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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 22:45:24 GMT
Heywood and Middleton North
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Post by lackeroftalent on Jun 7, 2024 17:03:32 GMT
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Post by owainsutton on Jun 7, 2024 17:06:30 GMT
Gutting. One invalid signature that couldn't be replaced in time, only seat in E&W that we're missing. The local party previously stating that they'd be endorsing an independent was the spur for the motion to conference that enabled GPRC to take charge and make sure candidates were in place. Without that, and the separate vote at conference supporting a full slate and rejecting any pacts/deals, there couldn't have been the push at all levels of the party to get a full slate. So all the more galling that this is the seat where we fell short! |
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Jun 7, 2024 17:08:02 GMT
Gutting. One invalid signature that couldn't be replaced in time, only seat in E&W that we're missing. The local party previously stating that they'd be endorsing an independent was the spur for the motion to conference that enabled GPRC to take charge and make sure candidates were in place. Without that, and the separate vote at conference supporting a full slate and rejecting any pacts/deals, there couldn't have been the push at all levels of the party to get a full slate. So all the more galling that this is the seat where we fell short! Has it occurred to you that this might not have been a coincidence? |
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Post by owainsutton on Jun 7, 2024 17:24:44 GMT
Gutting. One invalid signature that couldn't be replaced in time, only seat in E&W that we're missing. The local party previously stating that they'd be endorsing an independent was the spur for the motion to conference that enabled GPRC to take charge and make sure candidates were in place. Without that, and the separate vote at conference supporting a full slate and rejecting any pacts/deals, there couldn't have been the push at all levels of the party to get a full slate. So all the more galling that this is the seat where we fell short! Has it occurred to you that this might not have been a coincidence? I know enough of the individuals involved, and other related matters, to say that there was definitely no conspiracy! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2024 10:32:03 GMT
This doesn't feel like almost ten years ago...
2014 Heywood and Middleton by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Liz McInnes 11,633 40.9 +0.8
UKIP John Bickley 11,016 38.7 +36.1
Conservative Iain Gartside[14] 3,496 12.3 ―14.9
Liberal Democrats Anthony Smith[15] 1,457 5.1 ―17.6
Green Abi Jackson[16] 870 3.1 New
Majority 617 2.2 ―10.7
Turnout 28,472 36.0 -21.5
Labour hold Swing ―18.5
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Post by bsjmcr on Jul 13, 2024 16:40:30 GMT
This doesn't feel like almost ten years ago... 2014 Heywood and Middleton by-election Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Liz McInnes 11,633 40.9 +0.8 UKIP John Bickley 11,016 38.7 +36.1 Conservative Iain Gartside[14] 3,496 12.3 ―14.9 Liberal Democrats Anthony Smith[15] 1,457 5.1 ―17.6 Green Abi Jackson[16] 870 3.1 New Majority 617 2.2 ―10.7 Turnout 28,472 36.0 -21.5 Labour hold Swing ―18.5 A pretty good result for Labour here given the circumstances in other parts of Rochdale (though this area over is very different in character, it did take in Spotland and Falinge which is very ‘Rochdale’) in that Reform didn’t come as close as UKIP did back at the by-election or in 2015. The icing on the cake for the winner here is that she won’t even have to worry about bumping into her predecessor Clarkson whose chicken run to Stratford-on-Avon failed abysmally. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood_and_Middleton_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2024 16:49:44 GMT
Yes I overestimated Reform here, in Thurrock and the Thanets.
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Post by cathyc on Jul 13, 2024 16:56:53 GMT
This doesn't feel like almost ten years ago... 2014 Heywood and Middleton by-election Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Liz McInnes 11,633 40.9 +0.8 UKIP John Bickley 11,016 38.7 +36.1 Conservative Iain Gartside[14] 3,496 12.3 ―14.9 Liberal Democrats Anthony Smith[15] 1,457 5.1 ―17.6 Green Abi Jackson[16] 870 3.1 New Majority 617 2.2 ―10.7 Turnout 28,472 36.0 -21.5 Labour hold Swing ―18.5 A pretty good result for Labour here given the circumstances in other parts of Rochdale (though this area over is very different in character, it did take in Spotland and Falinge which is very ‘Rochdale’) in that Reform didn’t come as close as UKIP did back at the by-election or in 2015. The icing on the cake for the winner here is that she won’t even have to worry about bumping into her predecessor Clarkson whose chicken run to Stratford-on-Avon failed abysmally. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood_and_Middleton_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)According to friends in the constituency there was very little chance of bumping into him anyway |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2024 16:57:49 GMT
When everyone says Clarkson MP, I think of Jeremy Clarkson, in some dystopian clusterfuck where he won the Tory selection for the 2016 Witney by-election.
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