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Post by michaelarden on Mar 27, 2024 10:50:22 GMT
Hounslow, Heston East (2026). Amritpal Mann, Independent (elected as Labour) to Workers Party GB. Interesting - I gather he is an extremely rich Sikh businessman with parliamentary ambitions. Although Hounslow isn't perfect Galloway territory it is 37% south Asian with Muslims being 17% - could this be storing up potential trouble for Labour at the general election?
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 27, 2024 11:49:29 GMT
There is, thus far, zero evidence that any WPGB candidate other than one G Galloway is capable of troubling the scorers.
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Post by r34t on Mar 27, 2024 12:06:23 GMT
There is, thus far, zero evidence that any WPGB candidate other than one G Galloway is capable of troubling the scorers. but he is perfectly capable of deluding potential supporters. Particularly rich ones.
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Post by aidypiez on Mar 27, 2024 19:03:37 GMT
Looks like Andrew pelling has joined the yellow team, and been selected for Croydon East. Wtf?!
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Post by timrollpickering on Mar 27, 2024 19:18:51 GMT
How many parties is that now?
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Post by greenhert on Mar 27, 2024 19:19:38 GMT
How many parties is that now? 3.
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Post by johnloony on Mar 27, 2024 19:26:13 GMT
Looks like Andrew pelling has joined the yellow team, and been selected for Croydon East. Wtf?! Blimey! I didn’t see that coming. To be fair, he wasn’t “expelled” from the Conservative Party. I was chatting informally with someone from the Labour Party a year or so ago, who said he didn’t understand why Pelling had ever been allowed to join the Labour Party in the first place. If he had stood as a candidate in the general election (I wasn’t expecting him to) I would have expected him to be an Independent again. I have never noticed any indications or clues from him suggesting that he was going to be a Lib Dem. It must mean that either he or they (or probably both) are more desperate and opportunist than logical or rational. In the election for Mayor of Croydon in 2022, Andrew told me that he put his second preference for the Lib Dem candidate, but that was more for the person than the party. In the local elections for the council, he voted for all three Conservative candidates in his ward.
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Post by batman on Mar 27, 2024 20:08:49 GMT
Hounslow, Heston East (2026). Amritpal Mann, Independent (elected as Labour) to Workers Party GB. Interesting - I gather he is an extremely rich Sikh businessman with parliamentary ambitions. Although Hounslow isn't perfect Galloway territory it is 37% south Asian with Muslims being 17% - could this be storing up potential trouble for Labour at the general election? no, it couldn't. Not in that constituency.
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Post by timrollpickering on Mar 27, 2024 20:31:51 GMT
How many parties is that now? 3. Have you put him on the pre-emptive ban list alongside Winston McKenzie?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 27, 2024 21:25:48 GMT
How many parties is that now? 3. No, 4, because after he was expelled from Labour he set up his own party 'Putting Croydon First' to stand for Mayor of Croydon.
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Post by johnloony on Mar 27, 2024 22:37:32 GMT
No, 4, because after he was expelled from Labour he set up his own party 'Putting Croydon First' to stand for Mayor of Croydon. No he didn’t. He stood as “Independent”. The description “Putting Croydon First” was one of the various descriptions of the People’s Choice party of Mark Samuel.
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Post by mattbewilson on Mar 28, 2024 19:06:58 GMT
Don't know if this has been covered but Laura Parker, Corbyns private secretary and then went to work on Starmer for leader campaign, has left Labour for the Greens
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 28, 2024 22:04:39 GMT
Don't know if this has been covered but Laura Parker, Corbyns private secretary and then went to work on Starmer for leader campaign, has left Labour for the Greens Well, sort of. 'Self excluded' by the looks of it.
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Post by iain on Apr 1, 2024 7:42:16 GMT
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Post by owainsutton on Apr 1, 2024 8:54:56 GMT
How many of these are ones on the borough council? It can't be all of them, so this total of 20 has to include town/parish councillors.
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Post by mattbewilson on Apr 1, 2024 9:11:41 GMT
How many of these are ones on the borough council? It can't be all of them, so this total of 20 has to include town/parish councillors. or county councillors
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Post by zoe on Apr 1, 2024 9:23:39 GMT
How many of these are ones on the borough council? It can't be all of them, so this total of 20 has to include town/parish councillors. or county councillors Another 20 councillors have resigned from Labour. They will form independent groups on Pendle Borough Council, Brierfield Town Council, and Nelson Town Council.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Apr 1, 2024 9:57:51 GMT
It all feels rather performative, which seems to be the fallback activity of so many people in politics these days.
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Post by batman on Apr 1, 2024 10:12:56 GMT
It does seem rather unlikely that 20 people who all happen to be Labour councillors in the same constituency would simultaneously decide that on principle, having felt able to support Labour one day, they all can't the next. There is clearly a performative element which I find puerile.
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Post by johnhemming on Apr 1, 2024 10:15:52 GMT
Its probably a group of people who are used to working together who wish to change strategy en masse.
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