Local Elections (not that London) 2024

[JimW]

See one of our local county councillors has defected from Tories to the Greens: Conservative councillor defects to Green Party | Stroud Times Her cited reasons - the treatment of asylum seekers and benefit claimants - does make you wonder what she was doing in the Tories in the first place.

 

[ska invita]

Her cited reasons - the treatment of asylum seekers and benefit claimants -

 

[_Russ_]

Ok so self awareness has never been prolific in parliamentary circles but come on

Starmer: I’m a socialist and progressive who will always put country first

 

[Silas Loom]

Ok so self awareness has never been prolific in parliamentary circles but come on

Starmer: I’m a socialist and progressive who will always put country first

Provincial local elections thread?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Worthing has had three Labour councillors leave the party to sit as independents, because they are not happy with the national party's direcion.

Carl Walker, who was deputy leader of the Labour-run council, said he was “incredibly proud” of what the council has achieved “in helping turn Worthing Council red, our amazing community activism and the fantastic work we’ve all done as Worthing’s first ever Labour council”.

“The national Labour Party stands in direct contradiction to my personal and political values and no longer feel that I can represent it in good conscience,” he said in a statement.

He criticised the party’s green policy, its stance on the conflict in Gaza, its “refusal to reverse the two child benefit cap” and the party’s “commitment to the continued privatisation of the NHS”.

Councillors break with Labour to become independents

Three Worthing councillors have broken with Labour to become independents.

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[BusLanes]

Good timing for the election!

Labour have also lost 1 of 2 councillors to the LDs for a borough by Leeds, where the LDs run the council.

 

[Pickman's model]

2 lib dems nicked in yorkshire for election offences relating to these local elections Two Liberal Democrat campaigners arrested | LocalGov