Category archives for: Local Politics

Chatham Labour candidates for 2011 announced

Chatham Labour candidates for 2011 announced

Labour’s candidates for the 2011 local elections have been announced – via one of the candidates’ twitter feed.
Amongst the selections for the two wards are the three sitting councillors in Chatham Central and Medway blogger Tristan Osborne for what was once Labour’s safest seat, Luton and Wayfield.
Chatham Central councillors Vince Maple (pictured), Julie Shaw and [...]

Everything that’s wrong with local politics

Everything that’s wrong with local politics

It’s not often that I find myself agreeing with Labour blogger Tristan Osborne, but his summary of the frankly childish Not The Medway Labour Blog as representing ‘gutter politics in Medway’ could not be truer.
Someone (clearly not a fan) has taken it upon themselves to create a primitive, perhaps, one might say, neolithic attack blog [...]

LW: Conservatives gain third seat by four votes

LW: Conservatives gain third seat by four votes

In an amazing final twist to the eventful Luton and Wayfield by-election, the Conservative candidate, Tashi Tamang Bhutia, won the poll by just four votes.
According to AlanWCollins‘ sources, a recount was called after a first result in which the Labour Party believed they had won by more than thirty votes.
Early indications suggested that turnout in [...]

Like rats fleeing a shrinking ship…

Like rats fleeing a shrinking ship…

On 15 July 2009, a notice was posted for a vacancy on Medway Council after the resignation of a Labour councillor. One month later, it emerged two more Labour councillors have left the Labour Group. So why is it the Labour Group on Medway Council seems to be imploding?
Admittedly, that may seem to be unfair [...]

Councillor resigns from Medway Council

Councillor resigns from Medway Council

Medway Councillor Dennis McFarlane has resigned from Medway Council.
Although the reasons for the former Labour member for Luton & Wayfield’s departure are at present not clear to AlanWCollins, it has forced the second by-election in Medway since the local elections in May 2007.
Last year, the former Conservative member for Rochester South and Horsted, John Ward, [...]

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