Askew Ward Labour councillor Cllr Lisa Homan has been chosen as a Labour candidate for next year's London Assembly elections. The only problem is that the London Assembly constituency she is standing in is London South West. This covers the three boroughs of Richmond, Kingston (neither of which have a single Labour councillor) and Hounslow. That will be her focus.
So if Askew Ward residents find she is a bit distracted for the next ten months (despite her continuing to pocket her £8,940 annual allowance to represent them) they will know why. The heartening news is that she is most likely to be defeated on May 3rd 2012 and so should have greater availability after that date.
How did Lisa manage to get selected? She has two websites (here and here). But sensibly she failed to mention any endorsement from the Labour MP for Hammersmith, Andrew Slaughter.
What of London West Central? This is the London Assembly constituency which includes Hammersmith and Fulham. Here, as we have noted earlier, James Mills sought the Labour nomination. James trumpted an endorsement from Andrew Slaughter which was typically dishonest (claiming he had stood against the Deputy leader of the Council in a ward which had changed from being safe to marginal.)
The Slaughter endorsement proved the kiss of death for James. Just to make sure he was finished off there came backing from Ed Balls. Instead the Labour candidate will be Cllr Todd Foreman from Kensington and Chelsea - he is concerned that councils spend more money monitoring the sexual orientation of residents.
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