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Famous Five: But Who Will Be The Cat In the Hat?
Candidates sending digital versions of current literature to idea at mcr1.poptel.org.uk may find pictures, endorsements and selectoral address included in commentary here. Please do send them. There are some interesting endorsements on Jenny's for example. And Nargis' is punchy. Yogesh's much, much improved on the first one. But my scanner is a bit poorly. So please help a poor blogger out ...
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The cat that gets the cream?
The cat that gets to cream Leech?
I reckon two of them - used as tactical stalking donkeys - will be out pretty sharpish and this won't go at all the way of the nominations.
Which two would that be Sybil? And who has been doing the using? I have warned two of the candidates that this will probably be their fate but would be interesting to see if these are the same names you have sooth-sayed.
Withington Labour Party members can see Jenny Lennox - one of the women who wants to be their parliamentary candidate - speaking from the platform at a major trade union rally in Manchester city centre on Wednesday (March 14).
The event has been called by Organising for Fighting Unions and will discuss building solidarity for strikers, campaigning for better labour laws, and political representation for trades unionists.
Jenny works for the National Union of Journalists. Joining her on the platform will be Bob Crow (general secretary of the RMT transport union and a member of no political party), Billy Hayes (general secretary of the Communication Workers Union and a Labour Party member), and George Galloway (Big Brother contestant and Respect MP).
The event starts at 6pm with a stall and a buffet. The speakers start at 7.30pm.
It's at the Mechanics Institute, on the corner of Princess Street and Major Street.
You show me yours and I'll show you mine.
Well, here goes.
The two candidates I fear for Sybil are :
Naheed Arshad-Mather MBE
and
Dr Yogesh Virmani
I have discussed this in some detail with Naheed and I suppose she may have an opportunity to do something about it. I have also told Yogesh why I cannot support her. There are similar forces afoot in proposing Y for constituency delegate for Conference 2007 and IMO she should stand down and avoid that strain.
Any second preferences these two have been promised will probably never transfer and therefore if they have been reciprocating they should reconsider and recommend any supporters transfer voting that best matches their own views about the constituency and how to win here and not some imagined mutual arrangement.
My view is that politically Naheed is nearest to Nargis or Jenny; and Yogesh is nearest to Jenny as the Mancunian Candidate.
I will now go and put on my tin hat and expect the usual suspects to start lobbing sticks and stones at my "crap" blog etc etc.
I agreed that Naheed and Yogesh look unlikely winners. I can't see who will support them.
Within the party Lucy is the candidate of the right.
Nargis is the candidiate of the centre right.
Jenny is the candidate of the left and centre left.
Who is best placed to win back voters from the Lib Dems and, crucially, galvanise activists to a campaign?
More crucially Nargis is the candidate who has beaten the Lib Dems already and has elected experience. The other two candidates are shots in the dark in these two respects. Naheed and Yogesh are not in it.
Lovely to have comments from the left/centre left (sic) and centre right (same sic) of the party. In what way is Jenny the candidate of the centre left?
That would be Cruddas and Hain and possibly Denham and Benn? Perhaps the Lloyd part of the Centre Left ... but that is different and more lefty;and possibly now history?
And by what token is Nargis not the representative of this sort of centre left tendancy and as anti-war also left of all the above, even Denham who is otherwise a B-rite?
I'd say left, centre and right are easier tags to justify. Naheed was centre left. Yogesh was the centre right one I'd say.
One of the things the handful of students were told, allegedly, was that Nargis Khan was like Uncle Gengis and way to the right of the "socialist" Lucy Powell. I think it was "socialist" rather than "socialite" the Chair of Labour Students and ex-internee said. What horlicks. They'll say anything to get on NUS national committee.
Can we try to get to identifiable names more of the time please folks? So far this is just about tolerable but please can we keep it positive, keep it about praising the soap powder you're selling rather than critting the competition. Thanks again to Lembit Opik for that Proctor and Gamble of a thought. The Lib Dems hated it as they like playing dirty and negative.
Well I've an idea of Nargis' politics as she ( and Jenny) are about the only candidates who seem to be willing to enmgage in political discussion and pin their colours to the mast -it's clear to me Nargis is of the left. Lucy I can't make any judgnment on as it seems very difficult to find out where she stands on any issues at all.
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