Organised jointly with Rugby Against the Cuts and the local Stop The War Coalition, this annual event takes place on Saturday December 8th, 8.30pm onwards at 25, Epsom Rd, Rugby CV22 7PF £4/2 entrance Foods from around the world, music, raffle, political conversation (!) all included. Please bring a bottle
The blog of Rugby TUSC
Monday, 3 December 2012
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
NEW BILTON BY-ELECTION - details of last minute campaign
Sat Nov 10 11am STALL AND MASS CANVASS/LEAFLET by Co-op, Lawford Rd and leaflet from Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
SUN OCT 11 2.30pm CANVASS AND LEAFLET Meet at Hollybush Pub, Lawford Rd
Mon Nov 12 6pm Half Moon, Lawford Rd
Tues Nov 13 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Wed Nov 14 TUSC Rally to support Europe Day of Action against Austerity 1pm Rugby Clock Tower
Wed Nov 14 2pm Eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Thurs Nov 15 ELECTION DAY! Activity all day – Polling Day leaflet to deliver and door knocking all canvassed voters.
Meet at Hollybush at 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm or phone 07881 520626 on the day whenever you are available
STREET MEETINGS/USE OF LOUD HAILER FROM 12 midday - phone 07881 520626 on the day if you can join us
SUN OCT 11 2.30pm CANVASS AND LEAFLET Meet at Hollybush Pub, Lawford Rd
Mon Nov 12 6pm Half Moon, Lawford Rd
Tues Nov 13 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Wed Nov 14 TUSC Rally to support Europe Day of Action against Austerity 1pm Rugby Clock Tower
Wed Nov 14 2pm Eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Thurs Nov 15 ELECTION DAY! Activity all day – Polling Day leaflet to deliver and door knocking all canvassed voters.
Meet at Hollybush at 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm or phone 07881 520626 on the day whenever you are available
STREET MEETINGS/USE OF LOUD HAILER FROM 12 midday - phone 07881 520626 on the day if you can join us
Sunday, 28 October 2012
TUSC SELECTS RUGBY SECRETARY PETE McLAREN TO CONTEST NEW BILTON BY-ELECTION ON NOV 15
The New Bilton by-election was called at very short notice. We have embarked on an ambitious campaign as we strive to put out our anti cuts message and build TUSC in the area. Please come and help us
SUGGESTED TIMES AND DATES FOR RUGBY TUSC ELECTION LEAFLETING, CANVASSING AND STALLS IN NEW BILTON
DATE TIME MEETING PLACE
Mon Oct 29 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Wed Oct 31 6pm Indian Community Centre, Edward St
Fri Nov 2 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm STALL by Co-op, Lawford Rd and leaflet from Hollybush pub,
Sat Nov 3 11am – 2pm STALL AND MASS CANVASS/LEAFLET
Corporation St, along from BP garage
towards traffic lights
Tues Nov 6 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Thurs Nov 8 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Indian community Centre, Edward St
Sat Nov 10 11am – 2pm STALL AND MASS CANVASS/LEAFLET by Co-op,
Lawford Rd and leaflet from Hollybush pub
Mon Nov 12 6pm Half Moon. Lawford Rd
Tues Nov 13 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Wed Nov 14 2pm Eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Thurs Nov 15 ELECTION DAY! Activity to be announced – phone 07881 520626
Please also phone if you want to take leaflets away to deliver in your own time – otherwise, hope to see you during the next couple of weeks as above
All of this will cost us money! We hope to do a follow up leaflet in selected areas, a limited delivery leaflet in Polish, and an eve of poll. All donations gratefully received. Please make cheques out to Rugby TUSC and send them to me preferably at home or to Rugby TUSC, PO Box 4123, Rugby CV21 9BJ
Pete McLaren TUSC Candidate New Bilton, Rugby
SUGGESTED TIMES AND DATES FOR RUGBY TUSC ELECTION LEAFLETING, CANVASSING AND STALLS IN NEW BILTON
DATE TIME MEETING PLACE
