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Post by moretonleasowe on Jan 16, 2013 11:52:52 GMT
Hello Tristram. Yes, it's me - I did post in the 'other place' and have just found this one!
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Post by froome on Jan 16, 2013 20:31:32 GMT
Hello Ian - Welcome to the new site (I only found it fairly recently). I wish you luck tomorrow, though obviously our candidate will have a resounding victory  I remember attending a public meeting in Leasowe during the October 1974 general election in a cold meeting hall. The Labour councillor for the ward, who was a very large chap, was sat in the row immediately behind me. Halfway through the meeting he got up to speak and grabbed the chair in front of him, which I was sitting in. The longer he spoke, the more agitated he got, and the more agitated he got, the more he rocked the chair in front of him about, with me in it. When he eventually sat down (which felt like a lifetime), I glared at him, but he completely ignored me. He presumably wasn't aware at all of what he had been doing, or just considered me to be a nothing! |
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Post by andrewteale on Jan 16, 2013 23:19:11 GMT
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jan 16, 2013 23:56:14 GMT
For those who like little details, it's worth knowing that Hill ward is apparently named not after any geographical feature, but after Octavia Hill, social reformer and one of the founders of the National Trust, who was born in Wisbech. |
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Post by andrewteale on Jan 17, 2013 0:14:13 GMT
For those who like little details, it's worth knowing that Hill ward is apparently named not after any geographical feature, but after Octavia Hill, social reformer and one of the founders of the National Trust, who was born in Wisbech. I like that little detail. Wish I'd come across it when I was writing the preview |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 17, 2013 0:20:07 GMT
Its not an area noted for its hills I suppose. Where are your previews hosted these days Andrew?
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Post by andrewteale on Jan 17, 2013 0:37:02 GMT
They're on our genial host's blogs.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 17, 2013 1:35:16 GMT
That's cool. I was unaware of this blog. I like your picture of the Heygate estate  |
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Post by Andrew_S on Jan 17, 2013 23:12:05 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 17, 2013 23:17:44 GMT
The Conservatives have won Hill ward in Fenland - figures to follow.
Update: Apparently the Conservatives won 67%.
Update to the update: No, they got 59%.
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Post by Andrew_S on Jan 17, 2013 23:19:25 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 17, 2013 23:28:38 GMT
FENLAND Hill
Samantha Hoy (C) 319 (59.7%)
Dean Reeves (Lab) 110 (20.6%)
John White (Ind) 105 (19.7%)
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Post by greatkingrat on Jan 17, 2013 23:40:48 GMT
@trisbrown 4 min ago
First results from Wirral by-elections. Heswall. Conservatives win with 1254 votes. UKIP second with 460. Labour third with 289
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Post by Tim M on Jan 17, 2013 23:41:11 GMT
Wirral MBC - Heswall
Conservative 1254
UKIP 460
Labour 289
(H/T @trisbrown)
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Post by AdminSTB on Jan 17, 2013 23:44:50 GMT
Green and TUSC figures?
UPDATE
Green 110
TUSC 19
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Post by Tim M on Jan 17, 2013 23:48:11 GMT
Green 110
TUSC 19
(Wirral Council appears to be running a live results service on their website incidentally)
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Post by AdminSTB on Jan 17, 2013 23:50:28 GMT
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Post by middleenglander on Jan 17, 2013 23:51:56 GMT
Wirral, Heswall
Conservative 1,254 - 58.8%, down 3.9% on May 2012
UKIP 460 - 21.6%, up 12.2%
Labour 289 - 13.6%, down 4.2%
Green 110 - 5.2%, down 0.8%
TUSC 19 - 0.9% from nowhere
No Lib Dem -4.2%
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 17, 2013 23:53:17 GMT
Excellent result for UKIP there. The TUSC result is quite amusing, but to be fair this was never likely to be very good terrain for them
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Post by AdminSTB on Jan 17, 2013 23:55:23 GMT
Liam Murphy, local reporter, tweeting that Labour folk at the count are saying they've lost Leasowe and Moreton East.
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