Barnsley Independent Group is a British political party in Barnsley, England.
The party was founded in January 2006 by a group of former Labour councillors on Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.[1] At that time they had seven councillors, and in the local elections that May they fielded 17 candidates.[2] They have contested council elections since.
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Welcome to The Employables, where we take your tales of job hunting woe to some of the UK's top employers. GEMMA: My name's Gemma Robertson. I'm the recruitment talent manager here at ASOS, and I look after entry-level recruitment across all areas of the business. ASOS is one of the leading online retailers, and we focus on menswear, womenswear, footwear, accessories and jewelry. We recruit in a vast number of areas. Anywhere from retail floor, which is sort of buying, merchandising, design, garment technology, and production, which is where we actually shoot the product, so that's anything from a photographer to a retoucher to the stylists and the shoot assistants who support the product and the volume we have getting shot. The buying team are the people who actually kind of develop and create the ranges and the merchandisers are the people who support it who are the analytical and the number crunchers who support them in the decisions they make. But we also recruit in marketing, so anything from digital marketing to kind of PR, so a vast number of roles we would look to for young people to kind of consider as career opportunities. So a young person could find out about work at ASOS by visiting our careers site on the ASOS website. We also have a careers Twitter that you're welcome to follow, and we quite often tweet about the latest opportunities, especially for entry-level opportunities, which are great to get your sort of first foot on the ladder. For more videos from The Employables, subscribe to our YouTube channel, or visit TheSite.org.
Structure
The party leader is Phillip Birkinshaw, but there are no whips and membership is only open to councillors and candidates, which the party says is to prevent influence from being exerted in the background by a party structure or powerful individuals. All candidates pay their own expenses.[3]
Elections
After the 2007 elections the Group had 22 councillors,[4] and 24 after the 2008 elections.[5] Despite threatening to overtake Labour as the largest party on Barnsley Council in 2008, BIG's fortunes have dramatically altered, being reduced to 5 councillors after suffering massive losses in the 2012 Local Elections,[6] and with the Group only able to field 5 candidates in 2015 and reduced to four councillors in 2016. The Group was further reduced at the 2018 local elections, fielding just two candidates in the Dodworth and Stairfoot wards, losing in both and being reduced to two councillors (Philip Birkinshaw in Dodworth and Gill Carr in Worsbrough-both next up for election in 2020).
References
- ^ Tingle, Len (25 September 2009). "Love for Labour lost". Politics Show. BBC. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ Hakala, Anna (25 April 2006). "The rise of the Independents". BBC News. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ "Who are we". Barnsley Independent Group. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ "Local Elections: Small groups hold balance in hung city". Yorkshire Post. 5 May 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ "Lib Dems take power in Sheffield". BBC News. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ "LOCAL ELECTIONS: Labour majority grows in Barnsley - VIDEO". The Star. 8 May 2010. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
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