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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 13, 2023 10:58:54 GMT
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Post by andrewp on Oct 13, 2023 11:06:11 GMT
Woodbridge
Percentages and change from 2021
LD 51.2% ( -12.3)
Con 33.2% (-3.3)
Lab 15.6% - new
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 13, 2023 11:23:27 GMT
Not a bad showing for Labour there, the best for them in this division since 2005 (which was of course on GE day)
OK for the Tories, in contrast to their result in Cheltenham which was dismal.
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Post by jamesdoyle on Oct 13, 2023 11:27:20 GMT
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LDm +21
Grn +8
Lab +7
Con -9
Not a lot happening; unsurprising considering what was up this week. next week looks more interesting.
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Post by Tony Otim on Oct 13, 2023 11:49:25 GMT
Not a bad showing for Labour there, the best for them in this division since 2005 (which was of course on GE day) OK for the Tories, in contrast to their result in Cheltenham which was dismal. Although their votes in the district ward on same boundaries have been considerably stronger in the last 2 elections, although that might be partly accounted for by vote splitting - the Labour candidate did beat both Tories this May... |
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Post by andrewp on Oct 13, 2023 11:54:14 GMT
Numbers below updated following this weeks contests.
Excluding countermanded elections, up to 12th October , there have now been 71 ordinary by elections since May 4th.
The Conservatives have defended 18- Held 5 and lost 13: 3 to the Greens, 5 to the Lib Dem’s, 4 to Labour and 1 to an Independent. ( retention rate 28%) and have gained 5
Labour have defended 32- Held 23 and lost 9: 3 to the Conservatives, 3 to Independents, 2 to the Lib Dem’s and 1 to the Greens( retention rate 72%) and have gained 6
Lib Dem’s have defended 10: Held 8 and lost 2,1 to the Greens and 1 to an Independent ( retention rate 80%) ) and have gained 8
Greens have defended 4: Held 2 and lost 2. 1 to the Conservatives and 1 to an Independent( retention rate 50%) and have gained 5
Independents have defended 1. Held 1. And have gained 6
Residents have defended 1, held 1
PAB have defended 1, held 1
SNP have defended 3 Lost 3, 1 to the Conservatives and 2 to Labour ( retention rate 0%)
Vectis have defended 1, lost 1 to the Lib Dem’s
Overall net changes
Con -8
Lab -3
LD +6
Green +3
Ind + 6
SNP -3
Vectis -1
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Post by minionofmidas on Oct 13, 2023 21:40:40 GMT
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. And yet you still haunt the place? |
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Post by dundas on Oct 14, 2023 8:24:27 GMT
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. And yet you still haunt the place? His spectre looms large. |
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Post by yellowperil on Oct 14, 2023 8:59:03 GMT
And yet you still haunt the place? His spectre looms large. I'm actually still alive. I think. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 14, 2023 12:25:59 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! I wish he'd been my dad. |
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Post by minionofmidas on Oct 14, 2023 15:36:28 GMT
I'm actually still alive. I think. Many ghosts, in myth and modern fiction, have been known to labour under such a delusion but I don't know of any whose social media posts were visible to the living, so I'll take your word for it. |
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Post by yellowperil on Oct 14, 2023 19:46:19 GMT
So that's what thw world has come to - proof of being alive depends on the existance of current social media posts.
I think I might prefer being dead.
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Post by minionofmidas on Oct 15, 2023 4:16:36 GMT
So that's what thw world has come to - proof of being alive depends on the existance of current social media posts. I think I might prefer being dead. Not existence, visibillity - existence proves nothing! Of course, it's possible that all of us who still post on such a web1.0 forum are, in fact, dead and do not know it yet. |
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Post by skyep on Oct 16, 2023 10:45:23 GMT
schrödinger's anoraks
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