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Post by matureleft on Apr 7, 2020 18:28:13 GMT
The funny thing is he could well have never been the MP. The favourite for the selection was a Labour Cllr in London Colney called Malcolm McMillan who had got on the county at the same time as Kerry and been group leader in St Albans as well as Kerry during the 90s including Labour's short spell chairing the committees. That was back when the CLP was significantly more left wing than it is today. Funny how things work. Both candidates were asked if they supported unilateral disarmament. Malcolm who did said no and Kerry who didn't said yes, and Kerry was selected. The rest is history I found Kerry a really nice guy. He had, because of his faith (or at least so I assumed), an interesting collection of views. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 19:33:32 GMT
The funny thing is he could well have never been the MP. The favourite for the selection was a Labour Cllr in London Colney called Malcolm McMillan who had got on the county at the same time as Kerry and been group leader in St Albans as well as Kerry during the 90s including Labour's short spell chairing the committees. That was back when the CLP was significantly more left wing than it is today. Funny how things work. Both candidates were asked if they supported unilateral disarmament. Malcolm who did said no and Kerry who didn't said yes, and Kerry was selected. The rest is history I found Kerry a really nice guy. He had, because of his faith (or at least so I assumed), an interesting collection of views. Kerry is very charismatic. Kerry is Christian Socialist, fairly progressive on domestic policy but conservative social beliefs. I understand he's changed his opinion on gay marriage but he tried to petition us many years ago on abortion which we declined |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 17, 2022 20:20:10 GMT
The Boundary Commission for England have proposed a 'sub-region' of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire with a total of 18 seats including one (centred on Hitchin) providing a cross county constituency and the existing Hitchin & Harpenden constituency split effectively into two new seats. Their revised proposals published in November 2022 are identical to their intital proposals (save for a name change) so these are likely to be the final boundaries. Most of the existing seats incur relatively minor changes either to bring them within quota or as a result of knock on changes caused by the major rearangement of Hitchin and Harpenden. In the case of St Albans (which is within quota on current boundaries), the only change is the removal of c.3,000 anomalous voters in Three Rivers - in Bedmond and 'Primrose Hill' (parts of the Abbots Langley & Bedmond and Gade Valley wards respectively) to be reunited with the rest of that district. These are very strong Lib Dem areas in local elections but much less so in parliamentary elections and probably in both cases less than the remainder of St Albans constituency. The partisan impact is likely negligble but this becomes a more compact and cohesive constituency. Notional result 2019 | LD | 27926 | 50.5% | | Con | 21433 | 38.7% | | Lab | 4857 | 8.8% | | Grn | 975 | 1.8% | | Ind | 148 | 0.3% | | | | | | |
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Post by mattbewilson on Nov 17, 2022 20:36:44 GMT
The Boundary Commission for England have proposed a 'sub-region' of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire with a total of 18 seats including one (centred on Hitchin) providing a cross county constituency and the existing Hitchin & Harpenden constituency split effectively into two new seats. Their revised proposals published in November 2022 are identical to their intital proposals (save for a name change) so these are likely to be the final boundaries. Most of the existing seats incur relatively minor changes either to bring them within quota or as a result of knock on changes caused by the major rearangement of Hitchin and Harpenden. In the case of St Albans (which is within quota on current boundaries), the only change is the removal of c.3,000 anomalous voters in Three Rivers - in Bedmond and 'Primrose Hill' (parts of the Abbots Langley & Bedmond and Gade Valley wards respectively) to be reunited with the rest of that district. These are very strong Lib Dem areas in local elections but much less so in parliamentary elections and probably in both cases less than the remainder of St Albans constituency. The partisan impact is likely negligble but this becomes a more compact and cohesive constituency. makes sense. Very little to no relationship with St Albans at all |
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Post by batman on Nov 17, 2022 20:41:36 GMT
Hitchin & Harpenden was always a bit of a monstrosity & will not be mourned as a unit
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 17, 2022 20:43:37 GMT
The Boundary Commission for England have proposed a 'sub-region' of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire with a total of 18 seats including one (centred on Hitchin) providing a cross county constituency and the existing Hitchin & Harpenden constituency split effectively into two new seats. Their revised proposals published in November 2022 are identical to their intital proposals (save for a name change) so these are likely to be the final boundaries. Most of the existing seats incur relatively minor changes either to bring them within quota or as a result of knock on changes caused by the major rearangement of Hitchin and Harpenden. In the case of St Albans (which is within quota on current boundaries), the only change is the removal of c.3,000 anomalous voters in Three Rivers - in Bedmond and 'Primrose Hill' (parts of the Abbots Langley & Bedmond and Gade Valley wards respectively) to be reunited with the rest of that district. These are very strong Lib Dem areas in local elections but much less so in parliamentary elections and probably in both cases less than the remainder of St Albans constituency. The partisan impact is likely negligble but this becomes a more compact and cohesive constituency. makes sense. Very little to no relationship with St Albans at all Yes they were only making up the numbers and of course the ward which was originally included no longer exists anyway. Of course in the last zombie review it was proposed to add Abbots Langley and Leavesden and even Woodside from Watford. IIRC the initital proposals ahead of the 1997 election had St Albans gaining the whole of Abbots Langley parish (with Watford moving South to annexe South Oxhey). None of it made very much sense but in a way makes more sense than just including Bedmond on its own. Bizarre that Kings Langley station is in this constituency really.. |
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Post by Robert Waller on Dec 7, 2022 13:41:37 GMT
2021 Census
Owner occupied 68.6% 210/573
Private rented 18.1% 281/573
Social rented 13.3% 367/573
White 80.9%
Black 2.5%
Asian 9.9%
Mixed 4.6%
Other 2.1%
Managerial & professional 49.5% 11/573
Routine & Semi-routine 13.9% 546/573
Degree level 51.2% 33/573
No qualifications 11.1% 555/573
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