General Election 2017

[steveL]

Iain Wright has announced that he won't be standing in the June 8th Genera lElection

[Sanddancer]

Who next though??? Surely it cannot be one of the SCABs.!

[Land Phil]

One of their puppets ?

[steveL]

3 possibilities.

Wright hasn't been getting along with the local CLP for ages. It's the usual thing, CAB just can't stand anyone with more status than himself. We saw it with Drummond and he will do the same with whoever becomes the Teesside Mayor.

The SCABS have taken to the cosmopolitan London life and Christopher fancies himself as MP. The other in-house possibility is Alan Clarke who will have the support of the union orangutans. The 3rd possibility is that an outsider is parachuted in with some talk that it maybe David Milliband making a re-entry ready to pick up the pieces after Corbyn resigns on June 9th.

[not4me]

Interesting thought about David Milliband but I think it's too early. The King has to be officially declared dead before the new King is hailed and that won't happen till June 9th.

I don't think Wright likes opposition politics and the prospect of another 5 years of it just doesn't interest him.

[DRiddle]

If it's a SCAB then Labour will lose what should be one of the safest Labour seats in the country to UKIP.

If it's Alan Clarke, 'the housewives choice' (as he's known to many of his pals) might save the seat. The narrative they could quickly build around him resonates with Corbyn's talk about manufacturing, helping the young etc.

Local boy, redundant steel worker, ex youth worker. He'll tick boxes with traditional Labour voters that the scabs could never tick.

I'm not sure a heavy weight Labour outsider would risk it on Hartlepool at present.

Could the biggest voice in UKIP throw his hat in?

[jeffh]

Leo Gillen?

[jawsbbc]

ALAN CLARK

[The Great Dictator]

     


     Mandelson ?

[dowager]

Leo Gillen?



Good shout, nigel Farage was always rumoured to want this as his seat and then you would need a good local labour candidate to avoid him steamrollering, whether he would be a good Mp is another matter but he knows Mandy.

He may not even be a Labour Party member. The only other high profile local person in town off the top of my head is the ex editor of the Hartlepool mail or Alan Wright but I am not sure he is politically minded

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Didn't Alan Wright stand as a Conservative in 2010?

[fred c]

Parliament dissolves in a couple of weeks, so whoever get the nod will need to start campaigning very quickly, if it's either of the SCABS there will be a public backlash that could end any chance of a Labour MP, if Alan Clark gets the nod, will he be his own man and put an end to the cabal that runs the HCLP, the real question is, is he the best man for the job and more pertinently does the Labour Party national executive think he is.....cue  David Miliband....or.....A N Other ?

As for the man who can't be named, I could actually see him winning in Hartlepool..... Doh

[steveL]

Alan Wright has been all over the place politically depending on who was paying the highest after dinner rates

[steveL]

Parliament dissolves in a couple of weeks, so whoever get the nod will need to start campaigning very quickly, if it's either of the SCABS there will be a public backlash that could end any chance of a Labour MP, if Alan Clark gets the nod, will he be his own man and put an end to the cabal that runs the HCLP, the real question is, is he the best man for the job and more pertinently does the Labour Party national executive think he is.....cue  David Miliband....or.....A N Other ?

As for the man who can't be named, I could actually see him winning in Hartlepool..... Doh

Alan Clarke - the Eeyore candidate

[Steely Dan]

As for the man who can't be named, I could actually see him winning in Hartlepool..... Doh

You've lost me Fred. Who is this?