Barking

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Barking

[John Chanin]

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[Pete Whitehead]

Notional results since 1945. The 2019 result is the 'official' (Thrasher & Rallings) notional - the others are my own work

	Con	Lab	Lib	Com
1945	15.4%	73.4%	11.2%
1950	21.3%	68.1%	10.2%	0.4%
1951	24.3%	69.8%	5.9%
1955	29.2%	70.8%
1959	27.9%	60.6%	11.5%
1964	20.9%	63.8%	14.9%	0.4%
1966	20.9%	68.7%	9.8%	0.6%

	Con	Lab	Lib/LD	NF/BNP
1970	28.3%	70.7%	0.3%	0.2%
1974	17.5%	63.3%	18.6%
1974	19.8%	62.2%	16.5%	3.4%
1979	28.9%	55.3%	11.6%	3.0%
1983	29.4%	43.2%	25.5%	1.9%
1987	33.9%	46.0%	20.1%
1992	33.1%	53.3%	13.6%

	Con	Lab	LD	NF/BNP	Ref/UKIP/ BXP
1997	16.9%	66.6%	9.1%	2.7%	3.9%
2001	22.7%	60.8%	9.9%	6.2%
2005	17.2%	49.5%	10.9%	15.9%	3.0%
2010	17.5%	54.8%	8.2%	14.5%	2.8%
2015	16.2%	58.2%	1.3%		21.8%
2017	22.2%	68.2%	1.3%		6.2%
2019	26.8%	60.9%	3.3%		7.1%

[markgoodair]

Labour’s Barking candidate Darren Rodwell investigated by party for alleged sexual harassment ahead of General Election

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-candidate-barking-darren-rodwell-investigation-b2555315.html

[andrea]

[timrollpickering]

The Conservative candidate is Julie Redmond.

The Labour candidate is no longer Darren Rodwell.

[maxque]

Jun 4, 2024 18:18:50 GMT timrollpickering said:

The Conservative candidate is Julie Redmond.

The Labour candidate is no longer Darren Rodwell.

I suppose Jon Cruddas got the champagne out, considering how much he fought against his selection.

[batman]

If somebody fabricated an incident to get rid of Lloyd Russell-Moyle, seen as a left-winger, for purely factional reasons, which I cannot entirely rule out at this stage, I deplore it in the strongest terms.

If somebody fabricated an incident to get rid of Darren Rodwell, seen as a right-winger, for purely factional reasons, which I cannot entirely rule out at this stage, I deplore it in the strongest terms.

However, investigations are needed. I hope they're both in a position to be exonerated and that at some point they will be able respectively to resume and to start a parliamentary career.

[Sg1]

Could be incidental, but I find the timing suspicious.

[mondialito]

SOPN:

Simon ANTHONY - Green Party

Muhammad ASIM - Workers Party

Lucy Ewube BAIYE-GAMAN - Christian Peoples Alliance

Nesil CALISKAN - Labour Party

Dee DIAS - Independent

Charley HASTED - Liberal Democrats

Clive PEACOCK - Reform UK

Julie REDMOND - Conservative Party

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Slightly suspiciously quickly, the allegations against Darren Rodwell get dismissed.

[rcronald]

Jul 8, 2024 10:23:54 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Slightly suspiciously quickly, the allegations against Darren Rodwell get dismissed.

WTF

[batman]

It's extremely similar to what happened to Jas Athwal in neighbouring Ilford S, though the allegations (even though they appear to have been entirely vexatious & spurious) weren't dismissed as quickly as those against Rodwell. Whether Darren Rodwell will get another chance as soon is rather doubtful.

[stb12]

Jul 8, 2024 11:31:38 GMT batman said:

It's extremely similar to what happened to Jas Athwal in neighbouring Ilford S, though the allegations (even though they appear to have been entirely vexatious & spurious) weren't dismissed as quickly as those against Rodwell. Whether Darren Rodwell will get another chance as soon is rather doubtful.

Is there not a good chance of him putting in a successful challenge for the candidacy next time round like Athwal managed against Tarry?

[Johncrane]

Jul 8, 2024 11:31:38 GMT batman said:

It's extremely similar to what happened to Jas Athwal in neighbouring Ilford S, though the allegations (even though they appear to have been entirely vexatious & spurious) weren't dismissed as quickly as those against Rodwell. Whether Darren Rodwell will get another chance as soon is rather doubtful.

And potentially the same thing has happened to Lloyd Russell-Moyle who was also prevented from standing. Labour should probably change how these complaints are handled to avoid accusations like these being weaponised

[The Bishop]

Fair to say that Rodwell has other "baggage" though (not sure if that was ever true of Athwal) so we shall see if he also gets rehabilitated or not.

[mrsir]

In most places (other than some obvious ones like Rochester and Strood/notionals from Thanet East) Reform’s vote was either up on what UKIP achieved in 2015 or the decline was very marginal and can be explained by new Tory incumbents (eg Mansfield).

Here the decline was 8% from 22.2 for UKIP in 2015 to 14.2 for Reform in 2024. It makes sense as I think the demographic changes here were greater than almost anywhere else in the 2021 census with even more change since then.

[sanders]

I don’t agree with this as such but whenever we talk about Barking, I’m reminded of this, with all the febrile, feverish pre-referendum context to this show.