tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post7371091996023065500..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Thursday's local election resultsJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-78903105269663635322007-05-09T17:47:00.000+01:002007-05-09T17:47:00.000+01:00anon at 21.53 - fat chancecowley street only fund ...anon at 21.53 - fat chance<BR/>cowley street only fund court cases for members of staff or their spouses or so it appears. as for the rest of us it is on our own heads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-19601581464363250022007-05-09T13:18:00.000+01:002007-05-09T13:18:00.000+01:00For crying out loud. Your first point is key:1. 't...For crying out loud. Your first point is key:<BR/>1. 'the failure of the party's national campaigning to bear fruit over and above that won by local activism'<BR/><BR/>Just like 2005 and 2006. And it's getting worse. So what does this tell us. We've changed our leader, we're whinging about the current one. The former campaigns director has gone. The politician notionally in charge of the campaign committee has changed. What or rather who is the constant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-85350030227920282832007-05-07T13:24:00.000+01:002007-05-07T13:24:00.000+01:00St. Helens we were up one on the last elections - ...St. Helens we were up one on the last elections - two gains, one loss and one councillor who was elected as Labour and defected to the Lib Dems lost his seat back to Labour.<BR/><BR/>But winning those core Labour seats is very very hard, especially as large local Labour memberships are now fighting on a much narrower front, defending the handful of target wards.Richard Gadsdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10545595590359552775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-24619676424005944102007-05-06T19:04:00.000+01:002007-05-06T19:04:00.000+01:00We took 6 seats in Hull and that comes on top of r...We took 6 seats in Hull and that comes on top of running a minority administration on the Council. But we were stretched. So you could say that in places like Leeds and York another factor in our defeats there is balancing running the council and an election campaign with a modest number of councillors/activists. But all parties face the same, hence the Tory losses in Scarborough, Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, North Lincs and so on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-83418349801261039512007-05-05T23:09:00.000+01:002007-05-05T23:09:00.000+01:00The key issue with Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle ...The key issue with Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle - and Kirklees? - is that we run those cities already, either on our own or in coalition. That the seat we lost in Leeds is nowhere near Greg Mulholland's seat, where there was a swing to us, is a Good Thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-68807321671790023842007-05-05T22:45:00.000+01:002007-05-05T22:45:00.000+01:00Isn't Hull in the north?Isn't Hull in the north?Peter Pigeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741462448758919750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-64546341254754588032007-05-05T21:53:00.000+01:002007-05-05T21:53:00.000+01:00The seat we lost in Leeds was the same one which m...The seat we lost in Leeds was the same one which made the front of the times on electoral fraud allegations. It seems its now up to if cowely street will fund a court case over the allegations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com