Why vote for Giovanna
I support the following:
Social and Climate Justice for the Many not the Few!
TAKE THE 'PRIVATE' OUT OF PUBLIC SERVICES:
Stop shareholders looting tax payers' money. End private healthcare. Bring back public ownership of water, transport, energy, and integrated health and social care. All achieved after World War...
The South Dorset Tory MP Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax has said he's not going to attend any of the scheduled Hustings to present his case for why on earth you should vote for him because he says he is busy on those dates.
Like a ghost, he appears only when...
Edward Morello, Lib Dem PPC for West Dorset, was nice enough to pay me a visit today and to ask for my vote. It may have surprised him, but I said yes right away, so we moved on to other subjects. He told me that the incumbent Tory MP...
With the general election less than a month away, are you ready to cast your vote?
Elections for Members of Parliament for the five UK Parliamentary constituencies covering the Dorset Council area are taking place on Thursday 4 July 2024.
The candidates nominated will be published on our website by 5pm on Friday 7...
Following the recent local elections in Dorset, which resulted in the Liberal Democrats winning control of Dorset Council, some key roles were agreed at the Annual Meeting of Dorset Council on Thursday 16 May.
Councillors were asked to vote on appointments to roles including Leader of the council, Chair and...
This week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign called for protests across the country to mark "Nakba 76" - when Palestinians remember the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" - the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.
On Saturday 11, protests were held in Dorchester and at the screening of Eurovision at Weymouth Pavillion.
In Dorchester...
Can we put up just two Westminster candidates, one each for West and South Dorset, at the next general election? Unity candidates, with the other political parties standing aside or even actively canvassing for them, could just unseat the two Tory MPs that infest our constituencies at the moment.
A...
Dorset residents went to the polls on 2 May to elect 82 representatives to Dorset Council. Local town and parish council, and Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner elections were also held on the same day.
Votes for Dorset Council were counted on Friday 3 May at Redlands Community Sports Hub, Weymouth....
Here are the election results for the 2024 Canford Cliffs by-election, Thursday 2 May 2024.
Elected candidate:
Gavin Wright, Conservative and Unionist Party.
Candidate name:Description (if any):Number of votes:BUCHANAN JimLabour Party 317SPARROW RayLiberal Democrats 573TUTTON JohnnyGreen Party 163WRIGHT GavinConservative and Unionist Party 1720
Overall turnout was 35.41 per cent. There were 2,804 ballot papers issued.
While you are...
In the home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the birthplace of the trade union movement, Dorset is far from being the centre of radical politics some may expect. Generally, across the centuries, it has resembled the rotten borough of Dunny on the Wold from Blackadder, in which the public...
