Hove and Portslade

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Hove and Portslade

[John Chanin]

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[greenhert]

SOPN www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/voting-and-elections/statement-persons-nominated-and-notice-poll-hove-and-portslade

Sophie Broadbent (Green)
Carline Deal (Conservative)
Martin Hess (Reform UK)
Peter Kyle (Labour)
Tanushka Marah (Independent)
Michael Wang (Liberal Democrats)

A surprisingly low number of candidates for Hove & Portslade this time.

[right]

Another pro Palestine independent, this time endorsed by Ken Loach

electionleaflets.org/leaflets/19776/

[carlton43]

Jun 23, 2024 16:04:41 GMT right said:

Another pro Palestine independent, this time endorsed by Ken Loach

electionleaflets.org/leaflets/19776/

Yes he is an oddball who has caught 'Gaza Derangement Syndrome'.  He is a competent filmmaker but I don't like his films.  Last week 'Sight & Sound' published his 2022 'Top 10 Film' choices and I was astonished  to find that they were closer to mine than I would have ever imagined.

[batman]

I would argue that he caught derangement quite a number of years ago. It was quite a number of years ago that he told a BBC interviewer that it was acceptable to question the facts of the Holocaust.

[Merseymike]

Jun 23, 2024 17:12:34 GMT carlton43 said:

Jun 23, 2024 16:04:41 GMT right said:

Another pro Palestine independent, this time endorsed by Ken Loach

electionleaflets.org/leaflets/19776/

Yes he is an oddball who has caught 'Gaza Derangement Syndrome'.  He is a competent filmmaker but I don't like his films.  Last week 'Sight & Sound' published his 2022 'Top 10 Film' choices and I was astonished  to find that they were closer to mine than I would have ever imagined.

I love his films. And his politics.

www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/ken-loach-i-give-no-legitimacy-to-holocaust-denial
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/ken-loach-responds-jonathan-freedland/

If I had an Independent candidate then I will definitely vote in Hove. But I won't be voting for the Workers Party, in Bootle!

[tonyhil]

Saw 5 posters for Labour today while wandering around Portslade (though three of them were election leaflets stuck in windows - Labour missing a trick there, but I suppose they feel they don't really need to bother), plus a garden poster for the Independent.

[wickofthesouth]

Unlike the other two Brighton constituencies, nothing of any interest is happening here.

North of the railway line there aren't even any posters (that I've seen)

Peter Kyle is super safe but I wouldn't be surprised by a relatively low turnout

[Defenestrated Fipplebox]

Jun 28, 2024 21:29:31 GMT wickofthesouth said:

Unlike the other two Brighton constituencies, nothing of any interest is happening here.

North of the railway line there aren't even any posters (that I've seen)

Peter Kyle is super safe but I wouldn't be surprised by a relatively low turnout

I read that as porters.

[Deleted]

The question is whether the Greens or Conservatives come second in here and Kemptown & Peacehaven this time. I think, given the Greens' strength in Goldsmid and Central Hove, they will outpoll the Conservatives. The Tory result in Hove Park (a formerly rock solid blue rise area) suggests Kyle will sweep every ward in the seat for the first time if he hasn't already achieved this feat. I think that my friend in Portslade will vote for Kyle because he thinks he's a rising star as has said as much since 2015 (how long can stars rise for?). So something like 65% Kyle, 15% each for the Greens and Tories wouldn't shock me. Hove is like Marin County, California.