Hunt lost because he was broadly the continuity candidate in a change election - he was deemed inappropriate for the occasion by the Tory selectorate; he wasn't rejected for being loathsome to t… (View Post)

Partly a reflection on a basket case local authority. However, I agree the results there were shocking - not only did the Conservatives win nothing, they didn't even get close - nothing even in … (View Post)

I don't really think it shows that. It does show they aren't going to get a 1997 style landslide or anything closely resembling it... a result that literally nobody with half a brain in the… (View Post)

Ben Bradshaw had a 10k majority over the Tories in a very good election for the blues. Labour won 11 of the 15 seats contested yesterday in those wards in the Exeter constituency (there were 17 conte… (View Post)

He's 92 years old and was first elected (for Labour, funnily enough) in the Borough's first election in 1964. I believe he was on the old Twickenham Urban District Council for a term before… (View Post)