The candidate

A favourable story in this week's South Manchester Reporter about the new Labour candidate for Withington Manchester. Seen here with Lord Bradley, the last Labour MP and Secretary of Withington Co-op Party for many years. Lucy recently joined the Co-op Party and we'll look forward to inviting her to our meetings. I publish these because some people don't always receive the freesheet and then miss out on the news and lively letters page.
Move Over John I Want Your Seat - SMR 5th April 2007

Withington Selection Meeting

Lucy Powell was selected as Withington Constituency Labour Party candidate to fight the next Parliamentary Election. "We can now look forward to persuading the citizens of Manchester Withington to back Lucy with the same vigour as their local Labour Party have done." quoting the LoL website written by Labour Party and Co-op Party member Chris Paul. I was going to write about the long afternoon we all spent listening to speeches, questions and waiting for the postal votes to be verified. But in the end it was good to see a lot of people whom I've not seen for ages (haven't been out much). The fight to re-gain the seat from the Lib-Dems continues....