Lost Constituency
Labour's approved candidates have received two emails in the last two days from HQ:
Dear NPP applicant,
CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTIES SEEKING CANDIDATES FOR THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
You are receiving this letter/email because you applied to the National Parliamentary Panel by the end of March deadline set by the NEC for early selections. If you have not provided the NPP co-ordinator with an email address, please forward these details to legal_queries@new.labour.org.uk in order that the party can stay in regular contact with you, update you on training, interviews, selections and other relevant information.
Please note that these details are also available on the members-only area of the Labour Party website - www.labour.org.uk - as a potential candidate, you should check this page regularly.
Applications for seats must be in the format of a standard two page CV which is also available from the members' only area of the website, or directly from Procedures Secretaries.
You are reminded that the candidates' code of conduct must be adhered to at all times. Following the publication of a timetable for a constituency (and once aspiring candidates have formally expressed an interest in a seat) and on payment of £20, potential candidates are entitled to branch secretary and membership lists.
If you have not logged on to the members' area of the party's website before, you will need your membership number. The log-in box is on the left hand side of the web-page.
The following CLPs are currently seeking candidates for the forthcoming general election. Details of the CLP, the Procedures Secretary (to whom applications should be addressed) and the deadline by which all applications should be with the Procedures Secretary are also attached.
PS: Please note if you change any of your details you should inform Membership Services as well by calling 08705 900 200.
General queries on parliamentary selections and the National Parliamentary Panel should be made to the Compliance Unit on legal_queries@new.labour.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Melanie Onn
Head of Compliance Unit
Current Parliamentary Selections : 26 July 2006
Seat: Shrewsbury & Altringham
Currently held by: Conservative
Majority: 1,808
2nd Place: Lab
Not long after that went out a correction was sent out renaming the constituency:
Seat: Shrewsbury & AtchumGuido believes Labour HQ will find it is actually called Shrewsbury & Atcham.
Currently held by: Con
Majority: 1,808
2nd Place: Lab
All women shortlist: No
Deadline for applications: 29 August
Shortlisting meeting: 21 October
Hustings meeting: 4 November
27 comments:
"If you have not provided the NPP co-ordinator with an email address"
Labour are now emailing people who haven't supplied them with an email to ask them to send them one. Seems that Tony and co still have a bit to learn about email...
Paul Marsden was the Labour MP until he went over to Lib dems in 2001in opposistion to the Iraq war- then returned to the fold because "he feraed good constituency Labour MPs could loose their seats if voters backed Tories or Lib dems". He stood down at last election.
Shrewsbuery (pronounced Shrose not Shrews by the way) has a nice Flower show each summer.
This constituency fuck-up is only one in a long line that I've been covering over the last few weeks:
http://www.recessmonkey.com/2006/07/27/identity-crisis-identity-fraud-iv/
I'm so glad you now consider recessmonkey a higher-class of blog than Wonkette by the way ;)
I think the bizarrest thing is the e-mail asking for an e-mail address if one has not yet been given.
Where have they just sent the fucking e-mail too?
I blame modern educational standards for the error. Oh dear. What of education educatio education.
Slow news day today Guido?
Shrewsbury and Atcham is a bizarre name for the constituency because it yokes together the largest town in the area with the smallest hamlet. Why the non-place of Atcham (grid reference 541092) is presented as an equal partner with Shrewsbury is one of life's unfathomable mysteries.
Right Onn!
A bit like coupling Presctt with Chipolata?
Salopian -
Probably because the Atchem Estate used to (?still do?) make the most superb Damson Gin.
That'd merit putting even an isolated cowshed on the constituency map.
Presumably it's because in times gone by, the good burghers of Shrewsbury had as many solid bourgeoisie votes (put together) as the Big Hoose out at Atcham had bought.
In these egalitarian times, the idea of power and patronage being bought is, of course, abhorrent.
That email asking for your email address reminds me of my time in Tech Support. I once saw an email that said:
"I CANNOT SEND OR RECEIVE EMAIL. PLEASE HELP ME!"
I deleted it.
What plank in Labour HQ doesn't even know the name of the constituency, or how to spell it when they at least get the name right. Methinks, instead of sending money to NuLab before the next election, you should all send them a map - will have all the place names on it so they should know what the constituency is called and how to spell names of any towns in the area.
Anyway, about the situation in the Lebanon.....
Clearly part of NuLab's regionalisation strategy, combining Shropshire with Cheshire. At that size, it must be a multi-member constituency. Think I'll give it a go!
deid anyone else note the typing error? the sign-off should have been:
"Yours sincerely,
Melanie Onn Head of Compliance Unit"
(a variation of the John Prescott back to the Admiralty Arching after the Black Tie Dinner position.)
P.S. Just noticed, they couldn't even spell Altrincham correctly.
I suspect that the HQ is now run by Temps, due to the cash crisis in New Labour.
Unable to rake in millions a year and with the prospect of of having to repay loadsamoney to disaffected hopefuls, there is no money in the pot to replace the full-time staff.
It's quite apt really, New Labour is now Temporary, fortunately there is no temp. to perm!
"Anonymous said...
Slow news day today Guido? "
Is it or or does every anti-Labour thread have some anonymous poster in (possibly the same person) acting as the mouthpiece of Labour HQ?
...or does every anti-Labour thread have some anonymous poster in (possibly the same person) acting as the mouthpiece of Labour HQ?
What did you think Prescott's new job was?
I can see him now, hammering with his porcine fists at a cracked, stained keyboard like a demented hippo crazed wit heatstroke, tongue poking out of the downwards curve to the left of his lips, "dear...tory...basstuds..."
Dr Waller's Almanac of British Politics: 'The constituency name was altered in 1983 to give recognition to the local government borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, and indeed the seat does run west to the Welsh border.'
LABOUR PARTY IN TYPO SHOCKER!
Cripes! Don't stop with the good stuff, Guido. Any more like this? You'll have a million man readership in no time.
BenedictWhite nails it. A clear example of the "Success" of Comprehensive "education" - imbecility.
The rise of the 'central office' born-and-bred wonk has caused so much damage to the political process.
Is naming yourself 'Head of Compliance Unit' a CV trick for when so that she can join a real compliance unit after the Oaten hits the fan for Blair, Prescott and NuLabour this conference?
It seems that David Miliband's blog has got the constituency spelling disease.
"Defra yesterday organised the first screening in the UK of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth. We invited a range of leaders from local authorities, business, trade unions and the voluntary sector, as well as Parliament (and the St Edmonsbury Youth Forum), for their ability to take the message to the widest possible group of citizens."
I'm sure it's spelt St Edmundsbury! I thought New Labour was all about "education, educashion, educashun".
I would get used to this happening more and more in the future.
My sisters oldist child recently claimed a place in university, a thing that no one in my entire extended family has ever done. She is very bright and has a grade B English A leval. However the other day I heard her ask her 69 year old grandmother, who left school with no qualifications at all at the age of 14.
" How do you spell contemporary " while doing a crossword in 2 hours that usually takes my mother 20 mins.
BTW its my mothers 70th birthday today. A person like many of her time, which has more common sense in her little finger than there is in a years output from many a university graduate.
i think that labour candidiates should think it is important forthem to challenge tory opposition in a safe and unsafe tory seat
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