Comments on: Newcastle upon Tyne North

By: Dave Battler

Dave Battler — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:51:42 +0000

Sorry, thought it was a strange post I was replying to. Misreading Central for North. Would be surprised if they didn’t stand for GE but would be surprised if they stood in the Gosforth wards locally.

By: Dave Battler

Dave Battler — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:49:20 +0000

Ken Booth is standing for the BNP and they are planning a candidate in every council seat in the constituency.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:45:01 +0000

The BNP have got a candidate in place in Newcastle Central, are they likely to stand in this seat?

By: richard j

richard j — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:47:29 +0000

This seat could be interesting. There is clearly a predicament for the Lib Dems as to which Newcastle seat to target. The problem could be that they go for both and get none.
The same situation happened in Islington at the last election. They ended up winning neither Islington seat.
If i was them i would pick this seat. Tactical voting could be important here if tories want to get rid of Labour they will probably know by election day that the Lib Dems are the challengers and how to get rid of the Labour MP.
This in my opinion could be to close to call.

By: HelenMcStravick

HelenMcStravick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:19:56 +0000

They have gone out.

And I’m sure through the right doors in the right wards!

I live in Central and got Ron Beadle’s leaflet, and a friend in North got Greg’s(when he was still standing)

By: sir isaiah mousepractice

sir isaiah mousepractice — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:44:58 +0000

I would be interested to know if anyone has received any communications from Labour as of now.

By: sir isaiah mousepractice

sir isaiah mousepractice — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:37:28 +0000

The Greens have also selected a woman called Anna Heyman as their candidate for Ncl North

By: james

james — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:36:47 +0000

And for the record, if the 2011 census reflects the reality, I think there will have been a massive increase in the BME percentages, and it will be no surprise to learn that the non-white population in the UK is above 12 per cent. Not that the figures will actually show the populations to be that high.

By: james

james — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:33:14 +0000

Ben, according to the ONS in 2008 the ethnic make-up of the City of Newcastle is almost 10% non-white, and about 6% South Asian, virtually all of which I would reckon is located in the areas above listed, within the Newcastle Central seat. In other words, there is a very substantial chunk of ethnic population, presumably numbering between 15,000 and 20,000, the kind of place where one might indeed buy plaintain, situated about 10 minutes from the heartlands of this, the Newcastle North seat.

By: Ben Fairweather

Ben Fairweather — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:24:45 +0000

James,

OK, so you were talking about parts of Central constituency, but the stats for that constituency (White: 94.1%, Black: 0.4%,
Asian: 3.2%, Mixed: 0.9%) just don’t fit with the sort of shares you are talking about even for a relatively small part of the constit. OK, they are the parts of the city with the most non-white residents, but they have been for decades: are you really claiming that there has been such a big influx since 2001?