Batley and Spen

[Harry Hayfield]

I voted for Kitchin (as according to his Twitter feed he's a Green party member)

[greenhert]

Sept 28, 2016 12:37:33 GMT Harry Hayfield said:

I voted for Kitchin (as according to his Twitter feed he's a Green party member)

And he has contested local elections on the Greens' behalf in the town of Batley itself as well, which is another useful strike in his favour.

[johnloony]

Sept 28, 2016 12:37:33 GMT Harry Hayfield said:

I voted for Kitchin (as according to his Twitter feed he's a Green party member)

He replied to my tweet by saying that he has resigned as Secretary for the duration of the campaign, and will resign from the Green Party completely if he is elected.

[timrollpickering]

Sept 27, 2016 20:57:52 GMT oldhamexile said:

Sept 27, 2016 20:30:48 GMT YL said:

As I said above, "By Election Protest" is a registered description of a political party registered in August with the name "English Independence" and with leader one Neil Humphrey of Nottingham.

They had some other registered descriptions rejected, including "Sod Scottish Referendum", "Keep Calm and Vote English", "Hang Murderers Death-Penalty" and "Just Hang 'm High to Die". (Herald article)

So I don't think this is some moderate Labour supporter...

Neil Humphrey was English Democrat candidate for Berwick-upon-Tweed at the 2015 GE. His new party is an ED splinter.

Some more details in a Wikipedia edit by User:Anticorbyn:

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_Independence&oldid=741526382

(Reproduced here in case it gets deleted there.)

History

The original English Independence was de-registered. English Independence was founded because the English Democrats were frustrating an English Nationalist equivalent to the SNP. Eng'Dem' Party chair / leader Robin Tilbrook holds onto former name of English National Party. [1]

In revolt, throwing down the gauntlet to fellow English Democrat, Leader Robin Tilbrook, “…members want to revert back to former name of English National party. After 14 years, the name still hasn’t been dissolved… It reminds people of broken gLibDum promises. Use it for Batley & Spen, or give it back to the Electoral Commission, for someone else to have – otherwise, I’m off” – Neil Humphrey, English Independence Leader, and Berwick-Upon-Tweed 2015 Eng’Dem’ candidate [2]

Although the parties then agreed to field a joint candidate / description [3] at the Eng'Dem' Party Conference (see C4 TV), the Eng'Dems' renegaded on this, once nominations opened - and refused to collect E'I' nomination forms.

Batley & Spen 2016 By-Election Candidate

ANTI Corbyn (deed-poll) was placed on the ballot paper, with description "By Election Protest". ('ANG Murderers was refused, and even Corbyn took 1.5 hours) Once the notice of candidates was put up, the first posters of the battle were put up.

Batley & Spen key policies "Brexit NOW" "Stop sending money to Scotland - no cuts in England" (Barnett Formula) "Death-Penalty for political assassination, murder of children, serial and multiple murder" "End TV Licence"

The party website is [4]

search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Registrations/PP258
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/political-parties-campaigning-and-donations/political-party-registration/pending-registration-applications/current-applications2?
english-independence.com/

[johnloony]

Fake leaflets have been distributed in Batley & Spen (pretending to be pro-Labour but apparently trying to help the English Democrats):

www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/someone-is-distributing-fake-leaflets-to-try-and-disrupt-the?utm_term=.anz2Da9JY#.xuQMvGm6q

[carlton43]

Sept 27, 2016 20:26:16 GMT ogermeister said:

Henry Mayhew appeared in the BBC documentary "The secret history of our streets"-in the episode that dealt with the gentrification of Portland Road in Kensington. He was also a Committee member (and possibly Chairman at some point) of the same Conservative Ward Committee that David Cameron chaired briefly in the early 1990s

Thanks for that.

I have voted Mayhew.
EDIT

And without any doubt I would vote Mayhew if an elector there.

[AdminSTB]

Oct 10, 2016 13:57:56 GMT carlton43 said:

Sept 27, 2016 20:26:16 GMT ogermeister said:

Henry Mayhew appeared in the BBC documentary "The secret history of our streets"-in the episode that dealt with the gentrification of Portland Road in Kensington. He was also a Committee member (and possibly Chairman at some point) of the same Conservative Ward Committee that David Cameron chaired briefly in the early 1990s

Thanks for that.

I have voted Mayhew.
EDIT

And without any doubt I would vote Mayhew if an elector there.

At last, I'm not alone in supporting him.

