Perennial Labour failure Eddie Izzard has launched a fresh bid to get selected as a general election candidate. Izzard, who is now bizarrely referred to as she/her in mainstream media, is seeking the nod for Brighton Pavilion, currently held by the Green Party. Eddie was last seen trying to get selected for the safe Labour seat of Sheffield Central. He came a distant second in a ballot of local members.
Izzard has tried multiple times to gain official status in the party. He twice failed to get elected to Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, although he briefly managed to sit on it by default, after the resignation of Christine Shawcroft in 2018. A few months later he was voted out. A bid to be Labour's candidate for London mayor also came to nothing.
Izzard launched his latest bid to join the Westminster gravy train in a video posted on social media. Ironically, he signs off by copying the famous MAGA slogan of the hated Trump: "Let's make Brighton Pavilion Labour again". The constituency hasn't had a Labour MP since 2010 when Caroline Lucas of the Green Party took it. Since then she has increased the Green majority with each successive election, which currently stands at an impressive 19,940. Although Lucas is standing down, her replacement will be former party leader Siรขn Berry and Izzard will have his work cut out to overturn such a commanding lead - that's if he even manages to get the nomination in the first place.
Brighton Pavilion, 2019 General Election
Caroline Lucas (Grn) 33,151 (57.2%) +4.9%
Adam Imanpour (Lab) 13,211 (22.8%) -4.0%
Emma Hogan (Con) 10,176 (17.5%) -1.7%
Richard Milton (Brxt) 770 (1.3%) New
Citizen Skwith (Loon) 301 (0.5%) New
Bob Dobbs (Ind) 212 (0.4%) New
Nigel Furness (UKIP) 177 (0.3%) -0.8%
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