
"I want to use this gift I've been given to help all mankind and to bring lasting world peace." Plato is his favorite philosopher. "I believe I have been given a special gift from God and I don't know why," he says in a soft voice. His IQ is so high, it can't be quantified.Īnd when he speaks, this small child with floppy blond hair and the mischievous glint of Dennis the Menace unveils some towering thoughts. He is like any 10-year-old after a long day in school.Įxcept that Greg is completing his freshman year at Randolph-Macon College. He jumps up constantly to show his school work, look out a window, or lob an imaginary basketball shot. His feet dangle restlessly high above the floor. Why was Mansfield constituency changed to Bassetlaw in 2010?įollowing their review of parliamentary boundaries in Nottinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England made changes to the constituency for the 2010 general election to allow for population changes, most noticeably by moving the small town of Market Warsop into Mansfield constituency.Greg Smith can't sit still. The fall in Labour’s vote, 24.9%, was the greatest of any seat in the election. In the December 2019 general election, the Conservatives won the seat with a swing from Labour of 18.4%, the largest recorded in the election. Keir Morrison, a councillor in the Ashfield District, replaced Gimson as the Labour candidate. However, its Member of parliament Malcolm MacDonald was one of the few Labour MPs to join his father Ramsay MacDonald ‘s National Government. Labour first won the seat in the 1929 general election. Bassetlaw was for many years a safe seat for the Labour Party. The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act. Brendan is Nottinghamshire born and bred. He was elected on 12th December 2019, winning the seat with a majority of over 14,000. Labour controlled the council for 25 years, until once again no party had overall control.īrendan Clarke-Smith MP is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw. From 1976 to 1979, no party had overall control, until the 1979 local elections in which Labour gained control. When did Bassetlaw District Council come into existence?īassetlaw District Council was founded in 1973 with Labour first gaining control.


Who was the Labour candidate in Bassetlaw in 2019?
