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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 2, 2021 9:07:21 GMT
I think there should be a constituency named Llwchwr. Just for the fun of hearing the broadcast media coping with it. At least Huw Edwards would be ok.
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Post by bjornhattan on Jul 4, 2021 23:47:26 GMT
Is there anything unusual about Boughton under Blean or Selling, in the Swale district of Kent?
Relative to the age demographics from the last census, the local area has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in England (the only areas which are worst are either inner city neighbourhoods, very heavily Eastern European areas in Boston, or on the Welsh border). But I can't see any obvious reason for this - does anyone have any idea what I'm missing?
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 5, 2021 6:14:39 GMT
Is there anything unusual about Boughton under Blean or Selling, in the Swale district of Kent? Relative to the age demographics from the last census, the local area has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in England (the only areas which are worst are either inner city neighbourhoods, very heavily Eastern European areas in Boston, or on the Welsh border). But I can't see any obvious reason for this - does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? I know the area and was at one time very close to joining a family enterprise to run a pub at Selling. This is quite an off-route and remote quarter of Kent. Sparsely populated North Downs with difficult communication on very narrow roads often (in the days I knew it) with grass growing in a band down the middle of the road. Very static rural and elderly population. An inward looking area. Never overlook 'statistical error' as the actual cause of the disparity! But if it is true, it might be a seige mentality by people already mentally and physically cut off, and because of lockdowns, fears and lack of transport just relying on isolation to save them rather than risking the contagion of journies to a place of vaccination where contagion is seen to be a threat outweighing the safety of the jab? If this attitude prevails in Selling then I would expect it also in some parts pf Yorkshire Dales and Moors, Welsh Borders, and parts of Highlands and Islands. Are figures there the same?
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Post by bjornhattan on Jul 5, 2021 12:00:08 GMT
Is there anything unusual about Boughton under Blean or Selling, in the Swale district of Kent? Relative to the age demographics from the last census, the local area has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in England (the only areas which are worst are either inner city neighbourhoods, very heavily Eastern European areas in Boston, or on the Welsh border). But I can't see any obvious reason for this - does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? I know the area and was at one time very close to joining a family enterprise to run a pub at Selling. This is quite an off-route and remote quarter of Kent. Sparsely populated North Downs with difficult communication on very narrow roads often (in the days I knew it) with grass growing in a band down the middle of the road. Very static rural and elderly population. An inward looking area. Never overlook 'statistical error' as the actual cause of the disparity! But if it is true, it might be a seige mentality by people already mentally and physically cut off, and because of lockdowns, fears and lack of transport just relying on isolation to save them rather than risking the contagion of journies to a place of vaccination where contagion is seen to be a threat outweighing the safety of the jab? If this attitude prevails in Selling then I would expect it also in some parts pf Yorkshire Dales and Moors, Welsh Borders, and parts of Highlands and Islands. Are figures there the same? I suspect it is a statistical error. The figures are just so much lower than any comparable area, and are closer to those seen in the student areas of Canterbury than anywhere else in rural Kent.
As for your last point, there's some evidence for that, but it's patchy. The Yorkshire Dales and Moors have very high rates of vaccination, and while there are no local figures for Wales and Scotland, the figures by council area also look quite high. On the other hand, remote areas in the south of England seem to have lower rates than the age distribution would suggest. Parts of the South Downs, the New Forest, and Exmoor all stand out, but in most cases the vaccination rates are perhaps 5% lower than expected, not 30% as in Selling.
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Post by pl on Jul 7, 2021 13:57:49 GMT
My old computer has completely died, and taken by collection of bookmarks with it. One of them was a link to a website which archived council by-election results back to the 1990s. I'm sure it was run by a Lib Dem, and I now can't find it anywhere. It had some great annual composite tables showing gains and losses by party. Anyone have any ideas about the website I'm referring to? Davıd Boothroyd I'm guessing you're the most likely to know!
