Tony Otim
Green
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Post by Tony Otim on Sept 17, 2023 20:43:55 GMT
CHELTENHAM DC; Prestbury (People Against Bureaucracy Resigned)
Candidates:
FOSTER, Jan (Green)
INGRAM, Ben (Liberal Democrat)
KENNEDY, Laura Elizabeth (Conservative)
SMITH, Stan (People Against Bureaucracy)
2022: PAB 996; Con 466; Grn 398; LD 318
2021: PAB 1128; Con 683; LD 445
2018: PAB 1324; LD 411; Con 279
2016: PAB 1196; Con 258; LD 202; Grn 78
2014: PAB 1524; Con 306; LD 165
2012: PAB 1239; Con 263; LD 218
2010: PAB 1798; Con 842; LD 754
2008: PAB 1098; Con 539; LD 253; Lab 104
2006: PAB 1050; Con 642; LD 225
2004: PAB 1137; Con 593; LD 166; Lab 104; Grn 89
2002: PAB 1187, 1171; Con 488, 383; LD 202, 99; Grn 93
Vacancy is for 2022-24 term (all outs due next year on new boundaries – although changes to this ward will be very minor). Ben Ingram was the Lib Dem candidate here last year.
Current Council: LD 30; Con 5; Grn 2; PAB 1; Non-aligned 1; 1 vacancy
SUFFOLK CC; Woodbridge (Lib Dem died)
Candidates:
LEACH, Lorraine Ruth (Liberal Democrat)
PORTER, Alan Harry (Conservative)
RICHARDS, Paul (Labour)
2021: LD 1887; Con 1086
2017: LD 1547; Con 1041; Lab 254; Grn 113; UKIP 55
2013: LD 1127; Con 870; UKIP327; Lab 255; Grn 122
2009: LD 1460; Con 1231; GRn 248; Lab 156
Sept 08by: LD 970; Con 826; Ind 378; Lab 147;
2005: Con 1720; LD 1698; Lab 884
Paul Richards stood here for Labour in the East Suffolk district ward in May, when the result was Grn 1404; LD 1220; Lab 864; Con 845, 776 (LD hold and Grn gain from Con) – the lack of a Green candidate this time probably being a sign of ongoing agreement between the Greens and Lib Dems. Alan Porter (Con) stood in May in the neighbouring Melton ward.
Current Council: Con 53; Grn 9; Lab 5; LD 4; Ind 2; West Suffolk Ind 1; 1 vacancy
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Post by grumpyguy on Oct 11, 2023 13:52:12 GMT
East Suffolk: www.ruthleachphotography.com/newsroom is Ruth Leach's professional website. She has a high profile in Woodbridge thanks to her involvement in the Save the Deben campaign. The Conservative choice is unexpected. There were other potential candidates who are better known. The absence of a Green candidate is indeed said to be by arrangement. www.eadt.co.uk/news/23756571.viking-send-off-woodbridge-legend-caroline-page/ carries the story of Caroline Page's 'Viking send-off', if anyone's interested. By way of explanation, her father was a Cambridge Anglo-Saxonist, and her mother Norwegian. |
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Post by Rutlander on Oct 11, 2023 14:40:57 GMT
I presume then that Caroline Page's father was R. I. Page? A very big name in that field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._I._Page "True to his Yorkshire roots, he would not permit red roses in his garden." |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 11, 2023 15:24:58 GMT
Ray Page interviewed me for Cambridge. Impressively intimidating when he wanted to be.
