Our General Election campaign
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We will be standing in two constituencies in the general election on 4 July: Clapham and Brixton Hill in London and Folkestone and Hythe in Kent. South Wales branch were intending to contest Swansea West again but withdrew at the last moment and will concentrate instead on advertisements in the English-language Welsh press.
Nominations open on Monday 3 June and close on Friday 7 June. Which does not give us — or reportedly even the Conservative Party — much time to organise things. At present we are engaged in collecting the signatures of the ten electors a candidate requires to be validly nominated.
The nomination papers for our candidate in Clapham and Brixton Hill, Bill Martin, were handed in this morning and accepted. We won’t know who are opponents will be till after nominations close at 4pm on Friday. But they are certain to include the same gang of five (Labour, Tory, Liberal, Green and ReformUK) as at the GLA elections last month.
Incidentally, the 10 subscribers from amongst local electors required to be nominated were all either members, sympathisers or contacts so we didn’t have to do any cold calling on electors.
Meanwhile the election communication which Royal Mail will distribute free to all 47,700 households in the constituency has been prepared.
Kent and Sussex branch report that the nomination papers for our candidate in Folkestone and Hythe, Andy Thomas, were also handed in and accepted today.
They also report that, judging by large ads placed in the local papers, one of our opponents will be the Fairer Voting Party. Its founder, who lives in Folkestone, has devised what he considers to be the perfect voting system. It’s not very straightforward And of course won’t make any difference to the way that the capitalist economic system works.
Wikipedia are quick off the mark, referencing this thread. Must be one of us?
Scroll down to Elections.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_and_Brixton_Hill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Edmund Griffiths has put together this table of left candidates in UK general elections:
https://edmundgriffiths.com/leftge.html
I’ve culled our record our (I can’t get tables to work here, so I’ll have to use an image).
February 1974 was the last General Election where the SPGB didn’t put up a candidate.
I’m curious to know why the Party didn’t contest Feb ’74 but did end up contesting Oct’74. Does anyone know? Was there a debate within the Party at the time about whether or not we should put up candidates?
Here’s our best election result ever:
https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/ward/9721/
That’s what it will be like in the last days of capitalism when it will be a straight fight between the socialist party and all the capitalist parties coalesced into the Labour Party!
The Who Can I Vote For site is reporting that TUSC is fielding a candidate in Folkestone and Hythe:
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.folkestone-and-hythe.2024-07-04/folkestone-and-hythe/
They may be one in Clapham and Brixton too but to know we will have to wait till 5 o’clock this afternoon.
It has now been officially confirmed that there are 8 candidates standing in Folkestone and Hythe. Besides ourselves they are:
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Green
Reform UK
TUSC
Fairer Voting PartyThe same number as in 2019.
TUSC have published their list of candidates. There are only 40. They are not standing in Clapham and Brixton Hill but we still don’t the names of all who are.
They say this of their candidate in a Folkestone and Hythe:
“Meanwhile, in Folkstone & Hythe, the TUSC banner is being carried by the anti-war campaigner and Folkestone Stands With Palestine group member Momtaz Khanom.”
So here they are going for the local anti-Gaza vote rather than the usual militant trade unionist one.
Lambeth Council has just announced the list of those validly nominated in Clapham and Brixton Hill. Besides us they are the usual 5 (Labour, LibDem, Green, Conservative, ReformUK) and an Independent:
Here’s our best election result ever:
https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/ward/9721/
Sad that your candidate in that election defected to a capitalist party a decade later.
We were already out in Brixton High Street this morning:
https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/10048538/4337472891561440316
Here’s the independent candidate in Clapham and Brixton Hill and what he stands for:
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/117508/jon-key
If that photo is if him then he’s the author of this book:
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