Local Elections 2023

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

I've stood 5 times now and got between 170 and 300 each time.

 

If I had time I'd campaign and see if I could make a proper dent.

 

The Knowsley Labour Party are Blairite shithouses, they wouldn't know socialism of it sat on their faces and wriggled.

One of my mates was in a small group of Knowsley Labour activists who were really keen on doing stuff with the community and getting more residents actively engaged with the party.  The CLP hierarchy squashed that democratic Socialist madness before it could properly get started.

[SasaS]

1 minute ago, Mudface said:

 

 

As Bruce says, they only do them for general elections. The parties often have tellers outside polling stations who will ask who you voted for (you don't have to answer), and they'll have internal lists of party members they will contact to make sure they voted. So they'll get a general idea, but it won't be spot on especially in a really tight race. Fraud is pretty much non-existent anyway, although the Tories will try and hype it up to justify voter suppression.

Strange they don't have them for important mayoral elections like London.

 

Yes, I was going to say that in a democracy it is hard to pull off election fraud, despite what people believe. 

[Arniepie]

7 hours ago, Pidge said:

 

Sorry didn't understand your first sentence.

 

But I agree with the second. My point is just that there are actual issues that relates to people living there that may see a swing in votes over and above the culture war bollocks people will be desperate to attribute any change to.

 

 

How am I trying to make it one? In some borough's it either is or has caused additional expense (Hillingdon for instance, where the justification has typically ignored the presence of the biggest airport in the country) and the people most affected are more likely to be lower income traditional labour voters that might go elsewhere, hence my speculation ("imagine").

 

The London mayor swings from one end to another and very few leave the office more popular than when they entered. 

Apols 

Been a long day

She seems to have a well funded social media campaign behind her.

Even now the message Is getting pumped out,she has either won or its a fix

[Arniepie]

7 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

Yes, they are, they're just called election officials or officers. Usually serious minded old biddies.

I did it yesterday 

Long fucking day like.

There is very little chance of fraud imho.

[Arniepie]

5 hours ago, Gnasher said:

We've had it rammed down our necks for the past 4 years or so that everyone in Blackpool was stupid. They've voted Labour in now so they must've all spent the last few years completing a open university course. 

17% voted reform 

[Arniepie]

2 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

This Susan Hall stuff is just scaremongering right....RIGHT?!

The count has even started yet

[Mudface]

1 minute ago, Arniepie said:

I did it yesterday 

Long fucking day like.

There is very little chance of fraud imho.

 

Somehow I pictured you differently...

 

 

Sorry, the old gals who do our station aren't far off these. Nice people though.

[Captain Howdy]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

Wait until he sees Logan’s Run….

Should really whet the loons appetite, he’ll be in clover.

[Arniepie]

Over 400 lost seats...and a compliant media are still trying to paint it as not a disaster. 

I'm sure there is a reason why the greens got over 100 sears,reform got 1..yet tice is getting so much air time.

Just need Khan to seal a gammon meltdown 

[Captain Howdy]

2 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Can’t believe this post hasn’t been eviscerated, genuinely one of the most sinister posts I’ve ever read on here. It really is so easy to see how things like Gulags and Holocausts start. Extremely dangerous thinking.

It’s also exactly the kind of thinking that gives credence to the horseshoe theory.

[Fugitive]

5 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

Got my arse handed to me, 1086 to 221.

 

Oh well, not like I campaigned, can't be too disappointed.

That is fucking woeful.

 

Only joking, fair fucks to you for actually getting out there and having a go. More than most will ever do. I doff my cap to you.

[Mudface]

2 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

It’s also exactly the kind of thinking that gives credence to the horseshoe theory.

 

Shut it granddad, or we'll send the boys round.

[Anubis]

36 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Should really whet the loons appetite, he’ll be in clover.

An tha is alright. Th post was misguided out of frustration.

[Rico1304]

4 minutes ago, Anubis said:

An tha is alright. Th post was misguided out of frustration.

It’s ok when bigots are on our side. Nothing to see here.  

[Torvald Utne]

3 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Can’t believe this post hasn’t been eviscerated, genuinely one of the most sinister posts I’ve ever read on here. It really is so easy to see how things like Gulags and Holocausts start. Extremely dangerous thinking.

 

 

[Captain Howdy]

58 minutes ago, Anubis said:

An tha is alright. Th post was misguided out of frustration.

It was a twat of a post, can’t stress it enough but If that is his honestly held belief then he’s a fascist, no more no less. Killing joke being he probably thinks he’s a good guy 

[Torvald Utne]

3 hours ago, whtwht said:

Tbf London didn't vote for Brexit so I'm not sure Hall stands much of a chance 

https://smarkets.com/event/42282035/politics/uk/2024/05/02/21-00/mayoral-elections/2024-london-mayoral-election

Pretty much zero.

[Carvalho Diablo]

17 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

You're just missing Lib Dems since our one sulked off.

Has she finally gone?

[Gnasher]

7 hours ago, Arniepie said:

17% voted reform 

 

Blackpool South has a population of over 80,000 people, 3000 voted Reform. 77,000 did not vote reform..

[Creator Supreme]

9 hours ago, Fugitive said:

That is fucking woeful.

 

Only joking, fair fucks to you for actually getting out there and having a go. More than most will ever do. I doff my cap to you.

Cheers bud, it's about average for a paper candidate, especially for a non-target seat.

 

Bit sad we didn't take any of our target seats this time, but we're getting there as a party. The activists who actually do the campaigning are hard working feisty buggers.

[redinblack]

12 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Can’t believe this post hasn’t been eviscerated, genuinely one of the most sinister posts I’ve ever read on here. It really is so easy to see how things like Gulags and Holocausts start. Extremely dangerous thinking.

I commented on the post a couple of times, I wasn't sure if it was a piss take or not. If he meant it, he's a cunt, if it was a pisstake then ok it just wasn't a funny one.

[Section_31]

Starmer’s done well by not kowtowing to the councillors who jumped ship over gaza too. In today's febrile climate it'd have been an open goal for Reform and the Tories.

 

Personally I'd be fucking fuming if liverpool city Council was now being run by independents who'd only won on a foreign policy issue, rather than my bins and school meals.

 

Send Galloway and his ilk back to the fires of Mount doom from whence they came.

 

There can be only one son of caesar, and there's no scraps in Starmer’s scrapbook.

[Gnasher]

15 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Must be a good day for Labour as Gnasher is on the Joe Biden thread.

 

Their is no Labour, listen to your leader, you're all Tories now. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Starmer’s done well by not kowtowing to the councillors who jumped ship over gaza too. In today's febrile climate it'd have been an open goal for Reform and the Tories.

 

Personally I'd be fucking fuming if liverpool city Council was now being run by independents who'd only won on a foreign policy issue, rather than my bins and school meals.

 

Send Galloway and his ilk back to the fires of Mount doom from whence they came.

 

There can be only one son of caesar, and there's no scraps in Starmer’s scrapbook.

In fairness to Liverpool Independents, their big thing is the budget for local services: Gaza is a side-issue, at most.

[Gnasher]

4 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

In fairness to Liverpool Independents, their big thing is the budget for local services: Gaza is a side-issue, at most.

 

His point is not even shared amongst the people he claims it is. Here's Labours shadow defence secretary.