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July 28, 2012 3:14 pm

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Anna Turley has been selected to contest Redcar at the next election by local party members at today’s selection meeting. Turley won the contest in the first round of voting.

Congratulations to Anna and commiserations to the other shortlisted candidates. Here’s a profile of Anna:

Anna Turley is a former adviser to David Blunkett and Hilary Armstrong on child poverty and social exclusion and was Deputy Director of the New Local Government Network. She is the editor of the blog Progressive Localism and is a driving force behind the Co-op Council initiative. Anna has the backing of the Co-op Party and Community Union. She lives in Redcar and wass regarded as the frontrunner for the selection.

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  • LordElpus

    Ms Turley’s work record after Oxford University:-

    Fast Stream Civil Servant at Home Office
    Chief of Staff at Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP
    Adviser at Department of Work and Pensions
    Adviser at Cabinet Office
    Deputy Director at New Local Government Network
    Co-ordinator of the Co-operative Councils Network at Co-operative Councils
    Editor at Progressive Localism

    Yet another one with no actual experience of work as Joe Public understands it!

    (Just as an aside what experiences did she have to be able to be an Advisor at the DWP and the Cabinet Office considering her two previous posts?)

    • John Dore

      None. Just another professional BSer, err I mean politician. It makes laugh, they all seem to have been a DIRECTOR, a director of nowt but trying to make yourself sound important.

    • http://twitter.com/mistyblulabour dave stone

      “what experiences did she have… ”

      Perhaps: insider knowledge, contacts, establishment credentials, a vocabulary derived from shared/similar experience – she looks like them, she behaves like them and they are most comfortable with their own sort… so bingo! The elite perpetuates itself.

      • ThePurpleBooker

        She is a good campaigner, intelligent woman, she lives in Redcar, she runs a thinktank (so what) and she has a working class industrial background. She is a credible challenger to Ian Swales and will take the seat off the Lib Dems. So pipe down.

        • http://twitter.com/mistyblulabour dave stone

          Now, now, PBooker, no need to get your knickers in knot.

          Anna may well be all the things you list, and so might I. But I wouldn’t want a disproportionate number of people with the same background as myself sitting in Parliament.

          Just imagine it: 9 out of 10 Parliamentarians having left school at sixteen without any qualifications, and a third of those ex-construction workers… it just wouldn’t do.

          Parliament needs to look like the people it represents – it shouldn’t be a club for the privileged.

    • Camdenist

      Yes, so that accounts for many years in public service – since when was the Labour Party against that?

  • Johnj

    dear lordelpus,
    I assume you are not in favour of democracy and the ability of people to make informed decisions on known information, if you are then your jealous streak/sore loser condition is showing………

  • Newfrock

    The local Labour Party deserve Ms Turley, the lib dems will eat her alive.

    • ThePurpleBooker

      That is utter nonsense. The Lib Dems are screwed in Redcar and have no chance of holding the seat. She has won and she will win. Get over yourself and your poxy romance with Linda Hughes.

  • Brumanuensis

    Congratulations to Anna Turley. I’m sure she’ll make a fine candidate and I wish her luck against Ian Swales at the next General Election.

    • ThePurpleBooker

      But you preferred the newly-elected councillor for Darlington backed by Owen Jones. LOL.

      • Brumanuensis

        Here’s a thought PurpleBooker. Some of us are mature enough to remember that we’re all in the Labour Party. You know? ‘This Great Movement of Ours’? And as such, we’re prepared to put aside our personal preferences, respect a democratically-made decision and offer our support for the new Labour candidate.

        Something you, evidently, appear incapable of doing. I see you aren’t calling for primaries here – presumably that only applies if the CLP makes the ‘wrong’ decision, like they did in Bristol West eh? Also, I really wouldn’t do your usual lefty-bashing, because Anna Turley had the backing of Jeremy Corbyn.

        • ThePurpleBooker

          Yes you are right. But there are also some like yourself aren’t mature enough to remember that we’re all in the Labour Party because they think the leader is a man called Len McCluskey. I would love to see primaries in all marginal seats and I will welcome whatever decision they make. I welcome the fact that Anna Turley is able to appeal to a broad base of people including Corbyn and Blunkett. What I do not welcome is hypocrites in the party making libellous remarks about other candidates, who are controlled by some in the trade unions who have had questionable pasts politically and who operate on double standards as well as peddling lies about others! You are included in that category and for you to call yourself ‘modernising centre-left’ and on the same page as Jon Cruddas is nothing more or less than a complete joke!

          • Brumanuensis

            You really have a thing for making up stuff about other people don’t you? Have you ever considered writing political fiction? I’m sure you’d compose some gripping reads.

          • ThePurpleBooker

            What political fiction? Explain, I’d love to know. Also, it is  a bit sad of you to like your own comments, mate. You have conducted yourself on double standards, accepted libellous remarks about others, criticised very good any candidate who does not suit your politics and you have lied about my position. No wonder, you were too afraid to respond to my thread on the other page because your an omnishables. As I said, the idea you are centre-left is a joke – you are a chaff that blows in the wind.

