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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 16:54:37 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Sept 10, 2014 17:36:06 GMT
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Plaid - Ceredigion @plaidceredigion Sep 9
A warm welcome to @amykitcher, former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate who has joined Plaid today. Lots in Ceredigion making the same switch."
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Post by thirdchill on Sept 10, 2014 17:55:36 GMT
"Follow Following Unfollow Blocked Unblock Pending Cancel Plaid - Ceredigion @plaidceredigion Sep 9 A warm welcome to @amykitcher, former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate who has joined Plaid today. Lots in Ceredigion making the same switch." Possible Plaid candidate for Merthyr Tydfil? |
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Post by cefin on Sept 10, 2014 18:20:45 GMT
"Follow Following Unfollow Blocked Unblock Pending Cancel Plaid - Ceredigion @plaidceredigion Sep 9 A warm welcome to @amykitcher, former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate who has joined Plaid today. Lots in Ceredigion making the same switch." Possible Plaid candidate for Merthyr Tydfil?
I hope so.
She's a proven winner....
Chucked out as a Merthyr councillor after one term and single handedly influenced the whole of Wales not to vote UKIP in the recent EU elections
www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/plaid-leader-welcomes-lib-dem-endorsement
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Post by neilm on Sept 11, 2014 11:21:05 GMT
Helen Douglas, Lab to Con in York. Deselection related.
It appears that someone in Stoke has resigned over child protection issues.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 12:30:05 GMT
Helen Douglas, Lab to Con in York. Deselection related. It appears that someone in Stoke has resigned over child protection issues. Not sure there are any winners in situations like these. Why we should take her is IMHO baffling. Labour clearly made the correct decision to deselect but have paid a heavy price for doing so. |
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Post by Merseymike on Sept 11, 2014 17:24:05 GMT
I am very suspicious when people defect after deselection.
Usually, councillors only get deselected if they have fallen out with their local party
And here it looks as if we have someone who has claimed to be unhappy for a long time then did nothing until deselection occurred
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 11, 2014 17:55:59 GMT
I am very suspicious when people defect after deselection. Usually, councillors only get deselected if they have fallen out with their local party And here it looks as if we have someone who has claimed to be unhappy for a long time then did nothing until deselection occurred Entirely agree. Funny how these people who are deselected and then switch to another party rather than go independent never seek a new mandate in a by-election... |
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Post by Merseymike on Sept 11, 2014 18:29:13 GMT
I do appreciate people can change their mind.
We have a councillor here who was a Tory and switched to us. He knew that he wouldn't hold his own seat, but opted for a winnable seat which he took off the LibDems. Nowadays you wouldn't realise he was ever a Tory unless you knew beforehand.
I recall an edition of Wife Swap some time back with a Tory councillor couple who had very liberal views on child rearing, and just about everything! After the programme they both resigned from the Conservatives, joined Labour, and one of them is still a Labour councillor on Sandwell council
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 11, 2014 18:45:28 GMT
I do appreciate people can change their mind. We have a councillor here who was a Tory and switched to us. He knew that he wouldn't hold his own seat, but opted for a winnable seat which he took off the LibDems. Nowadays you wouldn't realise he was ever a Tory unless you knew beforehand. I recall an edition of Wife Swap some time back with a Tory councillor couple who had very liberal views on child rearing, and just about everything! After the programme they both resigned from the Conservatives, joined Labour, and one of them is still a Labour councillor on Sandwell council Oh, no objection to people changing their mind- I mean more in the sense of those people who have clearly thrown their toys out of the pram and try and dress it up as an ideological choice, even though you know they're unlikely to have changed views in any way. |
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Post by Merseymike on Sept 11, 2014 21:44:20 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 11, 2014 21:54:22 GMT
And a Liberal Democrat councillor who was herself Labour candidate for the constituency before defecting over Iraq, Julia Wassall, has now left the LibDems, taking another councillor with her and forming an East Wycombe Independent group. To make it even more complicated she is also a County Councillor, but the LibDem group there have allowed her to stay in the group even though she is no longer in the party. This is her fourth party as she started off as a Green - indeed she was a Green when I first met her many years ago www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/11310322.Support_pours_in_for_new_independent_councillors/Good to know she has the support of her "continuants". |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 11, 2014 21:56:32 GMT
And a Liberal Democrat councillor who was herself Labour candidate for the constituency before defecting over Iraq, Julia Wassall, has now left the LibDems, taking another councillor with her and forming an East Wycombe Independent group. To make it even more complicated she is also a County Councillor, but the LibDem group there have allowed her to stay in the group even though she is no longer in the party. This is her fourth party as she started off as a Green - indeed she was a Green when I first met her many years ago www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/11310322.Support_pours_in_for_new_independent_councillors/Good to know she has the support of her "continuants". Is that electors who have bladder control? |
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 11, 2014 22:55:31 GMT
Good to know she has the support of her "continuants". Is that electors who have bladder control? It would be helpful given that she seems to be a bit politically incontinent herself.... |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Sept 11, 2014 23:32:38 GMT
To make it even more complicated she is also a County Councillor, but the LibDem group there have allowed her to stay in the group even though she is no longer in the party. That's because the group isn't just a LD group but included the sole Labour councillor, presumably because Labour couldn't form a group alone and the LDs don't amount to much now either. The groups is now styled 'Liberal Democrat, Independent & Buckingham Labour'. The Independent councillor for West Wycombe (who was elected as such) sits in a group with the UKIP councillors |
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Post by Merseymike on Sept 11, 2014 23:39:20 GMT
To make it even more complicated she is also a County Councillor, but the LibDem group there have allowed her to stay in the group even though she is no longer in the party. That's because the group isn't just a LD group but included the sole Labour councillor, presumably because Labour couldn't form a group alone and the LDs don't amount to much now either. The groups is now styled 'Liberal Democrat, Independent & Buckingham Labour'. The Independent councillor for West Wycombe (who was elected as such) sits in a group with the UKIP councillors Yes - something of a group of convenience, but it is still unusual for a county LibDem led group to make it so clear that she is still welcome to sit with them when she very publicly left the party (and was under some sort of threat of investigation) I was more surprised she joined the LibDems in the first place. I thought she would have gone back to the Greens. There is now speculation as to whether her LibDem ward colleague on the District, who also left Labour at the same time, is going to join her as an independent. |
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Post by timmullen1 on Sept 12, 2014 14:26:51 GMT
Helen Douglas, Lab to Con in York. Deselection related. It appears that someone in Stoke has resigned over child protection issues. The Stoke defection is Janine Bridges who has said she will serve as a Non Aligned until whole council elections in May (no word that I can see on whether she will stand for re-election). She claims Labour "condoned" the events in Rotherham. However I would add she was originally elected as a City Independent and joined Labour only weeks before selections for the 2011 elections and was soundly defeated when she stood for Deputy Leader of the Labour Group a couple of months ago. |
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 12, 2014 16:37:03 GMT
no actual defections (yet) but one has to wonder on the effect of This on Bradford, especially given the various independent groups currently available |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 22:16:27 GMT
Vaughn Jones, Labour to Independent in Inverclyde. Labour have now lost overall control of the council as a result. Apparently, it's connected to her intention to vote Yes next week.
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Post by Tony Otim on Sept 14, 2014 12:53:31 GMT
Vaughn Jones, Labour to Independent in Inverclyde. Labour have now lost overall control of the council as a result. Apparently, it's connected to her intention to vote Yes next week. Unless I've missed another change, Labour only had 50% of the seat(10 out of 20) before this defection, so never had overall control, strictly speaking. |
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