Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on May 11, 2015 12:10:48 GMT
One in Pompey in the aftermath of UKIP winning nothing here this year:
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 12:26:24 GMT
Lord Sugar, Labour ---> Crossbench
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Post by Merseymike on May 11, 2015 13:56:23 GMT
I think the question was why he ever joined Labour in the first place. Always seemed bizarre.
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Post by carlton43 on May 11, 2015 13:58:47 GMT
I think the question was why he ever joined Labour in the first place. Always seemed bizarre. I would say for quite genuine reasons that this is the first bit of good news for Labour. |
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Post by Sharon on May 11, 2015 15:27:22 GMT
One in Pompey in the aftermath of UKIP winning nothing here this year: Pardon my cynicism, but does it have anything to do with the numbers on HFRA? He's been there for the last year as a UKIP member, along with 1 Tory & 1 LD. |
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Post by Khunanup on May 11, 2015 15:37:35 GMT
One in Pompey in the aftermath of UKIP winning nothing here this year: Pardon my cynicism, but does it have anything to do with the numbers on HFRA? He's been there for the last year as a UKIP member, along with 1 Tory & 1 LD. I doubt it. I think his reasons are genuine, he was never one for whom the rhetoric of UKIP ever seemed particularly important and it's clear that he's rejoining the Conservatives for national reasons, not local ones (he has little time for the Tory leader of the council). I would not be surprised if there wasn't another UKIP to Tory defection in the city quite soon now. |
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Post by Richard Allen on May 11, 2015 16:03:27 GMT
I would not be surprised if there wasn't another UKIP to Tory defection in the city quite soon now. Which would mean that UKIP would have lost half their Portsmouth councillors in the space of a year. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on May 11, 2015 16:04:25 GMT
Par for the course, then.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 20:26:19 GMT
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Post by hedgehog on May 15, 2015 7:14:12 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 15, 2015 9:20:16 GMT
What is the point of Llais Gwynedd? |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 9:23:00 GMT
Notable defection ? More a slow news day I would have thought .......
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 15, 2015 9:40:02 GMT
As the story correctly points out, Greg Foxsmith resigned from the Liberal Democrats nationally in 2013 over their human rights record in government (although I understand he pledged loyalty to their council group in Islington).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 18, 2015 15:34:56 GMT
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Post by neilm on May 19, 2015 12:52:36 GMT
Interesting that Chris Irvine lost, I hadn't realised that.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 19, 2015 13:04:58 GMT
Interesting that Chris Irvine lost, I hadn't realised that. I think he didn't stand. He had been selected for Rochester West for the Tories before he defected, rather than Peninsula. |
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Post by Tony Otim on May 19, 2015 13:15:34 GMT
Interesting that Chris Irvine lost, I hadn't realised that. I think he didn't stand. He had been selected for Rochester West for the Tories before he defected, rather than Peninsula. He stood in Rochester East, coming 4th behind the 2 Labour candidates and the top Conservative. Over 500 votes off being elected. |
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Post by neilm on May 19, 2015 13:47:04 GMT
Why did he move wards? I assumed he'd stayed in Peninsula.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 19, 2015 23:01:33 GMT
This one will bring back a few memories ... not good ones.
Worcester City Council: Alan Amos, elected for Labour in Warndon ward, left to sit as an Independent a year ago when the Labour group refused to make him Deputy Mayor - and then voted out a Labour administration and voted in a Conservative one, has now joined the Conservatives. Or should I say "rejoined".
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Post by mrhell on May 20, 2015 0:24:31 GMT
This one will bring back a few memories ... not good ones. Worcester City Council: Alan Amos, elected for Labour in Warndon ward, left to sit as an Independent a year ago when the Labour group refused to make him Deputy Mayor - and then voted out a Labour administration and voted in a Conservative one, has now joined the Conservatives. Or should I say "rejoined". Of course also former Tory Hexham MP from 1987-1992. |
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