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It’s done and dusted - Isn’t it Billy, Mark, Malcolm & Flunky

By The Basa ⋅ September 17, 2008 ⋅

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We can see through you Billy

After a high level meeting early last week in the Chain Pier bar in Newhaven Road the new Labour candidate for the Forth Ward was chosen. The Evening Chip Paper runs a story this afternoon almost letting the cat out of the bag but without any of the details which we in the Sucks hut (we had to move out of Sucks Towers) have managed to track down.

At that meeting was the local MP, Mark Lazarowicz; MSP Malcolm Chisholm, former defeated Councillor Billy Fitzpatrick and their in-house flunky, trough piggy and NEN journalist who’s never had a real job, Dave Pickering. The only topic on the agenda was who was going to replace Maginnis. Fitzpatrick was chosen, but only after he asked for assurances that he would not be challenged for the next two elections - which neatly takes him up to his retirement in the unlikely event that he would get elected.

Just to take steps a little further to prove the stitch-up the following is Liebour’s timetable for “picking” their candidate:

16th September 2008 - Letter to members telling them their is going to be a selection.
18th September 2008 at 12:00 nominations close.
18th September 2008 at 18:00 candidates interviewed
19th September 2008 candidates shortlisted
19th September 2008 at 19:00 selection meeting.

Now if you were one of the labour members who decided when you got the letter on the 17th (when you got home from work in the evening) that you may want to stand, then you have precious little time to speak to your family, do everything you need to like get a proposer or seconder before the nominations close 18 hours later. No sleep for that person. You would then have to get straight from work over to the candidates interview.

The very next day not only are the candidates shortlisted but you have to turn up to the church hall in Pennywell Road for the selection meeting less than 24 hours after your interview.

It’s the Liebour way - it’s a stitch-up.

So you don’t have to go through all the stress of that - we can let you know how it is going to go.

There will be three nominations only - all will be shortlisted.
1. Billy Fitzpatrick
2. Kay Finlay
3. Cammy Day

Selection meeting will give the following result:

1. Billy Fitzpatrick
2. Cammy Day
3. Kay Finlay

One thing for sure is that Billy Fitzpatrick won’t give up his job at the hospital car park where he is a security operative because even he knows he has as much chance of getting in as the Tories (if they in fact put a candidate up).