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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 0:54:03 GMT
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley
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Post by John Chanin on Mar 15, 2024 12:34:00 GMT
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Post by Yaffles on Apr 3, 2024 14:44:54 GMT
Very minor boundary changes and a name change will not alter the underlying dynamic in this seat. It is perhaps slightly surprising that Tahir Ali has managed to avoid getting himself de-selected despite a few run ins with the leadership.
Gaza will surely have an effect in a an area where Respect came close to winning in 2010 when a split opposition meant Labour got back in with only one third of the vote. Long term the only threat to Labour could come from an alliance of disaffected hipsters of Moseley/Kings Heath and the Muslim vote, but for now that seems unlikely.
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Post by bd on May 12, 2024 10:20:55 GMT
I anticipated Salma Yaqoob giving this seat another try but it looks as though the Independent challenge will be Shakeel Afsar of the Anderton Park School/No Outsiders controversy. Labour will feel that Afsar is an easier opponent to face but it is likely to be a bumpy ride. He’s not afraid of controversy and the Anderton Park School protests prompted a real clash of cultures between socially liberal and socially conservative residents in the area.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on May 12, 2024 11:48:29 GMT
What a stupid name for a constituency. It's even worse than the erstwhile Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath: at least that arose directly from the abolition of Birmingham Small Heath. There hasn't been a Birmingham Moseley constituency since 1950.
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Post by Yaffles on May 12, 2024 12:30:30 GMT
What a stupid name for a constituency. It's even worse than the erstwhile Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath: at least that arose directly from the abolition of Birmingham Small Heath. There hasn't been a Birmingham Moseley constituency since 1950. Yes but the aged faux hipsters of Moseley have always resented being lumped in with other less cultured neighbourhoods. They have finally been heard after decades of whining! |
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Post by bd on May 12, 2024 13:05:57 GMT
It’s the same reason they’re calling their new station Moseley Village when it eventually opens.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on May 13, 2024 17:41:56 GMT
It’s the same reason they’re calling their new station Moseley Village when it eventually opens. Things that there ought not to have been a consultation on... |
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Post by Yaffles on May 13, 2024 18:10:17 GMT
It’s the same reason they’re calling their new station Moseley Village when it eventually opens. Things that there ought not to have been a consultation on... Yes but then we wouldn’t be getting the magnificently named Pineapple Road station. |
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Post by Foggy on May 13, 2024 22:42:26 GMT
Dare I suggest this seat should've been called NE Worcs?
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Post by right on May 31, 2024 4:07:10 GMT
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Post by Chris from Brum on May 31, 2024 7:10:14 GMT
Ali is useless, and local Labour sources suggest not universally liked. He has strong support from the Kashmiri community in Sparkbrook and Sparkhill, but not much from elsewhere. He's also been accused of making antisemitic remarks directed at members of the Jewish community in Moseley. His deselection would be welcomed by many both within and without the Labour party. Owen Jones can go do one. |
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Post by Adam in Stroud on May 31, 2024 7:15:16 GMT
Ali is useless, and local Labour sources suggest not universally liked. He has strong support from the Kashmiri community in Sparkbrook and Sparkhill, but not much from elsewhere. He's also been accused of making antisemitic remarks directed at members of the Jewish community in Moseley. His deselection would be welcomed by many both within and without the Labour party. Owen Jones can go do one. I feel that your last sentence is one of those universally accepted things that no-one needs to say any more. |
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Post by iainbhx on May 31, 2024 7:19:59 GMT
The local Labour Party is never going to be happy with whoever is the MP for Hall Green & Moseley. Doesn't matter who it is, some faction will be unhappy.
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Post by The Bishop on May 31, 2024 10:58:59 GMT
Whatever else you might say about him (and of course many have things to say) Jones used to be a genuinely interesting commentator who could take a view you didn't expect on some topics. He is now a shrill, irritating, one-note one-dimensional crank magnet. I wonder if he will think it was all worth it a few years down the line.
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Post by Merseymike on May 31, 2024 12:09:22 GMT
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 31, 2024 16:25:14 GMT
QED.
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Post by Sg1 on May 31, 2024 17:14:50 GMT
The local Labour Party is never going to be happy with whoever is the MP for Hall Green & Moseley. Doesn't matter who it is, some faction will be unhappy. If the labour party are ever happy with their MP's and factional balance, we'll truly be in the end days. |
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Post by bd on Jun 2, 2024 7:24:05 GMT
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Post by John Chanin on Jun 5, 2024 18:04:29 GMT
Impressed that the Gaza independent here (Mohammad Hafeez) has not just delivered the first election leaflet, but is ambitious enough, with enough supporters, to leaflet leafy middle class Moseley, where votes are likely to be few.
I do wonder though what his leaflets look like in the rest of the constituency, as the list of his policies here are a fairly standard left wing improve public services selection, which most people here would agree with.
Edit: I have done a google search and Hafeez is a barrister with close links to Birmingham mosques, and probably not therefore an extremist. The muslim vote website interestingly has no recommendation for this seat. I would have thought that our Labour MP, Tahir Ali, who has been a vocal critic of Labour's response to events in Gaza, would have got the nod. I await developments with interest, including who actually gets nominated tomorrow.
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