Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Haltemprice and Howden: RESULTS IN... Greens secon...

I've seen a couple of people trying to do the numb...

2008-07-12T12:45:00.000Z

I've seen a couple of people trying to do the numbers on this - looking at what the Labour vote did, etc, but as has been said here it's too much of an exception to start drawing conclusions.

Will Shan be getting more than 7% of the vote in this area at next year's Euro elections I wonder? We'll see, but clearly the risk the Greens took paid off but whilst people can be impressed we came second we have to remember that people aren't bowled over by this because it did not involve beating two of the three main parties.

'Funny how you seemed to have actually done someth...

2008-07-12T12:13:00.000Z

'Funny how you seemed to have actually done something to help in this by-election, Derek, when you did diddly squat to help Sian and the London Assembly campaign only a few months ago.'

It wasn't funny for me because I had fractured one of my vertabrae and was out of action for a couple of months.

I reckon at least some of the English Democrat vot...

2008-07-11T20:34:00.000Z

I reckon at least some of the English Democrat vote would have been people not paying much attention who thought they were the Liberal Democrats - hard to quantify, but I bet there were some.

I agree with Douglas that while Shan and her helpers deserve to be congratulated for extremely hard work, we shouldn't regard this as a measure of outcomes in any "normal" election.

I agree it was right to stand. This gave us a cha...

2008-07-11T17:01:00.000Z

I agree it was right to stand. This gave us a chance to talk to and engage with some voters. And some voters took the opportunity to vote for us. The GP and Shan (well done) got some useful press coverage.

But let's not read too much into it. The whole thing was a bit "maverick". And 1714 voted for the English Democrats an unsavoury bunch whose "Putting England First" anti-Scottish tack in the London mayoral election got my attention (I'm Scottish!). 3326 voted for either the far right or the god squad or jokers or nutjobs.

Once all the fuss has died down how many will remember this election?

Quoting the 7.4 % GP vote should be done with caution as any informed commentator will be able to retort ...yes but ... !

Douglas Coker
Enfield Green Party

I seem to be noticing more support building for th...

2008-07-11T12:36:00.000Z

I seem to be noticing more support building for the Greens... well done Shan! :)

Nice post, Jim. Yes, our electoral results are bui...

2008-07-11T11:33:00.000Z

Nice post, Jim. Yes, our electoral results are building: roll on Glasgow East?!
Here is my analysis of the meaning of Shan's good result:
http://rupertsread.blogspot.com/2008/07/runner-up-spot-green-partys-historic.html

Disagreeing with people politically is fine - but ...

2008-07-11T08:26:00.000Z

Disagreeing with people politically is fine - but I don't want any personal attacks here thank you, as that can poison debate.

As it happens Derek had severe back problems and was laid up so no political motivation should be read into the fact he was less active all round for some weeks earlier in the year.

Funny how you seemed to have actually done somethi...

2008-07-11T07:33:00.000Z

Funny how you seemed to have actually done something to help in this by-election, Derek, when you did diddly squat to help Sian and the London Assembly campaign only a few months ago.

Its been great canvassing and megaphoning in the c...

2008-07-11T03:17:00.000Z

Its been great canvassing and megaphoning in the constituency, Shan
has been a great candidate...well at the end of the day getting on the doorstep and talking to people is essential.