Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Aug 9, 2024 12:20:08 GMT
NORTHUMBERLAND UA; Cramlington Eastfield (Con resigned)
Candidates:
CRIPPS, Libby (Independent)
EVANS, Paul (Green)
FURNESS, Dawn (Independent)
GILLOOLY, James John (Labour)
McGREGOR, Andy (Liberal Democrat)
OWEN, Mark David (Reform UK)
SMITH, Alan (Conservative)
2021: Con 873; Lab 444; Ind 159
2017: Con 831; Lab 506; Ind 88; LD 43; UKIP 40
2013: Lab 665; LD 428; Con 263
Dawn Furness (Ind) contested Cramlington & Killingworth at the recent General Election and is a former Green Party candidate (having contested Blyth Valley at previous elections). Andy McGregor (LD) stood in Bothal in 2021 and 2017. Mark Owen (Reform) and may be the Mark Owen who was the Labour candidate in Morpeth North back in 2017.
Current Council: Con 32; Lab 19; Ind Grp 8; LD 4; Grn 2; Non-aligned 1; 1 vacancy
THREE RIVERS DC; Abbots Langley & Bedmond (LD resigned)
Candidates:
CULLITON, Pierce (Labour)
EDWARDS, Vicky (Conservative)
POWELL, Jane (Green)
TURNER, Alex (Liberal Democrat)
2024: LD 939; Con 322; Lab 222; Grn 121
2023: LD 888; Con 438; Lab 214; Grn 98
2022: LD 1070; Con 435; Lab 238; Grn 124
2021: LD 989; Con 580; Lab 264; Grn 130
2019: LD 1136; Grn 292; Lab 185
2018: LD 1096; Con 456; Lab 237; GRn 67; UKIP 59
2016: LD 1037; Con 394; Lab 224; UKIP 179
2015: LD 1496; Con 1467; Lab 573
2014: LD 1048, 989, 862; Con 446, 408, 406; UKIP 439; Lab 227, 224, 187
Vicky Edwards (Con) stood in Gade Valley ward in the last 3 local elections. Alex Turner (LD) is former councillor for Leavesden Ward (2018-22, did not defend his seat). Vacancy is for the 2024-28 term.
Current Council: LD 19; Con 11; Grn 3; Lab 3; Ind 2; 1 vacancy
WEST LOTHIAN UA; Armadale & Blackridge (Ind died)
Candidates:
BARCLAY, Keith Alan (SNP)
BUTLER, Douglas Thomas (Liberal Democrat)
HANNAH, John (Independence for Scotland)
MANION, Susan (Labour)
McLENNAN, David (Reform UK)
RAFFERTY, Adam William (Green)
SMITH, Douglas (Conservative)
2022: Ind 2571; SNP 1159; Lab 742; Con 555; Grn 136; LD 50; I4S 43
2017: Ind 2343; SNP 1322; Lab 707; Con 723; Grn 62; LD 47
Mar 15by: SNP 1620; Lab 1009; Ind 756; Con 255; Grn 90 (SNP hold)
2012: Ind 2541; SNP 861, 168; Lab 788; Con 125
2007: Ind 1385, 780; Lab 1330; SNP 1156, 517; Con 252; LD 137; SSP 55
John Hannah (Independence for Scotland) stood here in 2022 and also contested Bathgate & Linlithgow (which contains this ward) at the recent general election. David McLennan (Reform) stood in Livingston at the General Election and Douglas Smith (Con) contested the last West Lothian by-elections in Broxburn, Uphall & Winchburgh in Dec 22.
Current Council: SNP 15; Lab 11; Con 4; Ind 1; LD 1; 1 vacancy
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Post by tedbark on Aug 9, 2024 16:24:41 GMT
My understanding is that this is a different Mark David Owen for Reform in Cramlington Eastfield than the Mark David Owen who ran for Labour in Morpeth North in 2017.
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Aug 9, 2024 16:38:08 GMT
My understanding is that this is a different Mark David Owen for Reform in Cramlington Eastfield than the Mark David Owen who ran for Labour in Morpeth North in 2017. That may well be the case - I use various sources and this: whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/28297/mark-david-owensuggests it's the same person but may also be wrong? |
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Post by greatkingrat on Aug 9, 2024 18:47:16 GMT
What about the Mark David Owen who stood for the Liberal Democrats in Sleekburn in 2013? Surely there can't be three of them!
