lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
From Tuesday's SLP
Local Elections in Lambeth
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If that is a complete quote from Cllr Whelan, then it's just a tad ungracious? You think he'd welcome their entering the democratic fray and look forward to debating the issues with them.
The implication is that the schools campaigners have the whole of the borough as their concern, whereas Cllr Whelan is just concerned about his ward.
The implication is that the schools campaigners have the whole of the borough as their concern, whereas Cllr Whelan is just concerned about his ward.
He's actually standing in Herne Hill ward this year, not that there is any one "Brixton" ward - Ferndale, Coldharbour, Tulse Hill and Brixton Hill being the four 'central' wards: also the only Lambeth wards (except Streatham Wells) - iirc - that don't ajoin another borough.citydreams said:
Bob said:
http://lambeth.greenparty.org.uk/
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Not at all. He is standing in Herne Hill where last time the Greens were not many votes behind Labour. Last time there was not much canvassing and leafletting in Herne Hill, unlike this year, plus the political climate is more unfavourable to Labour than in 2002. There is a *very* good chance that Herne Hill will elect 3 Green councillors.William of Walworth said:
HERNE HILL (turnout = 6436)
1164 Labour
1160 Labour
898 Labour
609 Green
511 Liberal Democrat
486 Liberal Democrat
415 Conservative
407 Conservative
397 Conservative
389 Liberal Democrat
TeeJay said:
It's interesting that the Greens are putting forward three Green candidates this time in Herne Hill instead of the usual one. Does anyone know the thinking behind this decision? The candidates are obviously working it harder this time and presumably it's based on the view that Shane would be the first choice Green for most people who split their vote whilst a full slate would soak up more of Labour's 'soft' Labour support?
The thinking is not that complex...charcol said:
...in an ideal world the Green party would stand a full slate of candidates in every ward - contesting every single seat that is up for election on the coucil.
However, if there are not enough people to cover all of the seats then you just put up a full slate in "target seats": wards where you have had the best results in the past and where focussing on leafletting, canvassing and campaigning will get the best results in terms of winning seats. Also, having more candidates in a ward means that you have, by extension, more people involved in campaigning (people will tend to get their own friends and relatives to help out - while other local members will be doing stuff in their own wards).
Its worth pointing out that although Shane is well known on u75, all three candidates in Herne Hill are very competant candidates in their own right and are involved with various local commuity groups and issues and that IMO the Green vote holds up well due to Green Party policies not just any "personal" factor.
Name my lambeth election website
I've been helping build an website for Lambeth that will let people add their comments to the parties local manifestos (along the lines of theywanttobeelected.com ) , find out about who is standing in their ward and generally try and connect candidates with the policies they are standing on.
It needs a name though and I'm out of ideas - lambethelections.org and lambethhustings.com are the best ideas so far.
Any ideas?
ps anyone with any webby knowlage or a bit of time to help organise things please PM me.
I've been helping build an website for Lambeth that will let people add their comments to the parties local manifestos (along the lines of theywanttobeelected.com ) , find out about who is standing in their ward and generally try and connect candidates with the policies they are standing on.
It needs a name though and I'm out of ideas - lambethelections.org and lambethhustings.com are the best ideas so far.
Any ideas?ps anyone with any webby knowlage or a bit of time to help organise things please PM me.
citydreams
on the road again
yourvote.lambeth.org
local.issues.lambeth.org
local.issues.lambeth.org
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Manchester got its first Green councillor a couple of years ago.
Now that people have seen it's possible, hopefully this year there'll be a second in the same ward, maybe more across the city.
Now that people have seen it's possible, hopefully this year there'll be a second in the same ward, maybe more across the city.
Candidates for Coldharbour
Donatus Anyanwu - Labour
Elkin Atwell - Green
Simon Barry - Conservative
Robert Blackie - Lib Dem
Marcus Booth - Conservative
Geoffrey Bowring - Lib Dem
Rachel Braverman - Green
Rachel Heywood - Labour
Sandra Lawman - Lib Dem
Sharon Malley - Labour
Smarajit Roy - Conservative
Timothy Summers - Green
Political trivia - Smarajit Roy and his seconder Kelly Ben Maimon have both been members of all three political parties in Lambeth in the last few years.
