Broxbourne
2010 Results:
Conservative: 26844 (58.79%)
Labour: 8040 (17.61%)
Liberal Democrat: 6107 (13.38%)
BNP: 2159 (4.73%)
UKIP: 1890 (4.14%)
English Democrat: 618 (1.35%)
Majority: 18804 (41.18%)
2005 Results:
Conservative: 21878 (53.8%)
Labour: 10369 (25.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 4973 (12.2%)
Other: 3408 (8.4%)
Majority: 11509 (28.3%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 20487 (54.1%)
Labour: 11494 (30.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 4158 (11%)
UKIP: 858 (2.3%)
BNP: 848 (2.2%)
Majority: 8993 (23.8%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 22952 (48.9%)
Labour: 16299 (34.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 5310 (11.3%)
Referendum: 1633 (3.5%)
Other: 782 (1.7%)
Majority: 6653 (14.2%)
No Boundary Changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Charles Walker(Conservative) Born 1967, Oxfordshire. Educated at the American School in London and the University of Oregon. Former Director of Blue Arrow. Wandsworth councillor 2002-2006. Contested Ealing North 2001. MP for Broxbourne since 2005 (more information at They work for you)
Charles Walker(Conservative) Born 1967, Oxfordshire. Educated at the American School in London and the University of Oregon. Former Director of Blue Arrow. Wandsworth councillor 2002-2006. Contested Ealing North 2001. MP for Broxbourne since 2005 (more information at They work for you)Michael Watson (Labour) Allan Witherick (Liberal Democrat)Martin Harvey (UKIP)Steve McCole (BNP)Debbie LeMay (English Democrat) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 92244
Male: 48.6%
Female: 51.4%
Under 18: 22.9%
Over 60: 20.2%
Born outside UK: 7.3%
White: 96.1%
Black: 1.1%
Asian: 1.2%
Mixed: 1%
Other: 0.5%
Christian: 76.4%
Hindu: 0.6%
Muslim: 1.2%
Full time students: 2.2%
Graduates 16-74: 12.7%
No Qualifications 16-74: 29.4%
Owner-Occupied: 80.3%
Social Housing: 13.4% (Council: 11.3%, Housing Ass.: 2.1%)
Privately Rented: 4.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 4.2%
RR – that’s the type of response I expected. But being gay wouldn’t mean you didnt have the mental capacity to make decisions as a legislator or a Minister on any given day. Incidentally, I know of several gay MPs who aren’t out and a couple who are married and I’m only a journalist, but that’s a different matter. Glad you don’t support the representative quota view though, as I don’t want 1 murderer 2 paedophiles in the House either.
You’re aware that Sir Winston Churchill suffered from mental illness for most of his life right?
“Glad you don’t support the representative quota view though, as I don’t want 1 murderer 2 paedophiles in the House either.”
There are most likely paedophiles already in the house, and plenty of murderers as well, if you include culpability in extraordinary rendition, Abu Gharaib, Guantanamo etc.
But that said I agree with Lancs Observer here. I also felt a bit queasy watching Charles Walker’s media appearances on this. I do not think it will do him good to admit to being so unbalanced. He’ll be on the Jeremy Kyle show next.
HH – ha, very true: I should have added the word convicted.
I have to say, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one uneasy about the recent debate.
However I take issue with H.Hemmelig’s very unusual slip into prejudice with his “I do not think it will do him good to admit to being so unbalanced.”
Charles Walker admitted to suffering from OCD. Yes its a mental illness, but that does not mean that he is ‘unbalanced’ or generally mentally ill or insane. OCD is one of those very minor personality disorders of the sort you’ll probably find an awful of of people suffering from (although not me, before anybody asks why I’m making it an issue).
My worry is if we get to a point where we’re told that MPs who are actually certifiable as insane be allowed to keep their seats because we don’t want to ‘discriminate’ against them.
I’m sorry if this is politically incorrect, but the truely mad must not be allowed to remain in elected office. Inded, I think you could argue that the truely insane should not even be cared for ‘in the community’ as they have been since the 80s. There must be more secure hospitals like those we used to have before the care in the community policy was introduced to save money.
“But being gay wouldn’t mean you didnt have the mental capacity to make decisions as a legislator or a Minister on any given day.”
Quite correct, although as a gay man I am perhaps biased! But this didn’t stop secretly known gays from being barred from certain Ministerial roles because of a perceived “Blackmail Risk”. I understand this practice continued until shockingly recently.
I have always been against patronising quotas in any way, shape or form. As I said, this is just about MPs being able to be open and honest which can only be a good thing. Many people with personality disorders have contributed a heck of a lot to the worlds of science, the arts and (secretly) to politics over the years. But for many autistic people I doubt the UK would have a decent IT industry, never mind the engineering achievements of the Victorians and after. I think it’s a step in accepting and welcoming that contribution.
The white population of Broxbourne remained above 90% in the 2011 census: 90.3% compared to 92.7% in 2001.
That probably means the divergence in ethnicity between say Broxbourne and Enfield has grown wider than before.
Your figures are not quite right. In 2001 the total White population of Broxbourne represented 96.1% of which 90.2% were White British. The respective figures now are 90.3% and 80.8%. Broxbourne has the highest proportion of White Other in Hertfordshire of which I suspect a considerable number are Greek cypriot so there is some spillover from Enfield in that respect. Also the non-white population is mostly Black rather than Asian – also like Enfield and unlike the rest of Hertfordshire
I was using Wikipedia: normally it quotes 2001 census figures but obviously they’d updated it with more recent estimates.
But the main point about the white population remaining above 90% despite being so close to Greater London still stands.
The proportion of the population of Slough borough who are white British has fallen from 58.3% in 2001 to only 34.5% in 2011 making it the least British of all British towns. Total white population is 45.7% (down from 63.7%) making it probably the only town in the UK where Whites are in a minority. The white British figure is actually very similar to the Conservative share of the vote in 2010. I’m not trying to reopen any old debates about Diana Coad’s p[erformance (nor about the niceness or otherwise of Slough) but in the circumstances which are now apparent it was a creditable Conservative result – they must have done extremely well amongst the white voters and made significant inroads into the Asian vote too (remembering also that the constituency exlcudes Colnbrook & Poyle which would be one of the more white areas of the borough)
Bollocks – that was obviously supposed to be on the Slough thread
Well you never know.
“Your figures are not quite right. In 2001 the total White population of Broxbourne represented 96.1% of which 90.2% were White British. The respective figures now are 90.3% and 80.8%. Broxbourne has the highest proportion of White Other in Hertfordshire of which I suspect a considerable number are Greek cypriot so there is some spillover from Enfield in that respect. Also the non-white population is mostly Black rather than Asian – also like Enfield and unlike the rest of Hertfordshire”
Pete is spot on here. I also think Hoddesdon used to have a noticable Italian community which would also bump up the white other figure.