Mon Oct 29 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Wed Oct 31 6pm Indian Community Centre, Edward St
Fri Nov 2 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm STALL by Co-op, Lawford Rd and leaflet from Hollybush pub,
Sat Nov 3 11am – 2pm STALL AND MASS CANVASS/LEAFLET
Corporation St, along from BP garage
towards traffic lights
Tues Nov 6 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Thurs Nov 8 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Indian community Centre, Edward St
Sat Nov 10 11am – 2pm STALL AND MASS CANVASS/LEAFLET by Co-op,
Lawford Rd and leaflet from Hollybush pub
Mon Nov 12 6pm Half Moon. Lawford Rd
Tues Nov 13 2pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Wed Nov 14 2pm Eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
6pm eve of poll leaflet Hollybush pub, Lawford Rd
Thurs Nov 15 ELECTION DAY! Activity to be announced – phone 07881 520626
Please also phone if you want to take leaflets away to deliver in your own time – otherwise, hope to see you during the next couple of weeks as above
All of this will cost us money! We hope to do a follow up leaflet in selected areas, a limited delivery leaflet in Polish, and an eve of poll. All donations gratefully received. Please make cheques out to Rugby TUSC and send them to me preferably at home or to Rugby TUSC, PO Box 4123, Rugby CV21 9BJ
Pete McLaren TUSC Candidate New Bilton, Rugby
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
RUGBY TUSC GETS INVOLVED IN LOCAL ANTI ACADEMIES CAMPAIGN
Plans are afoot to turn both Newbold Riverside Primary and Oakfield Primary into Academies with very little consultation. An Action Group was set up at Newbold Riverside, and they contacted us to ask TUSC to get involved and, initially, to leaflet all parents at Oakfield Primary to inform them about a Public Meeting which has been organised for both Primaries on MONDAY OCTOBER 15th, 7.30pm, at The OAKFIELD CLUB, Bilton Rd
LEAFLETING WILL BE AS FOLLWS:
Tuesday October 9th 2.40pm Oakfield School Main Entrance on Oakfield Rd
Wednesday October 10th 2.40pm Oakfield back entrance, which is across Merttens Playing Fields, which is off Merttens Drive
Monday October 15th (Provisional - please check web site) Reminder Leaflet outside Oakfield School Main entrance
PUBLIC MEETING AS PART OF THE ANTI ACADEMY CAMPAIGN
MONDAY OCTOBER 15th 7.30pm Oakfield Club, 32 Bilton Rd
LEAFLETING WILL BE AS FOLLWS:
Tuesday October 9th 2.40pm Oakfield School Main Entrance on Oakfield Rd
Wednesday October 10th 2.40pm Oakfield back entrance, which is across Merttens Playing Fields, which is off Merttens Drive
Monday October 15th (Provisional - please check web site) Reminder Leaflet outside Oakfield School Main entrance
PUBLIC MEETING AS PART OF THE ANTI ACADEMY CAMPAIGN
MONDAY OCTOBER 15th 7.30pm Oakfield Club, 32 Bilton Rd
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
PROPOSAL ON TUSC’S STRUCTURE TO RUGBY TUSC, suggested by Pete McLaren
The structure of TUSC at present is as agreed at the Conference in July 2011 in the Framework document from the Steering Committee (SC) and the Motion from Rugby TUSC
Relevant extracts from the SC’s Framework Document
(v) We also confirm that, as a federal ‘umbrella’ organisation, participating organisations will continue to be able to produce their own supporting material, subject to electoral law, as has been the practise successfully adopted in our election campaigns to date, which allow different organisations and local campaigns to collaborate under a common banner.
2. Structure and election organisation
(i) TUSC shall continue to have a Steering Committee, comprised of one representative of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, and the TUSC Independent Socialist Network, plus in a personal capacity, Bob Crow, Craig Johnston, Owen Herbert, Brian Caton, Nina Franklin, Chris Baugh, John McInally and Nick Wrack. The steering committee will operate by consensus.