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 9, 2024 18:56:19 GMT
What about the Mark David Owen who stood for the Liberal Democrats in Sleekburn in 2013? Surely there can't be three of them! Have you ever seen them together? |
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Post by batman on Aug 9, 2024 19:39:57 GMT
I marked David Owen decades ago.
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Post by tedbark on Aug 10, 2024 8:36:55 GMT
My understanding is that this is a different Mark David Owen for Reform in Cramlington Eastfield than the Mark David Owen who ran for Labour in Morpeth North in 2017. That may well be the case - I use various sources and this: whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/28297/mark-david-owensuggests it's the same person but may also be wrong? Merely what is suggested from those involved on the ground, who considered the point at the start of the campaign. I have no idea where the Sleekburn 2013 Lib Dem fits into this! |
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Post by Ports on Aug 10, 2024 10:30:22 GMT
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Post by john07 on Aug 10, 2024 11:09:20 GMT
I marked David Owen decades ago. During the 1979 General Election campaign in Hazel Grove, Labour had a member in Bramhall called David Owen. Bramhall was a notoriously inactive Branch averse to doing any electoral work. We had a meeting there to try and get some help. We managed to get a few to volunteer. All eyes went to David Owen who said, I intend to do nothing! |
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Post by batman on Aug 10, 2024 12:14:37 GMT
A good friend of mine, too, is married to a Labour Party member called David Owen. There are probably loads of them.
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Post by mattb on Aug 12, 2024 14:16:07 GMT
THREE RIVERS DC; Abbots Langley & Bedmond (LD resigned) Candidates: CULLITON, Pierce (Labour) EDWARDS, Vicky (Conservative) POWELL, Jane (Green) TURNER, Alex (Liberal Democrat) Below is a profile for this ward, based on a series I did for the Three Rivers wards but have not previously posted. Sorry if this is over-long – just skip on if not interested! I also put a profile of the Bedmond parish ward in the ‘town & parish by-elections’ thread a few days ago (I have not repeated that content - vote-2012.proboards.com/post/1536277/thread ). Bedmond (with surrounding rural area) makes up 20% of the population of the district ward. The remaining 80% comes from the community of Abbots Langley. There are only two settlements in Three Rivers listed in Domesday: one is Rickmansworth; and the other is Abbots Langley. The community lies roughly equidistant between the towns of Watford, Hemel Hempstead and St Albans; but it retains a fiercely independent identity. As well as the ‘tin church’ mentioned in the Bedmond profile, this ward is a must for aficionados of ecclesiastical architecture. There has been a church at Abbots Langley since Saxon times, but the current building is essentially Norman (and is the only Grade 1 listed building in Three Rivers). www.abbotslangley.org.uk/about-st-lawrence . The church is well worth a visit for anyone interested – the mediaeval wall paintings (similar to those in St Albans Abbey) are worth a look. Of no relevance whatsoever, Ed Davey’s maternal grandparents lived in Abbots Langley and the church is also where his parents married before they moved to Nottingham, produced Ed and his siblings, and then of course both died tragically young. The community grew up around the church which sits at a high point above the valley of the river Gade, and the built-up area now cascades down the slope towards the river/Grand Union canal. Abbots Langley has a very diverse mix of housing of all types, ages and tenures. The housing ranges across Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas, inter-war semis, post-war social and private developments; 60s & 70s council and private estates, and more modern infill, as well as retirement apartments and bungalows both social and private. Almost 20% of the housing is still socially-rented (higher than typical Hertfordshire suburbs and the highest in Three Rivers after the South Oxhey wards). The housing types and tenures are well mixed, often in the same street, and there is a clear sense of a single well-integrated community. Although very well-located close to major communication links, the presence of the west coast main railway line with its narrow and low bridges just to the west of the settlement has helped to protect the communities from excessive through-traffic and retain a ‘village’ feel to the High Street despite the continued growth of the community through the decades. The village (with the two neighbouring wards) supports a good range of facilities including a thriving High Street, GP and dentist, police station, library, several schools, a range of community halls and a small community arts centre. But there is no station, and the ward has fewer London commuters than typical for southwest Herts. (Kings Langley station is within reach just outside the ward, but it remains outside the orbit of London’s ‘Oyster card’, unlike the Metropolitan Line and London Overground stations serving the other communities in Three Rivers). Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the diversity of the housing, Abbots Langley & Bedmond is fairly average on most demographic measures. One exception is an unusually low proportion of private rented property (well inside the bottom 10% of wards nationally), which probably contributes to the ward having an extremely stable population – typically less than 5% of the electoral register is ‘new’ each year. This stability might partly explain the relative lack of ethnic diversity – although by no means exceptional on a national scale, this ward is by some distance the whitest of any in Three Rivers (and indeed southern Hertfordshire/north London). The 2021 census also shows it has one of the highest % of people anywhere in Hertfordshire describing themselves as Christian. (certainly the highest across Three Rivers and neighbouring districts, and in the top 15% of wards nationally). Overall the communities are stable, content places with a very strong sense of community identity and independence. The ward (and its predecessors) has been won by LDs at almost every election since the late 70s (last won by the Tories in 1992), so an upset seems unlikely – although the LDs (for, I think, the first time ever) have a candidate from outside the ward while the Conservative is keen and lives in the ward. |
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Post by Crimson King on Aug 12, 2024 15:18:46 GMT
A good friend of mine, too, is married to a Labour Party member called David Owen. There are probably loads of them. my son might have been called David Owen Griffiths, but partly because of the well known politician and more importantly the realisation of what going through school with the initials d o g might entail we decided to go with Owen David instead |
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Post by batman on Aug 12, 2024 15:33:07 GMT
An old friend of mine has the surname Lush, and remarkably, given the huge range of names they could have chosen, his parents gave him a middle name beginning with F. Well done on thinking & avoiding giving your son a slightly unfortunate name.
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Post by Crimson King on Aug 12, 2024 15:38:40 GMT
Owen was has been a middle name for me, my father, grandfather and great grandfather so I wanted to keep the tradition going. Sadly as I have only one granddaughter and don’t expect any more grandchildren the tradition, indeed this branch of the Griffiths’ is likely to be extinguished
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Post by zoe on Aug 12, 2024 15:54:16 GMT
An old friend of mine has the surname Lush, and remarkably, given the huge range of names they could have chosen, his parents gave him a middle name beginning with F. Well done on thinking & avoiding giving your son a slightly unfortunate name. It reminds me of the former UKIP leader Richard Braine who was know by many as Dick |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 12, 2024 16:57:57 GMT
An old friend of mine has the surname Lush, and remarkably, given the huge range of names they could have chosen, his parents gave him a middle name beginning with F. Well done on thinking & avoiding giving your son a slightly unfortunate name. It reminds me of the former UKIP leader Richard Braine who was know by many as Dick I have a friend with the surname Head. His parents chose Richard as his first name. He answers to Rich. |
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Post by cathyc on Aug 12, 2024 17:03:44 GMT
It reminds me of the former UKIP leader Richard Braine who was know by many as Dick I have a friend with the surname Head. His parents chose Richard as his first name. He answers to Rich. A friend was at school with the daughter of Mr and Mrs Royds who they had named Emma. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 12, 2024 18:29:01 GMT
A good friend of mine, too, is married to a Labour Party member called David Owen. There are probably loads of them. my son might have been called David Owen Griffiths, but partly because of the well known politician and more importantly the realisation of what going through school with the initials d o g might entail we decided to go with Owen David instead Did his school friends think he was a bit odd? |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Aug 12, 2024 19:17:52 GMT
An old friend of mine has the surname Lush, and remarkably, given the huge range of names they could have chosen, his parents gave him a middle name beginning with F. Well done on thinking & avoiding giving your son a slightly unfortunate name. Similarly, a couple in my extended family have just given their new child the initials W.C. |
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Post by andrewp on Aug 12, 2024 19:24:20 GMT
It reminds me of the former UKIP leader Richard Braine who was know by many as Dick I have a friend with the surname Head. His parents chose Richard as his first name. He answers to Rich. My friend’s daughter had a primary school teacher called Mrs Mycock and her husband was/is called Roger. |
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