said his Labour friends who are centrists were despairing at the sense of the Labour Party and were considering leaving as none believed they had a chance of getting into power for the next two or three terms and the young bright ones are considering a different career where they would have a better chance of climbing the career ladder at their professional prime.Was skeptical when he said this to me but it certainly seems to be proving truthful.I can see a few more going if/when Labour loses one of these by-elections.There if Utilizer is correct is likely to be a by-election in Gerald Kaufman`s seat which although is a safe seat is likely to expose deep divisions within the constituency party (well those that haven`t been expelled yet anyway). I do think this is an existential crisis for Labour and the Brexit debate emphasized the massive divisions they face.If they back a soft Brexit then they will lose seats in Wales and the North to UKIP and maybe even the rogue Tory seat takeover.If they back a hard Brexit they risk losing a substantial number of seats in the south to the Liberal Democrats.That is not even considering their obliteration in Scotland where they are now third place and falling in the polls.And the boundary changes if they go through could cause a new trench warfare between Labour MP`s and members.
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    The 1St Death Of 2017

    Well Booth is one of the strongest candidates on the list and has been circling the drain for years now.
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    By-Election Bingo

    Wonder how many more Labour MP's will jump ship.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2017

    I'm a 15 year old American white male. There's one for you...
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    Academic Footnotes

    One of those Whatever Happened to....he was everywhere at one point. RIP. He taught at Essex University where I study until last year I think.He taught a lot of my friends in their first year.No one had heard he was ill just on study leave which can be ominous.Apparently he also had an affair with Shirley Williams. Not really an affair, though the press reported it as so: he was a widower, her husband ran off with another woman. They both then met other folk and remarried. I stand corrected.I knew they were seeing each other at one point.
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    Academic Footnotes

    One of those Whatever Happened to....he was everywhere at one point. RIP. He taught at Essex University where I study until last year I think.He taught a lot of my friends in their first year.No one had heard he was ill just on study leave which can be ominous.Apparently he also had an affair with Shirley Williams.
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    Nobby Stiles

    Peters was still fit enough to attend the Celebration Dinner, whereas our Nobby - my nap of 2017 - was nowhere to be seen. I thought Peters was pulled out of all the 50th anniversairy events as were Stiles Wilson Greaves and Bonetti? Oops...I stand corrected. Peters attended the gala final WHU match at Upton Park a few weeks earlier. Bonetti is a surprise...much younger than the others and never headed the ball. Bonetti was said to have advanced Alzheimer`s last summer. I've seen Bonetti in the last couple of months and he looked reasonably well. a long shot for 2017 I'd say Last I read he was in hospital.Pleased to hear the guy is hanging on in there.
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    Gerry Adams & Martin McGuinness

    Oh I am praying for Martin right now just not in the way Gerry wants!
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2018

    I know what you mean.I know who ASIA where but not him.
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    Hugh Hefner

    Always said Hefner was an old dog.
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    The Generation Game

    By all means keep your ineligible picks but you will never win and any hits you have put in the wrong generation won`t count .
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    The Generation Game

    Tempting.
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    The Generation Game

    You still need to replace Barbara Bush as she was born in the wrong generation.Also Erroll Christie Leah Bracknell Ian Brady and Burt Reynolds are not eligible baby boomers (1943-1960)
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    Shane MacGowan

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2565832/the-pogues-frontman-shane-macgowan-arrives-in-a-wheelchair-as-he-bids-farewell-at-his-mothers-funeral/:Pictured at his mother's funeral in a wheelchair and slippers.
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    Biggest Misses By The Committee 2017

    PSP has a pretty dire prognosis and it was well known Sarstedt had had symptoms for several years.Also Hollingworth`s death has made the BBC News at 6 so I think she can definitely be counted as a miss.
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    The Generation Game

    Ilse Aichinger: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/21/ilse-aichinger-obituary Can I replace Nutley with Charles Manson and Colin Dexter please? Certainly.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2017

    Probably about 7.
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