(ii) The adherence of further organisations will be subject to the approval of the steering committee. The steering committee can also agree to expand its membership to other leading trade unionists as it decides.
(iii) TUSC supporters in Scotland shall continue to organise autonomously, with their own Scottish TUSC Steering Committee.
(iv) Local TUSC steering committees will be established, where possible, for local government areas and parliamentary constituencies where it is planned to contest seats on whatever broadly similar basis is appropriate for each.
(v) The participants in TUSC recognise that this structure remains only an interim arrangement and that discussions must continue to take place on the best way to organise the coalition as it develops in the future. Future conferences of TUSC shall make provisions to include debates on this issue.
3. Candidates
(i) Candidates from organisations participating in the Steering Committee and the Scottish TUSC Steering Committee can expect to have their nomination papers for elections authorised by the coalition nominating officer as TUSC candidates if they so request. They can also stand, if they wish, under the existing registered electoral name of their organisation.
Relevant extracts from Motion from Rugby on the future development of TUSC
TUSC has the potential to become a significant political force. This meeting confirms its determination to build on these (its) foundations, and ways of doing that should include:
* Building TUSC branches up and down the country.
In order to make the necessary progress and ensure further development, TUSC agrees to broaden out its structure at national level to welcome representation from local TUSC branches as well as trade union branches, political organisations and independents supportive of TUSC.
To summarise what was agreed:
• TUSC will have a federal structure which enables participant organizations to produce their own election materials and stand under their own existing registered electoral title if they so wish, whilst collaborating under a common banner
• The Steering Committee will include representatives of the supportive political organizations – the SP, SWP and ISN (to represent independent socialists) – and named individual trade union leaders/supporters
• The SC can decide whether to also give representation to additional political organizations and additional leading trade unionists
• The SC operates by consensus • Local TUSC Steering Committees will be established, where possible, in all wards/constituencies where TUSC is contesting elections
• TUSC should be building branches up and down the country
• TUSC will broaden out its structure at national level to include:
o Representation from local TUSC branches o Representation from trade union branches
o Representation from political organizations supportive of TUSC •
It was recognized these were interim arrangements and that discussions would continue to take place on the best way to organise the coalition as it develops in the future, with debates on the issue at all future TUSC Conferences.
To develop TUSC further, as a starting off point the structural position agreed at the July 2011 Conference should be implemented in full as soon as possible. This includes:
• Establishing local TUSC branches and/or local TUSC Steering Committees
• Devising methods to allow for representation of TUSC branches, trade union branches, and supportive political organizations on the Steering Committee
In concrete terms, this should include the following actions:
• In all wards/divisions/regions/constituencies that TUSC wishes to stand a candidate, the Steering Committee should do its best to ensure, through local organizations where possible, that a meeting takes place to discuss possible candidates, by inviting all local supportive trade unionists, political parties and independent socialists to attend. This meeting would be encouraged to make a recommendation to the Steering Committee
• The Steering Committee should actively encourage local political organizations, trade unionists and independent socialists to set up local Steering Committees. Achieving this should become part of the process of candidate authorization, and such local Steering Committees should subsequently be encouraged to become TUSC branches and continue campaigning between elections
• The SP, SWP and ISN and any additional groups represented on the SC, along with supportive local trade unionists, should be asked to open up informal discussions with each other at local level with a view to establish a TUSC branch, or at least a local Steering Committee, before the next General Election
• In terms of further broadening representation on the SC, as has already been agreed, the following steps should be taken:
o Those TUSC branches that do exist should be asked to meet together and elect two representatives to the SC to represent, and be accountable to, those local branche
o Local trade union branches should be encouraged to affiliate to local TUSC branches, where their rules allow, or nationally if no local TUSC branch exists. All such affiliated local trade unions should be entitled to representation on the SC, with a limit of two representatives per trade union
o The SC should make it clear all political organisations supportive of TUSC will be welcomed onto the Steering Committee and able to elect a representative to sit on it
