Got a day of normal work today (mistakes were made...) but wrote up the @democlub data import when I woke up this AM and the bot's churning away in the background to bring it all in. Should have the new #wikidataMPs list up and running shortly.
Pace Inverness, anyway...
Doing some #wikidataMPs tidying of the new constituencies (almost there! a few name changes to fix still) and have been enjoying how ... unhelpful some of the renamings are. Lots of randomly sticking an extra town in, but also eg
"Rochford and Southend East", now "Southend East and Rochford" (despite I think having lost some Southend areas)
"Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East", now "Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch", despite still having Kilsyth and missing half of Kirkintilloch.
back on the #wikidataMPs coalface today and backfilling the various people who've changed parties over the past term.
There are a lot more than I thought - I make it 38 distinct MPs who either resigned the whip or had it taken away? (One of those was for only a couple of hours - the party suspended him before he could announce his resignation)
A small #wikidataMPs update: I *think* I have stumbled across the secret second family of a minor MP.
He died 110 years ago. I may be slightly too late to sell this one to the papers.
Just to add some detail: "every" is 10,292 per the #wikidataMPs count, which is simply "was returned as an MP" and avoids requirements like "took their seat" or, indeed, "was alive to do so".
There are a few edge cases with MPs on double returns (returning officer deems both elected and asks Parliament to sort it out), and depending on how you count those it might be somewhere in the range 10,290-295. Nothing is ever clear-cut!
Productive couple of evenings with the #wikidataMPs work - chipping away at terms with no party listed, and have fixed about 250 of them. Now have a party for every parliamentary term since 1910, hurrah!
(Midterm changes are still not properly represented, but at least there's *something*)
Today's constitutional oddity: the clergyman Robert Eden (1799-1870) succeeded his brother as Baron Eden in 1849 and got a seat in the House of Lords. So far, so straightforward.
But Eden became Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1854 and stayed there until 1869, by which time he was presumably senior enough to have a seat as a Lord Spiritual. Which one won?
(this is a #wikidataMPs footnote hunting for a solution, I guess)
Andrew