Leicester East

[john07]

Apr 6, 2024 10:03:44 GMT batman said:

he keeps coming back like certain other undesirable things

The turd that will not flush?

I was based in Leicester East when Vaz was first elected. I met him several times during the campaign and after. Even then would not trust in the slightest. At the time I was pleased to get rid of the poisoned dwarf Peter Bruinvels.

[batman]

I’ve known him longer. I knew him a bit at Cambridge and then much better later shortly afterwards when he became our CLP Secretary then pretty stereotypically our parliamentary candidate. Our relationship has been a testy one over the years and I did everything I could to stop him getting our nomination.

[iainbhx]

Apr 6, 2024 10:03:44 GMT batman said:

he keeps coming back like certain other undesirable things

He is political herpes.

[johnloony]

Apr 6, 2024 21:32:16 GMT john07 said:

Apr 6, 2024 10:03:44 GMT batman said:

he keeps coming back like certain other undesirable things

The turd that will not flush?

I was based in Leicester East when Vaz was first elected. I met him several times during the campaign and after. Even then would not trust in the slightest. At the time I was pleased to get rid of the poisoned dwarf Peter Bruinvels.

That made me wonder what happened to Bruinvels. I was slightly surprised to find that he is not only still alive, but that he’s only 74 - in other words, I had forgotten how young he was (33) when he became an MP. But anyway, in 2022 (acccording to Wikipedia) he issued a statement:

Bruinvels issued a statement in February 2022 apologizing for and repudiating his 1986 statements. Published in the Surrey County Council's staff newsletter, Bruinvels indicated how the years since 1986 had changed his attitude and perceptions, as well as noting actions he has taken recently which have been contra to his prior position: "I have had a lot of time to reflect on this especially as I have developed close friendships with a number of gay people as well as family members who have come out as gay and realise how wrong I was in making those comments then, some 36 years ago. I am now trying to publicly demonstrate that I have learned the lessons of my past discriminatory behaviour through the actions I have since taken, including recently supporting trans-gender and same-sex blessings in Church as well as voting to ban the practice of Conversion Therapy on General Synod."

In other words, he grew up and got a bit of experience of real people in real life.

I sometimes wonder how much the views of other famously-homophobic people changed in response to real life. Frig zumple, Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman died in 2014, so she lived long enough to see same-sex marriage being enacted by a Conservative government, and lots of gay people in prominent positions in public life. As a former barrister, she should have been intelligent enough to adjust her views a bit, but I have no idea if she did or not.

Air Commodore Harold Shepherd died in 2000, after a long and distinguished career of writing millions of letters to the Daily Telegraph saying how dangerous it would be to allow homosexuality to spread within the armed forces (I think that a central part of his theory was that gay men have a much more intense and promiscuous sexual urge than heterosexual men), so he didn’t live long enough to be able to see that it didn’t make the slightest bit of difference to real life in the army, and that it really didn’t matter. In any case, I’m guessing he was probably too thick to adjust his way of thinking beyond the prejudices he built up in his youth and early adulthood.

[lackeroftalent]

This article makes it very clear that Claudia Webbe does intend to stand. Also author seems to think that Keith Vaz will too.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/community-suffers-lot-hate-and-lives-poverty

[Rural Radical]

Literally anything could happen here, though I guess that it will be a Labour hold with a smaller than expected majority.

[Deleted]

Conservative gain?

[Sg1]

I wouldn't be brave enough to predict this seat until a candidates list comes out. Could see the Conservatives poll around 30% here, so depends on how all the other votes split and for whom.

[steve]

May 23, 2024 8:43:51 GMT Sg1 said:

I wouldn't be brave enough to predict this seat until a candidates list comes out. Could see the Conservatives poll around 30% here, so depends on how all the other votes split and for whom.

All three Leicester seats are on a list of more than a hundred constituencies where the Conservatives are still looking for candidates.

[Sg1]

May 24, 2024 7:42:21 GMT steve said:

May 23, 2024 8:43:51 GMT Sg1 said:

I wouldn't be brave enough to predict this seat until a candidates list comes out. Could see the Conservatives poll around 30% here, so depends on how all the other votes split and for whom.

All three Leicester seats are on a list of more than a hundred constituencies where the Conservatives are still looking for candidates.

Okay, so they've bottled it already lol

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[rcronald]

May 24, 2024 11:23:00 GMT @weld said:

Hopefully she loses her deposit.

[joe]

May 24, 2024 11:23:00 GMT @weld said:

so will she keep her deposit 

[Pete Whitehead]

I don't see any reason why she would do any better than Simon Danzuk or Chris Williamson did in similar circumstances. Anyway she is not 'the' Independent candidate - she is an Independent candidate, possibly one of several

[right]

That's not the ex-MP announcement we're interested in

[batman]

she will be mashed.

[andrea]

May 24, 2024 11:57:17 GMT batman said:

she will be mashed.

She will get the loss-of-office payment.

[mrtoad]

I was amazed that the Conservatives hadn't selected a candidate yet for this seat. Unless it's being held open for some local figure with commitment issues, a late selection makes no sense given that it's possible to get a surprise result and it's the sort of place where a candidate needs to get themselves known by several local communities.

[joe]

x.com/ClaudiaWebbe/status/1793990618512871858

I mean you can't make it up can you

[minionofmidas]

Who's the Labour candidate