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Post by peterl on Oct 26, 2012 13:12:09 GMT
Alan Pote Rushton Ward Northamptonshire County Council from Independent (Conservative until last December) to UKIP.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2012 13:42:31 GMT
Alan Pote Rushton Ward Northamptonshire County Council from Independent (Conservative until last December) to UKIP. A slow but steady journey ......  |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 26, 2012 14:07:15 GMT
I assumed that he meant Rushden and went to check which division of Rushden it was. He in fact represents Rothwell
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Post by john07 on Oct 26, 2012 16:00:59 GMT
I've a lot of time for Margo, but it's still a bit of a mystery to me how she keeps getting re-elected and who actually votes for her. I reckon she draws just about enough support from across the political spectrum to get in without really impacting anybody else's vote. Margo gets a lot of votes from Hibs supporters on account of stands she has consistently taken. Her daughter is married to one half of the Proclaimers. Many Hibs' supporters retain a suspicion of Edinburgh Labour which many saw as Hearts in drag following the past actions of George Foulkes, Eric Milligan, Pilmar Smith, and Steve Cardownie (before he defected to the SNP). Hence their list vote could go to Margo, especially when Foulkes was number one in the Labour list for Lothians! |
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2012 12:14:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2012 15:05:17 GMT
The Norwich Greens do seem to have got some politically 'interesting' people elected in recent years... I'm reminded of the guy last year who defected to the Tories.
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Post by tricky on Oct 28, 2012 15:58:16 GMT
He had to get as far as being elected to the council before discovering the Greens were a world menacing anti democratic cliqueshow? Just shows the importance of good, or even basic, research. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 28, 2012 21:14:39 GMT
He's hardly the first recent Green councillor who's found the Green Party isn't quite as advertised. Could this be an inevitable coming of age pain?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2012 23:43:14 GMT
There's a certain type of left-environmental activist that approaches politics from a rather 'purist' angle, attaches primary importance to principle and process, and regards anyone who in practice doesn't quite live up to their preferred principles with disdain. Some will hold their noses and vote Green when they can, while others prefer to shun electoral politics entirely. Reading between the lines, this is why he has resigned. What surprises me is that somebody of this disposition would be a party activist for seven years and become a councillor, only to go with a bang like this now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2012 0:13:50 GMT
I reckon she draws just about enough support from across the political spectrum to get in without really impacting anybody else's vote. Margo gets a lot of votes from Hibs supporters on account of stands she has consistently taken. Her daughter is married to one half of the Proclaimers. Many Hibs' supporters retain a suspicion of Edinburgh Labour which many saw as Hearts in drag following the past actions of George Foulkes, Eric Milligan, Pilmar Smith, and Steve Cardownie (before he defected to the SNP). Hence their list vote could go to Margo, especially when Foulkes was number one in the Labour list for Lothians! If I remember rightly Margo's votes came/went roughly equally from Lab/Con/SNP/LD |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2012 4:00:49 GMT
There's a certain type of left-environmental activist that approaches politics from a rather 'purist' angle, attaches primary importance to principle and process, and regards anyone who in practice doesn't quite live up to their preferred principles with disdain. Some will hold their noses and vote Green when they can, while others prefer to shun electoral politics entirely. Reading between the lines, this is why he has resigned. What surprises me is that somebody of this disposition would be a party activist for seven years and become a councillor, only to go with a bang like this now. I imagine all of the smaller parties suffer from something like this. In seven years, I've seen several people put time and effort into UKIP then suddenly quite on the back of a tiny issue. I know people that have quit over a minor policy issue and even a constitution alteration.  . |
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Post by AdminSTB on Oct 29, 2012 5:48:18 GMT
What surprises me is that somebody of this disposition would be a party activist for seven years and become a councillor, only to go with a bang like this now. I don't know the guy's personal views, but I wondered if perhaps it was even backlash from the Christina Summers decision, which presumably alienated a lot of the more religious members of the party. |
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Post by Pimpernal on Oct 29, 2012 8:40:56 GMT
Margo gets a lot of votes from Hibs supporters on account of stands she has consistently taken. They prefer to sit down at matches then? |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 29, 2012 11:54:13 GMT
What surprises me is that somebody of this disposition would be a party activist for seven years and become a councillor, only to go with a bang like this now. You might (and I emphasise might, because I have no evidence for my supposition) be taking his statement too much at face value? He's been a party activist for seven years, so presumably he's had some experience of the Norwich party machinery. With this in mind, we should note his comment that That, and the failure to name any policy driving him out, suggests to me that he's fallen out with the Exec, whether for personal or organisational reasons (although in my experience, the two are rarely distinct). |
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Post by Tony Otim on Oct 29, 2012 17:10:36 GMT
What surprises me is that somebody of this disposition would be a party activist for seven years and become a councillor, only to go with a bang like this now. You might (and I emphasise might, because I have no evidence for my supposition) be taking his statement too much at face value? He's been a party activist for seven years, so presumably he's had some experience of the Norwich party machinery. With this in mind, we should note his comment that That, and the failure to name any policy driving him out, suggests to me that he's fallen out with the Exec, whether for personal or organisational reasons (although in my experience, the two are rarely distinct). Those were my thoughts in reading the statement.  |
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Post by Lord Sid on Oct 31, 2012 17:53:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 8:55:22 GMT
Portsmouth Lib Dem Cabinet Member, Councillor Aiden Grey, defects to Labour.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 8:58:03 GMT
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Post by Tony Otim on Nov 6, 2012 10:09:23 GMT
Any comments from his council colleague?
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Nov 6, 2012 11:09:44 GMT
I note he was promoted straight on to the Exec, despite not having been a candidate before and not being in a safe seat. The first suggests he's not a party die-hard and the second suggests it wasn't talent-spotting, so what's the background that saw such a swift rise?
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