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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 22:13:37 GMT
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Green MEP, rioter and pervert, represented both France and Germany. There's a bloke called Derk Eppink who has been a MEP in both Belgium and the Netherlands. Rally driver Ari Vatanen was a MEP in both Finland and France.
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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 16:18:43 GMT
It may not be enough. The NEC is probably salivating at the idea of getting rid of a left-wing candidate in a winnable seat to put yet another ideology-free obedient drone.
MPs of all parties may talk ideology, but 99% + of them tow the party whip, whatever they talk. So in that sense they are all drones and always have been.
Whatever activists of any party with chips on their shoulder think, it really hasn't changed much.
The way current MPs talk may be blander but is there really any difference between bland towing the line and flamoyant towing the line, when the votes are added up? No.
This is more about any election that involves the PLP and the nominations for Starmer's replacement.
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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 16:17:24 GMT
Third: Lab 9 (+3), Con 3 (-3), Grn 1 (+1), LD 0 (-1)
Labour gain from Conservative in: Castle (confirms 2022 double election gain, by 304 votes) Northbrook (by 130 votes)
Green gain from Conservative in: Goring (by 714 votes)
Labour gain from Liberal Democrat in: Tarring (by 244 votes)
Close holds: Durrington (Con hold by 45 votes over Lab)
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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 15:53:34 GMT
I suspect that Beccy Cooper will have to take steps to minimise any of these defectors' involvement in her campaign, or make it clear that she does not in any way endorse their position. It's good that they are not committed to seeing her fail but they have put themselves outside the tent now & their statements will not be welcomed by most of the rest of the Labour Group, although there are other members of it who remain and are on the Left. It may not be enough. The NEC is probably salivating at the idea of getting rid of a left-wing candidate in a winnable seat to put yet another ideology-free obedient drone.
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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 15:46:19 GMT
www.worcester.gov.uk/councillors-democracy/elections/2024-electionsArboretum: 2 Grn Battenhall: 2 Grn Cathedral: 2 Lab (by 16/180 votes over Grn) Claines: 3 LD Dines Green and Grove Farm: 2 Lab Fort Royal : 2 Lab Leopard Hill: 2 Grn Lower Wick and Pitmatston: 1 Con, 1 Lab ( Con 817, Lab 752/653, Con 569) Nunnery: 3 Lab Rainbow Hill: 2 Lab (by 37/86 votes over Grn) St Clement: 2 Grn (Con 116 votes away from a seat) St John's: 2 Lab St Nicholas: 2 LD (Con 154 votes away from a seat, Grn 184 votes away from a seat) St Peter's Parish: 2 Grn St Stephen: 2 Grn Warndon and Elbury Park: 3 Lab
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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 12:32:02 GMT
It’s one of the more interesting balances. A Lab minority administration seems feasible or they might go with a Lab/Green administration or Alan Amos might have the casting vote. As I suspected before the election the boundary changes helped Lab a bit in Worcester. The way that one of the Lib Dem’s/ Lab/ Greens have each established themselves as a more or less sole opponent to the Tories in all of the Tories historical wards has been very effective here. An effect of that is that Lab can nearly get a majority with less than 30% of the vote in the city. The Greens have finished picking off the 4 ex Tory wards they have worked and have now started challenging/ winning Lab wards, but whether those Green/Lab fights mean they are less likely to work together now- we shall see. Given the events of last year, I suspect that Lab/LD is more likely than Lab/Grn. And indeed, like last year (where it failed), Lab and LD teamed up to remove the ridiculous mandatory coalition between the 2 largest parties if there is no majority from the Constitution (it was forced by the Greens a year the council was tied).
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Post by maxque on May 17, 2024 12:25:00 GMT
Given that Labour are one seat short of control, I'm assuming Alan Amos is trying to decide whether to re-rat to them or to give the Greens a go? It’s one of the more interesting balances. A Lab minority administration seems feasible or they might go with a Lab/Green administration or Alan Amos might have the casting vote. As I suspected before the election the boundary changes helped Lab a bit in Worcester. The way that one of the Lib Dem’s/ Lab/ Greens have each established themselves as a more or less sole opponent to the Tories in all of the Tories historical wards has been very effective here. An effect of that is that Lab can nearly get a majority with less than 30% of the vote in the city. The Greens have finished picking off the 4 ex Tory wards they have worked and have now started challenging/ winning Lab wards, but whether those Green/Lab fights mean they are less likely to work together now- we shall see. Given the events of last year, I suspect that Lab/LD is more likely than Lab/Grn.
