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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2024 4:34:53 GMT
I want a East Sussex and West Sussex combined mayoralty which would be an intense three-way marginal between the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems. Anyone else?
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Post by tonyhil on Jun 26, 2024 5:27:57 GMT
I want to abolish mayoralties.
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Post by samtheodoridi on Jun 26, 2024 14:13:05 GMT
The obvious costal unitary would be Arun, Worthing and Adur for me.
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Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Jun 26, 2024 16:06:35 GMT
The obvious costal unitary would be Arun, Worthing and Adur for me. The thing is, splitting off Littlehampton from Bognor doesn't really make any sense (despite their rivalry, they do really fit together) but having Bognor in a unitary that looks East rather than West makes no sense either. And just to nix a 'coastal unitary', you have in include the hinterland (as was posted upthread). That's where the whole county Unitaries have overcompensated, and the '90s city Unitaries were done completely wrong. |
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Post by matureleft on Jul 5, 2024 9:03:16 GMT
A pity. In any other circumstances an excellent Labour result. But it would have been nice if the party had held their nerve and let the campaign run without pretty forceful direction to work elsewhere (Worthing West, actually won reasonably comfortably). But that’s what election organisation is about - making tough choices about where a limited movable workforce is deployed. Maybe the gap (1800) would have been too big to bridge anyway.
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Post by froome on Jul 5, 2024 13:50:43 GMT
A pity. In any other circumstances an excellent Labour result. But it would have been nice if the party had held their nerve and let the campaign run without pretty forceful direction to work elsewhere (Worthing West, actually won reasonably comfortably). But that’s what election organisation is about - making tough choices about where a limited movable workforce is deployed. Maybe the gap (1800) would have been too big to bridge anyway. I still think you could have won this seat had your campaign continued. The Worthing seats were always going to be Labour gains. |
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Post by batman on Jul 5, 2024 15:36:04 GMT
definitely agree with you on this froome.
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Post by jamesdoyle on Jul 5, 2024 16:30:24 GMT
definitely agree with you on this froome. Some of those activists who went to Brighton Pavilion on a quixotic quest could have been useful here. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 14, 2024 12:28:05 GMT
It feels like this seat was ultimately one step too far for Labour. There were ultimately too many Conservative-voting pensioners here to see them across the line this time but if the Conservatives don't recover by 2028 and we have a 2001 style result this could be the Dorset South equivalent as the demographic time bomb will eventually hit the Conservatives here as it has done in Brighton & Hove and now Worthing.
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