London Borough Elections 5 May
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More hustings Southwark seems to be the place. Last Thursday our candidate, Kevin Parkin, attended a hustings organised by the Bankside Residents Forum. He reports that it was an acrimonious meeting with the Labourites and LibDems playing the blame game about housing. He was able to make the point that in a capitalist society houses are built for profit not social use, hence the problems. On Monday morning this week there was another hustings, organised by the Southwark Pensioners Action Group. Our candidates always get a good reception at such meetings; quite a few leaflets handed out.Today's Southwark News has photos of all the candidates, including ours standing next to our logo (a compromise between competing points of view in our party between those who say we should supply a photo when asked and those who say we should only send a logo — in Lambeth we used to provide a photo of Danny Lambert speaking on our platform with the website address showing). Also, a short statement of what we stand for: a society of common ownership, democratic control, production to satisfy people's needs not for profit, and the principle "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs".No report of hustings in Islington or Richmond. Leafleting has continued in both places. In fact whole of Barnes ward except for some mansions (and blocks of flats you can't get into) has now been leafleted. 400 of the 3000 ordered left over but branch members should be able to distribute more at the street stall in Barnes (Church Road) on Saturday from 12 noon to 2pm.http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/election-street-stall-barnes-noon
With the farmers in Barnes Two members at the stall in Barnes on Saturday. We started early as the Tories and LibDem/Greens (with a joint stall) were already there when we arrived at 11.30. Finished early too, at 1pm, when the Farmers Market ended and they went.Some passers-by told us they had already received our leaflet through their letterbox. A Tory backwoodsman told us to "go back to Russia". We suggested that they did as Russia was now capitalist even by their standards as opposed to the state capitalism it was with the USSR. Another, a rather more up-to-date, Tory remembered an active SPGB group at UCL in the 1980s. Met a couple of Labourites. They are standing here but are not running any sort of campaign and will only have put up candidates to give their supporters a chance to vote for what they want — a quite legitimate reason, one of the reasons we are standing too.As Eugene Debs put it, it is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.Afterwards, we distributed some of the surplus leaflets in another part of Barnes not in the ward.
According to Wikipedia, Bill and Adam are running for the SDP! Anyone able to change it over? My phone's not letting me post the link, but the pages can be found from the 'United Kingdom Local Elections 2018' one.
Mike Foster wrote:According to Wikipedia, Bill and Adam are running for the SDP! Anyone able to change it over? My phone's not letting me post the link, but the pages can be found from the 'United Kingdom Local Elections 2018' one.Here are the links but I do not have Wikipedia editing rights. Perhaps JDW or YMS can do the necessary.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington_London_Borough_Council_election,_2018#Junctionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_upon_Thames_London_Borough_Council_election,_2018#BarnesKevin's details are correct:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark_London_Borough_Council_election,_2018#Borough_&_Bankside
alanjjohnstone wrote:Assistant Sec, Tristan Millar is involved with editing WikiMaybe, but as comrade Miller only visits the forum infrequently he's unlikely to see this conversation.In any case the errors have now been rectified.
Result in Borough & Bankside ward (Southwark):http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/borough-and-bankside-result.htmlResult of Barnes ward (Richmond):http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/barnes-result.htmlJunction ward (Islington): still being counted.
https://www.islington.gov.uk/about-the-council/voting-and-elections/elections-and-election-results/local-council-elections-2018/junctionMARTINBillThe Socialist Party (SP – GB) 52No overall change, 47 Labour, 1 GreenI was hoping to beat the UKIPper on 81 in another seat, never mind.
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