Yes I have a screen shot of that - you would have thought that they may have detected that people might be interactive with their elections web site on election day and built in capacity. But no - let hope the new party political
Leadership will take up this challenge as well as several other concerns around the conduct of the elections officers - it's standard for candidates to thank them, I think they have become complacent... and I don't mean the infantry I'm on about the generals
The results are in for the over 5,000 seats in this year’s election… well not quite… 2 are yet to declare and they are in Birmingham. Why it will take four days to count a few thousand votes is hard to say. Why did counting not start on Thursday night and why was it suspended on Saturday? The two seats are important. If Reform adds them to its tally of 22 Reform would be sufficiently ahead of the other parties to form a minority administration. It would not last though as the left wing parties would no doubt defeat it. But I suspect that would be to Reform’s advantage. Let the left wing parties mess things up, as the Tories allowed the first Labour (minority) government to mess up the economy in 1924. Perhaps though the Tories will support Reform but perhaps not since that would not create a majority. The other solution of a left of centre coalition is equally likely to be unstable. Would what is left of Labour support a coalition including the Green Party? Surely Labour will wish to go into Opposition having been so comprehensively defeated in the Election? So is chaos inevitable? What is clear is that what I wrote before the Election has come to pass. Birmingham is not just geographically but also politically divided into three distinct areas, which need three separate boroughs. The North is overwhelmingly Tory or Reform. The centre is overwhelmingly left wing, Liberal, Labour, Green and the Muslim independents. The south is Reform or Tory. To create 3 boroughs out of one County Borough would be a good solution to the chaos, which is only likely to get worse. These three, perhaps four boroughs, would all be population wise as big as most London boroughs. There is also the issue of how connected people on the two extremities are with the central area. Take for example people in Queslett. Most Brummies have never heard of Queslett and many people in Queslett have never been to Birmingham City Centre yet much of it is part of Perry Barr constituency with an Independent Muslim MP yet two Reform councillors. It has more in common with Aldridge and Pheasey in Walsall Borough. Indeed most families have links with Walsall or Sutton Coldfield than with central Birmingham. When the size of the Commons was going to be reduced this part of Birmingham was put into a new Walsall South constituency, which made sense. When the reduction of seats was rejected it became a tail of Perry Barr, where literally a mile long and 1/2 mile thin sliver of 80 houses was added to Perry Barr, curling around the neighbouring Erdington and Sutton constituencies. Similar issues arise in Frankley in the south, which has more in common with Bromsgrove and Redditch than with central Birmingham. Time therefore is ripe to break up Birmingham. As with Manchester the heart should be the City, the South called King’s Norton Metropolitan Borough, the North the Royal Borough of Sutton Coldfield including in it Queslett, Oscott, Perry Common, and Erdington… thus creating two parliamentary constituencies Sutton Coldfield North and South. A fourth borough could be formed in the east based on Yardley, including Moseley etc. Time to change or perpetual chaos?
BCC at it's best? Currently their website has this: 'Service disruption
Our website and online services are experiencing significant technical issues due to high demand for election results. Some services may be unavailable or slow.'
Yes I have a screen shot of that - you would have thought that they may have detected that people might be interactive with their elections web site on election day and built in capacity. But no - let hope the new party political
Leadership will take up this challenge as well as several other concerns around the conduct of the elections officers - it's standard for candidates to thank them, I think they have become complacent... and I don't mean the infantry I'm on about the generals
The results are in for the over 5,000 seats in this year’s election… well not quite… 2 are yet to declare and they are in Birmingham. Why it will take four days to count a few thousand votes is hard to say. Why did counting not start on Thursday night and why was it suspended on Saturday? The two seats are important. If Reform adds them to its tally of 22 Reform would be sufficiently ahead of the other parties to form a minority administration. It would not last though as the left wing parties would no doubt defeat it. But I suspect that would be to Reform’s advantage. Let the left wing parties mess things up, as the Tories allowed the first Labour (minority) government to mess up the economy in 1924. Perhaps though the Tories will support Reform but perhaps not since that would not create a majority. The other solution of a left of centre coalition is equally likely to be unstable. Would what is left of Labour support a coalition including the Green Party? Surely Labour will wish to go into Opposition having been so comprehensively defeated in the Election? So is chaos inevitable? What is clear is that what I wrote before the Election has come to pass. Birmingham is not just geographically but also politically divided into three distinct areas, which need three separate boroughs. The North is overwhelmingly Tory or Reform. The centre is overwhelmingly left wing, Liberal, Labour, Green and the Muslim independents. The south is Reform or Tory. To create 3 boroughs out of one County Borough would be a good solution to the chaos, which is only likely to get worse. These three, perhaps four boroughs, would all be population wise as big as most London boroughs. There is also the issue of how connected people on the two extremities are with the central area. Take for example people in Queslett. Most Brummies have never heard of Queslett and many people in Queslett have never been to Birmingham City Centre yet much of it is part of Perry Barr constituency with an Independent Muslim MP yet two Reform councillors. It has more in common with Aldridge and Pheasey in Walsall Borough. Indeed most families have links with Walsall or Sutton Coldfield than with central Birmingham. When the size of the Commons was going to be reduced this part of Birmingham was put into a new Walsall South constituency, which made sense. When the reduction of seats was rejected it became a tail of Perry Barr, where literally a mile long and 1/2 mile thin sliver of 80 houses was added to Perry Barr, curling around the neighbouring Erdington and Sutton constituencies. Similar issues arise in Frankley in the south, which has more in common with Bromsgrove and Redditch than with central Birmingham. Time therefore is ripe to break up Birmingham. As with Manchester the heart should be the City, the South called King’s Norton Metropolitan Borough, the North the Royal Borough of Sutton Coldfield including in it Queslett, Oscott, Perry Common, and Erdington… thus creating two parliamentary constituencies Sutton Coldfield North and South. A fourth borough could be formed in the east based on Yardley, including Moseley etc. Time to change or perpetual chaos?
BCC at it's best? Currently their website has this: 'Service disruption
Our website and online services are experiencing significant technical issues due to high demand for election results. Some services may be unavailable or slow.'