Lynnie Hinnigan loses her by-election selection appeal
Yesterday I posted an item about the wrangling going on over the selection for a Labour candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Allerton and Hunts Cross.
Lynnie Hinnigan lost her appeal, sparking much gnashing of teeth within certain elements of the Liverpool Labour party.
It means that Clare Devaney and Miriam Sawyer go forward to tomorrow's selection.
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This is no surprise despite the huffing & puffing to the contrary. You have to be pretty dismal to fail a Panel appeal. And by all accounts, Lynnie Hinnigan was dire. Her main problem is clear: since swapping sides, she hasn't done a tap. To get on Labour's Panel - and it's very competitive these days - you have to put in a good shift. Swanning around doesn't qualify. She should do a bit of humble graft for the Labour Party, and try again one day.
What's her problem?
She clearly said at the time she swapped sides that she didn't intend standing again.
If so why does she need to be on the candidates' panel?
Ronnie - OR the LGC coordinator might fill the appeal panel with cronies to stop a perfectly good candidate from getting on because for their own politically motivated reasons.
Complete stitch up.
@SJP Well, politics is politics. Stitch-ups & fixes do occur; it's how discipline is maintained in otherwise unruly political parties. And yes, it's how injustice & corruption are spread too. But not, I think, in this case. I can't find anyone who thinks Lynnie Hinnigan would have made a 'perfectly good' Labour candidate. She simply hasn't done the business since swapping sides. Being mates with the appalling Sharon Green probably hasn't helped either. Anyhow, Labour is flush with high quality local candidates these days. The standard has been raised. So any feeling of entitlement would have done her no good at all.
Wasn't Lynnie Hinnigan one of those candidates who when we checked the Marked Registers, she hadn't bothered to even vote before she stood? Same with Steve Fitz and Tony Caldeira.
There may be good people coming forward but just where were these people during the tough days for Labour? I've never even heard of Clare Devaney or Miriam Sawyer.
Yes, Lynnie Hinnigan defected but she's pound the pavements since for Labour and we'd never have won Cressington without the work she did.
Don't know much about Claire Devaney but isn't this the same Miriam Sawyer who's one of the top brass at Frontline Church in Wavertree? Cllrs Claire Wilmer and Tim Beaumont will be chuffed if she gets the nomination since it could add yet another of their number to the Council. It's all part of their long-term strategy for political influence in the City. Joe had better beware. As for Lynnie, she shouldn't have put her name forward in the first place [even following her butt-clenching sycophantic speech at the Labour Party Conference] and thought she could walk it at the Panel selection meeting. Instead, she's been done over like a kipper.
Frontline???
If there are so many good potential candidates out there, I cannot understand why on earth Labour would select anyone associated with this US-inspired organisation.
They do a lot of good work, I know, but have fundamentalist views on homosexuality, which they view as a disorder (caused, they think, by "childhood pain") that can be cured. Which they attempt to do.
There was a memorable article on the Liverpool branch of Frontline in the Guardian last year (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/22/liverpool-frontline-church-homosexuality)?
Why would anyone want to vote for people who subscribe to stuff like that?
Interesting, I didn't know that about Frontline. Their leader spoke very emotionally on the stage at the Tory Conference 5 years ago.
I didn't know. And I bet very few in the Labour group do either. It's information like this (for which, thanks) that makes you realise politics is often as much shambles as stitch-up
More from the Frontline - Nathalie Alicia Nicholas was elected in Picton this year.
You get what you vote for. A pig with a red rosette is still a pig.
The only way I could ever vote for someone is if I took the time to do the research on them. Which means voting Labour is a no-no for the rest of time.
Rachael 'daughter-of-Ann' O'Byrne who wasn't even supposed to be running has won the selection.
Deserved?
Someone has clearly been working behind the scenes for Miss OByrne. No one saw this coming!
So Cllr. Beaumont's planning to bring Uncle Joe down. Looks like his campaign's gathering momentum then. Go Timmy !
Whatever Cllr Beaumont's plans are, they do not seem to involve angling for a position where he might influence young people's ideas - unlike his colleague, Ms Wilmer, who is one of LCC's appointees to the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education, which sets out the syllabus for RE in Liverpool schools.
RE lessons look at all faiths, but with a major focus on Christianity (50%).
Religion is a private matter, and people clearly are free to believe whatever they want, but should someone who subscribes to the views outlined by the pastor of Frontline Wavertree in the comment below be involved in this, appointed and endorsed by LCC and the Labour party?
Not in this day and age, surely.
"As a church we hold traditional biblical views on homosexuality. We do not believe it is God's design for marriage, procreation or family life. We do believe that the origins of homosexual orientation are rooted in childhood pain of one sort or another" (comment by Nic Harding pastor of Frontline Liverpool to the Guardian article of July 2011 that I linked to above).
Ronnie me old son,
Since crossing over Lynnie has done a great deal of work for Labour, before, during, and now after, the most recent election. A great deal indeed.
That you say several times that she has not points out your lack of knowledge on the specifics.
I do enjoy your comments on here, always fair and with a humourous flare that is refreshing, but you've got that one totally wrong.
L19 and the rest of you Lynnie fans: Can anyone tell me what work she did in the ward she represented and the constituency it is a part of? Can she even name Labour members of that branch or that constituency? Can she even name that branch??
Where did all this fabled work that Lynnie supposedly did actually happen?
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