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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 21:02:34 GMT
South Derbyshire
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Post by matureleft on May 23, 2024 19:42:13 GMT
Heather Wheeler has posted on Facebook that she intends to stand again. Mildly surprising.
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Post by stb12 on May 23, 2024 19:56:54 GMT
Heather Wheeler has posted on Facebook that she intends to stand again. Mildly surprising. Because she’s likely to lose or for other reasons do you mean? |
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Post by matureleft on May 23, 2024 20:13:57 GMT
Heather Wheeler has posted on Facebook that she intends to stand again. Mildly surprising. Because she’s likely to lose or for other reasons do you mean? She’s 65. Her prospects of office are minimal. Her health has been chancy. She should win. But her local party has been fractious. Labour was successful in the last local elections and now run the council. The boundary changes favour Labour. Reform has a candidate and should appeal here. An outside chance of a surprise. |
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Post by mrtoad on May 24, 2024 15:52:06 GMT
The Labour candidate Samantha Niblett certainly seems, if her social media is any guide, to be formidably active and optimistic by nature.
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Post by Old Fashioned Leftie on May 24, 2024 16:31:40 GMT
I have had the misfortune to meet Heather Wheeler a few times. Good God were the Tories scraping the barrel making her a minister. I see a Labour gain here, things seemed to have really changed in Labour's favour around these parts and whilst it is not an easy gain i would not be surprised if it was in the low 1000s.
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Post by riccimarsh on May 24, 2024 21:10:43 GMT
Because she’s likely to lose or for other reasons do you mean? She’s 65. Her prospects of office are minimal. Her health has been chancy. She should win. But her local party has been fractious. Labour was successful in the last local elections and now run the council. The boundary changes favour Labour. Reform has a candidate and should appeal here. An outside chance of a surprise. If the local party is super fractious then maybe she’s standing purely to block someone else. |
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Post by lackeroftalent on Jun 5, 2024 16:54:44 GMT
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Post by bungle on Jun 7, 2024 15:35:53 GMT
SOPN hereAs above plus Paul Liversuch (Socialist Labour)- stood here in 2001 and 2010 and Amy Wheelton (Independent) - Seales ward councillor, elected as a Tory but long since distanced from them now. Won by-election after resigning her seat in 2021.
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Post by matureleft on Jul 5, 2024 6:31:27 GMT
A fairly comfortable Labour win. Delighted.
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Post by Old Fashioned Leftie on Jul 5, 2024 6:47:08 GMT
A fairly comfortable Labour win. Delighted. Delighted indeed to see the back of 'Ev, a truly awful individual - good riddance to bad rubbish. |
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Post by bungle on Jul 5, 2024 17:05:32 GMT
A fairly comfortable Labour win. Delighted. Delighted indeed to see the back of 'Ev, a truly awful individual - good riddance to bad rubbish. Her remarks upon defeat were unsurprisingly graceless and petty Outgoing Conservative MP of 14 years, Heather Wheeler, said: "South Derbyshire is incredibly special. To represent since 1995 in one way or another has been my political life's work. "I wish everybody well with the new incumbent. I regret everything that's happened, but it's a new dawn. "Good luck South Derbyshire, you'll need it." This earns her a strong entry in the Sore Loser thread. |
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Post by matureleft on Jul 5, 2024 17:10:58 GMT
Delighted indeed to see the back of 'Ev, a truly awful individual - good riddance to bad rubbish. Her remarks upon defeat were unsurprisingly graceless and petty Outgoing Conservative MP of 14 years, Heather Wheeler, said: "South Derbyshire is incredibly special. To represent since 1995 in one way or another has been my political life's work. "I wish everybody well with the new incumbent. I regret everything that's happened, but it's a new dawn. "Good luck South Derbyshire, you'll need it." This earns her a strong entry in the Sore Loser thread. Indeed. It doesn’t take too much to be courteous. I didn’t spot evidence of edge and nastiness in the campaign that might prompt that. I’m assuming that the winner observed the normal courtesies. |
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