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Post by Ron Swanson on Jun 7, 2024 17:43:00 GMT
Jeremy Lunn has been replaced by West Yorkshire Mayor candidate Arnie Craven has the Tory candidate, due to ill health from Jeremy Lunn. Apparently suffering from a bad back… Fair play to Arnie for stepping up, standing as a Tory in Wakefield is a thankless task. |
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Post by thejedi on Jun 7, 2024 17:53:14 GMT
Nic Stansby is standing as an independent. Well that’s £500 she’ll never see again. What £500? |
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Post by markgoodair on Jun 7, 2024 18:23:08 GMT
Well that’s £500 she’ll never see again. What £500? You’re the one falsely claiming that she would be a candidate so what exactly is your point? |
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Post by YL on Jun 7, 2024 18:44:48 GMT
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Post by Ron Swanson on Jun 7, 2024 18:49:38 GMT
As far as I can see it, that was the intention.
She had put things out on social media and had a decent response to what she’d posted..
There are plenty of people out there who like her - and a few (mostly the rump of Wakefield Tories) who don’t.
Would she have retained her deposit? I reckon so, certainly before Sunak’s gaffe yesterday. That might have persuaded people to vote for Reform who otherwise might have voted for someone else - an independent, or the LDs, or other.
Lib Dems don’t have much to be smug about, they have a decent candidate but he’s a bit… smarmy. Good luck to him going out canvassing in Eastmoor and Portobello, if he chooses to. A bit different to Oulton and Woodlesford.
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Post by thejedi on Jun 7, 2024 20:56:32 GMT
You’re the one falsely claiming that she would be a candidate so what exactly is your point? I didn’t “falsely” claim, she said on her Facebook page that she was going to stand, and then she stated today that she had to pull out due to family reason. Is that still a “false” claim in your eyes? |
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Post by ArmchairCritic on Jun 7, 2024 21:35:38 GMT
Nic Stansby is standing as an independent. No she isn't. There is a very good reason why she has pulled out but it would be improper of me to discuss those reasons here. It's a private family matter and I would no more tell people about it, than the nurse at the VD clinic would tell people that you had herpes. |
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Post by devolutionist on Jun 7, 2024 22:32:32 GMT
YP got our nomination in without about 1 minute to spare. |
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Post by markgoodair on Jun 7, 2024 22:41:17 GMT
There is a very good reason why she has pulled out but it would be improper of me to discuss those reasons here. It's a private family matter and I would no more tell people about it, than the nurse at the VD clinic would tell people that you had herpes. Honestly no one gives a damn. |
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Post by thejedi on Jun 8, 2024 0:56:20 GMT
There is a very good reason why she has pulled out but it would be improper of me to discuss those reasons here. It's a private family matter and I would no more tell people about it, than the nurse at the VD clinic would tell people that you had herpes. Honestly no one gives a damn. About you? Agreed. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jun 8, 2024 2:07:25 GMT
YP got our nomination in without about 1 minute to spare. Why do people leave it so late? This is a legal deadline, it CANNOT be bypassed. I'm paranoid about getting nomination papers in, in locals I aim to get them in 14 days before the deadline. While Parliamentary nominations are only open for four days you can print off the papers earlier, and I got ours done Friday 8 days ago..... but still the candidate didn't book an appointment until this Thursday.
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Post by devolutionist on Jun 8, 2024 7:03:25 GMT
YP got our nomination in without about 1 minute to spare. Why do people leave it so late? This is a legal deadline, it CANNOT be bypassed. I'm paranoid about getting nomination papers in, in locals I aim to get them in 14 days before the deadline. While Parliamentary nominations are only open for four days you can print off the papers earlier, and I got ours done Friday 8 days ago..... but still the candidate didn't book an appointment until this Thursday.
