"It is pitiful that no native pro-Brexit Labour candidate from a town with 100,000 residents could be found. Perhaps they were not sought. Labour’s man, Paul Williams, was born in Canterbury, educated in Cambridgeshire, worked in Stockton-on-Tees where he was an MP 2017-19, and was a Remainer, while
69.6% of this constituency voted to leave.
A former magistrate describes the main candidates: “One [Mortimer] is north Yorkshire and the other one [Williams] was the MP for Stockton. He didn’t represent the people of Stockton when they wanted to vote for Brexit [by 61.7%] so how can you trust him? He ignored the electorate so I wouldn’t vote for him if he was the only person standing. I’d tear my vote up. I really would”."
I'm a Labour member who knocked on doors for Paul in the GE2019, but I get this. It was so predictable and so avoidable.
Others highlighted it too but were dismissed. As the article says Labour are the establishment in Hartlepool, so there Paul is campaigning with Peter Mandelson who personifies the Remain Establishment.
I don't agree with Pog on Starmer (he needs more time) but he highlighted this on another thread which I've tried to search for and see him and the entire thread have been deleted from the forum.