I wanted to reach out as a dedicated follower of your work and someone deeply interested in local politics. I must share my disappointment regarding the lack of coverage of the Norland by-election on your blog.
I am really surprised and upset that you claim to judge each councillor on their merits yet have said nothing about the outstanding Monica Press. Are you being partisan?
Over the years, there have been both effective and ineffective councillors from all political sides in RBKC.
Exemplary councillors widely known and respected all over the borough include Sof McVeigh, Linda Wade, Sarah Addenbrooke, David Lindsay Cem Kemahli, Ian Henderson and Monica Press.
There are many others. I won't speak too much about the bad, but one of the worst was Mr Invisible Graham whom most residents had never heard or let alone met.
As a lifelong Conservative, I'm deeply disappointed to see that in recent times the local Conservative Association has been taking us Norland residents and our votes for granted, so I have come to mind that it is time for a change.
That view has only been reinforced after learning that the Labour Party have selected former councillor Monica Press for the Norland candidacy.
Mrs Press was an outstanding local councillor and she impressed me on the doorstep with her knowledge, experience and willingness to take on challenging work, especially on housing.
By contrast, the local Conservative Association has selected a candidate who doesn't appear to wish to discuss much with residents other than what her favourite biscuit is.
One-time Tory
Nobody, apart from Monica, is presently holding Notting Hill and Octavia Housing Association to account here or taking an interest.
ReplyDeleteMonica Press leaves Emma Dent Coad sitting in the back when it comes to Housing. Emma started claiming to be a social housing specialist when she became an MP. Prior to that Council tenants suffered with her knowledge.
DeleteI am glad that the writer mentioned some of the excellent Conservative cllrs who work hard for residents. Can I add Emma Will. She takes her work seriously.
ReplyDeleteEmma Will is genuine
Deleteand really does care about residents and the community. People of Chelsea will never forget that time when she got up
to try and speak against that horrid
Saudi Kings Rd redevelopment at the planning committee and wasn't allowed to .
Norland ward isn't all exclusive streets, and Instagrammable luxury homes. It is home to a few councils and several housing association blocks and estates, some of which have been very badly neglected over the years.
ReplyDeleteOf all the candidates standing foe election up and down the land today l cannot think of anyone more deserving of support than the excellent Monica Press - Labour Candidate for Norland .
ReplyDeleteHer reelection to the council would start to knock the Labour opposition back into shape
I see that this week's Prime-minister Rishi No Mates came campaigning in RBKC today . How typical that he chose to campaign in posh posh Chelsea and did not dare set foot in Norland where a resl election is taking place
ReplyDeleteCampaigning for that useless bloke, Hands. Well done, Rishi.
ReplyDeleteCorbyn reduced Labour to a frazzle in 2017. Dent Coad was also reduced to a frazzle in that General Election. Labour has turned the corner with last night's marvellous results. The only way is up for those who kept faith with Sir Keir's Labour and for the Marxist Corbynistas the only way is down.
ReplyDeleteThe Kensington Marxist Corbynista is bound to be shafted at the election.
DeleteDesperately want Monica back in Colville. She is needed here. Labour selected Dahabo Issey who has been useless. Monica come back! You are ACE!
ReplyDeleteI wish to commend Con cllr Joanne Gardner
ReplyDeleteAs a non-Labour, local resident, I have to add that Monica Press has long been an excellent councillor. She and her equally hard working, Colville colleagues, Ian Henderson and Nadia Naill, were forced out by EDC's extreme Left. Rather than move on, Monica has returned. I wish her luck in Norland. If she fails this time, she will stand again in Colville, because her Leftist replacements do nothing for residents or anyone else. They are utterly useless; interested only in grabbing their councillor allowances.
ReplyDeleteMarxists like Dent Coad and Corbyn don't get it. They waste time arguing about what is and what is not socialist. Whilst this is great fun for backbench Marxist MP's earning £91 K, where does it leave the people they purport to represent? I'll tell you straight- in the shit, that's where it leaves them.
