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JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:

> rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
> > In article , 
> > T.C.Roll-Pickering@qmul.ac.uk (Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:
> > 
> >> Paul Hyett wrote:
> >>
> >>>> North Tyneside MBC, Preston
> >>>> Con 1141 (55.8; -14.2)
> >>>> Lab 503 (24.6; -5.3)
> >>>> Public Services not Private Profit 174 (8.5; +8.5)
> >>>> LD 152 (7.4; +7.4)
> >>>> Green 73 (3.6; +3.6)
> >>>> Majority 638
> >>>> Turnout not known
> >>>> Con hold
> >>>> Percentage change is since May 2008
> >>> The Tories hold a seat on Tyneside??
> >> The Conservatives have the majority of councillors on North 
> >> Tyneside and also hold the directly elected Mayor.
> >>
> >> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Tyneside_Council_election,_2008
> >>
> >> However since the media only focus on the big name city councils 
> >> they perpetuate this rubbish that the Conservatives have no support 
> >> in northern urban areas. 
> > That will be because what little strength they have is in 
> > suburban areas, maybe?
> 
> Well, it probably isn't very strong on inner-city council estates, 
> if that's what you mean.
> 
> And in cities where councils carpeted their inner areas (and even 
> some of their peripheral suburbs) with council flats in the 
> fifties, sixties and seventies, that's going to have an effect 
> which is obvious to anyone looking at the issue dispassionately.
> 
> Council- and housing-association housing is a political and 
> psephological issue. It doesn't just happen by accident.

You overlook that Tynemouth, a major component of North Tyneside, is 
another fading Northern seaside resort, not a major city.

-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge                    http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats: http://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/

rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

> JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:
>> rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
>>> T.C.Roll-Pickering@qmul.ac.uk (Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:
>>>> Paul Hyett wrote:

>>>>>> North Tyneside MBC, Preston
>>>>>> Con 1141 (55.8; -14.2)
>>>>>> Lab 503 (24.6; -5.3)
>>>>>> Public Services not Private Profit 174 (8.5; +8.5)
>>>>>> LD 152 (7.4; +7.4)
>>>>>> Green 73 (3.6; +3.6)
>>>>>> Majority 638
>>>>>> Turnout not known
>>>>>> Con hold
>>>>>> Percentage change is since May 2008

>>>>> The Tories hold a seat on Tyneside??

>>>> The Conservatives have the majority of councillors on North 
>>>> Tyneside and also hold the directly elected Mayor.

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Tyneside_Council_election,_2008

>>>> However since the media only focus on the big name city councils 
>>>> they perpetuate this rubbish that the Conservatives have no support 
>>>> in northern urban areas. 

>>> That will be because what little strength they have is in 
>>> suburban areas, maybe?

>> Well, it probably isn't very strong on inner-city council estates, 
>> if that's what you mean.
>> And in cities where councils carpeted their inner areas (and even 
>> some of their peripheral suburbs) with council flats in the 
>> fifties, sixties and seventies, that's going to have an effect 
>> which is obvious to anyone looking at the issue dispassionately.
>> Council- and housing-association housing is a political and 
>> psephological issue. It doesn't just happen by accident.

> You overlook that Tynemouth, a major component of North Tyneside, is 
> another fading Northern seaside resort, not a major city.

What are you talking about?

I haven't mentioned Tynemouth and have said nothing about it.

Do you have anything to say about what I *did* write, as opposed to what I 
didn't write?