Bye Bye Bob, Farewell Ron, Hello Dave

North Jesmond

Name	Description	Votes Polled	%Ward Poll	Majority
Peter Emil Andras	Liberal Democrats	870
Tim Dowson	Green Party	273
Rebecca Kate Earnshaw	The Labour Party Candidate	770
William John Holloway	The Conservative Party Candidate	419

South Jesmond

Name	Description	Votes Polled	%Ward Poll	Majority
David Michael James Hardman	The Labour Party Candidate	854
Kevin O'Neill	The Conservative Party Candidate	357
Bob Walker	Liberal Democrats	697
Dr Tony Waterston	Green Party	266

And the Council has changed from LibDem to Labour. There was also an article in the Guardian about the decline of the LibDems in Newcastle.

I went to the hustings organised by jesmondlocal , and, as a floating voter,  the labour pair were certainly the most fluent.
 
We will have to wait and see what the effect of this on this bit of Jesmond. We've got a new Councillor, so we'd better get his email address. 

One thing that cropped up at the hustings was the issue of controlling HMOs and all the candidates were in favour of controls. This was in spite of a letting agent  ( i suspect Charles lamb) who reiterated this, telling us that property values will fall by £ 50-60,000 because of restrictions. i think he's wrong ,  and I'll reply to his facebook post sometime.

I wonder what will happen to the Cycling Forum with the change from LibDem to Labour?

And farewell with thansk, to Ron, who has been a vocal advocate of the area for many years.