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Post by batman on Oct 11, 2023 15:43:02 GMT
I presume then that Caroline Page's father was R. I. Page? A very big name in that field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._I._Page "True to his Yorkshire roots, he would not permit red roses in his garden." that is pretty pathetic IMHO. Can't stand Yorkshire chauvinists. We used to have one in the Express pub here in Brentford. Pain in the arse especially in London. |
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Post by phil156 on Oct 11, 2023 18:01:07 GMT
Cheltenham will count on the evening and Suffolk at 09.30 Friday morning
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Post by owainsutton on Oct 11, 2023 18:28:58 GMT
East Suffolk: www.ruthleachphotography.com/newsroom is Ruth Leach's professional website. She has a high profile in Woodbridge thanks to her involvement in the Save the Deben campaign. The Conservative choice is unexpected. There were other potential candidates who are better known. The absence of a Green candidate is indeed said to be by arrangement. I understand that some local Labour members. including town councillors, wanted to be a part of this arrangement as well. |
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Post by jamesdoyle on Oct 12, 2023 6:45:16 GMT
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k9
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Post by k9 on Oct 12, 2023 7:24:12 GMT
Interesting to reference Prestbury as alleged the most haunted village in England - I believe that accolade actually goes to Pluckley in Kent according to the Guinness Book of Records. |
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 12, 2023 9:02:09 GMT
Interesting to reference Prestbury as alleged the most haunted village in England - I believe that accolade actually goes to Pluckley in Kent according to the Guinness Book of Records. I suspect this is one of those "records" where there are lots of claimants and it's essentially impossible to prove which is the actual record. |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 12, 2023 9:05:45 GMT
Interesting to reference Prestbury as alleged the most haunted village in England - I believe that accolade actually goes to Pluckley in Kent according to the Guinness Book of Records. I suspect this is one of those "records" where there are lots of claimants and it's essentially impossible to prove which is the actual record. All villages in England jointly hold the record for being the most haunted village in England, because the number of ghosts in each one is zero. |
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Oct 12, 2023 9:42:02 GMT
I suspect this is one of those "records" where there are lots of claimants and it's essentially impossible to prove which is the actual record. All villages in England jointly hold the record for being the kost haunted village in England, because the number of ghosts in each one is zero. Are you sure, to me that sounds like a rather ghoulish statement. |
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Post by yellowperil on Oct 12, 2023 10:03:05 GMT
I suspect this is one of those "records" where there are lots of claimants and it's essentially impossible to prove which is the actual record. All villages in England jointly hold the record for being the kost haunted village in England, because the number of ghosts in each one is zero. As a resident of Pluckley now for the last 47 years, I most emphatically reject the claim of most haunted village,etc. It did create good trade for the village pubs for a generation or so, especially round the Halloween season, until Halloween got totally out of hand and the village had to be closed to outsiders with a police-enforced blocade. We are grateful for a return to normal after that but we still get twitchy when anyone resurrects the old nonsense. I have done a number of TV interviews denouncing the whole thing,and the pubs who created the whole thing for their own profit are no longer in the business as pubs, and good riddance. |
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Post by grumpyguy on Oct 12, 2023 11:22:49 GMT
I presume then that Caroline Page's father was R. I. Page? A very big name in that field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._I._Page "True to his Yorkshire roots, he would not permit red roses in his garden." Yes, Britain's leading expert on runes, apparently. Also a man of strong and determined opinions - his dislike of Tolkien was so great his daughters weren't allowed even The Hobbit in the house! On the question of inter-party agreements, in recent years there has been a lot of local goodwill between LibDems, Greens and Labour, something which the public don't seem to mind.....Unfortunately, or not, people higher up in at least two of the parties seem to dislike the erosion of party identity that follows and of course there is the well-rehearsed argument that many voters won't switch allegiance anyway. But Labour's current weakness on East Suffolk Council must be partly due to non-participation in local election agreements. You can put too high a value on independence. Or have I missed something here? I hadn't heard that Labour wanted to be part of the agreement but weren't welcomed locally. I'm sorry if that was so. I know and respect some of Woodbridge Labour. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 12, 2023 11:23:06 GMT
That's a very long record of Labour non-contestation in Prestbury. Was this because the local party is better disposed toward People Against Bureaucracy than the other local parties, or is it just a question of Labour weakness in Cheltenham in general?
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iain
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Post by iain on Oct 12, 2023 11:52:51 GMT
That's a very long record of Labour non-contestation in Prestbury. Was this because the local party is better disposed toward People Against Bureaucracy than the other local parties, or is it just a question of Labour weakness in Cheltenham in general? I think it's actually to do with a lack of organisation in Tewkesbury CLP (or communication between Cheltenham and Tewkesbury) - even when Labour have managed a full / close to full slate in the town, they have often missed Prestbury and Swindon Village, the two wards which aren't part of the Cheltenham constituency. |
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Post by phil156 on Oct 12, 2023 22:30:06 GMT
Cheltenham turnout 36.15%
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ricmk
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Post by ricmk on Oct 12, 2023 23:03:16 GMT
PAB hold.
PAB 644
Green 484
LD 346
Con 258
Spoilt 1
Total Votes 1733, 36.15% turnout.
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Post by olympian95 on Oct 12, 2023 23:04:40 GMT
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Post by maxque on Oct 12, 2023 23:10:37 GMT
PAB hold. PAB 644 Green 484 LD 346 Con 258 Spoilt 1 Total Votes 1733, 36.15% turnout. PAB 37.2% (-8.5) Grn 27.9% (+9.6) LD 20.0% (+5.4) Con 14.9% (-6.5) |
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