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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 29, 2024 10:03:30 GMT
FWIW Jamie Bryson made positive noises about this candidacy, and there's a lot of crossover between potential TUV support and people likely to be influenced by Bryson in this constituency.
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Post by stb12 on Apr 29, 2024 15:52:05 GMT
FWIW Jamie Bryson made positive noises about this candidacy, and there's a lot of crossover between potential TUV support and people likely to be influenced by Bryson in this constituency. It strikes me as the best chance there is of a unionist defeating Farry |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 23, 2024 7:41:28 GMT
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 23, 2024 7:42:29 GMT
X links finally broken?  |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on May 23, 2024 7:46:27 GMT
X links finally broken? Replace the ‘x’ with twitter and they should show up |
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Post by stb12 on May 23, 2024 7:51:19 GMT
Likely still the underdog but this give Easton a genuine chance |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 23, 2024 7:59:29 GMT
X links finally broken? Replace the ‘x’ with twitter and they should show up Ta. I will try to take the 30 seconds to screengrab but in times of haste a link will do |
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Post by Wisconsin on May 23, 2024 9:33:02 GMT
What happens to Easton’s MLA seat if he has to vacate it to go to Westminster?
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Post by boondock on May 23, 2024 9:36:18 GMT
The TUV promise to stand in every constituency didn't even last the first 24hrs of campaigning
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Post by stb12 on May 23, 2024 9:40:54 GMT
What happens to Easton’s MLA seat if he has to vacate it to go to Westminster? He’d be able to co-opt someone else in I think, when independent unionist David McClarty died in 2014 he was replaced by current MLA Claire Sugden which presumably was prepared for as he was ill for some time. So it doesn’t just seem to be a process restricted to parties |
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Post by johnloony on May 23, 2024 10:15:44 GMT
Sylvia Hermon announced at a relatively late stage in 2019 that she wasn’t going to stand again, so the other parties had to scramble quickly to decide whether to have candidates, and/or select them. I have often thought that it would have been more fun (psephologically, not politically) if she had not announced it at all, and had let people find out that she wasn’t standing only when the SOPN came out.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2024 15:23:07 GMT
Sylvia Hermon announced at a relatively late stage in 2019 that she wasn’t going to stand again, so the other parties had to scramble quickly to decide whether to have candidates, and/or select them. I have often thought that it would have been more fun (psephologically, not politically) if she had not announced it at all, and had let people find out that she wasn’t standing only when the SOPN came out. I believe a similar situation occurred in a Powys council election a few years back, in which the incumbent independent didn't stand... and neither did anyone else. |
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Post by markgoodair on May 30, 2024 16:20:08 GMT
Sinn Fein have confirmed that they won’t have a candidate in this seat.
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Post by YL on Jun 7, 2024 22:31:25 GMT
Chris Carter (Ind)
Tim Collins (UUP)
Alex Easton (Ind)
Stephen Farry (Alliance)
Barry McKee (Green)
Deirdre Vaughan (SDLP)
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 17, 2024 12:08:45 GMT
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Post by irish observer on Jun 18, 2024 13:38:37 GMT
Think Farry will edge out Easton by a few thousand.
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Post by stb12 on Jul 5, 2024 0:14:09 GMT
Tim Collins has said that he thinks Alex Easton will win
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Post by thinwhiteduke on Jul 5, 2024 0:42:56 GMT
Alliance sources conceding the seat to Easton.
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Post by stb12 on Jul 5, 2024 0:46:05 GMT
Alliance sources conceding the seat to Easton. Seems like this one went under most people’s radar |
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Post by thinwhiteduke on Jul 5, 2024 4:18:28 GMT
Independent gain, 7k majority.
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