Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay Tories Need You!
According to Channel4's political correspondent Paul McNamara
"Conservative HQ have emailed asking for candidates in almost 100 seats
When candidates ask when the deadline is, they have been told it’s 48 hours, according to 2 I’ve spoken to
Some Tory associations are pretty livid at having been left in such an unprepared situation"
Just 24hrs to go. I'm sure only the very best of North London will, at this late stage, throw their hats into the ring. Below are some of the vacant constituencies.
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Permalink Reply by Esther Cohen on
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Well I do agree that it is sad to see parties scrambling around to find candidates.
In an ideal world candidates for political parties would be selected from within the electorate rather than be parachuted into constituencies they know little about in order to fill a quota or strengthen a faction.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Esther, I'd go way beyond 'sad'.
To borrow the title of an entertaining new book by Geoffrey Wheatcroft I'm reading it's Bloody Panico !And it's not just the Tories scrambling around, as you say. The late Ian Willmore was once told by someone from the Haringey Parks Department that they'd had an unexpected leaf fall in September. He replied "Life is full of surprises for you". But since a General Election now was hardly a surprise to anyone, isn't it far more likely that in all the political parties, the apparent mess-ups and and parachuting-in a chosen candidate was more likely to be utterly cynical and deliberate?
Surely the ancient question 'Who Benefits? (Cui Bono) is apposite? How convenient that Nigel Farage was ready for Clacton and St George! And (in my view) the also disgusting Luke Akehurst was available for Labour's National Executive Committee to slot him into North Durham,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZmVXCubIcg
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Hmm. So have I got anything to back up my theory about this process becoming contaminated by deliberate, utterly cynical and disgusting factional infighting?
In the last two hours, yes there is. And it worries me deeply.
I will set this out in a new thread not mainly abut my own suspicious or hunches, but what the journalist Michael Crick believes is "essentially corruption", and "one of the most disgraceful episodes in modern Labour Party history."
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Here's the thread I promised from Michael Crick. It has material not only from Crick himself but his reporting of a Starmer tweet in 2010 saying:
“The selections for Labour candidates need to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates,” he tweeted in February 2020. “Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.” There were no caveats; his promise couldn’t have been clearer."
More than a year later, Crick wrote: "when we briefly chatted at a book launch in London, Starmer was still singing the same tune. He once again insisted that Labour would embrace greater transparency when it came to parliamentary selections. There would, he assured me, be no parachuting in of candidates “like the Milibands” — a reference to brothers David and Ed, both social advisers who were found seats before the 2001 and 2005 elections respectively. We even discussed the dangers of finding seats for some of his closest advisers."
Here's the link
https://unherd.com/2024/05/starmer-has-already-lost-control/Please do read the whole thing and see for yourself. But you may not need to. I can see why Starmer is angry with Sunak making up lies. Maybe Keir was thinking how poor Rishi is at fibbing. Compared to Sir Keir himself.
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