But (sort of getting back to the topic) I can't believe those boundaries! Astounding bit of sneaky footwork. I'd never have put Rugby and Kenilworth together (and I speak as someone who lived in Leamington Spa for...oh far too long). When did they do that? Rugby was a classic marginal - swinging from labour to tory and back and now - pretty safe tory seat I should imagine?
Rugby has got that splendid church though...erm...St Andrews. (back off topic)
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I just looked it up on Wikipedia though and look!
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Warwickshire, the seat of Rugby and Kenilworth is to be abolished.
The sucessor seats are Kenilworth and Southam, which was originally to be named "Mid Warwickshire", and a re-formed Rugby constituency.
Woohoo! Independence at last! I got confirmed in St. Andrews church, but I don't remember the inside, just the scary alley round the back. I used to hang around the graveyard sometimes in gothier days.
― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
how about now?
― Riot Clone, Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/04/20/militia,0.jpg
― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
2) i haven't voted labour since 1997. i remember how happy i was that day, on what seemed like a glorious new dawn. talk about fucking betrayal.
3) anyone who didn't notice several years ago that blair is an arrogant, smug, power-grabbing enemy of "democracy" (see 4) really needs their head examined.
4) "first past the post" is not democracy. here in scotland we might have the feeblest regional assembly devolved parliament imaginable BUT AT LEAST THE RIGHT SYSTEM IS IN PLACE.
5) i guess the answer i'm driving at here is "would i fuck. never again."
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link
COUGH COUGH "here" cough. in mitigation: i'm ill.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― johm clarkson, Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Van That's Loaded With YSI? (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― john clarkson, Friday, 7 April 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Which is fab, but bizarrely, Dunchurch gets chucked into this new Kenilworth seat, whilst Bulkington gets included with Rugby! Makes Rugby a safe Labour seat now, I'd guess, but oddly I'm not as enthused about this as I would've been 9 years ago.
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1759796,00.html
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
It was from the Labour party, too.
― the bellefox, Monday, 24 April 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
It clearly worked, because they've been jointly ruling for a few years now, despite Lib Dem claims that they don't make agreements like that. My problem is: what the hell do I do? I don't want to abstain because that makes me look like the can't-be-arsed majority - but I can't bring myself to vote for either candidate. If I can be bothered, I'll write to the candidates (and the local LD chairman) explaining why I can't bring myself to cast a vote. And spoil my paper too.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Monday, 24 April 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
"Contrary to Ralph Nader's credo that there was no real difference between the major parties, it is close to inconceivable that the country and the world would not be in far better shape had Gore been allowed to assume the office that a plurality of voters wished him to have."(http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060424ta_talk_remnick)
We all understand the desire to punish Labour, but don't cut your nose off to spite your face.
― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
renamed patricia "the Twit" hewitt
the NHS has had it's best year EVER
- meanwhile hundreds of nurses / other workers getting p45s- financial meltdown at NHS trust level that even the govt tried to put right by bringing financial consultants
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Riot Clone, Monday, 24 April 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Mr Clone, your comments on this thread have led me to conclude you're just street-teaming for the Conservative Party. Care to confirm or deny?
― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link