I have just been gathering up old local newspapers to chuck in the recycling and spotted the story in the Crawley Observer about the local election launch a few weeks ago. In this story the Tory leader was very keen to point out that they are doing ‘positive campaigning’.  It made me wonder exactly how [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Elections'
A tale of two elections
May 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Politics
This years I have been involved in the local elections in two different council areas. Probably not to the extent I should have been but that is another story. The mood is good in both Horsham and Crawley Labour parties, with a really good team spirit in both areas. Whatever the results, the party will [...]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party
A few opinions
April 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
For some reason I just can’t be bothered to write anything substantial at the moment. A combination of boredom, tiredness and lack of concentration really. I find that Twitter and Facebook are sufficient for the amount of effort I can sum up. I’m still following events though, even if I can’t be bothered to make [...]
Tags: Elections
Number-crunching the leadership ballot
September 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
I was pleased to see the data behind the leadership ballot released, and also a little surprised. But mostly pleased. The data is available as a Google Doc here and you can download it all to your own computer to pull it about in Excel.1 or Open Office of course [↩]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party·Statistics
BBC hustings – too much, too late
September 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
I watched the Labour leadership hustings on BBC’s Question Time tonight. It was the most I have enjoyed QT for a long time, but then it would have to be as I hardly ever watch it.  I think it would have been a lot more useful if it had been scheduled before a lot of [...]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party·TV
Council changes
September 13th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Politics
There are a few changes coming up in the local councils around here.  It would be nice to see some changes in the all-out district elections in Horsham and the one third of seats up for electin in Crawley next year (but don’t hold your breath for Horsham. Historically the only challenge to the Tories [...]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections·WSCC
The dog that didn’t bark
July 31st, 2010 · 11 Comments · Politics, Technology
The 2010 election was billed as ‘the internet election’ , but just about every election since about 2001 has been hyped to be the internet election and one of them was. The general feeling is that 2010 wasn’t the internet election after all, which is what the Hansard Society are saying in a new report. [...]
Crawley leadership hustings and vote
July 20th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Music, Politics
Another week, another Labour leadership meeting. This time round was different for two reasons: as it was my own local party I could actually vote this time, and there was a hustings first. Oh. And there is a prog rock angle too.
Keeping elections apart
June 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments · Politics
I am interested by this unanticipated objection to the fixed term election date in 2015.
Tags: Elections
Clinging on to power
May 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics
According to the Guardian Gordon Brown wanted to announce his resignation before the recent election. I’m glad that he didn’t. OK it might have got us a few more votes, maybe even a few more seats, but it was a disaster when Tony Blair did that – everything he did as PM after the 2005 [...]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party
