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Local Elections 2018
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I think all seats should be up for grabs every 4 years, I find this 1/3rd at a time to be total nonsense, it reduces the chance to replace a council majority in any given year, it's fucking nuts.
How many of the Lib Dems are basically Tories?But, how many of those independents are basically Tories?
For that matter, how many a Labour politicians of all stripes are basically Tories?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
few times round here I have heard being shorted on something, EG small plate of chips or only half a cup of coffee as 'desborough measures'. I don't know why, I think its just pointless ancient old town rivalries.
not-bono-ever
meh
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not-bono-ever
meh
Every morning, one of them wakes up, looks at the other one still dozing and thinks "fucking hell, I am living with a lib dem..how did this happen, when did it all go wrong? "
not-bono-ever
meh
poor tess only just scraped past the not massively dissimilar democrats and veterans lot
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
They got my cross of death in neighbouring Newham
newbie
undisambiguated
wrt to Brexit we were told the dispossessed, left behind, nationalist working class swung the vote.
where did the stories of Labour taking Wandsworth, Barnet, K&C and so on come from? Their chances were talked up massively in advance, so what has actually happened looks poor. Whatever happened would never have satisfied Umuna et al but the expectation management has allowed the perception to arise that modest gains are akin to losses.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Err, because they should have done a lot better, direct comparison with the 2014 elections, considering 4 more years of Tory government, their vote share should have had a massive gain, not a drop.
There was a poll in the Evening Standard in February which showed Labour with a massive lead in London, and all those councils were within reach had that been borne out. It wasn't Labour talking it up (although plenty of people ran with it - I guess you would).
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Nice bit of rhetoric, but crap analysis as it ignores the fact that the Tories are so deeply split on Europe. They're not exactly proceeding with single minded determination, are they? A bunch of Nellies not Machiavellies
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Indeed
These results are not a disaster, not by any means, but neither were they a disaster for the Tories, and if Labour were really on their way back to number 10, they ought to have been.
I'm old enough to remember the 1994 council elections, and it was pretty clear then that the Tories were a busted flush. It isn't that way this time......
bemused
Well-Known Member
Lights, camera, Hitler.
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Starry Wisdom
Yeh. Let's ignore four more years of gentrification
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The constituency (Manchester Central) is rock-solid Labour - the MP has a 31k majority.
The results are in -
Electorate 9,757, total rejected ballots 14 (in full) 1 (in part)
Labour 1 - 1,475
Labour 2 - 1,272
Labour 3 - 1,152
Green - 345
Vermin 1 - 253
Libdem 1 - 233
Vermin 2 - 223
Vermin 3 - 189
Libdem 2 - 169
Libdem 3 - 157
Not all wards have declared, but in only one (fucking Didsbury) two out of three are libdems. The rest are all Labour which isn't a surprise.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Woo hoo!! I got 5% - over 600 votes. 
ETA - i beat every Lib Dem and was just 18 votes behind Labour!
ETA - i beat every Lib Dem and was just 18 votes behind Labour!
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bemused
Well-Known Member
I don't think the local had any impact on the party leaders anyway.
Jeez is unbeatable because any party vote he wins. The Tories aren't going to remove May until after brexit when they'll search for a clean skin to lead them to something.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Are those figures just last night's or are they the total number of councillors including last night's. I never know.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
answered my own q:Are those figures just last night's or are they the total number of councillors including last night's. I never know.
Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
i.e. just last night's.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Are those figures just last night's or are they the total number of councillors including last night's. I never know.
Just seats up for grabs I think.
This gives an idea of what councils were up election, and if there were full elections, or just half or a third of seats up in an given area: United Kingdom local elections, 2018 - Wikipedia
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
My ward now has two orthodox Jewish conservative councillors.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
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i don't understand why the bit about the jews was in there
He's an idiot.
A judge has dismissed a petition by a former Hackney councillor alleging that May’s local government elections were “illegally run”, following a hearing at Stoke Newington Town Hall.
The judge took just over three hours to rule that the councillors had been duly elected on 22 May and dismissed Vernon Williams’ petition.
Mr Williams, who ran as an independent candidate in Kings Park Ward, called the trial a “sham”, arguing that he was given only three weeks to prepare his case.
The independent candidate said he would fight the decision in a judicial review.
Mr Williams claimed that the Returning Officer Tim Shields did not follow correct election protocol when he supervised the vote count.
He said that Mr Shields “broke the law” when he did not begin the vote count until 3pm on May 22 – the day after Hackney headed to the polls.
Mr Williams also argued that the ballot boxes should have been kept under lock and key at the Town Hall, rather than being stored at Britannia Leisure Centre, which he called “the most unsafe place you can imagine”.
However at the hearing the judge argued there were no time frames to the count in local government elections, and that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Hackney’s Returning Officer.
The Electoral Commission confirmed that while vote counts should begin “as soon as practicable” following after polls close, there was no set time frame.
Labour councillors Sharon Patrick, Tom Rahilly and Rebecca Rennison were elected in Kings Park ward with over 2,000 votes each, while Mr Williams gained 134.
Hackney Council has been approached for comment.
Interesting though that he has now been elected mayor.
I suspect there is a story here that isn't being told. How can someone get 134 votes as a prospective Councillor, yet four years later be elected mayor.
There are some aged people in the Commons, but I doubt any member of the government, or opposition, is old enough to have been involved in the slave trade.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That's actually great Wilf thanks, I found my own council of true blue yokel land in there (information that I couldn't find on their own damn website) we're on the 3 in every 4 years crap too but this is our fallow year next up on 2 May 2019.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
In some areas that goes back to the abolition of various county councils, iirc. I used to live in Rochdale, which was like yours, 1/3 of council up every year and the County in the 4th... now fallow after abolition. I'm in Middlesbrough now, all out every 4 years, along with seemingly random Middlesbrough mayoral carnivals, now replaced by Teesside wide mayoral elections (a fucking tory).
andysays
Love and solidarity
If Vernon Williams is an idiot he shares that distinction with you, because he certainly hasn't been elected Mayor of Hackney or anywhere else.
You're not just posting with incomplete info, you're completely misunderstanding the info you do have...
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