Comments on: Islington North

By: Dalek

Dalek — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:44:59 +0000

Can’t seem to open up Islington South so I will use this thread.

It is incredible to think that The City of London will now be part of a safe Labour constituency. Also that the city is so small (approx. 5000 electors) that it does not even transform Islington South into even a longshot Lab/ Con marginal.

I would imagine that the detachment of Th Ciy from Westminster will be as contriversial as The City & East London GLA division was in 2000.

I actually think that The City of London has much in common though with the former London Boroughs of Shoreditch and Finsbury. Around the Barbican it can be hard to tell the boundary between the City and Islington LBC.

Many people who work in the city live in Hoxton and Clerkenwell and walk to work.

By: H.Hemmelig

H.Hemmelig — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:48:26 +0000

Ernie Noad, now a councillor in Bromley, fought this seat for the Tories in 1987.

He told me that he made Jeremy Corbyn’s poshness a feature of his campaign. He said that most of his support came from the WWC council estates, with the middle class luvvie vote going heavily to Corbyn.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:08:53 +0000

Piers and Jeremy?

Are the Corbyn boys a little bit posh then?

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:56:13 +0000

Piers Corbyn was a Labour councillor in Southwark in the 1980s and I always had the impression that politically he was of a similar ilk to his brother. His views on climate change may be different, but I wouldn’t have thought that much implication for his underliying political outlook but it may be that unlike his brother he has grown out of some of the more childish left wing posturing

By: Calum W

Calum W — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:42:12 +0000

His voting record doesn’t appear to – he voted strongly for pretty much every climate change related legislation.

By: John Chanin

John Chanin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:24:30 +0000

By: Calum W

Calum W — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:38:42 +0000

Wow, I did not know that they were related. Piers Corbyn is regarded as a bit of a maverick meteorologist, basing his forecasts on sunspot activity alone, constantly challenging the met office and the consensus around Climate Change. He believes it is driven by sunspot activity, which politically puts him in with the UKIP’s beliefs on Climate Change. I wonder if any of this has rubbed off on Jeremy.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:26:11 +0000

“Jeremy Corbyn who shares a platform with many Green MEP’s has a brother called Piers”

he (the brother) also runs a website called WeatherAction where he makes weather predictions months in advance

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:04:41 +0000

Turnout must have been much higher than in 1997 here.
Labour has almost the same number of votes in 2010 as in 1997 – despite a drop in share of the vote of nearly 15% (although a better share than in 2005).

By: wolf

wolf — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:28:24 +0000

Jeremy Corbyn who shares a platform with many Green MEP’s has a brother called Piers who denounces eco fascism on Russia Today , the 24 hour news channel. There’s also a story today about how Moscow can’t afford to recycle its waste. Previously drilling for oil in the Arctic was top billing. I must admit I like Russia Today – so much more interesting than the very boring BBC News 24.