Re: Councillor Britcliffe Called off the AGM
 

You make a good point and moving a meeting to a time when it is convenient for most councillors to attend is sensible practice but we're in a situation here where the Leader of the Council has rearranged the AGM to suit one councillor and forced more than half of the others to lose out financially as a result, plus caused inconveniences for a dozen workplaces who now need to find covering staff.

It simply doesn't make sense to do this when a 7pm slot would have circumvented the whole problem.

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You can't have meetings at 7pm unless you want to have them in the Black Dog :rolleyes::D

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Rose and Crown I'll have you know sir:D

Re: Councillor Britcliffe Called off the AGM
 

There are always meetings that people cannot attend. My feelngs are not opportunistic at Kath Pratts absence. Neither are they Paul Barton as I would have stood down and paired off. There is little point in gaining a quick advanatage this week knowing hat next week it will be reversed.

As it stands it is 17-17-1 or 18-17 if Malcolm sticks to his deal. Yes Labour has 14 but those wanting change have 17 so far. One short.

The Conservative 17 by the way is based on a lower share of the vote than Labour so I would question their mandate simply based on seats.

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It was nice having a chat on the platform today at Preston today Graham. Hope you was not delayed long !.
Possible voting system change at local level too anyone ?

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Re: Councillor Britcliffe Called off the AGM
 

What have you based your figures on - because I've just done some sums and going back to when each of the current councillors won their seats, the Tories have more votes. It's very close.

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Oh Dear. I was just about to start a new thread entitled 'My Cheese is Sweating' whem I came across this. So are we now about to see an exercise in applied Psephology? And if so, who do you think will be the winner - Graham or Gayle?

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I'd got it that we got more votes in the local elections Gayle. And that doesn't include Overton where we didn't have a candidate.

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The figures for votes cast in the 2010 HBC election are as follows -
Labour 11047 41.59%
Tory 10562 39.76%
Liberal Democrat 281 1.06%
Independent 4480 16.87%
BNP 192 0.72%

TOTAL VOTES CAST 26562 out of an electorate of 41515 which means there was a 63.98% turnout.

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Makes interesting reading.

I wonder if there'll be a push to have electoral reform, and proportional representation, at local level?

:rolleyes:

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The local council election this year was only one third of the seats - if you factor in the last two elections when the other two thirds were elected, the Tories were elected on most votes.

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But the turnout was much lower in both 2007 and 2008.

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We can all play at that game Gayle. During the Poll Tax years the Tories hardly got a vote.

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Funny i thought Gayle was begining to sound like P.B.:rolleyes:

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She's hardly playing games. Only a 1/3 of council were elected in 2010. You can't ignore the other 2/3s of council in your calculations on vote share!