DeleteMarxism does not improve the lot of anyone. Emma wants to shake off the Marxist mantle for the benefit of Kensington's upper classes but to retain it in Dalgrano, Golborne, Notting Dale and St. Helen's. It'll never do.
DeleteAt 19.09. Where would these Marxists be without "people in the shit?" It would never do for them to have a situation without people in the proverbial.
DeleteA vote for EDC is a vote for the Tories. She is an asset to Dizzy Campbell and Felicity Buchan.
DeleteLook at the evidence. She left the local Labour party in tatters, we re stuck with the weakest, most incompetent and most ineffectual group of Labour councillors ever., she deselected good moderate socialist councillors and replaced with morons who dont know what they're doing. EDC's deselections even ended up gifting the Tories with an extra councillor because one of the idiots she picked in Colville was such a principled socialist she defected to Tory. That' Now her bid to stand for Kensington MP is going to cost Labour votes awarding Buchan a second term.
EDC is a despicable politician.
DeleteIn other election news, Sadiq Khan has defeated the Harrow hairdresser and won a 3rd term as London Mayor.
ReplyDeleteLabour has taken West Central GLA seat, shafting Tony Devonish.
Glad to hear of the Tory shaftings.
DeleteNow that it is confirmed that Labour has London Central, Sadiq is back where he belongs in County Hall and Keir Starmer is measuring up the curtains in Downing St. , can we please hear less about Mrs Dent and more about Joe Powell &, if you must, Felicity Buchan. They are people of consequence . Mrs Dent is but a, not very interesting, ghost from the past.
ReplyDeleteThe GLA constituency is West Central & our newly elected Labour representative is James Small-Edwards. What is known on him so far is that he's a young Westminster councillor elected 2 years ago in Bayswater & he has fairly famous parents (the son of rugby coach & former player Shaun Edwards & M People pop singer Heather Small.)
ReplyDeleteSince EDC plans on standing in Kensington & Bayswater next general election, she's still a N Kensington councillor & has joined forces with councillor Mona Ahmed to form an 'independent group' so they can still sit on committees. So annoying as that may be, she's very much still on the scene. As much as you, I or the next person might want to wish EDC was a 'ghost from the past', the reality is it will be 2 years before people can vote her out of both Kensington & the town hall &
her political career is finally over.
I think that Lord Binhead will have more influence on the outcome of the General Election than Mrs Dent.
DeleteI can't believe she has teamed up with Mona Ahmed. Coad was always do disparaging about her behind her back, saying she was a lazy careerist who would do anything to get on. She claimed her political nous was nil.
Delete"A lazy careerist who would do anything to get on."
DeleteThis is what I have always thought about Emma Dent Coad and it turned out I was right.
The list of doing "anything" to promote herself is long- here are a few points that come to mind:-
Crawling to Corbyn,
Crawling to Abbott (when Abbott was close to the power)
Shafting her political superiors in the Kensington CLP resorting to Trostkyite tactics for her own ends.
Emma is the Natalie Eplhicke of the left.
Don't forgetting that we're stuck with EDC's pick of councillors. Imagine living in Colville and being stuck with rubbish councillors Isse and Benton failing your community for the next two years and no option to get rid. Even worse when one of them has defected to Conservative. Most of the others are her friends and accomplices. When people aren't having to suffer from the consequences of Coad's bad decisions and actions anymore and she is no longer an elected politician with any kind of power base in the Council or the Labour party will be when people can finally move on.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we cannot be rid of her until the next Council elections but PLEASE can we not dent her the publicity that she craves ?
DeleteYes, we can DENT the publicity that she craves. Obviously, we need to ensure that she is shafted politically in order to get her out of the politics of Kensington.
DeleteDoes anyone know why EDC she did not get her Ph.d?
DeleteShe often went on about it.
Did she fail it and blame the Lib Dems?
I think she lacked the self discipline to submit work of the required standard for examination.
DeleteWhen I think of all the PH.D's that have been started by all of these middle class hopefuls that have amounted to nothing more than a damp squib.
