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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 23, 2023 16:07:24 GMT
David Steel famously stood for the European Parliament in Italy in 1989. The rather dodgy Daniel Cohn-Bendit spent nearly 15 years in the European Parliament, alternating as a representative of the German and French Greens.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 23, 2023 16:12:18 GMT
Christine Wallace selected as the Conservative candidate for Lambeth & Southwark.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 23, 2023 16:13:26 GMT
Eleanor Cox selected as the Conservative candidate for Merton & Wandsworth.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 23, 2023 16:14:45 GMT
Callum MacGillivray selected as the Conservative candidate for Enfield & Haringey.
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Post by johnloony on Jun 23, 2023 18:29:21 GMT
Why on Earth did he do that? Because they asked him to. It was a "pan-European gesture". I remember one of my colleagues at the time said "Oh, I didn't know he could speak Italian" as if she actually thought that David Steel could speak Italian
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Post by michaelarden on Jun 23, 2023 19:09:52 GMT
Christine Wallace selected as the Conservative candidate for Lambeth & Southwark. Suspect most of the 'work' will be done in the pub by the looks of that tweet.
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Post by stb12 on Jun 23, 2023 19:11:48 GMT
Christine Wallace selected as the Conservative candidate for Lambeth & Southwark. Suspect most of the 'work' will be done in the pub by the looks of that tweet. Well it’s a no hope seat so why not?
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Post by dizz on Jun 23, 2023 19:24:11 GMT
Callum MacGillivray selected as the Conservative candidate for Enfield & Haringey. Now do we have to pin the tail on the donkey? (No offence intended since it’s not clear who he/they is in these present times 😀)
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 23, 2023 20:58:00 GMT
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Post by BossMan on Jun 23, 2023 22:44:12 GMT
David Steel famously stood for the European Parliament in Italy in 1989. The rather dodgy Daniel Cohn-Bendit spent nearly 15 years in the European Parliament, alternating as a representative of the German and French Greens. His Wikipedia page has 'MEP a. D.' after name. What does a. D. mean?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 23, 2023 23:11:13 GMT
The rather dodgy Daniel Cohn-Bendit spent nearly 15 years in the European Parliament, alternating as a representative of the German and French Greens. His Wikipedia page has 'MEP a. D.' after name. What does a. D. mean? Arsche Deutscher Kinder, probably.
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Post by maxque on Jun 23, 2023 23:16:40 GMT
The rather dodgy Daniel Cohn-Bendit spent nearly 15 years in the European Parliament, alternating as a representative of the German and French Greens. His Wikipedia page has 'MEP a. D.' after name. What does a. D. mean? de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au%C3%9Fer_DienstMeans "retired", pretty much, but it seems that use is improper for an elected official.
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Post by dundas on Jun 26, 2023 8:09:16 GMT
Nor do plenty of voters given the transient nature of the local populace. Citation needed. I don't think it's necessarily any more transient than any other constituencies than contain a city centre, beach and Univeristy if that helps.
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Post by spqr on Jun 26, 2023 16:30:18 GMT
Why on Earth did he do that? Because they asked him to. It was a "pan-European gesture". The Journal of Liberal History states that Steel decided to stand "in protest against the UK’s refusal to hold European elections on the British mainland by proportional representation."
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 26, 2023 16:48:18 GMT
IIRC wasn't that a decision taken during the Lib-Lab Pact?
So once again the Lib Dems were protesting something they effectively owned.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 27, 2023 22:09:17 GMT
Conservative selection in South West goes to Ron Mushiso, deputy leader of Hounslow Conservative group and a councillor in Chiswick since 2018. Must have been organised quite quickly since Nick Rogers only announced his decision to stand down a few weeks ago.
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Post by andrea on Jul 12, 2023 8:10:48 GMT
News on Labour selections
from Ann Black's report on recent meeting of NEC organization sub-committee
Procedures for selecting London Assembly candidates were then discussed. Sitting constituency members would be subject to trigger ballots along parliamentary lines, but sitting list members (topping up the parties to give a more proportional outcome, as in Wales and Scotland) would carry forward their position from the previous cycle. Some objected on the grounds that list members were the only elected office-holders exempt from any judgment. Others urged acceptance on technical grounds (OMOV trigger ballots for lists were complex and expensive) and political grounds (the trade unions wanted it). The paper was approved without a vote.
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Post by weld on Jul 12, 2023 8:32:47 GMT
IMO, Ealing & Hillingdon (which Bailey won) and Brent & Harrow will be the only competitive Labour seats (B&H given Sunak's appeal to some minority voters there).
The South West seat is perfectly drawn for the Tories and Labour probably does well enough with Khan at the top of the ticket to deprive the Tories of a win there.
Barnet & Camden could be competitive, but Camden is too Labour-leaning for the Tories to overcome it (plus Barnet now has a Labour council).
West Central could be super-close with the Tory electorate falling, and I think that's one where the voter ID laws may harm the Conservatives more.
Possibly in play: Ealing & Hillingdon, West Central, Brent & Harrow, South West, Barnet & Camden, Merton & Wandsworth, Havering & Redbridge (the rest safe).
If ULEZ expands, I think Labour struggle in E&H and B&H (more car-dependant Outer London seats with far less EV infrastructure than say, West Central.
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Post by wallington on Jul 16, 2023 21:29:13 GMT
Peter Underwood was selected as Green candidate for Croydon & Sutton constituency.
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Post by weld on Jul 23, 2023 5:29:46 GMT
If you replicate the 2021 GLA swings, you get this:
CON gains from LAB Ealing & Hillingdon (Con for Mayor and Lab for GLA in '21)
LAB gains from CON West Central (Labour's first win in this seat)
LD gains from CON South West (Lib Dems' first GLA constituency)
The Conservatives end up 6% behind in Barnet & Camden. Brent & Harrow was broadly static in 2021, with a sight swing to Labour.
You'd get this result probably: LAB 10 (-1) CON 9; LD 3 (+1); GRN 3
Caveat the above with ULEZ expansion to the North and South Circular roads in Oct 2021, five months after the last election. August is when expansion to the Greater London boundary happens (currently).
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