Crewe blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last Saturday Nantwich town centre was treated to something a little exotic. As well as Bakers Fabulous Boys, Irish duo Becky Taylor and Paul Cowham, Phoebe Fischer & The Shannon Irish Dancers performing to shoppers, Magenta al Jamilah – a Middle Eastern dancer and Indian songstress – took to the temporary stage to wow crowds with her sultry moves. The multi-genre festival was accompanied by bell ringing...
Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
If you are going to the Nantwich Show send us some photos and we'll get them up on the blog. Serious, fun, technical, cheesy or just daft - anything considered. Email them here ...
The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | yesterday
After the bloody nose at Crewe and Nantwich and the kick in the groin at Henley, the Glorious Successor has responded to the amputation at Glasgow East in his usual glorious manner. He feels our pain, but other countries in the world are suffering too. We are invited to bask in his sympathy while thinking of the poor children in Africa and resolving, perhaps, not to be quite so nasty next time.
Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
If you fancy something a little different there’s a new sports club in Crewe & Nantwich and they’re looking for players. Korfball - a fast, friendly, non-contact team ball game for men and women – is up and running and based at South Cheshire College. In fact, the club trains on Tuesday nights from 7:30 to 8:45 at the college on Dane Bank Avenue ( outdoors in Summer, indoors over Winter). The rules...
Freemania (Free subscription) | yesterday | World
Labour’s 26th-safest seat, Glasgow East, has gone west . Now what? We are writing this private letter as a group of MPs first elected in 2001, all of whom have been involved in the party and the wider Labour movement for a long time. … We have always believed passionately in the same kind of modern, progressive, electable Labour Party that you do. The permanent advancement of this kind of dynamic,...
Ewan Watt (Free subscription) | yesterday
I GUESS nobody can argue with the fact that Brown has been a "fucking disaster" . Compared to Glasgow East, the debacle at Crewe and Nantwich looks like a blip. In addition, despite Brown's regular calls for unity I thought it was interesting to hear that John Reid (Chairman of Celtic Football Club) was largely absent in the campaign. I keep hearing how Labour ran a good campaign but concerns over...
Blether with Brian (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The polls have closed. The count is underway . First and best info, of course, here on the BBC. First, a little background. Labour comes to this Scottish Westminster by-election - on the back of two catastrophic defeats in England. They lost Crewe and Nantwich - with a 17% swing to the Tories. And they came an embarrassing fifth in Henley . But this is Glasgow East . Where they normally weigh the...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
What is it about parliamentary by-elections? You wait ages for one, then four come along at once. Hot-on-the-heels of Crewe and Nantwich, Henley and Haltemprice & Howden is Glasgow East, theoretically at least a safe Labour seat. Here was the result at the 2005 general election: David Marshall, Labour 18,775 (61%) Lachlan McNeill, Scottish National Party 5,268 [...]
Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Follow-up photo of some of the ReAct 08 performers who took part in events at Crewe's Lyceum Theatre the other Saturday. This year the organisation raised money for Hope House and the mayor's charity of choice. Both the Mayor of Crewe and Nantwich, Borough Councillor Brian Silvester, and the Mayoress, Ms Sheila Davies, as well as Mr Edward Timpson MP later attended the event...
West Brom Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Glasgow East defeat will enter the record books as one of the most stunning defeats inflicted upon the governing party of the day – the only comparable equivalent being the routing of the Tories by the Lib Dems in Christchurch, 1993.This was much more about Brown than Scotland - another kicking, and one that will hurt the PM much more than losing London, Crewe and Nantwich and coming fifth behind...
Tales from the Riverbank (Free subscription) | yesterday
The events at Glasgow East are directly attributable to the flawed personality that is Gordon Brown. Gordon must make a fascinating study material for any decent shrink. He asks his three year old to call him “Gordon” as opposed to “Daddy”. Why? No doubt he is still looking for someone of his own to call Daddy and we’ve [...]
Rodney McAree Forever! (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I've been meaning to get back to posting more regularly for a while, and I notice that back in May, almost 2 months ago, I promised to discuss Crewe & Nantwich. Of course, since that by-election there's been Henley and Howden & Haltemprice. Before the local elections, and even with them, it could be claimed that Labour was just in the middle of a normal 'mid-term blues' patch. The local elections in...
Leah Fraser (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown and the Labour Party suffered another devastating blow last night when they lost the ‘rock solid’ Labour seat of Glasgow East to the Scottish National Party (SNP), who managed to overturn a 13,507 Labour majority to win with a majority of 365. Labour lost the seat to the SNP on a swing of [...]
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Andrew Grice "They think it's all over -- it is now." That's what a lot of Labour MPs will be thinking today -- not about the 1966 World Cup Final, but Gordon Brown's premiership after Labour's stunning and unexpected...
The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
Watching Channel 4 News during the week I was a bit dubious about how much Alex Salmond was investing in Glasgow East. John Mason even had to joke about ‘being his own man’ after Salmond had visited the constituency numerous times during the campaign. Salmond had said: … on Wednesday - the last day of campaigning - [...]
