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  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,189

    Happy birthday @HYUFD I have to say I would never have thought you’d be a millennial (I thought you were older!)

    Someone told me the other day that Millenials are still under 30 - between generation X and millenials are Z-enials, apparently.

    Who knew.
  • ydoethur said:

    In fact though he would be James VIII or IX following that custom.

    Perhaps it would be easier to be David III?
    How about choosing a name that reflects the UK.

    King Mohammed I.

    It would meets with the approval of Prince Charles who wants to be Defender of Faith.
  • PolruanPolruan Posts: 2,083

    How about choosing a name that reflects the UK.

    King Mohammed I.

    It would meets with the approval of Prince Charles who wants to be Defender of Faith.
    In the interests of combining modern attitudes to gender and pure populism, Diana I?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138

    Happy birthday @HYUFD I have to say I would never have thought you’d be a millennial (I thought you were older!)

    +1 on the birthday and +1 on the age; from the way he posts I imagined he was well into a crusty retirement.
  • MaxPB said:

    Surely he would be the first of his name in the house of Windsor?
    All the other Henries were different Houses but kept the numbering going.
  • The_ApocalypseThe_Apocalypse Posts: 7,830
    edited December 2017
    Mortimer said:

    Someone told me the other day that Millenials are still under 30 - between generation X and millenials are Z-enials, apparently.

    Who knew.
    Re millennials I think the years can vary - it generally starts at 1981, but it can end at 2000, and even as late as 2004! American demographers seem to end it around 1994-98, with 95-98 bring the most common. Here, in articles in our newspapers/media I always see generation z (generation after millennials) referred to as those born after 2000. I have never heard of z-enials, though so that’s new information!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,578

    How about choosing a name that reflects the UK.

    King Mohammed I.

    It would meets with the approval of Prince Charles who wants to be Defender of Faith.
    But Charles would be dead by then.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    @SuffolkPolice: Police have responded to reports of a disturbance at RAF Mildenhall in #Suffolk and a man has been detained with cuts and bruises and taken into custody. No other people have been injured as a result of the incident.

    Read more - ow.ly/ovkd30hiqeu pic.twitter.com/KTc7EcUTer

    I wonder if he punched himself repeatedly in the face while falling down a flight of stairs?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138
    PClipp said:

    The kiss of death for Nick Clegg?
    Perhaps they were trying to make up for their Nazi slur on him back in the closing days of the 2010 GE?
  • Happy birthday HYUFD.
  • I've stayed at this hotel, wonderful hotel and wonderful area.

    Two people have died after a fire at the Cameron House Hotel beside Loch Lomond.

    More than 200 guests were evacuated from the hotel after the alarm was raised at about 06.40.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42392459

    Haven't stayed there, but I saw it from the boat trip on Loch Lomond (from Balloch) back in September.
  • IanB2 said:

    +1 on the birthday and +1 on the age; from the way he posts I imagined he was well into a crusty retirement.
    In my experience a lot Young Conservatives come across as older online (with the exception of TheWhiteRabbit).
  • Mrs May isn't a social conservative.

    A social conservative wouldn't have championed same sex marriage.
    She is an authoritarian in the Orwellian mould.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138
    edited December 2017

    Mrs May isn't a social conservative.

    A social conservative wouldn't have championed same sex marriage.
    More correctly, she backed the LibDems in championing it. Certainly you can give her the benefit of the doubt and put it down to conviction. The alternative interpretation is that the Tories (May herself, or Cameron by instruction, take your pick) saw the dangers of letting the LibDems run with an issue on which the Tory opponents could never hope to carry the Commons. As ever with Mrs M, no-one ever knows what her convictions or.motivations really are. What is undoubtedly true is that she gave Featherstone full HO backing for the legislation.
  • Mrs May isn't a social conservative.

    A social conservative wouldn't have championed same sex marriage.
    Is it possible to be a "conservative socialist"?
  • HYUFD said:

    Getting into practice for a Corbyn Premiership!

    Thanks too
    Happy birthday, HYUFD!
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138

    Is it possible to be a "conservative socialist"?
    Very many of them are. Liberal socialists, insofar as that isn't a contradiction to begin with, are very rare.
  • How about choosing a name that reflects the UK.

    King Mohammed I.

    Not everyone in the UK is a Muslim :lol:
  • HYUFD said:

    I was born 36 years ago today and attended my first Tory rally in 1992 for John Major and canvassed in Tonbridge for the Tories in 1997

    Happy birthday @HYUFD! Polling of pb.com has determined that you are in fact 62. Perhaps there is a lesson in that :p
  • ydoethur said:

    Wouldn't help - James III or James IV?
    James III.

    William III and Mary II succeeded James II.
  • You can't get more Tory than giving the French a good shoeing.
    Yet you want us to be in political union with the French!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,578

    James III.

    William III and Mary II succeeded James II.
    That is the point - whether or not the ex post facto ratification of William's usurpation was legal. A school of thought (not including me) maintains it wasn't. Therefore, James' son and grandsons could in theory bugger up regnal numbers still.

    I have to go. Have a good afternoon.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,138

    Nou Fil

  • PolruanPolruan Posts: 2,083

    Yet you want us to be in political union with the French!
    As Sir Humphrey correctly observed, we previously tried to break it [the then EEC] up from the outside but that wouldn’t work. Brexiters are surrendering the opportunity to be within good shoeing range.
  • NEW THREAD

  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142

    Happy birthday @HYUFD! Polling of pb.com has determined that you are in fact 62. Perhaps there is a lesson in that :p
    Thankyou
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142

    Happy birthday, HYUFD!
    Thanks Sunil
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142

    Happy birthday HYUFD.

    Thanks
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142
    IanB2 said:

    +1 on the birthday and +1 on the age; from the way he posts I imagined he was well into a crusty retirement.
    Thanks
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142
    Mortimer said:

    HB HYUFD!
    Thank you
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142

    Happy birthday youngster!
    Thankyou
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,142
    ydoethur said:

    At risk of sounding like Justin, Bonar Law was not Unionist leader until 1911 and Home Rule was not an issue in either election of 1910. The first was primarily about the budget, the second about the constitution. Secondary issues included tariffs and education, rather than Ireland.

    Afterwards, because the Liberals had no overall majority and swiftly became the second largest party due to by-election losses leaving them once again dependent on Irish support, it became an issue. It was also, helpfully, an issue on which the entire Unionist party was united while the Liberals were quite badly split.

    And happy birthday, have a good one.
    Thanks
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    An excellent thread from Mr @Charles. The next Conservative leader market is a right mess, with Mrs May looking set until at least 2019 there’s a pretty good chance it’s none of the above.
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