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Your council candidates
25 AprAcross Newham there are 208 candidates standing for the 60 seats on the council. Broken down by party there are:
- Labour: 60
- Conservative: 60
- Christian Peoples Alliance: 55
- Liberal Democrats: 11
- Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition: 8
- UKIP: 7
- Independent: 3
- Green Party: 2
- Communist Party: 1
- Communities United Party: 1
The candidates for the two Forest Gate wards are:
Forest Gate North
- Seyi Akiwowo – Labour Party Candidate
- Alan Charles Cooper – Green Party
- Lynn Denise Donaldson – Christian Peoples Alliance
- Christina Doyle – Christian Peoples Alliance
- Shaeb Khan – Conservative Party Candidate
- Dawn Lennon – Conservative Party Candidate
- Jane Alison Lithgow – Green Party
- Brian Maze – Conservative Party Candidate
- Christian Moon – Liberal Democrats
- Ellie Robinson – Labour Party Candidate
- Bob Severn – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Rachel Tripp – Labour Party Candidate
Forest Gate South
- Mahboob Rizu Ahmed – Conservative Party Candidate
- Asif Choudhury – Conservative Party Candidate
- William James Francis Heron – Liberal Democrats
- Niall Mulholland – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Dieutane Jean Parson – Christian Peoples Alliance
- Masihullah Patel – Labour Party Candidate
- Tim Roll-Pickering – Conservative Party Candidate
- Winston Vaughan – Labour Party Candidate
- Ionel Vrancianu – Independent
- Dianne Walls – Labour Party Candidate
- Malcolm Williamson – Christian Peoples Alliance
Your choice for mayor
25 AprThere are eight candidates standing for mayor of Newham:
- Lois Austin – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Alex Ocan Latim – Christian Peoples Alliance
- Jane Alison Lithgow – Green Party
- Kamran Malik – Communities United Party
- David Mears – UK Independence Party (UKIP)
- Stefan Mrozinski – The Conservative Party Candidate
- David Thorpe – Liberal Democrats
- Sir Robin Wales – Labour Party Candidate
One name obviously missing from that list is George Galloway. Despite his thunderous promises last year about a ‘Newham Spring’ that would sweep Sir Robin and his Labour administration from power, there is no Respect Party candidate for mayor. In fact there are no Respect candidates at all in any of the 20 wards.
As if it wasn’t already obvious, I think we can safely conclude that Galloway is a buffoon and a blowhard. Newham is far better off without him.
The full list of council candidates for each ward is on the council website.
For your consideration…
23 Apr
The Left Vote has a list of Green and other left-of-Labour candidates standing in this year’s Newham mayoral and council elections:
Mayor:
Council:
- Boleyn: Ben Robinson (TUSC)
- East Ham Central: Helen Pattison (TUSC)
- East Ham North: Thennavan Keerthikan (TUSC); Rod Finlayson (Communist)
- East Ham South: Steve Hedley (TUSC)
- Forest Gate North: Jane Lithgow & Alan Cooper (both Green); Bob Severn (TUSC)
- Forest Gate South: Niall Mulholland (TUSC)
- Green Street East: Lois Austin (TUSC/SP)
- Green Street West: Mark Dunne (TUSC)
Busy busy busy
10 Apr
Sir Robin unveils his new ‘Every Child a Chess Player’ initiative
It looks like Newham council’s PR machine is going into overdrive to promote the mayor ahead of May’s elections.
Of the ten news stories published on the council website this week eight prominently feature Sir Robin.
On Sunday – this is a seven-day-a-week operation! – they reported that
Sir Robin Wales and Madani Sow, Chairman of Bouygues UK and Bouygues Development, marked [the completion of the first concrete structure for Hallsville Quarter, the new centre for Canning Town] by placing a time capsule in cement on the site. They were joined by representatives from partners One Housing Group, Mountain Capital and Morrisons.
On Monday
Mayor Sir Robin Wales joined more than 160 children from 13 schools across the borough to launch the Newham Primary Schools’ Team Chess Tournament at the Old Town Hall in Stratford…
…Sir Robin said: “Chess is another skill that young people can learn. It improves their concentration and we believe it improves their cognitive skills. Giving children opportunities to find the things they enjoy builds their resilience, and that’s what we’re about.”
The start of a new ‘Every child a chess player’ campaign, perhaps?
Then on Tuesday ‘Every child a Chinese lion dancer’ took centre stage:
Mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales joined students at Beckton’s Kingsford Community School who got some expert lessons in traditional Chinese lion dancing thanks to Royal Albert Dock developer ABP… Sir Robin visited the school with ABP vice chairman Nancy Xu and London Executive Director John Miu to present a lion’s costume and some Mandarin books.
