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Post by anthony on Apr 21, 2024 9:11:45 GMT
Even as a Lib Dem district council candidate in a hopeless seat I had to sign a piece of paper confirming my involvement (or lack of, in my case) in any other political party or movement. I assumed this was standard in all parties.. The standard approval question is if you have been, not to confirm you never* have been (on the basis that it is useful to know). There's plenty of people who've been in other political parties. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 21, 2024 9:35:34 GMT
Even as a Lib Dem district council candidate in a hopeless seat I had to sign a piece of paper confirming my involvement (or lack of, in my case) in any other political party or movement. I assumed this was standard in all parties.. The standard approval question is if you have been, not to confirm you never* have been (on the basis that it is useful to know). There's plenty of people who've been in other political parties. "Are you or have you ever been a member of the local residents association?" |
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Post by anthony on Apr 21, 2024 20:08:01 GMT
The standard approval question is if you have been, not to confirm you never* have been (on the basis that it is useful to know). There's plenty of people who've been in other political parties. "Are you or have you ever been a member of the local residents association?" Whereas answering yes to the following would be the end for aspiring Labour candidates... "Have you ever liked a Tweet by a member of the Green Party?" |
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Post by wallington on Apr 22, 2024 19:52:00 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 9, 2024 16:21:18 GMT
Results since 1945. This constituency, uniquely for London, has retained fundamentally the same boundaries since it was created in 1945. | | Con | Lab | Lib |
| | | | | | | | 1945 | 46.0% | 41.0% | 13.0% | | | 1950 | 56.9% | 34.5% | 8.6% | | | 1951 | 62.8% | 37.2% | | | | 1955 | 66.0% | 34.0% | | | | 1959 | 58.3% | 25.5% | 16.2% | | | 1964 | 52.7% | 27.1% | 20.2% | | | 1966 | 51.1% | 30.3% | 18.6% | |
| | Con | Lab | Lib/LD | NF/BNP | Grn | | | | | | | | | 1970 | 58.1% | 27.3% | 14.6% | | | | 1974 | 45.4% | 12.6% | 42.0% | | | | 1974 | 47.6% | 15.3% | 36.5% | | | | 1979 | 58.0% | 14.3% | 26.4% | 0.9% | | | 1983 | 57.1% | 7.6% | 35.2% | | | | 1987 | 60.8% | 10.6% | 28.6% | | | | 1992 | 55.2% | 9.9% | 33.8% | | 0.9% |
| | Con | Lab | LD | Ref/UKIP/
BXP | Grn | NF/BNP | | | | | | | | | | 1997 | 37.9% | 15.5% | 42.3% | 4.2% | | | | 2001 | 38.0% | 13.2% | 48.8% | | | | | 2005 | 40.4% | 11.8% | 47.1% | | | | | 2010 | 42.4% | 7.0% | 45.7% | 2.0% | 0.5% | 2.1% | | 2015 | 41.5% | 11.1% | 33.7% | 10.7% | 2.1% | | | 2017 | 51.1% | 20.5% | 26.7% | | 1.7% | | | 2019 | 50.0% | 14.3% | 33.4% | | 2.3% | |
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Crimson King
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Post by Crimson King on May 13, 2024 7:27:59 GMT
something about the Lib Dem selection on the radio this morning I think but I missed the detail
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on May 13, 2024 8:54:29 GMT
something about the Lib Dem selection on the radio this morning I think but I missed the detail
Party members supporting him are now calling on the EHRC to launch an independent investigation into “multiple alleged breaches of equality law and our party constitution”.
