Lindsey German

Cross-posted at liberalconspiracy:

So glad to hear that the world can't get enough of the mayoral election, but I for one am finding the whole scene tremendously depressing:

It's a cold little night in Bethnal Green, and yours truly and about 20 other people - mostly OAPs, it appears - are sitting in a near-empty hall in Oxford House on Derbyshire street, readying ourselves for a London assembly candidates' hustings.

The OAPs and I are peering stagewards. There, various remnants of the tattered Left sit - three City and East London assembly consitutency candidates, and one mayoral hopeful in the form of Lindsey German - all set to convince we of the apathetic mainstream to get off our useless behinds and vote, etc.

I'm not convinced that tonight is going to be the night, tbh. We're already 15 minutes past kickoff, and there's still - well, almost nobody in the audience. Those who are present are either running for office themselves (Weavers ward Left List council candidate Shamsun Murshid is there with a couple of supporters), or part of the small, ever-present bunch of batty-looking Greens that you inevitably find at these meetings - the wild-haired, ranting, cardiganed diehards from which Sian Berry is such a carefully-constructed and buffed departure.