… a moratorium on bar charts claiming other parties cannot win here.
But seriously, voting is on Thursday. Details are below. Remember you now need to take ID to vote.
Wansteadium’s vote goes to…
Wanstead local elections roundup
Voting for Redbridge Council takes place on Thursday 7 May from 7am to 10pm – in our new five party system it’s become a hotly contested battle. Canvassing and high street stalls have become the order of the day, as have the infamous bar charts which ‘prove’ that one or more parties ‘cannot win here’.
These are the candidates:
Wanstead Village Ward
| Md Kabir Ali | Green Party |
| Jo Blackman | Labour Party |
| William John Collins | Reform UK |
| Corbyn Leon D’Alanno | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| David Davies | Reform UK |
| Mark Gitsham | Liberal Democrats |
| Sharmon Lewis | Reform UK |
| Daniel Huw Morgan-Thomas | Labour Party |
| Humza Sair | Liberal Democrats |
| Mark Evan Scannell | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| David Smith | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| Rabiya Tehseen | Green Party |
| Mohammed Ohid Uddin | Liberal Democrats |
| Neal Krishan Vithlani | Labour Party |
| Sue Whitehead | Green Party |
Wanstead Park Ward
| Milli Richards Clack | Green Party |
| Nadir Iqbal Gilani | Green Party |
| Neil Hepworth | Liberal Democrats |
| Andrew Malcolm Joyce | Reform UK |
| Simon John Miller | Labour Party |
| Yit Chan Phoenix | Reform UK |
| Emma Selina Shepherd-Mallinson | Labour Party |
| Paul Anton Smith | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| David Alexander Thom | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| Alan Howard Thomas | Liberal Democrats |
Details of where you should vote are on your polling card (if you can’t find it but are on the electoral register, YOU CAN STILL VOTE). You can find out where you should vote based on your postcode at this excellent site, wheredoivote.co.uk. Redbridge has information here.
If you don’t know WHO to vote for, that sounds like a you problem. But you will be able to hear from the candidates at a hustings event on Tuesday evening at Wanstead Library.
Wansteadium returns
This website has been on a bit of a work-induced hiatus over the past few months. In that time lots of things have happened which would otherwise have been full-blown posts here… things like Must Wine becoming Can’t Wine. More Italy becoming Zafiro. Hermon Hill being closed for weeks and temporary traffic lights sprouting up everywhere. A TV advert apparently being filmed in someone’s front garden. Rumours that Idris Elba is moving to Wanstead. TV’s Andi Oliver saying in the Guardian that “she loves [Wanstead] so much” because it’s “almost like a little village”. The cafe formerly known as Caesar’s getting another rebranding (actually we might come back to that one). An election candidate for Wanstead Village – yes, Wanstead Village – being exposed in the Times for saying multiple racist things documented here by Hope Not Hate. The second anniversary of Snaresbrook car park standing empty. The Bull getting a serious bit of Ground Force on its front garden. A mysterious green railing being installed on top of Wanstead’s favourite factory. 100 other things besides.
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Dead good
The excellent folk at Compassionate Funerals have organised a showing of dark comic romcom Harold & Maude as part of the Dying Matters Awareness week.
The showing will be at the Wanstead Curtain on Hermon Hill on Tuesday 5 May. Tickets and more information are available here.
Bailey on Iran
From the Observer
Good reasons not to do this…
The idea of setting funeral arrangements free to float away on Eagle Pond might be superficially appealing…. but the number of plastic bits and bobs and strange things which go along with the arrangements, and the presence of curious hungry wildlife, means it is not going to be a welcome habit…