Streatham selection - Result

streathamlad Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 07:14:48 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Chuka Umunna, employment lawyer, CLP vice-chair and editor of TMP has this afternoon been selected by Streatham members as the candidate in the next General Election, taking over from the retiring Keith Hill MP.



Result in full.  First ballot:

Cathy Ashley 60
Dora Dixon-Fyle 7
Steve Reed 143
Naz Sarkar 3
Chuka Umunna 125

Transfers from Cathy, Dora and Naz went 19 to Steve and 50 to Chuka.

Final result
Steve Reed 162
Chuka Umunna 175

Keith Hill described Chuka as a charismatic 21st century candidate.

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Streatham selection - Result | 11 comments (11 topical)

Re: Streatham selection - Result (#1)

by nickc on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 07:52:12 PM GMT

Close result, and went against the general expectation, which was the Steve Reed would win. But Chuka is an ideal candidate for a seat like Streatham - young, articulate, clever, black....strikes all the right notes in a seat the Liberals are campaigning strongly in.


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#2)

by swatantra on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 08:23:39 PM GMT

Congratulations to Chuka! a member of Compass the left-of-centre think tank.


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Re: Streatham selection - Result (#3)

by David Boothroyd on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 08:44:19 PM GMT

Congratulations to Chuka who will be excellent; commiserations to the other candidates, especially to Steve Reed; although the honour of being the first Leader of Lambeth council to have his administration re-elected in twenty years is now going to be his.


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#4)

by davidfloyd on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 09:01:31 PM GMT

That's great news. Well done Chuka!


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#6)

by repub on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 10:09:25 AM GMT

Fantastic news. I believe Chuka will help re-engage young people with progressive politics, something we have spectacularly failed at in recent years...


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#9)

by swatantra on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 02:09:06 PM GMT

I'm in favour of all AWS; they often produce the best candidate as well as the best woman. I'd aslo like to see All BME Shortlists. Those who are under represented because of a built in bias towards white, middle-aged males in the selection system, need a mechanism to bring them forward.


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#14)

by swatantra on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 11:29:04 AM GMT

The facts speak for themselves. Just look at the proportion of women/BME/gays/disabled at present.
Positive action is the only way to redress such inbalance.


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#19)

by alexhilton on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 03:56:58 PM GMT

FROM THE EDITOR

I'm being a bit zero tolerance with this thread.

An excellent candidate has been selected from an excellent shortlist. From what I know of the candidates, they would all have made better than average MPs, and it will be a good thing for the Labour Party if they all get into parliament.

However, I'm not going to be allowing personal attacks on any of the candidates. We should be encouraging people to take part in democracy, not turning them off.


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#20)

by alexhilton on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 03:57:32 PM GMT

Anonymous comments will be subject to particular scrutiny


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Re: Streatham selection - Result (#21)

by streathamlad on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 04:34:36 PM GMT

Thank you Alex.  Your views are certainly shared by the vast majority of the 300+ members who voted on Saturday.  We know we had a brilliant short-list.

Chuka Umunna will be a Cabinet Minister one day.
Steve Reed will retain the Council for Labour in 2010, improving the lives of so many people.
Cathy Ashley will continue to achieve great things as she has done in the past, whether it be in party politics or in the many other areas she is involved.


Re: Streatham selection - Result (#22)

by pbyrne on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 11:41:29 AM GMT

The Labour Party has a long and noble tradition of diversity and dissent, and clearly not all Labour voters or Party Members will agree with your views. Despite this hopefully we will all support the result of the ballot. It will be a sad day when criticism and questioning are silenced within the Party.


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