The Vote Is Either John Smith Or Mo Mowlam.

[Marshwarble]

(They are standing in the live position, by the way)

Which one this time?

[Hopkirk]

Explain please

[jackthehat]

This section is for active News stories.....NOT for idle speculation on the popularity of (this time *dead*) political figures.

[-Talbot-]

When you doing a Will or Gareth thread?

[Marshwarble]

We do create our own news as a society. True, it's not current affairs.

[ummmm]

Why are you doing this?

[Marshwarble]

There seems to be a lot of evading the question.

[ummmm]

Mo's dead!

[jackthehat]

....so is John Smith.

Perhaps these whimsical popularity contests would be better held under the Politics tab

[ummmm]

I didn't know who John Smith was :-) Just maybe the most popular name in England......ha

[jackthehat]

John Smith was the leader of the Labour Party prior to Blair....he died in 1994.

[Marshwarble]

All voting is a whimsical popularity test, jackthehat.

[ummmm]

1994...I was only a youngster :-)

[jackthehat]

Not necessarily 'popularity'......more often, the lesser of two evils....

[Marshwarble]

Why do you think I said about the "live position" off weren't both dead? It's a vote, you can abstain, but it's still a vote.

Politics in only a subsection of news in any case.

[naomi24]

Marshwarble, I wish you would post these fun questions elsewhere. You're pushing legitimate news stories off the front page.

[Marshwarble]

If they weren't dead, I meant to say.

[Cloverjo]

I enjoy these questions, but perhaps they should be in ChatterBank.
I remember John Smith as Labour leader, but don't remember his policies at all.
I admired Mo very much, so I'd go for her.

[Marshwarble]

I never thought of it as a front page. Just the things we're talking about at the moment.

Unless you get a way of filtering stories I'm afraid you have to live and let live.

[naomi24]

//Just the things we're talking about at the moment.//

The only talking about John Smith and Mo Mowlam going on at the moment is on this thread. They are not news.

[jackthehat]

///I never thought of it as a front page. Just the things we're talking about at the moment.
Unless you get a way of filtering stories I'm afraid you have to live and let live. ///

No-one was talking about it until you decided to post a thread....
The Editorial team may see fit to remove this post (and the others) into a more appropriate topic.....as they really aren't *News*.