mick williams
The Labour Party have placed party stalwart and Chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent CLP under administrative suspension. The move comes after a series of high profile bust ups in the months leading up to the Local & General Elections. A number of leading Stoke Central Labour Party activists have since walked out of the party.
Stoke-on-Trent's electorate went to the polls on Thursday 6th May to vote in both the local and General Elections. There had been a lot of hype about the General Election.
It is exactly 40 years since I was first elected to the City Council. As a young(ish) enthusiastic Labour member I had a lot to learn. Coincidentally: “Forty years it had taken him to learn just what kind of smile was hidden beneath that dark moustache. But it was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” (Closing lines of Orwell’s ‘1984’) Did Orwell’s moustache adorn the face of Stalin ? Mine certainly belonged to Peter Mandelson.
A public meeting was held in the Stoke-on-Trent council chamber on 27th April at 6pm to hear from people who had decided to stand as candidates in the local elections not aligned to political parties. Harry Smallwood chaired the meeting. Four people gave brief talks:
Former Labour Party activist Mick Williams has announced that there is to be a public meeting next week which could result in a new group on the political landscape of Stoke-on-Trent. Mick is standing as a non-aligned candidate in Hartshill and Penkhull Ward following his resignation from the Labour Party after 46 years membership.
Veteran Labour Party member and activist Mick Williams has resigned from the party in protest at the candidate selection process used for both the parliamentary and local elections. His resignation ends a 46 year association with the Labour Party.
Well done Gary Elsby, Barry Stockley and Mick Williams for finally taking a stand in that they are taking legal action against their treatment by the local Labour Party. I only wish I had done so when I could, and should have done.
MP outraged at Labour Party rejections.
30 Nov 2009
Stoke Central MP Mark Fisher is outraged at the decision to exclude several key Party members from being candidates at the 2010 local elections. Barry Stockley, Gary Elsby, and Mick Williams have been rejected despite a long and sometimes heated appeal hearing. They must now consider what action to take next. It is expected that there will be an emergency constituency party meeting. Terry Crowe had been rejected but was successful in his appeal.
Exclusive: Mike Barnes leaves D4S!
17 Apr 2009
By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. Pits 'n' Pots were the first to tell you that Craig Pond had resigned from the British National Party in Stoke-on-Trent, now we are first to tell you that Labour councillor and leadership contender Mike Barnes has resigned from the organisation Democracy4Stoke. [caption id="attachment_1419" align="alignleft" width="118" caption="Mike Barnes"][/caption] Councillor Barnes has been speaking to Pits'n'Pots exclusively about his decision to leave D4S. Mike Barnes
