Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nantwich

Andrea Sat May 03, 2008 at 10:30:53 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Gwyenth Dunwoody's daughter, Tamsin, has been selected tonight to be the Labour candidate in the upcoming byelection.



She served as Welsh Assembly member from 2003 to 2007 when she lost her seat to the Tories.

UPDATE:

To help in Crewe, contact the Labour Party office on 01270 589 135, or you can send a cheque to "Crewe & Nantwich Labour Party", 171-173 Nantwich Road, Crewe, CW2 6DF.

If you do send a cheque, please do include in your cover note a statement saying "I am a registered elector in the UK" together with the postal address at which you are a registered voter.

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Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nantwich | 20 comments (20 topical)

Re: (#1)

by Wiseman on Sun May 04, 2008 at 11:14:31 AM GMT

Lets just hope she follows in her mother's footsteps and we might have achance.  I believe there are teams from Westmorland, St Helens, Warrington and other places coming to leaflet, please contact your local party and organise a car or coach, we need to get as many bodies there as possible. It is this Saturday!!

Wiseman


Re: (#2)

by ChrisPaul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 12:17:13 PM GMT

It is everyday until the 22nd.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#4)

by ChrisPaul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 02:59:16 PM GMT

Interesting comment Les. You will of course recall than Gwyneth who went on to become the longest serving and well-loved (http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2008/05/crewe-and-nantwich-labour-select-tamsin.html&quo t;except by animal libbers perhaps) of MPs lost her first defence of a seat ... to the Tories. There is a family issue to deal with as I alude to <a href="http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2008/05/crewe-and-nantwich-labour-select-tamsi n.html">with a wonderful photo here</a> but there is also a Tory sock puppetry problem too, don't you think?
 
It seems a good news story for Labour on balance. No AWS yet woman candidate. By election defence, yet woman candidate. Quite a strong family connection to Crewe actually.
 
Witless opposition all getting things wrong and resorting to sock puppeting straight off the bat. 


Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#7)

by Group51 on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:19:50 PM GMT

"No AWS yet woman candidate."

Shouldn't you be worrying about familial oligarchy?  I hope she was chosen because she was competent and independently minded.  Not sure she'll win if she's a careerist loyalist.  I mean, she has something to prove here.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#9)

by ChrisPaul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:24:55 PM GMT

Please see my blog Group 51. Of course the family connection is interesting. Oligarchy however is completely the wrong word. Dynasty you were looking for perhaps?

I believe this candidate is highly competent and suitable and also that the electorate will agree with that assessment which must also be that of the C&N Party. 

We need to make this work. If you are a Labour supporter then you will understand that. If not then you should perhaps identify yourself as a troll and tell us your affiliation. 


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#10)

by Group51 on Sun May 04, 2008 at 04:32:47 PM GMT

Dynasty implies nepotism, which isn't what I meant.  But I think you understood what I meant anyway.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#11)

by swatantra on Sun May 04, 2008 at 05:38:32 PM GMT

I'd also have concerns about keeping it in the family, but in these exceptional times, its a seat that Labour must hold, and I'm sure that the Dunwoody name will bring in a couple of hundred extra loyalty votes that could make all the difference.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#20)

by BritishAsian on Wed May 07, 2008 at 11:58:50 AM GMT

This sends a bad signal I think. I didn't vote Labour to have the hereditaries removed from the House of Lords only to see the hereditary principle applied instead to the House of Commons. Weak tactical thinking. By all means let Tamsin apply for a seat but not this one.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#21)

by alexhilton on Wed May 07, 2008 at 02:22:01 PM GMT

It's not a hereditary principle. Tamsin's an experienced politician in her own right with a local connection. Local Labour Party members selected her from a strong shortlist. Why should she be excluded on the basis of her parentage?


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#22)

by BritishAsian on Wed May 07, 2008 at 03:23:23 PM GMT

Because it looks like she got in because she was family whereas if she is a strong candidate (and I have no reason to think she is not) then she could as easily have got in somewhere else where this accusation could not have been levelled.

It is hard to see how genuinely local she can be given that she has been a MWP.  

As to why should she be excluded on the basis of her parentage, well, how does that sit with reducing the number of middle class children at university because of their parentage? I have worked hard for 40 years to live in a nice area but it seems this may count against my children.  

Cannot afford to offer this sort of easy debating point / own goal to the other side. Luckily it looks like Conservatives will make the same mistake for themselves with Johnson's Henley constituency.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#6)

by ChrisPaul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:12:24 PM GMT

Interesting comment Les. You will of course recall than Gwyneth who went on to become the longest serving and apparently most well-loved (except by animal libbers perhaps) of MPs lost her first defence of a seat ... to the Tories. There is a family issue to deal with as I allude to in my post - http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2008/05/crewe-and-nantwich-labour-select-tamsi n.html - with a wonderful photo here but there is also a Tory sock puppetry problem too, don't you think?
 
It seems a good news story for Labour on balance. No AWS yet woman candidate. By-election defence, yet woman candidate. Quite a strong family connection to Crewe actually. And an experienced parliamentarian and campaigner.
 
Witless opposition all getting things wrong and resorting to sock puppeting straight off the bat. Grant Shapps should be ashamed of himself.

Aside: Lack of Safari support seems to be coupled with problems making links from Firefox Mac OS X ... please delete earlier attempts.


Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#8)

by ChrisPaul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:20:38 PM GMT

http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2008/05/crewe-and-nantwich-labour-select-tamsin.html


Re: Tamsin Dunwoody (#12)

by Shawcross on Mon May 05, 2008 at 01:02:05 AM GMT


 Cool - I presume she will be taxed at 40% on all the votes she inherits? It would be quite wrong to entrench the privilege of representing the people in Parliament...


Re: Tamsin Dunwoody (#15)

by bigpapi on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:02:37 PM GMT

I'm not sure if you're being serious or just sarcastic, but either way you can't be taxed on something you don't own; and nobody - as Labour councillors and candidates found to their cost last week - owns votes.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nant (#13)

by ChrisPaul on Mon May 05, 2008 at 12:30:59 PM GMT

If the family business is sold on it's 18% isn't it? And there are allowances before IHT sets in. However the Dunwoody house in the constituency was I think repossessed when GD fell on hard times?


Re: Tamsin D selected for Crewe & Nantwich (#14)

by NB on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:00:57 PM GMT

Polly Toynbee says the Tories will win easily, because "Labour has become the stupid party - dumb, directionless, depressing." Do we think it would be helpful if Gordon, Alasatair or Ed Balls came to campaign for her?


Re: Tamsin D selected for Crewe &amp; Nantwich (#16)

by bigpapi on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:05:23 PM GMT

This is the same Polly Toynbee who even on Thursday was confidently predicting a win for Ken in London?

Not sure about people coming to Crewe, but I have to confess that we had Douglas Alexander speak at our CLP Dinner earlier this year, and he was surprisingly effective and persuasive.


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Re: Tamsin D selected for Crewe (#17)

by Wiseman on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:07:03 PM GMT

I am there Saturday afternoon

John


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Re: Tamsin D selected for Crewe &amp; Nantwich (#19)

by ChrisPaul on Wed May 07, 2008 at 01:30:29 AM GMT

Campaign for Polly? Please no. Her head is gone.


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Re: Tamsin Dunwoody selected for (#18)

by Wiseman on Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:27:23 PM GMT

big papi started a facebook for her

hope it helps

John Wiseman


Tamsin Dunwoody selected for Crewe and Nantwich | 20 comments (20 topical)