Ask a Brit thread

[Emsworth]

Just how little social importance are Lordships of Manors?

Although I would not qualify under the thread's title ("Ask a Brit"), I do happen to the answer: they are of almost no social importance at all. Lords of the Manor are never actually addressed as "Lord Such-and-such," and receive no special precedence or privileges (except for a few obscure feudal ones).

[Emsworth]

Wales: Labour in urban areas and the ex-mining areas, LD elsewhere.

For the most part, Wales belongs to Labour.

I would add that Northern Ireland is dominated by regional parties; the Nationalist Parties are stronger in the western and southern parts, whilst the Unionists are stronger in the eastern and northern parts.

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Is it true that New Labour is to the right of the pre-Thatcher Tories?

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As a citizen of the commonwealth, would I be allowed to partake in your elections? (providing that I would have to live in the UK)

I think you can, yes.

Rather oddly, so can a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.