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Post by lackeroftalent on Apr 1, 2024 10:52:02 GMT
The three named individuals on Pendle Council are:-
Mohammed Iqbal - Bradley ward (2024)
Asjad Mahmood - Whitefield & Wolverden (2024) Leader of the Council
Yvonne Tennant - Marsden & Southfield (2027)
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Post by lackeroftalent on Apr 1, 2024 11:07:54 GMT
Update - Its all of them. All ten Labour Pendle councillors have left.
Mohammed Adnan - Marsden & Southfield (2024)
Zafar Ali - Brierfield East & Clover Hill (2027)
Faraz Ahmad - Whitefield & Wolverden (2027)
Sajjad Ahmed - Brierfield East & Clover Hill (2026)
Mohammed Ammer - Marsden & Southfield (2026)
Ruby Anwar - Whitefield & Wolverden (2026)
Mohammed Hanif - Brierfield West & Reedley (2024)
Mohammed Iqbal - Bradley (2024)
Asjad Mahmood - Whitefield & Wolverden (2024)
Yvonne Tennant - Marsden & Southfield (2027)
corrected Anwar's term.
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 1, 2024 11:34:52 GMT
Its probably a group of people who are used to working together who wish to change strategy en masse. Well, good luck with that.
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Post by Sibboleth on Apr 1, 2024 11:42:13 GMT
It's a small group and very geographically concentrated. I would assume they all know each other very well.
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Post by mattbewilson on Apr 1, 2024 12:26:36 GMT
I was surprised to learn Pendle and only had a dozen labour councillors. It's not a place I know well though
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Post by jamie on Apr 1, 2024 12:44:00 GMT
I was surprised to learn Pendle and only had a dozen labour councillors. It's not a place I know well though Labour have underperformed there for at least a few years now, including still losing the popular vote last year.
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Post by Sibboleth on Apr 1, 2024 13:29:29 GMT
I was surprised to learn Pendle and only had a dozen labour councillors. It's not a place I know well though Labour have underperformed there for at least a few years now, including still losing the popular vote last year. Local and national voting patterns there have been... er... somewhat decoupled there for a while now.
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Post by iang on Apr 1, 2024 14:13:42 GMT
It was of course the homeland of the late Lord Tony Greaves
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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Apr 1, 2024 14:15:11 GMT
I was surprised to learn Pendle and only had a dozen labour councillors. It's not a place I know well though Although Nelson and Brierfield are quite poor and generally supportive of Labour, Colne is a lot more mixed. Plus the big villages/towns in the rest of Pendle make up a much larger component of the electorate than you would think, and they're mostly Tory/LD battlegrounds.
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Post by owainsutton on Apr 1, 2024 16:54:35 GMT
Its probably a group of people who are used to working together who wish to change strategy en masse. That kind of thing needs a name. I dunno, how about "a political movement"?
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Post by michaelarden on Apr 1, 2024 19:21:06 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile. Or they may have decided they can no longer be part of Starmer's Labour support for Netanyhu's genocidal regime
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Post by johnloony on Apr 1, 2024 19:59:39 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile. Or they may have decided they can no longer be part of Starmer's Labour support for Netanyhu's genocidal regime Or maybe they are the Ground Zero of a new sinister epidemic of a mind-bending virus which is going to spread outwards gradually and infect the whole world. Maybe someone will make a science-fiction (or, in this case, science-fact) film about it. They could call it “Invasion of the Bodysnatchers”.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Apr 1, 2024 20:19:54 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile. Or they may have decided they can no longer be part of Starmer's Labour support for Netanyhu's genocidal regime Or - they were the other people in the room making generalised anti-semitic, hate Israel remarks with Azhar Ali and Graham Jones? Also, Israel's government is certainly guilty of vile ethnic cleansing, but the genocide claims are absolutely ridiculous. If they wanted to commit genocide, they could have acted in the way of the Rwandan Hutus against the Tutsis, which has not happened. Where were the marches for the actual genocidal attacks on the Rohingya? No, this is about Israel, and, whilst I detest Netanyahu and his Kahanist allies, to play the "supporting Israel's right to exist is supporting a genocidal regime" card is to fall for the old Arabist agenda.
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Post by batman on Apr 1, 2024 20:23:11 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile. Or they may have decided they can no longer be part of Starmer's Labour support for Netanyhu's genocidal regime Labour does not support Netanyahu and certainly does not support genocide. Nor should they. Labour supported Israel's right to respond to the events of October 7 and has gradually become less and less supportive of the way they have responded. Have they done so quickly enough? May very well be the answer is no, but to put it the way you did is lazy & not in accordance with actual facts. I think Labour is in precisely the right place at the moment on these issues, even if they may have been a little tardy getting to that point. There are plenty of lazy caricatures of Labour's position and some of them have much greater currency than they deserve.
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Post by uthacalthing on Apr 2, 2024 19:03:49 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile. Or they may have decided they can no longer be part of Starmer's Labour support for Netanyhu's genocidal regime Maybe they discussed it after Friday prayers.
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Post by mattbewilson on Apr 2, 2024 20:57:39 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile. it's a tale as old as time, they were the gang of four after all rather than the coincidence of four
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Post by carolus on Apr 4, 2024 9:56:28 GMT
Lewes, Lewes Priory (2027). Imogen Makepeace, Green to Independent.
Somerset, Taunton South (2027). Hazel Prior-Sankey, Liberal Democrat to Independent.
Wiltshire, Trowbridge Adcroft (2025). Edward Kirk, Conservative to no description.
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Post by carolus on Apr 4, 2024 11:04:34 GMT
Mid Devon, Tiverton Westexe (2027). Claudette Harrower, Conservative to Liberal Democrat.
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Post by heslingtonian on Apr 4, 2024 14:31:56 GMT
Lewes, Lewes Priory (2027). Imogen Makepeace, Green to Independent. Somerset, Taunton South (2027). Hazel Prior-Sankey, Liberal Democrat to Independent. Wiltshire, Trowbridge Adcroft (2025). Edward Kirk, Conservative to no description. Imogen Makepeace is a tremendous name for a Green politician as well
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Post by andrewp on Apr 4, 2024 15:01:21 GMT
Lewes, Lewes Priory (2027). Imogen Makepeace, Green to Independent. Somerset, Taunton South (2027). Hazel Prior-Sankey, Liberal Democrat to Independent. Wiltshire, Trowbridge Adcroft (2025). Edward Kirk, Conservative to no description. Hazel Prior-Sankey is a surprising one- I can’t find a reason yet. She’s been an LD councillor for over 30 years and has been the mayor, the chair of council and a cabinet member.
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