Labours plans to campaign well ahead of the local elections in May will see campaigners doing doorstep calls in at least two town wards this weekend.....
Sat 7th Jan 2023 07:21am
Working on the back of a town wide leafletting campaign, its claimed labour party activists will be canvassing the doors of hartlepool homes in both Greenwood Road & Meadowsweet Road today between 11am & 2pm, as the party looks to drum up support ahead of the upcoming local elections in May as well as any potential future general election which unless triggered early wont occur until 2025 at the very earliest.
Labour intends to target both the towns Hart Ward & Victoria Ward on this weekend looking to gain much needed support following claims May's local elections could see Labour potentially netting its biggest gains in the borough, following whats been said to be a rather “fractures” coalition now supporting Hartlepool Borough Council which is currently being held together with a number of Conservatives & Independents.
Former Labour Group Leader Paddy Brown & Independent Councillor Sue Little both announced they'd joined the councils ruling coalition group of Conservatives just before Christmas.
The recent addition of two Independents to the councils coalition group led to public concern that some Independents were using the move to put themselves in better positions to be appointed to council committees in a bid to “freeze” Labour out of any potential future decision making on the council, with the coalition now said to be very much fearing potential gains made by the Labour Party in May 2023, which could in turn lead to the group dissolving the coalitions narrow majority away in the council chamber.
Labours current campaign is said to include a town wide newsletter which is set to be posted out to most homes in the borough shortly, with Labour now seemingly aware that its continued presence on the streets is what it needs to win round voters at this years local elections in a bid to see more pressure applied on the "strained" coalition currently managing the local council to such a degree that just a few more seats gained for the Labour group could in fact be the event that then leads to whats claimed to be a very fractures coalition underpinning the local council to come smashing to the ground.
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