Zoe Garbett - Green mayor for Hackney

Civil war breaks out in Greens over Andy Burnham
Civil war breaks out in Greens over Andy Burnham - Yahoo News UK

Also just to add, the Ayatollahs in Iran said the same thing, then murdered all the Socialists, enforced a strict Islamist state on their people and stole all their money to fund terrorism.

And he was Palestinian. Sultana is a British Pakistani loudmouth who caused her own party of a few hundred people to disintegrate into factionalism yet thinks she should be telling another country how to run itself. That's the colonial aspect.

There was a thread about this aspect of the recent elections - see https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5478388-do-you-care-if-your-local-council-cancels-theiryour-local-election-in-may

Of course Yasser Arafat said much the same, which was why the Israelis and the Americans refused to deal with him; democracy, they could stand, but socialism was a hard no.

I think she wants to go further than that . In the outline of her manifesto for Mayor she mentions “trans access to single sex spaces” obviously not recognising the irony of that statement.

Reform threatened to take the government to court because the elections were delayed in areas which were undergoing local government reorganisation. The elections were delayed because the current governments are due to be abolished next year, and elections for new local authorities would take place. Because of the Reform legal action the government backed down, so local authorities, in the middle of trying to deal with local government reorganisation have had to hold elections to councils that won't exist next year, as well as run the whole thing again next year. So yes, it is almost entirely Reforms fault ( as well as the government again failing to communicate why they took completely explainable decisions and instead caving in to Reform)

I'm a little confused by this.

Does it mean that Reform were responsible for the elections being held at all? Because the existing councillors could have been kept their seats until the councils are abolished, by being returned unopposed? But Reform candidates insisted on standing against them, causing an election? Reform candidates and no-one else?

I mean the entire local elections were actually a waste of time and money in many areas, caused by Reform because the councils are being abolished.

Nothing is going to beat the estimated £5m it will cost to run this Andy Burnham vanity contest in Manchester, the cost of the by election and new mayoral contest if he becomes an MP.
So many reasons to vote against him, but wasting £5m of tax payers hard earned is the biggest of all.

I was going to say something quite harsh about Greens being slap dash and disorganised, but they other parties have their failures.

Anyhow, latest total of the cost of new elections needed because Green councillors elected who should never have been put forward as councillors.

Or maybe this is just a London thing?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/green-party-councillors-quit-immediately-elected-b1282285.html

That's right.

"You have my vote" *

*. Theoretically

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e8133xp5eo

Well he's getting the celebrity coverage now.

He has been doorstepped to a in red top style, £2 million house in Hackey.

Not standing up for him or any of the others, but I think shows they are still organising as though a student group.

Although given the blunders of some established MPs maybe they just think they are too important to bother with ordinary day to day concerns of everyday folk!

I'm told the boat is in a particular marina on the River Lea. The marina is in Waltham Forest borough and Walthamstow constituency. But a short walk over a footbridge gets you to Hackney (North and Stoke Newington).

I cant find an earlier report I read about this, but this seems to be about whether he was living in Hackney (where else) or an a moored houseboat in Waltham Forest.

Strangely both of these boroughs went green!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/insight/polanski-admits-council-tax-error-after-earlier-denials/gm-GM8CD0B8FA?gemSnapshotKey=GM8CD0B8FA-snapshot-13&uxmode=ruby

Sarah Vine accusing someone else of being a creep given how long she was married to Michael Gove at least means she could claim to be able to spot one.

Whoever you were likely to have as Hackney Mayor would have broadly the same views on trans issues.

Here's the link https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/396-governance-news/100491-two-councillors-forced-to-resign-over-election-rule-breaches

This is common practice and has happened in other councils.

But what hasn't happened but has happened in Hackney and one other Council is (I think both) Green Councillors elected only to find they are barred from standing if a paid employee of the Council concerned. A teacher.

As well as running for Mayor, Garbett ran for re-election as a councillor - and won both elections, but since she can't do both jobs, a by-election will have to be held. I'm surprised that this is even allowed, but it certainly suggests that wasting taxpayers' money is not a concern for her.

Pink hair is a protected characteristic

What's with the shite hair dye?

if it’s the one I’m thinking of, grey rock is everyone’s friend.

There's one poster on a thread about him who thinks we're all nuts not to think that Zack will be leader of this country soon!