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Can Cllr McGregor add up

I'm a bit worried about his arithmetical abilitiesHere's what he said in his overlong blog referring to the Hounslow Heath and Cranford by-elections::'The Conservative candidates effectively doubled their vote from 2018'Here's what actually happened: Hounslow HeathHighest Tory vote in 2018 749, Highest Labour vote 2421In 2021 Tory vote 1151, Labour 2179. N.B.Labour vote reduced by Trades Union and Socialist Coalition 154 votes.Cranford Highest Tory vote in 2018 784, Highest Labour vote 2113In 2021 Tory vote 1191, Labour vote 2129N.B. Labour Vote reduced by Gurpal Virdi 355.I think Cllr McGregor is out by 47% in HH and and 48% in Cranford.

David McLoughlin ● 1987d5 Comments

David,Cllr Curran the cabinet recently awarded themselves and others a massive back dated pay rise.Five cabinet members now have another Cllr helping them at £8k a shot.The cabinet report mandating this pay/ allowance rise said no more than 50% of a council should receive an additional Special responsibility allowances.I'm advised the actual percentage is circa  75% of Cllrs getting additional allowances. This agreed at the same time as putting up council tax to the maximum allowed.Was this an error or pure greed?Have you made representations to your colleagues?John

John Todd ● 1987d

Thanks for bringing this to my attention John. I have a great deal of respect for you but this is  'what-aboutery'.If you could persuade Cllrs Biddulph and McGregor to cut down on the rhetoric and give us more , correct, facts as some of their Chiswick Riverside colleagues and yourself  manage to do, I might get to the end of one of their articles.

David McLoughlin ● 1987d

David, you began a thread suggesting that some councillors had problems doing their sums. John pointed out that that also applied to other councillors. You then reverted to your favourite non-word, "what-aboutery", which seems to be your default response to any reply you don't like that criticises your party. If you don't want to receive responses you don't like, then don't start your mean little threads.

Richard Greenhough ● 1986d

Out of curiosity, David, how do you feel about the rhetoric coming from Hounslow's Leader and his Cabinet?  If rhetoric upsets you, then where is your demand for facts and transparency aimed at them?

David Lesniak ● 1986d

Richard, I'm not being mean to Cllr McGregor, just pointing out that his treatment of data leaves a lot to be desired. To  quote Cllr McGregor :  '........Nick Rodgers (candidate for South West London) and Shaun Bailey (candidate for Mayor). We saw great performances from both.'Here are the comparative  results for the London SW Assembly seat: Votes 2021 2016Tory 69,212 84,381Labour 56,945 62,937LD 61,222 30,654Green 23,135 19,745Reform/UKIP 3,396 14,983Turnout was down 2% to 47% but the electoral register also augmented.  If one assumes that most of the Reform/UKIP vote went to the Tories how come they were still 15,000 votes down on 2016? The ward by ward results from the Mayoral and Assembly  elections are promised this week. The ones from 2016 are available on the londonelects.org.uk website . A word of warning on over-interpretation, postal votes are aggregated across the borough.

David McLoughlin ● 1986d