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Post by AdminSTB on Nov 8, 2024 12:05:54 GMT
Staffordshire
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Nov 8, 2024 17:29:12 GMT
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Post by listener on Nov 9, 2024 0:44:30 GMT
Who is retiring?
STAFFORDSHIRE
Elected in 2021 (62): Con 57, Lab 4, Independent 1
Retiring Councillors (as at 09.11.2024) (62): Con 54, Lab 5, Independent 3
Cannock Chase
Peter Kruskonjic (Con) (Brereton and Ravenhill)
Paul Snape (Con) (Cannock Town Centre)
*Samantha Thompson (Con) (Cannock Villages)
*Philippa Haden (Con) (Chadsmoor)
Mike Sutherland (Con) (Etchinghill and Heath)
Phil Hewitt (Con) (Hednesford and Rawnsley)
Johnny McMahon (Con) (Hednesford and Rawnsley)
East Staffordshire
Conor Wileman (Con) (Burton Tower)
Arshad Afsar (Lab) (Burton Town)
Syed Hussain (Lab) (Burton Trent)
Philip White (Con) (Dove)
Bernard Peters (Con) (Horninglow and Stretton)
*Julia Jessel (Con) (Needwood Forest)
Philip Atkins, OBE (Con) (Uttoxeter Rural)
Philip Hudson (Con) (Uttoxeter Town)
Lichfield
Tom Loughbrough Rudd (Independent, elected as Con) (Burntwood North)
Mike Wilcox (Con) (Burntwood South)
*Janice Silvester-Hall (Con) (Lichfield City North)
Colin Greatorex (Con) (Lichfield City South)
Alan White (Con) (Lichfield Rural East)
*Jan England (Con) (Lichfield Rural North)
David Smith (Con) (Lichfield Rural South)
Richard Cox (Con) (Lichfield Rural West)
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Ian Wilkes (Con) (Audley and Chesterton)
Graham Hutton (Con) (Bradwell, Porthill and Wolstanton)
Derrick Huckfield (Con) (Keele, Knutton and Siulverdale)
*Gill Burnett-Faulkner, elected as Gill Burnett (Con) (Kidsgrove)
James Salisbury (Con) (May Bank and Cross Heath)
Paul Northcott (Con) (Newcastle Rural)
Stephen Sweeney (Con) (Newcastle South)
*Jill Waring (Con) (Talke and Red Street)
Simon Tagg (Con) (Westlands and Thistleberry)
South Staffordshire
Mark Sutton (Con) (Brewood)
*Kath Perry, MBE (Con) (Cheslyn Hay, Essington and Great Wyrley)
Bernard Williams (Con) (Cheslyn Hay, Essington and Great Wyrley)
Bob Spencer (Con) (Codsall)
*Victoria Wilson (Con) (Kinver)
David Williams (Con) (Penkridge)
Jak Abrahams (Con) (Perton)
Mike Davies (Con) (Wombourne)
Stafford
Jeremy Pert (Con) (Eccleshall)
Mark Winnington (Con) (Gnosall and Doxey)
*Gillian Pardesi (Lab) (Stafford Central)
Jonathan Price (Con) (Stafford North)
*Ann Edgeller (Con) (Stafford South East)
John Francis (Con) (Stafford Trent Valley)
*Carolyn Trowbridge (Con) (Stafford West)
Ian Parry (Con) (Stone Rural)
*Jill Hood (Independent) (Stone Urban)
Staffordshire Moorlands
Nigel Yates (Lab) (Biddulph North) – elected in by-election (19.01.2023)
Keith Flunder (Con) (Biddulph South and Endon)
Ross Ward (Con) (Caverswall)
Mark Deaville (Con) (Cheadle and Checkley)
Mike Worthington (Con) (Churnet Valley)
*Gill Heath (Con) (Leek Rural)
*Charlotte Atkins (Lab) (Leek South)
Tamworth
Thomas Jay (Independent, elected as Con) (Amington)
Jeremy Oates (Con) (Bolebridge)
Robert Pritchard (Con) (Perrycrofts)
Jason Jones (Con) (Stonydelph)
*Tina Clements (Con) (Watling North)
Alex Farrell (Con) (Watling South) – elected in by-election (02.03.2023)
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nyx
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Post by nyx on Nov 10, 2024 21:18:24 GMT
This should probably be one of the strongest parts of the country for Reform, I'd expect?
