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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 7, 2024 9:16:49 GMT
Ecclesall: 8.6%, 4.6%, 8.6%Traditionally a safe Lib Dem ward, it will have voted Labour at the past two general elections, and has become a Lib Dem-Green fight locally. If I were in charge of the Green campaign this year I would (temporarily) abandon the campaign here to focus on consolidation in a tough year, but I suspect they'll fight on. A quote from the Green website: "Five of our hard working Councillors are standing for re-election: Alexi Dimond in Gleadless Valley, Christine Gilligan Kubo in Hillsborough, Douglas Johnson in City, Brian Holmshaw in Broomhill and Sharrow Vale and Maroof Raouf in Nether Edge and Sharrow. To add to our team of 14 Councillors we are campaigning to elect Peter Gilbert in Ecclesall."
So they are fighting on in Ecclesall, but it seems the party may have taken my advice of refining their battleground by giving up on their defence in Walkley, which was an easy Labour hold last year and where the sitting Green councillor, Bernard Little, is (presumably) standing down. Bernard was one of two applicants for the Green selection, so presumably the other chap got selected. Walkley has an... interesting... history of this sort of stuff.
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 7, 2024 12:00:26 GMT
A quote from the Green website: "Five of our hard working Councillors are standing for re-election: Alexi Dimond in Gleadless Valley, Christine Gilligan Kubo in Hillsborough, Douglas Johnson in City, Brian Holmshaw in Broomhill and Sharrow Vale and Maroof Raouf in Nether Edge and Sharrow. To add to our team of 14 Councillors we are campaigning to elect Peter Gilbert in Ecclesall."
So they are fighting on in Ecclesall, but it seems the party may have taken my advice of refining their battleground by giving up on their defence in Walkley, which was an easy Labour hold last year and where the sitting Green councillor, Bernard Little, is (presumably) standing down. Bernard was one of two applicants for the Green selection, so presumably the other chap got selected. Walkley has an... interesting... history of this sort of stuff. The Green Party's candidates are on their website. sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/elections/
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Post by YL on Apr 8, 2024 14:39:34 GMT
It's up: www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/election-noticesLab 29 Lib Dem 29 Green 29 Con 29 TUSC 27 (missing Darnall, 1/2 Firth Park) Heritage 3 (Beauchief & Greenhill, Hillsborough, Walkley) Reform UK 1 (Richmond) SDP 1 (Park & Arbourthorne) Communist Party of Britain 1 (Walkley) Ind 10 (Birley, Broomhill & Sharrow Vale, Burngreave, Darnall, Firth Park, Manor Castle, Nether Edge & Sharrow, Shiregreen & Brightside, Southey, Woodhouse)
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Post by YL on Apr 8, 2024 15:02:39 GMT
So Tony Damms (Foxite Independent) is defending his seat in Southey, but Bryan Lodge in Birley and the non-Foxite Independent Sophie Wilson in Park & Arbourthorne are not.
I think this is the full list of councillors standing down:
Bryan Lodge (Ind elected as Lab, Birley) Mazher Iqbal (Lab, Darnall) Colin Ross (Lib Dem, Dore & Totley) Ian Auckland (Lib Dem, Graves Park) Sioned-Mair Richards (Lab, Manor Castle) Sophie Wilson (Ind elected as Lab, Park & Arbourthorne) Peter Price (Lab, Shiregreen & Brightside) Lewis Chinchen (Con, Stocksbridge & Upper Don) Bernard Little (Green, Walkley)
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 8, 2024 19:01:28 GMT
So Tony Damms (Foxite Independent) is defending his seat in Southey, but Bryan Lodge in Birley and the non-Foxite Independent Sophie Wilson in Park & Arbourthorne are not. I think this is the full list of councillors standing down: Bryan Lodge (Ind elected as Lab, Birley) Mazher Iqbal (Lab, Darnall) Colin Ross (Lib Dem, Dore & Totley) Ian Auckland (Lib Dem, Graves Park) Sioned-Mair Richards (Lab, Manor Castle) Sophie Wilson (Ind elected as Lab, Park & Arbourthorne) Peter Price (Lab, Shiregreen & Brightside)Lewis Chinchen (Con, Stocksbridge & Upper Don) Bernard Little (Green, Walkley) With Peter Price standing down after 52 years who will become Sheffield's longest serving councillor?
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Post by YL on Apr 8, 2024 20:26:46 GMT
So Tony Damms (Foxite Independent) is defending his seat in Southey, but Bryan Lodge in Birley and the non-Foxite Independent Sophie Wilson in Park & Arbourthorne are not. I think this is the full list of councillors standing down: Bryan Lodge (Ind elected as Lab, Birley) Mazher Iqbal (Lab, Darnall) Colin Ross (Lib Dem, Dore & Totley) Ian Auckland (Lib Dem, Graves Park) Sioned-Mair Richards (Lab, Manor Castle) Sophie Wilson (Ind elected as Lab, Park & Arbourthorne) Peter Price (Lab, Shiregreen & Brightside)Lewis Chinchen (Con, Stocksbridge & Upper Don) Bernard Little (Green, Walkley) With Peter Price standing down after 52 years who will become Sheffield's longest serving councillor? I think it might depend on the result in Southey: Tony Damms has been a councillor continuously since 1987 and was first elected in 1982. Then there's Andrew Sangar, who was first elected in Beauchief in 1991 and moved to Fulwood with the ward boundary changes in 2004.
