Yes, it's the er long-awaited 2019 Local Elections Thread. The Convent in question is in Worcester.
I am hoping to improve on last year's 5% in Belle Vale
I am hoping to improve on last year's 5% in Belle Vale
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While we hold on for news from Rotherham, here are the Barnsley candidates: Lab 21, Con 21, LD 15, Green 7, EngDem 6, Yorkshire Party 4, Democrats & Veterans 3, Barnsley Independent Group 3, UKIP 3, Socialist Alternative 1, Independent 5
Read more: http://vote-2012.proboards.com/threa...#ixzz5k7nufLBPComment
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Go get 'em, Dunc.
I assume you'll be rocking a sunbed tan, chunky jewellery and sheepskin for canvassing in Big Ron Land? Even more than usual, I mean.
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Cheers Benjm
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Speak for yourself, GO. I'm particularly interested in the Northern Ireland local elections. Any view on how those will go, Dunc? Oh, and good luck.Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostComment
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Good luck Dunc (as long as you don't unseat a Labour candidate; who holds the ward you're running in?)Comment
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Cheers all. My opponents are sitting Tory, ex councillor Labour and the new Black Country Party which alas isn't fronted by a rasping ginger vocalist. Unlike the Green standard in Belfast Lisnasharragh, Big Smitty.
South Belfast (Lisna as above, Balmoral worth watching for hopefully non Unionist nor Nationalist gains)
My mate in Coventry was nominated by William Shakespeare
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Tell us more about the Black Country Party? Wiki doesn't have a page on it so that's me substantially stuffed.Comment
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BCP
- lots of candidates in Dudley, few in West Brom and Walsall. Wolves tbc
- claims no policies on national issues
- probably a publicity stunt for the leaders' businessComment
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In Northamptonshire we are not allowed to have elections any more so our activists are helping out in Milton Keynes instead. Hoping for big Labour gains there.Comment
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Brian White (late MP for and Mayor of MK) and I had a punch up once. I won on points but ran away to be on the safe side. 'Muttley' was much bigger.
It was in the school playground in 1973...Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 04-04-2019, 14:59.Comment
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"British resistance attacking Nunnery"?
"Caribou eating croquet hoops"?
"Cabbage crates coming over the briny"?
"Broad sword calling Danny Boy"?Comment
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Adding to reply to DCB above. Pundits (including in NI) have been wondering aloud about pro business or farming candidates taking votes from the DUP. Trouble is the DUP are the party of farming and business (and of course Thenmuns might get in)Comment
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No faintly amusing parody threads then?
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I looked up the Black Country Party and am none the wiser apart from the local party for local people angle.
In a Google search for BCP they come out second, underneath Black Country Party Bus, the area's number one party bus company. Their offering includes a motorised pub crawl round Cannock, if anyone is hankering after a Deliverance vibe for their event.Comment
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There is a British Resistance Party who have a candidate running in the Worcester Nunnery ward.Originally posted by George C. View Post
I slightly misread the OP and thought that Dunc was venturing out into the sticks this time, until the confusion as to why the Black Country Party were running in Worcester suddenly cleared in my mind.
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Candidates in West Midlands Region (percentage of total seats due for election)
Tory 94%
Labour 73%
Green 35%
LibDem 34%
UKIP 19%
It won't surprise fans of George C/ Gonzo/ their other multiple identities that at least some of them grew up in Worcester and are hardly unfamiliar with ranting about right-wing micro-parties on social media
Benjm- will venture stickswards to support colleagues there. The people of Leominster need to hear my Theresa May hanging with Mott the Hoople story.Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 05-04-2019, 11:24.Comment
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Don't mention Leominster; that's about where my siblings and I would all become violently travel sick on the way to Pembrokeshire for our holidays and just the name still makes me feel a bit queasy. Feel free to use that as an icebreaker on the doorsteps there...Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
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I had a friend at college who was from Leominster. He was Fijian and rather quirky. He claimed that his dad was in the SAS and had brought a bazooka back from Oman or Aden or somewhere.
I wasn't too sure that I believed him but I recently discovered that a group of Fijian soldiers did join the SAS around the time that would fit in with my mate's claims and one of them did indeed share the same surname. He was one of those who ended the Iranian embassy siege.
Sorry for doubting you, mate.Comment
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Once again, mistaken identity.Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
FFS.
But God help the inhabitants of an unremarkable English country town if someone so patently misinformed is ever elected to represent them.
Incidentally a place I've not visited btw, so hardly likely to have 'grew up' there.
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Evening all, and election fever is er mounting here (Cannock Chase). Meanwhile, any bored insomniacs can tune in for the Dudley scoreboard at about 3am. Yours truly up against Tory, Labour and Black Country Party. Local issue- Council spraying primary school garden with toxic weedkiller. prediction- Tories to regain control (Labour currently have majority of 1)Comment
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The local elections have caused hardly a ripple in my neck of the woods. I haven't seen a single party poster up and have received precisely one piece of election literature (Conservatives) delivered by the partner of one of the sitting councillors, who lives a few doors away. Actually, as a piece of local election bumf, it was better than most I've received, TBF.Comment
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I never did like "Brown Hat" or whatever he's called
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-48120288
Scoutmaster sends children out to deliver Tory election leaflets
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