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Post by slicesofjim on Oct 31, 2012 19:55:10 GMT
Had to google 'Communist League', turns out they are one of the splinters from the old WRP. Respect really are scraping the barrel now, the previous candidate was a good one, this one on the other hand...
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Post by AdminSTB on Oct 31, 2012 20:00:30 GMT
The Communist League stood a candidate in Edinburgh once, and they had a guy who occasionally stood outside Edinburgh University Library selling their newspaper. I bought it once, it made the Socialist Worker look sensible.  |
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Post by johnloony on Nov 1, 2012 1:13:20 GMT
Had to google 'Communist League', turns out they are one of the splinters from the old WRP. Respect really are scraping the barrel now, the previous candidate was a good one, this one on the other hand... From what it says in Wikipedia, it would seem that the Communist League which split from the WRP (via the Marxist Party) is the one founded in 1990, but the one which occasionally has candidates in elections is the one founded in 1988. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_League_(UK,_1988) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_League_(UK,_1990) |
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Post by slicesofjim on Nov 1, 2012 10:42:46 GMT
Ah, my mistake. Seems they are a bit more sane then, despite their obsession with workers in meat-packing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2012 14:01:24 GMT
Should be easy for the council's vote counters, with Labour, LibDem and Conservative at the bottom of the ballot paper.
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Post by erlend on Nov 1, 2012 14:24:12 GMT
Could be an absolute pain for verification with the counters clasping the bottom of the papers.
Being cynical.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2012 8:13:55 GMT
The candidate from the "People's Democratic Party" told the Guardian that he'd never been to Manchester before.
"This voting history is undoubtedly also an indication of the wider malaise in British democracy and a result of the lack of any viable alternative. An alternative the People's Democratic Party now seeks to offer.
As candidate for the PDP I have to confess to not being a Mancunian and never having lived in this great northern city. No doubt I will be attacked as a carpet-bagger, but despite this I'm pretty sure what the major concerns of local electors are, and they aren't copyright law reform, unilateral nuclear disarmament or defending the Iranian Revolution. Indeed, there are few things more tragic than middle-class, left-liberal, 'intellectuals' attempting to speak for the northern working classes.
What concerns the people of Manchester, and ordinary people across the north of England, are unemployment, crime, lack of opportunity, housing, drugs, family breakdown and, yes, mass immigration.
On immigration in particular, they want to be able to raise genuine and legitimate concerns about the effect of this on jobs, wages and their local communities without immediately being denounced by Labour and the liberal-left as 'bigoted'.
The PDP shares such concerns, and understands they are concerns based on resources, not race.
We believe the people of the north are crying out for an alternative to the tired, failed, and patronising politics of a Labour Party now staffed by career politicians with little understanding of the real world. That alternative is not offered by a Tory party dominated by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, a brand now as toxic in the the North of England as it has been for decades in Scotland. As for the Lib Dems - meh!"
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Post by nord on Nov 2, 2012 12:10:46 GMT
That is just politically correct talk. People know it is to do with race and white flight, but they hide behind the "resources" claim.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Nov 2, 2012 18:38:03 GMT
As candidate for the PDP I have to confess to not being a Mancunian and never having lived in this great northern city. No doubt I will be attacked as a carpet-bagger, but despite this I'm pretty sure what the major concerns of local electors are, and they aren't copyright law reform, unilateral nuclear disarmament or defending the Iranian Revolution. Indeed, there are few things more tragic than middle-class, left-liberal, 'intellectuals' attempting to speak for the northern working classes. Why exactly are these the issues he's name-checking? I can't imagine anybody is basing their campaign around those three issues (possible exception: the Respect candidate and Iran.) Is this just a product of the fevered imagination that his prose style suggests? |
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Post by AdminSTB on Nov 2, 2012 18:52:04 GMT
As candidate for the PDP I have to confess to not being a Mancunian and never having lived in this great northern city. No doubt I will be attacked as a carpet-bagger, but despite this I'm pretty sure what the major concerns of local electors are, and they aren't copyright law reform, unilateral nuclear disarmament or defending the Iranian Revolution. Indeed, there are few things more tragic than middle-class, left-liberal, 'intellectuals' attempting to speak for the northern working classes. Why exactly are these the issues he's name-checking? I can't imagine anybody is basing their campaign around those three issues (possible exception: the Respect candidate and Iran.) Is this just a product of the fevered imagination that his prose style suggests? I presume it's intended to be a criticism of the Pirate Party, the Greens, and Respect... respectively. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 11:28:01 GMT
Labour Party supporter on Twitter:
"City centre building concierge: "Labour? Give 'em here, I'll put 'em through. I say same to Lib Dems but theirs go in the bin.""
Charming!
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Post by AdminSTB on Nov 5, 2012 11:36:30 GMT
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Nov 12, 2012 10:43:36 GMT
Has anyone noticed the population boom in Manchester Central?
Electorates 1992 - 2012
1992: 66,475
1997: 63,815 (-4.00%)
2001: 66,268 (+3.84%)
2005: 69,656 (+5.11%)
2010: 90,110 (+29.36%)
2012: 91,692 (+1.76%)
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 12, 2012 11:13:28 GMT
Has anyone noticed the population boom in Manchester Central? Electorates 1992 - 20121992: 66,475 1997: 63,815 (-4.00%) 2001: 66,268 (+3.84%) 2005: 69,656 (+5.11%) 2010: 90,110 (+29.36%) 2012: 91,692 (+1.76%) See map 4 on page 25 of this report for why: www.manchesterpartnership.org.uk/download/8/state_of_the_wards_report_2011-part_1City Centre ward had an electorate about 4,400 in 2000; it's now about 13,400. |
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Post by stepney on Nov 12, 2012 11:25:47 GMT
Also, have you taken any account of the last boundary review which (essentially) added Moston to the seat?
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Post by Philip Davies on Nov 12, 2012 11:54:05 GMT
In 1997 compared to 1992 it lost Cheetham but gained Hulme and Moss Side.
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Post by doktorb in absentia on Nov 12, 2012 11:59:59 GMT
And in the Zombie Review it loses Moston and gains, er, part of Droylsden.
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Post by Philip Davies on Nov 12, 2012 12:56:58 GMT
When the boundary commission drew the current seat its 2000 electorate was 69,600 so it has increased by just over 30% in 12 years or 22k.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 12, 2012 13:58:56 GMT
The parliamentary electorate for Manchester Central in 2010 was 85,522 which had risen to 89,519 in 2011 but that 2010 figure is quite different from Harry's. Is he perhaps giving the local government electorate for 2010 and if so is he doing the same for 1992, 1997 etc as if not (and I suspect not) he is not comparing like with like (quite aside from the issue already mentiond of boundary changes)
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Post by Chinners on Nov 13, 2012 9:43:07 GMT
MANCHESTER - a City United by HOPE
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