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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 11:55:26 GMT
When I was active in the Stretford & Urmston Conservatives, canvassers regularly found Green-BNP waverers. Or even the odd BNP-LD waverer! When I was living in Norwich and was active in politics, it was not uncommon to find Green/Tory voters, people who voted Green in locals and Tory in national elections. Also recall when canvassing at least a couple of people who were voting Green due to there being no BNP candidates standing. And of course, two Green county councillors in Norwich have actually defected to the Conservatives within the past decade. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 13:04:50 GMT
Didn't at least one of the Solihull wards go from being a BNP ward straight to being one of the safest Green wards in the country?
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Post by neilm on Oct 31, 2020 13:22:55 GMT
When I was active in the Stretford & Urmston Conservatives, canvassers regularly found Green-BNP waverers. Or even the odd BNP-LD waverer! When I was living in Norwich and was active in politics, it was not uncommon to find Green/Tory voters, people who voted Green in locals and Tory in national elections. Also recall when canvassing at least a couple of people who were voting Green due to there being no BNP candidates standing. Stroud is full of Tory-Green switchers, as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 13:24:33 GMT
Didn't at least one of the Solihull wards go from being a BNP ward straight to being one of the safest Green wards in the country? Chelmsley Wood actually went back to Labour for a few years after going BNP in 2006 and before going Green in 2011, but yes, the Greens got 83.6% there last year. |
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Post by greenchristian on Oct 31, 2020 19:46:08 GMT
Didn't at least one of the Solihull wards go from being a BNP ward straight to being one of the safest Green wards in the country? Chelmsley Wood actually went back to Labour for a few years after going BNP in 2006 and before going Green in 2011, but yes, the Greens got 83.6% there last year. And it took a few years of Green incumbency before it became our safest ward. |
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Post by cj on Oct 31, 2020 20:32:23 GMT
When I was living in Norwich and was active in politics, it was not uncommon to find Green/Tory voters, people who voted Green in locals and Tory in national elections. Also recall when canvassing at least a couple of people who were voting Green due to there being no BNP candidates standing. And of course, two Green county councillors in Norwich have actually defected to the Conservatives within the past decade. A lot of green support throughout Norfolk seems to be less from watermelons than the turquoise.
Sorry yet another aside; Broads Authority meetings were in my experience a strange amalgam of almost seigneurial rights from the navigationalist interests that didn't like all these tourists all over the shop, local councils representation, especially on the development committee seemed to veer between preserving everything in aspic in the large Broads Authority Executive Area when it came to housing but not commercial interests and milking the tourism sector and, what you could describe as environmentalism in terms of protecting/restoring/expanding the physical geography of the broads seemed to only by an agenda for the Secretary of State appointees.
Having said that the BA is strange in many aspects
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