We will not be commenting further at this stage.". 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. 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. She said she had been "threatened not to tell anyone" about the complaint against her. By clicking subscribe you confirm you have read and agree to our privacy policy. [8] The fall in Labour's vote, 24.9%, was the greatest of any seat in the election.[9]. Bassetlaw is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. 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. Currently the confirmed candidates for the seat are: Green Party, Kristopher Wragg; Brexit Party, Debbie Soloman and Liberal Democrat, Helen Tamblyn-Saville. Bassetlaw is divided into 66 parishes, each governed by an elected parish council or parish meeting. Update, August 6th: Deputy leader of Bassetlaw council Jo White has been selected as the Labour candidate for Bassetlaw. SAFER COMMUNITIES We have installed extra CCTV cameras and upgraded street lighting in our Town Centres. Most of the figures in this report are derived from the 2011 Census which was held on 27 March 2011. For Potts, who was sacked from Manton after being jailed during the strike in 1984, the betrayals during the miners strike still loom large. Outside of politics, Patil has worked as a doctor in the NHS for 27 years. I first met George Bell on the 20th anniversary of the 1984-85 miners strike when he and many fellow miners had swapped the camaraderie of the coalface for jobs in the public sector and charities helping communities devastated by the closure of the local pits. They are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate action is taken.". The people of Bassetlaw will not accept an outside stooge imposed by the cult around Corbyn. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Support my campaign and lets win Bassetlaw for Labour. Map of the results of the election. The chairman of Bassetlaw Conservatives, Fraser McFarland, said it was "shocking behaviour" and called for the whip to be removed and for those involved to be expelled from the Labour party. Local Government in Nottinghamshire is organised on a two-tier basis, with local district councils such as Bassetlaw District Council 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. The Labour Party will place cookies on your computer to help us make this website better. It comes on the same day that three former Labour MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn ally Chris Williamson - were barred from standing by the NEC. 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Are you thinking of leaving the Labour Party? The Conservative Party are. The Labour Party has become a second family for me, and it is a party that I care about deeply. Ms Yates tweeted again on May 20: "Oh the disappointment that a family of screaming kids have moved in next door to shatter the idyllic peace we came here for.". Labour's victory in the Sutton ward of Bassetlaw on Thursday has to be one of the greatest local victories I've ever heard of in our locale. 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. White is deputy leader of Bassetlaw council. Former Bassetlaw MP John Mann, who has become a member of the House of Lords, called Ms Gimson's removal a "stitch-up". Read about our approach to external linking. Lawyers Mischon de Reya have written to the Governance and Legal Unit of the Labour Party. The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act. General Election 2019 Latest . He has served on the BAME Labour executive committee and is currently standing for election as a local party rep on Labours ruling national executive committee. A lot of it is low-paid, non-unionised work, says Bell. "Dan Henderson & Sue Shaw for Retford East", "One Of Your Labour Candidates For Retford North", "Your Labour Candidates For Retford South", "Your Labour Candidates For Worksop East", "Your Labour Candidates For Worksop North East", "Your Labour Candidates For Worksop South", "Your Labour Candidates For Worksop South East", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2023_Bassetlaw_District_Council_election&oldid=1140177993, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 21:03. Brendan Clarke-Smith MP for Bassetlaw My Map News Surgeries & Events Contact Constituency Office 16 Bridge Place, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 1JS 01909 738 956 brendan.clarkesmith.mp@parliament.uk Westminster Office House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA 020 7219 4272 brendan.clarkesmith.mp@parliament.uk Brendan on Facebook Sutton (Bassetlaw) council by-election result: LAB: 56.1% (+35.8) CON: 41.7% (-21.9) LDEM: 2.2% (-13.9) Votes cast: 537 Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk. [7], In the December 2019 general election, the Conservatives won the seat with a swing from Labour of 18.4%, the largest recorded in the election. Potts was out of work for eight years, before North Notts FE College employed him to coordinate support for students. More than two-thirds of voters in the. Back Simons campaign to become the next Labour Candidate for Bassetlaw. From 1983 to 2010, the constituency comprised the following Bassetlaw district wards: On a historical measure, this had been a very safe seat for the Labour Party before 2019, with their own or related candidates having held it since the 1929 general election. In 2011 I became a Labour councillor in Camden and served in the cabinet. Menu Home; Rankings. Sally Gimson was last week. 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. I decided rather than talk the talk I am going to walk the walk and in today's local Labour Party AGM I was elected vice [chairwoman] for campaigning. