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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 21:09:40 GMT
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
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Post by markgoodair on Apr 16, 2024 7:17:28 GMT
Reform have selected Scott Hussey as their PPC.
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Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Apr 16, 2024 8:58:04 GMT
Reform have selected Scott Hussey as their PPC. Or, as their own Facebook page said on March 1st "Carlos Alves, PPC for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket Constituency" |
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Post by right on May 23, 2024 10:30:17 GMT
Jo Churchill standing down.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 2, 2024 18:22:01 GMT
| | Con | Lab | Lib/LD |
| | | | | | | | | | 1974 | 44.0% | 30.3% | 25.4% | | | | 1974 | 46.2% | 33.9% | 20.0% | | | | 1979 | 53.0% | 30.3% | 16.5% | | | | 1983 | 55.7% | 15.1% | 29.2% | | | | 1987 | 55.0% | 18.8% | 25.1% | | | | 1992 | 49.3% | 25.3% | 24.2% | | |
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| Grn | | | | | | | | | | 1997 | 38.5% | 38.2% | 17.2% | 5.6% | | | | 2001 | 43.4% | 39.4% | 13.1% | 1.8% | | | | 2005 | 47.4% | 27.4% | 18.8% | 3.7% | | 2.7% | | 2010 | 48.5% | 16.5% | 25.7% | 5.0% | | 4.1% | | 2015 | 54.4% | 17.8% | 5.8% | 14.7% | | 7.4% | | 2017 | 59.8% | 29.2% | 5.5% | | | 3.9% | | 2019 | 62.9% | 20.8% | 1.1% | | | 12.4% |
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Post by carolus on Jun 7, 2024 15:41:04 GMT
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jun 24, 2024 10:48:51 GMT
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Post by matureleft on Jun 24, 2024 11:00:42 GMT
Gosh, they employ some boneheads do they not? |
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jun 24, 2024 11:12:32 GMT
SPADocracy rulz
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Post by matureleft on Jun 24, 2024 11:34:33 GMT
Gosh, they employ some boneheads do they not? Mind you he isn’t alone. I recall in 2019 a Labour MP sharing some indiscreet thoughts with a Tory “friend” and being shocked that they were broadcast to the world. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 24, 2024 11:51:38 GMT
Guido (usual caveats) reports that his arrival has pissed off the activists, and they have presumably downed tools. Amongst other factors of course. |
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jun 24, 2024 12:14:09 GMT
We seem to have a system where the favoured SPADs are handed safe seats and to them the game is then what matters. Webber's article in politico underlines this; there is no hinterland for a lot of these candidates, there is an ignorance of how the seat they are supposed to represent has changed and is changing which leads to a bewildered air when a job they thought they had for life suddenly disappears.
This leads onto a deeper question of what an MP is for. As successive parliaments have handed the executive greater and greater amounts of decision making via SI, the grip on the parliamentary timetable by the executive and the weakness of the Speaker in defending the role of scrutiny; are there only two roles left, a lobbyist or a social worker?
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Post by John Chanin on Jun 24, 2024 13:04:59 GMT
The notionals show this as a 40% majority in 2019, but I'm not convinced that the loss of the Mid Suffolk element is counteracted by the (smaller) gains to the south, and Labour came very close here in 1997. There is a sizeable Labour vote in both towns, not always visible at local elections. This is a seat I am very interested in watching on Friday 5th, although I believe Labour are discouraging local activists from campaigning here.
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Post by ccoleman on Jul 12, 2024 15:31:29 GMT
Very good result for Labour here - the party's vote share increasing by 12.1% with an overall swing of 21.6%. It's even more impressive if Labour were diverting activists away from here.
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 12, 2024 16:22:22 GMT
Very good result for Labour here - the party's vote share increasing by 12.1% with an overall swing of 21.6%. It's even more impressive if Labour were diverting activists away from here. And also done in the face of the unstoppable surge by the Green Party we have been regaled with for many years. I have lived and worked and politicked in that seat and was sorely grieved by is loss but much preferred to see that loss to the principled opponents Labour, than the oddball outfit of strange obsessions that is the modern Green Party. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 12, 2024 17:28:05 GMT
Did the Conservative selection of Sunak's Deputy Chief of Staff at a very late stage cost the Conservatives this seat?
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Post by hullenedge on Sept 1, 2024 7:10:56 GMT
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Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Sept 1, 2024 7:13:25 GMT
I was in Bury when the election was called and when it was announced that Jo Churchill was standing down I went to the local bookmakers to ask for a quote for the constituency, which they did not have, but suggested that when they did they made Labour favourites to win
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Post by andrewp on Sept 1, 2024 7:42:15 GMT
He thinks it was the 3rd safest Conservative seat, it was the 64th. |
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Post by The Bishop on Sept 1, 2024 9:04:59 GMT
Prinsley is aged 66, but still not the oldest Commons entrant at this election. Have definitive lists of the youngest/oldest new MPs been produced yet?
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