Comments on: Chatham and Alyesford

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:56:42 +0000

“A Chatham seat without the centre of Chatham included in the seat just does not make any sense.”

It’s worth nothing that the current Chatham seat doesn’t actually have the centre of Chatham in as it is. Chatham High Street isn’t in Chatham and Aylesford!

By: LBernard

LBernard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:13:21 +0000

A Chatham seat without the centre of Chatham included in the seat just does not make any sense.

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:36:12 +0000

So the centre of Chatham is no longer going to be in the Chatham & Aylesford constituency, a bit like the centre of Gloucester no longer being in the Gloucester constituency.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:57:07 +0000

Yes Luton & Wayfield (strongly Labour) is being exchanged with Gillingham for Hempstead & Wigmore. IN addition the even more strongly Labour Chatham Central is moving to Rochester while Rochester south moves the other way. So Gillingham lose a Tory part of Gillingham to Chatham in exchange for a Labour bit of Chatham and Rcohester loses a Tory bit of Rochester to Chatham in exchange for another Labour bit of Chatham. It sounds like an utter dogs breakfast and that the name Chatham would hardly any longer be justified for this seat

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:30:32 +0000

I think the Luton & Wayfield ward is one of those which is making the difference here.

By: Warofdreams

Warofdreams — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:59:04 +0000

Without looking into this too deeply, neighbouring Gillinham and Rainham goes the other way – a majority of 8,680 for the Tories in 2010 is cut to a notional 4,714, making that the third best Labour target in Kent (after Dover and the new Margate & Ramsgate).

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:17:06 +0000

Something drastic must have been proposed in this constituency because the UKPR notionals give the Tories a majority of 14,947 compared to 6,069 at the last election. The name of the seat remains the same however.

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:52:45 +0000

The Conservative MP for Chatham from 1918-29 (and Wallasey from 1929-31), Lieutenant-Colonel John Moore-Brabazon, was the first British person to fly an aeroplane in 1909 and the first to become a qualified pilot in 1910.

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:45:53 +0000

‘Labour are at least in with a shout in many seats in the South and South-east where they will likely achieve 2nd place and become the main challengers after the next election, excepting the South-west of course where they are a country mile off.’

The South West has always been a poor area for Labour (especially the rural parts) but they did at least hold seats in Plymouth, Bristol and Exeter – which was better than their performance in the South East where they lost plenty of urban and working class seats

By: BT SAYS...

BT SAYS... — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:30:45 +0000

In a way it’s a bit like Scotland for the Tories, where many areas are ‘natural Tory’ territory for them but who turned against them since the 60s. Labour are at least in with a shout in many seats in the South and South-east where they will likely achieve 2nd place and become the main challengers after the next election (unless the tide massively shifts back to LDs by 2015), excepting the South-west of course where they are a country mile off.