Showing posts with label Plaid Cymru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plaid Cymru. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2026

GUEST POST Reform and Labour are losing councillors fast

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We’ve all enjoyed the regular resignations, defections and disgrace of Reform UK councillors, but the party actually gained councillors from...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

GUEST POST Councillor defection scores on the eve of polling day

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Augustus Carp offers something to whet your appetite – a curtain-raiser, a short not-too-dramatic offering before the Grand-Guignol horror ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Joy of Six 1511

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"Opinion polls consistently suggest that after the elections on 7 May, England will be flanked by countries run by restless centre-left...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

GUEST POST Old Carp's Almanack: Councillor defections in 2024

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Augustus Carp , our man with the Local Government Chronicle and a slide rule, looks back on a year packed with defecting councillors. As a ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Joy of Six 1290

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Linsey McGoey listened to Trump voters and suggests the Democrats will have to do the same if they are to win power again. "The langua...
Saturday, October 05, 2024

GUEST POST No sign of an end to defections in local government

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Thanks to Augustus Carp for his latest bulletin on local councillors changing parties, though I'll have him know that I lived in Hemel ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2022

My Liberator article on the prospects for a Progressive Alliance

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This article on the prospects for a Progressive Alliance of the non-Conservative parties at the next general election appears in the new iss...
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Saturday, September 07, 2019

The new issue of Liberator is out - and why you should subscribe

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The new Liberator has arrived, which is pretty impressive seeing as I was still writing for it this time last week. Soon I will inflic...
Friday, August 09, 2019

Nick Cohen announces "Unite to Remain" alliance in the Spectator

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You wouldn't expect the announcement to be made by a socialist journalist in the Spectator, but Nick Cohen appears to have important ...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

Six thoughts on Brecon and Radnorshire

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Embed from Getty Images Well done the Liberal Democrats Brecon and Radnorshire may have looked like an inevitable Liberal Democrat gain ...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

On becoming exasperated with Heidi Allen

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Embed from Getty Images So the Tiggers have changed their name again - they are now The Independents - and will be less of a party in fut...
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Monday, July 08, 2019

Six of the Best 874

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Andrew Page gives his reaction to Plaid and the Greens' decision not to field candidates in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election. ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

My fan-dabi-dozi column for the Leicester Mercury

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On 9 January I had the following column published in the Leicester Mercury. Run-of-the-mill stuff, you will say, but it appeared on the...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

David Heath to promote new laws to control spying agencies

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Tomorrow's Guardian says that the former Liberal Democrat minister David Heath  is to demand new laws to make sure Britain's spying ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

GUEST POST The uncertain politics of railway preservation

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A week before Christmas I blogged about the BBC programme The Golden Age of Railways. Joseph Boughey , who appeared in that programme, left...
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Sunday, May 08, 2011

BBC: Kirsty Williams has not ruled out working with Labour in Wales

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BBC News reports that talks are taking place to explore the possibility of a coalition government in Wales after Labour fell just short of ...
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