Belfast’s new Lord Mayor is from our sister party, the Alliance Party
Naomi Long of the Alliance Party is the new lord mayor of Belfast. The east Belfast councillor defeated the DUP’s William Humphrey by 26 votes to 24. … Read the full post »
2009 Local Elections
Read about the 2009 local elections. Rather than being held on the first Thursday in May, they were delayed until June in order to coincide with the European Parliament elections.
The Conservatives, under David Cameron, made significant gains. They were at the expense of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party.
“Taunton Conservative Candidate Forced To Apologise For Slurs Following Police Investigation”
The Somerset County Council election took a step into the gutter today when Conservative candidate in West Taunton, Nick James, was forced to issue a public apology. … Read the full post »
Polly Toynbee: vote Liberal Democrat
Things are indeed achanging in the Guardian Media Group. Sunday saw The Observer unequivocally urge its readers to vote Liberal Democrat for the first time. And now Polly Toynbee is urging a vote for the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Postal voting woes in West Sussex
Another tail of postal voting trouble; this time from West Sussex. … Read the full post »
What’s the significance of today’s Observer editorial?
The Observer coming out today and urging a vote for the Liberal Democrats will have put a spring in the step of many deliverers, canvassers and poster teams. … Read the full post »
Have you got your virtual window poster up?
Window posters have a key role to play in many winning Liberal Democrat election campaigns because the more likely people think we are to win, the most likely they are to vote for us. … Read the full post »
The Observer says: vote Liberal Democrat
Nick Clegg is the most instinctively European leader at Westminster. That is currently a lonely position, but the Lib Dems have a decent record of taking minority stands that are later vindicated. … Read the full post »
Postal vote printers mess up in Cornwall local elections
Perhaps the most basic requirement for a local election ballot paper is to the list all the candidates up for election. … Read the full post »
Conservative council candidate in bigamy revelation
The Eastbourne Herald has uncovered documents showing Reg Jenkins, who is standing for the Conservatives in Devonshire, is a bigamist. … Read the full post »
How not to do postal votes
All things considered, not the wisest of choices by the new Wiltshire Council to send out examples of how to complete your ballot paper which show someone voting Conservative.
A particularly odd decision given how common instructions are which show dummy party and candidate names. … Read the full post »