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Post by maxque on May 16, 2024 17:13:59 GMT
Third: LD 9 (+4), Ind 1 (+1), Con 0 (-4), Lab 0 (-1) Council: LD 24, Ind 4, Lab 2, Con 0 Independent gain from Conservative in: Byfleet and W Byfleet (by 321 votes) Liberal Democrat gain from Labour in: Canalside (by 29 votes) Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative in: Heathlands (by 651 votes) Knaphill (by 203 votes) Pyrford (by 385 votes)
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Post by maxque on May 16, 2024 16:53:37 GMT
www.winchester.gov.uk/elections/election-resultsThird: LD 11 (+4), Con 2 (-5), Grn 1 (+1) Council: LD 33 (+3), Con 8 (-4), Grn 3 (+1), Ind 1 Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative in: Alresford and Itchen Valley (by 485 votes) Bishop's Waltham (by 917 votes) Denmead (by 20 votes) St Luke's (by 406 votes) Green gain from Conservative in: C Meon Valley (by 757 votes)
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Post by maxque on May 16, 2024 16:23:33 GMT
Third: Lab 21, Ind 2, Independent Network 2 (+1), Con 0 (-1) Council: Lab 64, Ind 5, Independent Network 5, Con 1 Independent gain over Labour in: Ince (by 48 votes) Labour gain over Conservative in: Lowton E (by 334 votes) Close ward: Atherton N (Independent Network hold by 37 votes over Lab)
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 20:58:20 GMT
Council: LD 21, Con 13, Lab 11, Grn 4 Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative in: Churchill and Finstock (by 132 votes) Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield (by 11 votes) Milton-under-Wychwood (by 108 votes) Standlake, Aston and Stanton Harcourt (by 188 votes) Green gain from Liberal Democrat in: Stonesfield and Tackley (by 26 votes) Labour gain from Conservative in: Witney S (by 57 votes) Close holds: Freeland and Hanborough (Con hold by 29 votes over LD) Kingham, Rollright and Enstone (Con hold by 27 votes over Grn) N Leigh (Con hold by 184 votes over LD) Witney E (Lab hold by 87 votes over Con) Witney N (Grn hold by 61 votes over LD) Witney W (Con hold by 103 votes over LD) Woodstock and Bladon (LD hold by 138 votes over Con)
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 20:03:20 GMT
democracy.westlancs.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=8&RPID=1518116%, according to the council: Lab 46%, Con 26%, OWL 17%, Grn 7%, LD 3% Our West Lancashire gain from Conservative in: Burscough Bridge and Rufford (by 130 votes) Labour gain from Our West Lancashire in: Burscough Town (by 573 votes) Our West Lancashire gain from Labour in: Ormskirk E (by 35 votes) Close holds: Ormskirk W (Lab hold by 188 votes over OWL) Rural W (Con hold by 69 votes over OWL, by 88 votes over Lab)
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 19:16:54 GMT
www.welhat.gov.uk/voting-elections/election-results-2-may-2024Third: Lab 8 (+8), Con 4 (-10), LD 4 (+2) Council: Lab 20, LD 16, Con 12 Labour gain from Conservative in: Haldens (by 292 votes) Hatfield C (by 317 votes) Hatfield E (by 186 votes) Hatfield SW (by 295 votes over LD, by 366 votes over Con) Hatfield Villages (by 118 votes) Hollybush (by 352 votes) Howlands (by 341 votes) Sherrards (by 16 votes over LD, by 131 votes over Con) Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative in: Handside (by 246 votes) Panshanger (by 79 votes) Close holds: Peartree (LD hold by 100 votes over Lab) Welham Green and Hatfield S (LD hold by 106 votes over Con) Welwyn E (Con hold by 190 votes over Lab) Welwyn W (Con hold by 16 votes over Grn)
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 17:49:21 GMT
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 16:38:06 GMT
