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Post by cuthbertbede on Mar 28, 2016 22:27:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 20:46:36 GMT
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Post by MeirionGwril on Apr 10, 2016 6:34:14 GMT
You can't be "fairly unique", it's either unique or it isn't....
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 10, 2016 16:29:04 GMT
You can't be "fairly unique", it's either unique or it isn't.... Maybe they mean "almost unique"? |
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Post by Antiochian on Apr 10, 2016 17:42:05 GMT
He was due to stand for re-election in May. What are the implications of this as the nominations have closed? He had 95% of the vote in 2012. That is popular indeed... |
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Post by Sharon on Apr 10, 2016 18:00:36 GMT
He was due to stand for re-election in May. He had 95% of the vote in 2012. That is popular indeed... Nominations were still open when he passed away. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 10, 2016 19:14:30 GMT
What are the implications of this as the nominations have closed? He had 95% of the vote in 2012. That is popular indeed... Nominations were still open when he passed away. The Labour candidate for his ward is Farut Shaeen. Seems to have been active in Labour Party campaigning long before, but not previously a candidate. One of the negative consequences of a party having almost all the seats in the council (as in Sandwell Labour), is that there isn't a reserve of experienced candidates. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 19, 2016 10:28:17 GMT
Noting a resignation covered by the six months rule - Robin Page, Independent councillor for Haslingfield and The Eversdens ward on South Cambridgeshire District Council, resigned in March objecting to excessive development. His term was ending in May. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Maverick-councillor-Robin-Page-stands-claiming/story-28850338-detail/story.html Page is reasonably well known as a sort of rural rightwinger, including presenter of TV programmes; he was one of the more prominent members of James Goldsmith's Referendum Party, and had been on the district council on and off since the 1970s. Bizarrely given his attachment to rural life, he stood as a Conservative candidate in 1979 in Bethnal Green and Bow. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Apr 19, 2016 10:58:07 GMT
He was due to stand for re-election in May. What are the implications of this as the nominations have closed? He had 95% of the vote in 2012. That is popular indeed... I wouldn't suggest that he was not popular, but that particular ward has always been a Labour monolith and is the direst shithole you could imagine even by the standards of Sandwell (indeed even by the standards of Smethwick) |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 20, 2016 16:17:33 GMT
Noting a resignation covered by the six months rule - Robin Page, Independent councillor for Haslingfield and The Eversdens ward on South Cambridgeshire District Council, resigned in March objecting to excessive development. His term was ending in May. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Maverick-councillor-Robin-Page-stands-claiming/story-28850338-detail/story.html Page is reasonably well known as a sort of rural rightwinger, including presenter of TV programmes; he was one of the more prominent members of James Goldsmith's Referendum Party, and had been on the district council on and off since the 1970s. Bizarrely given his attachment to rural life, he stood as a Conservative candidate in 1979 in Bethnal Green and Bow. And a bit part at the Winchester by-election, where he was amongst the more serious candidates (not that such a thing was hard). |
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Post by nick10 on Apr 20, 2016 17:22:28 GMT
Comes under the sixth month rule of course, but to report my Elmbridge Borough Council colleague Cllr Stuart Hawkins (Cons, Walton South) died yesterday. He was retiring at the upcoming all-out election due to ill health. He was one the most respected, hard-working Councillors one could meet, and despite severe illness was a dedicated Councillor to the end (indeed, he was at Full Council just last Wednesday).
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Post by andrewteale on Apr 24, 2016 23:36:32 GMT
Cross-posted from the Coventry thread, the death has been announced of Alison Gingell (Lab, Sherbourne ward, Coventry). Six-month rule applies.
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 25, 2016 11:56:44 GMT
Cross-posted from the Coventry thread, the death has been announced of Alison Gingell (Lab, Sherbourne ward, Coventry). Six-month rule applies. Her seat was up for re-election this year, and she wasn't re-standing anyway. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 13, 2016 11:53:13 GMT
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Post by BexleyCllr on May 13, 2016 13:17:56 GMT
A casual vacancy has occurred in the London Borough of Bexley (St Michaels Ward), following the resignation of Conservative Cllr Joe Pollard.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 13, 2016 13:36:19 GMT
A casual vacancy has occurred in the London Borough of Bexley (St Michaels Ward), following the resignation of Conservative Cllr Joe Pollard. Wrong thread. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 5, 2016 14:47:27 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 5, 2016 15:08:15 GMT
Warton is not "near Preston" btw.
EDIT: there is of course *a* Warton a bit to the west, but that is not the Warton where this late *Lancaster DC* councillor in question lived. Unsurprisingly.
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