WARDS N-Z: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL’S MAY ELECTIONS

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged #norwich18, #norwich2018, conservative, elections, featured, Green Party, greens, Labour, Labour and Cooperative Party, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, local elections, Norwich City Council, persons nominated, pre election analysis, prediction, Tories, ward breakdown.

by Anonymous

Read the Preview to the May Elections here.

The four different parties will have four very different set of objectives and aims, with hopes of defences and gains mixed in with aspirations of breakthrough success for some here in Norwich. With the release of nominated persons on Monday April 9th, here’s a breakdown of Wards N – Z with predicted outcomes to keep you all abreast of what’s to come in this Fine City. You can find A-M here.Continue Reading

WARDS A-M: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL’S MAY ELECTIONS

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged #norwich18, Britain, candidates, conservatives, featured, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, local elections, norfolk, norwich, Norwich City Council, Norwich City Council election, persons nominated, politics, Tories, ward, ward analysis, ward breakdown.

by Anonymous

Read the Preview to the May Elections here.

The four different parties will have four very different set of objectives and aims, with hopes of defences and gains mixed in with aspirations of breakthrough success for some here in Norwich. With the release of nominated persons on Monday April 9th, here’s a breakdown of Wards A – M with predicted outcomes to keep you all abreast of what’s to come in this Fine City. Continue Reading

PREVIEW: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL’S MAY ELECTIONS

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged #norwich2018, bowthorpe, catton grove, city council, conservatives, elections, featured, greens, Labour, Lib Dems, local elections, may elections, norwich, Norwich City Council, pre election analysis, thorpe hamlet.

by Anonymous

This year, thirteen out of Norwich’s thirty-nine council seats will be up for election on May 3^rd in thirteen different wards across the city. The big four parties (Conservatives, Greens, Labour and Lib Dems) are expected to be contesting every seat, possibly alongside some independent candidates. Labour are currently the largest party with twenty-six of the total seats and run the council with a comfortable majority of councillors. In opposition to them are the Green Party with ten seats, and the Liberal Democrats with three in total. The Conservatives currently have no councillors on Norwich City Council.

EVERY VOTE COUNTS – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #2

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #GE2017, disenfranchisement, dissent, erasmus, general election, higher education, local elections, mandate, New York, Parliament, parliamentary majority, politics, postal vote, proxy vote, representation, snap election, student politics, student vote, students, Students and the Election, theresa may, universities, voter registration, voter turnout, voters, voting.

by Alex Powell

In the midst of multiple crises faced by students, universities and schools, the outcome of the snap general election will be a major indicator of the future of the UK education sector. Each week until the vote we are featuring perspectives from our regular contributors and guests on what the election could mean for students.

I can’t be the only one growing a little exhausted with all these elections, right? Nonetheless, tired as we are, it has never been more important that we all get out and vote. In the local elections we saw something of a decimation of left leaning parties, to the benefit of the Tories. What’s more, those elections featured some astoundingly low turnout figures, many below 30%. As a result of this, I feel it is incumbent on me to encourage anyone reading this to ensure that they get out and vote in the general election on June 8th.

NORWICH GOES BLINDLY TO RED

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Adrian Dearnley, conservative, county council, defection, general election, george nobbs, Green Party, Isle of Wight, Labour, liberal, Liberal Democrat, libraries, local elections, norfolk, Norfolk County Council, norfolk greens, Norfolk Labour, norwich, norwich green party, progressive, public transport, roads, social care, UKIP.

by Joe Burns

In the county council elections that took place last week, Labour unquestionably took Norwich. They won twelve of the thirteen wards in the city. Although it is good news that the Conservatives continue to play no part of governance in the city, it is a sad day for true progressives. Voter turnout was a shameful 34.51 percent and the voting system we have means that even though more people voted against the Tories than for them in the county, they won the most seats. Obviously, as Richard Bearman (Norwich Green Party) says, we need a proportional representation system, but that is a matter for another time.

At county level, the Conservatives had a predictably great day at the expense of UKIP, whose past supporters seem to favour the dishonesty and intolerance of the current Tory government. Indeed, the views of many UKIP supporters have now been adopted by the Tories, most notable their stance on the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

Although The Green Party won four seats in the 2013 county council elections (all in Norwich), the defection of Adrian Dearnley to the Conservatives late last year meant that Norwich Green Party were left with three seats to defend in this most recent county council election. Unfortunately, voters seem to have turned away in favour of Labour.Continue Reading

THE LOCAL ELECTIONS: DON’T GET DISHEARTENED. GET MAD.

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged brighton kemptown, brighton pavilion, conservatives, councils, food banks, general election, get mad, grassroots movement, health service, howard beale, Jeremby Corbyn, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, local activism, local elections, local elections 2017, network, policies, political leaders, political parties, poll, prime minister, progressive alliance, progressive politics, theresa may, Tories.

by Toby Gill

Content warning: article mentions xenophobia and racism

There’s no way of hiding it, Labour took a beating on May 4th. Losing control of 7 councils while the Conservatives gained 11, the Tories now hold 28 councils to Labour’s 9. Overall, the Conservatives gained 563 seats, while Labour lost 382.

