Newark By-election

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Confirmed on David's twitter feed.

David Kirwan ‏@davegaz 32m
Delighted to be selected as Green Party candidate #newarkbyelection pledge donation to campaign [e-mail] #Newark

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Don't tell Caitlin Moran, but it's an all male ballot paper...

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Greens to stand in Newark By-election

The Green Party has selected their candidate to stand in the Newark by-election called for June 5th. He is David Kirwan, an area organiser for UNISON, working within the NHS. Based in Nottingham, where he serves as a Town Councillor in Kimberley, he was born and lived in Newark until his mid twenties.

David Kirwan told the selection meeting held in Newark on Saturday that he retained strong connections in the town, where members of his family still work in the local hospital. He said, “I believe that the Hospital and schooling are major issues in this election. We have witnessed the hospital deteriorate from the excellent cottage hospital on London Road, with complete local care, to the scaled down skeleton service we have today. I know that parents are increasingly seeking education for their children outside of the town, with the local schools where I was educated being starved of funds by policies of cuts and privatisation started by Labour and continued aggressively by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Government. It's time for change. I will campaign on a manifesto that offers an alternative to austerity, seeks fairness and greater equality in society, and builds a green economy that supplies affordable food, energy and housing. It will be a campaign based on "Hope not Fear".

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Can confirm I'm on the ballot here.

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Bored, Kris?

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It's high time someone addressed the REAL issues we face, like councils who never bother to tweet by-election results until the following day.

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We need to make sure Kris finishes ahead of the PSP. Shall we all come up and canvass for you, Dear Leader?

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It's okay, I plan to just get every psephologist to just declare I've won, regardless of the actual result.

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From the Newark Advertiser

The secretary of the Say Yes to Newark Hospital Campaign has announced he is to stand as an independent candidate in the Newark by-election.
Mr Paul Baggaley, who is also a member of the Newark Sports Association and a Newark town councillor, said he wants to provide people with a candidate who will stand up on local issues.

He said his five priorities would be local education, Newark Hospital, sports facilities, parliamentary standards and democratic accountability.

He said: "None of the main candidates are local, which I find absolutely amazing, and there has been a lack of engagement on local issues.

"I think people have a right to expect that there should be at least a couple of candidates from the constituency on the ballot paper.

"People wonder if their MP is working for them or the party in London. That is as much as an issue for me as Newark Hospital."

He said he hoped to provide a "serious protest vote."

"I enter any contest to win, and that is my objective," he said.

"How far I get is up to the people of Newark."

[Tony Otim]

May 12, 2014 20:40:24 GMT jamesdoyle said:

Confirmed on David's twitter feed.

David Kirwan ‏@davegaz 32m
Delighted to be selected as Green Party candidate #newarkbyelection pledge donation to campaign [e-mail] #Newark

I am pleasantly surprised

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May 13, 2014 10:27:59 GMT AdminSTB said:

It's okay, I plan to just get every psephologist to just declare I've won, regardless of the actual result.

Very proud to have the endorsement of Psephologists First for my election here in Worthing.

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Apr 29, 2014 17:51:08 GMT @ianrobo said:

Mercer has resigned

Are you back then?

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May 13, 2014 13:56:41 GMT cogload said:

Apr 29, 2014 17:51:08 GMT @ianrobo said:

Mercer has resigned

Are you back then?

Buck up Cogs he has posted dozens of messages. Pay more attention.

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May 13, 2014 13:56:41 GMT cogload said:

Apr 29, 2014 17:51:08 GMT @ianrobo said:

Mercer has resigned

Are you back then?

By his own admission, only in election threads. And sport threads. But not talking to Tories or fat people

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May 13, 2014 14:14:59 GMT carlton43 said:

May 13, 2014 13:56:41 GMT cogload said:

Are you back then?

Buck up Cogs he has posted dozens of messages. Pay more attention.

Hey I havent been on ere for a bit. Busy ya know.

Anyway Tory hold.

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May 13, 2014 9:50:32 GMT AdminSTB said:

Can confirm I'm on the ballot here.

Do you have a logo?

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SOPN out . Dick Rogers standing for "Stop Commercial Banks owning British Money"

www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/newarkbyelection/

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Official list

Paul BAGGALEY (Independent)
David BISHOP (Bus Pass Elvis)
Nick The Flying BRICK (Monster Raving Loony)
Andy HAYES (Independent)
Roger HELMER (UK Independence Party ( UKIP))
Robert JENRICK (Conservative)
David KIRWAN (Green)
Michael PAYNE (Labour)
Dick RODGERS (Stop Commercial Banks Owning Britian's Money)
David WATTS (Liberal Democrat)
Lee WOODS. (Patriotic Socialist)

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Since the Patriotic Socialist Party is apparently so desperate to part with £500, I should have charged Mr Stott for his use of the forum as an advertising platform...

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According to the Indy, Labour has basically thrown in the towel in Newark, deciding it isn't worth the effort.

Of course this would be a massive boost to UKIP. It seems like an odd decision from Labour because the reason they've just lost their lead in the polls is not so much because of a rise in the Tory vote as a seeming loss of support to UKIP.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-boosted-by-labour-decision-to-soft-pedal-in-newark-byelection-9350087.html