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Post by doktorb in absentia on Nov 12, 2012 15:51:21 GMT
Good luck - but not TOO much good luck - to Robert Teal, the continuity Liberal Party candidate.
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Post by john07 on Nov 12, 2012 16:05:54 GMT
"The Respect Candidate with Loony Support"?  Taken as read, i would assume. Indeed, that is the ultimate tautology . |
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Post by AdminSTB on Nov 12, 2012 16:27:15 GMT
Ah, but surely there are exceptions. Our own John Loony is standing against Respect's Lee Jasper. =OP
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Post by Crimson King on Nov 12, 2012 16:35:37 GMT
Ah, but surely there are exceptions. Our own John Loony is standing against Respect's Lee Jasper. =OP I believe it to be a witicism m'lud, based of the potential confusion between a serious political party the Loonies, and the people who support respect, loonies |
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Post by iainbhx on Nov 12, 2012 16:42:19 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 12, 2012 16:49:07 GMT
Just two candidates - what's that all about??
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Post by iainbhx on Nov 12, 2012 16:52:15 GMT
Just two candidates - what's that all about?? I only report what I've seen. I did wonder that it was rather a short, short-list. Sarah Champion may be the Chief Exec of www.bluebellwood.org/ my Google-Fu has yet to reveal anything about the other candidate. |
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Post by Tangent on Nov 12, 2012 16:57:35 GMT
The second candidate is probably Sophy Gardner, the ex-Wing Commander who made the shortlist for Feltham & Heston - she would complement Dan Jarvis nearby neatly.
Sarah Champion is chief exec. at a children's hospice in the area.
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Post by Tangent on Nov 12, 2012 16:59:24 GMT
Just two candidates - what's that all about?? It looks to me as if the NEC were determined to have an all-women shortlist, without having time to get an extensive range of female candidates. |
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 12, 2012 17:00:00 GMT
Hmmmm, I wonder if we are trying to avoid anybody too involved in local politics for this one 'cos of the grooming thing??
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Post by doktorb in absentia on Nov 12, 2012 17:04:53 GMT
There goes my Eddie Izzard rumour....
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Post by andrea on Nov 12, 2012 17:12:31 GMT
It's not the first shortlist of 2 I see. Ealing Southall had one too
I suppose Champion is the one indicated by IainBhx. I can't find anything on Gardener.
Update: I think LabourList mispelt her name and it's Sophy Gardner.
She is a member of Labour Friends of Forces, former RAF commander. Also shortlsited in Feltham & Heston
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 12, 2012 17:27:21 GMT
Reads to me like a simple attempt to repeat the Barnsley Central playbook for what to do in a byelection forced by the resignation of an MP caught in the expenses scandal. Hard for Mahroof Hussain MBE to take as I suspect he was looking to take over from MacShane in 2015 or the next election after that.
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 12, 2012 17:33:29 GMT
It looks to me as if the NEC were determined to have an all-women shortlist, without having time to get an extensive range of female candidates There are prominent women involved in the local party - Emma Hoddinott is one who has already been mentioned. I suspect there are other reasons. |
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Post by YL on Nov 12, 2012 17:46:51 GMT
Good luck - but not TOO much good luck - to Robert Teal, the continuity Liberal Party candidate. Given that that's the same name as the Lib Dem candidate for South Yorkshire's Police Commissioner, I assume that Rotherham Politics has omitted the word "Democrat" there. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 12, 2012 17:57:39 GMT
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Post by doktorb in absentia on Nov 12, 2012 18:15:37 GMT
Good luck - but not TOO much good luck - to Robert Teal, the continuity Liberal Party candidate. Given that that's the same name as the Lib Dem candidate for South Yorkshire's Police Commissioner, I assume that Rotherham Politics has omitted the word "Democrat" there. At this rate, I'm going to stop believing that site.... |
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Post by YL on Nov 12, 2012 22:02:45 GMT
From Twitter, it seems that the Tory candidate is really someone called Simon Wilson and that Robert Teal isn't even the Lib Dem.
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 12, 2012 22:21:38 GMT
I bet they don't mention the 35bn hole they left in the defence budget do they? Perhaps because it doesn't actually exist??  |
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Post by danlew on Nov 13, 2012 20:28:01 GMT
BBC's Political Editor for Yorkshire and the North Midlands reports “Chaos at the #Labour Party selection meeting in #Rotherham as half the members walk out in protest because no local candidate short listed” More here twitter.com/Tinglepolitics |
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