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[Politics] Eddie Izzard







LamieRobertson

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Feb 3, 2008
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Why would you use they in Eddie/Suzie's case? She says she prefers she but will accept he so why would you use they?
Why not….sorry but who are you to dictate what words i use….’’they’’ as you have seen remarked upon by other posters is a perfectly normal word to use….tbh i dont really care about your query and won’t bother wasting anymore time on it (and its said in a polite tone 👍)

Ta ta
 
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LamieRobertson

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I might have missed something here, I know Eddie is a very active Labour Party member, is he actually going to stand at the next election ? I hope so !
Isn’t Eddie on a shortlist of proposed candidates ..as he was previously in Sheffield where it was unsuccessful.
 








BrightonCottager

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I'm informed by someone apparently ITK that Izzard is a major donor to the Labour Party, believes s/he has a right to be selected as a candidate somewhere, has tried and failed before to get a nomination, has now bought a £1m+ house in Ditchling Road and announced s/he wants to be the candidate for Brighton Pavilion as one of the few winnable seats in the SE without a sitting Labour MP. It all leaves the local and regional parties with a bit of a selection headache.
 


Weststander

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I'm informed by someone apparently ITK that Izzard is a major donor to the Labour Party, believes s/he has a right to be selected as a candidate somewhere, has tried and failed before to get a nomination, has now bought a £1m+ house in Ditchling Road and announced s/he wants to be the candidate for Brighton Pavilion as one of the few winnable seats in the SE without a sitting Labour MP. It all leaves the local and regional parties with a bit of a selection headache.

I pray the Greens win again, the overriding reason for me is what a brilliant thing that in a FPTP system there’s a Green MP. And here.

Talking of arrogance, I’ve some funny anecdotes about Fanshawe from his time on local economic forums. As a result, he was generally thought of as a complete xxxx.
 










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Sid and the Sharknados

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Says the person in Wales :lolol:
Not that I’m bothered as I don’t live in Brighton
Has the Lib Dem candidate for Lewes been involved in anything horrifying as far as you know*?
I was talking to my mum about who she'd vote for when I was last down there and she seemed to have a fit when I looked up who it was and told her, but this seemed to be based on something she'd read somewhere about a twitter spat that may or may not have involved him or somebody else with a similar name.

*For the sake of conversation, I'm not considering standing for parliament or being a Lib Dem to be intrinsically horrifying.
 


LamieRobertson

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Bakero

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the sentance is correct regardless of gender politics. one might say "Zamora is the best Brighton player of recent times, aren't they?", rather than "...isn't he". we mustn't hijack "they" and limit it's use in normal language. there is a dedicated pronoun for neutral, "ze", use that.

Who would say that? We often use they as a gender-neutral 3rd person pronoun but it'd be odd to use it for a specific, identified person. I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't use "isn't he" here.
 




Thunder Bolt

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Has the Lib Dem candidate for Lewes been involved in anything horrifying as far as you know*?
I was talking to my mum about who she'd vote for when I was last down there and she seemed to have a fit when I looked up who it was and told her, but this seemed to be based on something she'd read somewhere about a twitter spat that may or may not have involved him or somebody else with a similar name.

*For the sake of conversation, I'm not considering standing for parliament or being a Lib Dem to be intrinsically horrifying.
Not as far as I know. James MaClearly is the leader of Lewes District Council and the LD candidate for the next electio.
 


Sid and the Sharknados

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Not as far as I know. James MaClearly is the leader of Lewes District Council and the LD candidate for the next electio.
He's not the leader of Lewes DC anymore, it's a Green/Labour Council.
I note he's a councilor for "Newhaven South", which is presumably the sea.

Edit: I am, more seriously, relieved to read you haven't heard anything overtly bad.
 








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