          • Brumanuensis

            ‘Criticised very good’.

            Was that a Freudian slip?

            Let’s just compare my reaction here to your reaction on the Bristol West thread. You threw a paddy and starting whining about how stupid everyone was for selecting Thangham Debbonaire. You suggested that we ought to hope she loses a by-election, so that Gemma Tumelty could be installed as candidate. You wrote this about her as well:

            “You have done harm to the party by allowing us to vote for such a substandard candidate. Couldn’t you have fixed the election or something! I thought you want Labour to take Bristol West. You allowed the dumbos in the local party to pick someone who is some jumped-up, ageist, rude and old community lady who wants to make a change compared to an active, campaigner, with years of experience working in student politics (vital in Bristol) as well as energetic youth with the backing of leadership (let’s face it, 3 shadow cabinet ministers)! Reverse the mistake”.

            That was in reply to Darren Lewis, the Chair of Bristol Labour Party. What a thoroughly nasty thing to write. I’ve never written anything comparable about Jess Asato, Anna Turley or Gemma Tumelty. When Anna Turley was selected, as you’ll see up the thread, I congratulated her. You should do the same if your candidate loses.

          • ThePurpleBooker

            I wrote that and stand by that comment seen as it was based  on all the information I had at the time about Thangham Debonnaire. If someone was ageist, why should they be our candidate? That’s not nasty at all. You know there were very personal remarks about Thangham Debonnaire which did not match what I wrote. Now, you can stop with the faux anger.  You have conducted yourself with double standards and in turn lied about my position regarding Jess Asato. I know you privately accept that seen as you have refused to reply to comment on previous page seen as not only did it embarass you and tear down your entire weak argument but it exposed your lies and hypocrisy. I’d rather complain about a PPC, than accept smears and operate on complete double standards. That is because of your hard-left inclinations.

          • Brumanuensis

            I can’t keep track of all the stuff you put up PurpleBooker. In fact, if I hadn’t had to get up early this morning, I would have missed most of this latest outpouring.
             
            The fact that ‘jumped-up, ageist, rude and old community lady’ is an acceptable standard of comment for you is pretty telling.
             
             I don’t remember saying anything about your position re. Jess Asato, but then again you do appear to have a very active imagination. In the real world, I’m a member of the soft left who reads Progress more than I read Compass, and who subscribes to the Financial Times. I don’t think the SWP types I’ve met in my time would consider me ‘hard-left’ either.

          • Brumanuensis

            Oh and I don’t like my own comments, except once by accident and that wasn’t on this thread, but one of the one’s on Aidan Burley.

          • Brumanuensis

            *ones

          • ThePurpleBooker

            LOL. Sure, you sad, sad boy.

  • Daniel Speight

    Good luck of course to Anna Turley, but it does make me wonder quite when the changes in the social make-up of parliamentary candidates will happen. Until we see some change we will have to suspect that it’s more lip service than reality.

    • Mike Homfray

      Don’t know a lot about her but ‘progressive localism’ is a load of right wing tripe best left to the coalition.

      In my opinion, of course

      • jaime taurosangastre candelas

        That seems odd for you Mike, given previous support you post for left (degree TBC***) solutions and regional democracy.

        Perhaps you would prefer regressive statism?  It seems to be the philosophy you prefer, despite earlier protestations as to mildness and a local flavour.

        *** I only say “TBC” as you declare yourself to be a Croslandite, and yet in other posts advance a seriously hard left agenda, and in the score you post for the political compass test (you chose to do so) reveal yourself as somewhat on the anarchist end of the spectrum. It is difficult to decide what you believe, apart from feeling that you have no satisfaction from proper centre-left policies).

        • ThePurpleBooker

          He is not a Croslandite. He is a hard-left Bennite, coming from this LabourLeft group, who called for Labour to go back to the pre-Kinnock years and said the Purple Book as well as Blue Labour was completely irrelevant even though they both have promoted policy ideas which they surely should support. Localism is part of the progressive tradition of the party. I would like to see City Mayors in our major cities (unless 52% of the entire electorate disagree) and a referendum on regional government or county government. Mike Homfray on the other hand believes people are to thick to have any power therefore the grand Almighty State should run their lives for them. Pathetic. 

      • ThePurpleBooker

        This is why nobody will ever listen to LabourLeft and Graheme Morris was sacked as a PPS. Because people like you think that any sensible debate in the party is rightwing. Do you even know what localism even means?

  • Billybob

    The fact lots of you seem to be missing is that she was picked by the local party from a wide range of candidates (some of whom were pretty left wing). If the local party thinks she’s good enough then who are you to argue? Oh, I forgot, the Bennite Left doesn’t actually like democracy… 

    • ThePurpleBooker

      Here, here! Hopefully Jess Asato will get in at Norwich North.

  • John Slinger

    Well done Anna. You will undoubtedly be a superb candidate and will help Labour get back into Government. Best wishes.

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