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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 2, 2016 0:02:49 GMT
There were special circumstances behind that. Hugh Dalton was a sitting MP, but was abandoning a marginal seat (Peckham) to move to a safe Durham mining seat. Then the sitting Labour MP died before the election. Rather than cause a byelection in Peckham by resigning to contest the byelection, Ruth Dalton offered to be a caretaker MP for the few months before the general election. If the general election was only a few months away, why bother holding the by-election in the first place? Why not just wait? Didn't know when the election would be. Ben Spoor died in December 1928, and the Parliament could have run until October 1929. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 2, 2016 0:11:50 GMT
Bishop Auckland wasn't that safe, but the comparatively relaxed political climate within the Labour movement in the area was much more congenial to a man of Dalton's... er... personality... than was to be found in London.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 2, 2016 0:14:51 GMT
Dalton had a pretty confused personality but the old Etonian son of a Royal chaplain arguably didn't entirely fit with the Labour movement anywhere. With the possible exception of Cambridge which was where he first stood.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 2, 2016 0:25:51 GMT
Yeah, but the DMA was unusually tolerant of oddballs from outside (and quite happy to provide parachutes) so long as they obeyed the whip. Though poor paranoid Dalton still liked to be periodically reassured that his CLP was basically just a social club.
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Post by David Ashforth on Mar 2, 2016 21:00:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 21:07:15 GMT
Labour shortlist Cllr Gill Furniss Cllr Jayne Dunn Jayne Lim A classic case of shortlist your preferred candidate and two no-hopers. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 21:08:28 GMT
Kudos to him. It won't be a brilliant result but he is a great example of public service. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 21:10:57 GMT
Labour shortlist Cllr Gill Furniss Cllr Jayne Dunn Jayne Lim A classic case of shortlist your preferred candidate and two no-hopers. Why is Dr Lim so preferred? |
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Post by neilm on Mar 3, 2016 1:42:33 GMT
Kudos to him. It won't be a brilliant result but he is a great example of public service. Indeed. Have a lot of time for him. |
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Post by johnr on Mar 3, 2016 11:45:34 GMT
Apparently, Oliver Coppard went to London for a 9 minute interview with the NEC only to be rejected. He should at least have qualified for the shortlist.
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Post by neilm on Mar 3, 2016 11:54:30 GMT
Nine minutes? What do they do in these things?
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Post by Antiochian on Mar 3, 2016 12:00:56 GMT
Like a Soviet show trial.. you confess all your sins then sent to the gulags... really rather brutal treatment for someone who did pretty well for Labour in May last year.. he should be "considering his future" with the party..
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 3, 2016 12:33:24 GMT
Maybe the party wants to keep him in reserve for a still distinctly possible Hallam byelection later in this parliament? Just a thought......
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Post by andrea on Mar 3, 2016 12:48:52 GMT
Why is Dr Lim so preferred? According to the Guardian, Lim is a public health doctor and a Corbynista from Islington North. According to the New Statesman, the leadership would be happy with Furniss, although she was a Burnham supporter. Dunn voted for Cooper. Her son works in her office. She tried Heeley selection last time but she didn't get on the shortlist. She was then shortlisted for Colne Valley (the second selection) |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 3, 2016 19:27:23 GMT
Why is Dr Lim so preferred? According to the Guardian, Lim is a public health doctor and a Corbynista from Islington North. According to the New Statesman, the leadership would be happy with Furniss, although she was a Burnham supporter. It's not like the leadership has sufficient control of the NEC to dictate these things anyway. In any case, Corbyn himself would be unlikely to favour particularly Mandelsonian shortlists, though inevitably the same would not be true of many of his aides. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 3, 2016 21:48:19 GMT
Gill Furniss wins the selection.
Expecting news soon about the defecatory habits of bears.
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Post by Tangent on Mar 3, 2016 21:54:07 GMT
The most interesting example of this sort of thing was Ruth Dalton preceding her husband as the MP for Bishop Auckland even though he was the designated candidate for the seat.... And not dead. There were special circumstances behind that. Hugh Dalton was a sitting MP, but was abandoning a marginal seat (Peckham) to move to a safe Durham mining seat. Then the sitting Labour MP died before the election. Rather than cause a byelection in Peckham by resigning to contest the byelection, Ruth Dalton offered to be a caretaker MP for the few months before the general election. As I understand it, of less importance than the safeness of the seat was that Dalton was at odds with the agent for the seat, and the agent eventually prevailed. |
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Post by andrea on Mar 3, 2016 22:46:55 GMT
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Post by timmullen1 on Mar 3, 2016 23:50:10 GMT
Reports are that Gill Furniss has won the Labour selection.
(Apologies David, didn't see your earlier post)
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Post by David Ashforth on Mar 3, 2016 23:51:20 GMT
Reports are that Gill Furniss has won the Labour selection. I think it's official  |
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