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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 1:15:17 GMT
Beverley and Holderness
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YL
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Post by YL on Mar 14, 2024 18:35:27 GMT
Almanac profileCandidatesChris Collin (SDP) Denis Healy (Lib Dem) George McManus (Yorkshire Party) John Ottaway (Alliance for Democracy and Freedom) Margaret Pinder (Lab) Andy Smith (Reform UK) Jonathan Stephenson (Green) Graham Stuart* (Con)
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Post by YL on Mar 20, 2024 22:48:40 GMT
Candidates... Roger Hoe (Reform UK) ... |
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Post by mattbewilson on Mar 20, 2024 23:10:25 GMT
Was here last weekend. Birth place of my wife. Kind of place where there's one big employer and everyone works for them. Lots of young people and lots of old but little in between
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YL
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Post by YL on Mar 21, 2024 21:51:12 GMT
Unsurprisingly Roger Hoe is no longer the Reform UK candidate here.
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Post by markgoodair on Mar 21, 2024 22:52:34 GMT
Unsurprisingly Roger Hoe is no longer the Reform UK candidate here. Excellent news. |
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Post by lackeroftalent on Mar 21, 2024 22:55:50 GMT
Green Party - Jonathan Stephenson
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Post by bsjmcr on Apr 1, 2024 14:05:08 GMT
Almanac profileCandidatesDenis Healy (Lib Dem) John Ottaway (Alliance for Democracy and Freedom) Chris Collin (SDP) Now that's a blast from the past. Must have missed the news that he defected... |
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Post by batman on Apr 1, 2024 18:07:51 GMT
you also missed the news that he also stood in the constituency in 2019
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Post by borisminor on Apr 1, 2024 18:19:42 GMT
you also missed the news that he also stood in the constituency in 2019 And the Liberal Denis Healy was just 641 votes away from becoming MP for Hull North in 2010. |
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Post by threecrowns on May 23, 2024 8:23:43 GMT
Margaret Pinder's Twitter bio states she is the Labour candidate here, though I've not seen it confirmed anywhere else.
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Post by batman on May 23, 2024 17:09:11 GMT
Margaret Pinder's Twitter bio states she is the Labour candidate here, though I've not seen it confirmed anywhere else. I knew her years ago at King’s College Cambridge. She is a former Mayor of Beverley and originates locally too |
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YL
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Post by YL on Jun 7, 2024 16:45:29 GMT
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Post by right on Jun 27, 2024 10:39:18 GMT
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 5, 2024 19:00:55 GMT
This is a seat the Conservatives always appear to get lucky in. They held it this time with a majority of 124. In 2001 their majority was 781 and in 1997 it was 1,211. Three lucky escapes there.
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Post by threecrowns on Jul 5, 2024 20:32:10 GMT
This seat adjoins mine, I don't mind admitting I'm really upset that Labour didn't pinch this. Margaret Pinder would have been a really good MP. I think Beverley itself will have voted Labour, it's the inbred villages out east that kept it blue.
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Post by holderness on Jul 5, 2024 23:13:58 GMT
This seat adjoins mine, I don't mind admitting I'm really upset that Labour didn't pinch this. Margaret Pinder would have been a really good MP. I think Beverley itself will have voted Labour, it's the inbred villages out east that kept it blue. 'Inbred villages', eh? There's nothing wrong with the good people of Holderness. Before I read your post, my reaction to a Labour win in Beverley and Holderness would have been somewhere between indifferent and mildly pleased, but now I'm quite happy that you lost. You only needed 35% of the vote on a 64% turnout. If you wanted it, you should have put some effort in. |
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Post by batman on Aug 1, 2024 10:28:55 GMT
My old acquaintance Margaret very close to being elected for Labour here, even closer than in 1997 & 2001. Once again this constituency narrowly eludes the Labour Party even in a landslide year. She's similar vintage to me so would have been one of the older new MPs if she had won
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Post by mattbewilson on Aug 1, 2024 10:36:37 GMT
Anyone who thinks it was Holderness that kept the Tories in doesn't know the area. This seat is like many and has an economic west to east divide. Where wealthy live in Beverley and poorer though not necessarily poor, people live in the Holderness part.
It's actually a very left wing clp that appears to always be the first to nominate full left wing slates for internal elections.
I've played at two ceilidhs for the clp in which Richard Burgon and Tosh were the speakers.
My mother in law lives here and voted bloody green. Despite stuffing thousands of letters for labour and labour mps on the last year
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Post by batman on Aug 1, 2024 11:45:27 GMT
Interesting, I don't think Margaret is a left-winger, if so she's changed her politics a lot. She wasn't a Labour Party member at university AFAIK
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