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Post by john07 on May 6, 2024 18:54:05 GMT
I forgot about the Yorkshire-born Scottish Labour Party leader Richard Leonard.
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Post by john07 on May 6, 2024 18:34:05 GMT
Fixation on Middle East issues will do little to help the Moslem population in Blackburn and elsewhere. There is next bugger all that any councillor or even any MP can do to influence anything going on in Israel or Palestine. So a few dissidents in a minority on the council will have zero impact. The chance of actually getting an MP will start and end with George Galloway and possibly Tower Hamlets. If anything that is likely to harden the stance against Palestine through enmity with Galloway. You mean incompetent management of the council is more important than what you feel about wider politics? Sounds like just about every Tory council election campaign ever. You were almost right first time. Now corrected! I wish I could find examples of well-run Tory councils. In many cases you are struggling to even find a Tory councillor let alone a Tory council.
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Post by john07 on May 6, 2024 17:35:32 GMT
The Scots and Welsh are touchy like that. Many of them carpet constituencies in England and always have done, but if obvious English people go into their petty nations to stand they wail and curse and gnash their little teeth. fair point to some extent but I'm not sure that either Jim Callaghan or Michael Foot attracted much opprobrium when they sought & won Welsh seats. Not to mention the Manchester-born David Lloyd George!
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Post by john07 on May 6, 2024 17:26:25 GMT
Fixation on Middle East issues will do little to help the Moslem population in Blackburn and elsewhere.
There is next bugger all that any councillor or even any MP can do to influence anything going on in Israel or Palestine. So a few dissidents in a minority on the council will have zero impact. The chance of actually getting an MP will start and end with George Galloway and possibly Tower Hamlets. If anything that is likely to harden the stance against Palestine through enmity with Galloway.
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Post by john07 on May 5, 2024 20:16:43 GMT
A very long personal statement. Generally, the longer the statement, the more unlikely anyone will bother to read it. You don’t need to read the detail, the absolute crap in the visible bit tells you all you need to know. No wonder Momentum is going down the pan if they put that idiot in charge.
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Post by john07 on May 5, 2024 20:02:30 GMT
Bye bye. Don’t slam the door on your way out.
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Post by john07 on May 5, 2024 1:02:06 GMT
Actually pretty much since the last Stroud elections! I think these were a lot less interesting. Most of these results could have been reasonably foreseen. The only ones that really shocked me were Brian Tipper losing in Cam East and Studdert-Kennedy being defeated in the Stanleys Ouch! Being defeated in the Stanleys sounds very painful.
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Post by john07 on May 4, 2024 20:46:55 GMT
It ought to be true. It's the true blue Market Hall ward in Birmingham. People who read the Birmingham Post. The Telegraph for Brummies... Circulation in 2023: 844. Amazing. When I worked in Birmingham the Post was omnipresent. It was the only source of detailed Ward by Ward results across the region. I do remember going into work one Friday at Aston knowing that everyone would be aware that I had been elected to Coventry City Council via the Birmingham Post. My head of department was not best pleased. He took exception to the fact that I had got elected without his permission! It should not have come as a major surprise as I was a parliamentary candidate one year previously. It was not a major issue as Albert Bore was on the staff at Aston and he became leader of Birmingham City Council at the same time. George Lindfield was also an academic staff member and was also on Coventry City Council. Alan Pratt (a prat by name and by nature) thought differently and tried to have me removed from the staff.
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Post by john07 on May 4, 2024 16:52:13 GMT
I blame the hanging chads! Saint Chad has, I believe, strong links to the West Midlands. Wot no recount?
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Post by john07 on May 4, 2024 16:13:01 GMT
Why would they recount only some districts and not all? Party like florida 2000 I blame the hanging chads!
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Post by john07 on May 4, 2024 15:15:47 GMT
John Curtice mentions that the Cons asked for the recount. BBC journalist asks why is that significant. He explains that the party in second place normally asks for it. The BBC journalist is obviously ‘on the ball’ and realised that Street may be asking for a recount to try and push his majority up.
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Post by john07 on May 4, 2024 0:56:16 GMT
Has there ever been a case of a council entirely consisting of independents before? When my late wife lived in Amlwch, pre-reorganisation, all councillors appeared to be notionally 'independent'. For her ward, one candidate was a local businesman, one was a trade unionist, and the other was a Welsh Language activist!
