Chris from Brum
Lib Dem
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Post by Chris from Brum on Mar 5, 2024 7:59:42 GMT
Waverley BC, Farnham Castle ward. Cllr Heather McLean (Farnham Residents) has resigned. There's an echo in here. |
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Post by mej111 on Mar 5, 2024 12:53:52 GMT
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The Bishop
Labour
Down With Factionalism!
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 5, 2024 13:15:39 GMT
St. Ishmael, Pembrokeshire will be on 16 April. Do you mean 18th April, or is it actually on a Tuesday? |
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Post by andrewp on Mar 5, 2024 13:18:42 GMT
St. Ishmael, Pembrokeshire will be on 16 April. Do you mean 18th April, or is it actually on a Tuesday? It is defitnely on a Tuesday. |
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Post by carolus on Mar 5, 2024 13:49:35 GMT
Oxford, St Clements (2024). Tom Hayes (Labour) has been removed from the list of councillors.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 5, 2024 13:52:28 GMT
Oxford, St Clements (2024). Tom Hayes (Labour) has been removed from the list of councillors. He's Labour candidate for Bournemouth East so presumably moving there. |
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J.G.Harston
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Leave-voting Brexit-supporting Liberal Democrat
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Post by J.G.Harston on Mar 5, 2024 16:28:34 GMT
St. Ishmael, Pembrokeshire will be on 16 April. Do you mean 18th April, or is it actually on a Tuesday? Does Ahab know? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 5, 2024 18:04:15 GMT
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Post by carolus on Mar 5, 2024 19:06:15 GMT
Already posted by mej111 above! |
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Post by John Chanin on Mar 5, 2024 19:25:44 GMT
Worth repeating again and again that this is what happens when Labour's centralist organization does not allow wards to select their own candidates. No-one knew anything about these people imposed on them by the regional office. |
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peterl
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Post by peterl on Mar 5, 2024 19:34:54 GMT
Oxford, St Clements (2024). Tom Hayes (Labour) has been removed from the list of councillors. He's Labour candidate for Bournemouth East so presumably moving there. Hayes does indeed say he wants to focus on his campaign for Parliament. |
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Post by Merseymike on Mar 5, 2024 19:46:21 GMT
Worth repeating again and again that this is what happens when Labour's centralist organization does not allow wards to select their own candidates. No-one knew anything about these people imposed on them by the regional office. Quite! Who were the candidates - how did the regional office knew them? |
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Post by mej111 on Mar 5, 2024 21:45:23 GMT
Worth repeating again and again that this is what happens when Labour's centralist organization does not allow wards to select their own candidates. No-one knew anything about these people imposed on them by the regional office. I wasn't aware that these 2 were imposed on the local party but it wouldn't particularly surprise me. I was told by a member last May that Chandni had appeared essentially out of nowhere and had almost certainly lied during candidate selection though so it wouldn't surprise me. It would also suggest that if random party members were suspicious of what was happening then either the local party knew or were incredibly negligent... |
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Post by michaelarden on Mar 5, 2024 22:10:47 GMT
That's an election offence. Are they being prosecuted? |
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Post by mej111 on Mar 5, 2024 22:34:53 GMT
That's an election offence. Are they being prosecuted? I believe they have been reported by the local party to the police for prosecution but I have no idea whether anything has or will come of it. |
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Post by kevinf on Mar 5, 2024 22:51:51 GMT
Worth repeating again and again that this is what happens when Labour's centralist organization does not allow wards to select their own candidates. No-one knew anything about these people imposed on them by the regional office. This does sum up Labour’s South East Regional Office. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 6, 2024 9:42:48 GMT
Regional office can make reasonably good decisions when they impose candidates, but there are two necessary preconditions for it:
1. Experienced people in the regional office who know the region well and are familiar with most local activists;
2. Low enough churn of activists that you can reasonably keep track of them.
Anecdotally, there's been a lot of turnover in regional offices in recent years and Brighton is the sort of place with a high level of churn.
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The Bishop
Labour
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 6, 2024 12:54:55 GMT
I find it hard to get as exercised by this as some tbh - two chancers got found out in a relatively short time, that arguably shows the system isn't working too badly.
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Post by kevinf on Mar 6, 2024 15:47:59 GMT
I find it hard to get as exercised by this as some tbh - two chancers got found out in a relatively short time, that arguably shows the system isn't working too badly. I think you would be pretty exercised if you were a Labour Party member in the wards concerned though? |
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maxque
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Post by maxque on Mar 6, 2024 15:54:31 GMT
Regional office can make reasonably good decisions when they impose candidates, but there are two necessary preconditions for it: 1. Experienced people in the regional office who know the region well and are familiar with most local activists; 2. Low enough churn of activists that you can reasonably keep track of them. Anecdotally, there's been a lot of turnover in regional offices in recent years and Brighton is the sort of place with a high level of churn. Still doesn't justify replacing local democracy by unelected office boys. |
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