At this stage of its development, it should be agreed that TUSC’s structure remain federal, and its SC continue to operate by consensus. Organisations represented on the SC would continue to have one vote/veto each, and it will be for the leading members of trade unions on the SC to decide whether or not their members would be likely to support actions and activity agreed
As TUSC evolves into a more permanent organization, the following steps will be considered over the next few months:
• Affiliation of trade unions and political organizations to TUSC nationally, with affiliation fees related to size of membership, with recognition made of ability to pay
• How the significant role individual leading trade unionists have played in the development of TUSC can be maintained within any developing structure
• Introducing individual membership of TUSC at national level, with fees set to an amount likely to encourage supporters to join
• The election of functional officers, answerable in the first instance to the SC, and through that to Conference, to ensure tasks agreed by Conference are implemented
• Suggesting to political organizations that are part of TUSC that, in order to build TUSC as a political organization in its own right, they should stand under the most appropriate TUSC registered electoral title unless local circumstances strongly dictate otherwise, in which case they should prominently promote TUSC and their support for it in election materials
The SC to report back to the next TUSC Conference the progress that has been made on all these suggestions
Pete McLaren 07/08/12
Relevant extracts from the SC’s Framework Document
(v) We also confirm that, as a federal ‘umbrella’ organisation, participating organisations will continue to be able to produce their own supporting material, subject to electoral law, as has been the practise successfully adopted in our election campaigns to date, which allow different organisations and local campaigns to collaborate under a common banner.
2. Structure and election organisation
(i) TUSC shall continue to have a Steering Committee, comprised of one representative of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, and the TUSC Independent Socialist Network, plus in a personal capacity, Bob Crow, Craig Johnston, Owen Herbert, Brian Caton, Nina Franklin, Chris Baugh, John McInally and Nick Wrack. The steering committee will operate by consensus.
(ii) The adherence of further organisations will be subject to the approval of the steering committee. The steering committee can also agree to expand its membership to other leading trade unionists as it decides.
(iii) TUSC supporters in Scotland shall continue to organise autonomously, with their own Scottish TUSC Steering Committee.
(iv) Local TUSC steering committees will be established, where possible, for local government areas and parliamentary constituencies where it is planned to contest seats on whatever broadly similar basis is appropriate for each.
(v) The participants in TUSC recognise that this structure remains only an interim arrangement and that discussions must continue to take place on the best way to organise the coalition as it develops in the future. Future conferences of TUSC shall make provisions to include debates on this issue.
3. Candidates
(i) Candidates from organisations participating in the Steering Committee and the Scottish TUSC Steering Committee can expect to have their nomination papers for elections authorised by the coalition nominating officer as TUSC candidates if they so request. They can also stand, if they wish, under the existing registered electoral name of their organisation.
Relevant extracts from Motion from Rugby on the future development of TUSC
TUSC has the potential to become a significant political force. This meeting confirms its determination to build on these (its) foundations, and ways of doing that should include:
* Building TUSC branches up and down the country.
In order to make the necessary progress and ensure further development, TUSC agrees to broaden out its structure at national level to welcome representation from local TUSC branches as well as trade union branches, political organisations and independents supportive of TUSC.
To summarise what was agreed:
• TUSC will have a federal structure which enables participant organizations to produce their own election materials and stand under their own existing registered electoral title if they so wish, whilst collaborating under a common banner
• The Steering Committee will include representatives of the supportive political organizations – the SP, SWP and ISN (to represent independent socialists) – and named individual trade union leaders/supporters
• The SC can decide whether to also give representation to additional political organizations and additional leading trade unionists
• The SC operates by consensus • Local TUSC Steering Committees will be established, where possible, in all wards/constituencies where TUSC is contesting elections
• TUSC should be building branches up and down the country
• TUSC will broaden out its structure at national level to include:
o Representation from local TUSC branches o Representation from trade union branches
o Representation from political organizations supportive of TUSC •
It was recognized these were interim arrangements and that discussions would continue to take place on the best way to organise the coalition as it develops in the future, with debates on the issue at all future TUSC Conferences.
