Bibliogryphon 9,047 Posted March 27, 2015 There are 85 MP's stepping down. I have picked 20 out very unscientifically but I suspect that a more significant issue is those who are staying on like Denis Skinner. Francis Maude Sir Hugh Robertson Sir Richard Shepherd Sir Tony Baldry Sir John Randall Sir Peter Tapsell Sir Malcolm Rifkind Sir Jim Paice Sir John Stanley Richard Ottoway Sir Hugh Bayley Frank Dobson Peter Hain Sir Tony Cunningham David Blunkett Austin Mitchell Ann Clwyd Bob Ainsworth Sir Alan Beith Sir Menzies Campbell Of course many other may lose their seats. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,938 Posted March 28, 2015 Gerald Kaufman and Dennis Skinner being prime candidates not to make 2020. They'll both become father of the house alongside Michael Meacher and Ken Clarke assuming they are all re-elected on May 7th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted March 29, 2015 Lord Allen Sheppard has died at 83 http://londonfirst.co.uk/lord-allen-sheppard-1932-2015/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted March 29, 2015 Gerald Kaufman and Dennis Skinner being prime candidates not to make 2020. They'll both become father of the house alongside Michael Meacher and Ken Clarke assuming they are all re-elected on May 7th. Bloody hell.The House of Commons s going to have more fathers in the next parliament than Katie Prices children ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,047 Posted March 30, 2015 Gerald Kaufman and Dennis Skinner being prime candidates not to make 2020. They'll both become father of the house alongside Michael Meacher and Ken Clarke assuming they are all re-elected on May 7th. 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,418 Posted March 30, 2015 Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich dies at 54: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11231360.html Apparently, it was a suicide by gunshot. But there might be a lot more behind the scenes: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jay-dropping Schweich was planning to run for governor, but the republicans tried to "smear" him by insinuating that Schweich was a jew. Anti-semitism seems to be a political factor in Missouri. Now, one of Schweich's spokesmen was also found dead in an apparent suicide: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/spence-jackson-dead-tom-schweich The spokesman, Spence Jackson, was the first to call out one of Schweich's opponents for the above smear campaign. Very, very curious... It's an interesting story in many ways... this intra-party struggle for the nomination had almost split the republican party in Missouri. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted March 30, 2015 Gerald Kaufman and Dennis Skinner being prime candidates not to make 2020. They'll both become father of the house alongside Michael Meacher and Ken Clarke assuming they are all re-elected on May 7th. 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. I knew that of course.Just couldn't resist making the joke ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,938 Posted March 30, 2015 Gerald Kaufman and Dennis Skinner being prime candidates not to make 2020. They'll both become father of the house alongside Michael Meacher and Ken Clarke assuming they are all re-elected on May 7th. 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,016 Posted March 30, 2015 Gerald Kaufman and Dennis Skinner being prime candidates not to make 2020. They'll both become father of the house alongside Michael Meacher and Ken Clarke assuming they are all re-elected on May 7th. 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,418 Posted March 31, 2015 Serbian far-right politician and possible recruiter of paramilitary forces during the Balkan Wars, Vojislav Seselj, has been ordered to return to prison from his cancer-related provisional release: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-war-crimes-tribunal-orders-serb-nationalist-vojislav-seselj-back-to-detention-1427715609 They say he has colon cancer that has spread to his liver, but then he also really doesn't want to return to prison. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,042 Posted April 2, 2015 MP Nicola Blackwood now with Ehler's Disease. SC http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2015/03/mp-nicola-blackwood-diagnosed-with-me-at-age-15-now-has-new-diagnosis-of-ehlers-danlos-oxford-mail-31-march-2015/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,047 Posted April 2, 2015 MP Nicola Blackwood now with Ehler's Disease. SC http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2015/03/mp-nicola-blackwood-diagnosed-with-me-at-age-15-now-has-new-diagnosis-of-ehlers-danlos-oxford-mail-31-march-2015/ Sloppy journalism she is not an MP at the moment. