Can you list all your MPs?
I spent some time yesterday evening trying to work out every MP who had represented me throughout my entire life. Because I have lived in quite a lot of places this was not straightforward. I did not know all my postcodes but with a bit of interwebbing I was able to track them all down and I then used a combination of "They Work For You" with its postcode finder facility and Wikipedia to track the former MPs for the constituencies to see who was MP whilst I lived there. It is also complicated by the fact that one of the places I lived in was affected by boundary changes in 1983 and it proved a bit fiddly to track down who the MP had been when I first moved there in 1982. I got there in the end though.
It threw up a few surprises such as the fact that Runcorn used to have a Tory MP from 1950 - 1983. I had no idea and does not seem to fit the profile of the town. Also I had no idea that from the time I was born until the age of 8 I was represented by Mr Permatan!
Here is my list of MPs (with the constituency in brackets and the party afterwards) in chronological order:
Robert Kilroy-Silk (Ormskirk) - Labour
Mark Carlisle (Runcorn) - Conservative
Gordon Oakes (Halton) - Labour
Robert Litherland (Manchester Central) - Labour
Gerald Kaufman (Manchester Gorton) - Labour
Keith Bradley (Manchester Withington) - Labour
Jane Kennedy (Liverpool Broadgreen / Liverpool Wavertree) - Labour
Gerald Howarth (Aldershot) - Conservative
John Redwood (Wokingham) - Conservative
Jane Griffiths (Reading East) - Labour
John Redwood (Wokingham) - Conservative
Andrew Mackay (Bracknell) - Conservative
Right, well I guess that this is only one for hardcore political obsessives (or those who have not moved very much) but if anyone else who reads this wants to have a crack then please consider yourself tagged for the "My MPs meme"!
9 comments:
a sad exercise, but nevertheless interesting.
Would i be mischievous in suggesting you seem to have spent your life avoiding lib dem MPs?
I wouldn't necessarily say it's mischievous. It's a reflection on how unrepresentative our electoral system is!
1987: Harriet Harman - Peckham
1987-1992: John Maples (Lewisham West, Conservative)
1992-2006: Jim Dowd (Lewisham West, Labour)
2006-2007: Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West, Labour Co-Operative)
2007-2009: Stephen Williams (Bristol West, Lib Dem)
2009-: Jim Dowd (Lewisham West, Labour)
So in effect I've been represented by MPs from all the three main parties.
The worst? Stephen Williams, by far, what an awful MP he was. He was especially bad for the student population, perhaps surprisingly.
1989-1992: Don't Know
1992-1997: John Biffen, Con
1997-2007: Owen Paterson, Con
2007-2009: Don Foster, Lib Dem
Easy. Then again, I'm only 20!
Here's my one: http://tinyurl.com/nxp2fw
Born on 14 April, 1985 :)
I have lived in the constituencies of the following:
1985-87- John Forrester (Stoke-on-Trent North)
1987-2003- Joan Walley (John Forrester's successor in the same seat)
2003-2006 Paul Farrelley (Newcastle under Lyme) in term time, Joan Walley in holidays
2006-2007: Joan Walley
2007-present: Rob Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South)
It is of course one uninterrupted parade of Labour.
Asquith. You were born on my mother's 34th birthday!
You don't win a prize though.
Mine are:
Austin Mitchell - Labour (Great Grimsby)
Charles Irving - Cons (Cheltenham)
Tom Cox - Labour - Tooting(e)
Richard Allan - Lib Dem (Sheffield Hallam)
Nick Clegg - Lib Dem (Sheffield Hallam)
Fair mix, enjoyed that exercise. glad i moved now.
Mine is up and blogged here
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