Banana 859 Posted November 7, 2019 Jan Strasky, the final PM of Czechoslovakia dead at 78. https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/last-czechoslovak-pm-jan-strasky-dies-at-78 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 281 Posted November 7, 2019 Canada has seven (Clark, Mulroney, Turner, Campbell, Chretien, Martin and Harper) former PMs living. I wonder how many times Her Majesty accidentally called our present PM Pierre. She's survived eleven of Canada's PMs. Do her staff instruct the UK PM to write its name on a 'Hello My Name is' sticker label on official visits? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted November 8, 2019 10 hours ago, Torva Messor said: Canada has seven (Clark, Mulroney, Turner, Campbell, Chretien, Martin and Harper) former PMs living. I wonder how many times Her Majesty accidentally called our present PM Pierre. She's survived eleven of Canada's PMs. Do her staff instruct the UK PM to write its name on a 'Hello My Name is' sticker label on official visits? I was never alive a toddler at the time Pierre died and even I find myself calling him Pierre. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skinny kiltrunner 553 Posted November 8, 2019 3 hours ago, Banana said: I was never alive a toddler at the time Pierre died and even I find myself calling him Pierre. Most of us in Western Canada just call him 'that fucker out East'. No name necessary. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dodrade 94 Posted November 10, 2019 On 05/11/2019 at 18:04, Kinnock said: Yeah no. Just a vote share reminder for Islington North (Corbyn's seat) result in 2017 Labour - 40,086 (73.0%) Conservative - 6,871 (12.5%) Liberal Democrat - 4,946 (9.0%) UKIP - 413 (0.8%) Independent - 208 (0.4%) MRLP - 106 (0.2%) Socialist - 21 (0.09%) Communist League - 7 (0.03%) ====== Labour Majority of 33,215 (60.5%) ====== Swing Required = 30.25% Lab to Con. Johnson is in realistic danger though should hold on to his seat. Uxbridge and South Ruislip Conservative - 23,716 (50.8%) Labour - 18,682 (40.0%) Lib Dem - 1,835 (3.9%) UKIP - 1,577 (3.4%) Green - 884 (1.9%) ===== Conservative Majority of 5,034 (10.8%) ===== Swing Required = 5.4% Lab to Con Still unlikely, he starts with over 50% of the vote and new party leaders usually get a bounce in their own seats, plus sitting PM's attract extra protest candidates which merely splits the opposition vote and increases their majority. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,453 Posted November 10, 2019 Brian Mawhinney, former MP for Peterborough (1979-1997) and North West Cambridgeshire (1997-2005), has died aged 79. Minister of State for Health (1992-1994), Secretary of State for Transport (1994-1995) and Conservative Party Chairman (1995-1997), as well as serving as the Chairman of the Football League for a while. Edit: Daily Mail, The Sun, BBC obituaries Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted November 10, 2019 14 minutes ago, Thatcher said: Brian Mawhinney, former MP for Peterborough (1979-1997) and North West Cambridgeshire (1997-2005), has died aged 79. Minister of State for Health (1992-1994), Secretary of State for Transport (1994-1995) and Conservative Party Chairman (1995-1997), as well as serving as the Chairman of the Football League for a while. Edit: Daily Mail, The Sun, BBC obituaries I wonder if it's a bad omen for the govt that the man who was Tory party chairman at the time of their catastrophic 1997 election defeat has died at the start of this election campaign ... Then again maybe it's a good omen ! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,453 Posted November 12, 2019 Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn and St Pancras (1979-2015) and Secretary of State for Health (1997-1999), has died aged 79. Edit: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Independent, BBC, Guardian 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,621 Posted November 12, 2019 Sad news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,140 Posted November 12, 2019 5 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Sad news. Very few left of centre Santas left. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted November 12, 2019 Cabinet ministers are like no 9 buses.You wait months for one to die then 2 go within 3 days ! I know it's the election and there's meant to be political balance but Frank Dobson has taken it a bit too far ! I will miss his hamster like face . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted November 12, 2019 One of the more decent members of the New Labour government tbh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,765 Posted November 12, 2019 1 hour ago, CoffinLodger said: Cabinet ministers are like no 9 buses.You wait months for one to die then 2 go within 3 days ! I know it's the election and there's meant to be political balance but Frank Dobson has taken it a bit too far ! I will miss his hamster like face . I always thought him very meh. You’ve got to be a pretty forgettable Labour candidate to lose to bloody Ken Livingstone in a mayoralty race in the Labour heartland of London. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,655 Posted November 15, 2019 On 29/10/2019 at 18:15, YoungWillz said: Former MP Jack Dunnett, also former chair of Notts County, reported dead at 97: Guardian obit for Jack, from which I learn he was chairman of the FL at the time of the Heysel disaster, persuaded Thatcher to drop her ID card plans. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,071 Posted November 16, 2019 Alexander Opeyemi Akinyele, Nigeria’s former Minister of Information is dead. The death of the Ondo born public relations specialist was announced by his son. He said on his Facebook page that his father died after a brief illness on Thursday night but did not state where he died. Akinyele, 81, a PR guru after serving as the Minister of Information, later became chairman of the Nigerian Sports Commission. He was also a former president of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,037 Posted November 16, 2019 President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic currently hospitalised with heart problems: https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2019/11/16/serbian-president-aleksandar-vucic-hospitalised-with-heart-problems Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted November 17, 2019 The former PM of Iraq Adnan Pachachi has died at 96 https://gulfnews.com/amp/world/mena/adnan-pachachi-passes-away-1.67893989 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,765 Posted November 17, 2019 35 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said: The former PM of Iraq Adnan Pachachi has died at 96 https://gulfnews.com/amp/world/mena/adnan-pachachi-passes-away-1.67893989 He was never PM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,085 Posted November 17, 2019 6 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: He was never PM. He was the monthly head of a Commitee which ruled Iraq. He refused the Presidency when offered by US. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted November 19, 2019 Former Prime Minister (2010-2015) of Sri Lanka DM Jayaratne dead at 88 years: http://www.hirunews.lk/228574/former-prime-minister-d-m-jayaratne-passes-away 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,592 Posted November 19, 2019 Fantastic poetry in his Wikipedia entry at the moment, will probably be cut out by editors soon though: Quote The least known Prime Minister of Sri Lanka breathed his last on the eve of 19th November 2019. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted November 21, 2019 Liberian politician and attorney Charles Brumskine who was the Political Leader of the Liberty Party, dead at 68 years: https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/cllr-charles-walker-brumskine-dies/ He came in third place in the 2005 presidential election, receiving nearly 14% of the vote. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,765 Posted November 21, 2019 Lord Basil Feldman dead at 96 according to the Conservative History Group. Tory Member of the House of Lords 1996-2017 and brother of Carry On legend Fenella Fielding. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted November 22, 2019 7 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: Lord Basil Feldman dead at 96 according to the Conservative History Group. Tory Member of the House of Lords 1996-2017 and brother of Carry On legend Fenella Fielding. Here's a Telegraph obit, predictably behind a paywall ..https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/11/21/lord-feldman-plastics-tycoon-became-leading-figure-conservative/. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted November 26, 2019 German Bundestag member Jimmy Schulz dead from pancreatic cancer. Was considering him in a few pools, QO was never going to be guaranteed off the draw regardless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
