Rotherham Labour Party pull out of Rotherham Show.

[Stan Tamudo]

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

 

You'd think it was a Tory utopia listening to old Desmundo!

[LeMaquis]

You'd think it was a Tory utopia listening to old Desmundo!

 

He moved to Barnsley as a Tory voter. I assume Glasgow was full.

[Penistone999]

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.

 

Id get ready for UKIP in Rotherham if i was you. They made massive gains at the last local elections ,and now this scandal has shown Labour in Rotherham arnt fit for purpose , their share of the vote is only going to get bigger , much bigger. If i was a Labour Councillor in Rotherham id be looking for a career change before they are booted out in favour of UKIP .

[Stan Tamudo]

He moved to Barnsley as a Tory voter. I assume Glasgow was full.

 

He'll be loving all the attention we're giving him that's for sure. Hello Desmundo.

[Penistone999]

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

 

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

 

Sadly , up here , like the rest of south yorkshire we still suffer from the old "my dad voted labour and was a miner , so i vote labour" syndrome . There are still a few dinosaurs who think socialism is the way forward and vote labour .

[LeMaquis]

Id get ready for UKIP in Rotherham if i was you.

 

When I was talking about places being more civilised and intelligent I certainly wasn't thinking about Rotherham.

[melthebell]

Sadly , up here , like the rest of south yorkshire we still suffer from the old "my dad voted labour and was a miner , so i vote labour" syndrome . There are still a few dinosaurs who think socialism is the way forward and vote labour .

which is another way of saying boo hoo theres not as many right wing idiots voting round here that i hoped

[LeMaquis]

Sadly , up here , like the rest of south yorkshire we still suffer from the old "my dad voted labour and was a miner , so i vote labour" syndrome . There are still a few dinosaurs who think socialism is the way forward and vote labour .

 

Penistone often returns Tory councillors, the only part of Barnsley that does. I can't imagine there are many former miners or children of miners there.

[Stan Tamudo]

Sadly , up here , like the rest of south yorkshire we still suffer from the old "my dad voted labour and was a miner , so i vote labour" syndrome . There are still a few dinosaurs who think socialism is the way forward and vote labour .

 

You don't really live in Penistone do you though Desmundo?

[The Joker]

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.

 

What on earth is it with South Yorkshire and Labour councils?

 

Doncaster had Donnygate, and the ongoing problems with the sub-standard levels of care provided by their childrens services departments. This has been going on since 2008 when Labour were still running the government, and despite having Ed Miliband and Caroline Flint as MPs .

 

Rotherham has this scandal and a few more skeletons in their closet, such as that official who took money earmarked for some of their poorest residents and spent it on hookers a few years ago... I can't find any references online at the moment, all relevant keyword searches point the current CSE story.

 

Labour do take the South Yorkshire vote for granted, don't they?