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Post by owainsutton on Jan 30, 2023 19:14:45 GMT
Forest of Dean, Lydney East. James Bevan, Independent Alliance to Independent. Southend-on-Sea, Thorpe (2024). Mike Stafford, Independent to Non-Aligned {monty-python-reference.gif}
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Post by johnloony on Jan 30, 2023 20:08:58 GMT
Forest of Dean, Lydney East. James Bevan, Independent Alliance to Independent. Southend-on-Sea, Thorpe (2024). Mike Stafford, Independent to Non-Aligned {monty-python-reference.gif} What is the Monty Python reference?
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Jan 30, 2023 20:26:12 GMT
{monty-python-reference.gif} What is the Monty Python reference?
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Post by spirit on Jan 30, 2023 22:57:07 GMT
Cllr. Tom Colbert, Bronllys and Felinfach ward, Powys County Council, Liberal Democrat to "not specified" (= unaligned, I think). The third LD councillor to leave the ruling coalition this month.
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Post by johnloony on Jan 31, 2023 12:26:35 GMT
Forest of Dean, Lydney East. James Bevan, Independent Alliance to Independent. Southend-on-Sea, Thorpe (2024). Mike Stafford, Independent to Non-Aligned {monty-python-reference.gif} The first time I stood in a local election (1994) I reported back to my parents that there was a candidate in one of the other wards whose description was "Independent Alliance". "Well, that's a contradiction for a start" replied my father.
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Post by batman on Jan 31, 2023 16:31:06 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms?
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jan 31, 2023 18:26:11 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms? Maybe they weren't an Independent Alliance, but an Independence Alliance - campaigning for independence.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 31, 2023 18:40:24 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms? Independents set their own rules. Often in a deeply irritating fashion.
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Post by johnloony on Jan 31, 2023 18:42:09 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms? Even worse (i.e. more pompous and self-important) is the use of the word "Alliance" rather than "Party".
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Post by batman on Jan 31, 2023 18:57:38 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms? Maybe they weren't an Independent Alliance, but an Independence Alliance - campaigning for independence. that of course would be a completely different matter - maybe even an ecumenical one?
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Post by batman on Jan 31, 2023 18:59:29 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms? Even worse (i.e. more pompous and self-important) is the use of the word "Alliance" rather than "Party". well sometimes an alliance isn't strictly a party. For example the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, although proscribed by Labour, doesn't stand candidates in elections, though one could certainly argue that it is in fact a party. And of course the SDP-Liberal Alliance was 2 parties, although they didn't stand against each other. However much of the time I tend to agree with you to some extent (maybe that's pompous too? I am quite sure I can do pomposity at times)
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Post by batman on Jan 31, 2023 19:00:52 GMT
There was once a PVC-TCP Alliance candidate in a parliamentary election. That wasn't particularly pompous
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jan 31, 2023 21:21:09 GMT
He was right. Surely if you're an independent you're acting alone? If you're in a political party how can you be totally independent in political terms? Even worse (i.e. more pompous and self-important) is the use of the word "Alliance" rather than "Party". And your take on the Alliance Party (of Northern Ireland) is ... ?
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Post by finsobruce on Jan 31, 2023 21:31:08 GMT
Even worse (i.e. more pompous and self-important) is the use of the word "Alliance" rather than "Party". And your take on the Alliance Party (of Northern Ireland) is ... ? something to do with hippos.
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Post by johnloony on Jan 31, 2023 22:05:46 GMT
Even worse (i.e. more pompous and self-important) is the use of the word "Alliance" rather than "Party". And your take on the Alliance Party (of Northern Ireland) is ... ? That's completely different because "Alliance" is an adjective, not a noun. It is a legitimate description of the base of support - i.e. from both communities.
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Post by BossMan on Feb 1, 2023 0:28:17 GMT
Maybe they weren't an Independent Alliance, but an Independence Alliance - campaigning for independence. that of course would be a completely different matter - maybe even an ecumenical one? Down with this sort of thing.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 1, 2023 12:46:11 GMT
There was once a PVC-TCP Alliance candidate in a parliamentary election. That wasn't particularly pompous Must have been quite a smell.
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Post by batman on Feb 1, 2023 17:06:21 GMT
his performance in the election certainly stank.
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Post by carolus on Feb 1, 2023 18:33:18 GMT
Gravesham, Higham. Leslie Pearton, Independent to Conservative.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 1, 2023 18:43:21 GMT
Gravesham, Higham. Leslie Pearton, Independent to Conservative. Interesting move. He was the Conservative councillor for the ward from 2011 but both he and his fellow councillor Harold Craske stood and won as Independents (against Conservative opposition) in 2019 apparently because they didn't like what the Borough Plan meant for housebuiling in their rural ward. The fact that Labour has been running the council probably helped both he and the Conservative group reunite.
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