Local Elections May 5th 2022

[Ax^]

cut the shit Russ their are other People on here who are Irish aside from myself

tell me why you meant by that comment

stop waving you hands like omg people are such snowflakes

 

[spitfire]

cut the shit Russ their are other People on here who are Irish aside from myself

tell me why you meant by that comment

stop waving you hands like omg people are such snowflakes

Potato jokes, ffs. Wanker.

 

[brogdale]

Whatever the fuck you want that makes you most offended, as in tune with most in here you obviously want to be.

Other, less "woke" fora are available, old chap.

 

[Smangus]

Potato jokes, ffs. Wanker.

The only spud around here is called Russ.

 

[spitfire]

The only spud around here is called Russ.

an amadán no less.

 

[flypanam]

Marty1?

 

[Wilf]

_Russ_ please could you explain what your recent comments on this thread have meant? Even on a board where the majority disagree with you, that's not too much to ask. I'd appreciate it if you answered directly and without the evasions of your last couple of posts. Thanks.

 

[brogdale]

The full, sorry tale of Croydon's ongoing...yes, really...ONGOING count for the council elections!

From bankrupt to laughing stock as council count continues

WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the country’s longest-lasting election count, and more unwanted notoriety for Croydon The Croydon election count looks set to head into a fifth day, and …

insidecroydon.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

The full, sorry tale of Croydon's ongoing...yes, really...ONGOING count for the council elections!

From bankrupt to laughing stock as council count continues

WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the country’s longest-lasting election count, and more unwanted notoriety for Croydon The Croydon election count looks set to head into a fifth day, and …

insidecroydon.com

Fucking hell, if they can't even count votes, it's hardly surprising they went bankrupt.

One interested observer, Tim Crowley, a Tory councillor in Sutton, tweeted snarkily, “I’ve worked out that since the polls shut on Thursday at 10pm, you could have flown to Sydney had lunch outside the Opera House and flown back and still not have had the New Addington result in Croydon declared.”

“Not good enough,” Keith Starmer’s pompous shadow justice minister tweeted this morning.

"Many of the problems at the count stem from the decision of the council chief executive, Katherine Kerswell, to conduct the complicated mayoral and ward councillor counts in the sports halls and theatre of an independent school. Trinity needed its main sports hall on Friday, the day after the voting was held, for A level exams, and so Kerswell, as Returning Officer, decided to delay the start of the tallying for Croydon’s first elected Mayor until 5.30pm on Friday – 19½ hours after the polling stations closed. It was all downhill from there."

What a total fuck up.

 

[planetgeli]

lol. Well he's not any more, Aspire now well ahead.

Who are this lot? I've read wikipedia and it makes them sound well dodgy. Former party wiped off by the Electoral Commission and they've just re-elected a mayor who was banned from standing for 5 years. What's the lowdown Tower Hamlets people?

 

[planetgeli]

In other news, because I can't see it mentioned, Kieth said he's done everything right and the people are now onside but they're still suffering 'long Corbyn' - so the people aren't onside then.

Cunt.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

In other news, because I can't see it mentioned, Kieth said he's done everything right and the people are now onside but they're still suffering 'long Corbyn' - so the people aren't onside then.

or to put it another way, it's jeremy corbyn's fault that the party has done worse than when jeremy corbyn was leader...

 

[Supine]

or to put it another way, it's jeremy corbyn's fault that the party has done worse than when jeremy corbyn was leader...

They gained a few so surely they did better than four years ago? Never followed council elections tbh.

 

[ruffneck23]

Whatever the fuck you want that makes you most offended, as in tune with most in here you obviously want to be.

Il call you out, you are a coward, explain yourself, own it or just fuck the fuck off.

 

[Chz]

The full, sorry tale of Croydon's ongoing...yes, really...ONGOING count for the council elections!

From bankrupt to laughing stock as council count continues

WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the country’s longest-lasting election count, and more unwanted notoriety for Croydon The Croydon election count looks set to head into a fifth day, and …

insidecroydon.com

I'd say that Croydon Labour got what they deserved, but that's unfair on poor Val Shawcross. She's a good'un, even if the rest of them are useless.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Il call you out, you are a coward, explain yourself, own it or just fuck the fuck off.

