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By-election in Makerfield

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https://www.loonyparty.com/4717/9491/forthcoming-by-election-in-makerfield

We can confirm that our glorious leader Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope with selected agents will be standing against Andy Burnham in the forthcoming election in Makerfield. We can also confirm that there is no intention to launch a leadership bid to replace our leader. We can also confirm that we will be making every effort to win this seat and will be throwing everything at it. This election has come about so that Andy Burnham will be eligible to mount a leadership bid against Sir Keir Starmer. However with the help of the voters in Makerfield we can cause a major upset in Labour’s plans.

Lets be honest, this election has nothing to do with the aspirations of the voters. They are being used as  pawns to change the Labour leadership, not to raise issues of importance to the constituents of Makerfield.

Josh Simmons said in his election speech ‘I will be your MP, your voice, and your advocate. My door will always be open. Tonight is the beginning of a mission’.

He didn’t say ‘except if someone else comes along who needs my seat.’

Not to mention the people of Manchester who now will need a new mayor, so this exercise in ‘Game of Thrones’ will cost the people of Manchester and Makerfield a lot of upset. . watch this space!!

https://www.loonyparty.com/4717/9491/forthcoming-by-election-in-makerfield

This blog is considering supporting Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope, Monster Raving Loony Party as candidate for the Makerfield by-election.

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Greens select nurse and ‘committed local campaigner’ as Makerfield byelection candidate

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/21/greens-select-nurse-chris-kennedy-makerfield-byelection-candidate

Chris Kennedy was chosen to stand for the Makerfield byelection after a Green party hustings. Photograph: @chris_green_party

Chris Kennedy chosen amid reports Greens do not want to be blamed for splitting progressive vote and allowing Reform to win

The Green party has chosen “a committed local campaigner” as its candidate in the Makerfield byelection on 18 June.

Chris Kennedy, a nurse and children’s safeguarding specialist, was chosen after a hustings on Wednesday amid reports that the party was proposing to hold back from investing significant resources in the byelection.

The Financial Times reported that party members were wary of being blamed for splitting the progressive vote and allowing Reform to win. Because of that, senior party figures wanted to help clear the path for Labour’s Andy Burnham.

One senior party figure told the FT: “We do not want this one to go to Reform, and to be quite frank, we do not want Labour to turn around and say, ‘If you vote Green, you’re actually voting Reform’, because that will be used for the next three years.”

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Continues at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/21/greens-select-nurse-chris-kennedy-makerfield-byelection-candidate

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Labour keeps knocking. The planet keeps burning. Don’t open the door.

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Roger Hallam comments on the Greens indecision on how to oppose Andy Burnham at the Makerfield by-election.

You may have noticed that I am supportive of the Green Party and Zack Polanski. Despite seriously considering joining the Green Party, I have not yet done it and I might actually be a liability. I have also seriously considered joining Your Party but can’t see that happening now unfortunately. I probably won’t ever join a political party and expect that some of you can understand why.

The question is to what extent should the Green Party oppose Andy Burnham in the Makerfield by-election. I agree with Roger Hallam that the Labour Party is finished and should be opposed without holding back. The concern is that Greens actions could facilitate a Reform win. I raise three points:

Firstly, it is the Labour Party insisting that Andy Burnham fights and wins an election to participate in a leadership challenge. It is Labour Party rules and the Labour Party NEC can change those rules if it was so minded.

Secondly, so what if Burnham loses to Reform? it has been clear for years that Starmer & Co’s preferred successor is Wes Streeting. There is no certainty that Andy Burnham will defeat Streeting in a leadership contest and there are suggestions of dirty tricks already. A Reform win is instead of a win for Reform in a red rosette. So what if Burnham doesn’t get to compete?

Third, Reform’s position is precarious as is Labour’s, things can change drastically during an election campaign and Farage is already on the missing list. A strong campaign by the Green’s would show that they’re taking the fight to Reform and Labour, that they’re serious about gaining power.

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Blocking Burnham, Starmer’s cowardly control-freaks are wrecking their own party

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blocking-burnham-starmers-cowardly-control-freaks-are-wrecking-their-own-party

 Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, during a meeting with English regional mayors, at No 10 Downing Street in Westminster, central London, July 9, 2024

IT’S a truism that the Labour right would rather see the party lose than win from the left.

But the Starmer clique’s decision to bar Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham from contesting the Gorton & Denton by-election shows paranoid factionalism on another level.

Burnham is not even on the socialist left of the party: this is an act of cowardice by a PM who fears a challenge to his leadership, and is prepared to risk a Labour seat falling to Reform UK rather than face him.

For Burnham was certainly the party’s best bet for winning the by-election, in a seat where the context of the last MP’s departure — Andrew Gwynne was embroiled in a scandal over expletive-laden text messages telling elderly constituents he hoped they would “croak” before long — can only add to the stench of out-of-touch arrogance that suffuses Labour.

Burnham is popular, a vanishingly rare quality among Labour politicians now. This fact will not be lost on MPs concluding that Starmer needs to go if the party is to have a hope of avoiding electoral annihilation.

The excuse given for his exclusion — that an early mayoral election to replace him would be inconvenient and costly — hardly matters. Not one person will believe it.

After all Starmer has form: stitch-ups are his stock in trade. Unlike former leaders of the Labour right like Tony Blair — or possible future ones like Wes Streeting — he has no political vision giving him confidence to seek to persuade people of his case. He lied his way to the leadership then excluded its left through expulsions and bans on debate.

He imposes candidates on local parties, and shows total indifference to the local standing of the candidates he blocks: another popular then Labour mayor, Jamie Driscoll, was barred from the shortlist for his own enlarged mayoralty when Labour were still in opposition.

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Continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blocking-burnham-starmers-cowardly-control-freaks-are-wrecking-their-own-party

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Andy Burnham Calls On Labour MPs To Vote Against Welfare Cuts Despite Starmer U-Turn

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Keir Starmer with Andy Burnham at the launch of Labour’s election manifesto last year.
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The mayor of Manchester said the PM’s concessions did not go far enough.

Andy Burnham has called on Labour MPs to vote down the government’s welfare cuts – despite Keir Starmer’s attempts to buy off his backbench rebels.

The Manchester mayor said the prime minister had only performed “half a U-turn”, which did not go far enough.

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He said Labour MPs “face the prospect, if they accept this package, someone could come to their surgery in two years saying ‘why did you vote to make me £6,000 worse off than someone exactly the same, but who was protected because they were an existing claimant’?”

“I hope they think carefully before the vote, because the vote will create that unfairness and divide in disabled people,” he added.

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Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
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