To be fair he has never visited any of us & never supported anything we do for our community.
I’ve only been on the exec for 5 years & in this time he has never contributed, in any way. I couldn’t even tell you what he looks like
ETA Also to be fair I must add here @MajaHilton@Cllr_PaulUpex & Peter Bernard have been very supportive to FHTA & any events etc we’ve organise in the time I’ve been involved.
NEC’s timetable for selection of seats like ours is:
Timetable
Thursday 20 April 6pm - Deadline for MPs to declare intention to stand
Friday 21 April - Applications open for candidates in all seats
Sunday 23 April 12pm - Applications close
Week commencing 24 April - NEC officers long-list and interview candidates in retirement seats
By close of Friday 28 April - Candidates selected in retirement seats
I would personally be very happy to take part in any local hosting’s. The only one I am aware of at the moment is the Lewisham Pensioner’s Forum not date or venue has been confirmed as yet.
I understand that the Labour Party NEC will be making the appointment not local members and their candidate will be announced on Sunday evening.
Let’s not get into any expressions of support or otherwise on this thread. I think it would be fantastic to use to the forum to keep members aware of all events, hustings etc going on, but to do that and keep things ticking along, we need to make it a neutral noticeboard rather than a place for flag waving.
Worth noting that SE23 includes more than one constituency - for now. Jim Dowd is one local MP standing down, but Vicky Foxcroft is (as far as I know) standing again for Lewisham Deptford.