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10 candidates for Lambeth and Southwark GLA constituency!

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knatchbull

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The list of nominations for the Lambeth and Southwark Greater London Authority constituency has been announced and there are 10 candidates:

Shane Collins, Green Party
Jasmijn De Boo, Animals Count
Shirley Houghton, Conservative Party
Daniel Lambert, The Socialist Party
Geoffrey Macharia, Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party
Caroline Pidgeon, Liberal Democrats
Janus Polenceus, English Democrats
Valerie Shawcross, The Labour Party
Jens Winton, UK Independence Party
Katt Young, Left List

the main contest would seem to be between Valerie Shawcross (sitting GLA member, Labour) and Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat).

the results last time were

Valerie Shawcross, Labour 36,280
Caroline Pidgeon, Liberal Democrat 30,805
Bernard Gentry, Conservative 17,379
Shane Collins, Green 11,900
Frank Maloney, UK Independence 8,776
Janet Noble, Respect 4,930
Simisola Lawanson, Christian Peoples 3,655

Majority 5,475
Turnout 124,622 (33.38%)

There is a Guardian profile of the constituency at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/08/lambeth.southwark and there is further info on the process at http://www.londonelects.org.uk/

You have until 16 April to register to vote0 if you're not currently registered - contact Lambeth or Southwark borough councils as appropriate for registration forms (probably also available on the council / london elects websites)
 
knatchbull said:
the main contest would seem to be between Valerie Shawcross (sitting GLA member, Labour) and Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrat).
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Its going to be a tight one. Val Showcross has always seemed alright to me (on the simple measure that she answers her emails), so it'd be a shame if she went.
 
Caroline Pidgeon would seem to have it covered - she is also third on the Liberal Democrats' London-wide list so is likely to be elected that way

If you recall we have two votes in this election: one for constituency candidate and one for 10 London-wide seats allocated to party to ensure that the results more closely tally to overall public opinion (this is how we have two Green GLA members).
 
Orang Utan said:
Who are the Socialist Party and The Left List?
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Left List are the Swappies cover now that Galloway has had his way with them, not sure about the Socialist Party as theres a number of groups with similar names - could be the mob who used to be Militant back in the day.
 
Belushi said:
Left List are the Swappies cover now that Galloway has had his way with them, not sure about the Socialist Party as theres a number of groups with similar names - could be the mob who used to be Militant back in the day.
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Are any of them honest socialists?
 
I've never understood this Swappie business and why they are so reviled - I once asked on here and got many nebulous unfathomable answers
 
the Socialist Party are the ones based on clapham highstreet I think (or is that the Socialist Party of Great Britain, or the British ...)
 
Danny Lambert is with the Clapham High Street lot - the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/news.html

Their blog name "vaux populi" suggests a sense of humour :eek:
http://spgb.blogspot.com/

I had thought that their official party description was The Socialist Party (GB) but it appears that the returning officer has allowed them to drop the brackets as there are no rival Trots standing in London this time to cause confusion.:D

The dissidents who own the domain name www.socialistparty.org.uk are apparently now registered with the Electoral Commission as Socialist Studies Party (1904) but I am not aware of them having ever contested an election in that guise, although some of them have stood for the separately registered Socialist Alternative and Huddersfield Save our NHS parties.
 
So it's like Life Of Brian all over again. I just want to know if there's any real alternative to voting green, yet there's no literature from anyone yet. Some people just seem to put their names down and wait.
 
Twiggy supports Animals Count party so they must be alright:).They were giving out leaflets in Brixton today.
 
Valerie Shawcross's team were knocking at doors on the Roupell Park estate yesterday - I had a question they couldn't answer and they actually rang her and she came all the way up to the fourth floor of the block I was in from somewhere else on the estate especially to answer it for me. I was fairly impressed.
 
slcr said:
Valerie Shawcross's team were knocking at doors on the Roupell Park estate yesterday - I had a question they couldn't answer and they actually rang her and she came all the way up to the fourth floor of the block I was in from somewhere else on the estate especially to answer it for me. I was fairly impressed.
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Do you think she might want [for which read: be utterly desperate for] your vote?
 
Desperate or Committed?

MrBC said:
Do you think she might want [for which read: be utterly desperate for] your vote?
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With this sort of reasoning there's no way that candidates, of whatever party, can do the right thing. If they don't call round and don't take an interest they are accused of taking people for granted; while if they do call and do take an interest, they are desperate.
 
lang rabbie said:
Their blog name "vaux populi" suggests a sense of humour :eek:
http://spgb.blogspot.com/
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Yes his blog is entertaining - he suggests that gaining 240 votes at the last election in Vauxhall was a triumph because it was, at 0.6% of the vote, double the level of previous elections: http://spgb.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_archive.html

Janus, English Democrats, is another potentially comic person - at the recent Vassall byelection he received 8 votes which is 2 less than the number of people who signed his nomination form.
 
memespring said:
the Socialist Party are the ones based on clapham highstreet I think (or is that the Socialist Party of Great Britain, or the British ...)
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yep - not the socialist party linked to above by Belushi. So you can sleep safe in your bed - its not trottery - lunacy maybe... Its the SPGB

There is only one Socialist Party candidate in London - in Lewisham - a sitting councillor
 
lang rabbie said:
The dissidents who own the domain name www.socialistparty.org.uk are apparently now registered with the Electoral Commission as Socialist Studies Party (1904) but I am not aware of them having ever contested an election in that guise, although some of them have stood for the separately registered Socialist Alternative and Huddersfield Save our NHS parties.
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The socialist party you link to has feck all to do with the SPGB - either faction. They are not 'dissidants' - they are an organisation of thousands (which is not a lot in itself but - as opposed to 20 just or however many the ejets of the SPGB claim...). The SP are registered as the Socialist Party but not allowed to stand as the Socialist Party

The Socialist party - which has sitting councillors in Lewisham and Coventry comes from the Militant. irt is forced to stand as Socialist Alternative because the two man + dog of the SPGB (now split inot 2 or 3 factions all with members possibly only just in double figures...) got their knickers in a twist about the name.

In Huddersfield the SP candidate stood under the Save Our NHS name because she was part of an alliance with non-SP members - she is also now a sitting councillor (she is also a doctor which may have something to do with her NHS concerns...).

Outside of the prolatarian stronhold of Clapham the SPGB don't exist.
 
happyshopper said:
With this sort of reasoning there's no way that candidates, of whatever party, can do the right thing. If they don't call round and don't take an interest they are accused of taking people for granted; while if they do call and do take an interest, they are desperate.
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I think it's reasonable to draw a distinction between 'interest' taken in the years between elections and that shown 3 weeks before polling day. In Shawcross' case, she is all but invisible except when dredging for votes.
 
MrBC said:
I think it's reasonable to draw a distinction between 'interest' taken in the years between elections and that shown 3 weeks before polling day. In Shawcross' case, she is all but invisible except when dredging for votes.
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But thats as it should be in a way - she is there to represent us at City Hall and if you had a problem with an issue that fell under the GLA's power she would be able to sort it (or attempt to at least) for you. Besides she appears in the South London Press and various events in the constituency with which she/ the GLA/ the mayor are concerned.
 
knatchbull said:
But thats as it should be in a way - she is there to represent us at City Hall and if you had a problem with an issue that fell under the GLA's power she would be able to sort it (or attempt to at least) for you. Besides she appears in the South London Press and various events in the constituency with which she/ the GLA/ the mayor are concerned.
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I've little doubt she'll be the 'ex-GLA member' come May 2nd and good riddance I say.
 
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