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Post by iainbhx on Nov 10, 2024 22:20:32 GMT
This should probably be one of the strongest parts of the country for Reform, I'd expect? There's a lot of potential for them here. But will they have the candidates. |
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Post by sanders on Nov 11, 2024 12:00:34 GMT
This should probably be one of the strongest parts of the country for Reform, I'd expect? There's a lot of potential for them here. But will they have the candidates. Yes, and if they rush to nominate people, they may end up nominating lunatics they later have to distance themselves from. |
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Post by tonyhil on Nov 11, 2024 13:20:39 GMT
That will happen whether they rush or not.
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Post by Andrew_S on Nov 11, 2024 15:52:34 GMT
This should probably be one of the strongest parts of the country for Reform, I'd expect? Probably. I can see them winning a fair number of seats next time. |
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Post by peterski on Nov 11, 2024 17:26:44 GMT
Refuk need to target more effectively than UKIP in 2013 who polled 24% across the whole county but only won 2 seats!
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john07
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Post by john07 on Nov 11, 2024 20:37:35 GMT
Refuk need to target more effectively than UKIP in 2013 who polled 24% across the whole county but only won 2 seats! That sounds rather like the NF in Leicester in the 1976 local elections. They contested all 48 seats with an average of 18% yet failed to win a single seat. |
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Post by Clark on Nov 12, 2024 12:53:49 GMT
Refuk need to target more effectively than UKIP in 2013 who polled 24% across the whole county but only won 2 seats! That sounds rather like the NF in Leicester in the 1976 local elections. They contested all 48 seats with an average of 18% yet failed to win a single seat. Was it around that time when Leicester was beginning to become rapidly more non-white so the NF targeted the whole area as result? |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 12, 2024 12:59:46 GMT
That sounds rather like the NF in Leicester in the 1976 local elections. They contested all 48 seats with an average of 18% yet failed to win a single seat. Was it around that time when Leicester was beginning to become rapidly more non-white so the NF targeted the whole area as result? Leicester was probably their most active area in the whole of the country, for reasons that don't take much working out. Although this depends of course on whether you are judging this on the basis of activists, electoral success, history, etc etc. There are other areas that would have a strong claim too. I grew up just next to Hounslow and the area was plastered with NF stickers around 1976/77.
Just noticed we're actually in Staffordshire.
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john07
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Post by john07 on Nov 12, 2024 21:15:46 GMT
That sounds rather like the NF in Leicester in the 1976 local elections. They contested all 48 seats with an average of 18% yet failed to win a single seat. Was it around that time when Leicester was beginning to become rapidly more non-white so the NF targeted the whole area as result? It was probably triggered when Idi Amin expelled the Ugandan Asians and most came to Britain, in particular to Leicester. This occurred very quickly rather than over an extended period. This influx put strains on Leicester and the surge in NF support was a consequence. By the time we arrived in Leicester in 1983, the NF tide was long over but it was apparent that they had received support from some surprising sources in the latter part of the 1970s. |
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Post by Old Fashioned Leftie on Nov 12, 2024 21:47:21 GMT
Was it around that time when Leicester was beginning to become rapidly more non-white so the NF targeted the whole area as result? It was probably triggered when Idi Amin expelled the Ugandan Asians and most came to Britain, in particular to Leicester. This occurred very quickly rather than over an extended period. This influx put strains on Leicester and the surge in NF support was a consequence. By the time we arrived in Leicester in 1983, the NF tide was long over but it was apparent that they had received support from some surprising sources in the latter part of the 1970s. and thankfully the good people of Leicester drove them out. I was at secondary school in the city in the later 1970s and we were (wrongly maybe) encouraged by a couple of our teachers to become part of School Kids Against Nazis. We attended several anti-nazi events and became engaged in some very heated exchanges! But as with the BNP some years later, they were seen off. I no longer live in the area and has been sad to see the trouble between communities in the city. |
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