The left-of-centre media has been united in their response to these results; the internet is strewn with articles heavy with despair and foreboding. Such was the synchrony and unanimity of this outcry, that our nation’s journalists have almost come to resemble a marching band in procession behind the coffin of progressive politics itself.

Yet this despair is misplaced. For these commentaries seem to treat the Local Elections as little more than another poll for the upcoming General Election. Except this poll is even more significant, because it employs a real electorate.

This belief could not be further from the truth. I am here to tell you that the correct response to the Local Elections is not to get disheartened, it is to get mad. Continue Reading

PAVEMENTS, POTHOLES, AND POLLING DAY

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged #onyourdoorstep, activists, civic education, council tax rates, education, election, engagement, housing, local elections, local issues, local politics, local vote, norfolk, Norfolk County Council, norwich, pavement politics, policies, polling day, pothole politics, register to vote, social care, turnout, vote, voters, voting, voting matters.

by James Anthony

Having been a candidate in a local election last year, I spent a lot of time telling people ‘vote for me’, and as a candidate again this year, I’m doing much the same thing. The more I think about it however, it’s the first third of that phrase that is truly the most important part, and although local politics may not be all that exciting – it is something that affects everyone – above all we need to convince people simply to ‘vote’.

Part of this is acknowledging that the majority of people don’t even vote in local elections, and far fewer get excited about them. It’s a huge issue that turnout usually sits at well below 40% in local elections, but an issue that is difficult to examine as a political activist. In the run up to polling day I am surrounded by activists who (quite rightly) put a lot of time and effort into campaigning locally, and the dedication of my colleagues and political opponents never fails to impress me. As activists, we have to learn to accept that most voters don’t get quite as excited about it all. We need to view things from a different perspective if we want to see why turnout is so low and what we can do to improve it.Continue Reading

COPELAND WAS THE FINAL STRAW: CORBYN MUST RESIGN

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Brexit, conservative party, copeland, jeremy corbyn, labour party, local elections, mp trudy harrison, Perspectives, politics, Tories, uk politics.

by anonymous

On the morning of 28^th October, 1931, Britain woke up to one of the most remarkable political events in British history.

Seeking approval for a bizarre coalition of Conservatives, dissident Labourites and Liberals, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald had gone to the country just two years into a Parliament. Having jettisoned his former party (Labour) whom he had led into government in 1929, MacDonald’s ‘National Government’ received a stunning mandate from the electorate: the parties making up the government won an astounding 67% of the votes and 90% of Parliamentary seats. The Tories alone won 55% of the national vote and 470 out of 615 seats, the last time that any political party has won a majority of the national vote.

LOCAL ELECTIONS REVEAL A LOW TURNOUT AND A DELICATE HARMONY

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged austerity, british politics, Community, conservative party, government, Green Party, Labour, local elections, norfolk, norwich, society, uk.

by Hannah Rose

Norwich strengthened its status as a Labour hold council at the local elections on May 5th, winning four seats from the Greens in Mancroft, Nelson, Town Close and Wensum. With this the case, it might seem surprising that the role of Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner went to Conservative Lorne Green, who quite comfortably beat Labour’s Chris Jones. Looking at the city result you quickly see that Jones was the preferred choice – by a 10,000-vote strong margin. So Norwich wanted Labour – but Norfolk didn’t. This result is a stark reminder of the difference in political opinion between the city and the rest of the county – a county where UKIP and Conservative have half the seats.

“TACKLE DRUG DEALERS, NOT DRUG USERS”, SAYS GREEN PARTY PCC CANDIDATE

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged drug dealers, drug laws, drug users, drugs, Green Party, legalise drugs, local elections, Martin Schmierer, norfolk, Norfolk Green Party, PCC, Police and Crime Commissioner.

by Norfolk Green Party

Martin Schmierer, the Green Party candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner in Norfolk, has indicated that he would prioritise dealing with large criminal gangs that supply drugs rather than focusing on low level users of class C drugs.Continue Reading

local elections

WARDS N-Z: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL’S MAY ELECTIONS

WARDS A-M: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL’S MAY ELECTIONS

PREVIEW: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL’S MAY ELECTIONS

EVERY VOTE COUNTS – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #2

THE LOCAL ELECTIONS: DON’T GET DISHEARTENED. GET MAD.

COPELAND WAS THE FINAL STRAW: CORBYN MUST RESIGN

LOCAL ELECTIONS REVEAL A LOW TURNOUT AND A DELICATE HARMONY

“TACKLE DRUG DEALERS, NOT DRUG USERS”, SAYS GREEN PARTY PCC CANDIDATE

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