When last fought in 2011 LAB had majority of just 3 in Braintree East.
Not according to Harry's figures above. This was a three-member ward, remember, so you have to look at the average of the three Con candidates against the average of the three Lab candidates to get the overall party position: 705 against 742.
It is a 3% swing from Con to Lab from the March 2012 by election . Labour vote share constant 6% movement from Con to UKIP
Braintree %ages Lab 47% +5 CON 27% -15 UKIP 20% +20 GRN 7% So big switch to UKIP at CON expense
Dunno where this Smithson fellow gets his figures from. Last time (according to Harry) total votes were 2228 Lab (48%), 2118 Con (46%), 297 Green (6%), however the Greens only put up one candidate in this three-member ward so that is already a bit misleading. Looks like Labour unchanged, Con -19%, UKIP +20%, Green +1.
The Times reduced to searching for the opposition`s weaknesses instead of holding the government to account-What a pitiful state of affairs for a once great paper!
The Times reduced to searching for the opposition`s weaknesses instead of holding the government to account-What a pitiful state of affairs for a once great paper!
Maybe it thinks the opposition is unworthy of government.
The Times reduced to searching for the opposition`s weaknesses instead of holding the government to account-What a pitiful state of affairs for a once great paper!
Welcome back SMukesh.
But what makes you think that it is the mission of The Times exclusively to hold the government to account?
The Times is an independent newspaper not Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
The Times reduced to searching for the opposition`s weaknesses instead of holding the government to account-What a pitiful state of affairs for a once great paper!
The Times is an independent newspaper not Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
Nor does it hold a candle to Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph
@ALP Thanks. People are not interested in what the opposition does.They are interested in the actions of the government which manages their trillion pounds.As ever,News UK have their own agenda and one learns to take their `news` with a pinch of salt.
Eoin Clarke is a byword for factual innaccuracy and apology. You would have thought that gaining a PhD in feminism would have taught him better critical analysis.
And I recall Labour health ministers such as Hewitt and Milburn being very close to private health care companies. Two cheeks of the same arse.
But the Lansley reforms are going surprisingly well at present, and Hunt seems keen on cracking down on shoddy hospitals. I had low expectations so have been surprised on the upside.
@ALP Thanks. People are not interested in what the opposition does.They are interested in the actions of the government which manages their trillion pounds.As ever,News UK have their own agenda and one learns to take their `news` with a pinch of salt.
Yeah right,would you be saying the same if it was a tory opposition ?
In Labour's top 50 targets, the party has so far selected 37 candidates: 15 men and 22 women.
But of those 15 men, only 8 are new candidates and 7 stood last time - (6 former MPs and Alan Pugh in Arfon).
The 8 newly selected men are as follows: Clive Lewis, Luke Pollard, Nick Bent, Peter Kyle, Jeff Smith, David Ellesmere, James Frith, Christian Matheson.
@ALP Thanks. People are not interested in what the opposition does.They are interested in the actions of the government which manages their trillion pounds.As ever,News UK have their own agenda and one learns to take their `news` with a pinch of salt.
Yeah right,would you be saying the same if it was a tory opposition ?
Is there a prize for the first correct answer because I would like to enter!
@ALP Thanks. People are not interested in what the opposition does.They are interested in the actions of the government which manages their trillion pounds.As ever,News UK have their own agenda and one learns to take their `news` with a pinch of salt.
Yeah right,would you be saying the same if it was a tory opposition ?
Is there a prize for the first correct answer because I would like to enter!
Eoin Clarke is a byword for factual innaccuracy and apology. You would have thought that gaining a PhD in feminism would have taught him better critical analysis.
And I recall Labour health ministers such as Hewitt and Milburn being very close to private health care companies. Two cheeks of the same arse.
But the Lansley reforms are going surprisingly well at present, and Hunt seems keen on cracking down on shoddy hospitals. I had low expectations so have been surprised on the upside.
@labourpress: Companies have a “duty” to employ British workers rather than migrants, says Tory minister whose HQ employs Aussie lobbyist Lynton Crosby
To be fair they did try to train up a local boy for seven years but at the end of it he'd shown he couldn't strategise his way out of a paper bag
Thought this would come back to bite them on the bottom,who let hancock loose ;-)
Hi All. Civilization and all that is noble, true and honourable moves ever further to the sunlit uplands.
God Save Me.
I love you all. Blows kisses promiscuously....
