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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 22:46:43 GMT
Lancaster and Wyre
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 27, 2024 13:34:03 GMT
Facebook has just showed me an advert from Cat Smith.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 7, 2024 16:17:00 GMT
Lancaster and Wyre
Statement of Persons Nominated
Nigel ALDERSON (Reform UK)
Peter CARTRIDGE (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Jack LENOX (Green Party)
Matt SEVERN (Liberal Democrats)
Cat SMITH (Labour Party)
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 11, 2024 16:41:34 GMT
Lancaster and Wyre Statement of Persons Nominated Nigel ALDERSON (Reform UK) Peter CARTRIDGE (The Conservative Party Candidate) Jack LENOX (Green Party) Matt SEVERN (Liberal Democrats) Cat SMITH (Labour Party) I wonder if the Greens could push the Tories into 3rd here. The Tories will probably do decently in Preesall parish and Garstang plus the villages, but Lancaster is such a strongly Green city that I expect the Tories will be squeezed out of most of the wards. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 11, 2024 17:12:19 GMT
Lancaster and Wyre Statement of Persons Nominated Nigel ALDERSON (Reform UK) Peter CARTRIDGE (The Conservative Party Candidate) Jack LENOX (Green Party) Matt SEVERN (Liberal Democrats) Cat SMITH (Labour Party) I wonder if the Greens could push the Tories into 3rd here. The Tories will probably do decently in Preesall parish and Garstang plus the villages, but Lancaster is such a strongly Green city that I expect the Tories will be squeezed out of most of the wards. I'm interested in what Wyre does because it has had UKIP representation at council level so ReformUK could really bite into the Tories in very leafy Lancashire. |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 11, 2024 17:18:50 GMT
I wonder if the Greens could push the Tories into 3rd here. The Tories will probably do decently in Preesall parish and Garstang plus the villages, but Lancaster is such a strongly Green city that I expect the Tories will be squeezed out of most of the wards. I'm interested in what Wyre does because it has had UKIP representation at council level so ReformUK could really bite into the Tories in very leafy Lancashire. Maybe they could do well if they had a candidate based in Over Wyre (which is frankly another planet from most of the UK), but I can't find any info on their candidate. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 11, 2024 17:39:27 GMT
I'm interested in what Wyre does because it has had UKIP representation at council level so ReformUK could really bite into the Tories in very leafy Lancashire. Maybe they could do well if they had a candidate based in Over Wyre (which is frankly another planet from most of the UK), but I can't find any info on their candidate I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me) |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 11, 2024 17:52:54 GMT
Maybe they could do well if they had a candidate based in Over Wyre (which is frankly another planet from most of the UK), but I can't find any info on their candidate I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me)
Apparently there's a five mile scenic walk which begins and ends at the pub, so you should be fine.  |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 11, 2024 17:57:08 GMT
Maybe they could do well if they had a candidate based in Over Wyre (which is frankly another planet from most of the UK), but I can't find any info on their candidate I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me) Knott End has a good pub near the ferry with nice views, and a beautiful seaside walk up towards Pilling, highly recommended. Back to politics - the SOPN says that the Reform candidate lives somewhere in Wyre, but no publicity, and more interestingly, that the Tory lives on a farm near Pilling. So the Tory will likely top the poll in the Wyre part, with a split vote in Garstang and then it's down to how the vote splits in Lancaster. |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 11, 2024 17:58:53 GMT
I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me)
Apparently there's a five mile scenic walk which begins and ends at the pub, so you should be fine. Caution - Pilling embankment, which connects to the popular seafront walk is closed a lot of the time, so the best way is to continue into Pilling village proper, head towards the village hall or pub, and get the hourly bus back towards Knott End. The roads avoiding the embankment aren't the nicest. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 11, 2024 18:17:13 GMT
Thanks both |
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Post by observer on Jun 11, 2024 18:47:23 GMT
Should be a good vote for Reform in Wyre: UKIP won first place in the borough in the 2014 EU elections with -I think - Brexit Party in first place in 2019
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Post by mattb on Jun 11, 2024 19:11:22 GMT
Should be a good vote for Reform in Wyre: UKIP won first place in the borough in the 2014 EU elections with -I think - Brexit Party in first place in 2019 But mainly from Fleetwood, surely? |
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Post by observer on Jun 11, 2024 19:17:06 GMT
I don't know to be honest
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 11, 2024 21:23:40 GMT
Maybe they could do well if they had a candidate based in Over Wyre (which is frankly another planet from most of the UK), but I can't find any info on their candidate I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me) A baleful thought to conjure with! Perhaps the exotically named Garstang with the special line to Knott End provided 'a local rail connection for local rail travellers in a locality of localness and verisimilitude of outward appearances'? |
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Post by batman on Jun 11, 2024 22:29:28 GMT
Should be a good vote for Reform in Wyre: UKIP won first place in the borough in the 2014 EU elections with -I think - Brexit Party in first place in 2019 But mainly from Fleetwood, surely? that would be correct. Fleetwood as a fishing port does have a very different profile from the rest of Wyre, most of which is fairly comfortably-off and Tory and not all that heavily Brexity. And of course Fleetwood isn't in this constituency as redrawn |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 12, 2024 1:58:16 GMT
But mainly from Fleetwood, surely? that would be correct. Fleetwood as a fishing port does have a very different profile from the rest of Wyre, most of which is fairly comfortably-off and Tory and not all that heavily Brexity. And of course Fleetwood isn't in this constituency as redrawn Neither is Poulton le Fylde - which is the more solidly Tory town in Wyre, compared to Garstang. |
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 12, 2024 2:06:42 GMT
I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me) A baleful thought to conjure with! Perhaps the exotically named Garstang with the special line to Knott End provided 'a local rail connection for local rail travellers in a locality of localness and verisimilitude of outward appearances'? It does certainly feel that way to an extent, if you visit Over Wyre; however, ironically the railway was constructed initially to help support development of a large area of mossland for agricultural purposes, in which there was nothing previously! Thus there was not much local traffic to be carried pre-development, unless you suppose the local cockles would queue up for a ride! |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 12, 2024 5:41:58 GMT
I've rarely visited Over Wyre though what I've seen is enough. FarmYard Ales did a brewery visit, coach from Preston, and when the dual carriageway became a road, then a country road, then a path, then barely anything at all, I knew that I wasn't in normal territory any more. (I'd like to go to Knott End, never done it, and at 44 years old I feel it's the sort of place where I'll start to see people who look just like me) A baleful thought to conjure with! Perhaps the exotically named Garstang with the special line to Knott End provided 'a local rail connection for local rail travellers in a locality of localness and verisimilitude of outward appearances'? Garstang is a little slice of England you'd be very comfortable visiting Carlton, I'm sure of it. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 12, 2024 8:53:53 GMT
A baleful thought to conjure with! Perhaps the exotically named Garstang with the special line to Knott End provided 'a local rail connection for local rail travellers in a locality of localness and verisimilitude of outward appearances'? It does certainly feel that way to an extent, if you visit Over Wyre; however, ironically the railway was constructed initially to help support development of a large area of mossland for agricultural purposes, in which there was nothing previously! Thus there was not much local traffic to be carried pre-development, unless you suppose the local cockles would queue up for a ride! Horrid thought!! They were probably accompanied by a Walrus and a Carpenter : And were eaten, every one! |
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