iang
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Post by iang on May 4, 2024 13:40:46 GMT
Withington was a reasonable second for the Lib Dems so that will presumably be target number three
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 4, 2024 16:42:36 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 Said it once, I'll say it again... targeting the city centre is consistently a fools errand that distracts from better targets elsewhere. Exclusive to all parties.
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Post by owainsutton on May 4, 2024 16:52:26 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 Said it once, I'll say it again... targeting the city centre is consistently a fools errand that distracts from better targets elsewhere. Exclusive to all parties. The pre-coalition Lib Dem wins there were pretty much on national swings, right?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 4, 2024 18:31:18 GMT
Said it once, I'll say it again... targeting the city centre is consistently a fools errand that distracts from better targets elsewhere. Exclusive to all parties. The pre-coalition Lib Dem wins there were pretty much on national swings, right? That sounds about right. Some of the Labour losses in Wythenshawe as well. It's so strange that resources get thrown at a transient population when you can work a settled population. It feels like parties want a trophy win. When I was on the committee of S&U Conservatives, we frequently refused requests to leaflet the centre. But the local association seemed to have the ear of regional and did manage to force others in.
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