Broxtowe
2010 Results:
Conservative: 20585 (39.04%)
Labour: 20196 (38.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 8907 (16.89%)
BNP: 1422 (2.7%)
UKIP: 1194 (2.26%)
Green: 423 (0.8%)
Majority: 389 (0.74%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 20234 (41.9%)
Conservative: 17967 (37.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 7763 (16.1%)
Other: 2313 (4.8%)
Majority: 2267 (4.7%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 18161 (37.2%)
Labour: 20457 (41.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 7837 (16.1%)
Green: 896 (1.8%)
UKIP: 695 (1.4%)
Other: 760 (1.6%)
Majority: 2296 (4.7%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 17963 (36.7%)
Labour: 23836 (48.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 7205 (14.7%)
Majority: 5873 (12%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 21768 (37.4%)
Labour: 27343 (47%)
Liberal Democrat: 6934 (11.9%)
Referendum: 2092 (3.6%)
Majority: 5575 (9.6%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Anna Soubry (Conservative) born 1956, Worksop. Educated at Birmingham University. Barrister specialising in criminal law. Former journalist and television presenter. Contested Gelding in 2005.
Anna Soubry (Conservative) born 1956, Worksop. Educated at Birmingham University. Barrister specialising in criminal law. Former journalist and television presenter. Contested Gelding in 2005.
Nick Palmer(Labour) born 1950, London. Educated at MIT, Copenhagen and has a doctorate in mathematics from Birkbeck College, London. Former computer manager and head of internet services for Novartis. Contested Chelsea, 1983. First elected as MP for Broxtowe in 1997. PPS to Malcolm Wicks. Has been a supporter of ID cards and animal rights (more information at They work for you)
David Watts (Liberal Democrat) born 1966. Educated at Leicester University. Lecturer and qualified solicitor. Broxtowe councillor. Contested Broxtowe 2005.
David Mitchell (Green) Chris Cobb (UKIP)Mike Shore (BNP) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 92562
Male: 49.2%
Female: 50.8%
Under 18: 20.9%
Over 60: 21.6%
Born outside UK: 6.1%
White: 94.9%
Black: 0.6%
Asian: 2.3%
Mixed: 0.9%
Other: 1.3%
Christian: 70.3%
Hindu: 0.6%
Muslim: 1%
Sikh: 0.7%
Full time students: 5.3%
Graduates 16-74: 22.7%
No Qualifications 16-74: 27.5%
Owner-Occupied: 76.8%
Social Housing: 11.7% (Council: 9.8%, Housing Ass.: 1.9%)
Privately Rented: 8.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 5.4%
The mainstream right, I would say. Certainly a long way to the right of her predecessor Ian Gilmour.
It’s understandable that she wants to stand up for her constituents’ concerns on HS2 and she’s paid the price for it….although it would be nice for once to see a minister with a constituency along the route positively arguing the very sound business case for HS2 instead of turning NIMBY.
I don’t think there’s a case for Scottish and Welsh secretaries in cabinet any more. Let the regional assemblies get on with it and create some space in cabinet for dedicated ministers for energy security and manufacturing.
I think Michael Fabricant in Lichfield is quietly supportive of HS2 (as I am myself).
Apparently he left a meeting of anti-HS2 campaigners a few months ago because he’d had enough of their backward-looking attitudes but I don’t know the precise details.
Yes I can imagine the West Midland MPs being more open-minded. After all these areas have seen a lot more motorway building and opencast mining than colleagues in the shires further south.
It would be good for a Buckinghamshire Tory MP to take a brave stand.
‘The mainstream right, I would say. Certainly a long way to the right of her predecessor Ian Gilmour.’
Absolutely
There are no Ian Gilmour’s in today’s Tory Party and you can count the traditional wets on one hand
Thus the division in today’s party seems to me to be between those in the mainstream – which would include most of the government, a good deal of the 2010 intake and a few remnants from the Major and Thatcher years – and those who want to move the party further to the Right – not just the usual rabble rousers like Peter Bone and Brian Binley, but other more mild-mannered Thatcherites like Michael Fallon and Cornerstone Conservatives like David Burrows
Gillan, Grieve and Lancaster all fall into the former category
This is the kind of bile that is on the Opinion Poll threads –
this is current
QUOTES from here –
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PAULCROFT
Why don’t we sell the monarchy?
October 16th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
NICKP
I agree. The idea that Prince Charles is “entitled to express his views in private to Ministers” seems so arguable to almost certainly be wrong.
October 16th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
OLDNAT
NICKP
If you want sovereignty to lie with the “Queen in Parliament”, then you can hardly object to the monarchy involving itself i politics.
October 16th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
NICKP
If you want sovereignty to lie with the “Queen in Parliament”, then you can hardly object to the monarchy involving itself i politics.
eh?
I want to Queen and her loathsome family sacked.
October 16th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
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I’m not the royal family’s biggest fan, but that’s out of order. And just to lighten the mood, here’s a little joke- What does John Bercow say on the phone when he wants a takeaway? Order Order the right honorable Eric Pickles please?
I am, as is known by some of you, a Republican but would agree that this isn’t the site to have a go at the monarchy. There are other sites which are more suitable for that purpose. I do find the Queen herself far from loathsome, in fact I quite like her. I do find some – not all – of the members of her family questionable at best but there would be plenty of people I would “loathe” far more. Again, though, I still don’t understand why people on both the Right and the Left feel the need to stray off topic so much. To be fair Joe most of the people on the opinion poll thread do try & stick to the subject at hand, which is, well, opinion polls, though clearly there are unfortunate exceptions. I know that most of them seem to be anti-Tory rather than anti-Labour, but that hasn’t always been so – there used to be a rather unpleasant Tory supporter who was never able to say anything which could be construed as saying that Labour was not doing disastrously, and he could be pretty bumptious. Personally I don’t care what politics the contributors have as long as they contribute something worthwhile to the discussion both about individual constituencies and the situation in the country as a whole. Most of us have something useful to say at times when we stay
…………on topic, so why don’t we do just that.