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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2019 8:37:10 GMT
East Northants have tweeted that the result is now on their website.
It isn't.
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Post by yellowperil on Aug 9, 2019 8:55:28 GMT
East Northants have tweeted that the result is now on their website. It isn't. It hasn't appeared on the East Northants Tories website either. Is the message that nobody is at all interested, not even the (alleged) winners? |
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 9, 2019 8:55:58 GMT
13 minutes past 9 and E. Northants council still haven't published the result! Shocking... 😉 What, not available in Welsh or Gaelic yet 😠 I think Anglo-Saxon would be most appropriate for Irthlingborough |
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Post by yellowperil on Aug 9, 2019 8:59:17 GMT
What, not available in Welsh or Gaelic yet 😠 I think Anglo-Saxon would be most appropriate for Irthlingborough Do you have some good old Anglo-Saxon words you think would be appropriate for the situation? |
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Post by phil156 on Aug 9, 2019 9:01:09 GMT
Send for Wellington or we may have the result in French
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 9, 2019 9:06:54 GMT
Send for Wellington or we may have the result in French Or we could get Abba to sing it? |
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 9, 2019 9:10:08 GMT
I think Anglo-Saxon would be most appropriate for Irthlingborough Do you have some good old Anglo-Saxon words you think would be appropriate for the situation? Maybe read it out in alliterative verse? |
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Post by lbarnes on Aug 9, 2019 9:12:04 GMT
Very little out of Waterloo is on time.
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 9, 2019 9:14:14 GMT
Do you have some good old Anglo-Saxon words you think would be appropriate for the situation? Maybe read it out in alliterative verse? Battle began in Irthlingborough Twixt tempting Tories and lacklustre Labour Battle for Brexit, peddled by proxies Of Boris buffoon and Corbyn curmudgeon |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2019 9:28:44 GMT
Finally:
EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Irthlingborough Waterloo
WILKES, Lee Robert Charles (Conservative and Unionist Party) 542
CROSS, Caroline (Labour Party) 478
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Post by andrewp on Aug 9, 2019 9:42:48 GMT
Irthlingborough
Con 53.1%
Lab 46.9%
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 9, 2019 10:08:11 GMT
Irthlingborough Con 53.1% Lab 46.9% That seems to be quite a positive result for Labour (when there are no other candidates to distract people) |
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 9, 2019 10:08:13 GMT
Newnham (Cambridge) result: LDEM: 59.5% (+16.3) LAB: 18.1% (-18.1) GRN: 11.5% (+1.5) CON: 11.0% (+0.2) Liberal Democrat HOLD. Those changes in share, from Britain Elects, are presumably from 2015.Since May 2019, I think LD are up 9%, Lab down 10%, Green down 3%, Con up 2%. Approximately. 2016, rather. We do have to do any changes in the Irthlingborough result from 2015, however - given how the elections due in Northants this year were scrapped. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2019 10:15:14 GMT
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Post by yellowperil on Aug 9, 2019 10:22:57 GMT
So presumably the Labour party did better here than they have mostly been doing recently, because here there was the BNP vote to mop up? |
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Post by andrewp on Aug 9, 2019 10:24:30 GMT
Irthlingborough Con 53.1% Lab 46.9% That seems to be quite a positive result for Labour (when there are no other candidates to distract people) Probably a bit closer than it would have been due to Labour having a candidate from the town and the Conservative not being from the town. |
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 9, 2019 10:27:02 GMT
Irthlingborough Con 53.1% Lab 46.9% That seems to be quite a positive result for Labour (when there are no other candidates to distract people) We did manage to win a seat here in 2011, but yes not so bad. |
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Post by matureleft on Aug 9, 2019 10:34:09 GMT
So presumably the Labour party did better here than they have mostly been doing recently, because here there was the BNP vote to mop up? In my experience most BNP voters are otherwise non-voters but (as always) it depends on the locality and the candidates. I noted that the Tory didn't live in the town whereas the Labour candidate was on the town council and had been standing in elections there (albeit unsuccessfully!) for some years. That might explain the better Labour performance in what was otherwise a pretty poor night.
I wouldn't have expected Labour to be in contention in Newnham but with the volume of Labour activists in the city I'd expect more effort to protect Labour votes for the forthcoming general election. In spite of the huge majority (in Cambridge terms) last time the demography of the seat and its overwhelming Remain lean would suggest a major Lib Dem push. Again, there might be local or candidate factors.
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 9, 2019 10:46:18 GMT
I wouldn't have expected Labour to be in contention in Newnham but with the volume of Labour activists in the city I'd expect more effort to protect Labour votes for the forthcoming general election. In spite of the huge majority (in Cambridge terms) last time the demography of the seat and its overwhelming Remain lean would suggest a major Lib Dem push. Again, there might be local or candidate factors. The close results in recent years there have been put down to the student vote, so their being largely absent now is unlikely to have helped us. (even though they have likely moved towards the LibDems recently as well) |
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 9, 2019 10:58:31 GMT
So presumably the Labour party did better here than they have mostly been doing recently, because here there was the BNP vote to mop up? In my experience most BNP voters are otherwise non-voters but (as always) it depends on the locality and the candidates. I noted that the Tory didn't live in the town whereas the Labour candidate was on the town council and had been standing in elections there (albeit unsuccessfully!) for some years. That might explain the better Labour performance in what was otherwise a pretty poor night.
I wouldn't have expected Labour to be in contention in Newnham but with the volume of Labour activists in the city I'd expect more effort to protect Labour votes for the forthcoming general election. In spite of the huge majority (in Cambridge terms) last time the demography of the seat and its overwhelming Remain lean would suggest a major Lib Dem push. Again, there might be local or candidate factors.
Given the 15% swing from Lab to Lib Dem in 2005 I don't think Labour can afford to be complacent in Cambridge |
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