After it was discovered at the St Ann's Labour Party selection candidate selection meeting that there were people present and voting who should not have been, I came home from the pub (where I'd heard about it) and wrote this article. It has subsequently been edited by site admins to remove the names of people who were embarrassed or in the final case where a journalist said it was potentially libellous. Well here I will attempt to summarise what we have subsequently found out and hopefully take people's attention away from my original appalling rant.
*An individual has asked that their name be replaced with their function in this post on the grounds that they are not seeking public office. This has been done.
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An email sent out this evening in St Ann's ward, not to the existing councillors.
From: John Blake Secretary, St Ann's Labour
Cc: John Taylor; Peter Morton; Barbara Blake; Ali Ozbek
Subject: Update on St Ann's selection for local elections 2014
To all members of St Ann's Labour:
As members will be aware, St Ann's BLP met to select our candidates for the 2014 local elections on 15 September; subsequently, the Chair of the CLP wrote to branch members to inform them that complaints had been received about the meeting and that the London Regional Labour Party had agreed to launch an investigation.
I'm very pleased to say that Procedures Secretary of the Local Campaign Forum (the body charged with overseeing our selection processes here in Haringey) has today circulated the following message:
An objection was received concerning the St Ann's selection. This was investigated by London Region who have concluded that the selection was conducted fairly, there was no wrongdoing and the objection was not upheld.
This is excellent news for the branch and means we can now properly move forward with campaigning to keep St Ann's Labour in 2014. Our candidates for 2014 will be: Barbara Blake, Peter Morton and Ali Ozbek
I am currently finalising plans for our next ward meeting, which will be a chance to meet the candidates and discuss campaigning strategy for the upcoming elections. I'll send out a formal notice as soon as I can.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about the ward or would like to be more involved, please drop me a line on this email
Best wishes,
John Blake
Secretary, St Ann's Branch Labour Party
Several comments directed at one individual have been removed by site admin since they contravene our house rules.
John Blake is obviously very selective about which St Ann's Labour Party members get included on email messages, as I didn't receive it. My email has not changed in more than 15 years, and the Labour Party has it. I've been a member in this constituency, at the same address in St Ann's ward, and on the electoral register since late 1989. I was at the meeting. Obviously I'm not the kind of member Mr Blake wants, or perhaps I just voted for the "wrong" people.
I note the triumphalist contents: "very pleased" ... "excellent news" – in the circumstances, perhaps not the consensual tone one might have expected. The announcement of a (crushing) victory rather than the conclusion of an 'investigation'.
The emails are not to me. They are to "site admin". The tweets last weekend between myself and Joe Goldberg were public. The Twitter DM conversation I had yesterday was not, so I'm not publishing that.
Tunbridge, it isn't appropriate for us to publish emails sent to us, as I'm sure you'll understand. Since John is not part of the HoL site admin team, he does not have access to the mails sent to admin only.
It seems to me that if "One candidate questioned the legitimacy of the five and told several party members that the room 'had been packed'.", then those running the meeting should have checked - looks like that wasn't done.
I hope Zena and David do appeal to the NEC, as this whole business stinks.
Interestingly, I was speaking to another councillor the other night (not involved in this matter) who commented that one reason they (Labour) might not want to re-run the process was because a national Labour Party officer was one of the candidates involved and that it would be embarassing. I would have thought that the officer wouldn't want anything like this lurking in the depths of Google and that it was in their interests to re-run the selection to avoid being embarrassed at a later date.
Keep at it John!
Dear Site Admin's, how about adding this to the "Latest Posts" section at the top of the home page to help give it the exposure it deserves?
Hugh/Liz,
Yes, could we please get this on the 'Latest Posts' please. At least one of the items there has happened now.
Ta.
The views metric accurately reflects the number of page views, but not the number of people who have viewed a post.
Something else that bothers me... How did the 14 people who did not register before the cut off date know not to turn up?
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