Donatus Anyanwu - Labour
Elkin Atwell - Green
Simon Barry - Conservative
Robert Blackie - Lib Dem
Marcus Booth - Conservative
Geoffrey Bowring - Lib Dem
Rachel Braverman - Green
Rachel Heywood - Labour
Sandra Lawman - Lib Dem
Sharon Malley - Labour
Smarajit Roy - Conservative
Timothy Summers - Green
Political trivia - Smarajit Roy and his seconder Kelly Ben Maimon have both been members of all three political parties in Lambeth in the last few years.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
You can see the lists of candidates nominated for each ward on this page of the Lambeth website:
Election Nominations May 06
Election Nominations May 06
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I saw a Lib Dem leaflet just before I left last month. It was one of the most incoherent leaflets I have ever had the displeasure to read.
charcol said:
(speaking from outside the aera)
I'm surprised they are running three-you'd think they want to keep all the split votes in one place. Purely looking at the result from last time, they look like they could finish third (and hence get elected)if they did so. But I know nothing about local factors.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Bob said:
Thanks for that Bob
Well despite looking at looking at the Labour party manifesto (see Bobs post-number 5 on this thread) I still think the Labour Councillors in Coldharbour Ward have been OK-at least with me
. Coldharbour ward is new due to boundary changes.So there were two new Councillors-The Sharons
(Malley and Eardman).Eardman is standing down due to having just had a baby.Donatus is a long standing Labour Councillor who I think was in Angell ward before the boundary changes.Hes OK but he works on the North end of CH ward.Both the Sharons were very helpful to me(and he who is banned forever to another site far away
) during the long saga of Larry and the Bike shop.They have also been supportive in other matters connected to housing where I sometimes represent other Brixtonites.They were both new to being Councillors and have IMO done a good job and shown intelligence and committment to there role.Sharon Malley was also very suppoertive towards the Effra road group over Brixton Central Sq.
Sharon Eardman is being replaced by Rachel Heywood.No comment
Pity shes going.It really helped having new Councillors without any baggage of being in previous administrations.They were also young for Councillors.Which perhaps helped.
Still the Lambeth Labour manifesto is appaling.Except for opposing the sale of pools(Though I couldnt see explicit opposure of closure of Brixton Rec).The manifesto is full of pics of Charles Clarke and Miliband(reach for the sick bag
)going on about more ASBOS etc and "Respect".MatthewCuffe
New Member
To what extent do people here think that an anti-New Labour or anti-Blair or anti-war vote will trickle down to Lambeth?
http://www.strategicvoter.org.uk/doku.php
Go SHANE!!!
http://www.strategicvoter.org.uk/doku.php
Go SHANE!!!
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
A friend in Dulwich Road has just shown me the Green leaflet for Herne Hill.
Oh dear - if there was ever a document that needed sexing up it is this one.
The lead story is about energy conservation on the Clapham Park Estate - with a photo of somone who isn't even one of the Herne Hill candidates.
Oh dear - if there was ever a document that needed sexing up it is this one.
The lead story is about energy conservation on the Clapham Park Estate - with a photo of somone who isn't even one of the Herne Hill candidates.
Gramsci said:Thanks for that Bob
Well despite looking at looking at the Labour party manifesto (see Bobs post-number 5 on this thread) I still think the Labour Councillors in Coldharbour Ward have been OK-at least with me
Coldharbour ward is new due to boundary changes.So there were two new Councillors-The Sharons
Both the Sharons were very helpful to me(and he who is banned forever to another site far away
Sharon Malley was also very suppoertive towards the Effra road group over Brixton Central Sq.
