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Post by mrhell on Jan 21, 2015 18:47:31 GMT
Not selected for a county seat.
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neilm
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Post by neilm on Jan 21, 2015 18:56:06 GMT
Not selected for a county seat. Referring to the Bishop Auckland chap? I've remembered as I type this that Durham is a unitary, I'd assumed he was a district councillor. |
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Post by john07 on Jan 21, 2015 22:02:45 GMT
Not selected for a county seat. Referring to the Bishop Auckland chap? I've remembered as I type this that Durham is a unitary, I'd assumed he was a district councillor. Sounds like he is a parish councillor and a Town Mayor. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 22, 2015 13:42:53 GMT
Referring to the Bishop Auckland chap? I've remembered as I type this that Durham is a unitary, I'd assumed he was a district councillor. Sounds like he is a parish councillor and a Town Mayor. Town Council. Or, as they are known in this Unitary, Toytown Council. Nothing to see ... move along ..... |
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Post by Devonian on Feb 2, 2015 18:26:42 GMT
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Post by Devonian on Feb 17, 2015 17:35:52 GMT
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 17, 2015 18:24:54 GMT
LMAO
A more accurate headline would be 'deselected councillor storms out of party, seeks attention'.
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Post by Merseymike on Feb 17, 2015 19:08:42 GMT
Good riddance. I don't think that she will be missed. She defected the day after her deselection And did she support opposition to the EU when in her post on the NEC? Don't think so Incidentally, her daughter is a Ukip activist, and I have a feeling that her failure to send her child to school may well have affected this decision, since the Labour group were, understandably, not impressed with this - her Ukip daughter and truanting child lives with her! www.ashfordherald.co.uk/Daughter-failed-Labour-PCC-candidate-Harriet-Yeo/story-17455993-detail/story.html |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 17, 2015 19:26:51 GMT
LMAO A more accurate headline would be 'deselected councillor storms out of party, seeks attention'. I think we should refer to such things as "The Full Abrams" when it involves a Labour Party member. |
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Pimpernal
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Post by Pimpernal on Feb 17, 2015 19:31:22 GMT
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Post by Merseymike on Feb 17, 2015 21:52:45 GMT
I think I probably know just a little bit more about the Labour party than you do - she has been on borrowed time for a fair while. I think people were initially quite sympathetic to her plight - I mean, having a daughter joining a fringe far right party can't be a pleasant experience for anyone in the Labour party, but it was made clear that her recent lack of effectiveness was the reason for the final loss of patience.
To cite LabourList: "Harriet Yeo was removed as Labour Group Leader of Ashford Council last week, after being accused of non-attendance at council meetings and a failure to undertake council casework.
Last night she was deselected as a candidate for the 2015 local elections – and left the Labour Party the next day.
Which gives an altogether different tone to the story than the party’s position on an EU referendum being the sole reason for Yeo’s departure."
Its not easy to manage to be deselected when you have been leader of the group - there must have been serious problems - and in any case, why wait so long when the policy has been absolutely clear and when there is no possibility of change?
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 17, 2015 23:27:45 GMT
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Post by Merseymike on Feb 17, 2015 23:30:32 GMT
Indeed. And we all know she has been talking to Ukip - over the breakfast table! |
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Post by harryjoe on Feb 18, 2015 10:31:55 GMT
Indeed. And we all know she has been talking to Ukip - over the breakfast table! Please tell us more MerseyMike. |
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Post by Merseymike on Feb 18, 2015 10:43:16 GMT
Please tell us more MerseyMike. IIRC her daughter joined UKIP recently - there was some publicity at the time. It wasn't that recently - 2012 I believe? |
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Post by carlton43 on Feb 18, 2015 12:51:48 GMT
Yeo is a find old Kent name. I think mother and daughter come from the 'badlands' of South Ashford where I cut my teeth as a Conservative in various wards with various degrees of lack of success. It used to be quite tough and in the bank sub branch I served for a while there were unpleasant bank raids of a sort that became more common in subsequent decades. Simple layout and no bandit screens, so two of us took to leaving our shot guns balanced on the wall behind us in full view of the public. We went off duty after service and shot rabbits on the edge of Romney Marsh, but there was real comfort in having that insurance! The raids happened when we were not on duty!! Imagine the furore today if someone did that? Glad I lived then and experienced that sort of simpler life.
This event is a small squall in a small coffee cup.
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 18, 2015 15:16:42 GMT
Please tell us more MerseyMike. IIRC her daughter joined UKIP recently - there was some publicity at the time. And has (twice) been a candidate for them since. |
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 4, 2015 11:01:48 GMT
Is it ever possible to argue that a defection quite properly follows a de-selection not because if pique or ego but out of principle, on grounds that "that was my last hurrah at espousing the views I hold, the party no longer represents them"? And has anyone ever defected following the failure to be selected of someone else? I think it is fair comment that a deselection can be the last straw for some who were falling out of love with that party anyway. (then again, that can quite often be a major reason why their party dropped them in the first place) It is those who showed no such signs of unhappiness before the democratic decision of their party brethren - but suddenly discover great, hitherto unmentioned issues of fundamental principle afterwards - who are subjected to ridicule here and elsewhere. And they seem to form a depressingly large proportion of such defectees. As for your last query, yes I'm certain it has happened (though no specific examples come to mind right now) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 12:14:17 GMT
In response to the latter point, Councillor Laura Booth (Offerton, Stockport) quit Labour after the deselection of her other half, Paul Moss, in North Reddish.
Cllr Moss suddenly discovered longstanding differences with Labour and quit as well.
Cllr Booth constantly attacks Labour and positively retweets the Lib Dem cllrs, so I assume it won't be long before she follows Cllr McAuley across the political divide.
Given her former total opposition to the Lib Dems control of the council, not least her vocal antipathy to the ennobled former council leader she defeated (who is now back on the council), this damascene journey will be fun to observe.
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Post by Richard Allen on Mar 4, 2015 14:26:39 GMT
And has anyone ever defected following the failure to be selected of someone else? Not quite what you are asking about but the final straw for me as a UKIP member was the selection of candidates for the 2014 Euro Elections. |
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