Hello!

This is my first post and first attempt at a blog - so hope it is of interest!

I'll put my cards on the table - I am a member of the Labour Party (live in Wylam) but I used to be in the Green Party and I voted Lib Dem once! 

I'm depressed about the situation in the UK. The current Government is causing a lot of damage to the lives of many people. I am hoping for a change.

One of the ways change could happen would be to have a non-Tory MP for Hexham Constituency. This is nothing personal against the current MP but I don't agree with many of his policies either locally or nationally.

The big issue for us in the Hexham Constituency is how to organise ourselves to have a chance of changing our MP at the next election. People have started talking about a "Progressive Alliance" to bring together the opposition - Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, disillusioned Conservatives, non-voters etc. Could this happen in Hexham?

Here's hoping. The blog is a forum for discussion so feel free to join in and lets see how the discussion develops

Best wishes

John Hanley 

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 22, 2021 at 12:25 PM

    I'm not trying to be anonymous, but don't seem to be able to shed Ovingham Reading Room whenever Google's involved!
    I agree that all the parties opposing the Tories must somehow work together. The country needs a better government, not the current incumbents! As the mainstream media have lost their critical faculties, we've got to take remedial action. It could be on a case by case basis, or a longer-term amalgamation of all the opposition parties. The country deserves better than a choice of parties who don't mind if they lose as long as they're pure, and the Labour Party needs to show they can be pragmatic.
    Hexham Town Council is leading the way in working together for the common good and I hope we can do the same at constituency level.
    Debbie Reed

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  2. Progressive Hexham ConstituencyJune 22, 2021 at 2:50 PM

    Hi Debbie
    thanks for the contribution to the discussion! I don't live in Hexham but i followed the results of the Town Council election with interest - a very positive result. Political parties are all coalitions of one sort or another - there is a lot of disagreement within parties and even more between parties, but there are also areas of broad agreement. So hopefully we can work out a way to work together to come up with a strategy to end up with a non-Conservative MP after the next election. In Hexham constituency at the last Northumberland Council election Labour won 2 seats from the Tories and the Greens were elected in Humshaugh - a truly amazing result. So you can see there is an appetite in the constituency for change. Fingers crossed
    cheers John

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  3. Progressive Hexham ConstituencyJune 22, 2021 at 3:02 PM

    General election 2019: Hexham[6
    Conservative Guy Opperman 25,152 54.5 Increase 0.4
    Labour Penny Grennan 14,603 31.6 Decrease 2.5
    Liberal Democrats Stephen Howse 4,672 10.1 Increase 3.0
    Green Nick Morphet 1,723 3.7 Increase1.0

    Majority 10,549 22.9 Increase 2.9
    Turnout 46,150 75.3 Increase 0.2

    This is the last election result - so maybe the starting point - but the situation has already changed - but just on this result the Conservative majority was only 4,152 - so not a massive majority, certainly winnable with a swing against the conservatives.......if the opposition vote is unified.

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