There are at least 77 names here. Of those, precisely two are members of Durham County Council, Watts Stelling as a candidate, and Owen Temple as the Liberal Democrat's proposer. Extremely few have ever been on that, or on the previous Derwentside and Wear Valley District Councils, although a former Deputy Leader of the County Council is my proposer.
Unless I am very, very, very much mistaken, then nobody who has nominated Laura Pidcock has ever been elected to anything, including at Parish level. She seems to be supported largely by people who have never voted in a General Election, having been under 18 years of age two and a half years ago.
In any case, she has no interest in being a constituency MP. In order to contest the forthcoming Labour Deputy Leadership Election, and then the next Labour Leadership Election, she does have to be the MP for somewhere. But she does not care where that is.
The Conservative, Liberal Democrat, and Brexit Party candidates do not live here. Indeed, the first lives well over 100 miles away. Beyond a tiny handful of seats of which this is not one, nobody puts up as a Green with any serious view to winning.
And I have a lot of time for Watts Stelling. The Independents were stalwart supporters of the Teaching Assistants, before that they were integral to the great successes of Derwentside under Alex Watson, and I have voted for Watts for Parliament twice in my time.
But I first did that in 2005, and even then he would have been about 10 years older than I am now. Watts cannot now realistically wish to be any more than a two-term or even a one-term MP. He cannot commit to long-term projects within and beyond the constituency. At 42, I can. My crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Unless I am very, very, very much mistaken, then nobody who has nominated Laura Pidcock has ever been elected to anything, including at Parish level. She seems to be supported largely by people who have never voted in a General Election, having been under 18 years of age two and a half years ago.
In any case, she has no interest in being a constituency MP. In order to contest the forthcoming Labour Deputy Leadership Election, and then the next Labour Leadership Election, she does have to be the MP for somewhere. But she does not care where that is.
The Conservative, Liberal Democrat, and Brexit Party candidates do not live here. Indeed, the first lives well over 100 miles away. Beyond a tiny handful of seats of which this is not one, nobody puts up as a Green with any serious view to winning.
And I have a lot of time for Watts Stelling. The Independents were stalwart supporters of the Teaching Assistants, before that they were integral to the great successes of Derwentside under Alex Watson, and I have voted for Watts for Parliament twice in my time.
But I first did that in 2005, and even then he would have been about 10 years older than I am now. Watts cannot now realistically wish to be any more than a two-term or even a one-term MP. He cannot commit to long-term projects within and beyond the constituency. At 42, I can. My crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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