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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 11:33:05 GMT
That is the official version, yes - but I believe other accounts are available.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 11:29:02 GMT
Mothin Ali, newly elected Green councillor for Gipton & Harehills, Leeds MBC, has apparently been suspended from the party for his tweet talking about white supremacists etc. Well I’m sure nobody could have foreseen that problem arising. Maybe the really interesting question is how many other Greens (and indeed LibDems) elected on an anti-Labour Gaza protest vote will end up embarrassing their party?
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 11:26:47 GMT
Not *quite* the same thing, but Ian Austin being turned away by Change UK will never fail to amuse.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 10:45:30 GMT
Essex and Merseyside still haven't been updated since the election, btw.
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Post by The Bishop on May 7, 2024 10:43:49 GMT
Maybe in the days of total Labour clean sweeps year after year, but that hasn't been true for a while now.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 21:00:41 GMT
The only district council with nothing posted since the election.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 20:37:28 GMT
Labour missed out on getting onto the council by 2 votes, ouch.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 20:10:04 GMT
The only Met with no posts since the election
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 19:46:34 GMT
First elected since 1992, on the council at all since 1996.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 19:42:32 GMT
Is this the one who gloated about "a blow against white supremacy" on the day of the October 7th massacre?
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 19:23:52 GMT
By the time of the summer 1983 vote on capital punishment (maybe the most determined attempt to restore it) the only MPs voting for who were not Tory or some sort of NI Unionist were the aforementioned Cyril Smith and Donald Stewart, SNP member for the Western Isles. I'm sure there was a Labour candidate in 2010 who was pro - maybe Sittingbourne and Sheppey given that I definitely recall Pimpernal referencing them in the "old place"?
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 13:43:53 GMT
They made a point of endorsing the Worthing West candidate, but not Labour's hopeful in Shoreham/Worthing East.
Indeed, one of the defectors was kept off the shortlist for the latter.
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May 6, 2024 13:36:53 GMT
Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 13:36:53 GMT
So the usual, as I suspected.
In fact a look at those results shows few of the contests were even vaguely close, including Daresbury which was the one Tory banker until relatively recently.
Labour remain utterly dominant here.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 12:22:13 GMT
Dunno, haven't looked. I can guess, though
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 12:21:24 GMT
I think a few well designed Labour bar charts might assist there.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 12:11:55 GMT
What is the point of even polling "all adults"?
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 11:56:16 GMT
Bump
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 11:55:09 GMT
Labour's problem here at the GE will be the perception that the Tories are toast anyway. I don't know if Debonnaire has a personal vote, but if does she'll need it. I think she does actually, the 2017 and 2019 results aren't really explainable without one. But nonetheless your closing comment is also correct - maybe its genuinely 50/50 at a GE now.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 11:43:42 GMT
I don't think we should extrapolate *too* much to a GE which will both have higher turnout and, to a significant degree at least, be fought on different issues.
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 11:35:52 GMT
Back in 1997 the Labour candidate in West Aberdeenshire etc was an (Asian) councillor in E London, no significant Scottish links AFAIK.
This sort of thing is pretty common in seats the respective party knows they aren't going to win even in a landslide, Tories very much included here.
(and for a Tory example in a Scottish seat for 1997, look no further than JRM!)
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