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Post by kvasir on May 10, 2013 11:08:08 GMT
It strike me that Liverpool needs an alternative to Labour (unless the Labour Group in the City turn out to be a brilliant example of efficiency, integrity and leadership). Perhaps a new UKIP or Green group in the city in the next cycle?
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Post by The Bishop on May 10, 2013 11:45:27 GMT
Same true of Manchester and a few other places, perhaps......
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Post by Tony Otim on May 10, 2013 11:56:35 GMT
Same true of Manchester and a few other places, perhaps...... A UKIP breakthrougth in Manchester seems slightly more likely than in Liverpool on recent performances. Manchester could easily go monolithically Labour. Liverpool is likely to keep its pockets of Liberals, Greens and Lib Dems, although the Lib Dems are on the back foot at the moment, the Liberals seem to show no inclination to expand and the Greens are still some distance away from breaking out of St Michaels. |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2013 12:04:04 GMT
trident your experience is matched with Sandwell where through pre planning and guessing what may come the effects have been mitigated.
As for Liverpool the key factor is that it has an elected Mayor, from the outside Anderson appears to be doing a good job, any thoughts closer to the Mersey ?
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Post by kvasir on May 10, 2013 15:50:23 GMT
Don't worry Trident. I've often defended the notion that one party councils can be perfectly good. I can't find any example at the moment on the forum, but I understand completely what you mean.
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Post by thirdchill on May 11, 2013 0:11:31 GMT
trident your experience is matched with Sandwell where through pre planning and guessing what may come the effects have been mitigated. As for Liverpool the key factor is that it has an elected Mayor, from the outside Anderson appears to be doing a good job, any thoughts closer to the Mersey ? He is taking tough decisions and is seeing down critics from the left, who want him to run an illegal budget. This is a good thing. Despite some tough talk, he is at least prepared to talk to government officials. Even though he and Richard Kemp share the same dislike for Eric Pickles (the only thing they can agree on). However he is starting to become over-dominant and rather touchy. He responds poorly to criticism and can seem a bit agressive at times. This has become more apparent since Richard Kemp took over from Paula Keaveney as leader of the lib dem group. He has a decent working relationship with the liberal leader Steve Radford but his relations with the lib dems and green party are non-existant. He also seems to write into the liverpool echo every other day to respond to some point that someone has that criticises the council. Now I know that mayors do have to listen and respond but this back-and-forth between him and Tony Mulhearn in the echo is starting to look undignified. You would expect me to criticise labour, and am sure posters like trident have a different angle on councillor Anderson's performance. However one thing that should be a concern to people of all parties is the number of leaks that are occurring of e-mails that are sent between councillors, especially those between labour and the opposition parties. This does absolutely nothing for trust in local councillors. However despite my criticisms, I'd rate him higher than Salford's mayor Ian Stewart. |
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Post by thirdchill on May 11, 2013 1:05:05 GMT
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Post by tricky on May 11, 2013 20:08:23 GMT
That account has directed one or two tweets in my general direction and would seem to be run by someone who has become completely detached from reality.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2013 21:15:58 GMT
Is it me or is that hardly foul mouthed or a rant. The one he replied to was swearing at him.
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Post by tricky on May 11, 2013 21:20:28 GMT
Is it me or is that hardly foul mouthed or a rant. The one he replied to was swearing at him. All of the tweets on that page are from the same account so how do you know what he was responding to? |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2013 21:23:25 GMT
because the piece in the paper showed what was sent to him.
The other tweets are just his political view.
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Post by tricky on May 12, 2013 2:05:31 GMT
because the piece in the paper showed what was sent to him. The other tweets are just his political view. No it doesn't. Every tweet on that page is by him. Have another read. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 4, 2013 16:03:48 GMT
Adrian Dobinson, councillor for Frome Berkley Down on Mendip district council, is now sitting as an Independent Liberal Democrat. No clue as to when this change occurred.
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Post by Devonian on Jul 10, 2013 16:44:54 GMT
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Post by erlend on Jul 10, 2013 16:51:37 GMT
He was a pain on the only occasion I ever chaired a policy debate at federal conference. Manipulated the rules to try something stupid (a reference back possibly but not sure) because he was not going to get called any other way. Student Union level politics. I thought it might be the Greens rather than Conservatives though. And it is interesting that we have become a shambles since reelection day in May. I don't believe in vacating seats for defection but am willing to take the piss of a silly reason for the defection. And clearly fees happened before either the 2013 election or really even 2011.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jul 10, 2013 16:58:00 GMT
County Council? So, bearly two months after getting re-elected. I have no objection to somebody leaving a party in the last year or so of their term in the run up to their re-election, but to defect mere nanoseconds after getting elected stinks. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 10, 2013 17:19:00 GMT
A good chance that a certain poster here is at least acquainted with this individual - will be interesting to see his take on it  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 17:30:51 GMT
His reasons, timing and direction of defection are all, individually, idiotic; taken togtether they are beyond incredible
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Post by marksenior on Jul 10, 2013 17:42:28 GMT
See the petersfieldpost website for 22/5/2013 for the real reason , his failure to be elected as leader of the Lib Dem group on Whitehill TC . He ( and 3 other town councillors resigned from the TC in a huff - by ekections are to be held next month ( nominations close this Friday ).
His wonderful quote ( before he lost ) was " This is a democratic and members are expected to support their winning colleagues . I hope that those who lose don't take it to heart and try for posts another day " .
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Post by anthony on Jul 19, 2013 9:54:43 GMT
And so has joined the Conservatives . . . |
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