Mr Glenn Prosper

• victor matcham

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  22 January 2024     12:16383616
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  Yes run into Dover ex PM this morning we had a chat about the old times
• Arthur

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  22 January 2024     13:33383617
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  Gwyn Prosser
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• victor matcham

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  22 January 2024     15:53383618
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  Thank you for putting me right
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  22 January 2024     18:25383619
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  To clarify for anyone new to the area he was our Labour MP 1997-2010 rather than making the heady heights of PM.
  
  When Gwyn was working on the ferries many years ago his nickname was Prosser the Tosser which was rhyming slang.
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• Weird Granny Slater

  • Location: Dover
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  23 January 2024     09:54383624
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  Uninteresting fact:
  
  as 'gwyn' is Welsh for 'white', and 'Prosser' is the anglicised Welsh 'ap Rosser', i.e. 'son of Roger', then 'Gwyn Prosser' is 'Roger's white boy'.
  
  Dim jôc.
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  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
• victor matcham

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  23 January 2024     10:53383625
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  I will tell him that fact next time I see him thank you.
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  23 January 2024     11:45383626
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  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
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  23 January 2024     14:28383627
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  As Gwyn lives in River you may see him from time to time.I sat next to,him in the councilChamber for a few years.Glorious voice wonderful to listen to him .when debates were in full swing.
• Andy B

  • Location: dover
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  23 January 2024     15:27383628
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  Think i saw him in Poundland once purchasing a light bulb.
  • Poundland
• victor matcham

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  23 January 2024     15:46383629
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  Ha, Ha, was it a dull one or very bright or flashy.
• Weird Granny Slater

  • Location: Dover
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  24 January 2024     10:22383635
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   victor matcham wrote:

  I will tell him that fact next time I see him thank you.

  
  I'd imagine there's a very good chance that he already knows, VM.
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus