stb12
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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 0:33:27 GMT
Cheltenham
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Post by No Offence Alan on May 3, 2024 18:46:06 GMT
Using the "top vote" method, I make the aggregate May 2 local election votes for here as -
LD 14,796
Con 7,514
Grn 4,020
Lab 2,798
Ind 385
TUSC 57
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Foggy
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Post by Foggy on May 3, 2024 19:02:51 GMT
So is Chalk toast, do we think?
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Post by batman on May 3, 2024 20:22:08 GMT
Yes, absolutely, and I think he has been for most of the parliament.
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cogload
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Post by cogload on May 23, 2024 14:47:13 GMT
Ed Davey here today.
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carlton43
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Post by carlton43 on May 23, 2024 14:55:25 GMT
Oh that is tough luck to start the campaign on such a low note. But things now can only get better. |
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Post by evergreenadam on May 31, 2024 19:36:01 GMT
He deserves a safer seat than this, but spending years in opposition is probably not likely to appeal. Wonder if he will return to the Bar full time.
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Post by Adam in Stroud on May 31, 2024 19:53:10 GMT
He deserves a safer seat than this, but spending years in opposition is probably not likely to appeal. Wonder if he will return to the Bar full time. I wouldn't be entirely surprised. I think a lot would depend on the political direction of the Conservatives. He has not been a natural fit with any of the Conservative Party leaders since Theresa May, and his rise through the ranks is a tribute to his competence (and also, to be a little unkind, to a degree of ideological flexibility on his part in the interest of his career.) But even allowing for the latter point, I don't see hm being happy in a party which went full-on chasing the Reform vote (and Cheltenham would be a very tricky constituency to do it in.) |
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Post by john07 on May 31, 2024 19:59:19 GMT
Yes, absolutely, and I think he has been for most of the parliament. He can chalk it up as an experience. |
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carolus
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Post by carolus on Jun 7, 2024 16:06:30 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 7, 2024 18:04:53 GMT
Daud McDonald has stood in local elections for the People Against Bureaucracy Action Group - don't think they've stood for Parliament before.
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iain
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Post by iain on Jun 7, 2024 18:09:42 GMT
Daud McDonald has stood in local elections for the People Against Bureaucracy Action Group - don't think they've stood for Parliament before. And has also stood as a plain on Independent both before and since. I’m pretty sure his affiliation was brief (and now over). |
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jun 16, 2024 17:22:19 GMT
Guess the Political party....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2024 17:25:57 GMT
I mean the blue and white is a fairly obvious clue?
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Post by johnloony on Jun 16, 2024 20:35:29 GMT
Guess the Political party.... I don’t see any imprint on that |
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cogload
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Post by cogload on Jul 12, 2024 18:09:36 GMT
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iain
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Post by iain on Jul 12, 2024 19:55:45 GMT
No Reform of course, but yes, still a decent result for Chalk in the circumstances. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 12, 2024 19:59:13 GMT
Especially as the MRP polls mostly had him losing by around 25%
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steve
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Post by steve on Jul 20, 2024 10:42:50 GMT
The absence of a Reform candidate helped him, of course.
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 20, 2024 12:28:09 GMT
This strikes me as a good chance for the Lib Dems to significantly increase their majority next time as Chalk clearly had a relatively good reputation here and a generic Conservative candidate would have done a lot worse.
One wonders if Chalk might be tempted to stand in the North Cotswolds seat at the next General Election as presumably this will be Geoffrey Clifton-Brown's final term and that would be a relatively safe seat for him to take on if he decides to return to frontline politics.
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