howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Howard it's decided by the incoming new council
Looking at it labour is likely to have a big majority so will vote down party lines and its own
I just hope the other guy in St rads loses
How will that work in practice Keith? The new councillors will only know they have joined the jet set sometime on the 4th and the Mayor making is 3 weeks later. I presume they will have to call an urgent meeting beforehand but any new ones won't know enough about the candidates to make an informed choice.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Rumours of a new venue for voting in the Mayor this time around.
Keith Sansum1
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That's how it is
Of course labour will have met and have there candidate ready
The tories or indies will put someone else up
That is if any tories or indies win any seats
Then on block Labour will vote its candidate in
There's no question just candidates put forward and a vote
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Whose turn is it this year Keith?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Short list of candidates.
Captain Haddock
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Mayor of Deal has just resigned from Labour Party after 40+ years!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Nick Tomahawk if my memory serves me correctly, if so which racial grouping did he attack?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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None. He's had enough of local CLP. 'Not the Labour Party I joined'.
It's entryism. It's local. They're organised. Don't say you weren't warned.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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They are already closing ranks and preparing to go on the attack, local Tory party doesn't have the nationwide problem of entryism as Charlie has out ukipped UKIP perfectly.
Guest 2982- Registered: 20 Nov 2018
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I’ve never understood what is meant by ‘entryism’ with regard to Labour recently Howard. Loads of people have joined Labour because they believe in the Labour Party Manifesto, surely they are therefore Labour supporters, not ‘infiltrators’ from another party ? I’m puzzled...
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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entryism
the infiltration of a political party by members of another group, with the intention of subverting its policies or objectives.
New Statesman article here:-
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/08/what-does-entryism-mean
See also this:-
https://www.marxists.org/archive/grant/1959/03/entrism.htm
See also Peter Taaffe:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taaffe
We are now looking at the same old same old accelerated through 'social media'.
Not that difficult to understand after all, was it?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 2982- Registered: 20 Nov 2018
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Thank you for the wealth of resources Captain haddock. My comment still stands.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Dolly
to maybe explain a little more(although I'm suspecting you may be fully aware)
Momentum is an organised group(party) that has organised and taken over the labour party.
That may or may not be a good thing, that's for the electorate to decide.
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Guest 2982- Registered: 20 Nov 2018
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I thought Momentum Members were Labour Party supporters ? Now I really am confused.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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To put things into contemporary perspective former UKIP members joined the Tories to chase out MPS that weren't as Eurosceptic as they would like. Former people that were kicked out of UKIP have rejoined under Mr Batten and brought along assorted racists and neo Nazis with them. The Lib Dems don't have the problem, they have exitism instead.
Guest 2982- Registered: 20 Nov 2018
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So, are we saying that the hundreds of thousands of Labour supporters who have joined in the last couple of years are all ‘entryists’? Seems rather unlikely to me.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Momentum across the country has organised within the party, its for the electorate to decide if labour is going in the correct direction.
Also if its electable
I have had lots of discussions with many labour officials still trying to work out where the parties going
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I thought the mass influx was well over two years ago when it was 3 quid to join, assorted trouble makers and Tories signed up as both wanted Jezza in charge for completely different reasons. Membership has fallen since those days.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
