One real Conservative amongst professional politicians

What does a by election have to do with a former soldier who lives 200 miles North of the Shi'ite capitol?

Simple, when politicians talk about helping the underdog it is the actions that count.

On our recent sojourn to Lundin only one of these four had the decency or gumption to join the picket-line against Governmental brutality. Who? Which?

Only the diminutive Oriel Hutchinson (top left) who was manhandled by the security of a top hotel for trying to get justice from the Ministry with that name.

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St Mary’s ward by-election will be a four-way battle

A PART-TIME Pentonville prison governor, a former Islington councillor and two local activists will fight it out at a by-election next month.

The candidates are: Labour’s Gary Poole, a prison officer; former Lib Dem councillor Emily Fieran-Reed, a barrister; Conservative Oriel Hutchinson, a part-time property consultant; and Green candidate Caroline Russell, who studied civil engineering.

The election is being held in St Mary’s ward on Thursday, November 10, following the vacancy left by former Mayor, Labour councillor Joan Coupland, who was forced to stand down due to ill health and non-attendance of meetings.

Although it is expected to be a battle between Labour, who control Islington Council, and the opposition Lib Dems, all three outsider candidates are well known in the borough. Read more at www.islingtontribune.com

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