Local Elections 2018

[cupid_stunt]

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...

TBF, he was only 40,000 odd votes short.

 

[Voley]

answered my own q:
Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
i.e. just last night's.

God, what a mess all that this. I had a brief look for mine and I think elections are called every third year with a Mayday in the gibbous Moon or something.

 

[andysays]

TBF, he was only 40,000 odd votes short.

It's not the winning, it's the taking part

 

[Slo-mo]

Next years elections will actually be more interesting in some ways. Less focus on London (indeed no elections in London?) and more focus on the swing marginal areas outside the big cities where Labour needs to do better than it did in 2017 to get over the line.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Overall, a resounding win for the Conservatives. Lost a few Councillors and one council, when they should have been annihilated.

That's the problem with the Urban bubble, it's view of how things are are guided by prejudice and hope, rather than fact.

It would seem the real world doesn't want change, which is quite astonishing really. This is the most inept government I've seen since Wilson.

 

[Pickman's model]

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.

Only you are left to remember those days

 

[Sasaferrato]

Only you are left to remember those days

It was only four years ago you plonker!

 

[oryx]

Despite the Tories and LD's best efforts to portray it as such, Lewisham was not a one-party state. (There was one Green*).

It now is.

*bit sad it was a Green who lost out, would have much preferred it to be one of the other parties who lost their seat.

 

[chilango]

Overall, a resounding win for the Conservatives..

maths not your strong point?

Whatever this election is it's most obviously not that.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Libdems have doubled their number of councillors - to 2.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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).

To the eternal shame of my home area. Either the residents have gone mad or the area has changed beyond recognition since I lived there.

 

[DotCommunist]

This is the most inept government I've seen since Wilson.

and this lot don't have the valid excuse that the entire entrenched establishment is against them to the point of actual coup plotting

 

[Badgers]

Just had another labour leaflet arrive today FFS

 

[Badgers]

Sunderland candidate suspended over Abbott tweet reinstated

 

[planetgeli]

Surely it was a great night for NOTA. 30% turnout says it all doesn’t it?

Not that any spokesperson in the media is ever going to put that one across.

 

[Slo-mo]

Tower Hamlets not expected til 8. An interesting Labour vs independent battle in prospect there. Otherwise that's pretty much yer lot folks....

 

[Pickman's model]

It was only four years ago you plonker!

No, you were alive before the slave trade was abolished

 

[Pickman's model]

Overall, a resounding win for the Conservatives. Lost a few Councillors and one council, when they should have been annihilated.

That's the problem with the Urban bubble, it's view of how things are are guided by prejudice and hope, rather than fact.

It would seem the real world doesn't want change, which is quite astonishing really. This is the most inept government I've seen since Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just had another labour leaflet arrive today FFS

I suspect they commissioned a leaflet distribution company, most parties do, that is unreliable when it comes to time-frames & boundaries (someone posted earlier about getting election material for a different ward to where they live).

I can't imagine a party supporter delivering leaflets after the event.

 

[redsquirrel]

maths not your strong point?

Whatever this election is it's most obviously not that.

Nor analysis, nor sense.

 

[Gerry1time]

The Libdems have doubled their number of councillors - to 2.

 

[tim]

Woodrow Wilson.

Sasaferrato is referingreback to tht disastrous Wilson Betty and Kettle coalition of the mid thirties. Their pyramid and Sphinx programme nearly bankrupted the country and was the real reason for the abdication of Ramasses the Eighth

 

[Orang Utan]

YES:

 

[Slo-mo]

One party states again in Newham and Barking.

Any others (of any party)?

 

[Sasaferrato]

TBF, he was only 40,000 odd votes short.

I thought Pickman's was saying that he had been elected mayor.

That'll teach me not to pay attention.

All others who pointed out my monumental cockup, please take this as your reply.

J'suis un plonker!

 

[planetgeli]

One party states again in Newham and Barking.

Any others (of any party)?

Lewisham for one.

 

[oryx]

One party states again in Newham and Barking.

Any others (of any party)?

Lewisham, see above.

 

[Raheem]

and this lot don't have the valid excuse that the entire entrenched establishment is against them to the point of actual coup plotting

You don't read the Express, then.

 

[crossthebreeze]

30 votes in Whitley, Reading for TUSC.

77 votes- for TUSC in Arthurs Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne - hilariously 17 more than the highest scoring libdems in the same ward (and only 36 people voted for one of the libdems ).

 

[Sasaferrato]

No, you were alive before the slave trade was abolished

Do not forget, I know people with unfed Rottweilers, who know where you live... You sarky young whippersnapper!