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    How many seats are the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition going to stand in

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    LATEST LIST!

    Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidates
    (See below for Scottish TUSC candidates)
    Coventry North East
    Dave Nellist
    Former Labour MP, 1983-92. Socialist Party councillor for 12 years.
    Colne Valley
    Councillor Jackie Grunsell, GP
    A Socialist Party member. Also standing for re-election in the Kirklees council ward of Crosland Moor and Netherton in the parliamentary seat of Colne Valley, having won the seat in 2006 for Save Huddersfield NHS.
    Hull West and Hessle
    Keith Gibson
    A Socialist Party member. GMB member for 35 years, became the leader of the Lindsey Oil Refinery workers’ unofficial strike committee last year. No2EU candidate.
    Huddersfield
    Paul Cooney
    The UNISON health branch secretary for the local hospitals. He was previously in the Labour Party then the Greens and has stood for them in the past locally.
    Brighton Kemptown
    Dave Hill
    Former Labour Group leader, East Sussex council and Labour PPC
    Portsmouth North
    Mick Tosh
    Portsmouth RMT and former RMT executive member
    Lewisham Deptford
    Councillor Ian Page
    A Socialist Party member. A Socialist Party councillor for 15 years in the area.
    Swansea West
    Rob Williams
    A Socialist Party member. Unite convenor at Linemar.
    Walthamstow
    Nancy Taaffe
    A Socialist Party member. Waltham Forest Unison branch officer
    Greenwich and Woolwich
    Onay Kasab
    A Socialist Party member. Branch secretary of Greenwich Unison (3,500 members).
    Gateshead
    Elaine Brunskill
    A Socialist Party member. Unison member. Regional agent for No2EU.
    Wythenshawe and Sale East
    Lynn Worthington
    A Socialist Party member. Unite member. Secured 12% of the vote in local election in 2008, finishing ahead of the Lib-Dems and Greens. Candidate for No2EU.
    Bootle
    Pete Glover
    A Socialist Party member. NUT member. Secured 900 votes in local elections in 2004.
    Leicester West
    Steve Score
    A Socialist Party member. Has previously stood in Leicester West and as a local election candidate in Braunstone ward.
    Southampton Itchen
    Tim Cutter
    A Socialist Party member. Hampshire council UNISON branch committee
    Bristol South
    Tom Baldwin
    A Socialist Party member, 26 years old. Unite member.
    Cardiff Central
    Ross Saunders
    A Socialist Party member. UNISON member.
    Preston
    Valarie Wise
    The daughter of former Preston MP Audrey Wise and former GLC councillor, who resigned from the Labour Party over the Iraq war.
    Manchester Gorton
    Karen Reissman
    A Socialist Workers Party member. A nurse for 25 years, sacked by Manchester Mental Health NHS for ‘whistleblowing’ against the effects of cuts and privatisation.
    Cambridge City
    Martin Booth
    A theatre nurse and chair of Cambridge UNISON Health branch.
    Sheffield Brightside
    Maxine Bowler
    A Socialist Workers Party member.
    Salford
    David Henry
    A 26 year-old local organiser of the ‘Hazel Must Go’ campaign. The campaign voted at an eighty-strong selection meeting to support TUSC and to apply to stand under its banner.
    Spelthorne
    Paul Couchman
    A Socialist Party member. Secretary of Surrey UNISON.
    Stoke Central
    Matthew Wright
    A Socialist Party member. 26 years old, the Youth Officer of Stoke UNISON.
    Tottenham
    Jenny Sutton
    CONEL UCU branch secretary, backed by the London Region UCU.
    Redcar
    Hannah Walter
    Socialist Party member. Unison NEC member.
    Liverpool Walton
    Darren Ireland
    Secretary, RMT North Wales & NW regional council
    Bristol East
    Rachel Lynch
    A Socialist Party member, 26 years old. NUT member, No2EU candidate.
    Wellingborough & Rushden
    Councillor Paul Crofts
    Independent Socialist councillor (ex-Labour) in Wellingborough
    TUSC is also supporting:
    Carlisle
    John Metcalfe
    ASLEF member, former Labour mayor and No2EU candidate. Member of Communist Party.
    Scottish TUSC candidates
    Glasgow South West
    Tommy Sheridan
    Former MSP and co-convenor of Solidarity
    Glasgow South
    Brian Smith
    Branch secretary of Glasgow City Unison (the largest Unison branch in Scotland).
    Glasgow North
    Angela McCormack
    EIS convenor, Coatbridge College. A Socialist Workers Party member.
    Glasgow North East
    Graham Campbell
    Anti-racist campaigner. Solidarity member.
    Edinburgh East
    Gary Clark
    Assistant branch secretary, Scotland No.2 CWU.
    Edinburgh North & Leith
    Willie Black
    Unite senior steward and regional committee member. A Socialist Workers Party member.
    Dundee West
    Jim McFarlane
    Chair of Dundee City Unison branch.
    Motherwell & Wishaw
    Ray Gunnion
    Lanarkshire Socialist Alliance.
    'Orrible nasty farchisst

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    Well Hello! Fancy meeting you here, I did not know this corner of sanity? existed. What is the flavour of Socialism that abounds here I would like to know more?
    "Hokahey! Nake nula wauŋ welo!"
    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492 Leave eastern Europeans in eastern Europe

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    An invasion of the Corporate Yorkshire Republic must happen soon...
    'Orrible nasty farchisst

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    Quote Originally Posted by paralreg View Post
    Well Hello! Fancy meeting you here, I did not know this corner of sanity? existed. What is the flavour of Socialism that abounds here I would like to know more?
    marxist-leninist with a trotskyist twist

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    Quote Originally Posted by Remington Steele View Post
    An invasion of the Corporate Yorkshire Republic must happen soon...
    I warned you Tuesday 15.00 hours sack Carlisle and repaint the station green back in Barnsley for brekies on Wednesday, Cumbria subdued!
    "Hokahey! Nake nula wauŋ welo!"
    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492 Leave eastern Europeans in eastern Europe

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    Quote Originally Posted by seagull View Post
    marxist-leninist with a trotskyist twist
    Hardly a 21 century aspect, not a recipe for any kind of success too many frightening words.
    Echos of revolutions and purges very old hat.
    "Hokahey! Nake nula wauŋ welo!"
    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492 Leave eastern Europeans in eastern Europe

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    Quote Originally Posted by paralreg View Post
    Hardly a 21 century aspect, not a recipe for any kind of success too many frightening words.
    Echos of revolutions and purges very old hat.
    It appears that the Socialists are stuck in a time warp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paralreg View Post
    I warned you Tuesday 15.00 hours sack Carlisle and repaint the station green back in Barnsley for brekies on Wednesday, Cumbria subdued!
    This would never happen! The Scots tried, and Carlisle was soo bad that they gave it back. So saying they hadn't eaten their oats that morning...
    'Orrible nasty farchisst

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    Quote Originally Posted by seagull View Post
    marxist-leninist with a trotskyist twist
    Trotskyism is soooo 1970's! Castroism is the way forward I reckon, with more collectivism.
    'Orrible nasty farchisst

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