To develop TUSC further, as a starting off point the structural position agreed at the July 2011 Conference should be implemented in full as soon as possible. This includes:
• Establishing local TUSC branches and/or local TUSC Steering Committees
• Devising methods to allow for representation of TUSC branches, trade union branches, and supportive political organizations on the Steering Committee
In concrete terms, this should include the following actions:
• In all wards/divisions/regions/constituencies that TUSC wishes to stand a candidate, the Steering Committee should do its best to ensure, through local organizations where possible, that a meeting takes place to discuss possible candidates, by inviting all local supportive trade unionists, political parties and independent socialists to attend. This meeting would be encouraged to make a recommendation to the Steering Committee
• The Steering Committee should actively encourage local political organizations, trade unionists and independent socialists to set up local Steering Committees. Achieving this should become part of the process of candidate authorization, and such local Steering Committees should subsequently be encouraged to become TUSC branches and continue campaigning between elections
• The SP, SWP and ISN and any additional groups represented on the SC, along with supportive local trade unionists, should be asked to open up informal discussions with each other at local level with a view to establish a TUSC branch, or at least a local Steering Committee, before the next General Election
• In terms of further broadening representation on the SC, as has already been agreed, the following steps should be taken:
o Those TUSC branches that do exist should be asked to meet together and elect two representatives to the SC to represent, and be accountable to, those local branche
o Local trade union branches should be encouraged to affiliate to local TUSC branches, where their rules allow, or nationally if no local TUSC branch exists. All such affiliated local trade unions should be entitled to representation on the SC, with a limit of two representatives per trade union
o The SC should make it clear all political organisations supportive of TUSC will be welcomed onto the Steering Committee and able to elect a representative to sit on it
At this stage of its development, it should be agreed that TUSC’s structure remain federal, and its SC continue to operate by consensus. Organisations represented on the SC would continue to have one vote/veto each, and it will be for the leading members of trade unions on the SC to decide whether or not their members would be likely to support actions and activity agreed
As TUSC evolves into a more permanent organization, the following steps will be considered over the next few months:
• Affiliation of trade unions and political organizations to TUSC nationally, with affiliation fees related to size of membership, with recognition made of ability to pay
• How the significant role individual leading trade unionists have played in the development of TUSC can be maintained within any developing structure
• Introducing individual membership of TUSC at national level, with fees set to an amount likely to encourage supporters to join
• The election of functional officers, answerable in the first instance to the SC, and through that to Conference, to ensure tasks agreed by Conference are implemented
• Suggesting to political organizations that are part of TUSC that, in order to build TUSC as a political organization in its own right, they should stand under the most appropriate TUSC registered electoral title unless local circumstances strongly dictate otherwise, in which case they should prominently promote TUSC and their support for it in election materials
The SC to report back to the next TUSC Conference the progress that has been made on all these suggestions
Pete McLaren 07/08/12
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
TUSC National Conference Sat Sept 22nd London
The Conference, which is open to all TUSC supporters, has the following provisional Agenda as agreed at the TUSC National Steering Committee on June 18th:
SESSION ONE: Open Forum “Building working class political representation against the austerity consensus”
Speakers: RMT (15 minutes) to promote their pro-TUSC Conference position;
Mark Serwotka invited (15 minutes) to explain the implications of the PCS
ballot decision to stand anti cuts candidates
Political groups who are part of TUSC (7 minutes each): the SP, SWP and ISN
SESSION TWO: For Councillors who will stand up to the Con-Dems – including local
government policy Invited Speakers (all 5/7 minutes each):
Kingsley Abrams (Labour councilor suspended for abstaining on cuts vote);
Two Southampton Labour councilors who voted against cuts;
Cllr Michael Lavelette (SWP);
Tony Mulhearn (SP: TUSC Liverpool Mayoral candidate);
Cllr Pete Smith (Walsall DLP)
SESSION THREE: ‘Reviewing TUSC’s structures’: The structure commission report and plans for further discussion.
