[Malcolm Armsteen]

Oh fuck me, it's the 'local MPs for local people' argument again - narrow minded tossbags.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This stuff could very easily snowball, especially in a high-pressure by-election. Local door knockers are important when there's a low turnout- where do the wider members stand on what the committee have done?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

More to the point - what were the weaknesses and faults of the rejected candidates?

[Andy McDandy]

Luciana Berger was parachuted into Liverpool Wavertree, but wasn't a bad MP, got things done. Local Paula Barker has been pretty much anonymous.

[The Weeping Angel]

More to the point - what were the weaknesses and faults of the rejected candidates?

Well here's one of the rejected candidates.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 72bff599e3

In one deleted post from July 2018, Hemingway said adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism would be a “disastrous move”.

In another post, Hemingway called for Corbyn to be reinstated as a party member after he was suspended over his response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That shouldn't be disqualifying, but it's the sort of thing that gets away from you in a by-election.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

That shouldn't be disqualifying,

Yes it should.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Why? See there are alternative definitions like the Jerusalem Declaration, which is supported by people who aren't just trying to get Chris Williamson off.

[Youngian]

Oh fuck me, it's the 'local MPs for local people' argument again - narrow minded tossbags.

Local politics isn’t short of people embittered by not having their genius recognised. What sort of hissy hacks resign ahead of a nationally crucial by-election? Good riddance.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Big bust up at the selection vote too. Simon Lightwood has been chosen, who used to work for Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield till 2019.

Don't know anything about him, but after the way the Jez wing dicked about over the minimum wage at the conference, I don't want too many more of them as MPs.

[Youngian]

Photo-op for the local rag from the Wakefield dissidents: ‘Starmer spurned our candidate choices, claim scruffy lefties.’

[Andy McDandy]

Bet they're fun at parties.

[mattomac]

Apparently the candidate did live in the area for 20 years, I assume he knows it very well.

The way it’s being talked about you’d think he had never stepped foot in Yorkshire.

[Abernathy]

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[Tubby Isaacs]

I noticed that Labour's tactic of running lots of 2010 losers in 2015 in the same seats didn't go very well. Perhaps came across as arrogant, as if reclaiming rightful place or something.

Could running the defeated MP's assistant be seen like that? If anyone notices, maybe it could. Depends if Mr Lexiter runs as independent and makes an issue of it, I suppose.

[mattomac]

Could do, Mary Creagh was generally well liked though, probably more a victim of circumstances.

I was a bit sad that she didn’t run again.

Evidently it seems like they’ve given up on one running both on the same day, I assume that message about the pact is probably what they want to go after. Another sex offender in the Tory party happening in the background won’t help mind.

Tractor porn bloke may run as independent so that’s probably that seat gone to the Liberals if he does.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Tories have selected an ex headteacher to run in Tiverton and Honiton.

I get the feeling she'll be fielding more questions about Bozo than education.

[mattomac]

Meanwhile in Wakefield they got two village names wrong on their leaflet and it focuses on police… I’d probably not have gone down that route myself

[Arrowhead]

If I'm reading this correctly (I'm not remotely a betting man, so it's perfectly possible I am misreading the numbers), but it looks as if Labour are currently on a 93% chance of winning the Wakefield by-election on June 23rd

https://smarkets.com/event/42686871/pol ... y-election

The same site seems to suggest a 78% chance of a Lib Dem victory in the Tiverton & Honiton by-election on the same date.

[davidjay]

Lib Dems are at best 1/4 for Tiverton with Labour 1/14 in Wakefield. That could make life interesting for any Prime Ministers who might be interested.