Comments on: Labour PPCs sign letter calling for reform

By: burkesworks

burkesworks — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:50:09 +0000

Joseph @3;

Oh, and two of the seats (Liverpool West Derby and Brighton Pavilion) are seeing New Labour apparatchiks facing a serious challenge from a minor-party candidate.

And those are the only two seats on that list where Labour have any chance of winning; unless you count Cambridge and Sittingbourne, and most psephologists worth their salt wouldn’t in the present political climate. Most of the others wouldn’t return Labour winners no matter whether we were counting by FPTP, AV, AV+ or even proportional methods.

By: Joseph Edwards

Joseph Edwards — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:19 +0000

From a quick glance, the overwhelming majority of those are in seats where Labour is almost certain to come behind both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. And the only sitting MP is in an ultra-marginal. Oh, and two of the seats (Liverpool West Derby and Brighton Pavilion) are seeing New Labour apparatchiks facing a serious challenge from a minor-party candidate.

But I’m sure that’s all quite coincidental, eh?

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:17:13 +0000

Well presumably if there are six hundred and thirty odd constituencies, there are that many Labour PPCs, including MPs. That doesn’t take into account cases where Labour MPs are standing down and the MP and PPC are thus two different people for the one constituency. So this is somewhere in the region of five percent.

Quite a few absences from the above list, if it was gathered by Progress. Did LabourList not want to help?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:19:58 +0000

35 doesn’t seem very many to me. I mean, it’s some support, sure but it’s hardly overwhelming.

How many PCCs are there now? Even if it we just count MPs 35 wouldn’t be 10%.

By: Liberal Conspiracy

Liberal Conspiracy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:25:50 +0000

:: Labour PPCs sign letter calling for electoral reform http://bit.ly/3q2cXh/