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Post by jakegb on Aug 16, 2024 12:45:06 GMT
Good luck to you sanders - it takes courage + grit to put yourself forward for a by-election. I too wish you every success for the future.
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 12:49:57 GMT
I'm likely joining the Green Party
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 12:51:25 GMT
27% combined vote for the independents. Between us Gareth Bale and I have scored 41 goals for the Welsh mens football team. Oh go and boil your head. |
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 12:57:08 GMT
1972 United States Senate special election in Vermont
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Robert Stafford 45,888 64.4%
Democratic Randolph T. Major, Jr. 23,842 33.4%
Liberty Union Bernie Sanders 1,571 2.2%
Total votes 71,301 100.0%
I'll take my result in Hillrise.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Aug 16, 2024 12:57:59 GMT
I'm likely joining the Green Party Go and join them and learn how to campaign, take it one step at a time. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 16, 2024 13:01:00 GMT
Having followed this thread idly for the last week or so, I'm still none the wiser as to whether it's a heated discussion about a local by-election in Islington or a piece of rather drawn out performance art. I'm inclined to believe the latter. Mae'r brwydr drosodd ond mae'r rhyfel yn parhau.  ”Yr wyf yn barod am yr ornest nesaf, a chofiwch y dôf o gyff ymladdgar” (Megan Lloyd George, Ynys Môn, 1951) |
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Post by clive on Aug 16, 2024 13:03:31 GMT
It'll be a dreadful one man show at next year's Edinburgh Fringe. No thanks - leave it in London please... oh i dont know something has to replace Liz Truss |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 16, 2024 13:04:12 GMT
It'll be a dreadful one man show at next year's Edinburgh Fringe. No thanks - leave it in London please... When I become Dictator of the World, the Edinburgh Fringe festival will be in London so that it will be easier for normal people to go to it. (Cue comments from people like carlton43 pointing out that the sort of people who go to the Edinburgh Fringe are not normal anyway) |
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Post by greatkingrat on Aug 16, 2024 13:17:35 GMT
Would the Green Party accept a member who has just stood against an official Green Party candidate?
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Post by matureleft on Aug 16, 2024 13:18:57 GMT
The Islington result suggests that a Corbyn endorsement isn’t a coupon securing success and that he’ll trundle along getting older (79 or 80 at the next election ) without having a much wider impact? He’ll be free to get into the things that interest him and will, no doubt, find allies on some of those. A bit like much of his time before he became leader - mostly ignored but he did his thing.
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 13:21:38 GMT
Centre Left 968
Progressive 915
Centrist 350
Excellent result for Labour, for sure.
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Post by noorderling on Aug 16, 2024 13:24:50 GMT
‘in Scotland the Tories actually beat Labour fptp’ Based on the unrealistic assumption that the electorate would have voted in exactly the same way if this had been a FPTP election. |
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 13:26:02 GMT
My statement (spun pretty well, tbf)
Labour actually lost 60% of their May 2024 vote you understand. 2,400 to <1,000.
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 16, 2024 13:33:04 GMT
Caerphilly, Aberbargoed and Bargoed Lab 354 PC 353 Green 59 Ouch. I hope they counted the votes very caerphilly. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 16, 2024 13:35:11 GMT
Off Topic but surely by now we can have votes by Internet/electronic means we seem to do everything else on the internet (shopping, banking, paying bills, registering to vote, reporting issues to the council). Yes and I reported missed recycling bin collections a week ago and nothing's been done (and one of the neighbour's bins are disappearing beneath the refuse and recycling piling up). The internet is not the solution to everything. |
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 13:36:16 GMT
Off Topic but surely by now we can have votes by Internet/electronic means we seem to do everything else on the internet (shopping, banking, paying bills, registering to vote, reporting issues to the council). Yes and I reported missed recycling bin collections a week ago and nothing's been done (and one of the neighbour's bins are disappearing beneath the refuse and recycling piling up). The internet is not the solution to everything. Why do I nominate in person? That could surely be done online. It seems anti-democratic, for goodness sake. |
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Post by greenman on Aug 16, 2024 13:37:00 GMT
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 16, 2024 13:39:29 GMT
Having followed this thread idly for the last week or so, I'm still none the wiser as to whether it's a heated discussion about a local by-election in Islington or a piece of rather drawn out performance art. I'm inclined to believe the latter. I really struggle to tell what is modern art these days and what's just ordinary stuff. |
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 13:40:25 GMT
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Aug 16, 2024 13:43:18 GMT
A very good showing by The Independent Stoecker. Remarkable Tally of 539 24%. It is further evidence that a significant amount of people are fed up disappointed and annoyed with the Labour Party machine crushing members on the left and making it now and forever a very middle class centrist and enormously dull political party Is that a conclusion from just this result, or from all 3 of yesterday's byelections ? I'd suggest that 24% in this particular constituency with it's recent electoral history doesn't prove anything significant I'm afraid. It certainly doesn't prove that those 24% were more working-class than the 76% of voters who chose a different candidate. |
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