{"id":19384,"date":"2017-04-21T23:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=19384"},"modified":"2017-04-21T23:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:14:35","slug":"the-battles-in-rayleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/the-battles-in-rayleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BATTLES IN RAYLEIGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two County Council seats in Rayleigh, and we are fighting hard to win both of them!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rayleigh North<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Christopher Ian Black Liberal Democrats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> John Hayter UK Independence Party <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Malcolm Maddocks Conservative Party (sitting Councillor)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Roger Anthony Neville Labour Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14675\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chris-Black-11-of-20-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14675 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chris-Black-11-of-20-small-263x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chris-Black-11-of-20-small-263x400.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chris-Black-11-of-20-small.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can Chris Black win this after coming second 3 times in a row? The first time he lost by 907 votes. The next time he lost by 356 votes.\u00a0 Last time he only lost by only 295 votes! So he has a good chance this time. Malcolm Maddocks has the disadvantage of not living in Rayleigh &#8211; he lives in Hill Lane, Hawkwell.<\/p>\n<p>UKIP seem to be in a national decline and John Hayter lost his seat on the District Council last May, so this doesn&#8217;t look like UKIP&#8217;s year. Labour came bottom last time, and will surely come bottom this time.<\/p>\n<p>The big local issues are\u00a0 highways, overdevelopment, and the NHS.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rayleigh South<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Jamie Clive Burton Rayleigh Independents <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Keith Anthony Gibbs UK Independence Party (sitting Councillor)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> June Rosemary Lumley Conservative Party<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Samantha Reed Labour Party<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Christopher Stanley Liberal Democrats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Andrew Charles Warren Strutt Green Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14679\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chris-stanley-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14679 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chris-stanley-small-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chris-stanley-small-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chris-stanley-small.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Stanley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, there are three candidates here who&#8217;ve switched from different parties. Jamie Burton used to be UKIP,\u00a0 Keith Gibbs used to be Conservative, and June Lumley used to be Lib Dem. All three have a chance of winning &#8211; but so does Chris Stanley standing for us.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Gibbs has been a County Councillor for 4 years here, which would normally give him an advantage, but he doesn&#8217;t seem\u00a0 to have used that time to get much public recognition. He is claiming in his leaflet to have opposed the council&#8217;s development strategy since 2007, but the Lib Dems\u00a0 actually <em>were<\/em> opposing it since that time, and we don&#8217;t remember him ever giving us support&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile June Lumley may lose\u00a0 votes over public concern over all the development to the West of Rayleigh and the lack of air pollution monitoring by the council (something that the Lib Dem councillors are now helping to pay for<em> themselves).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two County Council seats in Rayleigh, and we are fighting hard to win both of them! Rayleigh North Christopher Ian Black Liberal Democrats John Hayter UK Independence Party Malcolm Maddocks Conservative Party (sitting Councillor) Roger Anthony Neville Labour Party &nbsp; Can Chris Black win this after coming second 3 times in a row? 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