Plymouth Labour election hopeful is a professional dominatrix

A 37 year old professional dominatrix in Plymouth is planning to stand in next year's local elections for the Labour Party.

Margaret Corvid - or Mistress Magpie to her friends - is horrified by Brexit and Donald Trump so she wants to get elected to Plymouth City Council to oust the Tory-UKIP coalition that runs the city.

Well, the Labour Party are well known for whipping their councillors ...

Cannock Heath Hayes By-election result

UKIP had a terrible result in the Cannock Heath Hayes local by-election yesterday, finishing last.

The None of the Above Party Lib Dim candidate won with 314 votes, closely followed by the Tory candidate with 300. The Liebour candidate got 267 votes and the BNP candidate 116. The UKIP candidate finished last with just 51 votes.

Finishing last is a disappointment, especially with half the votes of the BNP candidate. But the BNP have been getting a lot of free publicity lately with Nick Griffin's invitation to appear on BBC Question Time and they were all over the news yesterday thanks to the court ruling that they have to allow non-whites into their membership (a court ruling based on a law that hasn't been passed by Parliament yet, how does that work?).

The blame can't be placed solely on the BNP's publicity but it will have played a big part in the result - both in terms of the BNP sympathy vote they always attract when the establishment cracks down on them and the increased turnout for LibLabCon voters to make sure the BNP don't embarass them.

Edit: From someone in the know ! UKIPs result here completely reflects our effort (which was about a 10th of the BNP) so in theory this is a bigger disappoint for the them. For a party who canvassed the whole ward , leafleted twice and drafted in 22 memembers serval times from Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the Black Country the BNP will be hugely disappointed.

Wroxham by-election results

Glenn Tingle came a respectable third in the Wroxham by-election yesterday the Conswervatives and - bizarrely - the None of the Above Party Lib Dims who won with a comfortable majority.

It's disappointing not to have won - especially with an excellent candidate like Glenn Tingle - but it does confirm UKIP's place as the only real opposition to the LibLabCon. The results also confirm, once again, that despite the BBC's attempts to promote them above their station, the Greens are an electoral irrelevance and the BBC's decision to give fourth party status to the Greens in the Norwich North by-election was unjustified.

The full results are:

Party	Votes	%
Lib Dim	961	62%
Cons	346	23%
UKIP	134	9%
Green	50	3%
Liebour	46	3%

To clarify the "bizarre" comment above with the election of the Lib Dim candidate: he is a 19 year old full time student at the University of York, 186 miles and 4 and a quarter hours drive away. And he's been elected to a local council. Like I said, bizarre.

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