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Post by kvasir on Apr 10, 2024 18:07:41 GMT
The Conservative and Unionist candidate this time around is much better than the last. For a start, Arnold Craven doesn't live in Leeds (though he was born in Leeds and went to University in Leeds), and certainly not in Wetherby. He grew up and now currently lives in Wakefield. His bio on Twitter says that he's all about "trams, devolution and housing enthusiast. Marcelo Bielsa superfan." I mean, that's pretty good. He says that: "My campaign will focus on four key areas – areas a mayor can get things done in. I will build a reliable and efficient mass transit system. I will deliver the homes our young people desperately need and I will make sure the adult education budget is being used properly to give people and businesses the skills we need. And finally, I will refocus the leadership of West Yorkshire Police towards investigating more crimes when they are reported." " That's pretty standard stuff. He wants a bursary for educating adults: "[He] wants to give £500 to people to complete courses in subjects including plumbing, carpentry, green skills, welding, management and basic accounting skills."
Unfortunately, he currently works in transitioning to green hydrogen, which is largely a scam. He worked on the White Rose shopping Centre expansion, constructing the Broadway shopping centre in Bradford, and worked on plans for a new rail station in Bradford centre.
All this to say that he's probably the kind of candidate that the Tories should have put up against Tracy the first time. He will get crushed. I wonder if he'll even come second? Probably. But credit where it is due, this is progress for West Yorkshire Tories.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 10, 2024 18:20:01 GMT
The Conservative and Unionist candidate this time around is much better than the last. For a start, Arnold Craven ... Oh! I've just realised he's the same Arnie Craven of this forum ( arnieetc ) albeit that he hasn't posted much recently. I knew him originally from the Electoral Reform Society, where he was then in UKIP and later in the Yorkshire Party.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 10, 2024 18:30:44 GMT
The Conservative and Unionist candidate this time around is much better than the last. For a start, Arnold Craven doesn't live in Leeds (though he was born in Leeds and went to University in Leeds), and certainly not in Wetherby. He grew up and now currently lives in Wakefield. His bio on Twitter says that he's all about "trams, devolution and housing enthusiast. Marcelo Bielsa superfan." I mean, that's pretty good. He says that: "My campaign will focus on four key areas – areas a mayor can get things done in. I will build a reliable and efficient mass transit system. I will deliver the homes our young people desperately need and I will make sure the adult education budget is being used properly to give people and businesses the skills we need. And finally, I will refocus the leadership of West Yorkshire Police towards investigating more crimes when they are reported." " That's pretty standard stuff. He wants a bursary for educating adults: "[He] wants to give £500 to people to complete courses in subjects including plumbing, carpentry, green skills, welding, management and basic accounting skills." Unfortunately, he currently works in transitioning to green hydrogen, which is largely a scam. He worked on the White Rose shopping Centre expansion, constructing the Broadway shopping centre in Bradford, and worked on plans for a new rail station in Bradford centre. All this to say that he's probably the kind of candidate that the Tories should have put up against Tracy the first time. He will get crushed. I wonder if he'll even come second? Probably. But credit where it is due, this is progress for West Yorkshire Tories. Aren't the Bamfords heavily into hydrogen? Seems to be a Tory favourite.
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Post by thejedi on Apr 16, 2024 8:54:52 GMT
It’s almost like a lot of people voted to ‘get Brexit done’ and are returning to their default party now that it is ‘done’. Within the Ponty & Cas seat the Tories have absolutely no local representation. So the idea that it’s was or is going to go Tory is one for the birds. You not including Pontefract South then?
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 16, 2024 11:16:00 GMT
Well, he might not be after next month....
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Post by thejedi on Apr 16, 2024 11:20:50 GMT
Well, he might not be after next month.... That maybe, but his point at the time of writing was/is factually incorrect.
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Post by Ron Swanson on Apr 16, 2024 13:35:23 GMT
Ponte South has been Tory with some big majorities before, but Wakefield district will have just a couple of Tories after the next elections.
They weren’t doing so badly in 2021, up to 17 seats.
