Gavin Hayes, General Sec of Compass touted for Hoey's seat

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PinkNews.co.uk has learnt that Gavin Hayes, the general secretary of left-leaning pressure group Compass, is being touted as a more viable challenger to Ms Hoey.

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"Gavin was a prominent activist in the Vauxhall constituency party until a few months ago," a source in the local party said.

"Compass has focused on trying to re-engage the party's grassroots and return to more traditional Labour values, something which could prove popular with the large white working class vote in the constituency.

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Gavin Hayes, General Sec of Compass touted for Hoey's seat | 21 comments (21 topical)

Re: Gavin Hayes touted for Hoey's seat (#1)

by jkitleft on Sat May 10, 2008 at 07:09:03 PM GMT

Get Kate out.


Re: Gavin Hayes touted for Hoey's seat (#2)

by lastword on Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:09:30 PM GMT

Gavin's a good lad.  Vauxhall CLP would do well to give him serious consideration.


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No vacancy (#3)

by David Boothroyd on Sun May 11, 2008 at 12:06:23 PM GMT

The problem with touting people as candidates for Vauxhall is that there is a candidate in Vauxhall, who is the sitting MP, and was reselected by all branches.


Re: No vacancy (#4)

by pbyrne on Sun May 11, 2008 at 12:58:10 PM GMT

Nowt wrong with Gavin! Still, the results of the recent GLA elections would suggest that this is no time to unseat a Member with a massive personal following, which almost certainly would not transfer to another candidate if she were deselected. Besides, although there are several highly suitable out gay members locally, Vauxhall residents and the local Party are not really gay friendly at all. In the Council elections two years ago the local Party ran a most unpleasant smear campaign against a Lib Dem gay activist councillor, which many of us found most offensive.


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Re: No vacancy (#5)

by David Boothroyd on Sun May 11, 2008 at 02:44:39 PM GMT

It is quite untrue that the Labour Party ran a smear campaign in the Lambeth council elections. Quite untrue.


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Re: No vacancy (#6)

by jkitleft on Sun May 11, 2008 at 04:23:04 PM GMT

Where's your evidence for this? Do you mean miranda Grell, who was not standing in Lambeth?


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Re: No vacancy (#8)

by pbyrne on Sun May 11, 2008 at 04:39:19 PM GMT

No. The former Lib. Dem. councillor, Charles Anglin. [Some members also supported Ms. Grell - rather surprising, that, since she is in North London.]


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Re: No vacancy (#9)

by lastword on Sun May 11, 2008 at 06:21:43 PM GMT

Miranda Grell.  That's a name I haven't heard for a while.  I wonder what she's up to these days...


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Re: No vacancy (#7)

by Andrea on Sun May 11, 2008 at 04:24:55 PM GMT

is there a way for a CLP to deselect an already selected PPC? what is the official procedure?


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Re: No vacancy (#10)

by swatantra on Sun May 11, 2008 at 07:00:46 PM GMT

A vote of no confidence? but then Kate would just go Independent and join the Clare and George; well perhaps not. But its not easy to winkle out a sitting MP. Gavin should go for it. An activist from a Left Wing think tank is always worth having in Parliament.


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Re: No vacancy (#12)

by Prbo on Mon May 12, 2008 at 03:52:36 PM GMT

An activist from a Left Wing think tank is always worth having in Parliament

lol!  I'll second that, the more the better...


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Re: No vacancy (#19)

by Odyssey on Fri May 16, 2008 at 12:14:47 PM GMT

But that was before the sitting MP effectively endorsed a Tory candidate for Mayor of London before the election even took place!!


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Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#11)

by pbyrne on Sun May 11, 2008 at 08:07:00 PM GMT

Kate Hoey is a perfectly good candidate for Vauxhall - or any other constituency for that matter. Would you prefer a mindless sheep as your Member? This thread can't have anything to do with Gavin Hayes who would make an excellent candidate for Vauxhall - or any other constituency for that matter. I don't understand the motivation of some posters here. Why are they publicly trying to tear an already weak constituency party apart? Kate Hoey has been supportive to gay members, and has taken a reasonable stance on all the issues that are relevant to her constituents. Her appointment as Mayor's adviser on sport is not a political one, and there are other MPs as well as Party members who work for other parties in a non-political capacity. It can't surely be all about mangey foxes? That would be crazy.


Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#13)

by Old Tom on Mon May 12, 2008 at 04:48:04 PM GMT

I agree, these posters should be ashamed of themselves.

This is just another example of aparatchiks attempting to hijack the Party for their own benefit. What they are doing is a diservice to the Party.

I really hope that Gavin has had no part in this personally, as I am sure that it would lose him support locally; and I don't think he deserves that.

Time for him to come out in the open and tell us where he stands. 


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Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#14)

by Mutti on Mon May 12, 2008 at 07:03:05 PM GMT


Tom is surely correct, these people do not represent opinion on the ground, and this kind of malicious sniping can only damage our clp further. If they have not got the guts to come out in the open at GC, why can't they keep their bitching on membersnet?


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Re: Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#15)

by Just Labour on Mon May 12, 2008 at 11:50:28 PM GMT

Hear, hear. This preoccupation with Kate Hoey is really quite pathetic.

Hoey has faced and won reselection. All Vauxhall members had a chance to have a say in the process. If there was sufficient disquiet about Hoey she wouldnt have won. The deselection process is difficult but not insurmountable with Bob Wareing and Frank Cook, two sitting MPs who have been deselected this time round, offering proof that the system works.

What exactly is it about our internal party democracy that you dont like - apart from the fact that the members in Vauxhall dont share your view on their local MP?


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Re: Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#18)

by lambethlife on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:22:15 PM GMT

Well party members in Vauxhall are considering their response to Hoey's announcement.

 

At least three ward labour parties will be putting motions expressing concern and asking Hoey to explain her announcement to the next GC meeting. There are mumourings about referring the matter to the NEC. The meeting on 29 May will be interesting! 


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Re: Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#16)

by Old Tom on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:46:31 AM GMT

They won't be able to use membersnet, I would guess, as they probably are not members of Vauxhall clp!


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Re: Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#17)

by Old Tom on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:47:56 AM GMT

They won't be able to use membersnet, I would guess, as they probably are not members of Vauxhall clp!


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Re: Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#20)

by Odyssey on Fri May 16, 2008 at 12:25:47 PM GMT

Regardless of how Kate Hoey has performed as an MP, you can't deny that what she has done is controversial. All Labour MPs are ultimately accountable to their CLP and Kate Hoey should be too. A challenger wouldn't have emerged had their not been a significant amout of disquiet. Bringing this issue out into the open and debating it democratically would be useful.

As any member of Compass knows, Gavin Hayes works incredibly hard and is far from being a mindless sheep - he is at the forefront of the only pressure group who are suggesting serious alternatives to the Blairite market reform consensus. We need people like him to be MPs. If, as a party, we debated things more perhaps we wouldn't have been led into the mess we're in now!

Go for it Gavin!


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Re: Kate Hoey and Vauxhall (#21)

by lastword on Fri May 16, 2008 at 01:40:36 PM GMT

I agree.


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Gavin Hayes, General Sec of Compass touted for Hoey's seat | 21 comments (21 topical)