Picture: FreeImages.com/Will Harrison A move to campaign for the removal of tolls on the Humber Bridge and concern over reduced services at local hospitals, were among the issues raised by East Yorkshire members when they met to draft early plans for next year’s local elections. Stewart Arnold The well-attended meeting […]
Monthly archives: June 2018
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Chris Whitwood campaigning in Town Ward Yorkshire Party Deputy Leader Chris Whitwood claimed second place in the Doncaster Town Ward by-election. While Labour’s Tosh McDonald took the council seat with 1,084 votes, Chris was a creditable runner-up with 570 votes, almost twice as many as the third-placed Green candidate. Voter […]
Stewart Arnold Picture: Robbie MacDonald Yorkshire Party Leader, Stewart Arnold has challenged the Government: “Yorkshire is missing out – where’s our devolution deal?” In a speech to local members in Hull, he said: “It’s now almost a year since the vast majority of local council leaders in […]
Chris Whitwood Chris Whitwood has issued an eve-of-poll plea to voters in Doncaster’s Town Ward by-election: “Thanks for your positive response to my campaign on your doorsteps and streets – now please make your views count.” Chris, who is the Yorkshire Party candidate in June 14’s Town Ward by-election, predicts […]
Let’s demolish plans to knock-down Doncaster’s great buildings, says Chris Whitwood Picture: Tannoy at English Wikipedia Doncaster Council candidate Chris Whitwood wants a shake-up in planning guidelines to help to preserve the town’s great buildings. Chris, who is the Yorkshire Party candidate in next week’s Town Ward by-election, has been a passionate […]
Stewart Arnold has called for a final push in the campaign to support Party Deputy Leader Chris Whitwood’s bid to win Doncaster’s Town Ward by-election. The Party Leader has written to members to ask for support in the election leafleting exercise this weekend (June 9 and 10, 2018). The […]
Buoyed by the Party’s strong showing in the recent local elections, East Yorkshire members are forging ahead with plans for next year’s (2019) important poll in the area. All 67 council seats in the 26 wards of East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be at stake in the election […]
Stewart Arnold has attacked the present UK political model as harming Yorkshire and the regions, and spoken of the need for democratic renewal. “We’re incredibly over-centralised, and it’s not good for the areas outside of London that we’re so far behind,” he told The Yorkshire Post. In a detailed interview with […]
Chris Whitwood, taking his message out on the Doncaster streets Yorkshire Party Deputy Leader Chris Whitwood has spoken of his pride in his home town and his determination to speak up for its people, if elected in the forthcoming Town Ward by-election to Doncaster Council. In a video called […]