Local Elections May 5th 2022

[spitfire]

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?

I don't really have the political chops to explain this and they blindsided me to a large extent so am playing catch up. This is what the man himself says:

I’m a Socialist, and I Just Beat the Labour Party in London’s Poorest Borough

In London’s poorest borough, I ran as an open socialist against the Labour Party to become mayor — and I won. Despite Labour’s conservative turn, the Left can win like I did: by going on the offensive.

jacobinmag.com

Lots of middle class pro LTN people are having kittens that he's going to tear out the LTN's, (something along these lines certainly seems to be on the list). I hope he doesn't, I think they are (usually) a good thing.

As scifisam explained previously there does seem to be a pattern of iffy votes but he claims it is all trumped up. Lots of local left wing twitter accounts seem to be chuffed that Blue Labour got a shoeing.

Time will tell.

 

[scifisam]

I don't really have the political chops to explain this and they blindsided me to a large extent so am playing catch up. This is what the man himself says:

I’m a Socialist, and I Just Beat the Labour Party in London’s Poorest Borough

In London’s poorest borough, I ran as an open socialist against the Labour Party to become mayor — and I won. Despite Labour’s conservative turn, the Left can win like I did: by going on the offensive.

jacobinmag.com

Lots of middle class pro LTN people are having kittens that he's going to tear out the LTN's, (something along these lines certainly seems to be on the list). I hope he doesn't, I think they are (usually) a good thing.

As scifisam explained previously there does seem to be a pattern of iffy votes but he claims it is all trumped up. Lots of local left wing twitter accounts seem to be chuffed that Blue Labour got a shoeing.

Time will tell.

Yep, also been amazed by how many new accounts there are popping up on NextDoor saying Rahman and Aspire are all amazingly wonderful and anyone who disagrees is a massive racist who hates the left wing. I generally use NextDoor for recommendations for handymen or posts about lost cats, but it's turned into Aspireville all of a sudden.

He's not a socialist, he's a grifter. In the mayoral election after his 2014 "win" was voided, I actually saw Rahman himself getting back into a car near a polling station (he's quite recognisable, and I'd met him before), where he wasn't supposed to be (and that time the cops did care - someone else reported it to a polling station cop at the same time as we were about to, but Rahman sped off).

Ah well. Another four years.

 

[two sheds]

Nextdoor isn't a good forum for responding to political statements like that because people are very easily traceable to where they live.

 

[krtek a houby]

The clue with "Russ" is in the join date
Id have banned long ago

Deserves a slap for the not so subtle racism, at the very least

 

[planetgeli]

The full election result for Carmarthenshire as Plaid remains the largest party

The results are very similar to those in the county back in 2017

www.walesonline.co.uk

Truly bizarre report from headline to the end of the story. The actual story was Plaid won the council for the first time in years, breaking years of NOC deadlock, but it's reported as they are 'the largest party' (in the headline) in 'results very similar to 2017' (subheadline) - and then a report all about the PC leader of the council losing his seat. No mention of them winning control.

 

[nogojones]

edit. Probably best not for a public board

 

[StillOnFire]

Good all the elections are over, we can all go back to not hearing from anyone until the next time!

 

[pbsmooth]

New ‘crackdown’ on family voting following Tower Hamlets concerns

A crackdown to prevent voting malpractice is being proposed in Parliament after controversy over the town hall election in Tower Hamlets.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[spitfire]

New ‘crackdown’ on family voting following Tower Hamlets concerns

A crackdown to prevent voting malpractice is being proposed in Parliament after controversy over the town hall election in Tower Hamlets.

www.standard.co.uk

I saw a member of staff stop a man trying to go into the booth with his wife at my polling station. In hindsight she had jumped on it very quickly and knew exactly what to say so it clearly wasn't the first time that day.