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Originally Posted by mkpdavies
I'm still impressed with it. Must have a bit of a local following there.
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Mr. Brian Buxton - one of the two or three leading members of the Popular Alliance - lives in the Stretton ward. If his party was going to do well anywhere Stretton was going to be one of those places.
Yes, it is a fair-sized vote for his party - but his party did less well in this week's By-Election in the Stretton ward than in last May's local elections (in the same ward). They have lost almost half their vote (since the last poll in the ward 9 months ago) - and that was in a contest in which UKIP and the Green Party did not even contest the seat. The Popular Alliance did not win any votes from Conservative supporters as a result of their annoyance at the resignation of the Conservative councillor which caused the ward By-Election (parties are often punished by the voters if they are perceived to have caused an unnecessary By-Election).
Had UKIP stood this week at Stretton I suspect the Popular Alliance (and most of the other parties who put up candidates in the Stretton ward By-Election) would have lost votes to UKIP.
I think the best step for Mr. Buxton and his Popular Alliance party is to shut it down and join UKIP or the English Democrats instead.
Staffordshire (where the Stretton ward is located in the Burton/East Staffordshire area) is strongly eurosceptic and Mr. Buxton will find that as a UKIP candidate in Stretton he would get more votes than if he carried on standing for the Popular Alliance.