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« on: August 16, 2007, 02:09:19 PM » |
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Stoke-on-Trent
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Neil M
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« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2007, 01:04:46 PM » |
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Is the former independent mayor going to try and get people elected?
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Ils vont ont ruinés, ils vous ont spoliés, ils s’unissent pour le pire!
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Mark Senior
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2007, 10:18:11 AM » |
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Council NOC Lab 25 Con&Ind Alliance 9 BNP 6 LibDem 5 various Ind 16
This must be the most complicated council of all . It is not even easy to tell who belongs to which party . The Con and Ind Alliance includes some councillors elected as pure Independents but at least 1 councillor elected as a Conservative is now described as an Independent . One BNP elected councillor is now an Independent and a Labour elected councillor is now a POT group Independent .
Not even going to try and forecast gains/losses here next year except they will be in all directions .
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Trident
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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2007, 12:16:26 PM » |
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Not that long ago Stoke would have been the easiest council in the country to predict - in the 1996 all-outs Labour won all 60 seats, and for a long time Labour would normally have about 55 councillors.
Such a Labour collapse is not actually that unusual in heartland area, but what is unusual is that the vote has splintered every which way rather than going 'en bloc' to LibDems (as in Hull or Sheffield) or to independents (Barnsley or Mansfield).
My guess is that there'll be a 'Papua New Guinea' style result here, with several seats being won with less than a third of the vote, and some even with less than a quarter, and the overall result will be like pulling the lever on a one-armed bandit.
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« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2007, 10:00:46 AM » |
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This council has changed from the easiest in the country to predict,to the most difficult! Lab/Con/LD/(some)Ind/ alliance running the city at present.Although BNP poll well,they suffered a setback last year losing their first elected cllr,and a fellow BNP ward cllr thrown out of the party.I expect them to gain Abbey Green,Bentilee and Weston&Meir North wards,all three from Lab,but lose Longton North ward to Lab.Con will gain Meir Park & Sandon ward from Ind defector from Con,and may gain East Valley ward from Lab,although this was a surprise result last May.LD will gain Northwood & Birches Head from Potteries Alliance defector from Lab,and possibly Hanley West & Shelton from Lab. Ind will gain Norton & Bradeley from Lab, will defeat the Lab leader in Blurton,and possibly take Berry Hill & Hanley East from Lab.
A very difficult one to predict,so with a pinch of salt,I'll say
Lab 22 LD 6 Con 4 BNP 8 Ind 22
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tiger76
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2007, 01:06:40 AM » |
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The Labour deputy leader has resigned after a bizarre animal cruelty incident. www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/Hope the link works. |
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Tucson
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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2007, 08:03:20 PM » |
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A Liberal Democrat cllr elected in May has fell out with the group and now sits as a 'Liberal Democrat Liberatarian'
This council is the most fractious in the country,I'm sure!
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Tucson
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« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2008, 01:02:00 PM » |
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Three Labour councillors leave the group over budgetary arguements, two over the closure of a pool within their ward,and another over city wide Labour policies by the elected (Labour) mayor. Two sitting as Ind Lab and one as 'non-aligned'.
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Zoe
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« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2008, 10:22:39 AM » |
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Three Labour councillors leave the group over budgetary arguements, two over the closure of a pool within their ward,and another over city wide Labour policies by the elected (Labour) mayor. Two sitting as Ind Lab and one as 'non-aligned'.
So what are the latest memberships of the various groups now? I am losing count! |
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Tucson
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« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2008, 01:43:01 PM » |
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Ready for this?
Labour 21
City Independent 11
BNP 6
Independent Alliance 5
Liberal Democrat 4
Potteries Alliance 4
Conservative 4
Ind Labour 2
Non-aligned 2
Liberal Democrat Libertarian 1
this as at 12.42pm today. It'll probably change again very shortly....
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Neil M
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« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2008, 02:38:16 PM » |
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More exciting than Swale.
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Ils vont ont ruinés, ils vous ont spoliés, ils s’unissent pour le pire!
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Zoe
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« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2008, 02:44:22 PM » |
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Ready for this?
Labour 21
City Independent 11
BNP 6
Independent Alliance 5
Liberal Democrat 4
Potteries Alliance 4
Conservative 4
Ind Labour 2
Non-aligned 2
Liberal Democrat Libertarian 1
this as at 12.42pm today. It'll probably change again very shortly....
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Al
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« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2008, 02:58:37 PM » |
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Local politics in Stoke really is "special", isn't it?
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'Trotsky also remarks that by introducing the secret ballot Stalin evidently wished to purge his regime of corruption to some extent. Incredible as it may seem, he evidently took Stalin's elections at face value.'
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jonarny
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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2008, 01:19:32 AM » |
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And I thought Swale, Slough and Kidderminster were *interesting*...
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Zoe
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« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2008, 08:26:09 AM » |
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Right,
I think I have got this correct!
Candidates....
Independents 24
Labour 20
Conservatives 16
Liberal Democrats 12
BNP 10
Potteries Alliance 05
City Independents 02
No Description 02
Socialist Alternative (SOS) 01
Green 01
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