According to Nykes post above we should know who the Labour candidate is on Friday.
All applications should have been received yesterday, so local party officials may know who the candidates for selection are (or possibly only the NEC knows), but I don’t know if that will be shared with party members or the public.
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Have you noticed the new twitter account @ukelection_2017 it started following my shop, and others it’s following that I follow are you on the @FHSoc acc, John on @john4london, leaf & Groove, the library, & SE23Ldn - Might get the Labour candidate on there as soon as it’s public 
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This looks to be the most up-to-date list of candidates for the Labour PPC vacancy - I saw it on Twitter this morning, and it has been updated in the last few minutes:
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An interesting shortlist:
Kevin Bonavia
Ibrahim Dogus
Jane East
Ian Kearns
Ellie Reeves
Christian Wolmar
With Ellie Reeves apparently the favourite.
Does anyone know who will be standing for the Conservative’s ?
No doubt a young, ambitious politician looking to cut their teeth on a hopeless cause before getting a shot in 2022 at somewhere like Eastbourne or Kettering.
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I too hope someone will organise a local hustings. Last time FH Soc and SydSoc jointly organised one, which failed to happen because Jim Dowd wouldn’t share a platform with Dr George Whale (PhD in ‘cognition and creativity’ from Loughborough) of the extreme right wing Liberty GB party. The 38 Degrees campaigning network organised one at the Honor Oak pub which did take place, but which Jim boycotted - he sent a written statement explaining why. I was there. (So was Michael, I remember.) It was OK, but the audience seemed monotonously lefty. If I remember aright, the Tories and LibDems, as well as Dr Whale, participated.
Perhaps the FH and SydSocs will consider having another go this time?.
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I think that misspelt either Labour or Lib Dem there, otherwise you’re on the wrong forum.
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Dying to get the shortlist on here!
Lib Dem - @JohnRussell - Local
Conservative -
Labour -
Green Party -
UKIP -
Please add all,
One of our regular members recently told me #politicos:general-politics was becoming a “right-wing echo chamber”…! 
I noticed that too - there were two pro-Conservative posts in a row. Disgusting 
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Changing the subject a little guys, I think this will be a time for Lib Dems to get started 
From the chair of the East Lewisham Conservatives:
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Should probably add Green and UKIP as they placed respectively 3rd and 4th in 2015.
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And being a Brexit supporting Tory don’t i know it! 
Christian Wolmar is a transport expert. Would his expertise help us in getting the best public transport for Forest Hill? Could he lead a project to build a tunnel for the so-called South Circular?
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Brexit means Brexit for me - which makes voting Lib Dem a challenge…
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Can we keep the conversation here factual, please? The main forum needs to be a reliable source of information on the election and while I’m all for friendly chat on most threads, there is a danger here of getting sidetracked into political discussion.
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