The Conservatives have held Crawley Borough Council - and boosted their majority at the expense of Labour.
The Tories picked up four more seats - Ifield, Tilgate, Southgate and Broadfield South - to increase their majority on the local authority to 26.
Labour leader Brenda Smith, who held on to her Langley Green seat, said: "We had long-standing councillors standing down in two seats. The new candidates were brilliant.
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"They worked so hard. We thought they might hold on to their seats but didn't because of the national trend.
"The results were no particular surprise for us but we're obviously disappointed."
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Posted by: FloatingVoter, Hove on 2:22pm Fri 2 May 08
[quote]They worked so hard. We thought they might hold on to their seats but didn't because of the national trend.[/quote]
The bell has begun to toll for Gordon Brown. It will, over the coming months, become ever louder and not cease until we have a General Election.
By that time the cushioning effect of house price inflation will have been stripped out of the economy. The extent to which ‘Prudent’ Brown has fleeced the taxpayer and frittered the proceeds will become all too evident. In the icy blast of economic reality with its ever higher Energy, Food and Commodity prices, no amount of spin will be able to conceal the magnitude of Blair/Brown’s mismanagement of the Nation’s affairs.
Given the chance, it is unlikely that the Taxpayer will do anything other than summarily dismiss the current administration. Gordon Brown and the whole “New Labour” experiment will finally be laid to rest in the graveyard of Political Failures. No-one will mourn the loss. Through their myopic political outlook and insatiable **** for power, New Labour has betrayed both the Country and everything that the Labour Party once stood for.
Let the death knell sound. The situation has become irredeemable. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls Gordon, it tolls for thee.
They worked so hard. We thought they might hold on to their seats but didn't because of the national trend.
The bell has begun to toll for Gordon Brown. It will, over the coming months, become ever louder and not cease until we have a General Election.
By that time the cushioning effect of house price inflation will have been stripped out of the economy. The extent to which ‘Prudent’ Brown has fleeced the taxpayer and frittered the proceeds will become all too evident. In the icy blast of economic reality with its ever higher Energy, Food and Commodity prices, no amount of spin will be able to conceal the magnitude of Blair/Brown’s mismanagement of the Nation’s affairs.
Given the chance, it is unlikely that the Taxpayer will do anything other than summarily dismiss the current administration. Gordon Brown and the whole “New Labour” experiment will finally be laid to rest in the graveyard of Political Failures. No-one will mourn the loss. Through their myopic political outlook and insatiable **** for power, New Labour has betrayed both the Country and everything that the Labour Party once stood for.
Let the death knell sound. The situation has become irredeemable. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls Gordon, it tolls for thee.
Posted by: Floating Floater, Brighton on 2:26pm Fri 2 May 08
[quote][bold]FloatingVoter[/bold] wrote:
[quote]They worked so hard. We thought they might hold on to their seats but didn't because of the national trend.[/quote]
The bell has begun to toll for Gordon Brown. It will, over the coming months, become ever louder and not cease until we have a General Election.
By that time the cushioning effect of house price inflation will have been stripped out of the economy. The extent to which ‘Prudent’ Brown has fleeced the taxpayer and frittered the proceeds will become all too evident. In the icy blast of economic reality with its ever higher Energy, Food and Commodity prices, no amount of spin will be able to conceal the magnitude of Blair/Brown’s mismanagement of the Nation’s affairs.
Given the chance, it is unlikely that the Taxpayer will do anything other than summarily dismiss the current administration. Gordon Brown and the whole “New Labour” experiment will finally be laid to rest in the graveyard of Political Failures. No-one will mourn the loss. Through their myopic political outlook and insatiable **** for power, New Labour has betrayed both the Country and everything that the Labour Party once stood for.
Let the death knell sound. The situation has become irredeemable. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls Gordon, it tolls for thee.
[/quote] That's all well and good but what has any of it got to do with Crawley Council?
FloatingVoter wrote:
They worked so hard. We thought they might hold on to their seats but didn't because of the national trend.
The bell has begun to toll for Gordon Brown. It will, over the coming months, become ever louder and not cease until we have a General Election.
By that time the cushioning effect of house price inflation will have been stripped out of the economy. The extent to which ‘Prudent’ Brown has fleeced the taxpayer and frittered the proceeds will become all too evident. In the icy blast of economic reality with its ever higher Energy, Food and Commodity prices, no amount of spin will be able to conceal the magnitude of Blair/Brown’s mismanagement of the Nation’s affairs.
Given the chance, it is unlikely that the Taxpayer will do anything other than summarily dismiss the current administration. Gordon Brown and the whole “New Labour” experiment will finally be laid to rest in the graveyard of Political Failures. No-one will mourn the loss. Through their myopic political outlook and insatiable **** for power, New Labour has betrayed both the Country and everything that the Labour Party once stood for.
Let the death knell sound. The situation has become irredeemable. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls Gordon, it tolls for thee.
That's all well and good but what has any of it got to do with Crawley Council?
Posted by: FloatingVoter, Hove on 2:50pm Fri 2 May 08
Crawley, Worthing, London, where ever, it is enormously depressing.
The Tories didn’t ‘hold’ Crawley or ‘gain’ anywhere else. They are just being gifted seats by the abject failure of New Labour under Gordon Brown.
We are just replacing one failed political party with another. What kind of political process / democracy is this supposed to represent? No wonder the turnout is so low.
Crawley, Worthing, London, where ever, it is enormously depressing.
The Tories didn’t ‘hold’ Crawley or ‘gain’ anywhere else. They are just being gifted seats by the abject failure of New Labour under Gordon Brown.
We are just replacing one failed political party with another. What kind of political process / democracy is this supposed to represent? No wonder the turnout is so low.
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