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Legendary Labour MP Dennis Skinner just lost his seat. He held it for 50 years
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:22 pm
Most stunning result of the night.
He is nicknamed the beast of Bolsover because of how much he fought for the miners decades ago during the famous winter of discontent. Bolsover is a mining area that was the epicenter of the famous union strikes in the 70s and 80s against maggie T.
He is (now was) the longest serving MP in history.
A labor union district that rioted and went on strike against the tories in the 80s.....is now going to be held by a tory.
It has NEVER been represented by a Tory. Ever. It just ousted a man nobody ever thought could lose. After 50 years.
Conservative GAIN Bolsover from Labour.
Dennis Skinner OUT.
CON: 47.4% (+6.8)
LAB: 35.9% (-16.0)
BREX: 9.0% (+9.0)
LDEM: 3.8% (+0.9)
GRN: 1.7% (+1.7)
Swing: Lab to Con (+11.4)
He is nicknamed the beast of Bolsover because of how much he fought for the miners decades ago during the famous winter of discontent. Bolsover is a mining area that was the epicenter of the famous union strikes in the 70s and 80s against maggie T.
He is (now was) the longest serving MP in history.
A labor union district that rioted and went on strike against the tories in the 80s.....is now going to be held by a tory.
It has NEVER been represented by a Tory. Ever. It just ousted a man nobody ever thought could lose. After 50 years.
Conservative GAIN Bolsover from Labour.
Dennis Skinner OUT.
CON: 47.4% (+6.8)
LAB: 35.9% (-16.0)
BREX: 9.0% (+9.0)
LDEM: 3.8% (+0.9)
GRN: 1.7% (+1.7)
Swing: Lab to Con (+11.4)
This post was edited on 12/12/19 at 11:39 pm
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Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:24 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Clowns out
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:27 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
It’s amazing how it parallels the problems the American left is having.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
It’s like Pelosi losing her seat in San Francisco
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:30 pm to Cosmo
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Clowns out
Guess who supported Brexit?
Guess who wanted to leave the EU long b4 2016.
Clowns out perfectly describes you.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:32 pm to Northwestern tiger
Tom Foley
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During his time in the House, Foley repeatedly opposed efforts to impose term limits on Washington state's elected officials, winning the support of the state's voters to reject term limits in a 1991 referendum; however, in 1992, a term limit ballot initiative was approved by the state's voters.[5]
Foley brought suit, challenging the constitutionality of a state law setting eligibility requirements on federal offices. Foley won his suit, with a United States District Court declaring that states did not have the authority under the United States Constitution to limit the terms of federal officeholders.[10]
However, in Foley's bid for a 16th term in the House, his Republican opponent, George Nethercutt, used the issue against him, citing the caption of the federal case brought by Foley, "Foley against the People of the State of Washington". Nethercutt vowed that if elected, he would not serve more than three terms in the House (but ultimately served for five terms). Foley lost in a narrow race. While Foley had usually relied on large margins in Spokane to carry him to victory, in 1994 he won Spokane by only 9,000 votes, while Nethercutt did well enough in the rest of the district to win overall by just under 4,000 votes.
Foley became the first incumbent Speaker of the House to lose his bid for re-election since Galusha A. Grow in 1862. He is sometimes viewed as a political casualty of the term limits controversy of the early 1990s. President Bill Clinton attributed Foley's defeat to his support for the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:37 pm to Kafka
I remember Foley going on to lose. That was a shocker for the beltway
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:42 pm to GetBackToWork
That's what happens when you sue your own state.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:48 pm to FightnBobLafollette
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Guess who supported Brexit?
Labour voters who voted to leave the EU.
This election featured a lot of labour voters who voted out the Labour MPs who refused to honor and respect Brexit.
Ignore your constituents wishes at your own peril.
This post was edited on 12/13/19 at 3:08 am
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:49 pm to Kafka
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Foley became the first incumbent Speaker of the House to lose his bid for re-election since Galusha A. Grow in 1862.
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During the 35th United States Congress, on February 5, 1858, he was physically attacked by Democrat Laurence M. Keitt in the House chambers, leading to a brawl between northerners and southerners. Keitt, offended by Grow's having stepped over to his side of the House chamber, dismissively demanded that Grow sit down, calling him a "black Republican puppy". Grow responded by telling Keitt that "No negro-driver shall crack his whip over me." Keitt became enraged and went for Grow's throat, shouting that he would "choke [him] for that". A large brawl involving approximately fifty representatives erupted on the House floor, ending only when a missed punch from Rep. Cadwallader Washburn upended the hairpiece of Rep. William Barksdale. The embarrassed Barksdale accidentally replaced the wig backwards, causing both sides to erupt in spontaneous laughter.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:52 pm to Kafka
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missed punch from Rep. Cadwallader Washburn
Cadwallader could punch. Check out his fights on YouTube.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 3:43 am to FightnBobLafollette
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Guess who supported Brexit?
Guess who wanted to leave the EU long b4 2016.
Clowns out perfectly describes you.
You sound personally hurt by the results of the election.
Don't lash out. Get help. You don't live there.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 5:08 am to The Boat
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It’s amazing how it parallels the problems the American left is having.
Let's hope. It does show that what appears to be an entrenched political party can be booted out. For me it's like if California were to vote out of any political office a democrat. One can only hope.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 5:30 am to Northwestern tiger
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It’s like Pelosi losing her seat in San Francisco
No, it's more like in 2002 when Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle lost his seat.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 6:05 am to Kafka
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During the 35th United States Congress, on February 5, 1858, he was physically attacked by Democrat Laurence M. Keitt in the House chambers, leading to a brawl between northerners and southerners....
If anyone had Andrew Martin for history at BRHS, his description of this event was memorable.
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