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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

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  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    yes and the when which i did not phrase well is his birthday tomorrow
     
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  2. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Cheers Yorkie. The last one of these disappeared from the UK. in 1950. Scotland was the first to have them, and Ireland still has them. Australia and India have also had them. The Labour Party tried to get rid of them in 1930. What are they ?
     
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  3. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Fascists?
     
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  4. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    <laugh> Nice try Yorkie, but no.
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Is it people?
     
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  6. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Getting desparate..........:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    sorry... <laugh> i meant are we talking about people here?
     
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  8. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    It does have something to do with people Yorkie - or rather groups of people. In fact it may have affected about quarter of the people where you live, had we had these in later times.
     
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  9. Bolton's Boots

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    Smallpox?
     
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  10. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    No, sorry BB. nothing to do with illnesses.
     
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  11. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Something which was actually abolished in the UK. in 1948, but came into full effect in 1950. Ireland still has these - 2 of them. They were introduced to England by James 1.
     
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  12. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    some sort of restriction?
     
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  13. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    You could be moving on the right lines Yorkie.
     
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    some sort of rationing
     
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  15. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Some more big clues: What did Ramsay MacDonald, Richard Cromwell, William Pitt the Younger, William Gladstone and Robert Peel all have in common ?
     
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  16. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Further clue is, they all held a post which no longer exists.
     
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  17. Bolton's Boots

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    Ramsay MacDonald was MP for the Combined Scottish Universities - a constituency that no longer exists. Anything to do with that?
     
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  18. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    I think you've got it BB. The University Constituency was abolished in the UK. in 1948, and the sitting MPs remained sitting until 1950. It existed first in Scotland and was brought to England in 1603. Cambridge and Oxford Universities had 2 MPs each, London Univ. had one - the combined Universities in England (those which existed in 1918) got two members between them. Both the Liberals and Labour objected to this because it was a case of plural voting ie. students could vote a second time in their home constituency. Seanad Eireann (the Irish Upper House) still has 3 senators each from the Univ. of Dublin and the Nat. Univ. of Ireland. Over to you.
     
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  19. Bolton's Boots

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    There are two lakes in Africa which are (naturally) toxic to nearly all forms of life - the waters of one have been known to strip away human skin - yet one creature thrives in both. Which lakes and which creature?
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    ermmmmm a link with manfred mann here

    a pretty flamingo?
     
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