By-Election

[steveL]

Mike Young, but given the symbiotic relationship between Labour and Tories in Hartlepool, I can understand the slip.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Mike Young, but given the symbiotic relationship between Labour and Tories in Hartlepool, I can understand the slip.

[Inspector Knacker]

If the Tories are putting a candidate up there's no need for Labour to bother. To all intents and purposes they're a Labour Party subsidiary. They should be renamed The Bagpuss Party, smug, inert, amenable and busy doing nothing.

[steveL]

I gather that the UKIP selection meeting ended up in the usual bun fight. They don't seem to have resolved their internal problems with the eventual candidate being selected by a select few. I was given the name but I'm afraid it passed through my head without registering - a follicley challenged individual - I remember that bit.

Dunno where the bald bloke story came from but their candidate is Karen King - who isn't bald, and isn't even a bloke.. . . but then again, does it really matter?

[DRiddle]

Apologies to Mike Young for my slip. No offence intended. I think Mike Hill has been on my mind since he used his opening Mail article as an elected member of her majesties parliament to have a veiled pop at a bloke who runs one of the best local charities in the town.

Then he used his second to have a dig at this website and its contributors. That's the same website who battled to help expose fraud and corruption by a member of the local Labour Party who ended up in prison as a result.

I'd have thought he had much more important things to get on with given the state of things within the council and the town as a result of it. Maybe focussing his efforts on regeneration and attracting jobs would be a good idea.

Although i suppose we have Cranney to sort that out. God help us.

[steveL]

I think it's very clear that having been told just how toxic the local Labour group was Mike Hill has decided to stay well clear - just like Wrighty constantly did. Fell at the first fence.

We'll see how things pan out when Labour implodes after they start de-selecting sitting MPs

[Inspector Knacker]

Mike Hill will merge into the political wallpaper. From what I can see, he's the loyal apparatchik par excellence and will no doubt reach a mutually beneficial arrangement of working with and supporting his fellow party members.
Very disappointing, the circus continues to perform.

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

Apologies if I am being impatient but do we know who is standing yet ?
(Not having a clue when the closing date is)

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Apologies if I am being impatient but do we know who is standing yet ?
(Not having a clue when the closing date is)

Closing date is this Friday - September 22nd. So far three have declared an interest in standing - Leisa Smith (PHF), Karen King (UKIP) and Mike Young (Conservative). The Labour candidate could be Ann Marshall but this is yet to be confirmed.

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

Thanks.
I am surprised not to see Sue Little listed

[Lord Elpus]

https://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/info/20033/elections_and_voting/699/casual_vacancy_in_the_office_of_councillor_-_seaton_ward/4

[mk1]

2 'Corbyn' stories today

https://www.facebook.com/hartlepoolmailnews/posts/1673643232655520

https://www.facebook.com/hartlepoolmailnews/posts/1673827995970377


and it is the usual bun-fight between demented Tory and Labour shills.

The biggest smile I got was when a Labour cipher complained about a Tory post using a bogus ID. The overwhelming  number of IDs with no history from before  the last GE are Labour and if you bother to check through the Cobynista  posts you can see a lot are not even from the NE never mind Hartlepool.
Given the most rabid and vocal Tory & Labour supporters have a long history of multiple fake IDs on this Forum what did we expect

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

https://www.facebook.com/hartlepoolmailnews/posts/1673643232655520

Some if the comments on the article about the food bank make me despair of the human race. Whatever happened to the concepts of kindness and tolerance?

[mk1]

I don't believe anyone noticed but there is a 'Sovereign Citizen/ Legal Name Fraud'  believer very active in the Mail thread, See if you can spot him. 

https://hptimbral.hartlepoolpost.co.uk/index.php/topic,3159.msg32442.html#msg32442

[mk1]

Not directly related but (I think) too funny not to post.

click to view the video. It is less than 30 seconds.

https://order-order.com/2017/09/19/owen-goes-full-brent/