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Keir Starmer at it again..

Tony Towner said:
I think having an East Midlands mayor is pointless. A role over a geographical area which doesn't really exist from a governing perspective. That said Ben Bradley is standing, one of those post Brexit intake of MPs in the mould of Gullis or Anderson, trying to gain a job before getting booted out at the next election, so I've voted.
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Ben Bradley is a proper bellend.
 
Tony Towner said:
Yeah, Leicester City Council refused and the consultation across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire wasn't in favour, but they ignored that and did it anyway. Derbyshire will lose out, both Bradley and the Labour candidate Ward are from Notts. Other notional areas of the East Mids like Northants and Lincolnshire aren't included.
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Back in the New Labour era my wife used to work for EMDA and yes, it was all of Derbyshire, Notts, Leics, Northants, Lincs and, crucially of course, Rutland. Of course these are all just imagined communities, but you can't be calling something 'East Midlands' which is just a small section of it!
 
Tony Towner said:
I think having an East Midlands mayor is pointless. A role over a geographical area which doesn't really exist from a governing perspective. That said Ben Bradley is standing, one of those post Brexit intake of MPs in the mould of Gullis or Anderson, trying to gain a job before getting booted out at the next election, so I've voted.
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Bradley is also leader of Notts county council so if he loses tonight and in the general election the knob will still be getting paid.
 
Tony Towner said:
I think having an East Midlands mayor is pointless. A role over a geographical area which doesn't really exist from a governing perspective. That said Ben Bradley is standing, one of those post Brexit intake of MPs in the mould of Gullis or Anderson, trying to gain a job before getting booted out at the next election, so I've voted.
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Should just stop messing around and bring in devolved regional assemblies with powers comparable to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, like Labour wanted to do back in the 00s. The metro mayoralties are already a lot of the way there, but it's such a hodge-podge of geographical inconsistencies and muddled hierarchies.

And ironically the only one that does actually make intuitive sense - Greater London mayoralty - is also the one that's neutered in terms of what is actually under its control, because the Blairites didn't want to risk bringing back the GLC of the 1980s. If only!
 
We had all this bollocks with Shaun Bailey last time. 'We hear its really close' etc. Utter bollocks. The fact so many 'journalists' retweet this stuff says it all really.
 
Labour achieve the required swing In Solihull in the West Midlands mayoral race. It’ll be the areas with large Muslim communities that will cost them.
 
Sniffer said:
Labour achieve the required swing In Solihull in the West Midlands mayoral race. It’ll be the areas with large Muslim communities that will cost them.
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It's an interesting dynamic, because if you look at inner London in the Council elections that was a factor, but in the Mayoral race with a Muslim candidate it wasn't, although no obvious alternative place for that vote to go as far as I can see
 
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