Comments on: What on Earth just happened in Sunderland? http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/rants/what-on-earth-just-happened-in-sunderland/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: David Meadows http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/rants/what-on-earth-just-happened-in-sunderland/comment-page-1/#comment-81681 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:07:28 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=17555#comment-81681 Not my ward so I don’t know what the campaigning was like on the ground, but it looks like policy wasn’t really a factor, but rather that the incumbent was just crap at her job. This is from the local paper:

“It should come as little surprise. The previous Labour incumbent, the lesser-spotted Jacqui Gallagher, was officially removed after she failed to attend a single meeting for six months. In the eyes of many, her failure to fight on behalf of the very people who voted her into the council soured voters’ view of the Labour Party.”

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/opinion/why-labour-s-bloody-nose-in-sandhill-is-good-news-for-sunderland-politics-1-8333740

]]> By: ard sloc http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/rants/what-on-earth-just-happened-in-sunderland/comment-page-1/#comment-81677 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:39:17 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=17555#comment-81677 What is going on indeed! I don’t know what programme the lib Dem stood on – he/she might not have mentioned Brexit or even favoured it. But it does show the fluid world we live in.

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