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Post by Antiochian on May 24, 2024 20:01:03 GMT
Seems he was deselected due to a failure to declare he was one of the founder of the Christian People Alliance. He claims he was deselected due to being an active Christian. The mind boggles what they would have made of DLG.... too Methodist for their liking... In fact what famous Liberal would ever have passed muster with the current crew? |
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Post by yellowperil on May 24, 2024 20:59:42 GMT
Seems he was deselected due to a failure to declare he was one of the founder of the Christian People Alliance. He claims he was deselected due to being an active Christian. The mind boggles what they would have made of DLG.... too Methodist for their liking... In fact what famous Liberal would ever have passed muster with the current crew? I could think of a little list of famous Liberals where it might have been better had they been deselected early in their career.Not for being too Christian, though. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 24, 2024 21:07:42 GMT
Seems he was deselected due to a failure to declare he was one of the founder of the Christian People Alliance. He claims he was deselected due to being an active Christian. The mind boggles what they would have made of DLG.... too Methodist for their liking... In fact what famous Liberal would ever have passed muster with the current crew? David Lloyd George was not a Methodist. He was brought up in the rather idiosyncratic Churches of Christ, had strong family links to the Baptists, and seems to have lost his faith at a young age. But why let facts intrude ... |
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Post by Antiochian on Jun 3, 2024 18:18:00 GMT
This whole matter shows the McCarthyite strain in the LibDems...
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Post by tonyhil on Jun 3, 2024 19:02:05 GMT
No it doesn't. It shows a degree of incompetence in selecting a particular candidate whose views did not, on sober analysis, appear to be particularly liberal.
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Post by wallington on Jun 7, 2024 16:50:21 GMT
SUTTON & CHEAM:
IND - Hamilton Action Man 🙃 Kingsley
GRN - Aasha Anam
CON - Tom Drummond
REF UK - Ryan Powell
LAB - Chrishni Reshekaron
LIB DEM - Luke Taylor
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Post by michaelarden on Jun 8, 2024 15:16:43 GMT
Surprised the Christian People's Alliance aren't standing here.
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Post by batman on Jun 8, 2024 16:33:42 GMT
I have been to this constituency today, to do a choir workshop in Cheam, passing through Worcester Park to get there. No election posters for any parties on the roads I went down.
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Post by londonseal80 on Jun 23, 2024 13:17:40 GMT
I have been to this constituency today, to do a choir workshop in Cheam, passing through Worcester Park to get there. No election posters for any parties on the roads I went down. Went through this seat nothing but Lib Dem everywhere though a lot of Conservative voters probably won’t openly state it. Seen a Conservative poster in neighbouring Carshalton (Wrythe area) but that’s it around here. Epsom is the only area I have seen Labour posters but yet again see a lot more Lib Dem. |
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Post by ll1975 on Jun 24, 2024 10:33:49 GMT
This is our constituency, and I would be very surprised if it does not go to the LDs this time round. While not the best indicator, you do see a fair number of LD posters about and I am yet to see a Tory one.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2024 10:47:24 GMT
This is our constituency, and I would be very surprised if it does not go to the LDs this time round. While not the best indicator, you do see a fair number of LD posters about and I am yet to see a Tory one. ULEZ could save the Tories here because the Lib Dems in the London Assembly voted to extend it to the edge of Greater London but I might be overthinking. |
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Post by ll1975 on Jun 24, 2024 11:16:53 GMT
This is our constituency, and I would be very surprised if it does not go to the LDs this time round. While not the best indicator, you do see a fair number of LD posters about and I am yet to see a Tory one. ULEZ could save the Tories here because the Lib Dems in the London Assembly voted to extend it to the edge of Greater London but I might be overthinking. I think you might be - its more associated with Khan and Labour than the LDs, and I think this time round any impact that would have had will be swamped by Lab VI from '15-'19 this time voting tactically against the Tories! |
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Post by rogerg on Jun 24, 2024 11:26:48 GMT
Sutton Council opposed the ULEZ expansion very publicly and I don't think Tories can weaponise it against Lib Dems anything like as much as they can against Labour. In any case the salience of the issue is a tiny fraction of what it was and it is largely something that animated people who were always going to end up voting Tory anyway. The Lib Dems' issues here are well set out in the discussion above. Not having a candidate in place to build profile and prepare organisationally is a difficulty. (Although mitigated by Scully's late retirement.) There's now a perfectly presentable Lib Dem candidate in place but it is a last minute thing and the test is whether there is still the on-the-ground capacity to run the campaign needed, especially where council seats were lost years ago. I suspect that the decades long Lib Dem (and Liberal) local profile combined with a great bar chart will be enough to take it. But this seat is tougher than the raw numbers might suggest.
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