I make that Conservative 12, Labour 5, Gaza 2, Independent 1. Conservatives gain 1 and lose 1 to Labour, and Labour lose 2 to Gaza, and that's it despite several close results. go.walsall.gov.uk/your-council/voting-and-elections/upcoming-elections-and-legal-notices/elections-2024Council: Con 37, Lab 19, Ind 4 Labour gain from Conservative in: Bloxwich W (by 22 votes) Independent gain from Labour in: Palfrey (confirms defection, by 1090 votes) Pleck (confirms defection, by 233 votes) Conservative gain from Labour in: Rushall-Shelfield (by 117 votes) Close holds: Bentley and Darleston N (Lab hold by 164 votes over Ind) Birchills-Leamore (Con hold by 153 votes over Lab) Blakenall (Ind hold by 164 votes over Lab) Bloxwich E (Con hold by 29 votes over Lab) Short Heath (Con hold by 171 votes over Lab) St Matthews (Lab hold by 190 votes over Ind) Willenhall N (Con hold by 8 votes over Lab)
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 15:53:40 GMT
Cabinet (Lab/LD/Green coalition) Leader of the Council and Cabinet Lead for Corporate Strategy, Performance & External Relations Phil Munday (Labour) Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Lead for Finance Philippa Gray (Lib Dem) Cabinet Lead for Environment & Water Quality Grainne Rason (Green) Cabinet Lead for Housing Amy Redsull (Labour) Cabinet Lead for Commercial Paul Gray (Lib Dem) Cabinet Lead for Regeneration & Communities Gillian Harris (Labour) Cabinet Lead for Place Richard Brown (Labour) Assistant Cabinet Leads Netty Shepherd – Climate, Coastal & Green Spaces (Green) Antonia Harrison – Thriving Waterlooville (Lib Dem) I don't think Phil Munday had planned becoming Council Leader when first elected in 2022.
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 15:47:08 GMT
www.wakefield.gov.uk/elections/2024-elections-results/local-elections-result-2024/Labour gain from Conservative in: Ackworth, N Elmsall and Upton (by 1056 votes over Grn, by 1108 votes over Con) Crofton, Ryhill and Walton (by 947 votes) Ossett (by 1011 votes) Pontefract S (by 823 votes) Wakefield E (by 897 votes over Grn, by 1277 votes over Con) Wakefield Rural (by 347 votes) Wakefield S (by 56 votes) Wrenthorpe and Outwood W (by 577 votes over Wakefield and District Independents, by 1096 votes over Con)
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 14:21:18 GMT
Not exactly terrible for Labour either, winning councillors in 3 different wards. I've been to Rusthall & am surprised that it seems to have become a Labourish village There was an article in one of the papers a while back about how some of the Mid Kent villages have become a major target for DFLs. Rusthall rings a bell as being mentioned. The lack of Labour in Paddock Wood East (?) seems odd. Seems the people pushing the party in Paddock Wood were expelled for showing the Ken Loach movie about Corbyn.
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 14:15:29 GMT
New council: LD 22, Cons 7, Lab 5, TWA 4, Independents for Tunbridge Wells 1. Culverden: 3 x LD Hawkhurst etc: 2 x Con, 1 x TWA High Brooms: 1 x Lab (by a street) Paddock Wood: 3 xLD (Tory 72 votes behind bottom LD) Park: 3 x LD Pembury and Capel: 2 x LD, 1 x Independents for Tunbridge Wells Rural Tunbridge Wells: 2 x Con, 1 x TWA (3rd Tory 24 away from a seat) Rushall etc: 2 x Lab, 1 x TWA (TWA 58 away from the bottom Labour candidate) Sherwood: 2 x Lab, 1 x Con. Southborough: 3 x LD St James': 3 x LD (how NOT to vote balance...!) St John's: 2 x LD. There is missing wards. Cranbrook, Sissinghurst and Frittenden: 2 Con, 1 TWA ( Con 917, TWA 843, Con 640/547) Pantiles: 3 LD That's LD +5, Con -4, Lab -2, TWA -6, IfTW -1, Ind -1 %, according to council: LD 34%, Con 29%, Lab 14%, TWA 9%, Grn 7%, IfTW 5%
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Post by maxque on May 15, 2024 14:09:28 GMT
Two seats changed hands: Labour took a first seat in Manor by 30 votes, and unseated the one Conservative in Broadheath by just 6 votes. We ran it really close in Bowdon, the Tory majority reduced to 21. The Lib Dems only made small gains in Hale Barns and Timperley South, remaining over 300 behind. Also, we had a surge in Old Trafford, with an entirely non-target candidate coming in with over 1000 votes. Gaza influence, presumably?
Edit: oh, also, I was re-elected with a 400 majority. Third: Lab 15 (+2), Con 2 (-2), LD 2, Grn 2 Council: Lab 43, Con 8, LD 6, Grn 6
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