KJK is standing against Lloyd Russell-Mole in the General Election

[BoreOfWhabylon]

https://www.youtube.com/live/vHudcvW0bSQ?si=kj-pX6z_ioL6l3nj

She'll have to be quick,I'm running a bath.

If this was the plan cooked up by @Star96 it's a bloody brilliant one

He wasn't even an MP 8 years ago. Six years ago he stole the big ceremonial mace, like an utter fanny of a toddler.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-live-theresa-may-vote-deal-parliament-house-commons-ecj-article-50-latest-update-a8675611.html

Please make it Izzard.

Though perhaps not. Labour are almost certain to form the next Government. Someone might them a Minister.

Yeah, Minister for short skirts and high heeled boots.

😁

I agree with Boiledbeetle that Sir Cowardy Custard should have suspended him after intimidating Miriam Cates. It's very sneaky to do it now and in my opinion, undemocratic. I'm sure they didn't want a loose cannon like him going up against KJK.

Kellie-Jay is taking it as a win😁
https://www.youtube.com/live/hm99XbkEGE8?si=2P2KVSV6c3m-iWzT

KJK : stands
LRM : falls

It's witchcraft I tell thee

Howling, oh my days, let's all channel our inner ben

@TheRozzers 👏👏👏👏👏

Unconnected news : LRM's Election Agent has recently added "expert at the social medias" on their CV

Labour has chosen Chris Ward as the Kemp Town candidate.

No KJK and Eddie Izzard showdown unfortunately.

Little Owen Jones is furious. All part of the master plan? 🤔

x.com/owenjones84/status/1796181855122653441?s=46

No one really believed it was going to be Izzard did they? If so, I’d like to interest you in some magic beans.

No, but we can dream, right.

I'm blocked by LOJ - did he have anything to say ?

KJK will have an excellent strategy - whatever it maybe

Of course she is. She never loses 🙄
Doesn't make it an actual win. Let's see if she keeps her deposit.

It seems that Starmer in setting up a clique to implement decisions he wants, may well find the clique becomes more powerful than him

... it was obvious to many that significantly more had made the decision to retire, but were deliberately holding back to help the party leadership. For as we saw this week, by delaying their announcement until very close to the election, they would allow the NEC to claim it’s far too late to involve party members in the selection decision. They would, as a result, have to “parachute” someone in.

Within hours of this week’s retirements, sources within Labour HQ told me who their lucky replacements would be. In each seat, the NEC went through the process of interviewing a shortlist of names — but everyone knew who they were going to pick.

So, in Makerfield, near Wigan in Lancashire, the NEC panel imposed Josh Simons, the director of the Starmerite think tank Labour Together. For Leyton and Wanstead, where John Cryer, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, stood down on Monday, they chose Calvin Bailey, a former RAF squadron leader who Starmer’s team see as a future Defence Secretary. In both constituencies, the first Labour members heard of the decisions was following leaks on social media.

I suggested to Starmer himself — that he can’t act in a wholly democratic manner. Party leaders should have some scope to get top talent into the Commons, because it’s vital that governments are formed from the best and the brightest. And it’s an unfortunate fact that some extremely able people do not get through selection processes, or have the right local connections to secure a seat in a Labour area. If that’s the case, on rare occasions the suspension of local party democracy can be justified. But you should still be open and honest about what you’re doing.

This time around, by contrast, it’s bogus to argue that Labour had no option but to impose candidates from head office on the grounds that there isn’t time for a proper form of selection. The Conservatives, after all, are still involving party members in their last-minute selections, many of which will take place this weekend. Even if the Tories’ final three-name shortlists have been influenced by CCHQ, at least they get some sort of choice.

Full article by Michael Crick https://unherd.com/2024/05/starmer-has-already-lost-control/

Sorry posting late at night can lead to mishaps! These are the paragraphs I though most telling:

What’s also interesting is how most of the parachuted candidates owe their sudden success to the NEC and Starmer’s close advisers, rather than Starmer himself. The Labour leader seems to have had little involvement apart from pushing for two Labour figures from his own Camden council. One of them, council leader Georgia Gould, is the daughter of the late Blair adviser Philip Gould and is already being tipped as a likely future cabinet minister. The other, Abdul Hai, was expected to be gifted Stratford and Bow — but amazingly, yesterday morning, McSweeney challenged Starmer by pushing instead for Uma Kumaran, a former adviser to the leader. Seen in this light, one begins to wonder how much Starmer really controls his own party — or, for that matter, how much power his advisers wield behind the scenes. Judging by the past few days, it doesn’t augur well.

Nor does this week’s operation offer an encouraging prequel to how a future Starmer government might behave. Having suddenly got the power to impose their favoured candidates, his senior advisers are handing out seats to their factional friends and NEC cronies. Indeed, they seem to be behaving like a bunch of schoolboys who have broken into the school tuck-shop and are now gorging themselves sick.

No political reporters that I have seen discuss this - including Chris Mason and Michael Crick - have gone anywhere near WHY Lloyd Russell Moyle is considered dispensable enough to be purged by Starmers advisers.

Which is interesting.

Sounds like the SNP, only on a much bigger scale.

I'm sorry to say.

Interesting.

I understand that amongst other things the Tories have been concerned that local Parties in safer seats, where membership has been dominated by older white men, have not been selecting some of their stronger female candidates. The slew of last minute resignations and the need for quick decisions should enable the centre to redress the balance. In general this should be a good thing, though the calibre of talent then depends on how effective the national selection process is.

And here Labour's approach may be a concern. There is already a bit of a political caste. Parents or grandparents involved in politics, or studied politics at University, became an advisor and then selected as a candidate. Politics is seen as a distinct career, needed time to work up from the grass roots and never really mixing with people outside of that bubble. The culture can become quite odd with a level of ambition and selfishness. You can't, say, admit that a woman is an adult human female, because it would not be good for your career. Opportunism is rewarded rather than principle.

Here’s a Guardian article from this morning by Pippa Crerar et al, which talks of a ‘cull’ of Labour incumbents. In this and a separate article, Abbot and Shaheen as ‘cull’ victims and the possible reasons for that are discussed at length.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle is merely mentioned. No reasons are given as to why he may have been ‘purged’ or ‘culled’ or what the possible motivations could have been from the top.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/purge-of-labour-leftwingers-must-end-keir-starmer-told

I am happy he’s doing a ‘cull’ - there’s nothing worse than being in a ‘safe seat’ constituency and knowing your vote is pointless. Let’s hope he culls my useless MP while he’s at it.

Even those who welcome a cull should not be impressed by the way it has been done. There are a few more people it would be good to lose but not the right way to do it.