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:
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)