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. [n 2]Before that election, the seat had been part of the so-called "red wall", being held by the Labour Partysince 1929. Bassetlaw Labour @BassetlawLabour This is the official twitter account for the Bassetlaw Labour Party. 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. Bassetlaw is a shire district in Nottinghamshire, England. 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. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. What's he waiting for? The second name on the list is Jo White. Bassetlaw was created as a non-metropolitan district in 1974 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Worksop and East Retford and most of Worksop Rural District and East Retford Rural District following the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. All these foreign countries want to do business with us they cant afford not to. The Red Wall will crumble unless Rishi Sunak delivers on his pledge to stop small migrant boats crossing the Channel, the new chairman of the Blue Collar Conservatives group has warned.. Brendan . . We seem to be forgotten.. The seat was retained for the Labour Party by Joe Ashton with a slender 1.72% majority, the narrowest since the 1920s. The Labour Party has picked Keir Morrison as its new parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw, replacing originally selected challenger Sally Gimson. The election will take place on the same day as other local elections in England as part of the 2023 United Kingdom local elections.. Ex-coal miners from the Shireoaks Colliery near Worksop in Nottinghamshire. Bellenger held the seat until he died in 1968. Phil Whitehead, 61, had been an electrician at Shireoaks. 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. A former parliamentary candidate has confirmed she is to take legal action over her deselection. Labour first won the seat in the 1929 general election. The north-east has also seen profound changes in the politics of its residents. Bassetlaw was for many years a safe seat for the Labour Party. 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. With you on our side, we are stronger in this fight. Maybe no one thought I had a chance. They said in full: "The Labour Party takes all complaints seriously. Sitting in the living room of the council house he bought under right-to-buy with the payoff when he left Shireoaks, the ironys not lost on Bell that he benefited from one of Margaret Thatchers flagship policies, but he says he didnt know if hed ever work again so he needed to keep the roof over his familys heads. (They hung on with a 5,000 majority in 2019). 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. It was headlined "Labour Party suspends Bassetlaw vice chairwoman after controversial tweets" and was published on 1 July. A by-election followed. The previous Bassetlaw District Council election occurred in 2019 and resulted in the Labour Party winning 37 seats and . We also underestimated how it has in some ways legitimised xenophobia and racist opinions., Bell agrees. He says he was one of the few people he knew who voted both remain and Labour. My aim has always been to make our local party a welcoming place for people like my daughter. Read about our approach to external linking. Labour Party suspend Jared O'Mara over offensive comments; South Yorkshire: Sheffield: EXT Various shots people along in street John Mann MP interview SOT Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images [4] The Labour candidate initially chosen to replace Mann, Sally Gimson, was deselected before the election by the party's National Executive Committee over what were described as "very serious allegations". Earlier this week, the national executive committee (NEC) decided not to endorse Gimson as a candidate because complaints were made against her. [6] Keir Morrison, a councillor in the Ashfield District, replaced Gimson as the Labour candidate. Until 2015, the council was elected by thirds, with district elections being held every year except the year in which elections to Nottinghamshire County Council took place. I know the difficulties of when there are only pennies available to pay for food or heating. Bassetlaw District Council was created in 1974 following the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. The quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Put other recent Notts results into some perspective. Its first Member of Parliament Malcolm MacDonald was one of the few Labour MPs to join his father Ramsay MacDonald's National Government. The election resulted in the Labour Party retaining its control of the council[4]. It is for her, and women from all walks of life, that I want to make a difference. He had become a homelessness officer for Bassetlaw district council in Nottinghamshire, and was an active Unison branch secretary, using skills gained from his days in the National Union of Mineworkers to fight for employees terms and conditions, when the council transferred its housing staff to a new organisation. Following the next set of elections in 1976, the Labour Party lost its majority and no single party held a majority of seats. I was intending to live there if I won. Two weeks ago I thought I was going to be the Labour parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw. Enough is enough. The Bassetlaw Labour Party executive said Mrs Gimson had "already been out on doorstep", adding that the deselection decision had been "widely and voraciously condemned". 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. 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