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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 20, 2018 23:56:35 GMT
Technically because the Independent's back-up list exhausted with none of the named individuals willing & able to be co-opted.
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 21, 2018 11:15:00 GMT
Wasn't there a previous NI byelection last year that got less attention because it coincided with a regular set of elections?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 21, 2018 12:04:49 GMT
I see from Mark Pack's site that the LD in Oxon endorsed the Green, on the basis that a strong opposition to the Conservatives was needed and Labour was propping them up. ( No idea what the basis for that was, if any.) Interesting, though. Apart from the "obvious" Brexit angle, there appears to be a meme going in local LibDem/Green circles that Labour are pally with the Tories on Oxfordshire CC. No idea how (if at all) true this actually is, obviously. I wonder what Mike Woodin would have made of the Greens being Remainier-than-thou these days. |
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Post by timmullen1 on Oct 21, 2018 12:09:10 GMT
Wasn't there a previous NI byelection last year that got less attention because it coincided with a regular set of elections? Was it the Sinn Féin held West Tyrone Westminster seat earlier this year? Was pretty invisible because it’s solid SF so didn’t really impact the balance in the House? |
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Post by timmullen1 on Oct 21, 2018 18:45:06 GMT
He means council by-election not parliamentary by-election I think Yes, but according to andrewteale in his Preview this was the first NI Council by-election in the nine years of Andrew’s Previews, and I was simply suggesting The Bishop may have been mixing the two. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 21, 2018 19:02:41 GMT
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Post by timmullen1 on Oct 21, 2018 19:12:30 GMT
As did Lurgan in the January of the same year, whether they predate Andrew’s Previews I know not, but I doubt they’re the “last year” The Bishop had in mind. |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 22, 2018 9:31:29 GMT
You are quite correct, I expect I was thinking of the parliamentary vacancy  |
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