Oi, get to the back of the queue.

 

[ruffneck23]

Oi, get to the back of the queue.

I've been out for a couple of days and have only just caught up.

 

[brogdale]

or to put it another way, it's jeremy corbyn's fault that the party has done worse than when jeremy corbyn was leader...

Might use that on twatter!

 

[MickiQ]

Repealed with immediate effect on 12 May last year, giving the PM the power to call an election without parliamentary approval

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9308

Has he by God, twat snuck that through. That makes sense in Boris Logic. They threaten to unseat him he calls an election. If they win with him as leader he becomes untouchable, if they lose then he personally has lost nothing and he has got back at a lot of them.

 

[brogdale]

If accurate...finally...Croydon going to NOC...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Might use that on twatter!

I think that's where i got it...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

If accurate...finally...Croydon going to NOC...

apparently the vacancy is because the tory who became mayor had also stood as a councillor, and you're not allowed to be both, so there will be a by-election for the council seat, which will probably go tory

 

[brogdale]

apparently the vacancy is because the tory who became mayor had also stood as a councillor, and you're not allowed to be both, so there will be a by-election for the council seat, which will probably go tory

Green 'kingmakers'!

FAF that the scum couldn't even beat the incumbents that had bankrupted the borough!

 

[brogdale]

No need to panic, though...despite CroLab's dismal showing, BlueLab's true believer lives to fight another socialist.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

FAF that the scum couldn't even beat the incumbents that had bankrupted the borough!

Seemed to be a 5 way contest in some parts of Croydon, with Greens and 'Taking the Initiative' standing - I'd not really heard of the latter before. And noticed that the vermin were branding themselves 'local conservatives'...

 

[brogdale]

8

Things looking much brighter for the Stamer party now...

 

[pbsmooth]

Seemed to be a 5 way contest in some parts of Croydon, with Greens and 'Taking the Initiative' standing - I'd not really heard of the latter before. And noticed that the vermin were branding themselves 'local conservatives'...

they did quite a lot of campaigning, including driving a car round blaring their agenda out, which was a bit annoying. I would have been interested but had clocked that some of the leaders were anti-lockdown borderline conspiracy loons on social - before they tidied up their pages. there main thing was being outside the establishment and they got some decent backers in the black community.

 

[StillOnFire]

they did quite a lot of campaigning, including driving a car round blaring their agenda out, which was a bit annoying. I would have been interested but had clocked that some of the leaders were anti-lockdown borderline conspiracy loons on social - before they tidied up their pages. there main thing was being outside the establishment and they got some decent backers in the black community.

Hi, I was at some of the count in Croydon and have some knowledge of local politics here. TtIP were heavily targeting South Norwood ward, which is the only ward they ended up really getting an okay result in. From what I gather through conversation is they have connections with local evangelical church groups, I know they have some connections with figures such as Clive Morrison, who were a part of the old Christian Party (James Hargreaves old party). They were certainly the sharpest dressed bunch at the counts, sharp suits and dresses, at first glance without noticing the rosettes I thought a couple of them may be with The Conservative Party.

 

[StillOnFire]

Green 'kingmakers'!

FAF that the scum couldn't even beat the incumbents that had bankrupted the borough!

Not really kingmakers as the vast majority of any executive power lies with the mayor, due to the personally terrible idea of moving to a directly elected mayoral system. And anyway, the two Greens are to the left of Croydon Labour (that's not hard), but if they were to work more with any one it wouldn't be Perry's lot.

 

[pbsmooth]

Hi, I was at some of the count in Croydon and have some knowledge of local politics here. TtIP were heavily targeting South Norwood ward, which is the only ward they ended up really getting an okay result in. From what I gather through conversation is they have connections with local evangelical church groups, I know they have some connections with figures such as Clive Morrison, who were a part of the old Christian Party (James Hargreaves old party). They were certainly the sharpest dressed bunch at the counts, sharp suits and dresses, at first glance without noticing the rosettes I thought a couple of them may be with The Conservative Party.

interesting. Clive Morrison, more recently of UKIP.