two-thirds majority: A social club needs a two-thirds majority to alter its rules, but the UK can redirect its future by a margin of one Cunningham, the former Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, died in July aged 87, after 15 years spent in a care home with Alzheimer's, according to The Guardian. I never met him, and heard him speak only once. But what's harder to deny is that if Britain had paid more attention to Cunningham's most significant political achievement remembering it as a lesson for a future referendum over Europe we might all be much happier now. As the Labour MP for Islington South, he addressed a meeting of constituency residents who were protesting about the practice then known as winkling in which property speculators bought up old houses and through a mixture of bribes and harassment, winkled out the sitting tenants so the empty property could be done up and sold for a good profit to young people who appreciated Georgian fanlights and cornices. I remember he seemed energetic and sincere. This would be about 1975.
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