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Post by andrewp on Apr 8, 2024 15:44:50 GMT
Is this the only one we're still waiting for? I think so. They win the coveted VoteUK award.
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Post by iain on Apr 8, 2024 15:45:45 GMT
Is this the only one we're still waiting for? And Portsmouth, though Khunanup has posted the figures
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Post by Khunanup on Apr 8, 2024 15:49:47 GMT
Is this the only one we're still waiting for? And Portsmouth, though Khunanup has posted the figures It is the last now, ours is now online and I've posted the link.
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Post by Tony Otim on Apr 8, 2024 16:25:50 GMT
They're up now as individual PDFs ....
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Post by Tony Otim on Apr 8, 2024 16:39:53 GMT
LAB/LD/GRN/CON - all 33/33 Ind - 8 (Cheetham, Crumpsall x2, Levenshulme, Longsight, Miles Platting & Newton Heath, Moston, Rusholme) Workers Party - 6 (Burnage, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Longsight, Rusholme, Whalley Range) Communist Future - 3 (Ancoats & beswicK, Cheetham, Picadilly) Women's Equality - 1 (Crumpsall) TUSC - 1 (Harpuhey) Independent Network - 1 (Higher Blackley) No Desc - 1 (Rushholme)
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 9, 2024 7:59:08 GMT
Communist Future - anyone know who they are? Generic Trot outfit?
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Post by johnloony on Apr 9, 2024 15:02:50 GMT
Communist Future - anyone know who they are? Generic Trot outfit? Their website is very non-specific (and has minimal content) apart from the fact that they are based in Manchester communistfuture.com/about/I am rather excited* about the imminent foundation (in various countries like the USA and Canada and others, not just the UK) of the Revolutionary Communist Party. It seems to be inspired by the RCP of 1944-1958, which contested the Neath by-election in 1945. But annoyingly it says it won't contest bourgeois elections, so we won't have the fun of seeing them getting 30 or 40 votes in lots of constituencies. I can't help wondering what the veteran Stalinists of the CPGB(ML) and the RCPB(ML) think about the new (mostly Trotskyite) RCP. No doubt they are very dismissive and probably vitriolic about them. * only because I really like the word "revolutionary" even though i'm not one
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Post by batman on Apr 9, 2024 15:55:21 GMT
Very few groups calling themselves Communist are Trotskyist in outlook, although some are. More are of a Soviet-nostalgic, broadly Stalinist perspective.
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Post by k9 on Apr 9, 2024 20:49:50 GMT
So what are the key battlegrounds in Manchester this year?
Apart from the ongoing LD / Lab battle in Didsbury West with Lab up and Lab fighting to take back their seat from Green in Hulme?
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Post by owainsutton on Apr 9, 2024 21:06:58 GMT
So what are the key battlegrounds in Manchester this year? Apart from the ongoing LD / Lab battle in Didsbury West with Lab up and Lab fighting to take back their seat from Green in Hulme? Piccadilly should be close.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 9, 2024 21:45:28 GMT
So what are the key battlegrounds in Manchester this year? Apart from the ongoing LD / Lab battle in Didsbury West with Lab up and Lab fighting to take back their seat from Green in Hulme? Piccadilly should be close. That's a part of town that has promised something interesting for years but never did. I remember Manchester Conservatives pouring lots of resources into a doomed attempt at a statement city centre win whilst Brooklands cried out for help and could have been won with the right effort.
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Post by skyep on Apr 19, 2024 19:29:10 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 20, 2024 16:20:47 GMT
Intriguing. Presumably Longsight and Rusholme the focus for any activity?
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Post by Sg1 on May 1, 2024 23:13:15 GMT
Intriguing. Presumably Longsight and Rusholme the focus for any activity? That's Rusholme ruffians for you
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Post by andrea on May 3, 2024 15:16:05 GMT
Luthfur Rahman defeated by Workers Party of Britain in Longsight.
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Post by andrea on May 3, 2024 15:19:03 GMT
LD defended in Ancoats & Beswick Labour held in Didsbury West
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Post by iang on May 3, 2024 15:19:37 GMT
The two split LD / Lab wards have gone with incumbents - fairly comfortable LD hold in Ancoats, and closer Lab hold in Dids West
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Post by andrea on May 3, 2024 15:21:25 GMT
Intriguing. Presumably Longsight and Rusholme the focus for any activity? Labour (Jill LOVECY) won easily in Rusholme (1,600 to 800).
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Post by lancastrian on May 3, 2024 21:30:46 GMT
Lab 30 LD 1 Green 1 Workers Party 1
The Greens held their seat in Woodhouse Park, the Lib Dems held Ancoats & Beswick and the Workers Party gained Longsight.
The only somewhat close results were Longsight with a majority of 185 over Labour, and Didsbury West which Labour held by 159 votes over the Lib Dems.
Council now 87 Labour, 4 Lib Dems, 3 Greens, 1 Workers and 1 Independent
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Post by sisterjude on May 4, 2024 13:07:52 GMT
All in all I think Labour will be relatively relieved with the results, Longsight aside obviously.
Holding off the Liberals in Didsbury West was very good work and the Greens falling flat in Piccadilly was a bonus. The flip side is that Ancoats and Woodhouse Park were not even close and now seem lost to Labour for the foreseeable.
Now the hard part begins as they defend seats from government in 2026. One imagines a pretty straightforward Lib Dem gain for the third seat in Ancoats next time. Beyond that it will be interesting to see which wards the Libs and Greens chose to target
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