Cllr Shah Wazir, who represents Milkstone and Deeplish on Rochdale Council, has defected from the Lib Dems to the Conservatives. He is a former Deputy Leader of the council and his defection comes after his fellow member Cllr Mohammed Sharif switched from the Lib Dems to the Conservatives a month ago. Rochdale has a minority Labour administration – […]
Cllr Ron Spellen, of Three Rivers District Council, has defected from Labour to the Lib Dems. Another Labour councillor, Cllr Phil Redshaw, has resigned from the Party after being deselected and will be dropping out of politics. There were only three Labour councillors on Three Rivers to start with. There are 30 Lib Dems and […]
Cllr Justin Lavender, a councillor on Herefordshire Council, has joined the Conservatives. Cllr Lavender had been elected for the It's Our County party last year. But he now feels he made a mistake as the party failed to offer practical solutions and includes an extreme element. Welcome aboard.
Cllr Mohammad Shariff, a Lib Dem councillor in Rochdale until December, has now joined the Conservatives. He says the local Conservatives "want to work with the BME community to prove that they love to work with all the communities and try to resolve the problems local people are facing.” Welcome aboard. This is a boost for […]
Cllr Andy Drummond, of Forest Heath District Council, has joined the Conservatives. Before he sat as an independent but says he was always a conservative with a small c. He hopes to have more influence in the Conservative Group. Welcome aboard.
Cllr Marc Bayliss, formerly a Labour councillor who resigned from the Party in January, has joined the Conservatives. Cllr Bayliss was critical of the Labour Party adopting an all women shortlist. He had also refuse to join Labour colleagues in a boycott of the Mayor's charity dinner. Cllr Bayliss had also stood for Labour in Wyre Forest […]
A fourth Lib Dem councillor in Eastleigh, Cllr Keith Day, has resigned from the Lib dems to join the Independence Party of Eastleigh. The Lib Dems still have a big majority on the Council where a third of seats are up for election this year. But a Conservative councillor in Horsham, Cllr Ian Shepherd, has […]
Cllr Philip McGarvey, a councillor on Sevenoaks District Council has left the Liberal Democrats. He has become an independent but has indicated he would like to join the Conservatives. In Flintshire the Lib Dems ranks are also depleted. Cllr Rosetta Dolphin has quit to become an independent. Cllrs Carolyn Cattermoul and Tim Newhouse had already quit the […]
Cllr Alexis Fall of Winchester City Council has defected from the Lib Dems to the Conservatives. She says: “Having now experienced eight months of Lib Dem administration in Winchester, led by Cllr Learney I am no longer able to support them.” Welcome aboard. There is a byelection taking place today in Olivers Battery and Badger Farm […]
Cllr Tom Weatherston has joined the Conservative Group on the Scottish Borders Council – where the Conservatives were already the largest group. Previously Cllr Weatherston was an independent. He represennts Kelso and district. Welcome aboard!
A Labour councillor in Wigan, Cllr Christine Cottam, has defected to the Independent Group. A Conservative councillor in Tameside, Cllr Dorothy Cartwright, has defected to Labour. A Lib Dem councillor on Neath Port Talbot Council, Cllr John Warman, has defected to Labour. An Ulster Unionist Party councillor on Castlereagh Council, Cllr David Drysdale, has defected to […]
Labour have now taken charge on Wolverhampton Council after a Lib Dem councillor sided with them in a No Confidence vote on the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition that had been running the council. Frankly I think the Conservative leader, Cllr Neville Patten, did well to hold it together for as long as he did. Back in September it […]
Six Lib Dem councillors in Rochdale have resigned and will sit as independents. They claim it is to do with national policies, such as tuition fees, and local policies, on spending cuts. However at least some of them had been deselected or were facing deselection.
"Lib Dems Paradise lost to Tories as Carol defects," runs the headline in the Bath Chronicle. Cllr Carol Paradise has defected from the Lib Dems on Bath and North East Somerset to join the Conservative Group. The Council has a minority Conservative administration. Clllr Paradise says: "I feel absolutely shafted. I have had enough and I […]
By Jonathan Isaby One local councillor's defection from earlier in the month which we are yet to note is that of Morel Bernard, a Labour councillor in Luton since 2007. She served as deputy mayor of the council last year but crossed the floor two weeks ago, after Labour opted against putting her name forward […]