Introduced by: Clive Heemskirk (SP) and Pete McLaren (ISN)
The following actions were also agreed:
• A four page broadsheet including the RMT resolution would be produced
• There would be a pooled fare, capped at £10
• Deadline for resolutions/submissions on TUSC’s Structure or Policy would be
midnight Monday Sept 3rd - send to cliveheemskerk@socialistparty.org.uk or
wsmcmahon@yahoo.co.uk
Monday, 18 June 2012
Rugby TUSC plans ahead
Rugby TUSC met on June 14th and began
its preparations for the 2013 County Council elections. Candidates were selected, and it was
agreed to liaise with TUSC supporters and anti cuts campaigners across
Warwickshire, suggesting the setting up of a Warwickshire Regional TUSC
Co-ordinating Committee. In a separate, but related development, it was
further agreed to launch a Rugby TUSC Newsletter for wide distribution, and a
draft format was approved. The Newsletter should be ready before the next Rugby TUSC Meeting on Thursday July 19th
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
MEMBERS OF RUGBY TRADE UNIONIST AND SOCIALIST COALITION TO BE IN BBC QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE - and gains publicity for it on Page 2 of Rugby Advertiser
Question Time is coming from Rugby this Thursday (May 31). “As soon as
they heard, members of the Rugby Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
applied for invites”, spokesperson Pete McLaren informed us.
“As Secretary, I asked for a group ticket for ten Rugby TUSC members
“Individual members of Rugby TUSC separately applied as members of
TUSC. In the event, so far, three
members of Rugby TUSC have been successful in their applications and will
definitely be in the audience, hoping to ask a question or to be consulted over
responses from the Panel. It is possible the BBC will contact additional
members tomorrow, the final day for informing applicants whether they have been
successful.
“The three TUSC members appearing on the programme are:
Dave Goodwin RMT Health & Safety Rep and TUSC candidate
in Hillmorton in 2011 and 2012
Ally MacGregor TUSC candidate in New Bilton 2012
Clive Dunkley TUSC agent and candidate in Brownsover 2011
“As Secretary, I am really proud that members of Rugby TUSC have been
invited to be in the Question Time audience – as members of TUSC. It is a recognition of what we have
achieved locally in just fifteen months, further evidence that we have
something to offer, that we have a very different message to that of the
establishment parties – a message that is increasingly being acknowledged and
accepted,” he concluded.
BBC Question Time is broadcast at 22.45 on Thursday
Friday, 11 May 2012
CONTINUOUS CAMPAIGNING PAYS OFF: TUSC MAKES ITS PRESENCE FELT IN LOCAL ELECTIONS
MEDIA RELEASE ISSUED MAY 8th: parts of it appeared in a feature on the Local Elections in the Rugby Advertiser 10/05/12
Members of Rugby TUSC,
standing as Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts, were pleased with
their performance in the Borough Council Elections last week. “We doubled our vote compared to last
year, despite only standing in one additional ward,” spokesperson Pete
McLaren informed us. “This gave us an average of 10% across
the eight wards we contested, an increase of 2.8% on last year. We are steadily being seen as a serious
Left party, and this is posing a serious challenge to Labour. Last week, in the wards we both
contested, TUSC gained one vote for every three Labour votes: last year the
ratio in Rugby was 1:4, and nationally this year it was 1:9.
“Two direct examples of
this can be seen in last week’s results in Rugby. Labour would almost certainly have won a seat in Eastlands
without our presence – their only candidate polled just 70 votes less than the
third elected Lib Dem councillor, and TUSC polled 223 votes. The same happened in Rokeby &
Overslade, where our votes almost certainly stopped Labour gaining a second
seat. We are not targeting Labour,
but the Party’s move to the right makes it vulnerable to a socialist challenge,
and we will continue to mount one.
“The reasons for TUSC’s
progress are quite clear. We
fought a very energetic campaign.
