stb12
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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 23:58:56 GMT
Henley and Thame
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jun 3, 2024 11:57:08 GMT
Sunak campaigning here today...🫤
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iain
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Post by iain on Jun 3, 2024 12:45:01 GMT
Sunak campaigning here today...🫤 As is Daisy Cooper for the Lib Dems. |
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Post by batman on Jun 3, 2024 12:51:44 GMT
The idea that this seat could be seen as a major battleground would have been seen as ridiculous until very recently.
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jun 3, 2024 13:45:23 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Mind, imagine having a Tory leader campaigning there as well..
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 3, 2024 14:26:28 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Mind, imagine having a Tory leader campaigning there as well.. A lot of people seem to think it's an admittance of defeat that :
1. Sunak campaigns in hopeless seats 2. Sunak campaigns in Tory seats 3. Sunak campaigns in marginal seats.
I hold no brief for him but that doesn't leave him a lot of options does it?  |
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Post by john07 on Jun 3, 2024 17:17:17 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Mind, imagine having a Tory leader campaigning there as well.. A lot of people seem to think it's an admittance of defeat that : 1. Sunak campaigns in hopeless seats 2. Sunak campaigns in Tory seats 3. Sunak campaigns in marginal seats.
I hold no brief for him but that doesn't leave him a lot of options does it? I assume that they are suggesting that he stands in seats that could be won be won by the Tories provided that enough effort was put in. Maybe a few red wall seats in the north would qualify along with seats in the south with 10,000 plus Tory majorities? |
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Post by carolus on Jun 3, 2024 17:55:00 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Mind, imagine having a Tory leader campaigning there as well.. A lot of people seem to think it's an admittance of defeat that :
1. Sunak campaigns in hopeless seats 2. Sunak campaigns in Tory seats 3. Sunak campaigns in marginal seats.
I hold no brief for him but that doesn't leave him a lot of options does it? If you're explaining campaigning, you're losing. |
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Post by batman on Jun 3, 2024 21:50:02 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Mind, imagine having a Tory leader campaigning there as well.. A lot of people seem to think it's an admittance of defeat that :
1. Sunak campaigns in hopeless seats 2. Sunak campaigns in Tory seats 3. Sunak campaigns in marginal seats.
I hold no brief for him but that doesn't leave him a lot of options does it? I wouldn't blame him for campaigning in any of those per se. The problem for him is if he is campaigning mainly in seats which were ancestrally safe Tory, as this one was for generations. It was consistently (please correct me if this is wrong) one of the safest dozen Tory seats in the land on similar though not identical boundaries, and now Sunak is forced to come here. He's not WRONG to campaign in the seat, if it's seen as vulnerable, it's just that it is not exactly the kind of seat that would normally attract a Conservative leader in a general election campaign. |
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Post by arnieg on Jun 3, 2024 22:21:56 GMT
Rishi: how should we show our party's commitment to leveling up in the red wall seats?
Campaign guru: we could visit a posh rowing club in Henley and talk to some fruity [copyright Private Eye] young ladies
Rishi: what could possibly go wrong?
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Post by heslingtonian on Jun 4, 2024 8:17:45 GMT
The idea that this seat could be seen as a major battleground would have been seen as ridiculous until very recently. This seat has zero Conservative District councillors in it. |
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Post by nobodyimportant on Jun 4, 2024 13:28:14 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Yes, although there's only 1 rail bridge and 1 road bridge connecting the two |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 4, 2024 13:39:04 GMT
Wokingham is adjacent isn't it? Yes, although there's only 1 rail bridge and 1 road bridge connecting the two Good lord. Are there visa requirements between the two?  |
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Post by nobodyimportant on Jun 4, 2024 13:49:07 GMT
Yes, although there's only 1 rail bridge and 1 road bridge connecting the two Good lord. Are there visa requirements between the two? There weren't last time I went that way, although that was pre-Brexit so... |
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Post by Ports on Jun 4, 2024 16:28:09 GMT
Whilst the campaign visit was aimed at Henley technically the rowing club Sunak was sat in was on the new Wokingham constituency.
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iain
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Post by iain on Jun 8, 2024 13:35:37 GMT
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 11, 2024 3:26:48 GMT
It's going to be an uphill struggle for the Libs to gain here with the unusually wise choice of Conservative candidate (born and bred South Oxon and crucially not remotely a posh incomer), but it is possible.
Freddie Van Mierlo is a good choice to energize voters into turning out for the LDs, and the LD/Green district administration is reasonably popular. They'll have to cover every fallen leaf in South Oxon to make sure the villages don't fall into the usual pattern of "I vote Tory because I always have done" - especially given the Tory candidate Caroline Brown lives in Britwell Salome near Watlington and Wallingford.
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 11, 2024 8:29:14 GMT
It's going to be an uphill struggle for the Libs to gain here with the unusually wise choice of Conservative candidate (born and bred South Oxon and crucially not remotely a posh incomer), but it is possible. Freddie Van Mierlo is a good choice to energize voters into turning out for the LDs, and the LD/Green district administration is reasonably popular. They'll have to cover every fallen leaf in South Oxon to make sure the villages don't fall into the usual pattern of "I vote Tory because I always have done" - especially given the Tory candidate Caroline Brown lives in Britwell Salome near Watlington and Wallingford. Won't take long though, as very few fallen leaves in June. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2024 8:33:56 GMT
Someone will have to call up Michael Heseltine if this falls. He's still active and does the odd interview with the BBC.
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 11, 2024 12:57:25 GMT
Someone will have to call up Michael Heseltine if this falls. He's still active and does the odd interview with the BBC. I'm not sure Heseltine would get on with the current Tory party tbh. |
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