Rotherham Labour Party pull out of Rotherham Show.

[drummond]

It is a sensible decision but also a self protecting one. There could have been trouble. There is no point in voting in Rotherham - year after year they get control because folk seem to be unwilling to give anyone else a chance. As long as the candidate wears a red ribbon, anyone (or anything) could get on the council there. It will be interesting to read if the scandal affects the numbers attending. They also have a large area put on one side to showcase and celebrate multiculturalism - I hope there is no trouble there. I'm giving the show a miss despite having attended for many years.

 

I think you might be surprised. I think UKIP will gain a swing of around 40% points in the coming by election in Clacton and UKIP will have their first MP. I would imagine that will wake up a few voters in Rotherham after the latest scandals.

[poppet2]

I think you might be surprised. I think UKIP will gain a swing of around 40% points in the coming by election in Clacton and UKIP will have their first MP. I would imagine that will wake up a few voters in Rotherham after the latest scandals.

 

I agree, that swing plus all those disaffected voters who never bother to vote because they don't think their vote is worth anything.

[drummond]

I agree, that swing plus all those disaffected voters who never bother to vote because they don't think their vote is worth anything.

 

Yes I think if I were a Rotherham Labour MP or councillor up for re-election I might be looking at the jobs colum in the papers.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-27533375

 

UKIP has won 10 of the 21 seats up for election on Rotherham Council, though Labour retains control.

 

UKIP took seven seats from Labour, two from the Conservatives and held a seat it won in a by-election last year.

 

Jahangir Akhtar, the council's deputy leader, was among Labour's casualties, losing his seat in Rotherham West.

 

 

 

This was before the scandals blew up.

[firemanbob]

Yes I think if I were a Rotherham Labour MP or councillor up for re-election I might be looking at the jobs colum in the papers.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-27533375

 

UKIP has won 10 of the 21 seats up for election on Rotherham Council, though Labour retains control.

 

UKIP took seven seats from Labour, two from the Conservatives and held a seat it won in a by-election last year.

 

Jahangir Akhtar, the council's deputy leader, was among Labour's casualties, losing his seat in Rotherham West.

 

 

 

This was before the scandals blew up.

 

Labour voters also have very short memories so they will have forgotten all about the scandals.

[Jonny5]

Clearly the brand of Labour in Rotherham is corrupt and complacent and has nothing but contempt for the people of Rotherham. For the sake of people in Rotherham Labour NEED to lose their grip.

 

Just a shame that UKIP are the ones most likely to profit.

[LeMaquis]

This weekend it is Rotherham Show. It seems Rotherham Labour Party have decided to abondon the show and do a non appearance in the fallout of the Sex Scandal.

 

I imagine there's have been lynchings if they'd turned up. Rotherham now has the kind of reputation Doncaster used to have but worse. Labour will lose the council in the next year or two. The MP may have a better chance.

[Stan Tamudo]

Thats because their dad voted labour and their grandad voted Labour . This is why so many northern towns and cities are light years behind the rest of the country. Hanging on to socialism is killing places where Labour are still running the councils. The problem is the mindset of a lot of the voters in northern areas,

 

I take it everything is cushty under the Tories in Penistone Desmundo?

[LeMaquis]

I think you might be surprised. I think UKIP will gain a swing of around 40% points in the coming by election in Clacton and UKIP will have their first MP. I would imagine that will wake up a few voters in Rotherham after the latest scandals.

 

Clacton will go UKIP but it would have been better for UKIP if they'd won it in different circumstances - not following a defection - and in another part of the country. A right-wing bigot in Essex is a shoe-in for UKIP but other areas are more civilised and intelligent.

[firemanbob]

Clearly the brand of Labour in Rotherham is corrupt and complacent and has nothing but contempt for the people of Rotherham. For the sake of people in Rotherham Labour NEED to lose their grip.

 

Just a shame that UKIP are the ones most likely to profit.

 

That's a consequence of knowing that their seat is safe no matter how useless they are.

[LeMaquis]

I take it everything is cushty under the Tories in Penistone Desmundo?

 

Labour have won Penistone West twice this year due to UKIP taking votes off the Tories.

 

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Labour voters also have very short memories so they will have forgotten all about the scandals.

 

Just like those on here whose own memory must be short given the number of usernames they create having forgotten the others.