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Post by greatkingrat on Jul 7, 2021 14:00:52 GMT
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Post by grahammurray on Jul 7, 2021 14:02:03 GMT
My old computer has completely died, and taken by collection of bookmarks with it. One of them was a link to a website which archived council by-election results back to the 1990s. I'm sure it was run by a Lib Dem, and I now can't find it anywhere. It had some great annual composite tables showing gains and losses by party. Anyone have any ideas about the website I'm referring to? Davıd Boothroyd I'm guessing you're the most likely to know! www.theedkins.co.uk/uklocalgov/index.htm
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Post by pl on Jul 7, 2021 14:02:17 GMT
Ah, perfect. Many thanks. That's the one I was thinking of!!
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Post by sirbenjamin on Jul 8, 2021 11:29:24 GMT
Here's a thing:
On Tuesday I was walking from the Tennis to Southfields station and it struck me that I was crossing a border from a Tory seat (Wimbledon) to a Labour seat (Putney), while the same border also went from a Labour LA (Merton) into a Tory one (Wandsworth).
So it's a kind of double reverse switcheroo thing.
I got thinking that there probably aren't that many examples of the above around. But there probably are some. So I tried to think of some while trying to get to sleep and if I did think of any I can't remember them now.
So where are they?
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 8, 2021 11:38:24 GMT
Here's a thing: On Tuesday I was walking from the Tennis to Southfields station and it struck me that I was crossing a border from a Tory seat (Wimbledon) to a Labour seat (Putney), while the same border also went from a Labour LA (Merton) into a Tory one (Wandsworth). So it's a kind of double reverse switcheroo thing. I got thinking that there probably aren't that many examples of the above around. But there probably are some. So I tried to think of some while trying to get to sleep and if I did think of any I can't remember them now. So where are they? I will try and think of some others, but one example is if you were to travel along the Colnbrook bypass from Colnbrook to Harmonsworth you would be travelling from Colnbrook & Poyle ward (Slough borough (Lab) - Windsor constituency (Con)) to Heathrow Villages ward (Hillingdon borough (Con) - Hayes & Harlington constituency (Lab))
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 8, 2021 11:41:37 GMT
Even closer to home (for me) you now can cross between Chesham & Amersham (Con council, LD MP) and Three Rivers/Herts SW (Con MP, LD council)
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 8, 2021 11:44:17 GMT
Unless you're talking about whole constituencies being in this kind of situation which would be harder. I think Bury South/Bolton South East might sort of count
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 8, 2021 11:55:11 GMT
Also you've got Walsall South -> West Bromwich East/West - a more clear cur case
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Post by European Lefty on Jul 8, 2021 11:56:36 GMT
Does Walsall South (Lab MP, Tory council) share a border with Sutton Coldfield (Tory MP, Lab council)?
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Post by andrewp on Jul 8, 2021 12:00:51 GMT
Does Walsall South (Lab MP, Tory council) share a border with Sutton Coldfield (Tory MP, Lab council)? No, by a matter of a couple of hundred metres.
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Post by sirbenjamin on Jul 9, 2021 13:32:14 GMT
Does Walsall South (Lab MP, Tory council) share a border with Sutton Coldfield (Tory MP, Lab council)? No, by a matter of a couple of hundred metres.
Although the initial BCE proposals would correct this by moving Streetly ward into the successor seat.
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Post by sirbenjamin on Jul 9, 2021 13:33:40 GMT
Unless you're talking about whole constituencies being in this kind of situation which would be harder. I think Bury South/Bolton South East might sort of count
Yeah, whole constituencies/LAs rather than at ward level. Although it would be possible for a situation to exist where the 'flip' occurs at all three levels.
I've still not thought of any more.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 9, 2021 13:36:48 GMT
Unless you're talking about whole constituencies being in this kind of situation which would be harder. I think Bury South/Bolton South East might sort of count Yeah, whole constituencies/LAs rather than at ward level. Although it would be possible for a situation to exist where the 'flip' occurs at all three levels. I've still not thought of any more.
Well the Walsall/West Bromwich situation was an unambiguous case. You also have Wimbledon/Tooting
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Post by mick745 on Sept 24, 2021 7:18:41 GMT
Are there any kind of "recall" powers for elected combined authority mayors/metro mayors or any mechanism for them being removed outside of an election?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 24, 2021 8:10:35 GMT
Nope. None.
Mayors can only be removed by disqualification or by voluntarily giving up, although if one went rogue the MHCLG DLUHC could remove their powers.
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