Council by-election results

[PTK]

I assume that SGRA is the local "Ratepayers" group.

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

Residents Association?

 

[PTK]

Residents?

There is a history in council elections in England of "Ratepayers Association" candidates, which were really Conservatives in diguise.

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

I think this is them : SGRA

 

[Puddy_Tat]

There is a history in council elections in England of "Ratepayers Association" candidates, which were really Conservatives in diguise.

one of my (some time ago) council colleagues used to refer to them as 'ratcatchers association'

 

[Leafster]

There is a history in council elections in England of "Ratepayers Association" candidates, which were really Conservatives in disguise.

Our District Council more or less maps onto our Westminster constituency. It's run by a residents alliance with the Tories in third place behind the LibDems.

When it came to the General Election it still returned a Tory MP.

 

[brogdale]

Our District Council more or less maps onto our Westminster constituency. It's run by a residents alliance with the Tories in third place behind the LibDems.

When it came to the General Election it still returned a Tory MP.

Suggesting that the old assumptions about "residents/ratepayers" being tories without affiliation is not without basis?

 

[The39thStep]

Suggesting that the old assumptions about "residents/ratepayers" being tories without affiliation is not without basis?

Bar the IWCA

 

[Leafster]

Suggesting that the old assumptions about "residents/ratepayers" being tories without affiliation is not without basis?

I think for my area at least, NIMBYism holds sway at a local level but the local Tories returned to the fold when it came to voting at a national level.

 

[brogdale]

Bar the IWCA

Deregistered 4 years ago.