Another previously safe Conservative seat in Shropshire has fallen to the Liberal Democrats in a council by-election tonight.
Here is the result from the Alveley and Claverley ward:
Lib Dems 662 (58.7%)
Conservative 408 (36.3%)
Labour 55 (4.9%)
I make the swing from Conservative to Liberal Democrat an astonishing 34.6%.
Congratulations to the victorious Lib Dem candidate Colin Taylor and everyone who worked to get him elected. This is a large rural ward lying to the east of Bridgnorth.
It just goes to show that a leading Shropshire Tory was right the other day when he wrote that there are no safe Tory seats in rural Britain.
Fun fact: Stiperstones in Shropshire is home to a significant 'craggy ridge' deposit of Quartzite. Quartzite converted into silicon is a key mineral in the production of clean and decentralised Solar PV panels. The most liberal form of electricity production. So it could be said that liberalism is literally in the bedrock of those blue remembered hills.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder these by election wins are coming in thick and fast.
And barytes - barium sulphate - was mined at Snailbeach and sent to Windscale for use in the aftermath of the 1957 fire. How it all fits together!
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