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Post by swanarcadian on Jan 1, 2020 12:31:06 GMT
Barnet and Camden
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Post by conservativeestimate on Jan 3, 2020 9:45:39 GMT
This could be interesting but probably won't be.
Camden is just too strong for Labour for the Tories to win this while in office.
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Post by andrea on Jan 3, 2020 9:57:26 GMT
Andrew Dismore is retiring.
Labour shortlist for the new candidate is
Sagal Abdi-Wali (Holbon and St Pancras CLP Chair. Backed by Starmer and Camden council leader Georgia Gould)
Anne Clarke (Barnet Cllr. Backed by Dismore)
Faduma Hassan (Brent Cllr, Kilburn ward)
Miriam Mirwitch (Young Labour National Chair)
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Post by conservativeestimate on Jan 3, 2020 10:11:45 GMT
I will be voting for Roberto Weeden-Sanz.
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Post by akmd on Jan 3, 2020 13:21:06 GMT
I will be voting for Roberto Weeden-Sanz. I just had to check Google to see if that was actually a real name rather than something straight out of Monty Python. |
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Post by greenrobinhood on Jan 3, 2020 13:39:42 GMT
He was the candidate in Doncaster Central at the most recent general election, narrowly losing to Rosie Winterton.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 3, 2020 18:49:18 GMT
Yes he's a real person and the Conservative candidate:
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 3, 2020 22:09:09 GMT
Results here in the 2019 General election based on notional ward results
Lab 113896 43.4%
Con 95762 36.5%
LD 44896 17.1%
Grn 5987 2.3%
BxP 1436 0.5%
Oth 246 0.1%
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Post by David Boothroyd on Feb 20, 2020 19:42:43 GMT
Labour selection reportedly goes to Anne Clarke.
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Post by andrea on Feb 20, 2020 21:15:35 GMT
According to Richard Osley of Camden New Journal
First round:
Faduma Hassan 890
Anne Clarke 885
Sagal Abdi-Wali 624
Miriam Mirwitch 347
Final round:
Clarke 1365
Hassan 1100
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Post by Tony Otim on Feb 21, 2020 13:07:01 GMT
Miriam Mirwitch sounds like a Dickens character...
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Post by Chris from Brum on Feb 21, 2020 13:22:38 GMT
Miriam Mirwitch sounds like a Dickens character... Or J K Rowling? |
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Post by anthony on Feb 21, 2020 15:34:23 GMT
Yes he's a real person and the Conservative candidate: What's the "Greater London Assembly"? |
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Feb 21, 2020 15:39:59 GMT
Miriam Mirwitch sounds like a Dickens character... Miriam - standard Biblical anglicisation of a very common Hebrew female name Mirwitch - a fairly thorough, but still recognisable, anglicisation of a fairly common Lithuanian Jewish surname Dickens - surname of a Victorian novelist known, among many other things, for anti-Semitic characterisation of at least some of his Jewish characters Miriam Mirwitch - a young female Jewish Labour politician, currently chair of Young Labour (something that some of her more Left-wing colleagues don't seem to have been happy about) I am almost certain that your comment wasn't intended to be (or even thought of as possibly being) in any way hostile, but ... |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 21, 2020 16:05:13 GMT
I'm fairly certain Tony made the comment because it does indeed sound Dickensian.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Feb 21, 2020 16:57:30 GMT
Give me fucking strength..
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Post by Chris from Brum on Feb 21, 2020 17:12:48 GMT
I'm fairly certain Tony made the comment because it does indeed sound Dickensian. Or at least *looks* Dickensian, if you don't pronounce the "w" as a "v".
The current Chief Rabbi is Ephraim Mirvis, which is a variant on the name. Ed Mirvish was a Canadian philanthropist, there's another variation. See here for more. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Feb 21, 2020 17:24:01 GMT
What's the "Greater London Assembly"? A wrong term used by an awful lot in all parties including: And it's not just limited to politicians: |
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Post by neilm on Feb 21, 2020 18:27:19 GMT
Miriam Mirwitch sounds like a Dickens character... Miriam - standard Biblical anglicisation of a very common Hebrew female name Mirwitch - a fairly thorough, but still recognisable, anglicisation of a fairly common Lithuanian Jewish surname Dickens - surname of a Victorian novelist known, among many other things, for anti-Semitic characterisation of at least some of his Jewish characters Miriam Mirwitch - a young female Jewish Labour politician, currently chair of Young Labour (something that some of her more Left-wing colleagues don't seem to have been happy about) I am almost certain that your comment wasn't intended to be (or even thought of as possibly being) in any way hostile, but ... Sorry, what now? |
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Post by heslingtonian on Feb 21, 2020 19:10:24 GMT
Based on selections here, it’s pointless anyone from Camden trying for either the Conservative or Labour nominations with Clarke, Coleman, Dismore, Thomas and Weedon-Sanz all being Barnet people.
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