| Now that the CLP and trade union nominations are in and the public has seen all the candidates on Newsnight and expressed its opinion on the debate, the current betting is as follows: |
| William Hill | Betfair | Extrabet | PaddyPower | Ladbrokes | |
| Hilary Benn | 5/4 | 6/4 | 6/4 | 5/4 | 6/4 |
| Alan Johnson | 2/1 | 9/4 | 7/4 | 15/8 | 2/1 |
| John Cruddas | 6/1 | 7/1 | 7/1 | 6/1 | 6/1 |
| Harriet Harman | 6/1 | 9/1 | 7/1 | 6/1 | 7/1 |
| Hazel Blears | 10/1 | 11/1 | 12/1 | 11/1 | 12/1 |
| Peter Hain | 16/1 | 31/1 | 14/1 | 16/1 | 12/1 |
I think I'm going to give this topic a rest and talk about the LibDems and their white faces instead. After all, it doesn't look like we're going to win with Hazel. And as Margaret Thatcher once famously said: "Nobody needs a chipmunk, but everyone needs a Willie". |
| Postscript: It has been brought to my attention that the the Hackney Labour Councillors team is almost as unrepresentative in terms of black and ethnic minority representation as the LibDem slate for the GLA. So maybe I'd best shut up about that one. |
I'm Luke Akehurst..... aka. "Luke The Nuke".
1 comment:
Well, actually, lets. The Lib Dems are now the only real opposition left in Hackney with the departure of Eric Ollerenshaw to Lancaster (will he resign?)
I don't think anyone could claim that the current Liberal councillors in Hackney are unrepresentative of their ward - two Orthodox Jews and a Muslim in a ward with a similar proportioned population.
Their overall slate last year was not perfectly representative by any stretch but certainly as mixed as Labour's and probably better than the Tories. A remarkable number of Danish candidates though. 4 in fact. Who would have guessed there were that many Danes in the borough?
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