Mike - Not quite. Ian Lake was deselected as a Conservative for Weybridge Division (which he represented since 2001 (I think), defected to UKIP and lost in May (so technically a Con gain). He stood tonight again for the purplies and was a respectable third.
The 8 newly selected men are as follows: Clive Lewis, Luke Pollard, Nick Bent, Peter Kyle, Jeff Smith, David Ellesmere, James Frith, Christian Matheson.
Maybe we'll soon be able to add Nick McDonald to the list.
Eoin Clarke is a byword for factual innaccuracy and apology.
Precisely which part of the story is incorrect? Or is it merely that your absurd partisan naivety, in pretending that only labour and the tories were taking money from private healthcare companies, looks more than a touch stupid in the face of the facts?
And I recall Labour health ministers such as Hewitt and Milburn being very close to private health care companies. Two cheeks of the same arse.
Try harder. If you seriously think they are the only two very close to private healthcare companies then you really do have no idea. Alistair Darling was only the most recent addition. There are plenty more.
The Liberal Democrats as a party are heavily funded by a company called Alpha Healthcare, which have been donating to the party since 2004. The company has donated more than half the money the Lib Dems have taken in major donations since the start of the election campaign. The amount they have been giving has steadily increased over time, but last year it accelerated up to £400,000. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make the connection.
You could not expect a LD hold given the reason for the by election.
Entertaining how nobody made such a bold "could not expect" prediction until the result came in.
Then straight afterwards two LDs spin adjacent posts in full damage limitation mode.
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My forecast of a Con gain was made in the Vote-2012 prediction comp yesterday . There was a similar case in a Conservative seat in Kensington IIRC a couple of years ago which had a similar result a "surprise" LD gain from Con .
Eoin Clarke is a byword for factual innaccuracy and apology. You would have thought that gaining a PhD in feminism would have taught him better critical analysis.
And I recall Labour health ministers such as Hewitt and Milburn being very close to private health care companies. Two cheeks of the same arse.
But the Lansley reforms are going surprisingly well at present, and Hunt seems keen on cracking down on shoddy hospitals. I had low expectations so have been surprised on the upside.
So far as I can tell the Lansley reforms seem to be going along ok
Which is presumably why Lansley is still doing such a 'fine' job as Health Secretary and why Seth has tipped him as a future PM. ;^)
More seriously, the Lansley reforms certainly pleased some people a great deal. Why is that do you think?
Dr. Sox
I knew Pork had difficulty sorting out acorns from ground nuts.
But given his last post, he appears to have forsaken them both for magic mushrooms.
You tipped Lansley for PM while he was in the midst of his idiotic reforms debacle, Seth O Logue. No amount of magic mushrooms or acorns will ever stop people from laughing at you for that or all your other absurd predictions and spin.
It's not that you are such an obvious hack and partisan tory spinner Seth O Logue, after all this is PB and you have plenty of company from the other PB tories. What make you particularly pitiful is that you are so laughably out of touch and incompetent at spinning, and yet so utterly oblivious to that fact.
Was that in one of Sean Fear's much missed Friday round-up threads? I used to enjoy ColinW's inevitable appearances on those as well as ColinW's infamous mum whenever he misbehaved (which was always).
I may know which poster Louise Mensch was on PB.com before the last GE, but to this day I have yet to discover which PB poster used to do a regular comedy turn as ColinW's Mum back then.
Was that in one of Sean Fear's much missed Friday round-up threads? I used to enjoy ColinW's inevitable appearances on those as well as ColinW's infamous mum whenever he misbehaved (which was always).
Alternatively, ignoring violent inner-city gang cultures long enough leads to your tax base being driven out unless your tax base is a very high-value sector like finance, media or government where the workers can insulate themselves from the effects.
Con 35.14% LD 25.85% Lab 24.39% UKIP 7.59% Green 7.04%
Excellent!
Yes, Excellent for the Tories who maintained their vote in percentage terms and Labour who doubled theirs. Labour will win a few seats in 2014. We have zero currently. It seems a straight swap to Labour from Lib Dems.
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Labour 1575 LD 277 Green 177 TUSC 76 Con 74 UKIP 64 Ind 20 Soc 11
The figures from Felsted of Uttlesford
Con 557
LD 253
UKIP 181
Lab 38
CON hold
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LAB HOLD Lambeth - Tulse Hill with CON down to 5th place
Labour 1575
LD 277
Green 177
TUSC 76
Con 74
UKIP 64
Ind 20
Soc 11
You do have a feeling mike does enjoy it when tories do badly ;-)
But what makes you think that it is the mission of The Times exclusively to hold the government to account?
