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Manchester City Council: In Half An Hour Nominations Are Published
When they are we will post a link HERE (Should be midday. Not live 12:15, 12:25, hurrah 12:35).
UPDATE: there are a few surprises, enough to blog separately, soon.
This much we know: Respect are NOT standing in Cheetham Hill and are encouraging a vote for Labour's Afzal Khan who has been stalwart anti-war campaigner, a great Lord Mayor and is thoroughly positive about immigration. Respect will stand in Rusholme, aiming to improve on their excellent 800 votes of 2006.
There may also be some independent socialist action in the Council Estates which recently voted for stock transfer and £114M of improvements. Burnage and Fallowfield in particular. Perhaps Chorlton Park.
The National Front stood in Manchester Central in 2005, polling less than the BNP did in ONE ward over EIGHT wards. Expect the BNP in Miles Platting and Newton Heath where the Lib Dem candidate has been a councillor (1), stood for (2), or at least temporarily been a been a member of (3) Labour (123), Independent (123), UKIP (23) and now Lib Dems (23).
Calling him a criminal is a bit harsh as it was only a couple of years fiddling his benefits. When he stood in the General and Local elections of 2005 and 2006 he had at least one helper with an NF history.
The BNP have also stood in Fallowfield - putting up the student chancer who infiltrated NW Respect and was the Treasurer for their Euro Campaign - and in Gorton South where they trounced Greens, UKIP and Tories, in that order.
Other interesting points from the Lib Dems will be whether they run with Danny Valentine again in Ancoats and Clayton, and whether they managed to convince the Green Party to take part in any shenanigans to help them out. Let's hope not.
As for the Tories - apart from their vocal but idle man in the muddle - all eyes will be on how Dave/id's mission to Wythenshawe to get down with hoodies and bouncers pays off in his candidate list for the area.
2 comments:
Really can't see any backlash whatsoever over the stock transfer. Majority of residents voted for it and as a socialist I can see the reasons for it. Ends not means. You need to get reasing your Crosland.
Reading my Crossland? I wasn't predicting any mass effect. Though I've never though popularity or even acceptance = right thing. I was speculating that Sam Darby, John Clegg et al might have a spin round the block for the Socialist Labour Party or the like. But very low activity from the independent left this time. And they haven't. Could have been a boon in some wards - particularly on the transfer issue as Lib Dems would be forced to commit. No M Drague even. And again just the one Respectee and a couple of others on local campaigns.
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