Comments on: Hammersmith

By: H.Hemmelig

H.Hemmelig — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:16:06 +0000

Newham is also missing

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:10:08 +0000

Barking & Dagenham ?

By: Peter Crerar

Peter Crerar — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:55:05 +0000

When the new London boroughs were created in 1965 -

17 adopted the name of a current borough over the rest.
9 adopted a new name / not one of the constituenct former boroughs.
2 remained unchanged with no name change.

Only one (Kensington & Chelsea) adopted both constituent borough names, though Hammersmith became Hammersmith & Fulham in 1978.

The Fulham identity was perhaps strongest because Chelsea next door had not been lost in Kensington. Was there any attempt in a London borough to re-name the borough in the late 70′s to reflect historical?

New Name (not taken from any borough)

Brent
Camden
Haringey
Havering
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Redbridge
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest

One Old Borough Name (others ignored)

Barnet
Bromley
City of Westminster
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith (renamed H & F in 1978)
Kingston Upon Thames
Islington
Lewisham
* Merton (Merton & Mordon)
Richmond Upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Wandsworth

Combined Borough Named

Kensington & Chelsea

Borough Boundaries Unchanges

City of London
Harrow

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:21:23 +0000

Barnaby, he was a councillor between 1974 and 1978 (according to the Commons website)

By: Barnaby Marder

Barnaby Marder — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:59:42 +0000

I remember Edward Leigh being the Tory GLC member for (lol) Richmond-upon-Thames, Richmond, but I have no recollection of him being on the Borough Council. Perhaps he was though.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:50:11 +0000

I think only Barking, Hillingdon and Kingston are unrepresnted in that list. Interesting that there are as many Tory ex-councillors from Lambeth and Haringey sitting in the Commons as there are current Tory counillors sitting in the combined council chambers of those boroughs

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:30:02 +0000

And Lambeth- John Major of course.

So it looks like Islington, Wandsworth and Westminster are really the only other councils that join Hammersmith and Fulham at the top of the league table of boroughs represented by future MPs.

Interesting that they’re all in quite a close area to each other and very close to the Palace of Westminster itself. I wonder if closeness to the centre of power as well as the advantage of actually living close by, obviously, is what makes these boroughs so over-represted when it comes to future MPs?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:53:10 +0000

Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase) has also been a H&F councillor between 2006 and 2010

Not a complete list…but the following sitting MPs have been Cllrs in London Boroughs

Barnet: Jane Ellison, Mike Freer, Matthew Offord, Sarah Newton

Bexley: Gareth Johnson, Teresa Pearce

Brent: Bob Blackman, David Winnick

Bromley: Phil Hollobone

Sutton and Cheam: Paul Burstow, Tom Brake

Camden: Frank Dobson, Tessa Jowell, Hugh Bayley, Nick Smith

Croydon: Gavin Barwell, Geraint Davies

Ealing: Stuart Jackson, Valerie Vaz, Hilary Benn, Stephen Pound, Virenda Sharma

Enfield: David Burrowes

Greenwich: Liz Truss, Clive Efford

Hackney: Tom Brake, Chris Bryant, Kate Hoey

Haringey: Lynn Featherstone, Andy Love, Alistair Burt, Steve Gilbert, Jeremy Corbyn

Harrow: Mark Pritchard, Gareth Thomas

Havering: Bob Neil, Angela Watkinson, Andrew Rosindell

Hounslow: Frank Field, Alan Keen, Gerald Howarth

Islington: Meg Hillier, Mary Creagh, Sarah Teather, Stephen Twigg, Jack Straw, Margaret Hodge

Kensington and Chelsea: Mark Field, Margot James, James Arbuthnot

Lambeth: George Young, Charlie Elphicke, John Mann, John Bercow, Joan Walley

Lewisham: Jim Dowd, Heidi Alexander, Roger Godsiff

Merton: Siobhain McDonagh, Chris Grayling, Jenny Willott, Stephen Hammond, Theresa May

Newham: Lynn Brown

Redbridge: Lee Scott, David Amess, David Evenett

Richmond: Ed Leigh

Southwark: Susan Jones, Allison McGovern, Kate Hoey

Tower Hamlets: Diana Johnson

Waltham Forest: Stella Creasy

Wandsworth: Heather Wheeler, Charles Walker, Mark Simmonds, Chris Chope, Fiona MacTaggart, Nadihm Zahawy, Paul Beresford, Sadiq Khan

Westminster: Diane Abbott, Jonathan Djanogly, Nick Boles, Francis Maude, Karen Buck, Jonathan Lord, Greg Clark

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:31:24 +0000

I thought James Arbuthnot was a Westminster councillor? Maybe I have got that wrong though.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:09:20 +0000

I think there are a few K&C councillors in the Commons. Only one I can think of off the top of my head is James Arbuthnot, who is of a rather earlier vintage you could say. But i do seem to recall a number of A listers were councillors there. Weren’t one or two of the by-elections since 2010 in that borough caused by councillors standing down having been elected to parliament. Islington council has also been a bit of a breeding ground for both Labour and LD MPs