Later the same day
Mayor Sir Robin Wales helped launch an initiative that will see girls at Sarah Bonnell School in Stratford be able to choose their perfect prom dress thanks to a leading bridal and special occasion retailer.
The diary was packed on Tuesday, as our leader took inspiration for the soon-to-be-unveiled ‘Every child a cheerleader’ programme:
Mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales gave a big cheer to more than 350 young people from the Ascension Eagles cheerleading squads as they put on a show at their annual Spring Showcase event.The Mayor visited the ExCeL exhibition centre in the Royal Docks to applaud teams from 15 primary and secondary schools from across the borough, and children with special educational needs, who receive cheerleading and dance coaching from the Eagles funded by the council.
Wednesday rolled around and Newham PR kicked off with news about Workplace, claiming that it has now “secured employment for more than 20,000 Newham residents.”
Sir Robin Wales Mayor of Newham said: “We’re extremely proud of our highly successful employment service, Workplace. It has done an amazing job in supporting so many Newham residents into sustainable employment.”
Not letting the grass grow under his feet, the mayor went tree planting in Canning Town
Mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales joined Ian Sutcliffe, executive director of Countryside Properties, head teacher Violet Otieno, and 15 pupils to plant a tree in the new rooftop garden [at Keir Hardie Primary School]…
…[he] said: “We’re committed to providing our residents with great homes, excellent schools and new and exciting neighbourhoods as part of the Canning Town and Custom House regeneration programme.”
Despite it being the first week of the Easter holidays, this was followed by a report on visits to no fewer than four other schools in the borough
to see how the [building] works were progressing, meet head teachers and pupils and to perform topping out ceremonies…
… ”It was great to meet the teachers and pupils at these schools and see the breadth on teaching on offer. Our primary schools already provide a wealth of learning opportunities to inspire our young people and help them achieve their potential.”
It was of course simply a happy coincidence that this bustle of activity occurred just before the start of the election campaign and that the council’s slick PR team could report it all in such gushing terms.
London Mayor & London Assembly Election 2012 – Newham Results
16 May
The ward-by-ward and borough-level results from the recent Mayoral and London Assembly elections have been released.
In the mayoral election, Newham voted (unsurprisingly) overwhelmingly for Labour’s Ken Livingstone. On first preference votes, the results were:
Siobhan Benita (independent) – 1,536 (2.33%)
Carlos Cortiglia (BNP) – 918 (1.39%)
Boris Johnson (Conservative) – 12,139 (18.42%)
Jenny Jones (Green) – 1,630 (2.47%)
Ken Livingstone (Labour) – 47,388 (71.89%)
Brian Paddick (Liberal Democrat) – 1,413 (2.14%)
Lawrence James Webb (UKIP) – 893 (1.35%)
In the London Assembly election for the City & East constituency, the results were:
John Biggs (Labour) – 47,226 (71.18%)
Paul Borg (BNP) – 1,773 (2.67%)
Paul Davies (Communist League) – 447 (0.67%)
Richard Macmillan (Liberal Democrat) – 2,064 (3.11%)
Kamran Malik (Communities United Party) – 3,677 (5.54%)
John Moss (Conservative) – 6,578 (9.91%)
Chris Smith (Green) – 3,078 (4.64%)
Steven Woolfe (UKIP) – 1,505 (2.27%)
For the election of the London-wide members:
BNP – 1,428 (2.15%)
Christian Peoples Alliance – 1,701 (2.56%)
Conservative Party – 6,753 (10.14%)
Green Party – 2,988 (4.49%)
Labour Party – 48,241 (72.47%)
Liberal Democrats – 1,620 (2.43%)
National Front – 247 (0.37%)
House Party – 245 (0.37%)
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition – 400 (0.60%)
UKIP – 1,569 (2.36%)
Rathy Alagaratnam – 227 (0.34%)
Ijaz Hayat – 688 (1.03%)
So, what do we learn from all this?
Across London Ken Livingstone polled behind the Labour Party, which is why he lost the mayoral election when his party made big gains in the Assembly. But that didn’t happen in Newham. His vote and the general Labour vote were all but identical.
That wasn’t true for the the Tories though. Boris was close to twice as popular in Newham as his party. The Conservatives continue to be – in vote terms, at least – the main opposition party in the borough, although their share of the vote was somewhat lower than at the general election (around 10% this time compared to 15% in 2010).
It’s also worth noting that Labour’s share of the vote was up from the 2010 general election, where Lyn Brown (West Ham) took 62.7% and Stephen Timms (East Ham) took 70.4%.
The Liberal Democrats did hopelessly badly. It’s hard to see even a spark of life for a party that finished with fewer votes than the Christians and barely beat UKIP.
These results, along with those from the general and council elections in 2010, confirm that the far-right has no meaningful presence or support in Newham. We should be grateful for that.
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