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Post by jm on May 15, 2024 21:34:53 GMT
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Post by batman on May 15, 2024 22:00:52 GMT
Any idea what this is concerning? Normally the Labour Group in Bassetlaw is very disciplined.
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Post by MeirionGwril on May 16, 2024 9:07:29 GMT
Any idea what this is concerning? Normally the Labour Group in Bassetlaw is very disciplined. Vielleicht ist das das Problem |
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Post by carolus on May 16, 2024 14:13:46 GMT
Basingstoke & Deane, Hatch Warren & Beggarwood (2026). Samir Kotecha, Conservative to Basingstoke & Deane Independent
Telford & Wrekin, Priorslee (2027). Paul Thomas, Conservative to Independent.
Wakefield, Wakefield Rural (2026). Samantha Harvey, Conservative to Independent.
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Post by ClevelandYorks on May 16, 2024 14:40:02 GMT
Basingstoke & Deane, Hatch Warren & Beggarwood (2026). Samir Kotecha, Conservative to Basingstoke & Deane Independent Telford & Wrekin, Priorslee (2027). Paul Thomas, Conservative to Independent. Wakefield, Wakefield Rural (2026). Samantha Harvey, Conservative to Independent. So that’s the Tories down to 2 in Wakey and the Lib Dems becoming the official opposition. |
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Post by carolus on May 16, 2024 17:14:56 GMT
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Post by jamie on May 16, 2024 18:09:28 GMT
The comments seem to suggest the Greens are massively YIMBY in Wealden? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 16, 2024 18:30:54 GMT
Likely to be influenced by the Greens in south coast towns, who are far more concerned about the housing crisis there than they are about preserving the countryside.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on May 17, 2024 16:21:05 GMT
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Post by batman on May 17, 2024 16:24:48 GMT
Is he unwell? I thought he was looking a bit pallid
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Post by skyep on May 18, 2024 12:10:34 GMT
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Post by Ports on May 18, 2024 19:03:47 GMT
Stafford, Coton (2027). Louise Nixon, Independent (elected as Lab), to Conservative
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Post by batman on May 18, 2024 19:42:34 GMT
I remain profoundly unimpressed by defections such as these. There was a very similar one in Stoke but she lost her seat heavily back to Labour in last year's elections.
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 18, 2024 20:34:45 GMT
Stafford, Coton (2027). Louise Nixon, Independent (elected as Lab), to Conservative Really, the past political year has convinced her that the Tories are the answer to her political positions that led her to be elected as a Labour councillor one year ago? Maybe she is an ideologically-neutral psephologist who really believes that by 2027 the Labour Party will be so toxic that the safest Labour ward in Stafford will go Tory. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 18, 2024 20:38:41 GMT
Again, I wave my marksenior card: how bloody dare someone elected in an area so clearly opposed to a party, then defect to that party for personal reasons and ignore the personal reasons their voters hate the party they now join without testing their choice with a byelection. If you defect, you should face a byelection - full stop. |
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Post by Merseymike on May 18, 2024 21:31:07 GMT
She was a councillor in 2015, two terms , then a year in 2023-24 - very safe Labour. I wonder what happened?
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Post by mattbewilson on May 18, 2024 22:10:18 GMT
She was a councillor in 2015, two terms , then a year in 2023-24 - very safe Labour. I wonder what happened? deselected? |
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Post by andrea on May 18, 2024 22:32:43 GMT
The Labour's group leader is not sure why she defected
“Her email gave no details as to why she was leaving and we still don’t understand her reasoning, although we now believe it has nothing to do with Stafford Borough Council or any local political issues.”,
“The Labour Group on Stafford Borough Council has always tried to help Louise and still wish her well, even though we don’t understand her decision.”
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Post by maxque on May 19, 2024 0:48:38 GMT
She was a councillor in 2015, two terms , then a year in 2023-24 - very safe Labour. I wonder what happened? deselected? Stafford has whole elections and I doubt they would deselect 3 years in advance. |
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Post by r34t on May 19, 2024 6:01:02 GMT
The Labour's group leader is not sure why she defected “Her email gave no details as to why she was leaving and we still don’t understand her reasoning, although we now believe it has nothing to do with Stafford Borough Council or any local political issues.”, “The Labour Group on Stafford Borough Council has always tried to help Louise and still wish her well, even though we don’t understand her decision.” That’s a very classy response, more in sorrow than in anger. |
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