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Post by thejedi on Apr 28, 2024 11:35:49 GMT
Obviously it’s going to be a Labour landslide, but is there any polling WY Mayor being done?
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Post by devolutionist on May 3, 2024 10:19:40 GMT
Obviously it’s going to be a Labour landslide, but is there any polling WY Mayor being done? The only interesting bit about this election is seeing whether the Yorkshire Party can cling on to 3rd, it was very close between YP in 3rd and Greens in 4th in 2021. Greens seeing a surge nationally in these locals so I'm not too optimistic that we will to be honest. The Green candidate didn't perform very well in the mayoral debate in my honest but possibly slightly harsh and likely unconsciously bias opinion, but the viewing figures for those must be a tiny fraction of the electorate.
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Post by ccoleman on May 4, 2024 13:58:51 GMT
Wakefield results
Labour 37,416 Conservative Party 10,657 votes Yorkshire Party 6,985 Green Party 4,791 votes Liberal Democrats2,064 votes Independent 3,732
Kirklees results
Labour 47,897 Green Party 19,296 Conservative Party 17,690 Independent 12,138 Yorkshire Party 7,944 Liberal Democrats 4,713
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Post by johng on May 4, 2024 14:20:14 GMT
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Post by markgoodair on May 4, 2024 21:10:12 GMT
Within the Ponty & Cas seat the Tories have absolutely no local representation. So the idea that it’s was or is going to go Tory is one for the birds. You not including Pontefract South then? Not any moee
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Post by thejedi on May 4, 2024 21:36:54 GMT
You not including Pontefract South then? Not any moee Not any more? You didn’t even include it back in September when your comment was wrong. Just because it would be right today, doesn’t mean you can claim victory now.
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Post by bsjmcr on May 4, 2024 22:19:16 GMT
Kirklees results Labour 47,897 Green Party 19,296 Conservative Party 17,690 Independent 12,138 Yorkshire Party 7,944 Liberal Democrats 4,713 A very good result for the Greens in Kirklees and pretty embarrassing for the Tory though it must be said it is Andrew Cooper’s home borough and they did pick up an extra seat on the council (Crossland Moor). Still, given the number of votes he would have picked up quite a few more from across the borough, beyond their two wards. Not normally a borough on the whole you’d expect the Greens to do well. Given independents swept the board in most of the council seats in Batley and Dewsbury, could they have gone for the Greens instead of Labour (I don’t know enough about the independent Tilt here and there was no Galloway-esque mayoral candidate unlike Birmingham)
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Post by ccoleman on May 5, 2024 5:42:01 GMT
Leeds results
Labour 107,011 Conservative Party 25,563 Green Party 22,097 Yorkshire Party 19,062 Liberal Democrats 12,971 Independent 7,479
Bradford results
Labour 55,878 Independent 19,889 Conservative Party 19,206 Green Party 14,394 Yorkshire Party 9,791 Liberal Democrats 5,758
Can't seem to find the Calderdale results
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Post by The Bishop on May 5, 2024 11:00:21 GMT
Though if you have all the other boroughs figures, they shouldn't be that hard to work out?
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Post by ccoleman on May 5, 2024 13:27:58 GMT
Though if you have all the other boroughs figures, they shouldn't be that hard to work out? True enough - much too lazy though!
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Post by borisminor on May 6, 2024 17:07:35 GMT
This is the full results of the Mayoral Election. The swing is much less in Bradford and Kirklees and are poor for Labour falling back in Bradford with a lot of the vote going to the independent candidate. The swing in other areas is gargantuan I think with these results my instinct is all of the West Yorkshire seats would go to Labour
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Post by batman on May 6, 2024 18:36:07 GMT
that would be in line with national opinion polls, unless I'm very much mistaken. Labour also achieved clean sweeps in W Yorks in 1997 & 2001
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Post by ccoleman on May 7, 2024 6:20:15 GMT
I do wonder why the independent candidate did so poorly in Leeds. I’m guessing Tilt received a lot of votes from Muslims in Bradford and Kirklees?
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