Labour candidate suspended for 'transphobia'

Apparently the Tory winner is a former LibDem (and Labour in a 1994 election) and is very popular locally.

Yes the washout for the Lib Dems/landslide for the Cons suggests as pp said that he took a lot of his Lib Dem voters with him to the Cons.

Do you mean Labour people celebrating because she lost?

Is that due to her investigated views, I’m guessing so but seems an own goal

Yes. They don't care.

https://www.onlondon.co.uk/hackney-conservative-triumphs-after-turbulent-cazenove-by-election-contest/

Very complex.
Are people suggesting that voters ousted the Labour candidate because of her 'views' or as a protest against the Labour Party who suspended her for those 'views'?
Nothing in the media yet.

I don't know much about this area but based on my local experience, LTNs are another thing that is often ideologically driven by people on the council.

In theory they're a good idea, but if you don't take into account local factors (in our case the fact there is a shit to nonexistent bus service, particularly for those travelling from outside the city in to work) and local demographics (a lot of workers in the city can't afford house prices in the city so have to live out and travel in to work) then they can really affect people's lives and air pollution in a very bad way.

In our case it's created a lovely situation for people living in the city centre in million pound + houses. It's like an oasis of calm now, no-one can park anymore, it's an oasis of rich people. No so much for all the people stuck on the ring road or waiting for a bus stuck in traffic. Nor for the ambulances that struggle to get through it all.

Indeed 🤦🤦🤦

Do you mean Labour people celebrating because she lost?

Is that due to her investigated views, I’m guessing so but seems an own goal

Friends in Hackney highlighted the Low Traffic scheme as almost entirely to blame.
Well done Khan

Apparently the Tory winner is a former LibDem (and Labour in a 1994 election) and is very popular locally.

So the result may not mean that much.

I can confirm you are correct, @Floisme

I imagine you need to know the local area to really understand the result so I won't try and analyse it.

What I will say, based on my memories of a particular type of Labour activist, is that there will almost certainly be Labour Party members who will regard this result as a victory.

Lib Dems wiped out...

Surprised by that result for a Hackney area

31.9% turnout apparently high for a by-election.

That's s surprise result.

Can't imagine Labour helped themselves by stopping all campaigning for 5 days. Idiots.

I suspect that the Low Traffic issue will be a huge one. I think it will surprise Labour and the LDs and there will be a significant vote of very unhappy people that it was pushed through the way it was. Obviously in the impacted zones and maybe just at council elections although in those electorates it may filter into general election too.

Ian Sharer it seems is prominent in the local Jewish community which makes up 24% of the electorate including various kinds of orthodox Jews who are very reliable voters. He came 4th in the 2022 Local election so that seems important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazenove_(ward)

Sharer "His defection to the Tories is said to have been over the issue of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, which Hackney Council is very keen on but some local residents, including members of north Hackney’s famous ultra-Orthodox or Charedi Jewish community, are not."

The turnout was 9% down. So it maybe local and religious issues played a big part here.

Thanks for the update.

I suppose we will never know the real reason why the vote went that way.

Would love to know what voters were thinking.

Ian Sharer has won the Cazenove by-election for the Conservative Party on 53.6% of the vote.
Labour candidate Laura Pascal placed second with 30.9% and Green candidate Tamara Micner third with 12.8%. Liberal Democrat Dave Raval took last place with 2.4%. the Tory candidate, Ian Sharer, represented the ward as a Liberal Democrat between 2002 and 2018,

Hackney Citizen Cazenove by-election count, the postal votes are still being tallied, but turnout has just been announced: 31.92%.

Only two of the four candidates are here as the vote totals are being finalised: Labour’s Laura Pascal and Tamara Micner for the Greens.

Were Conservative candidate Ian Sharer here, he would most likely be pleased, as it looks like he took a considerable number of votes with him when he switched parties from Lib Dems.

I think this is likely to happen. It’ll be messy as we get closer but we’ll be in a very different place to 1951 and voters will demand change in the end. They might not get why change is frustrated but they’ll still want it

There is a valid view that the refugee convention is in need of reform - given the very different situation the world now faces, compared to the conditions it was meant to alleviate when it was originally drafted; likewise the ECHR. Both were drafted in the early 1950's.

Have just seen that reddit are calling it a fake apology - https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/199dcwr/cazenove_hackney_labour_candidate_issues_a_fake/ which I suspect most TRAs and even the "be kind" brigade also think.

And in the Morning Star

LABOUR has been accused of corruption after barring a left-wing union rep from standing for election to Hackney council over her support for the local MP Diane Abbott.

Regional party organisers have meanwhile unsuspended their preferred candidate Laura Pascal after five days, after she apologised for having liked tweets described as “grossly offensive” by the local Green Party.

The by-election follows Hackney’s elected Mayor Philip Glanville’s resignation for lying over his dealings with former councillor and now-convicted paedophile Tom Dewey, revealed by the Morning Star.
It comes as a report which found an overly close culture between elected members and officials in the wake of the Dewey scandal is to be discussed at an extraordinary council meeting next week.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-corruption-left-wing-union-rep-barred-election-supporting-diane-abbott

And by the way I doubt that the Tories or any other party behave any better in terms of using their internal systems to get the outcomes the leadership wants rather than operating a fair and balanced system.

I can imagine this episode also having a chilling affect on candidates in the general election, especially on any standing for the first time who won't have had the opportunity to build up any loyalty from their constituents.

Was the Labour MP who didn’t just like a tweet but posted ‘block all terfs’ investigated?