The Green Party is making a good showing locally and nationally. It has picked up around 40 new seats across England so far, with around half of councils declared. Here is Shropshire, the Greens look to gain two seats. Conservative held Oswestry South was taken by the Greens tonight. Julian Dean looks set to retain his Porthill seat. There will be more updates as the results come in over the 24 hours or so, with all results for Ludlow and Clee due to be declared tomorrow (Saturday). Congratulations to Duncan Kerr who returns to Shropshire Council having defeated Paul Milner ...
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Not come across anything quite like this before: a whole batch of voters wrongly asked to vote in a neighbouring ward: Approximately 1,200 voters from the Brookside area were incorrectly allowed to cast their ballots for the neighbouring Stirchley ward of Stirchley and Brookside Parish Council. Votes had to be removed by hand after 500 people Brookside residents voted in the Stirchley ward, before the valid papers could be counted. Returning officer David Sidaway apologised for the error, saying: "A number of voters have been asked to vote in an election where they shouldn't have been asked." Speaking at the ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:Nothing had changed since last night. The others in the hall breathed deeply in sleep, except for some of the warriors on the far side of the room. From the soft noises, they were enjoying each other's company under the blankets. Good idea, he thought, and flipped the blanket back up to settle down again and nuzzle Jade's neck.Second book in the series about shape-shifting dragons in a slightly steampunky world. Our hero from the first series must try and retrieve a crucial item from the groundlings (ie humans). Decent enough, but I don't quite grasp ...
We don't have a complete body yet, but the post-mortem has started. (Credit to The New Statesman's Stephen Bush for the post-mortem without a body metaphor, which I find very appealing). The Conservative victory in the traditionally Labour seat of Hartlepool is not especially surprising, but the scale of that victory is greater than expected. ... Continue reading Labour pays the price for internal party democracy
This post on the Senedd elections will be updated as results come in. We won't be covering all results, just the main points. Fuller coverage will be posted on Sunday or Monday when we have the final picture. If you want a result featured because it is a wow, email to voice@libdemvoice.org. Montgomeryshire Once held by the Lib Dems, the verdant county of Montgomeryshire has yet again returned a Conservative MS with Russell George re-elected with 12,103 votes. Our candidate Alison Alexander was pipped by Plaid Cymru and came third. Alison Alexander Clwyd The Vale of Clwyd has been taken ...
This post on the Scottish Parliamentary Elections will be updated as results come in. We won't be covering all results, just the highlights. Fuller coverage will be posted on Sunday or Monday when we have the final picture. Orkney We begin with Orkney where Liam McArthur has retained the Orkney seat in a landslide victory. Liam has served Orkney for the past 14 years as a Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP, was returned to his seat with 7,238 of 11,621 votes. Shetland and Fife North East are also held. Liberal Democrats hold Orkney with 62% of the vote. Congratulations @Liam4Orkney!#ElectionResults2021 #LibDemWin ...
Labour in Gateshead decided to adopt bully-boy tactics in their battle to win Low Fell from the Lib Dem Daniel Duggan in the local elections. Desperate tactics and a smear campaign failed to deliver what Labour wanted. Daniel won convincingly. Well done Daniel, you won and you beat Labour's bullying tactics.The result was:Lib Dem 1730Labour 1167Conservative 312Green 186
I am delighted to report that I have a new ward colleague, Jonathan Mohammed, who was elected for Whickham South and Sunniside in the local elections yesterday. Well done, Jonathan, you are now part of a great team in the ward.
Thu, 12:56: RT @HayleyMortimer: My earliest political memory is the 1997 General Election. Age 7, I heard that John Major had lost his job and felt bad... Thu, 16:05: Meet The Worst Businessman Of The 18th Century BC https://t.co/Fi31nCMXFM Ea-Nasir and the substandard copper ingots. Thu, 17:11: "Ballots, butts and Battlestar Galactica" - ten years on from the AV referendum — Quaequam Blog! https://t.co/5BJ22uoqG5 Fascinating. Thu, 18:04: April 2011 books https://t.co/sLMzzp3mLs Thu, 20:48: The woodfired brick wall https://t.co/dIj2xWrFef I had to reread this before I got the point. Thu, 22:24: RT @jackeparrock: BREAKING: Confirming my earlier reporting, EU enlargement commissioner ...
