Election results.

[SPUGGIE J]

Seems there has been a drawing of lots Down Crawley way!!! Swung the council from Con to Lab.

[staggeringman]

spuggie theres a lot of people swing in hyndburn

[Neil]

Here are the results from yesterday. At a quick glance it looks like power shifted around a bit in the wards but the Tories kept the same number of seats, 18, even if they are in different wards. Labour lost one seat and an Independant Councillor, Nicholas Collingridge, now sits in Clayton-le-Moors. Here in Oswaldtwistle we now have a Labour Councillor, Edwina McCormack, who knocked Sandra Heys of her Immanuel seat. Over in Rishton the Country's youngest Councillor, Claire Hamilton, can get back to what most young people do, clubbing and generally have fun because, she lost her Labour seat last night to Tory Jennet Liddle.

[g jones]

sorry double post sorry double post sorry double post

[g jones]

Originally Posted by Neil

Here Over in Rishton the Country's youngest Councillor, Claire Hamilton, can get back to what most young people do, clubbing and generally have fun because, she lost her Labour seat last night to Tory Jennet Liddle.

Your a complete an utter assh*le Neil and thats saying it straight. Jennet Liddle wasn't interested in Rishton. She moved there to get a Rishton postal address, did litle campaigning and spent all election day in Clayton. Claire worked her socks off and loved Rishton.

In then end the Rishton result says it all. 2000 votes cast, we should have lost it by 500. In the end we lost by 20 odd. We lost the postal vote (which went out to voters on the 26th ie Hewitt, Prescott, Clarke 10-1 votes in favour of the Tories and there were 400 postals cast). So the walk up vote was massively for Claire Hamilton. Rishton has got someone who does n't give a t*ss about Rishton and lost a very hard working popular Councillor. Like I said Neil, if you can see any sense in that result for Rishton then you are a screw loose mate.

Gayle will make a great councillor (if she wants another go) and Claire will come back. What is sickening is we voted out 4 honest hard working ordinary people Gayle - Claire - Rob Kearney - Tim O'Kane and replaced them with people who are not interested in the ordinary person or working for them. No wonder Hyndburn is collapsing. (Exhange St, Princess St, Horne St, Clement St, Augusta St and even parts of Ossy are getting worse). Another 7 years of Tory rule and Hyndburn will be unrecogniseable from the once proud towns it knew. Sad night for the ordinary folk. A victory for easily influenced voter.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by g jones

Your a complete an utter assh*le Neil and thats saying it straight. .

Oh dear. It does appear that Councillor Jones has had a tired and emotional night. Maybe he should go straight to bed and get a clear head and he may avoid using this sort of language against one of the voters of Hyndburn.

[Neil]

Graham, my friend , I think you will find my above post very unbiased as I mentioned 3 seats that all changed hands to 3 different parties. I can not comment if Claire worked hard for Rishton but I did not say that she did not either. If you tell me that she worked hard for Rishton then I will take you on your word that she did.
That is the problem with Local Elections and politics in general. People tend to vote for the Political Party and not the person. Maybe if both Claire and Gayle had been batting for the other side, Hyndburn would now have 2 very good Councillors. I personally think, and have told her myself, that Gayle would be an excellent hard working Councillor. She was just running for the Party out of favour at the time. Thats just the way of politics.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Oh dear. It does appear that Councillor Jones has had a tired and emotional night. Maybe he should go straight to bed and get a clear head and he may avoid using this sort of language against one of the voters of Hyndburn.

It's ok with me Mr T. I have a thick skin and am not easily offended. I also believe in calling a spade a spade when the occasion suits.

[yerself]

Originally Posted by g jones

A victory for easily influenced voter.

Influenced by the Labour Party to cast their votes elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Oh dear. It does appear that Councillor Jones has had a tired and emotional night. Maybe he should go straight to bed and get a clear head and he may avoid using this sort of language against one of the voters of Hyndburn.

Better than the language he used last time he fell out with Neil.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by yerself

Better than the language he used last time he fell out with Neil.

I did not realise that we had ever fallen out. We just don't share the same opinions on some things. Life would be boring if we all thought the same way.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by Neil

It's ok with me Mr T. I have a thick skin and am not easily offended. I also believe in calling a spade a spade when the occasion suits.

Yep....what what about all those sensitive souls who will read this language? What will it do to poor Garinda?

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by Neil

It's ok with me Mr T. I have a thick skin and am not easily offended. I also believe in calling a spade a spade when the occasion suits.

Ooops...double post!

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Yep....what what about all those sensitive souls who will read this language? What will it do to poor Garinda?

F|*35 right off you &*$^*er.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Yep....what what about all those sensitive souls who will read this language? What will it do to poor Garinda?

It will probably arouse him

[garinda]

Stop thread wandering.....anyway it's not dirty enough to arouse me, and even then it would have to be in Latin.