The Bassetlaw Division (named after one of the ancient Wapentakes of the county) as originally created in 1885 consisted of the municipal borough of East Retford, the petty sessional divisions of Retford and Worksop and part of Mansfield petty sessional division. The Labour members of Bassetlaw had placed their trust in me. Lewisham Deptford is running a ballot to see if they want an Open Selection. I hadnt expected to apply for Bassetlaw, nor even to stand as a candidateat this election. SAFER COMMUNITIES We have installed extra CCTV cameras and upgraded street lighting in our Town Centres. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Local families are being taxed to the hilt.Living standards are being squeezed like never before.The Tories have betrayed the trust of local people andwasted billions of taxpayers money. In that year, the town of East Retford and the neighbouring areas were transferred to the redrawn Newark constituency. 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My dad worked at Manton Colliery before establishing his own business in Worksop. [1] The election will take place on the same day as other local elections in England as part of the 2023 United Kingdom local elections. 4. This includes thousands of jobs at Appleyhead, Vesuvius, Snape Lane, and Gamston Airport. Former journalist and campaigner Sally Gimson announced on 27 October that she was "delighted to have been selected" to represent Labour in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire. But Adrian Gilfoyle, 69, and Dave Potts, 67, who worked at Bassetlaws Manton colliery the last local pit to close in 1994 dont regret their decision to vote leave. This is a heavily Leave seat and although Scottish, I have been living in London. They are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate action is taken.". I didnt want to antagonise them and weaken Labours chances at the next election, he explains. 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Former Bassetlaw MP John Mann - who resigned last month to become a member of the House of Lords - called the removal of Mrs Gimson a "stitch-up" by Momentum, the grassroots movement that supports Jeremy Corbyn. No one understood what Labour stood for. [3], Bassetlaw is divided into 25 wards for electoral purposes. In 2011 I became a Labour councillor in Camden and served in the cabinet. Westminster Parliamentary Candidate Application Form - The Labour Party Candidate Selections Westminster Parliamentary Candidate Application Form Westminster Parliamentary Candidate Application Form Seat Deadline Step 1 of 4 25% First Name * Last Name * Full name to appear on ballot paper * Membership Number * 0 of 8 max characters These by election results returned the Conservative Party to be the official opposition on Bassetlaw District Council. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The constituency was held by the Labour Party until December 2019, when the incumbent Labour MP John Mann stood down to take on a full-time role as the government's antisemitism tsar. Some outraged Bassetlaw Labour members demonstrated outside the meeting. I was overwhelmed. No official complaint has ever been made about me in all my time as a member and on the contrary I have numerous character references from my local party in Holborn and St Pancrasand others attesting to my upstanding behaviour and probity in general and at meetings. The most recent council election on 2 May 2019 resulted in the Labour Party retaining its control of the council with an increased majority. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Each ward returns either one, two or three councillors at each election depending upon the number of electors within each ward. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It was this that led me to join the Labour Party to stand up and fight for the area I am proud to call home. LabourList has more readers than ever before - but we need your support. He adds that although he and his wife, Christine, a former care assistant, are comfortably off, he voted leave in the EU referendum, hoping it would be a catalyst for change for the area. The local party backed Ms Gimson at an emergency meeting on Wednesday night and appealed to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to "see sense". I was intending to live there if I won. Bassetlaw is a pro-Leave marginal seat with a Labour majority of fewer than 5,000 votes. [n 2] Before that election, the seat had been part of the so-called "red wall", being held by the Labour Party since 1929. Bassetlaw /bstl/ is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] in Nottinghamshire, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2019 general election by Brendan Clarke-Smith, a Conservative. I know the difficulties of when there are only pennies available to pay for food or heating. Since then he has volunteered for another furniture project and was a local ward councillor for a term. Councillor Simon Greaves, who has led the authority for a. But on Wednesday, Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) axed her over "very serious allegations". He was later given a life peerage in Theresa May's resignation honours list, styling himself Baron Mann, of Holbeck Moor in the City of Leeds. There were no boundary changes in 1997. The Labour MP for Bassetlaw has long been an outspoken critic of his party leader, claiming that "people see him as a loser". Read about our approach to external linking. Local government boundary changes in the 1930s now meant that Bassetlaw County Constituency was defined as comprising the Municipal Boroughs of East Retford and Worksop, the Urban District of Warsop and the Rural Districts of East Retford and Worksop. Theyve been replaced by young families buying four-bed houses in new upmarket housing estates, who have little attachment to the area or its history. Each July (until Covid struck), the men I spoke to usually make the journey up to the Durham Miners Gala, where some 200,000 people gather on the second Saturday of the month to commemorate the countrys rich mining heritage, show solidarity and reminisce with old friends. Covering Retford, Worksop, Harworth & Bircotes and our rural villages. On a size-of-majority measure, it was a low to medium safe seat. The East Midlands Labour Party tweeted a photo of their new favourite holding up a placard of Jeremy Corbyn, which will raise a smile for HERE'S a story to wake a sleeping blog: the former Camden councillor and one time leadership contender Sally Gimson was yesterday selected by Labour as the parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw. Local Government in Nottinghamshire is organised on a two-tier basis, with local district councils responsible for local services such as housing, local planning and refuse collection and Nottinghamshire County Council responsible for "wide-area" services, including education, social services and public transport. Read about our approach to external linking. Potts was out of work for eight years, before North Notts FE College employed him to coordinate support for students. Surprisingly, I was long-listed and then short-listed. The council resolved in 2014 to hold all-out elections from 2015 onwards, with all 48 councillors elected in all-out elections every four years. My names Simon and im seeking selection to be the Labour Candidatefor Bassetlaw at the next General Election, I attended Prospect Hill School and then Valley Comprehensive, I later qualified. