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South Tyneside Council leader reacts to disastrous local election results
Shields Gazette
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03/05/2024
Cllr Tracey Dixon, the leader of South Tyneside Council, has reacted to a disastrous night for the Labour Party in the borough.
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Okay Tracy so obviously not the night you were warning, talk us through it.
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Absolutely you know I'm absolutely devastated what's happened but this year's election there
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was actually a perfect storm brewing obviously with the waste dispute and then there was other
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factors which has contributed to this year's elections but you know as a council and a
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Labour-led council we are doing some fantastic things in this borough you know we're building
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children homes so we can keep our children in the borough, we're building extra care facilities
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with community facilities attached, we're supporting our most vulnerable, we're working
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with our businesses with the pledge you know so it's about how we get those messages across
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to the residents of the borough and I think we need to really look at that and see how we can
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get our communication out there but I think we need to ensure that we are listening to the
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residents of South Tyneside. Ten seats lost tonight, where does South Tyneside Labour go from here?
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South Tyneside Labour needs to restart, we need to start looking at what's happened and how we
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can actually build on that moving forward because we have some fantastic elected members, we've got
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we've lost some fantastic elected members and it is very very disappointing but I can assure the
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residents of South Tyneside we've listened to the message that's come across tonight and we need to
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work more closely with our communities. Now obviously maybe a bit disastrous for the party but
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obviously a successful night for yourself, retained your seat, how do you feel to be able to be
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elected once again in your ward? Yes you know I have to say I'm absolutely delighted to be back
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and re-elected for Whitburn and Marsden and that's a huge thank you to my residents for
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them putting faith back in me to support them.
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