I sent an email to the People
I sent an email to the People before Profit contact for Feltham and was surprised to get a reply from the candidate himself, George Hallam. Apparently he knew a Party member when he was in Bristol in the late 70s. Here (with permission) is what he replied:
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I’m George Hallam (the candidate). I’m just off to campaign so I will have to be brief. Are we a socialist party? Let’s just say that we are more concerned with practical actions to tackle some very real problems than we are with labels. So formally we don’t use that term. Check our manifesto and policy statements to see where we stand. Quite a few of our members do consider themselves socialists. We try to take decisions by consensus so there is no great conflict. We have members who are in The Socialist Party (of England and Wales). In May we stood Ian Page (an SP member and former councillor) as a joint candidate in a council by-election in Lewisham. Ian got 13 percent, 78 votes behind the Conservative if I remember correctly. Must dash now. Best wishes
The result of the local by-election can be found here. Page, who stood as a “Socialist Alternative – Lewisham People Before Profit” candidate, didn’t do too badly.