If you are a big fat lefty..

[EllenTheEgret]

What did you name your DC?

Very much light hearted of course.. No offence intended towards non lefties or their dc's names, I'm just

A) nosey
and
B) looking for inspiration for names that my (very lefty) dp might not veto.

Thanks and please don't flame me!

[ThirdThoughts]

Agree with OneMagnum that SNPs actions do not match anti austerity rhetoric. They needed Labour voters to back Indy so changed their rhetoric to suit. Policies are centre to right wing (look at stance on corporation tax, air passenger duty, council tax freeze, refusal to use income tax powers, they are in favour of reducing tax and cutting, rather than progressive taxation to maintain/improve services) and populist. All they want to do is increase support for Indy, they don't have much else in common and it was the Scottish Conservatives that helped them out when they were a minority government.

Back to names Corbyn, Kezia (Kez), Gordon, Ed, Yvette, Fabian, Frank, Rita, .... Etc

But I haven't named my child after a Lefty, not sure it's important. Avoid David, Gideon, George, Boris and Jeremy though to be safe

[LisaTheGreek]

I love Nye!

I don't like Aneurin though, so would just go with Nye by itself. Appreciate it's a bit like NYE (New Year's Eve).

Do people think Nye is ok by itself for a first name?

I love Keir, too, but it doesn't go with the surname.

(Love this thread!)

[unlimiteddilutingjuice]

Lol! This is baby names AnotherEmma it could go anywhere!

[NameChange30]

I thought this was a baby names thread, not an SNP bashing thread.

[OneMagnumisneverenough]

The SNP brainwash campaign stands for anything they can get most votes from. By their own definition they aren't a socialist party and they have done nothing to address fairness in society, and that includes defining what they mean by fairness. Like other right wing parties they have moved towards the centre but that doesn't make them lefties. However, I am not going to argue, as, like arguing with the religious, it's pointless trying to use logic against Faith.

[Gwenhwyfar]

"unlimiteddilutingjuice It might be a "thing" and I do trust you on it, but it's a total myth that's perpetuated by the SNP because it suits them, they are no further left than fucking Thatcher."

I didn't see any Thatcherites being part of the anti-austerity alliance for the last General Election.

[LovelyBranches]

Bit tenuous, but Millicent nn Millie means work. Could she be a future union leader with that name?

[BlueChampagne]

Apologies - thought my earlier message had failed to be posted. Bedtime now ...

[BlueChampagne]

John Stuart
Robert Owen

OK maybe not BIG FAT Lefties ... IN which case, Lenin as a first name? Rufus?

[iyamehooru]

Ha ha. I read this and thought I'm big, I'm fat and I'm left handed

[MagicalHamSandwich]

I want Rosa (Luxemburg) and Emma (Goldman) for the daughters I have yet to have. And, yes, for political reasons. Don't have any boys' names - Karl (various) is out of the question, all the Russians sound way ... Russian and the one name to check all the boxes is also a much despised former co-worker who has spoiled the name forever.

My very lefty friends' already born children are Chiara, Leena and some very Tibetan sounding ones which I won't list because I'm reasonably certain there is only one set of white kids with those names out there.

[BlueChampagne]

Robert or Owen
John or Stuart
Rufus
Francis and Aidan are good down-to-earth saints

You might get away with Lenin these days!

[OneMagnumisneverenough]

Mary after Mary Barbour or Mary Brooksbank?

unlimiteddilutingjuice It might be a "thing" and I do trust you on it, but it's a total myth that's perpetuated by the SNP because it suits them, they are no further left than fucking Thatcher.

I'm not against independence per se, but I hate the SNP with their independence at any cost, and once again, that cost will be to those at the bottom.

Still a fab name though :)

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

Marsh I didn't realise Wat was short for Walter. But Walter isn't really my cup of tea.

DS has a pretty ordinary classic name to be honest. It suits him though.

[marshmallowpies]

Tinkly you should have gone for Walter then, instead of Tyler - isn't Wat a diminutive of Walter? (Mind you, Walter Tyler, that sounds a bit like something out of a nursery rhyme!)

[bigbadbarry]

I am very lefty yet my DD is called Margaret. Hey ho. (She's not named after that one.)

[JasperDamerel]

DS isn't actually called after the leader of the Labour Party, but I suspect in years to come, when it's less apparent that he was born years before Corbyn's leadership, people might think that he was.

I was going to suggest Rosa for a girl, too.

[FunnysInLaJardin]

we named DS1 Fabian for the left leaning connotations!

[marshmallowpies]

One of my DC is named after a West Wing character...does that count?

I also suggested Vera as a middle name, inspired by Vera Brittain, but DH not keen. I would love to have named a child after one of the Pankhursts but not keen enough on Sylvia or Christabel as names to actually use them. I do like Emmeline though, and Emmy is a nice nickname.

I actually would have used Margaret as a name, believe it or not, after my beloved granny, (and would have used Peggy or Meg as a nn) but it didn't go with our surname anyway. I think it's a lovely name and maybe one day it can be reclaimed.

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

I wanted to call DS1 Tyler, for Watt Tyler (peasants revolt). DH was having none of it and declared it too American

[Robertaquimby]

Rachel (Carson)
Dolores ( La Passionara from Spanish Civil War)

Personally I would go for Sylvia.

[Robertaquimby]

Rebecca (West)
Dora (Russell)
Winifred (Holtby)
Vera (Brittain)
Mary (Wollstonecraft)

[DingleberryFinn]

Sorry, it was Augusta Ada Lovelace (nee Byron), who was an Ada not an Adaline who was the first computer programmer Sorry to be a pedant.

[Levantine]

Had I had a DD I would have called her Rosa. I know a Nye (Aneurin) in RL. Great name

[MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly]

Aneira for a girl - means "snow" in Welsh and is the female version of Aneurin (Bevan - founder if the NHS). Eira for short.