Where is the Party of Women?

[Womenz]

Maybe I’m wrong but as far as I remember the big message at the last election was that the Party of Women were in it for the long haul, but they don’t seem to be anywhere in this election? All I can find is Bev White running in Huntingdon. Why didn’t Kellie Jay Keen run? Doesn’t she always win?

I'm a paid-up member. Thank you very much for standing for women, @POWNewcastleEastWallsend 🌹 More strength to you.

Hi

Yes, and more than just suspected. Her daughter was critically ill with sepsis and had to be rushed to hospital more than once. Kellie-Jay was sleeping on the floor next to her bed for several nights.

Having had severe sepsis myself, I know how touch and go it can be whether you actually pull through or not - and why a mother would want to be by her daughter's side to make sure that she got the medical attention she needed.

Part of the reason I nearly snuffed it was that neither nursing nor medical staff realised how close to death I was and in dire need of intravenous antibiotics - or any antibiotics!

The only reason I am alive is that I was rambling on deliriously about the Doctor who had tried to save my mother's life 14 years earlier. The ward staff called him and it turned out he had become Deputy Medical Director and Head of ICU. He spotted that I had sepsis and spent most of the night pushing me around the hospital high-speed in a wheelchair getting me scanned, admitted to High Dependency and pumped full of antibiotics. I had multi-organ failure and would have been dead within a couple hours but for that lucky chance.

Goodness knows why the hospital discharged her daughter when she was clearly not over the worst. It took me two years to recover but I hope that, being so much younger, Kellie-Jay's daughter can recover more quickly. 🙏

I realise that I have not taken the opportunity to report how well POW did!

I stood in Newcastle upon Tyne (Walker Ward) for Party of Women and beat

• Lib Dems x 3
• Tory x 1

This is the first time that I have stood in a Local Election in Walker.

I had help leafleting from Let Women Speak members living in Newcastle, North Tyneside, Co Durham and Northumberland - the latter LWS member also being my election agent.

We pushed leaflets through 1,600 letterboxes out of 5,700 in the Ward (28%), reaching approx 28% of 7,500 constituents (2,100).

(I have rounded those figures very slightly.)

Ballot papers returned: 2679 (Turnout 35.6%)

I got 75 votes: 3% of votes cast.

Theoretically:
• as I got 3% of the vote after reaching 28% of voters
• then I might have got just over 10% of votes if we had leafleted all voters.

That would also have put me ahead of two Labour and two Independents as well as the three Lib Dems and the Tory that I beat.

It really brings home to me how important it is to get Party of Women election leaflets out to people.

Assuming that my votes were due to our canvassing:

• over 10% of voters who received Party of Women leaflets voted for me!

💥💚💥🤍💥💜💥

Brief explanation of why in this post at 10/05/2026 20:47 I said "I realise that I have not taken the opportunity to report how well POW did!" when much the same information is in my post at 09/05/2026 14:11

The Reason:

Mumsnet "disappeared" my 9th May post without a "Deletion Notice".

I didn't notice that that had happened. However, I did notice when it happened to a different post that I had made on a different thread.

So I posted on Site Stuff, querying the post that disappeared without trace, without a Deletion Notice. The answer was that Mumsnet "Deletions Bots" had incorrectly identified a "Fundraiser Link" in both posts. This was because I had included the phrase "more support would be welcome" close to the link to the Party of Women Membership Application page.

Mumsnet looked at both posts again, spotted the error and reinstated the posts.

I have never seen this happen before, ie. posts disappearing without a Deletion Notice.

Something for us all to be aware of but tricky to spot because of the lack of a Deletion Notice!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5527786-post-completely-disappeared-into-a-black-hole-ie-disappeared-not-deleted?reply=152239537

We could start a block the bots campaign (no funding needed) and speak up for human beings.

It gets a bit much when posters have to be more vigilent of delitions than MNHQ!

*fewer

Bloody brilliant! A huge well done.

Bloody hell. Glad.to hear you recovered, and my very best wishes to Kellie-Jay and her daughter, how terrifying.

@POWNewcastleEastWallsend Hang on in there. Great oaks from little acorns grow.