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Entries Tagged as 'Elections'
Hotting up
December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
Must be an election on the horizon or something. I have started to get a flurry of messages, calls and emails asking for contact details from the party and from people wanting to make sure they can arrange hustings at short notice. Also a request for volunteers for a live phone-in politics show that wanted [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections
A good day for Labour
October 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
A couple of good by-election results yesterday which have lifted morale in Sussex and Yorkshire.
Tags: Elections·Labour Party
Local paper hilarity
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Politics
The Crawley Observer was very popular at work today.
One colleague thought that the headline was a classic, deserving of some sort of headline of the year award.
Another colleague scanned the story and asked why the traffic police were rescuing people from a toilet… a fair amount of hilarity ensued bfore we could explain that it [...]
Tags: Elections·Local Papers
Labour desperate in Northgate?
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
The local Tories are so predictable. The latest edition of their ironically-named newsletter, Insight, has been going through doors in Northgate this week and it says just what I expected. They are saying that Labour is flooding the area with activists because we are desperate to win.
Tags: Elections·Labour Party·Northgate
Northgate byelection – five days to go
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
I was back in Northgate again this morning. There were so many of us that, after two of the older members took a load of leaflets to deliver to one area, the rest of us had to split into three groups for canvassing. No doubt this will be spun as Labour getting desperate. I think [...]
Northgate byelection
October 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics
Next week there is a byelection in the Northgate ward of Crawley, following the resignation of a councillor. It could be interesting. The area used to be 100% Labour, but for the past 15(?) years it has had Lib Dem borough councillors and Labour county councillors, and earlier this year elected its first Tory to [...]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Elections
Unintended consequence of election
June 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
This letter in the local paper after the election results attracted a few replies last week. I’ll be surprised if there is not more reaction this week. When it first appeared I read it a couple of times and I am still not 100% sure what point the writers were trying to make.
Tags: Elections·Local Papers·WSCC
Moan
June 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I have been far too content lately. I think its time for a moan. I don’t know why I am so chipper: the election results were not good – personally I lost heavily (not unexpected) and the Labour party got almost wiped out to the extent that our share of the number of councillors in [...]
Silver linings
June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
I find it is good for the nerves to not get too wound up about stuff, to try and remain sanguine in the face of adversity, and to look on the bright side. It is something I have been trying to do for some time now, hence the appearance of being semi-detached at times.
In the [...]
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