In days gone by, so many of these self indulgent thinkers had the effrontery to get money from the public purse only to lose interest later.
"Middle class hopefuls?"
DeleteAccording to EDC, she is "ROYALTY," not a middle class hopeful.
Are you stupid fuckers still yapping on about this? NO ONE CARES
DeleteYou would like to think no one cares but they do. We will find out just how much voters 'care' for Emma when the votes are counted. In the meantime, the "stupid fuckers" will not be silenced and voters will be fully informed.
DeleteIt was stupid of Dent Coad to claim that she was royalty. She wanted to let the plebs in North Kensington know that she was something special. More importantly, she NEEDED to let the well-heeled of Notting Hill, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Campden Hill and Holland Park know that she was a cut above them. She is an appalling snob! I would suggest that her Socialism, with an emphasis on royalty, is a sham.
DeleteIt was idiotic of Dent Coad, the Socialist, to mention her royal heritage something that no socialist should ever do. Royalty is a cross that she now has to bear. It is her Achilles Heel in the election campaign.
If Flicka Buchan, the Tory who believes in the inequalities of King, Church and Country, claimed to be descended from Isabella McDuff, the Countess of Buchan, who put the crown on the head of Robert the Bruce, we would all take the piss out of her. Dent Coad of Borgia fame is fair game.
@20.14. If no one cares about EDC's Royalness then no harm is done when it is mentioned here
DeleteLogical - Isn't that so?
How can EDC who:-
ReplyDeleteis Royalty,
sends her children to Public Scool,
and fails to buy her round in the pub,
represent the working classes or Grenfell Survivors?
Is that a rhetorical question ?
DeleteNo.
DeleteEDC raised £38, 000 on Go Fund Me - a staggering amount. She is now running out of money and is asking her supporters for more. She is very greedy!
ReplyDelete£10,000 of that £38K went down the pan on that dreary election leaflet that she did. Another £15,000 went up the Swanee on the second leaflet drop.
Why was there a 50% increase in costs between leaflet one and leaflet two. People on the dole, single parents and OAP's, gave her that money. She needs to learn how to budget, cutting her cloth and all that jaz...........
@Too much easy come, too much easy go -
DeleteA member of the British Royal family would not understand what it meant for a lone parent or an old age pensioner to donate a fiver to indulge their latest whim or fancy. Therefore, we cannot expect Emma Dent Coad of Spanish Royalty and Nobility to have any understanding of the same people giving her a fiver to try and get elected to parliament so she can receive a package of
£91, 000 a year plus pension and perks.
£25, 000 "up the swanee" already. Just think what could have been done with that for people in Gaza.
ReplyDeleteTime for EDC to put her money where her mouth is instead of expecting others to pay. She could release some of the capital in her valuable St. Mark's Road home.
ReplyDeleteIt is typical of a woman who sneaks out of the pub without buying her round of drinks to expect people who are up against it financially to indulge her latests "whims and fancies." Expecting people on the dole, pensioners and lone parents to donate in order to finance her parliamentary candidature. If she is elected and gets the
Delete£91, 000 salary she will still sneak out of the pub without buying a drink.
The "Royal" socialist appears to embrace principles of thrift just like Margaret Thatcher did.
DeleteFelicity Buchan MP made it to the University of Oxford from humble beginnings in Aberdeenshire Comprehensive. No one in my Comp made it to Oxbridge, some went to Her Majesty's Prisons instead. Flicka obtained a Law Degree at Oxford and worked in business thereafter.
ReplyDeleteJoe Powell obtained a Bachelor of Arts' Degree from the University of Cambridge. Does anyone know what he studied and his class of Degree?
Emma Dent Coad attended the Scared Heart School in Hammersmith. She did a taught Masters at an Art College in South Kensington and signed on at the University of Liverpool for a Doctorate - which she put on hold when she became an MP in 2017. She did not continue with the completion of her Doctorate when she was voted out after spending a life time working on it. Does anyone know why?
