Politics
See also: Redcar and Cleveland local electionsThe present makeup of the council following the 2011 elections is as follows:
| Group affiliation | Members |
|
|---|---|---|
| Labour | 30 | |
| Labour Co-op | 2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 16 | |
| Conservative | 6 | |
| East Cleveland Independents |
3 | |
| Independents |
2 | |
| Total |
59 | |
The turn-out was 42.01 per cent.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
“The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)