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Post by matureleft on Jan 7, 2022 9:43:35 GMT
Reading the Mark Pack account of this result, he mentions two other factors nobody I think has mentioned here about the Lib Dem candidate- he was the only candidate of the five who lived in the ward, and he owned the local pub. Putting that on top of the the two things we had noted, the fact that he was the former councillor for the predecessor ward and that he had a lot of help (training, etc) from the party campaigns, how could anybody ever have doubted he would win? These are local elections and candidate choice is important (though owning the local pub must, at best, be two-edged!). |
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Post by The Bishop on Jan 7, 2022 10:56:02 GMT
Must be a good and popular pub  |
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Post by greenchristian on Jan 7, 2022 11:13:34 GMT
Anyway, 100% of 2022 elections so far have ended in Lib Dem gains.  The bar charts write themselves... |
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 7, 2022 12:05:34 GMT
Anyway, 100% of 2022 elections so far have ended in Lib Dem gains. The bar charts write themselves... Don't they always? The largest department of LD HQ being the Creative Writing Centre. |
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Post by grahammurray on Jan 7, 2022 12:22:16 GMT
The bar charts write themselves... Don't they always? The largest department of LD HQ being the Creative Writing Centre. I hear that Conservative HQ has a huge painting and decorating section. But the security there is very lax and it's cash only. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 7, 2022 12:30:50 GMT
Don't they always? The largest department of LD HQ being the Creative Writing Centre. I hear that Conservative HQ has a huge painting and decorating section. But the security there is very lax and it's cash only. They prefer to wallpaper over most things to get an immediate quick effect. Socialists are old-fashioned and still cling to good old Whitewash! |
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Post by matureleft on Jan 7, 2022 12:52:55 GMT
Don't they always? The largest department of LD HQ being the Creative Writing Centre. I hear that Conservative HQ has a huge painting and decorating section. But the security there is very lax and it's cash only. Brownlow as a character in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists? |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 7, 2022 13:54:22 GMT
Reading the Mark Pack account of this result, he mentions two other factors nobody I think has mentioned here about the Lib Dem candidate- he was the only candidate of the five who lived in the ward, and he owned the local pub. Putting that on top of the the two things we had noted, the fact that he was the former councillor for the predecessor ward and that he had a lot of help (training, etc) from the party campaigns, how could anybody ever have doubted he would win? A Liberal publican? A publican Liberal? No, need to run that one past me again . . .  |
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Post by Zardoz on Jan 7, 2022 13:58:39 GMT
Reading the Mark Pack account of this result, he mentions two other factors nobody I think has mentioned here about the Lib Dem candidate- he was the only candidate of the five who lived in the ward, and he owned the local pub. Putting that on top of the the two things we had noted, the fact that he was the former councillor for the predecessor ward and that he had a lot of help (training, etc) from the party campaigns, how could anybody ever have doubted he would win? Living in the ward - or at least the local area - always gains votes in local elections - especially if you make a campaigning point of it. |
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Post by andrew111 on Jan 7, 2022 14:35:41 GMT
Reading the Mark Pack account of this result, he mentions two other factors nobody I think has mentioned here about the Lib Dem candidate- he was the only candidate of the five who lived in the ward, and he owned the local pub. Putting that on top of the the two things we had noted, the fact that he was the former councillor for the predecessor ward and that he had a lot of help (training, etc) from the party campaigns, how could anybody ever have doubted he would win? A Liberal publican? A publican Liberal? No, need to run that one past me again . . . Maybe a publicly Liberal publican is rarer than a Liberal publican? |
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Post by michaelarden on Jan 7, 2022 14:48:41 GMT
A Liberal publican? A publican Liberal? No, need to run that one past me again . . . Maybe a publicly Liberal publican is rarer than a Liberal publican? But is he a republican, publicly Liberal publican? |
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Post by iang on Jan 7, 2022 17:59:15 GMT
Would have surprised Gladstone
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Post by tonyhill on Jan 7, 2022 18:50:52 GMT
Rob Hylands in Gosport is a publican and a long-term LibDem Councillor.
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Post by Crimson King on Jan 7, 2022 18:55:07 GMT
iirc when I was in Caerphilly in 83 the sole Liberal member of the Rhymney Vally council was publican called Angus
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