uk politicians who have dropped their first names

[Pickman's model]

i'll start you off with george iain duncan smith, who dropped the george because he's never been able to spell the name

 

[tim]

i'll start you off with george iain duncan smith, who dropped the george because he's never been able to spell the name

At least he knows he's not a Cyclops

 

[cupid_stunt]

i'll start you off with george iain duncan smith, who dropped the george because he's never been able to spell the name

He can't even spell Ian.

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson < again never been able to spell the name.

 

[brogdale]

i'll start you off with george iain duncan smith, who dropped the george because he's never been able to spell the name

Gideon Oliver added the first name George; not the same a dropping (obvs) but had the same effect.

 

[ruffneck23]

well this post is wrong and i cant delete it :-(

 

[Steel Icarus]

James Gordon Brown

 

[ruffneck23]

so as I was going to say:

Zac Goldsmith - First name Frank
George Osbourne - First name Gideon - brogdale beat me to it
Douglas Carswell - First name John

 

[Steel Icarus]

I reckon Gid added George cos Gideon is weird, and Boris dropped Alexander because it isn't.

 

[Proper Tidy]

James Gordon Brown

Imagine being called James Brown and choosing Gordon instead though

 

[danny la rouge]

Imagine being called James Brown and choosing Gordon instead though

He’s a moron.

 

[Pickman's model]

Imagine being called James Brown and choosing Gordon instead though

while a student, his karaoke delivery of 'sex machine' was so poor word of it reached james brown who reached out, as people say, caught gb by the scruff of his neck and insisted the james be dropped lest there ever be the slightest suspicion there was a connection.

 

[danny la rouge]

Antony Charles Lynton Lizard Lord Blair dropped two of his middle names.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Imagine being called James Brown and choosing Gordon instead though

Kid in my town growing up was called Michael Jagger, he very pointedly demanded to be called Mike so obviously everyone did the lips thing at him all the time. Expect he changed his surname later to something humdrum like Ryan or Jackson.

 

[Sprocket.]

Maybe James Gordon Brown was inspired by James Harold Wilson?

 

[Yossarian]

Goodlord Whatisthatthing Callapriest Michael Gove

 

[Pickman's model]

Maybe James Gordon Brown was inspired by James Harold Wilson?

i've always been surprised james gordon brown didn't simply drop the brown and become jim gordon.

 

[bluescreen]

James Harold Wilson
Leonard James Callaghan
Robert Anthony Eden

 

[Des Kinvig]

Antony Charles Lynton Lizard Lord Blair dropped two of his middle names.

A rare picture of antony from the days when he was still a lizard.

 

[bluescreen]

A rare picture of antony from the days when he was still a lizard.

Riiight... this would be from the time he and Cherie got together?

 

[brogdale]

John Cable fnnnarrrr

 

[bluescreen]

Charles Foghorn Geoffrey Cox

 

[Proper Tidy]

John Enoch Powell. Funnily enough I know a John Powell and he's a prick

 

[Proper Tidy]

And David George added the Lloyd bit

 

[planetgeli]

Ramsay MacDonald - Registered at birth as James McDonald Ramsay.

Something to do with illegitimacy. Ramsay was his mum's surname, MacDonald (not McDonald) his dad's.

 

[Des Kinvig]

Riiight... this would be from the time he and Cherie got together?

You can’t really blame her. He’s clearly a bit of a looker.

 

[Fez909]

Why is it only the men that do this?

 

[brogdale]

Why is it only the men that do this?

Mary

 

[strung out]

Why is it only the men that do this?

Liz Truss is actually Mary Elizabeth Truss

 

[Fez909]

Mary

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Who is that?

edit: seen the above.

 

[Smick]

Is it something to do with being named after your father and then it's too confusing to have two Jameses in the one house?