Alan is a boring name

btw the caller called Alan repsonded to Cundy "yeah I know"

ian, paul, wayne, alan , keith, don

Most (not all) Biblical names are safe choices to name your child. Ditto for kings and queens of England. Parents who call their children Fifi Trixibelle or Buddy Bear etc are guilty of cruelty IMO.

Shearer proves the point about Alans being boring.

Are all Alans also pompous and arrogant and masters of the bleeding obvious?

My vote goes to Graham, what kinda name is that? I called a pigeon Malcolm because i thought it suited his personality.

The little Rees-Moggies:

Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher,
Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius,
Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan,
Peter Theodore Alphege,
Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam,

Will they all grow up to be anti-establishment and men of the people - like their daddy?

If they were called Shane or Jordan they would probably get bullied at school.

Peter Rees Mogg's a cheerful little chap. You see him running around in his suit and specs, playing with his normally dressed mates, when his dad takes him to the County Ground at Taunton to watch the cricket during school holidays.

Alfred, Thomas, Peter and Mary are not particularly overly posh names, but what was he thinking with Sixtus and Anselm? I've never heard of those names before, anyone else? some of middle names as well, Wulfric, Boniface, Alphege, Leyson Pias? I'm probably just too working class to understand, in his circle they could be very normal.

Wot no Brutus?

Sixtus

hes sixth kid innit?

maybe struggling to remember the full names of first five
and thought he'd make it a bit easier for himself

Glad one of us is sharp donny
You can also tell I'm not religious, my sources tell me it was a common name for the Pope.

It wasn't the popes real name.

Quite tragic to call your kids after assumed pope names.

Have to give him credit for not calling one of them Jacob I suppose.

I suppose he's happy enough if he can get the entire brood shod fairly cheaply.

I wonder if Rees-Mogg knows what a council estate looks like, or what it even is, let alone stepped onto one?

Apparently Septimus is not on the agenda - Nanny has probably hidden the breast pump.

With an upper class background set against a predominantly working-class electorate, Rees-Mogg was criticised by many constituents for being too posh, a claim he refused to acknowledge as an issue. News stories from the time ridiculed Rees-Mogg for canvassing the area with his family's nanny and touring the constituency in a Bentley, a claim that he later described as "scurrilous", stating it had been a Mercedes.

And yet he's increased both his vote and his majority at every election. This despite his constituency having voted 57.9% Remain.

He's that rarity: an MP who's genuinely liked by his constituents for being fair, open-minded and conscientious. They wouldn't keep voting for him in ever increasing numbers if he weren't.

rees mogg comes over as a decent bloke, he is always polite
and courteous. and bothers to explain his thoughts even to
those that disagree with him.

its not unusual to have a decent mp, there are quite a few who do
great work for their constituents, some of course are just on a ladder
elsewhere.

i think the managements quote comes from the time before he gained his constituency and
was campaigning without success in a scottish constituency

From wiki: George Foreman has 12 children, five sons and seven daughters.

His five sons are George Jr., George III ("Monk"), George IV ("Big Wheel"), George V ("Red"), and George VI ("Little Joey"). On his website, Foreman explains, "I named all my sons George Edward Foreman so they would always have something in common.

My Dad wanted to name me 'Aloysius' but my Mum overruled him, cheers Mum! He always called me that name anyway all my life.

My dad wanted to name me 'Ihor', but my mum explained the sound donkeys make in English. Cheers, mum!

Stuck to the old adage - If at first you don't succeed - try something much, much easier.

Having failed in Central Fife and then The Wrekin, I suppose I should give him credit for cracking the renowned Labour stronghold of North East Somerset. Now that it's an International airport, I suppose he can fly direct from Bristol to the Cayman Islands.

the tories like to blood their candidates in difficult seats, give them experience
until they find a safe seat.

jermaine jackson


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Jermaine La Juane "Jay" Jackson Jr., (born January 27, 1977). Jermaine Jr. and his longtime girlfriend, Asa Soltan Rahmati, have a son, Soltan Soul Jackson, born on January 20, 2017.[1]
Autumn Joi Jackson (born July 10, 1978), married to producer Narinder Singh.
Jaimy Jermaine Jackson (born March 17, 1987).
Jackson was in a relationship with Margaret Maldonado from 1986 till 1993. They have two sons:

Jeremy Maldonado Jackson (born December 26, 1986).
Jourdynn Michael Jackson (born January 5, 1989): Jourdynn is married to Marike Le Roux.[1]
He began a relationship with Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza while she was dating his younger brother Randy, with whom she had a daughter and twin sons. He married Oaziaza on March 18, 1995, and the marriage lasted until May 19, 2003. They had two sons:

Jaafar Jermiah Jackson (born July 25, 1996).
Jermajesty Jermaine Jackson (born October 3, 2000).[1]

NE Somerset is a former mining community. It was previously known as Wansdyke and returned a Labour MP, Dan Norris.

In 2010 it was re-named NE Somerset, which is when Rees Mogg rocked up and turned a 6,000 Labour majority into a 5,000 Conservative majority.

So, The Management is correct in giving Rees Mogg credit for cracking a renowned Labour stronghold.

it used to be the safe tory seat of wansdyke, which fell in the bliar landslide,
returned to tories by jrm, having been classed as a marginal.

but ne somerset is a bit different by boundary

I guess flying to the Cayman Islands twice a year doesn't interfere with his ability to represent his constituents.

Was there not a change of boundaries rather than just a re-naming?

Kept the 19 Wansdyke wards and added two from the Lib Dem area of Bath.

yes it was altered boundary

some wards were moved to kingswood

he belittled Nick Bowls for attending Winchester the other day

His constituents have had plenty of chances to examine his travel arrangements, and more and more of them clearly like what they see, or he wouldn't keep getting more votes. If they don't like it, they have every opportunity of telling him to his face when he's at the cricket. He talks to anybody.

LOL - Do they even have a Labour candidate in Bath?

The Winchester remark was a dig at Corbyn, who is told what to do by ex-Winchester schoolboy Seumas Milne.

Fair enough - its very good of him to represent the broader will of the people rather than the 60% of his constituency that voted remain.

oh ok

anyway, 8.40, he actually said 'dull name' rather than boring, suppose same thing

https://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1554152400/1554159600/

Labour got 7,000 votes in Bath in 2017. Their vote has increased there at both the last two elections, as Labour has re-positioned itself as the party of the middle classes.

TM - how individual constituencies/regions/countries voted is irrelevant. It was a UK, non party political vote.

The people of NE Somerset seem to grasp that. It's not hard..

It's been a Tory/Lib-Dem City for as long as I can remember, Chris Patton, Don Foster iirc -

Thanks Injera - I just have trouble reconciling the man of the people image with the massive tax avoidance.

The current Bath MP is a LibDem - a German lady named Wera Hobhouse (born Wera von Reden). She'd previously been a Conservative councillor. She actually ran against Rees Mogg in NE Somerset (her home constituency) in 2015, but got beaten out of sight.

Her husband is one of the Hobhouse family, whose estate seems to consist of most of Somerset north-east of Wincanton. Twenty years ago one of them, living at Hadspen, owned a boxer dog, which they refused point-blank to keep under control. It all but killed my two teenage dogs on one occasion, and they could hardly bring themselves to acknowledge the fact, never mind apologize.

That was the last time I ever voted Lib Dem, so I'd like to think I've had a role to play in the party's subsequent demise.

quite odd how they move around screaming,

top work

*whose estate seems to consist of most of Somerset north-west of Wincanton

Sorry to hear about your dogs.

I think taking the hit for the Tories trebling tuition fees was the end of the Lib Dems in my neck of the woods.

I think it was simply the way they facilitated a Conservative government in the first place which saw the Lib Dems crash so spectacularly in my constituency (Taunton Deane). The Tory vote only increased by 3,000 in 2015, but the Lib Dems fell by a staggering 16,000: to Labour, UKIP, Greens and various independents. Basically to everyone except the Conservatives.

I just found it odd - the Lib Dems just seemed to take the hit for everything. To be fair nobody was more surprised than David Cameron - hence the current farce. Kind of funny really -
Lib Dems promise not to raise tuition fees - thinking no chance they would ever be in a position to have to keep the promise.
Cameron - promises EU referendum thinking no way he would ever have to deliver on his promise.