She told all and sundry about that Ph.D. If she put as much energy in to her thesis as did to crawling to Corbyn and Abbott, it would have gone up for viva by now.
DeleteIt could be lack of commitment on her part. She is very impulsive - impetuous in her thinking.
She didn't do any work on it ?
DeleteOh, she did no work on it. I see.
DeleteShe did very little work to help Council tenants when she was on all those housing talking shops at the council.
Liverpool Uni is a "redbrick" university, a civic university. I believe it is the original "redbrick."
ReplyDeleteTHERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN MASONRY AND RED BRICKS.
Royals who go on to Uni usually go to Oxford, Cambridge or St Andrews - all of which were established long before the redbricks and the more recent, modern, plate glass universities.
Royalty and Red Brick Universities, standards, whatever next.
ReplyDeleteMs Coad's wiki page reveals her misogyny.
ReplyDeleteIn November 2017, Dent Coad was criticised for retweeting a post on Twitter using a quotation from Roald Dahl's children's book, The Twits, to suggest that the Prime Minister Theresa May was 'ugly' due to her 'ugly thoughts', whereas Jeremy Corbyn had 'good thoughts' and was 'lovely'.
Ms Coad has form for antisemitism: something "ugly" that she has in common with Road Dahl and Jeremy Corbyn.
She is revolting.
ReplyDeleteEDC is Corbyn's creepy-crawly
? "Whereas Jeremy Corbyn had 'good thoughts' and was 'lovely'."?
ReplyDeleteEDC's politics is the stuff of primary school.
At least Buchan (Tory) and Powell (Labour) are both Oxbridge.
EDC must realise that she is likely to be defeated. When she was booted out in 2019, her behaviour at the Declaration was pitiful. She could not even shake the victor's hand just like any dignified, decent, person would do so. If getting shafted through the ballot box is beneath her dignity then politics is not for her. I remember when Tony Benn was shafted in 1983 in Bristol East. He had the dignity to endure defeat, and accept the electorate's decision without playing any silly games. Benn, the noble socialist aristocrat, was such a dignified man. EDC's behaviour was only marginally better than David Mellor's behaviour when Putney voters shafted him.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble is EDC thinks no one can do the job better than her and that is simply delusional nonsense.She crawls to those from whom she seeks validation. She is not one of the greats of the Kensington political scene. Can you imagine the late Alan Clark crawling to anyone? Of course not.
Clark was a cad and a toff. He was shafted in Plymouth Sutton in 1992 and took defeat so well. He never crawled. He was not bad at representing Kensington's constituents.
ReplyDeleteClark was not a toff: frightfully common and suburban with his flashy cars etc. He was new money. The Clarks made money in late Victorian lowland Scotland mills and clambered up the social ladder. Clark was v conscious of this. The Benn family were similar, not real aristo. To be the genuine thing one needs to be able to trace one's pedigree at least 800 years
DeleteMy Lord,
DeleteThe vulgarity of new money, indeed! I am sure that our glorious and gracious lady, the Dame, would agree with what you say.
Emma Dent Coad claims not be wealthy and is now grubbing around for more money for her election campaign. She told The Daily Express in 2017 that she can trace her aristocratic lineage back to the day of Christopher Columbus. Columbus's day was only 532 years ago; some 268 years shy of your eight hundred year criteria.
So Lord de Snobbisme,
Is Emma Dent Coad a commoner as well as a pauper?
Pauper? A Royal with no wealth is like a Sloane with no pearls - not even Woolworth's pearls.
DeleteOr David Kear without a bottle of wine.
DeleteBenn was an aristocrat. Dent Coad is royalty. So why does one behave properly and the other one behave so badly?
ReplyDeleteBenn was classier than her.
DeleteRoyalty! Republican! More like, all gong and no dinner!
DeleteAll gong and no dinner!
DeleteI can just imagine Emma banging a dinner gong with a Royal Flourish and having no dinner to serve. Hilarious!
And then charging you for it !
DeleteShe would.
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