The Times is an independent newspaper not Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
Absolutely brilliant results for Maghull Town Council. Lib Dems gain two seats from Labour and miss third by 9 votes.
Thanks.
People are not interested in what the opposition does.They are interested in the actions of the government which manages their trillion pounds.As ever,News UK have their own agenda and one learns to take their `news` with a pinch of salt.
And I recall Labour health ministers such as Hewitt and Milburn being very close to private health care companies. Two cheeks of the same arse.
But the Lansley reforms are going surprisingly well at present, and Hunt seems keen on cracking down on shoddy hospitals. I had low expectations so have been surprised on the upside.
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But of those 15 men, only 8 are new candidates and 7 stood last time - (6 former MPs and Alan Pugh in Arfon).
The 8 newly selected men are as follows: Clive Lewis, Luke Pollard, Nick Bent, Peter Kyle, Jeff Smith, David Ellesmere, James Frith, Christian Matheson.
Eiswein by Christmas.
CON lose North Worle seat to IND in North Somerset by-election.
IND 531 votes
Con 471
Lab 445.
God Save Me.
I heard that the UKIP candidate was a former CON county councillor who lost his seat to UKIP in May. I that right?
But the rest of us are singing Congratulations with Cliff.
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB 45s
CON takes Kingston Beverley from LDs - a big result for the blues
Mike - Not quite. Ian Lake was deselected as a Conservative for Weybridge Division (which he represented since 2001 (I think), defected to UKIP and lost in May (so technically a Con gain). He stood tonight again for the purplies and was a respectable third.
No surprise considering the reason for the by election .
Lab 717
LD 760
Tory 1033
GRN 207
Ukip 223
CON gain from LD
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Full result Kingston Beverley
Lab 717
LD 760
Tory 1033
GRN 207
Ukip 223
CON gain from LD
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB
Kingston result
CON 1033
LAB 797
Others coming in
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@MSmithsonPB odd result. Strength of Labour and Green result suggests fatal reluctance to vote tactically.
*Edit, oops, meant to quote and reply to this post.
Con 35.14%
LD 25.85%
Lab 24.39%
UKIP 7.59%
Green 7.04%
The 42% turnout appears to be a "strength of feeling" result.
Doesn't make sense to me.
Try harder. If you seriously think they are the only two very close to private healthcare companies then you really do have no idea. Alistair Darling was only the most recent addition. There are plenty more.
Your arse is a medical curiosity with three checks and the toxic Clegg is in charge of the lib dem cheek.
Hardly a shock that the blunt truth about the lib dems complicity upsets a Clegg cheerleader.
Then straight afterwards two LDs spin adjacent posts in full damage limitation mode.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377600/Farage-condemns-nasty-Big-Brother-Home-Office-campaign-asks-illegal-immigrants-home.html
JohnnyO, the People's Peer, it's my destiny.
Unfortunately Dave does not read the overnight threads. He employs an immigrant to do that.
My favourite post all time on PB came from Sean Fear when trying to explain a Tory poor performance in a by-election
His "excuse" was that the former councillor had had to resign after being found guilty of pimping his mentally retarded wife
Was that in one of Sean Fear's much missed Friday round-up threads? I used to enjoy ColinW's inevitable appearances on those as well as ColinW's infamous mum whenever he misbehaved (which was always).
1. Bristol South (Lab): Karin Smyth
2. Cardiff North (Con): Craig Williams
3. Dorset Mid & Poole North (LD): Vikki Slade
4. Hampstead & Kilburn (Lab): Tulip Siddiq
5. Lewisham Deptford (Lab): Vicky Foxcroft
6. Southampton Itchen (Lab): Rowenna Davis
Although there are five women in that list, only one of them - Rowenna Davis - would replace a male MP if successful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23437473
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/are-the-suburbs-where-the-american-dream-goes-to-die/278014/
The only way to view them is using the WaybackMachine website, although only a limited number of dates are available.
This, for example, is from 17th February 2007:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070226163727/http://politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2007/02/17/miliband-moves-into-the-2nd-favourite-slot/
Congratulations on your win. Good that a poster has positive news.