Election

Putney By-Election

July 4, 2011

More out of solidarity than expectation Hammersmith Labour members joined me campaigning in the recent by-election in Putney, and went back to help on Election day, last Thursday.  We had an excellent candidate, Christian Klapp, and a superb campaign run by Sean Lawless and ex-Hammersmith agent Adam Gray, but this was an ultra-safe Tory seat.  [...]

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Liberal Demonstrations of discontent

May 9, 2011

On Thursday we had elections around the country. While the only activity open to Londoners was to vote for or against AV, the rest of the country had council elections and some mayoral elections as well, together with a by-election. Having told you of my bank holiday activities helping out  in an earlier post, I [...]

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Welcome to new Comrades

May 26, 2010

Curious council election results in H&F.  In Shepherds Bush we had some of the biggest swings to Labour in London.  Majorities in single figures are now nudging 1,000 votes.  I was delighted to see Iain Coleman, former MP for Hammersmith & Fulham, elected as a councillor for Shepherds Bush Green with a huge majority.  South [...]

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Victory in Hammersmith

May 10, 2010

Thank you I just want to thank everyone who voted to get me elected as MP for Hammersmith, and to assure all my constituents that, whether or not I was your first choice, you will have tireless and professional service from me between now and the next General Election. The result I am absolutely delighted [...]

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Interview By Chris Underwood

February 26, 2010

The following was published at shepherdsbush.wordpress.com on the 25th February 2010. Andy’s family moved to the borough in the 1880s.  He was born in Fulham in 1960 and attended Peterborough Primary School in Clancarty Road.  At 11, he went to Latymer Upper School in King Street, and then to Exeter University, 1979-82. For the next [...]

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Council By-Election Win in the Neighbouring Borough

December 15, 2009
Labour Campaign

Last Thursday I took a small team of Hammersmith volunteers over to Westminster North to help Karen Buck MP in a council by-election in Queens Park ward. Not only did Labour win, but we increased our majority with a huge 12.5% swing from the Tories back to Labour.

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