RAs traditionally are possessive about their wards. It is their ward. Everything is important because they live alongside their voters. RAs regard Party politics as an obnoxious distraction in local government. They glory in being ‘amateurs’ unsullied by party bosses dictating policy decisions.
Jacqueline Williams doesn’t list her address in the election notification.1 So what? Her fellow Upminster councillors are cabinet members with listed addresses despite their high profile. Not listing her address makes her semi-detached about core Resident Association values. Modern RAs are a clique trading on a diluted brand.
The late Linda Hawthorn became a councillor when she was 37 years-old. She served her ward for 33 years as a true RA, receiving a miniscule allowance at the beginning. Allowances were £200 a year in 1990. Jacqueline will receive £10,412 p.a. Needless to relate Linda listed her address, home phone number and wasn’t in it for a pension supplement.
Hornchurch and Upminster Conservative Party
Conservative Central Office have thrown their candidate, Ed Green, out of the party He flaunts his obnoxious views.2 Did Hornchurch and Upminster Conservatives ‘discover’ his opinions like everyone else – through reading the Romford Recorder? Do they even care?
Selection committees scrutinise candidates. His proposers, Samuel Green and John Mylod, must know him. So, what sort of political conversations did they have? He’s been ejected from the Conservative party but they’re still members. Why? There’s a question mark over the entire selection panel for the same reason.
Meanwhile everyone has noticed Julia Lopez’s deafening silence.3 Conservative Central Office should see if Hornchurch and Upminster constituency party is rotten to the core.
Addendum: The election result
Jacqueline won a stupendous victory massively defeating all other candidates
Notes
1 Notification of candidates Upminster By-Election 2023 Statement of Persons Nominated (havering.gov.uk) The Havering Daily published self-penned descriptions of candidates. This is Jacqueline’s Upminster By-Election Special: Jacqueline Williams – Upminster Resident Association Candidate. – The Havering Daily She’s quite entitled to not list her address but it goes against the RAs DNA.
2 Suspended Conservative Ed Green defends Greta Thunberg post | Romford Recorder See also Hornchurch and Upminster Conservative Association select their candidate for Upminster by election. – The Havering Daily
3 Julia Lopez MP | for Hornchurch & Upminster See also the Conservative website News | Hornchurch and Upminster (hornchurchandupminsterconservatives.com) both accessed 8th August 2023
4 Local elections | Election results | The London Borough Of Havering
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A quick reminder that the C candidate was disendorsed for islamophobic and covid conspiracy stuff on his social media. You may be wondering how the person in the local party who vets candidates didn’t spot this. Turns out he was that person.
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Selecting candidates matters a great deal and isn’t done in a casual way. That’s why the constituency party has a question to answer and why the Central Office should take a closer look. Has the party been infiltrated by extremists?
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