Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election

[tim]

Constituency map.

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All those coverts on that map are interesting. It's not a word I had come across in this context before.

Covert vs Copse - What's the difference?

There are quite a few, so maybe it has a more specific local meaning.

 

[stavros]

Has anyone asked the opinion of Tim in Ruislip?

 

[PR1Berske]

Interview with the Labour candidate

Labour’s candidate in Uxbridge ‘not taking anything for granted’

Danny Beales says byelection triggered by Boris Johnson’s shock resignation is chance to ‘put forward case sooner’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pickman's model]

Interview with the Labour candidate

Labour’s candidate in Uxbridge ‘not taking anything for granted’

Danny Beales says byelection triggered by Boris Johnson’s shock resignation is chance to ‘put forward case sooner’

www.theguardian.com

Thought they'd have put forward their previous candidate

 

[brogdale]

Thought they'd have put forward their previous candidate

Perhaps he was once seen going to the cinema to watch I, Daniel Blake; massive jew-hater; obvs.

 

[PR1Berske]

Lots of group shots already:

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Thought they'd have put forward their previous candidate

Perhaps he was once seen going to the cinema to watch I, Daniel Blake; massive jew-hater; obvs.

hmm.

Ali Milani - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

not sure what the party rules are - whether there's automatically a selection process for prospective candidates after an election where the previous candidate didn't win the seat. it may be different than where there's a sitting MP.

and looks like the selection process for the new chap was interesting...

London region takes control of Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP selection process - LabourList

The local selection committee in Uxbridge and South Ruislip has been disbanded with “immediate effect” and the results…

labourlist.org

 

[Pickman's model]

Lots of group shots already:

not sure what any constituency which returns boris johnson more than once deserves. maybe some sort of parachuted in wanker

 

[PR1Berske]

Laurence Fox is to stand here for his own Reclaim Party.

 

[Pickman's model]

Laurence Fox is to stand here for his own Reclaim Party.

Here or there?

 

[PR1Berske]

It is done.

 

[Elpenor]

((((Three hundreds of Chiltern)))

 

[Cerv]

Perhaps he was once seen going to the cinema to watch I, Daniel Blake; massive jew-hater; obvs.

his wikipedia page does have a section on Alleged antisemitism and comments on Israel
NB that all came out in the press back in his NUS days, before he was ever selected as parliamentary candidate in 2018. and he apologised, refuted his past mistakes, etc etc

probably just didn't fancy running again. don't see his name mentioned in the reports about the CLP getting smacked down from head office last year for blatantly trying to favour one candidate during the ward nominations for shortlisting.

 

[planetgeli]

the CLP getting smacked down from head office last year for blatantly trying to favour one candidate during the ward nominations for shortlisting.

This is bollocks. That one candidate was named for a special thanks along with another person. It was the last line of a long mailout about food banks. It's innocuous at best. It was a separate mailout to the shortlisting nomination ones.

It typifies Starmer's priorities for the party. This bloke was hardly a red under the bed, he's actually quite centrist, but still not the preferred candidate. So dissolve the selection committee and call it null and void.

 

[The39thStep]

This is bollocks. That one candidate was named for a special thanks along with another person. It was the last line of a long mailout about food banks. It's innocuous at best. It was a separate mailout to the shortlisting nomination ones.

It typifies Starmer's priorities for the party. This bloke was hardly a red under the bed, he's actually quite centrist, but still not the preferred candidate. So dissolve the selection committee and call it null and void.

Members are just there to get the vote out . Anything else like passing resolutions , making financial contributions to causes, deciding on candidates , is frowned upon.

 

[redsquirrel]

Members are just there to get the vote out

And to get the check books out too, surely.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is bollocks. That one candidate was named for a special thanks along with another person. It was the last line of a long mailout about food banks. It's innocuous at best. It was a separate mailout to the shortlisting nomination ones.

It typifies Starmer's priorities for the party. This bloke was hardly a red under the bed, he's actually quite centrist, but still not the preferred candidate. So dissolve the selection committee and call it null and void.

He's more brown, like a turd, than red

 

[Dom Traynor]

Here or there?

Neither

 

[The39thStep]

And to get the check books out too, surely.

Of course however, Labour have put a lot into compiling contact lists and touting via social media and phones in addition to soliciting medium and big donors. Whether or not they foresaw the fall in memberships is uncertain.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Of course however, Labour have put a lot into compiling contact lists and touting via social media and phones in addition to soliciting medium and big donors. Whether or not they foresaw the fall in memberships is uncertain.

They absolutely would have budgeted to some extent for a fall in membership.

 

[agricola]

((((Three hundreds of Chiltern)))

its two hundreds as of half an hour ago

 

[Nine Bob Note]

"Three hundreds of Chiltern"

He hasn't fathered quite that many, surely?

 

[belboid]

July 13 or 20th then. Ohh the drama.

I think I'd prefer the 20th, off to see John Healey that night, he might have something amusing to say on the situation.

 

[The39thStep]

Anyone interested?

 

[belboid]

Red AND white so he doesn’t piss off the yorkies

 

[brogdale]

Anyone interested?

Odd monthly amount numbers for the Ambassadors’ (“you spoil us”) and Chair’s circles; are they some neoliberal code?

 

[belboid]

July 20 it is

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[planetgeli]

I'm so pleased. He has an immediate forgettable name that can only come up in an obscure pub quiz of the future.

I'm prepared to forgo the point.