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Post by Adam in Stroud on Dec 11, 2016 23:12:41 GMT
Her tweets appear to be those of a very angry person, Aren't they all? |
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Dec 11, 2016 23:38:37 GMT
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Post by mboy on Dec 12, 2016 10:49:06 GMT
I struggle to see why that twitter joke is a sackable offence. I note that the report says "His personal Facebook account was also linked to various other EDL posts", and we don't know what was in those posts, but IMO that sort of post should have been dealt with by an apology and some contrition. Having said that, I could be convinced that sharing anything from the EDL could itself make the situation much more serious.
Edit: It also isnt made clear whether he was offered the chance to apologise and refused.
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Post by Merseymike on Dec 12, 2016 11:06:41 GMT
More likely that the Tories realised that Labour disposed of him for good reason and are engaged in damage prevention
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Post by mboy on Dec 12, 2016 11:14:25 GMT
True. But an unfortunate side-effect of that would be that it reinforces the impression that "You can't say anything about Muslims these days", which is food for the hard-right.
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Post by greenrichard on Apr 23, 2024 7:43:20 GMT
Rawnsley in Cannock Chase has an interesting history.
2002 (2 x New seats) Lab, Lab - 40.2%
2003 Lib Dem - 42.3%
2006 Lib Dem - 35.2%
2007 Lib Dem - 37.3%
2010 Cons - 41.8%
2011 Cons - 39.2%
2014 UKIP* - 35.7%
2015 Cons - 33.1%
2018 Green** - 36.7%
2019 Green - 55.8%
2022 Green - 53.7%
2023 Green - 69.8%
2024 Abolished and now forms part of Hednesford Hills & Rawnsley
*UKIP defected to Independents
**First Green defected to Chase Independents
So in 21 years the ward was represented by seven different coloured rosettes.
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Post by rcronald on Apr 23, 2024 14:07:01 GMT
Long Term? Large sections of the non-working class parts of Bristol.
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Post by iang on Apr 24, 2024 11:22:20 GMT
There was a Lib Dem councillor in Dudley some years back, St James ward I think, who defected to UKIP
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 16, 2024 12:44:57 GMT
Sir Graham Watson, Liberal Democrats to the Stati Uniti d'Europa coalition in Italy.
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Post by jamesdoyle on May 16, 2024 15:51:04 GMT
There was a Lib Dem councillor in Dudley some years back, St James ward I think, who defected to UKIP We had one in Worthing - Trevor England. Can't remember when exactly. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 16, 2024 16:25:25 GMT
In Rochdale, former Labour Council leader Colin Lambert to Brexit in 2019, and then hanging around with Nigel Farage, a man whose philosophy on life he would previously have held in contempt.
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Post by batman on May 16, 2024 20:46:03 GMT
well of course there's been Simon Danczuk there on a similar trajectory.
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 16, 2024 20:54:06 GMT
well of course there's been Simon Danczuk there on a similar trajectory. Colin Lambert is no Simon Danczuk, he is a decent bloke with solid socialist credentials, which Danczuk never really had. I recently celebrated the funeral of real force of nature of a charity worker and lots of Colin's old colleagues were there and, when I asked after him, they just shook their heads in sullen regret. |
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Post by right on May 17, 2024 8:15:51 GMT
There was a Lib Dem councillor in Dudley some years back, St James ward I think, who defected to UKIP One of the stalwarts we had locally in the campaigning between the referendum and actual Brexit in my local area also kept UKIP together in his town. The local MP told me he had been an ardent Lib Dem activist until switching to UKIP in the long run up to the refererndum - they didn't notice a difference apart from the party colours as he was still pestering the local office with lots of micro-local issues and confidently predicting the end of Tory domination of the constituency. Quite a lot of the pre retirement UKIP members that I met could have comfortably been Lib Dems if they didn't have these nagging doubts about a European super state. |
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Post by The Bishop on May 17, 2024 11:23:40 GMT
And that a sizeable chunk of the 2010 LibDem vote went UKIP in 2015 is well documented.
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Post by Rutlander on May 17, 2024 12:42:00 GMT
Sir Graham Watson, Liberal Democrats to the Stati Uniti d'Europa coalition in Italy. I would presume that this is not a defection and that he remains "in good standing" with the UK LDs. (Wikipedia informs me that Watson is also an Italian citizen and that his wife is Italian) You might remember that David Steel accepted an invitation from an Italian Liberal party to stand in the 1989 European elections (he was not elected). |
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Post by greatkingrat on May 17, 2024 12:51:49 GMT
In this case, Sir Graham is the lead candidate on the list, so it seems he could well get elected.
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Post by andrea on May 17, 2024 13:10:08 GMT
In this case, Sir Graham is the lead candidate on the list, so it seems he could well get elected. Italy have open lists. So people are not getting elected based on the order they appear on the list but based on how many voters of that party wrote down his name (compared to that of other candidates of that list). And he is standing for a list which is unlikely to get more than 1 seat per macro-constituency. So he isn't a sure election. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 17, 2024 13:46:10 GMT
Sir Graham Watson, Liberal Democrats to the Stati Uniti d'Europa coalition in Italy. I would presume that this is not a defection and that he remains "in good standing" with the UK LDs. (Wikipedia informs me that Watson is also an Italian citizen and that his wife is Italian) You might remember that David Steel accepted an invitation from an Italian Liberal party to stand in the 1989 European elections (he was not elected). Indeed, but it seemed more fun this way. |
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Post by right on May 17, 2024 15:11:16 GMT
Sir Graham Watson, Liberal Democrats to the Stati Uniti d'Europa coalition in Italy. I would presume that this is not a defection and that he remains "in good standing" with the UK LDs. (Wikipedia informs me that Watson is also an Italian citizen and that his wife is Italian) You might remember that David Steel accepted an invitation from an Italian Liberal party to stand in the 1989 European elections (he was not elected). Wasn't it the Radicals? I think they were trying to make a more European than thou point. |
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