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Manchester Withington Selection: Le Crunch
This weekend the General Committee of the CLP considered the itemised bill of the phoney war and decide on the shortlist for selection of the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate who will try to reclaim this lovely leafy seat for Labour at the next election.
The final shortlist in alphabetical order of family names:
Naheed Arshad-Mather MBE
Councillor Nargis Khan
Jenny Lennox
Lucy Powell
Dr Yogesh Virmani
These are the same names that would have gone forward after the Branch Party nominations. Of the affiliates only the Co-op Party and SEA involved significant numbers of the selectorate. Unison, the T&G and GMB didn't even manage to affiliate.
I was not invited to the GC meeting on Sunday night. I should have been included in this body and also probably in the EC as a GC/EC member of Manchester Central re-organised into Manchester Withington. This was supposed to be guaranteed under transitional arrangements, and rightly so.
Regional Office did not resolve this query, and has yet to respond to the request that strange venue choices be re-visited.
8 comments:
We're watching Chris. If this is the Phoney War when is the War? 15 leaflets, 7 phone calls, 3 visits, 1 sorry you were out, 2 approaches by supporters..Does it get more intense?
As a place to live Withington is top it would seem. A few drinks and a curry in Chorlton are beckoning soon.
A curry in Chorlton? Anyway, never mind Addle Lorenzo, the real war presumably starts very soon.
Five nominations left - assuming Amicus haven't done anything crazy - and the whole thing I suppose gains momentum as the richest candidates 'phone poll 5,000 citizens and ask them kinda focus group questions?
There may even be bar charts. LoL may even produce some of those.
Apparently a curry in Chorlton is something I gotta do before I leave Manchester. Sorry to interrupt!
Didn't know Chorlton was noted for its curries? Azad Manzil or Asian Fusion next to each other on Barlow Moor Road - both okeh. Sometimes I do a long walk to Coriander opposite Southern Cem because the food is better, and lighter..unfortunately there are no pubs nearby.
Bar charts, pie charts, swingometer - yes please.
Been watching, it's Monday afternoon and no news.
So who's on the bloody shortlist!!!
In alphabetical order:
Jenny, Lucy, Nadeem, Nargis, Yogesh.
That's Naheed, annymous 15:33.
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