Comments on: Labour selections: more ethnic minority parliamentary candidates?

By: Hornsey and Wood Green Watch

Hornsey and Wood Green Watch — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:04:42 +0000

At the time of TMP posting, the selection outcome was known, thus for the purpose of shortlisting the number of initial nominations, whether accurate or not becomes meaningless.

For example had the CLP decided to shortlist only 3 candidates as in the case of many other CLPs then clearly Etienne, Canver, Buckland and Clarke would not have been shortlisted. This would therefore make a total nonsense of TMP’s assertion that “..Etienne is the leading BME candidate..”

Obviously TMP’s assertion may well enable the proposition to come true. However these speculations and assertions are less than helpful as the only only outcome that matters is the candidate that wins the CLP selection. Then the real detailed analysis can begin.

After all from an overall total of thirteen candidates only three BME candidates remain out of an initial total of eight BME candidates, thus already a disproportionate number of BME candidates have already been knocked off the list.

By: TMP Webmanager

TMP Webmanager — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:50:40 +0000

Hornsey and Wood Green Watch - please explain how our posting is inaccurate? Do you just refer to the information given in relation to H&WG or do you refer to the entire post? Is our analysis of the number of nominations received by candidates in H&WG incorrect? Please let us know - we are keen to ensure the information we have been provided with is correct. Many thanks. TMP.

By: Hornsey and Wood Green Watch

Hornsey and Wood Green Watch — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:05:01 +0000

This posting is so inaccurate the outcome of the shortlisting meeting held on the 23rd May for Hornsey and Wood Green in terms of votes cast was as follows: -

Catherine West - Automatically shortlisted
Karen Jennings - 23
Claudia Webbe - 19
Jan Etienne - 18
Nilgun Canver - 17
Jayne Buckland 10
Tricia Clarke - 5 (Removed from the final shortlist)