Our General Election campaign
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Definitely not him. He went on to join the Labour Party and even, I think, became a Labour councillor.
The BBC have now corrected the link from our name. See here:
“Definitely not him. He went on to join the Labour Party and even, I think, became a Labour councillor.”
Different spelling.
Another renegade? For shame, for shame.
We have managed to track down the missing write-in vote for socialism. It is here:
A bit short notice but:
Our candidate Folkestone and Hythe, Andy Thomas, will appear at General Election Hustings tonight, Monday 1st July, in Hythe at St Leonard’s church from 7.30 to 9pm.
The event is being live streamed
It was a typical hustings such as will have been happening up and down the country. Our candidate got a few chances to briefly put the socialist case on various issues such as crime, youth mental health, water pollution.
The candidate for the Trotskyist front TUSC didn’t sound or look like a Leninist insurrectionist or mass-strikist. She came across as a common or garden reformist or grass roots activist. She probably is.
Virtually all our various election leaflets have now been distributed.
Four members distributed today the last 1100 or so of the extra 3,600 of the Clapham and Brixton Hill election communication which the printers sent us. We had ordered 48,000. 47,700 for sending to Royal Mail to distribute free, 300 for us but they sent us 3,600 (even if at no extra cost).
This was outside and around Stockwell tube station. Before then most of the others had been distributed on an almost every other day outside Brixton tube station.
Over the weekend were also distributed the last of the 8000 leaflets for distribution where we are not contesting and suggesting those who want socialism cast a write-in vote for socialism by writing “World Socialism” across their ballot paper.
These were distributed in Manchester, South Yorkshire. South Wales, the West Midlands, Portsmouth, Frome and in various parts of southwest and north London including, it so happens, Islington North where Jeremy Corbyn is standing.
Royal Mail also distributed free 47,300 of our election communication in Folkestone and Hythe and Kent & Sussex branch members there over 5,000 of a second leaflet, in council wards in Folkestone which we have consistently contested.
Fair play to all comrades involved in putting forward the real alternative during this latest election circus.
Yes, well done all. Hopefully we’ve prompted some more people to think about society as it is and how it could be.
Result in Clapham and Brixton Hill
LAB 24166 (56.5%)
LIBDEM 6161
GREEN 5768
CON 4360
REFORM 1758 (4.1%)
IND 406
SOC 122 (0.3%)Turnout 57%
Result in Folkestone and Hythe:
LAB 15020 (34.7%)
CON 11291
REF 10685 (24.7%)
GREEN 3954
LIBDEM 1736
TUSC 249
FAIRER VOTING 240
SOC 71 (0.2%)Turnout 62%
For the record, the London branch member who dealt with email enquiries sent to our candidate in Clapham and Brixton Hill from members of pressure groups and single issue campaigns that are sent to all candidates at election time reports that he sent a standard reply and appropriate link to 217 such enquiries.
Interesting but presumably not literally true story here in which the ReformUK candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill features:
More serious is a reference by the Green Party candidate to a hustings. If there was one we were not invited but should have been.
We are investigating.
More on this but I can’t believe it’s true, otherwise someone has committed a serious criminal offence:
Reform UK accused of using AI generated candidates in the UK election
byu/GruffJM inmorningsomewhere
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