Wakefield

[gwynthegriff]

Apr 13, 2022 23:19:19 GMT neilm said:

Apr 13, 2022 20:30:21 GMT gwynthegriff said:

I wouldn't even place it at "several" cycles.

I can recall numerous cases where there were "I'll never vote xxx again, because of yyy" stramashes which (outside a handful of monomaniacs) were forgotten within a single cycle - the Child Support Agency, CB Radio (showing my age), the 25p pension increase (or whatever it was) etc.

And they were policy issues rather than the behaviour of an individual.*



* The niceties of party approval and selection procedures are lost on most people.

People swore they'd never vote Conservative (I assume) because of the way that CB was legalised, meaning they couldn't use their gear from the US? Or did they object to legalisation?

I honestly can't remember, but I do remember claims that thousands of CB activists were going to descend on key seats to swing the results.

They didn't.

Monomaniacs rarely do.

[Ron Swanson]

Apr 14, 2022 8:50:28 GMT yellowperil said:

Apr 14, 2022 7:00:01 GMT YL said:

In fact Wakefield Rural ward is also proposed to move to Ossett & Denby Dale, meaning that that would contain the majority of the existing Wakefield constituency. The new Wakefield, effectively a new constituency, would include the two Outwood wards from Morley & Outwood as well as Rothwell and the three Wakefield (compass point) wards in the current constituency. That the current constituency is proposed to be effectively abolished and divided between two new constituencies makes me think that it is even less likely that there'll be a detectable long term effect of this case.

I suspect that New Wakefield would have voted Tory in 2019, but perhaps more narrowly than the existing constituency, while Ossett & Denby Dale is more Tory. (Electoral Calculus, for what it's worth, has New Wakefield as Tory by 2,000 or so in 2019 and O&DD by over 11,000; on its current predictions it has New Wakefield as comfortably Labour and O&DD on a knife edge.)

In local elections.

It so happens that today my granddaughter is moving into her house in Rothwell - she exchanged contracts on Monday. Rothwell is quite strongly LibDem at local level, and she will have just added to that. I note that the Wiki entry for Rothwell "famous sons" has Lord Newby  of Rothwell listed, and who could be more famous than Dick Newby ( I have known Dick since the early eighties)? Of course Rothwell town is not big enough in its own right to shape the result in a general election, regardless of which constituency it is attached to, but it may have more in common with Wakefield  than Leeds even though it it comes under Leeds MBC.

My first post for two months, btw.

Yes, Rothwell does have more of a Wakefield feel, though I guess the motorway acts as a natural barrier… I dunno.

It’s a nice place all the same.

Was it Brian Walker who was ousted back in the day?

Labour do sometimes have a terrible track record in Leeds of imposing non-local candidates - I suppose in a seat like this that isn’t inner city, Leeds proper, they can come unstuck.

It certainly has more in common with Wakefield than Wetherby, with whom it shares an MP.

[Deleted]

Khan resigning

[LDCaerdydd]

[pinkglover]

Confirmation:

[LDCaerdydd]

Impending By-election confirmed

[Deleted]

The Wakefield by-election will be this government's Corby 2012.

[peterl]

My early prediction: Labour gain by 3,000-4,000 votes. Turnout circa 45%.

[markgoodair]

Apr 14, 2022 16:15:25 GMT pinkglover said:

Confirmation:

Good riddance

[CatholicLeft]

Apr 14, 2022 16:15:32 GMT LDCaerdydd said:

Impending By-election confirmed

The right thing to do.
I wonder when the byelection will be? If the Conservatives have a disastrous local elections followed by a bad loss here, it is a nightmare for the government, especially given the report still to be published, after more fines.

[Deleted]

1) BBC gets a Political Editor from Yorkshire
2) Yorkshire MP for a marginal seat to quit

Hmm

[cogload]

Labour Gain.

[willpower3]

Will he resurrect his career as an all rounder?

Oh wait wrong one.

[agbutler]

Does Galloway throw his hat in the ring?

[Strontium Dog]

Apr 14, 2022 16:31:31 GMT willpower3 said:

Will he resurrect his career as an all rounder?

Unerring ability to hit the middle wicket.

[CatholicLeft]

Apr 14, 2022 16:31:31 GMT willpower3 said:

Will he resurrect his career as an all rounder?

Oh wait wrong one.

He would be stupid to do so with his views of Ukraine.

[Wisconsin]

What’s the earliest possible date for the by-election? Presumably the writ can’t be moved until after the recess. (And until after he actually resigns).

EDIT: Ignore me, I forgot which party he was formerly a member of.

[Deleted]

Apr 14, 2022 16:37:21 GMT agbutler said:

Does Galloway throw his hat in the ring?

I'm not sure Wakefield is particularly a Galloway sort of place.

[markgoodair]

Apr 14, 2022 16:51:13 GMT @johnyorks said:

Apr 14, 2022 16:37:21 GMT agbutler said:

Does Galloway throw his hat in the ring?

I'm not sure Wakefield is particularly a Galloway sort of place.

Definitely not.

[johnloony]

Can this thread be merged with the new one so that we don't have to be continuously and repeatedly frenziedly deranged at the sight of the lower-case w?