Sharon Eardman is being replaced by Rachel Heywood.No comment
Just to say two things about them:
1. If I wasn't a political geek I wouldn't know they existed at all - not one piece of paper through my door from them in 18 months of living in the ward - or indeed any other bit of communication except for a reply to an email.
2. During the Brighton Terrace drug centre debate I wasn't impressed that two of them didn't reply to my emails at all, and the third one (I think Sharon Malley) didn't reply to my follow up to her standard reply.
3. They've not shown much interest as far as I can see in the bread & butter things councillors should do like sorting out streetlights. There were none under the Gresham road railway bridge for months (years?) by a bustop - took me a few minutes with an email to sort it out - but more to the point it's the sort of thing they should be sorting out.
Beyond those things though I've got no great gripes against them.
citydreams
on the road again
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
lang rabbie said:A friend in Dulwich Road has just shown me the Green leaflet for Herne Hill.
Oh dear - if there was ever a document that needed sexing up it is this one.
The Coldharbour Ward one was pretty good...to be honest I wish they wouldn't harp on about cannabis....I think it loses them more votes than they gain...
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
I had a word with the Greens canvassing on Lordship Lane yesterday - Herne Hill is their key target Lambeth ward, apparently, hence why Shane Collins is standing there.
Haven't seen their leaflet yet, but should imagine funds are a bit stretched.
Haven't seen their leaflet yet, but should imagine funds are a bit stretched.
Not sure I think much of Lambeths stratagy to get people to vote: http://www.electionalarmclock.com/elejumper
<what we really need is a flying elephant, that'll get people out>
<what we really need is a flying elephant, that'll get people out>
memespring said:
Quite bizarre. It is a pilot being run by the electoral commission. I'm personally very sceptical about public sector advertising reminding people to vote but it was free for the council to participate and I didn't think it could do any harm. Next time I'll just have to check about their plans for elephants.
I'm most impressed that someone found it!
One of the best ways of getting more people to vote would be to prevent the electoral roll being used by credit agencies and the like. There are people who are rightly suspicious that being on the electoral roll will mean more debt-collectors arriving and also because they are sub-letting or have some kind of housing arrfangements that might prejudice benefits claims, the rent they are paying and so forth. Some landlords will tell people to not remove their name from the property because they want to keep the address as their main residency and still collect post from there.
The other big factor that would make more people vote was if local politics had more colourful personalities, if local councils had more powers, if people felt that councils didn't just pay lip service to consulting them and then go ahead and do what they intended in the first place, if the workings of the council were more transparent and made available in language that normal people could understand, if specific councillors took personal responsibilty for specific policie and decisions and were made to answer questions in public over them rather than being able to hide away in closed committee meetings in the depths of the town hall, and most importantly - if there were any actual examples of electing a councillor and it making an actual, direct and immediate difference to what happens in the local area. Part of this is the way events are covered in the media and the level of comment and analysis easily avaliable to the public.
The other big factor that would make more people vote was if local politics had more colourful personalities, if local councils had more powers, if people felt that councils didn't just pay lip service to consulting them and then go ahead and do what they intended in the first place, if the workings of the council were more transparent and made available in language that normal people could understand, if specific councillors took personal responsibilty for specific policie and decisions and were made to answer questions in public over them rather than being able to hide away in closed committee meetings in the depths of the town hall, and most importantly - if there were any actual examples of electing a councillor and it making an actual, direct and immediate difference to what happens in the local area. Part of this is the way events are covered in the media and the level of comment and analysis easily avaliable to the public.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
TeeJay said:
So cynical, for one so young...
If you prefer your Lambeth personalities "colourful", shouldn't you be going around Kennington with "Save the Fitchett" leaflets
And what are these "closed committee meetings in the depths of the town hall" of which you speak?
[goes to look for tinfoil hat]lang rabbie said:So cynical, for one so young...
If you prefer your Lambeth personalities "colourful", shouldn't you be going around Kennington with "Save the Fitchett" leaflets
And what are these "closed committee meetings in the depths of the town hall" of which you speak?
I think the executive meetings are closed or something.
