Class divide and frustrations of the poor the reason Leave won EU vote, says UKIP MEP
There has been much discussion on why the Remain side – who were almost universally tipped to win – ended up losing the vote.
There has been much discussion on why the Remain side – who were almost universally tipped to win – ended up losing the vote.
The country voted 51.8% to 48.2% to leave the European political block after many analysts had predicted a comfortable Remain victory.
Altrincham and Sale West’s Green candidate Nick Robertson-Brown has pushed for the idea of getting rid of the first past the post voting system.
MM took to the streets of Manchester to find out whether Mancunians were going to vote in the May elections.
Manchester People’s History Museum host an Election! exhibition, which will grow and evolve around the 2015 campaign, and include collections featuring iconic objects from every general election from 1900-2010.
‘Tens of thousands’ of eligible voters across Greater Manchester could miss having their say at May’s general election because they aren’t registered, local councils have warned.
Manchester Labour Councillor Kevin Peel accuses the Government of ‘deliberately making it harder for young people, students, transient renter and ethnic minorities to vote’.
Following the youth select committee’s report on lowering the voting age to sixteen and introducing a compulsary politics GCSE. Mancunians agree it is time to make a change.
MM took to the streets of Manchester to ask ‘should the voting age be lowered to 16?’
After the council became a ‘Tory-free zone’ back in 2012, Labour finished off their other main rivals to take all of the 32 wards as the Liberal Democrats surrendered their nine seats with 95 out of 96 seats now held by Labour and just one by Independent Labour councillor Henry Cooper..
Former Stockport Council Leader Dave Goddard, who lost his seat in the last round of local elections in 2012 after 22 years at the helm, was re-elected to the Offerton ward after a bitter contest with the local Labour candidate Charlie Stewart.
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