The Barnsley Central Result was: Dan Jarvis (Lab) 14,724 Jane Collins (UKIP) 2,953 James Hockney (C) 1,999 Enis Dalton (BNP) 1,463 Tony Devoy (Ind) 1,2666 Dominic Carman (LD) 1,012 Kevin Riddiough (Eng Dem) 544 Hat tip: Socialist Unity
Posts under ‘Lib-Dems’
Compass have left a vacuum on Labour’s centre-left
Feb 26th, 2011 by Andy Newman.Mark Ferguson on Labour List very pertinently asks whether Compass have turned their back on Labour. On an admittedly low 13% turn out, the Compass membership has voted more than 2:1 to open their membership out to members of other political parties. Their specific orientation is towards the Liberal Democrats, as their statement on the result of last year’s […]
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Clegg could sink AV, but too many Tories support the Coalition to be sure
Feb 7th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Ed Miliband is dead right not to share a platform with Clegg on AV — but it has nothing to do with the pros and cons of AV. Clegg is simply despised by most Labour voters and it wouldn’t do Ed any good with them, some of whom are not yet too sure about him. […]
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Day of shame on NHS
Jan 31st, 2011 by Michael Meacher.We were told by an airbrushed David Cameron in a Tory election poster just 8 months ago: “I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS”. We now know there will be £15-20bn cuts within 4 years. He also pledged repeatedly “to stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS”. Just 2 months after the election we were […]
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Lies, damned lies and the people’s verdict
Jan 14th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The Lib Dems forced a by-election in Oldham East and Saddleworth, accusing Labour’s Phil Woolas of lying. It turns out that the public think the Lib Dems are the bigger liars, and have punished them accordingly. By winning 42% of the vote, 10% more than the Lib Dems compared with less than ¼% at the […]
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David Owen – Would Labour want him back?
Jan 12th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.It’s almost 30 years since the Social Democratic Party set out to “break the mould of British politics”. Now its principal successor, the Liberal Democrats, is finally in government but, at single figures in the polls and increasingly seen as a fig leaf for a Tory government, has conspicuously failed to “break the mould”. And now, the […]
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Oldham East – about truth & honesty as well as the cuts
Jan 10th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Having just done a day’s campaigning on the knocker in the Oldham East by-election, I was struck by two things. One is that Labour is beginning to pull away (on today’s showing I would predict a Labour victory of some 2,000-3,000), partly because its opponents are tying themselves in knots. The LibDems are hoist on […]
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No reason for Lefties to rejoice in Lib Dem poll misery
Jan 5th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The Independent leads this morning on just how far Clegg has sunk the Lib Dems in the polls. Wrongly, it turns out, as UK Polling Report points out — the Indy’s poll of polls has them at 11% which they (and Lib Con too) claim as the “lowest level since the party was formed in […]
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The Coalition goes nuclear….
Dec 23rd, 2010 by Darrell Goodliffe.Vince Cable certainly got more than he bargained for when he spoke to two Daily Telegraph reporters posing as constituents. He, now infamously, said he had a ‘nuclear option’ which involved walking out of the government and ‘bringing it down’. The first thing that struck me about this story was that even if the Daily Telegraph […]
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All to play for in the AV campaign…..
Dec 11th, 2010 by Darrell Goodliffe.Depending on which opinion poll you happen to believe either the No or Yes to AV campaigns are in the lead at the moment. Although criticisms of the YouGov poll (which gave the No campaign the lead) about the nature of the question, which probably did bias Labour supporters against AV, are probably valid that […]
