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Local By-Election Preview : 2 Con, SNP, Lab and 1 Green Defences

Local By-Election Preview : 2 Con, SNP, Lab and 1 Green Defences

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Leith Walk on Edinburgh (SNP and Green defence) Result of council at last election (2012): Labour 20, Scottish National Party 18, Conservatives 11, Greens 6, Liberal Democrats 3 (No Overall Control, Labour short by 10) Result of ward at last election (2012): Emboldened denotes elected Labour 1,674 , 937 (33%) Scottish National Party 1,735, 502 (29%) Green Party 1,593 (20%) Conservatives 637 (8%) Liberal Democrats 400 (5%) Independents 109, 91 (3%) Trade Unionist and Socialist 109 (1%) Liberal Party 69…

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Should Labour move swiftly to depose Corbyn?

Should Labour move swiftly to depose Corbyn?

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If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well  It were done quickly. Trading as short as 1/6, let us assume that Jeremy Corbyn wins. Let us also assume that the electoral cause of Labour will be better served by getting rid of him. Elections are won on the centre ground, and Stephen Bush has pretty conclusively shown that non-voters are not, collectively, an alternative viable route to victory. Even if Corbyn does manage to turn out a bunch of new…

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Local By-Election Result : September 3rd 2015

Local By-Election Result : September 3rd 2015

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Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen on Caerphilly (Lab defence) Result: Labour 1,002 (47% -14%), Plaid Cymru 509 (24% +14%), Douglas (Independent, nominated as UKIP) 223 (11%, no candidate in 2012), Dew (Independent) 184 (9%), Conservatives 109 (5%, no candidate in 2012), Davies (Independent) 106 (5%) Labour HOLD with a majority of 493 (23%) on a swing of 14% from Labour to Plaid Cymru * Independent vote in by-election 513 (25%), Independent vote in 2012 (29%). Change: -4%

Just one by-election tonight – a Labour defence in Wales

Just one by-election tonight – a Labour defence in Wales

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Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen on Caerphilly (Lab defence) Result of council at last election (2012): Labour 50, Plaid Cymru 20, Independent 3 (Labour majority of 27) Result of ward at last election (2012): Emboldened denotes elected Labour 1,854, 1,574, 1,282, 1,181 (61%) Non Party Independents 508, 484, 409, 254 (17%) Independents 438, 389, 378 (12%) Plaid Cymru 664, 258 (10%) Candidates duly nominated: Ray Davies (Ind), Ron Davies (Plaid), John Dew (Ind), Bobby Douglas (Ind, was UKIP), Lisa Jones (Lab),…

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Will Labour “go to the mattresses” if Corbyn wins?

Will Labour “go to the mattresses” if Corbyn wins?

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Don Brind hopes that peace will break out There’s nothing erotic about going “to the mattresses”, as fans of the Godfather know. It’s violence not sex that Sonny Corleone has in mind when he declares that unless the Corleone clan get what they want “it’s all-out war, we go to the mattresses.” (It’s not safe for the “soldiers” to stay at home while the bloodletting ensues so they camp out in warehouses on those mattresses) Fears that the Labour party…

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Message to Andy, Yvette and Liz: Jeremy is a man you can do business with

Message to Andy, Yvette and Liz: Jeremy is a man you can do business with

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Don Brind on how Labour should react to Corbyn’s likely victory It’s a pretty boring picture – two men and a woman standing in front of a model train. What made it newsworthy for the Metro, the London free sheet, in October 2007 was that the two men were Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. Flanked by the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly they are gazing at a Crossrail train as the £16 billion project was given…

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Just one local by-election tonight – what looks like an interesting LAB defence in Barnsley against UKIP

Just one local by-election tonight – what looks like an interesting LAB defence in Barnsley against UKIP

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Dearne North on Barnsley (Lab defence) Result of council at last election (2015): Labour 55, Conservatives 4, Independents 4 (Labour majority of 47) Result of ward at last election (2014): Labour 1,179 (58%), United Kingdom Independence Party 752 (37%), Conservatives 103 (5%) Candidates duly nominated: Tony Devoy (Yorkshire First), Karen Fletcher (Trade Unionist and Socialist), Annette Gollick (Labour), Jim Johnson (UKIP), Lee Ogden (Con) Whilst it is true to say that Labour have Barnsley sewn up, it is not fair…

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UKIP continues its run of losses in the latest round of council by-elections

UKIP continues its run of losses in the latest round of council by-elections

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Farage’s party has lost all but one defence since May 7th Witney North on West Oxfordshire (Independent, elected as Conservative, defence) Result: Conservatives 264 (34% -9%), Liberal Democrats 201 (26% +14%), Green Party 136 (17% -11%), Labour 114 (15% -2%), United Kingdom Independence Party 64 (8%, no candidate in 2012) Conservative HOLD with a majority of 63 (8%) on a swing of 11.5% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat Camborne, Pandarves on Cornwall (UKIP defence) Result: Conservatives 325 (30% unchanged), Liberal…

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