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Who will be the new Labour candidate for Streatham?

Not a Vet said:
I had a visit from Mark a few months ago - he's really keen and looking to talk to us locals for ideas as to what we might want from our next MP. I was impressed that he took the time having heard nothing from any other candidates. I don't think he'll win selection though - the odds are stacked against.
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Is that because he uses the "E" word on his website.( Equality in case anyone gets the wrong idea).

If you want to get to be an MP perhaps he should adopt the language of the new minister Caroline(hard as a )Flint.The new Blunkett:rolleyes:.
 
lang rabbie said:
Now here's a surprise.

Bennett's colleague in Streatham South ward, Dave Malley is also putting his hat into the ring.

http://www.davemalley.org.uk/
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How is it that a lot of these New Labour types come across as liberal minded when you speak to them or read there stuff? When the "actually existing" Labour government is so illberal and right wing?(Supporting Bush, anti Terror laws etc)

It seems a paradox to me.What do you think LR?
 
Gramsci said:
How is it that a lot of these New Labour types come across as liberal minded when you speak to them or read there stuff? When the "actually existing" Labour government is so illberal and right wing?(Supporting Bush, anti Terror laws etc)

It seems a paradox to me.What do you think LR?
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I think because a lot of the people now wanting to become MP for Streatham came into politics during the darkest days of Thatcherism, and experienced Neil Kinnock's failure to displace the Tories, they have adopted an ultra-loyalist approach to party unity.

So we have a new sort of "Socialism is what the Labour government does" as local lad Herbert Morrison once put it.
 
There's something very odd with Murad Qureshi. He's down as an endorser of Chuka, but a Val Shawcross leaflet is hosted on his website. Maybe he's supporting both?
 
Bob said:
There's something very odd with Murad Qureshi. He's down as an endorser of Chuka, but a Val Shawcross leaflet is hosted on his website. Maybe he's supporting both?
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Val's not a candidate. She decided a couple of months ago that what with the delays surrounding the selection process she would commit herself to focussing on re-election to the GLA. Rather an honourable act in my opinion.
 
jpm said:
Val's not a candidate. She decided a couple of months ago that what with the delays surrounding the selection process she would commit herself to focussing on re-election to the GLA. Rather an honourable act in my opinion.
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Ah - thanks for clearing that up.
 
Gramsci said:
Well i dont know if he was in the Council then but New Labour flogged off several schools as they reckoned that the school roll was falling and they didnt need them.
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Reed became a councillor in 1998, and the Dick Shephard sale was negotiated in 2000-2001. I'm not sure about the other sites, but IIRC they were mostly sold between 1999 and 2002.
So as far as candidates go we are going to have a choice of New Labour loyalists only.What a choice.
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Hobson's bloody choice.
 
charcol said:
Walthamstow councillor Naz Sarkar also appears to have thrown his hat into the ring.

Never come across him before - according to his biog he teaches at Dunraven Secondary School - but he has made a video about Streatham.
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By a process of elimination he must live in Walthamstow - since to be a councillor somewhere you must work there (but he works in Lambeth) or live there.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Reed became a councillor in 1998, and the Dick Shephard sale was negotiated in 2000-2001. I'm not sure about the other sites, but IIRC they were mostly sold between 1999 and 2002.

Hobson's bloody choice.
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That's right - Labour had outright control of the council 1998 - 2002 and sold loads of sites even though the population projections showed they weren't spare...

[Not for nerds there was a hung council 1994 - 1998 where each department effectively rotated control each year]
 
I'm fairly sure that vassall ward councillor kingsley abrams (mentioned in earlier post) is not a candidate either - as I understand it he went for the Unite nomination but it went to Steve Reed. Besides his power base is in Vauxhall constituency where he is close to Kate Hoey which to some extent means that he would be portrayed as being anti lambeth - this may go down well with the electorate but not with the Labour Party
 
Bob said:
By a process of elimination he must live in Walthamstow - since to be a councillor somewhere you must work there (but he works in Lambeth) or live there.
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Not necessarily I dont think - all you actually need is 10 people in the ward to nominate you
 
jpm said:
Val's not a candidate. She decided a couple of months ago that what with the delays surrounding the selection process she would commit herself to focussing on re-election to the GLA. Rather an honourable act in my opinion.
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Shes probably got quite a fight on her hands in Lambeth and Southwark where she has a majority of around 5000.

The Liberal contender for GLA is Caroline Pidgeon who is currently a councillor and Exec member in Southwark
 
charcol said:
You can also stand if you work in the borough (or whatever the local authority is), or even own property there.
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Yup - that's part of my original point. Which was that if he's qualified elsewhere then he's less likely to be a local resident....

Still that's not stopped one of the Labour councillors in Kennington standing for Parliament in Bristol at the same time as being a sitting councillor.
 
lang rabbie said:
I think because a lot of the people now wanting to become MP for Streatham came into politics during the darkest days of Thatcherism, and experienced Neil Kinnock's failure to displace the Tories, they have adopted an ultra-loyalist approach to party unity.

So we have a new sort of "Socialism is what the Labour government does" as local lad Herbert Morrison once put it.
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Maybe.But as u say they are loyal to party unity.Funny how many are now saying they were always Brownites.Also there was always a streak of puritanical respectable working classs mentality in the Labour party.

The "paradox" of New Labour supporters was brought on as I have been reading Slavoj Zizek(the Slovenian philosopher).His good on "party loyalists" and the paradoxical nature of politics as hes from a former Communist country.Many Communists supported the Party despite the reality of Communism.Same thing with a lot of Labour party loyalists and there support for Blair and Brown.We can learn a lot from our new East European friends.

Also the liberal progressive instincts of many in the Labour party means they have to be in denial of the nature of the Blair/Brown state-highest prison population in Western Europe including the largest number of young people as just one example.And then Jack Straw saying he wants US style Titan prisons.This is the kind of paradox zizek looks into .If Ive read him right Lacan psychoananlysis is hard going.

http://www.lacan.com/frameziz.htm
 
Catlady said:
KeyboardJockey Posting (log in problems)

I noticed that Polly Toynbee is currently in Kabul. Any chance she could stay there?
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Is she investigating a new piece for the Guardian on the uses of Sharia Law in a modern dynamic progressive state?:D A stoning would sort out the Hoodies.:cool: As recommended by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Or A tear jerking piece on how the West has let down the Afghan people by letting the Muslim nutters stay in control as long as they dont fight for the Taliban.They can still use Sharia law as recommended by the CoE to stone adulturers and gays .Under the leadership of the Labour party (socialism is what we do) we have shown the world what a modern western state can do.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Facebook group.
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Chuka Umunna has certainly come a long way from the days when he used to boast that he would be the country's first black Tory MP! He certainly fits the stereotype of a new labour careerist if you ask me, don't make allowances just because he's "ethnic".

I suppose it might be a bit unfair to bring up stuff someone said during school and A-levels <SNIP!>
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can someone post this on the facebook, I'm curious what was snipped.
 
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