Talk:Jimmy Hood

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 * James Jimmy Hood (born 16 May 1948) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Lanark and Hamilton East.


 * Jimmy Hood was born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire and was educated at the Lesmahagow High School in Coatbridge, the Motherwell College of Technology, and later at the University of Nottingham. He joined the National Coal Board as an engineer miner in 1964 and remained a miner until his election to parliament twenty-three years later.


 * He has been a member of the National Union of Mineworkers since 1964, and was a trade union official for fourteen years from 1973. He led the Nottinghamshire miners in the 1984-1985 miners' strike. He was elected as a councillor to the Newark and Sherwood District Council in 1979 and served until sending down in 1987. He was elected to the House of Commons for Clydesdale at the 1987 General Election following the retirement of the veteran sitting Labour MP Judith Hart. Hood held the seat with a majority of 10,502 and has remained an MP since. His Clydesdale based seat was abolished and since the 2005 General Election he has represented the new seat of Lanark and Hamilton East.


 * In parliament he has served as the chairman of the European legislation select committee since 1992, having been a member from 1987. He has also been a member of the liaison commitee since 1992, and has been a member of the Speaker's panel of chairman since 1997. He also served as a member of the defence select committee 1997-2005. He is the vice chairman of the all party group on child abduction and the treasurer of the nuclear energy and the British overseas territory groups.


 * He has been married to Marion Stewart McCleary since 1967 and they have a son and a daughter and two grandchildren. He suffered a massive heart attack in 1998 whilst in Kilmarnock, and later in the year criticised political bullying.

Change of "British" to "Scottish"
I feel it is necessary, for clarity, to change "British" to "Scottish" in the lead. Mr Hood is a member of the Scottish Labour Party, and is a Scottish man elected to the parliament of the United Kingdom. Often the word "British" is used to define any member of parliament. I feel this is wrong as Britain is the island consisting of mainland Scotland, England and Wales. Many readers from the United Kingdom will want to find information on MPs in their respective constituent countries and so referring to an MP as "Scottish", "English", "Welsh" or "Northern Irish" rather than "British" makes sense to me. -- Adam Black talk •  contribs  •  uploads  •  logs 23:06, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Date of death
A recent edit suggested that Hood died on 3 December, not the widely-published date of 4 December 2017. The only source that I could find to verify this claim is an announcement that was published in a local paper at the time. Drchriswilliams (talk) 11:03, 25 March 2018 (UTC)