Our initial candidate for the constituency was selected months ago only to be at the start of a trip overseas when the election was called. This was a multi-person Friday afternoon effort to find somebody, get their noms, rustle together their deposit (cash as it was the last day) and get to electoral services. People should bare in mind that the YP has zero paid employees, all volunteers, with day jobs (and, frustratingly, a surprisingly large number of non-drivers). Volunteers, rightfully, prioritise getting their own papers in order and approved before they turn their attentions to whether they have the capacity to help others get across the line. The short nomination window doesn't do the small/emerging parties many favours in all honestly, in fact we had 4 willing candidates who couldn't stand as the nomination window coincided with them being overseas on holiday. |
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Post by Ron Swanson on Jun 8, 2024 7:28:30 GMT
There is a very good reason why she has pulled out but it would be improper of me to discuss those reasons here. It's a private family matter and I would no more tell people about it, than the nurse at the VD clinic would tell people that you had herpes. Honestly no one gives a damn. You were clearly bothered enough to comment… |
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Post by ArmchairCritic on Jun 8, 2024 10:50:35 GMT
There is a very good reason why she has pulled out but it would be improper of me to discuss those reasons here. It's a private family matter and I would no more tell people about it, than the nurse at the VD clinic would tell people that you had herpes. Honestly no one gives a damn. So why are you raising the issue, you flatulent, fuck-wit. |
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Post by observer on Jun 8, 2024 11:08:36 GMT
Calm down, calm down. Everyone
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Post by johnloony on Jun 8, 2024 19:57:36 GMT
Why do people leave it so late? This is a legal deadline, it CANNOT be bypassed. I'm paranoid about getting nomination papers in, in locals I aim to get them in 14 days before the deadline. While Parliamentary nominations are only open for four days you can print off the papers earlier, and I got ours done Friday 8 days ago..... but still the candidate didn't book an appointment until this Thursday. Our initial candidate for the constituency was selected months ago only to be at the start of a trip overseas when the election was called. This was a multi-person Friday afternoon effort to find somebody, get their noms, rustle together their deposit (cash as it was the last day) and get to electoral services. People should bare in mind that the YP has zero paid employees, all volunteers, with day jobs (and, frustratingly, a surprisingly large number of non-drivers). Volunteers, rightfully, prioritise getting their own papers in order and approved before they turn their attentions to whether they have the capacity to help others get across the line. The short nomination window doesn't do the small/emerging parties many favours in all honestly, in fact we had 4 willing candidates who couldn't stand as the nomination window coincided with them being overseas on holiday. In 21 elections as a candidate (always as my own agent, never with any help from anybody else) I always managed to arrange and submit my nomination papers with plenty of time to spare. On on occasion, I had to go and get a second set of nomination signatures because the D.A.R.O. informally suggested that there might be a problem with one of the signatures (in the end, there wasn't). On about 5 occasions, I got 2 sets of nomination signatures. On most occasions, I was very early in submitting my nomination papers. On one occasion, I was an hour earlier than my booked time because I arrived early just on the offchance that there was an earlier slot available (there was). On two occasions, one of my nomination signatures was duplicated by another candidate being nominated by the same person (on both occasions, mine was the first in, and on both occasions the other candidate had to sort out a replacement set of signatures). I never had to panic or scramble around worrying about the tight timetable. ...although I never go on holidays, I don't have a job, and I prioritise being an elections geek above almost all other aspects of real normal life |
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Post by devolutionist on Jun 9, 2024 8:32:58 GMT
Our initial candidate for the constituency was selected months ago only to be at the start of a trip overseas when the election was called. This was a multi-person Friday afternoon effort to find somebody, get their noms, rustle together their deposit (cash as it was the last day) and get to electoral services. People should bare in mind that the YP has zero paid employees, all volunteers, with day jobs (and, frustratingly, a surprisingly large number of non-drivers). Volunteers, rightfully, prioritise getting their own papers in order and approved before they turn their attentions to whether they have the capacity to help others get across the line. The short nomination window doesn't do the small/emerging parties many favours in all honestly, in fact we had 4 willing candidates who couldn't stand as the nomination window coincided with them being overseas on holiday. In 21 elections as a candidate (always as my own agent, never with any help from anybody else) I always managed to arrange and submit my nomination papers with plenty of time to spare. On on occasion, I had to go and get a second set of nomination signatures because the D.A.R.O. informally suggested that there might be a problem with one of the signatures (in the end, there wasn't). On about 5 occasions, I got 2 sets of nomination signatures. On most occasions, I was very early in submitting my nomination papers. On one occasion, I was an hour earlier than my booked time because I arrived early just on the offchance that there was an earlier slot available (there was). On two occasions, one of my nomination signatures was duplicated by another candidate being nominated by the same person (on both occasions, mine was the first in, and on both occasions the other candidate had to sort out a replacement set of signatures). I never had to panic or scramble around worrying about the tight timetable. ...although I never go on holidays, I don't have a job, and I prioritise being an elections geek above almost all other aspects of real normal life I got mine in Thursday morning, and knew that the papers would be fine as I'd filled in all the electoral role numbers and got valid spares (save from something rare happening, like a seconder or proposer found to have nominated another candidate). When sorting papers for another of our candidates on Thursday afternoon (I was the agent for that one, we had a small problem), I had plenty of company in the waiting room including from a Conservative Candidate, a Green Candidate, and a Lib Dem Election agent who was there to submit papers for two candidates @j.G.Harston, so lets not pretend the last minute scramble is the reserve of the smaller/emerging parties, I can be confident that my papers early on Thursday morning were approved and payment made comfortably before two North Yorks Lib Dems ;-) Nice chap though was the Lib Dem election agent for Selby & Wetherby and Easingwold, as was the Tory candidate for Selby, and the Green candidate for Scarborough and Whitby! |
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Post by hullenedge on Jun 11, 2024 15:23:27 GMT
According to the BBC Keith Mason has been 'sacked' as the WP candidate.
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Post by jamie on Jun 11, 2024 16:56:20 GMT
According to the BBC Keith Mason has been 'sacked' as the WP candidate. They were floating around on social media weeks ago so it’s not like they’ve only just found out. Galloway’s quote suggests it’s down to backlash rather than sacking him on principle: “It seems repentance is not enough in the elections game however. So he's gone” |
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Post by greenhert on Jun 11, 2024 18:34:24 GMT
According to the BBC Keith Mason has been 'sacked' as the WP candidate. They were floating around on social media weeks ago so it’s not like they’ve only just found out. Galloway’s quote suggests it’s down to backlash rather than sacking him on principle: “It seems repentance is not enough in the elections game however. So he's gone” An ironic statement from someone who has made multiple political comebacks. |
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