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 9, 2024 8:26:39 GMT
With Peter Price standing down after 52 years who will become Sheffield's longest serving councillor? I think it might depend on the result in Southey: Tony Damms has been a councillor continuously since 1987 and was first elected in 1982. Then there's Andrew Sangar, who was first elected in Beauchief in 1991 and moved to Fulwood with the ward boundary changes in 2004. Thank you. Herbert Keeble Hawson dedicates his book Sheffield: The Growth of a City 1893-1926 to "Sir Harold Warters Jackson... Member of the City Council for over fifty-five years". Which is even longer than Peter Price's 52 years. However, William Hampton in Democracy and Community: A Study of Politics in Sheffield writes that "Sir Harold Jackson... first elected to the council in 1913.... In 1964 Sir Harold retired". That's 51 years. Assuming Hampton is correct, as he gives the years, and Keeble Hawson's "over fifty-five years" is an error, than Peter Price could be Sheffield's longest ever serving councillor.
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Post by Rutlander on Apr 9, 2024 9:01:14 GMT
In 1911 Harold W. Jackson, the Liberal candidate for the Hillsborough Ward, was elected (looking on British Newspaper Archive website) Wikipedia has elected in 1911 and retired in 1966.
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 9, 2024 9:05:45 GMT
In 1911 Harold W. Jackson, the Liberal candidate for the Hillsborough Ward, was elected (looking on British Newspaper Archive website) That's interesting, thank you.
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Post by YL on Apr 9, 2024 19:35:04 GMT
Of the Independents:
- As already discussed, Tony Damms in Southey is a very long serving councillor who left Labour last year in the Foxite split.
- Qais al-Ahdal in Darnall has been endorsed by TUSC and is "anti-cuts" and "pro-Gaza".
- John Booker in Firth Park is a former UKIP councillor, and more recently Reform UK candidate, in West Ecclesfield.
- Tracy Booker in Shiregreen & Brightside, who I imagine is related to John, is also a former UKIP candidate.
- Jack Carrington in Woodhouse has previously stood in Manor Castle for the Yorkshire Party.
- I presume there's some connection between David Cronshaw in Birley and Anthony Cronshaw who stood in the same ward in 2018.
The other four all seem to be new, though at least for Craig Judson in Manor Castle and Mike Pomranz in Broomhill & Sharrow Vale it's easy enough to find something about them online.
The track record of Independent candidates in Sheffield is pretty lousy; I believe the last to actually win was a candidate in Mosborough in 1967 protesting against the area's annexation by Sheffield. Could someone representing a ward for 37 years and a Gaza campaigner change that?
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 9, 2024 20:30:01 GMT
... The track record of Independent candidates in Sheffield is pretty lousy; I believe the last to actually win was a candidate in Mosborough in 1967 protesting against the area's annexation by Sheffield. Could someone representing a ward for 37 years and a Gaza campaigner change that? Yes, Rev. Colin Nield, vicar of St Mary the Virgin Church, Beighton. Alan Billings would later be vicar of the same church.
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Post by iain on Apr 18, 2024 13:38:39 GMT
The local Greens are virulently anti-Israel, and seem to be making it a big part of their campaigning. This obviously risks turning off people who are more interested in bins and potholes, but I wonder if it might save them their last seat in Nether Edge & Sharrow.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 18, 2024 16:35:15 GMT
The local Greens are virulently anti-Israel, and seem to be making it a big part of their campaigning. This obviously risks turning off people who are more interested in bins and potholes, but I wonder if it might save them their last seat in Nether Edge & Sharrow. There seems to have been a take-over of the party with the fairly staid Ecology-Party-types being kicked out and replaced by purple-haired offence seekers.
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Apr 18, 2024 17:13:55 GMT
The local Greens are virulently anti-Israel, and seem to be making it a big part of their campaigning. This obviously risks turning off people who are more interested in bins and potholes, but I wonder if it might save them their last seat in Nether Edge & Sharrow.
They have to focus on something other than Green policies as these are a vote loser at the moment, in the inner suburbs where they have been winning. The CAZ is forcing thousands of vans off the ring road and onto now extra polluted residential streets in these areas, which are also being potholed by all the extra traffic.
It's complete lunacy that the ring road is part of the CAZ, but that's what happens when a Conservative government dictat is imposed by a Labour / Green / Liberal Democrat Committee led Council.
People in Sheffield are asking why couldn't our council tell the government to fuck off when it came to the CAZ, like Manchester seems to have done. Yes, a Lancashire Council is being held up as a beacon of common sense by Yorkshire folk.
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Apr 23, 2024 10:09:00 GMT
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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 23, 2024 12:12:00 GMT
There was me thinking it would be this problem:
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 23, 2024 12:23:52 GMT
Why does the boundary bisect the school, and not run more logically in the area above?
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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 23, 2024 12:30:04 GMT
Why does the boundary bisect the school, and not run more logically in the area above? The boundary was drawn before the school and propeties were built, after some area-wide demolition on the old road plan. The school and properties were built after the new ward boundary was drawn, on a new road layout:
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 23, 2024 12:31:31 GMT
Thought it might be something like that, but isn't this what (one off) boundary revisions are for?
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Post by YL on Apr 23, 2024 21:17:10 GMT
Thought it might be something like that, but isn't this what (one off) boundary revisions are for? It ought to be, but is there any way at the moment of sorting out things like that without doing a full review? It's not like there aren't lots of similar examples, including cases where a council boundary carves through a new development. (And when they fix the ward boundary when Sheffield is next reviewed it'll still be a constituency boundary until the next review for that...)
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