Love them or loath them - nobody can accuse the Tameside Labour Party of resting on their laurels and only making themselves visible to their constituents at election time. They either sincerely take pride in the work they do, or the gravy train offers such a good ride they do everything in their power to remain on it.
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They work their sox's off all year round, that's why they have so many councillors.
Do you want to hear something very funny? this is true Tameside Tories are running a workshop at the conference in Manchester about how to win by-elections, I will repeat that, a workshop on how to win by-elections.
Hope they don't use Denton and Newton in the workshop talk.
I do find it odd that despite the economic gloom and general dislike of the Labour Party by virtually everyone I know - they still do so well in Tameside. Maybe next year when Cameron sweeps into power the Tameside Tories will benefit from all the hype and start to rebuild themselves in this borough.
If we have a Tory Government Labour will,be even stronger in Tameside, the time for them to have be a force in Tameside should have been last year and this year like you say.
Denton was a disaster, Newton was predictable a poor lazy candidate and a strong BNP campaign gave no chance,Labour increased their majorities in both wards if they target Werneth they could win it, I understand they intend doing this very soon with the same sort of campaign.
Labour’s by-election campaign teams in Tameside are very formidable. The amount of activists they can put on the ground cannot nearly be matched by any other party in Tameside. I suspect Labour can mobilise more front line activists than the rest combined - but many of the Labour team are serving councillors or Party officials. What happens when all out elections are called and they can not focus all their efforts in one ward? For example if Labour focus their main campaign next May on Werneth - they will have to take their eye off the ball in other places and this could lead to a BNP break through in Droylsden or Conservative victory in Audenshaw.
The fact that 24% of the electorate would apparently still vote Labour after the damage they have wrought on Britain, economically and in terms of our very identity is a shocking indictment of the self interest, lack of knowledge and low intelligence of large numbers of British people.
As I have said before I attribute much of the Labour success to the high level of political awareness shown by residents of Tameside's care homes who regularly register themselves for postal votes in higher proportion than other care homes or the ordinary voter in the street.
This high level of independant thought is heartwarming!
And not a shaky hand amongst them. Still, they probably get 'help' filling them in.
You miss one very important point Labour are out campaigning all year so the work is almost done before elections, they are out in Duk/Staly this week and all next week then off into Werneth.
Only a fool would turn up three weeks before an election and expect to win these days ,but the Tories do have a few fools in their ranks,and they allow Liam Billington to hijack their campaigns.
All that hard work and they still need to pursue 'other methods'. Shows how chronically unpopular they are.
Lets have a look at why wards like Droylsden West do so well is it just the hard work done by the ward party who are know for regular canvasing and leafleting every month.
Could some of the items listed below have some effect on voters.
More people than ever working.
Inflation and average of 2.8 for many years and now its 0%.
Interest rates the lowest ever.
The minimum wage .
The new deal for young people.
Protection against unfair dismissal.
Equity for part time workers.
The right to paid holidays.
Child poverty halved.
Tax credits.
Paid maternity leave.
Paid paternity leave.
Paid adoption leave.
Child care places.
Flexible working.
Emergency time off.
Child benefits up by 55%.
A decent minimum pension guaranteed.
Winter fuel allowance.
Free TV licences for people over 75
Free local bus and train travel.
Free eye test for over 60s.
149 new hospitals.
£90 billion invested in the NHS.
More NHS staff.
Lower mortality rates .
More patients treated.
Shorter waiting list.
Nurses pay has increased by 58%.
Education spending doubled.
36,000 more teachers.
Better exam results.Overall crime down.
14,000 more p0lice officers.
New neighbourhood police teams.
Police pay up 28%.
Investment in rail travel up.
1,600 more train services.
Bus subsidies doubled.
More affordable new housing £8billion invested.
One million council homes upgrade.
£200m invested in our parks and neighbourhoods.
Free entry to National museums and galleries.
£225. in vested to upgrade play areas for age group 8-13.
Internet access to all public libraries.
Cleaner environment we now have the cleanest rivers and beaches.
Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 15%.
1billion invested in renewable energy.
Grants for greening your home now up to £2,500.
Household recycling up all over the country from 8% under the Tories too 43%.
Just a whistle stop tour of Labour achievements there are many more and lets not forget we had a Government with the bottle to take on the Islamic terrorist around the world.
the reason why they all get in is the borough is oveflowing with dss spongers and benefit wallers they all vote to keep a party in who gives em all they wantfor nowt.my view is if all the labour councillors lost there seats how many of them would get a job not many they are mostly thick retards unemployable thats why they work hard to keep in power THATS DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!
Looks like the above is a bit pissed off with our hard working highly skilled Labour councillors,what they don't know is that most of them do have a job and those who have retired did so from skilled and professional positions.
That could be why they keep getting voted in and people like them.
No but you do have a small brain, Massive and burgeoning unemployment.
An enormous and out of control national debt that was vast LONG BEFORE the recent economic crisis caused by twelve and a half years of profligate, irresponsible overspending.
Long term uncontrolled immigration that has made many of our major cities unrecognisable, crime ridden, foreign ghettoes.
Widespread use of cannabis amongst teens and younger children caused by Labour's disastrous 'junkies are victims' policies and the utterly reckless decision to downgrade cannabis, that effectively institutionalised it.
Crime and social disorder at record and growing levels rendering many areas of Britain no-go areas.
A fortune spent, not 'invested', on the NHS for a small improvement, a massive increase in inefficiency and thousands upon thousands of extra bureaucrats and managers.
A million extra people on the public sector payroll, vast numbers of whom are completely unnecessary and an unreformed public sector pension system adding up to a mountain of debt that means those in the real world, i.e. private sector, have got to work to 66, 67, 68 or older to pay for Labour's infantile and reckless spending spree.
Invading Iraq and Afghanistan with no exit strategy, the 'bottle' comes from our undermanned and underequipped troops. Labour haven't tackled the Islamic threat within Britain because they've been too busy courting its vote.
Virtually all the stats you quote are Labour's 'version' of the truth. The reason they've lost so much support is because the reality of degenerating, violent, third world Britain that people live in everyday is totally different to the government's lies and spin.
Does your 'long memory' stretch back to the late '70s when Labour last spent Britain to the brink of financial ruin and the IMF had to step in, we're perilously close to that now.
Labour have spent up and the game's up. Time to go.
I don't have a short memory, the sort of people who believe that pile of pro-Labour drivel and utter crap are the same sort who are, despite 12 and a half years of disastrous government all around them, still thick enough to vote Labour.
They've got another seven months to dig themselves into not just electoral defeat but annihilation as a Party.
"I don't have a short memory" who ever you are well said,its about time people were reminded of our great achievements.
Anyone listening to Cameron this week will understand the real issues when election day comes
Labour til i die, can you tell the difference between the St John Ambulance cross, and the German Iron cross yet?
See you all in Werneth on Saturday,we can get our message across certain local Tories also want to see the inactive councillor up for election kicked out.
Labour 'til I die, get rid of Brown and replace him with ex Postie Alan Johnson, his trained mind, obvious talent for leadership and grasp of high level politics is mindblowing, imagine him at an international conference. The words, totally, f*****g and overpromoted come to mind.
Jesus what an utter shambles of crooks, lunatics, inadequates and incompetents this government is.
Two words. Harriet Harman.
An ex-postie as PM? Are you having a laugh? The whole country would be on its arse going on strike at every opportunity.
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