Our local by-election campaign in Islington
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According to this, a meeting to protest against the erection of a tower block in the ward was held on Tuesday 19 November to which it had been announced that candidates in the by-election had been invited:
https://www.savearchwaycampus.org/news/community-rallies-against-plan
Apparently the Labour, Corbynist and LibDem candidates spoke at the meeting. So either the other 4 candidates weren’t invited, turned down the invitation, or didn’t speak.
Our candidate did not receive an invitation. We have contacted the presumed organisers for more information, asking to where any invitation was sent.
If we had known about the meeting we would at least have leafletted it.
The position our candidate would have expressed would have been along the lines of the (unpublished) letter to the Islington Tribune in message #254865 above.
Here’s Corbyn saying that his candidate will win:
So, I voted for socialism this morning: there were polling agents at a by-election! (Labour and Independent), both teams seem to have been running get out the vote operations. I came home to another Caines leaflet saying ‘election today’.
Commendably, Islington council emailed me to remind me there was a by-election today, which I think is a good thing (they got my email when I registered to vote).
Off to the count tonight, I don’t expect fireworks, but we’ll see.
Well, we got 22 votes (1.13%)
https://www.islington.gov.uk/about-the-council/voting-and-elections/elections/by-elections-2024
Number of votes cast: 1,946
Turnout: 21.33%Labour got 785, the Independent got 550
Everyone else pretty much nowhere, the Greens got gazumped by the Corbynistas. Maybe if Caines hadn’t stood, the Greens might have won. I think turnout benefited Labour.
Fair play to the comrades who worked on the campaign.
I won’t lie. I’m a little disappointed that we weren’t able to get more votes than the guy from Phoenix Nights.
Here’s the result in more traditional form:
POTTS, James Christopher (Labour Party) 785 40.4% (-22.0)
CAINES, Jackson (no description) 550 28.3% (New)
OSBORNE, Devon (Green Party) 219 11.3% (-11.2)
JONES, Rebecca (Liberal Democrats) 156 8.0% (+0.9)
WILKIN, John (The Conservative Party Candidate) 113 5.8% (-2.1)
POTTER, Brian Steve (Independent) 97 5.0% (New)
MARTIN, Bill (The Socialist Party of Great Britain) 22 1.1% (New)Turnout: 21.33%
We are only “new” in the sense that we didn’t stand in the last previous election but had stood there three times before.
Maybe if Caines hadn’t stood, the Greens might have won.
The Corbynists are seeing it the other way round. For example:
“I feel compelled to express my frustration with the Green Party’s decision to stand a candidate in this election. It was clear they had little chance of winning, yet their decision to run may have split the vote and prevented Jackson from achieving an even better result. To me, this highlights a level of selfishness that undermines the broader goal of supporting candidates like Jackson, who are genuinely dedicated to improving the commmunity.”
And even:
“Shame re green, socialist and other independent voters.”
It is true that the Greens only stood a paper candidate. No leaflets and just one letter in the local media. They didn’t seem to want to win.
“It is true that the Greens only stood a paper candidate. No leaflets and just one letter in the local media. They didn’t seem to want to win.”
Kind of cynical when you think about it.
Labour thrilled at not losing:
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