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,042 Posted April 3, 2015 Defeated Clinton once, John Hammerschmidt's claim to fame. SC http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/politics/john-paul-hammerschmidt-congressman-who-defeated-clinton-dies-at-92.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 837 Posted April 3, 2015 Former Dutch prime minister Piet de Jong is celebrating his 100th birthday today. Gefeliciteerd! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,042 Posted April 6, 2015 " Former Deputy Governor of Taraba state and Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign organisation, Senator SALE Danboyi, is dead. Senator Danboyi, aged 59, was said to have slumped in his house in Jalingo on Friday night and was quickly rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost." Funny they used that colloquialism. SC http://newdawnng.com/taraba-former-deputy-gov-dies/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted April 6, 2015 Former Dutch prime minister Piet de Jong is celebrating his 100th birthday today. Gefeliciteerd! Believe it or n ot he's not the oldest former Dutch PM.That was William Drees who died 2 months short of his 102nd birthday .I think there's a good chance Piet De Jong will outlive him .He seems to be in pretty good nick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,398 Posted April 6, 2015 Former Dutch prime minister Piet de Jong is celebrating his 100th birthday today. Gefeliciteerd! Believe it or n ot he's not the oldest former Dutch PM.That was William Drees who died 2 months short of his 102nd birthday .I think there's a good chance Piet De Jong will outlive him .He seems to be in pretty good nick I seem to remember that Drees wasn't very mobile in his last few years. Apparently De Jong still is (or at least he was last year), so yes, he may well outlive Drees. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 837 Posted April 7, 2015 Damn! That's the second politician who commits suicide after being accused of a crime! France senator found dead before 'Chinese weddings' trial Earlier this week a Belgian politician jumped into a canal to his death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 46 Posted April 7, 2015 Former Montana Gov. Tim Babcock dead at 95, was governor of Montana from January 1962 until January 1969. http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/former-montana-gov-tim-babcock-dead-at/article_397820f8-8b26-5467-b533-1382931cd44c.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,042 Posted April 7, 2015 Former Montana Gov. Tim Babcock dead at 95, was governor of Montana from January 1962 until January 1969. http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/former-montana-gov-tim-babcock-dead-at/article_397820f8-8b26-5467-b533-1382931cd44c.html and don't forget another former Montana Gov Judy Martz, in her 70s and just had Whipple procedure done late last year for pancreatic cancer. She's a slam dunk on 2016 team. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted April 8, 2015 The man who succeeded Saddam Hussein as PM of Iraq has died http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/070420151 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,813 Posted April 10, 2015 Rather overshadowed by Richie Benaud, but Peter Walsh, Australian politician and a minister in Bob Hawke's cabinet, dies at 80. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-10/former-labor-senator-peter-walsh-from-hawke-era-dies/6383184 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,418 Posted April 10, 2015 A personal aide to recently deposed Nigerian President Jonathan, Oronto Douglas, has died of cancer: http://pulse.ng/local/goodluck-jonathan-president-mourns-oronto-douglas-id3641242.html Another source I saw yesterday, but can't find anymore describes how the election loss really hurt Douglas and might have hastened his demise à la, the president-elect has already found his first victim... Curiously, another minister of Jonathan's cabinet, the petroleum minister, has just been flown to London for medical reasons, though it is suspected that it's an escape from the planned anti-corruption measures of the new president: http://www.naij.com/418397-alison-madueke-flown-abroad-for-medical-attention.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,813 Posted April 10, 2015 Raul Hector Castro, first Hispanic Governor of Arizona, dies at 98. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/426b7d57a181423bb9f9d4b22229dec1/US--Obit-Raul-Hector-Castro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted April 10, 2015 Raul Hector Castro, first Hispanic Governor of Arizona, dies at 98. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/426b7d57a181423bb9f9d4b22229dec1/US--Obit-Raul-Hector-Castro he was also the oldest living ex governor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
