DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Those two are apparently the only candidates who actually live in the constituency, if the local report I read was accurate 
Niche left candidates thread
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Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Pretty sure Diane and the Green live in Hackney tho.Those two are apparently the only candidates who actually live in the constituency, if the local report I read was accurate
76 votes last time. Molecular politics indeed. (My first Deleuze joke.
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Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Well you had to trhizome time.Pretty sure Diane and the Green live in Hackney tho.
76 votes last time. Molecular politics indeed. (My first Deleuze joke.
Je vais chercher mon manteau....
So bloody picky. Everyone's a critic.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
"Let's do the Time-WRP again"
petee
no gods, no malarkey
yes, i think they are related
Socialist Equality Party (US)
Capitalism has failed in the United States and the entire world. The Socialist Equality Party is organizing the working class in the fight for socialism: the reorganization of all of economic life to serve social needs, not private profit.
www.wsws.org
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Turns out they're standing in 5 seats, which is pretty impressive for such a tiny sect. I suppose that Gaddaffi money must pay for a lot of lost deposits.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Well seeing as he died quite a while ago it’s prob the Redgrave/ Equity wills that are keeping them afloat
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
It can't be the Redgrave's money. They decamped to the 'Marxist Party' when the WRP imploded in the 80s. Corin and Vanessa stood by that poisonous little bastard gnome.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Luvvies: stupid
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
I think it’s a stretch to call this one “left”, but the niche. There is so much niche.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
What I like about this is that I actually wondered if I was having a stroke several times whilst reading it.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Well, I wouldn't say it was a great result for Clifford, but the Communist League was only 4% away from beating Reform, and just over 5% away from beating the Tories:
Which is now making me wonder what the worst tory result was, are there any Conservative lost deposits anywhere? Marsanu's wasn't far off.
Which is now making me wonder what the worst tory result was, are there any Conservative lost deposits anywhere? Marsanu's wasn't far off.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I would hazard a guess that Mr Nichey Ubermentalist did not, repeat not, run his leaflet past a proofreader.
Indeed, I'm somewhat sceptical that he wrote, typed or even crayoned anything down at all - it fair hums with the vibrancy of a lunatic wearing out his favourite free (ad-supported) voice-to-text app.
They came last in Orkney and Shetland with 2.82% of turnout (586 actual votes)
Reform managed 7.63% though
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Got to be dispiriting to be the Green candidate who managed to scrape fewer votes than Rod Fucking LiddleStanding for the SDP
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I think we're starting to stretch the definition of "left" a bit far here.Standing for the SDP
Lurdan
old wave
I'd agree that in terms of the way that many adherents of "the left" prefer to think of themselves it "doesn't make sense" to class the SDP or the WPB as "left" parties. But I'd argue the problem is precisely the way some of "the left" prefers to think about itself.
The fact is that all of the ideas the SDP and the WPB espouse can be widely found inside different elements of "the left". There are lots of "left-wing" people who dream of a blend of so-called "social democratic economic policies" and "cultural conservatism". "Cultural conservatism" doesn't merely, or even necessarily, involve overt or covert appeals to populist bigotries. It involves adherence to forms of economic and political nationalism, and to forms of "social ethics" often based on adherence to one of the religious traditions. (Sometimes the "politico-religious" traditions).
The major reason these tiny groupings don't pull in more of their fellow thinkers inside "the left" is not ideological. It's that they don't appear to be credible political vehicles.
And there is nothing new about these types of political formation. We appear to be in a period of political flux. Look back at the period of political flux before and just after WW1. In the 1918 general election the National Democratic and Labour Party, a very short lived political party derived from the pro-war split in the BSP, won ten seats in Parliament. Look at enormously influential figures like Robert Blatchford. Or the militantly 'anti-alien' elements in the trade unions. Or the nationalist and socially-conservative elements of the larger socialist parties. Or the left eugenicists. Or the left imperialists. And so on.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
General point taken, and if you'd just posted something about the WPB I probably wouldn't have bothered saying anything. I wouldn't have thought the SDP as having any kind of "left" appeal in the same way, but then tbh they're not really on my radar that often.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
I completely forgot about this result.
Michael Lavalette came 2nd in preston, wasn't too far off the combined Tory and Reform vote either.
I belive he left the SWP at some point, bit odd after staying loyal through all the Martin Smith stuff.
Election results - 4 July 2024 - Preston City Council
The results from the 2024 General Election.
www.preston.gov.uk
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