tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8442258007510033318..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Local Council By-Elections December 2017Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-25818431307073643692017-12-16T00:08:36.953+00:002017-12-16T00:08:36.953+00:00Disappointing result in Newcastle-under-Lyme (Newc...Disappointing result in Newcastle-under-Lyme (Newchapel, btw, not Whitechapel). But, according to Britain Elects, it was a knife-edge win last time - 50.5 plays 49.5, or thereabouts, in a two-party race - and the Tories came through this time because a Lib Dem candidate took slightly more votes from us than from them. The incumbent Labour councillor falling out with the local party and resigning won't have helped, either.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.com