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Post by john07 on May 3, 2024 23:49:09 GMT
Labour gain John Tizard (Labour) - 40, 738 (40.46%) Festus Akinbusoye (Conservative) - 35,688 (35.44%) Jasbar Parmer (Lib Dem) - 15,857 (16.7%) Waheed Akbar (Workers Party) - 8,396 (8.3%) Not a great year politically for Festus Akinbusoye. Wasn't he in the Addams Family? Or was that his uncle?
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Post by john07 on May 3, 2024 22:10:27 GMT
Any thoughts on who will control?
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Post by john07 on May 3, 2024 18:31:43 GMT
Frome Valley - 2 Lab(1 gain from Con) Hillfields - 2 Lab Lockleaze - 2 Grn Westbury on Trym & Henleaze - 3 Ld (3 gains from Con) Ashley - 3 Grn (1 gain from Lab) I will probably be visiting Lockleaze next rugby season as local side Dings Crusaders have just been promoted to Moseley's National League 1. Tell me about it. Anything to do with the British Union of Fascists?
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Post by john07 on May 3, 2024 2:14:40 GMT
Any reactions to the Labour gain here?
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Post by john07 on May 2, 2024 22:42:15 GMT
When you have the historical and future context alongside it, that 2015 Lib Dem result looks especially shockingly bad. I wonder if not for Brexit it might have been the start of a stagnation in the area. It looks to me like the electorate’s verdict on the coalition. There would be little support from the Tories who would continue to vote Conservative. By contrast the Labour and other party supporters who voted Lib Dem on an anti-Tory tactical vote would not have been pleased. That’s the problem with your party forming a coalition that will piss-off many of those who voted for you may have unfortunate electoral consequences.
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Post by john07 on May 2, 2024 15:10:32 GMT
Because Cleveland had to be abolished, and that meant either Hartlepool became a unitary on its own, or it was force-merged with Stockton. Whereas taking Oxford out of Oxfordshire would destabilise service delivery from the County Council. But how does that differ from say Leicester and Leicestershire. [Note: I was quite heavily involved in the Leicestershire re-organisation of the mid-nineties, and I suspect the answer comes down to no more than differences in the local political terrain at the time.] The move to two-tier authorities in the mid-1970s caused a lot of grief. Coventry volunteered to go into West Midlands rather than stay in Warwickshire, even though there was little connection. The reason was that Coventry did not want to lose Education and Social Services to Warwickshire. It didn’t work out that well with constant disputes about issues on apparently minor issues such as grass cutting on highway verges. That was something I had to sort out at a crisis meeting in Birmingham. Meantime, the Labour-inclined Leicester City lost key services involving 70% of spending to Conservative Leicestershire. Leicester sorted their issues out while Oxford have not.
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Post by john07 on May 2, 2024 0:51:41 GMT
An update in the situation in the Jewel after last nights (final of the year) council meeting. As noted elsewhere Cllr Julie Lintern (not up for election) is now sitting as an independent, but not with the Bradford Independant Group, so one off the Labour total and they now need to lose 8 seats to lose control. I am led to believe that neither of the Bradford South Independents will be standing again, although they did have a motion last night and their former colleage came with a petition at a previous meeting so I wonder. I don’t think Ann Hawksworth in Ilkley has made her intentions clear, There was nothing about them last night when as a longstanding member some comment might have been expected if she was planning to retire. Last month the Bradford Independant Group announced that they would be standing 14 candidates in the May elections - all of Bradford West, Keighley Central and West in Keighley, Whindhill and Wrose and Shipley in Shipley, Bowling and Barkerend, Little Horton and Bolton and Underclffe in Bradford East and Wibsey in Bradford South. Last night on a motion on Gaza and related issues no fewer than ten Labour members spoke. Leaving the Leader and Deputy, of the remaining eight, six are up for election, five in wards the BIG say they will contest. All the labour speakers made a point of criticising the BIG for “using the suffering in Gaza to further their political ends”. I make no comment on the rightness or otherwise of this critisism but report it as evidence that Labour do seem to be taking the threat from the BIG with some seriousness. I am fascinated that Members of Bradford City Council are taking foreign policy seriously, at least as regards to Israel and the middle east! We obviously need more foreign policy discussion in council chambers? I think that the GLC under Livingstone pioneered this?
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Post by john07 on May 2, 2024 0:01:43 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' The constituency was known as Bexley from 1945-70. Edward Heath took the seat in 1950, from Labour, and remained there until it was replaced by Sidcup in 1974. Another redistribution in 1983 saw this become Old Bexley and Sidcup.
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