Party manoeuvring to foist failed Leicester South right-winger on north-west members – but Reform already campaigning
Keir Starmer’s Labour has lined up Establishment TV favourite Jonathan Ashworth to stand for the party in Runcorn and Helsby if incumbent Mike Amesbury is convicted for more than twelve months at his trial on Thursday for a late-night assault in on a man in the village of Frodsham, which was caught on CCTV, according to local sources.
MPs who are convicted and sentenced to more than twelve months in prison are ineligible to sit as MPs or stand for election. If Amesbury is acquitted or avoids a lengthy jail sentence, the party is preparing to trigger a recall petition and by-election if, as seems likely, he is given a parliamentary suspension in the absence of a conviction.
The Labour right have been desperate to get Ashworth back into Parliament after Leicester South voters decided that his support for Israel and his part in the sabotage of Labour’s 2019 general election campaign were not, unsurprisingly, characteristics they wanted in their elected representative. However, simply being selected – or more likely imposed – as Labour’s candidate does not guarantee he will win. Reform is said to have its paperwork ready to go as soon as a by-election is called and is already leafletting the area heavily – and given R/H’s predecessor seat Weaver Vale had a Tory MP for seven years in the 2010s and Starmer’s polling collapse since the public saw what kind of person and PM he is, could well take it.
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Great! A choice between two rapid right-wingers.
To be honest, if voting was compulsory and it was a toss-up between reform and that greasy, lisping, teacher’s pet of an arsehole (sans the school uniform of shorts, cap & blazer, complete with satchel) , im afraid reform’d get my vote every time.
Or even rabid! They’ll never outplay Stanley Matthews.
Will the self appointed guardians of ‘the left’ be putting up a candidate?
Nowt to say about caplin the nonce.
And by virtue of a dig at the left puts up a case for another unwanted untalented gobshite who lost a 23000 majority.
Do go away.
Nick Cohen is rumoured to be interested. 😏
Indeed, Good and brave Labour MPs need to be defended, my hero!
Will any authentic left candidate be allowed to stand?
Will any authentic left candidate receive any positive coverage whatsoever in the captured corporate media?
Or would any such candidate be, at best, ignored by that media and, going on past precedent, at worst receive only total negative coverage in order to influence the result against them?
Given recent precedents in terms of the attitudes and practices of a crumbling and failed Establishment, would any win by such a candidate be annulled?
It’s called context, Billy. If you don’t ask the right questions, you will always be wallowing in the pit of ignorance that your arrogant childish attitude has dug for you.
Best you stick to counting the railings.
These human stains sure know how to stick together! Every last one of the anti-Corbyn right are being/have been rehabilitated before our eyes! Hodge, Berger, Ellman, Kendall, Mann, Austin, Woodcock, you name them. All present and correct. No scumbag left behind!
What’s the betting Tom Watson’s next?
I’ll take that bet
My money’s on ellman or berger after ashworth’s shoehorning into the Runcorn candidacy.
Tulip Siddiq to be given a gong for services to furthering the interests of the Labour Right & lining the pockets of Labour donors.