This post will be updated as results come in. We won't be covering all results, just the highlights. Fuller coverage will be posted on Sunday or Monday when we have the final picture. Please add your results in the comments. If you want them featured because they are a wow, email to voice@libdemvoice.org. Sunderland It has been a good start in the north east. Ciaran Joseph Morrissey has given Labour a good drumming and stormed to victory in Sunderland Hendon : Lib Dem: 42.2% (+34.8%) Lab: 34.8% (-30.2%) Con: 15.5% (-4.8%) Green: 4.5% (-2.9%) UKIP: 3.1% (+3.1). [IMG: 💛] [IMG: ...
As the results of yesterday'z elections start to emerge over the course of the next 72 hours, it is already clear that votes that had previously gone to small racist parties on the right are now switching to Boris Johnson's Conservatives. There is nothing to indicate that the Tories are uncomfortable with that trend, indeed it seems tha in their policies on immigration and asylum they are actively courting these voters. There is a good example of this in the Guardian, who report that a high court judge has criticised the British home secretary in court and said he found ...
i) births and deaths 7 May 1908: birth of Valentine Dyall, who played the Black Guardian in 1979 and 1983 and Slarn in Slipback (1985) 7 May 1964: birth of Craig Hinton, author of several Who novels and a Big Finish Who audio, and inventor of the work 'fanwank'. 7 May 1998: death of Seymour Green who played two villainous sidekicks, Hargreaves the butler in The Seeds of Doom (Fourth Doctor, 1976) and Mestor's chamerlain, Slarn, in The Twin Dilemma (Sixth Doctor, 1984). ii) broadcast anniversaries 7 May 1966: broadcast of "Don't Shoot the Pianist", second episode of the story ...
For the last 5 years, one of my Borough councillors for Park Ward of Sefton Council has been Independent Pat O'Hanlon. She effectively took up as a Borough councillor as I bowed out of being one in 2016. I got to know Pat as she was one of quite a few environmental campaigners who came together from across the political spectrum to oppose high-grade agricultural land being taken out of the Green Belt in Sefton Borough for development via the Sefton Local Plan; a fight I had long been involved with myself as regular readers of this blog site will ...
Different election, same message. Want to know why the Tories keep winning in working class areas?Ever since the Brexit vote many ( not all ) on the Liberal / Left have displayed an open and sneering contempt for the (mainly) working class areas that had a majority for leave. Labelling whole communities as ignorant, stupid white trash which are hotbeds of racism, sexism and every phobia under the Sun. This is especially true for left wing cheerleaders in the media. For example, in the aftermath of the last General Election The New Statesman ran a piece stating that all areas ...
Residents will be aware that the creation of the new bus lane at the West Port roundabout from West Marketgait into Hawkhill has resulted in a new road layout at the Brown Street junction (and no right turn into Brown Street from the West Marketgait direction). As has been pointed out to me : "This has removed the give way markings from the turning that comes off the Hawkhill when you on to Brown Street. It has resulted in cars taking that corner which is partially blind due to the hedges at speed. In the period since layout has been ...
The Sunderland Liberal Democrats have done it again, giving the party a great start to election night: LIB DEM GAIN FROM LAB – Hendon (SUND) — Tyne and Wear Elects (@TyneWearElects) May 6, 2021 I'll be updating this post as more news comes in over the next three days it is likely to take for all the counts to be concluded. Sign up to get the latest news and analysis Email* Enter Email Confirm Email Name* First Last What would you like to receive?* Liberal Democrat Newswire: monthly newsletter Polling UnPacked (political opinion polling news): max 1 email per day ...
From the blurb on YouTube: In which the beloved entertainer talks about his memoir 'Beeswing: Fairport, Folk and Finding My Voice 1967-1975', a rich and circuitous ramble that features Jimmy Shand, Louis Armstrong, a school band with Hugh Cornwell, sitar lessons with Andy Summers, the word game that invented 'Unhalfbricking', the genius of Sandy Denny, the 'backstabbing' folk community, the perils of the British stiff upper lip, a cardboard cut-out of Nick Drake, the Henry the Human Fly photoshoot, disinfecting sheep, the writing of Meet on the Ledge and the enduring mystery of the best song lyrics. A Word in ...
