Projoy:Putney, with Goldsmith vs. Mellor recalled. (Gardiner's Referendum Stratagem)
Projoy: BTW [Raak] You're showing your age with that one!! :-)
CdM:Wolverhampton Southwest, where I grew up for a while, trumping Moomintroll's Cleveland and Whitby, since W'ton SW used to be the constituency of the late and completely unlamented Enoch Powell.
The Man from Auntie:Hampshire East, home of the ultra-slimy Michael Mates and one of the biggest Tory majorities in the UK. This is where I live, unfortunately.
Dunx: Declaring home at Keighley and Craven (although it may just be Keighley now, of course) where Ann Cryer booted out the unpleasant Mr Gary Waller (who took the seat from her husband, since deceased).
[TMFA] Quite - I live in Surrey Heath, with what was (in the kast parliament) the biggest Tory majority. Needless to say, I've never written to my MP.
Raak:Edinburgh Central.
[Projoy] Yes, I'm an ancient dodderer old enough to have voted in the last two elections. Don't laugh, you'll be 25 one day.
Projoy: [CdM] I can't top your move for the nastiest MP, but I can note that when he later joined the Ulster Unionists he stood for - and won - Down South. [Raak] Apologies - my comment was supposed to be directed at gil, not you. Peter Snow instituted in BBC coverage.
Phil: Crossing water to Dublin West, my constituency, where Mary Harney, the current Tánaiste (Deputy PM) is the incumbent TD (MP).
The Man from Auntie:Surrey East, where I am now. Extremely Tory, unfortunately.
Suzy Creamcheese:Sedgefield, declaring affirmative action on Kosovo.
Jrs: Hmmm... Bromley and Plaistow, another place which still has a huge Tory majority
Fat German: [Jrs] How does that happen? One of the most deprived areas of inner London and they all vote Tory? West Herts where you'll get elected if you're a Tory and your wife sleeps with enough people (and that's no joke).
Projoy: Placing Phil in boothroyd with West Bromwich West. [FG] I think Jrs meant to write Bromley and Chislehurst in Kent, Macmillan's old seat. Bromley-by-Bow and Plaistow, I believe, are in Tony Banks's West Ham , with one of London's most thumping Labour majorities.
Jrs: [Projoy] Thank you. I get mixed up with the boundaries in that part of Kent, particularly as the council seat is Bromley and Plaistow. Plaistow itself is a small collection of shops on the edge of Bromley, Kent.
Projoy:Maldon and Chelmsford East. [Jrs] I only know that 'cause I live in the West Ham seat. Incidentally, if anyone's having trouble with inspiration, they could try looking here.
JLE:Chingford, Tebbit declared on all lines southeast of Kent, and the game-state of Heseltine is abolished.
Jrs:Ynys Mon setting off a podume cascade on all Plaid Cymru seats.
Projoy: Countering JLE's tebbit with Chingford and Woodford Green,launching eurosceptic strick across the home counties, and giving fair notice of devolutionary panic for six moves.
Projoy: Hmm. I think with a week gone, it's time to declare CON HOLD at Huntingdon.
MC Server: Game won by Projoy.
Projoy (Winner's Comments): "Politics is a rough old trade. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you don't." - JM, 2/5/97
Rich: Ooh, no. Rule 879.4.34.2 paragraph b3. "If Huntingdon rules are invoked, no player may follow his own move if that previous move has quoted a mountain named in a Half Man Half Biscuit song". Sorry Projoy, but I think your last move was invalid, hence I suggest we keep going. (Good effort though.)
Rich: I may have paraphrased that of course. I don't have the books to hand.
Projoy: I'm sure you're right, of course, Rich. But let's face facts: there wasn't a move made in a week, even though I had deliberately left Huntingdon open for the next player. Why not call it a scoreless draw?
JLE: Sorry, but I have to agree with Rich. In fact, it's much simpler: one of the few times I've seen a totally clear rule from the IMCS - "No player may move twice in succession, unless another player has played a move of 'pass' or 'farkle'." (Of course, the Team Game rules are a lot more obtuse than that, but this game was not a team game.) Mercy killing conceded, but I don't think anyone can call that a victory.
JLE: Sorry, it's not the IMCS that are so concise, this is one of the rare occasions on which I agree with CAMREC...
Projoy:*shrugs* Well, I knew all that: I wasn't trying to win the game - just getting it off the playlist...
Projoy: Although I might mention that The Learnčd D got away with a win like the above in Game 24.
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