[Sibboleth]

Batley & Spen

1983 Con 1.6, 1987, Con 2.3, 1992 Con 2.3, 1997 Lab 13.1, 2001 Lab 13.2, 2005 Lab 14.8, 2010 Lab 8.5, 2015 Lab 12.0

Members of Parliament:

Elizabeth Peacock (Con) 1983-97, Mike Wood (Lab) 1997-2015, Jo Cox (Lab) 2015-16.

Batley & Morley

1918 CoLib 5.8, 1922 Lab 17.0, 1923 Lab 5.2, 1924 Lib 1.2, 1929 Lab 16.6, 1931 Con 22.4, 1935 Lab 7.2, 1939b Lab 10.8, 1945 Lab 29.7, 1949b Lab 18.6, 1950 Lab 19.9, 1951 Lab 19.4, 1955 Lab 20.4, 1959 Lab 16.7, 1964 Lab 22.3, 1966 Lab 27.2, 1970 Lab 15.9, 1974F Lab 14.7, 1974O Lab 19.2, 1979 Lab 11.4

Members of Parliament:

Gerald France (CoLib) 1918-22, Ben Turner (Lab) 1922-24, Walter Forrest (Lib) 1924-29, Ben Turner (Lab) 1929-31, Wilfrid Wills (Con) 1931-35, Willie Brook (Lab) 1935-39, Hubert Beaumont (Lab) 1939-48, Alfred Broughton (Lab) 1949-79, Ken Woolmer (Lab) 1979-83.

Brighouse & Spenborough

1950 Lab 4.4, 1950b Lab 0.9, 1951 Lab 4.5, 1955 Lab 3.6, 1959 Lab 0.1, 1960b Con* 1.5, 1964 Lab 1.9, 1966 Lab 9.6, 1970 Con 0.1, 1974F Lab 2.9, 1974O Lab 4.3, 1979 Con 3.1

Members of Parliament:

Frederick Cobb (Lab) 1950, John Edwards (Lab) 1950-59, Michael Shaw Con* 1960-64, Colin Jackson (Lab) 1964-70, Wilfred Proudfoot (Con) 1970-74, Colin Jackson (Lab) 1974-79, Gary Waller (Con) 1979-83.

*Technically elected as a 'National Liberal' whatevers.

[Robert Waller]

Andrew Teale's preview
election-data.co.uk/by-election-previews-20-10-16-parliamentary-special

Apologies for double post (along with Witney thread) but it's just possibole someone might only be interested in one byelection.
Doubtful here, I know.

[AdminSTB]

Polls closed.

FWIW, 26 of us would have voted Labour in this by-election and only 10 forum members displayed as Labour supporters voted in the thread poll.

[Andrew_S]

A view of the ballot paper:

[timrollpickering]

Oct 20, 2016 21:04:01 GMT AdminSTB said:

Polls closed.

FWIW, 26 of us would have voted Labour in this by-election and only 10 forum members displayed as Labour supporters voted in the thread poll.

Interesting. What's the overlap for the indy green & ukip candidates?

[greenhert]

My prediction for this by-election:

Labour 85
Independent (Kitchin) 7
English Democrats 4
Others 4

[The Bishop]

No way will Labour score that big.

[jerryarkansas]

Turnout 25.8%

[Jack]

Oct 20, 2016 23:04:17 GMT jerryarkansas said:

Turnout 25.8%

Oh dear.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Oct 20, 2016 23:04:17 GMT jerryarkansas said:

Turnout 25.8%

Now that is what I call low turnout
I shall now go back to adding all of my 500 seat plans
PS Please could some people head over to my 500 seat thread and comment on my plans, it feels lonely over there

[Lord Twaddleford]

Oct 20, 2016 23:04:17 GMT jerryarkansas said:

Turnout 25.8%

Sounds about right for a local authority by-election. Heck, I've seen ward turnout figures like that in the main elections for local authorities.

[Pete Whitehead]

Oct 20, 2016 23:12:26 GMT AustralianSwingVoter said:

Oct 20, 2016 23:04:17 GMT jerryarkansas said:

Turnout 25.8%

Now that is what I call low turnout
I shall now go back to adding all of my 500 seat plans
PS Please could some people head over to my 500 seat thread and comment on my plans, it feels lonely over there

Its lonely because once again you've decided to dump all your plans in one go and at a time when most everyone else is concentrating on various local and national by-election results. You were told about this before. If you had posted your Devon & Cornwall plans and left it at that for a while then maybe people would comment but nobody can be arsed to go scrolling through 3 pages of new posts. Well I suppose I can't speak for everyone else, but I certainly can't be arsed

[Andrew_S]

25.8% turnout in Batley & Spen would be about 20,000 votes.