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He is in no doubt that the partys position cost it the 2019 election. Pre-1974 statistics were gathered from local government areas that now comprise Bassetlaw. I joined the Labour Party when my daughter Katy was nine months old. In 1950, the five Parliamentary Divisions of Nottinghamshire were reorganised as six County Constituencies. Your experience, your passion, and your voice are vital for change - which is why we hope you will remain a member. Patil was mayor of Lambeth from 2010 to 2011 and served as a councillor in the borough for seven years. The Conservative Party are. Read about our approach to external linking. "As the Labour Party prepares for the District Elections in May 2023, I think the time is right for them . Speaking to LBC's Andrew Pierce, Mr Mann called for him to stand. The 2023 Bassetlaw District Council election will take place on 4 May, 2023, to elect all 48 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England. Asia Pacific; EMEA; Latin America; UK Solicitors; UK Bar; United States A shortlist for the constituencys next parliamentary candidate has now been finalised and hustings are scheduled for August 6th after which local members will vote for who they want to be Labours parliamentary candidate. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. I just thought things couldnt get any worse for a lot of people round here and maybe it would lead to more internal investment if we left., Whitehead was another Brexiter. We seem to be forgotten.. In 2006, the Conservatives gained control of the council for the first time and held control until 2010 when a series of by-election defeats caused them to lose their majority. Meet Jo. The Labour Party was born at the turn of the 20th century out of the frustration of working-class people at their inability to field parliamentary candidates through the Liberal Party, which at that time was the dominant social-reform party in Britain. Mind you, I could see the result coming. Dominic Cummingss trip to Barnard Castle. The Bassetlaw constituency is mostly rural and covers the north of Nottinghamshire, including the towns of Worksop and Retford. . He says: I was never a lover of the EU. The quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. My aim has always been to make our local party a welcoming place for people like my daughter. as a Solicitor specialising in Criminal Defence. I love the Labour Party dearly and believe in it, but it cannot narrow its base like this. The Labour Party has suspended Bassetlaw Labour's vice chairwoman for campaigning pending investigation after it was believed that she posted abusive messages on Twitter. My suddenremoval as the parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw shows how moderates are being frozen out of the party. Bassetlaw constituency then comprised Worksop and surrounding areas in the Bassetlaw district as well as the town of Warsop in the Mansfield district (see list of wards during this period below). Most of the figures in this report are derived from the 2011 Census which was held on 27 March 2011. The Conservatives have subsequently improved their position to 8 seats following a series of by-election gains. Almost two decades on, I decided to track down Bell and the others now in their 60s and 70s to find out how the seismic shifts in this part of the east Midlands, where the history of the mines and the strike still casts a long shadow, had affected them and their families. [8] The fall in Labour's vote, 24.9%, was the greatest of any seat in the election.[9]. The Nottinghamshire constituency of Bassetlaw has been a Labour stronghold since 1935, with John Mann having represented the seat since 2001. Currently the confirmed candidates for the seat are: Green Party, Kristopher Wragg; Brexit Party, Debbie Soloman and Liberal Democrat, Helen Tamblyn-Saville. Therefore, I was astonished that five days after my winning photo was taken, I was told that Labours National Executive Committee wanted to interview me about complaints of my behaviour at meetings in London, which had suddenly emerged. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. A fortnight on and that has all changed. The Conservative Party have won 4 by elections in 2021, taking 2 seats from Labour Party and 1 seat from Independents . When funding for his post as deputy manager, and then volunteer coordinator, ran out, he stayed on as a driver until he retired eight years ago. What's he waiting for? I am a Remainer,living in London, andI had been given the opportunity to fight to represent the people of this wonderful place for a party that I love. He has worked in senior roles for a number of housing associations across the region ever since. She said she had been "threatened not to tell anyone" about the complaint against her. The 2015 Bassetlaw District Council election took place on 7 May 2015, to elect all 48 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England. Scott says while some of his friends may be less enamoured with Boris Johnson after his mishandling of Covid, Keir Starmer has still to prove himself. The 2023 Bassetlaw District Council election will take place on 4 May, 2023, to elect all 48 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England. Election results: Labour Party loses 25 percent of votes in Bassetlaw since 2017 (Image: BBC) With the Tories expected to cruise to a comfortable majority, a deflated Mr Corbyn said it had been a "very disappointing night", with support crumbling in former Labour heartlands. Residents' health and wealth are slightly below the UK average.[3]. 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