Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Legbiter]

Hartlepool is voting?

[Sheilbh]

Hartlepool is voting?

By-election next week (as well as local elections, London elections, Scottish Parliament and Senedd elections! ). The previous Labour MP stood down ahead of a forthcoming employment tribunal case around victimisation and sexual harassment.

[The Brain]

Didn't MPs just be found dead in women's underwear and stuff? It was a simpler time I suppose.

[Legbiter]

By-election next week (as well as local elections, London elections, Scottish Parliament and Senedd elections! ). The previous Labour MP stood down ahead of a forthcoming employment tribunal case around victimisation and sexual harassment.

When was the last time Hartlepool went Tory? Wasn't it shortly after Bede wrote his ecclesiastical history of the English people?

[Sheilbh]

When was the last time Hartlepool went Tory? Wasn't it shortly after Bede wrote his ecclesiastical history of the English people?

Looking into it, you need to go back to when it was the Hartlepools. But actually the last time they went Tory was Supermac - 1959-64. So possibly an other MacMillan-Johnson connection

And incidentally that sounds like a classic race in 1959 - Labour MP who left school to work on the signals at the age of 12 and became a trade union official then into politics v a retired sailor who was awarded the DSO (he took command of a ship that was fired on in the Yantze, killing most of the senior staff, in 1949 during the closing stages of the Chinese Civil War) and wrote a book called "The World's Greatest Sea Adventures"

Edit: Gove was asked about Johnson's "bodies pile high" comments in parliament and responded very carefully: "The idea that he would say any such thing I find incredible, I was in that room and I never heard language of that kind."

[Sheilbh]

One for the Brits - fill in the counties you've been to. I took that to mean actually visited not just transited:
https://mapchart.net/uk.html

Don't know how to post mine yet - but Tyr will be displeased

[garbon]

I've clearly still a fair bit to see.

[Josquius]

Mine would probably be pretty rubbish tbh. When it costs 100 quid for a train across the country or 20 quid for a flight to a foreign land then you better believe I choose Prague over Reading.
And likely incomplete as most when I was a kid which I can't remember. Does that still count?


I dunno. With this map for the UK... It just feels lacking. Our counties just don't feel so special as in many other countries. In Japan for instance I really do keep track of my prefectures and Americans commonly do it too with their states. In the UK the lack of presence of flags and local distinctiveness is telling.

[garbon]

I don't know anyone in America who keeps track of their visited countries - or at least not to the extent that they would talk about it.

[Sheilbh]

I've clearly still a fair bit to see.

How'd you do that?

[garbon]

Downloaded and then hosted on Tumblr.

[Maladict]

[The Larch]

It's going to be faster to just write it down here rather than downloading and hosting. 

England:

- Greater London.
- City of London.
- Oxfordshire.
- Cambridgeshire.
- Devon.
- Merseyside.

Scotland:

- Edinburgh.

Ireland:

- Dublin.
- Cork.
- Galway.

[The Brain]

Downloaded and then hosted on Tumblr.

No, how did you survive North Yorkshire?

[Sheilbh]

Downloaded and then hosted on Tumblr.

Thank you - I have a very old Tumblr account: