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Post by johnloony on Dec 4, 2012 3:33:53 GMT
Now, Croydon North. John, you need a manifesto and you need to leaflet between elections. Whats is your best ward? (a) What is the coalitions worst ward? (b) Could you offer them a pact where they stand aside for you and you in turn stand aside for them? We need to do more for local papers between times and get on some local quangos. I suggest end of year loony awards to chastise stupiduty a la Darwin awards. Quick, press release, congratulating Will and Kate (a) Bensham Manor, because it is where the last three local ward by-elections within Croydon North constituency have all happened (1996, 2004, 2007). (b) Bensham Manor, because it's the safest Labour ward in the whole of Croydon. |
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Post by johnloony on Dec 4, 2012 3:40:17 GMT
Re the Croydon OMRLP website: I noticed you've stood for the Chocolate Fudge Cake Party, John. Does this party still exist? No. I founded the CFCP in November 1993 (for a few weeks before that, it was originally named Cartwright's Revolutionary Anarchist Party, before it changed its name) and stood in the local election in May 1994 when I got 175 votes. It gradually grew to a membership of five (me, two fellow students at Royal Holloway college, and two friends in Croydon), but at the party conference in December 1994 the majority voted to abolish the party. It was against my wishes, but I accepted the democratic decision and I didn't want to do an Owen-style SDP-style split in carrying on. I joined the OMRLP on 1st May 1996 (the same day that Arthur Scargill launched the Socialist Labour Party). In between the CFCP and the OMRLP, I stood in a ward by-election in Sanderstead in 1995, where my description was "Independent Green Social Democratic Libertarian Monarchist" and I got 15 votes. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 4, 2012 10:52:47 GMT
Was it by AV.
Preference the following:
Carry On
Abolish
Eat Cake
Compile dodgy lists of young men
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Post by johnloony on Dec 4, 2012 13:30:53 GMT
How many of the five members turned up to party conference. Three 12, Larchwood Road, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, Wednesday 14th December 1994. Er... ? Reiner Hoffmann Reiner Hoffmann and David Rudrum John Cartwright No No - by a show of hands. Some dust, and possibly a few stains from a coffee-mug. The minutes of the meeting say that the Conference voted by 2 votes to 1 to deprive me of my voting rights on the grounds that I was the Chair of the Conference and Acting Leader of the party. Conference then voted by 1 vote to 0, with 1 abstention, to abolish the CFCP immediately. |
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Post by johnloony on Dec 4, 2012 13:34:33 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Jan 18, 2013 12:36:11 GMT
| Party | Votes | Expenditure | Cost per vote | | Labour | 15898 | 46579.33 | 2.93 | | Conservative | 4137 | 15642.20 | 3.78 | | UKIP | 1400 | 22445.24 | 16.03 | | Lib Dem | 860 | 15598.44 | 18.13 | | Green | 855 | 3268.29 | 3.82 | | Respect | 707 | 5219.54 | 7.38 | | CPA | 192 | 120.00 | 0.62 | | NF | 161 | 600.00 | 3.73 | | Comm PB | 119 | 575.00 | 4.83 | | OMRLP | 110 | 53.70 | 0.49 | | newaij | 66 | (800?) | (12?) | | YPP | 63 | 1174.70 | 18.65 |
The D.A.R.O. tells me that the newaij candidate did sumbit his expenses declaration in an attachment, but he can't open it properly. He said the total was "not much" so i have guessed it would be c.£800 because he did send out a full freepost leaflet on glossy A4. |
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Post by Tangent on Jan 21, 2013 20:57:48 GMT
Congrats on winning the cost per vote battle!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 21:02:26 GMT
The UKIP expenditure figure is amazing for a party in a seat they never had much hopes of reproducing say a Barnsley.
To outspend the Tories as well ?
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Post by Richard Allen on Jan 22, 2013 21:59:24 GMT
The UKIP expenditure figure is amazing for a party in a seat they never had much hopes of reproducing say a Barnsley. To outspend the Tories as well ? We always spend stupid money on by elections because we have donors who cough up for them. |
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Post by johnloony on Jan 23, 2013 0:15:29 GMT
The UKIP expenditure figure is amazing for a party in a seat they never had much hopes of reproducing say a Barnsley. To outspend the Tories as well ? Early on in the campaign, Winston McKenzie said that the Conservative Party and the Lib Dems didn't have a chance, and that "therefore" it was a two-horse race between Labour and UKIP. Whether he actually believed that (or was just bullshitting) is unknown. |
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Post by johnloony on Sept 29, 2013 1:02:17 GMT
Today is the first anniversary of the death of Malcolm Wicks MP, and I have been remembering his legacy by reading through this thread again. I have found a few interesting or amusing nuggets: Looking at the constituency vote for the London Assembly in the Croydon North wards, the Greens did beat the LDs in every ward, but the LDs would still just have saved their deposit: Lab 16031 (62.8%) Con 5090 (19.9) Grn 1807 (7.1) LD 1327 (5.2) UKIP 1280 (5.0) Actual result: Lab 15898 Con 4137 Grn 855 LD 860 UKIP 1400 (Respect 707) One of the people who nominated Stephen Hammond (CPA) told me that she wouldn't nominate me because she was a Jehovah's witness and didn't vote. Bah Humbug. Meanwhile, I was tragically unable to go to watch the Respect campaign launch this evening; I realised that I had an urgent appointment to say at home and find out who had been eliminated from X-Factor instead. [I think Steve Reed has to be a favourite here otherwise why would a council leader bother ? Only someone who is silly enough not to live in Croydon would write something as silly as that. The reason why Steve Reed has applied is because he is silly enough not to live in Croydon, and is therefore silly enough to think that he has a reasonable chance to get the nomination. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 18:39:11 GMT
The Croydon, North by-election declaration, featuring our own JohnLoony as the OMRLP candidate - one year ago this week:
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Post by johnloony on Apr 18, 2014 3:24:24 GMT
A fascinating and detailed report of the by-election campaign in Croydon North
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Post by psephos on Apr 18, 2014 6:38:20 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 18, 2014 10:10:42 GMT
A fascinating and detailed report of the by-election campaign in Croydon North Well fancy! There was Eric Blair on the building site in a battle dress jacket, obviously moonlighting away from writing for a few days? |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 18, 2014 11:09:18 GMT
A fascinating and detailed report of the by-election campaign in Croydon North Well fancy! There was Eric Blair on the building site in a battle dress jacket, obviously moonlighting away from writing for a few days? and looking very well for a man who had just started a course of streptomycin to combat TB....  |
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