In most of our wards every single elector received our main leaflet,
many received a second one, and some had an Eve of Poll reminder. One elector in rural Brandon told me it
was the first time in 20 years he had received a local election leaflet from
any party!
“We also talked to hundreds
of people, on stalls and on their doorsteps. The anti cuts message certainly resonates. More importantly, Rugby TUSC has
campaigned on a number of issues in the 14 months of its existence – against
youth club and library closures, on behalf of St Cross, against cuts to welfare
benefits, supporting the Jarrow March against unemployment, and opposing cuts
to bus services. We do not only
appear once a year at election time: we see elections as just one aspect of
putting our message across
“TUSC nationally also saw
improved results, averaging 6.2% across the 40 Local Authorities its 134
candidates contested – up from last year’s 5.2%. TUSC endorsed Councillors were elected in Preston and Walsall. Our Mayoral candidate in Liverpool came
5th out of 12, beating the Tories and UKIP, and finishing less than
4% off 2nd place. TUSC
has continued to make progress locally and nationally – it is becoming a force
to be reckoned with,” he concluded.
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Rugby TUSC proud of the publicity it has generated, in particular over the last two months
Rugby TUSC
reports that 16 articles or letters have been written promoting it in the local
media in the last two months, over half of them during the election period
Saturday, 5 May 2012
RUGBY TUSC DOUBLES ITS VOTE: increases its % from 7.2 to 10%
RUGBY TUSC ELECTION RESULTS 2012
Turn out per ward in brackets in
Ballot Papers Issued column
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WARD
|
TORY
|
LAB
|
LIB DEM
|
GREEN
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INDEP
|
TUSC
|
BALOTT PAPERS ISSUED
|
VOTES CAST *
|
% TUSC
|
||
|
BENN
Bert Harris
|
258
|
820
|
180
|
252
|
|
177
|
1504 (27%)
|
1691
|
10.5
|
||
|
|
255
|
824
|
175
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
256
|
819
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
BILTON
Steve
Roberts
|
1134
|
643
|
373
|
|
|
299
|
2012 (39%)
|
2473
|
12.1
|
||
|
|
1004
|
|
397
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
968
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
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EASTLANDS Rob Johnson
|
326
|
497
|
567
|
|
|
223
|
1870 (28%)
|
1870
|
11.9
|
||
|
|
300
|
|
810
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
340
|
|
722
|
|
|
|
|
|
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||
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
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HILLMORTON Dave Goodwin
|
662
|
451
|
207
|
|
|
119
|
1627 (39%)
|
1791
|
6.6
|
||
|
|
706
|
534
|
255
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
804
|
427
|
334
|
|
|
|
|
|
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||
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|
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|
|
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NEW BILTON
Ally MacGregor
|
406
|
683
|
|
195
|
|
141
|
1442 (26%)
|
1497
|
9.4
|
||
|
|
390
|
630
|
|
241
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
334
|
709
|
|
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NEWBOLD &
BROWNSOVER Bill
Smith
|
415
|
649
|
|
173
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|
145
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1340 (26%)
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1434
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10.1
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|
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467
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628
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|
155
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465
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576
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ROKEBY & OVERSLADE Julie Weekes
|
613
|
615
|
491
|
205
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|
125
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2231 (37%)
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2062
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6.1
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612
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564
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504
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557
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496
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372
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WOLSTON & THE LAWFORDS Pete McLaren
|
839
894
833
|
481
|
|
361
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324
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289
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1820 (34%)
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2402
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12.0
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TOTALS
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1518
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15220
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10.0
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*
This column is the sum of the top vote of each party’s candidates in the ward.
It’s a simplification. It would be a complex statistical analysis to try to
include the facts that there were varying numbers of party candidates and
varying numbers of votes cast on each ballot paper.
The TOTAL VOTE of 1518 compares with 758 last year. Our % has risen from 7.2% of the electorate to 10% in 2012
Geoff
Dewhirst/Pete McLaren 05/05/12
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