ANNOUNCEMENT: Selection as LE2023 Labour Candidate for Penn!

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Selection as LE2023 Labour Candidate for Penn!

Kashmire Hawker • Oct 13, 2022

Thrilled to announce where I shall on a Ballot Paper on May 4th 2023!

I am thrilled and honoured, to confirm my Selection as one of what will be three candidates for The Labour Party, for the City of Wolverhampton Council ward of PENN, at the 2023 Local Elections on Thursday May 4th!

I will be standing alongside incumbant Councillor in Celia Hibbert, who turned her win of 21 votes in 2018 into an impressive Majority of 290 in May of this year, despite us suffering two heavy defeats in 2019 and 2021.

A third candidate for the ward, in what will be the first All-Out Elections in the city since 2004, as a result of Boundary Changes in 17 of the 20 wards, will be announced in due course.

After carrying the baton in Tettenhall Wightwick and Tettenhall Regis in the last two years, I am hugely excited at the opportunity which is at our feet. I will keep you updated on the campaign via this website, on my Labour specific Facebook page and on Instagram.

I massively look forward to the campaign and utlimately helping create A Productive and Proud Penn and be a champion for the residents of an area with HUGE possibilities and fantastic places and spaces.

Here's to hopefully making history!

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STATEMENT: Result of Election of Councillors, to serve on City of Wolverhampton Council for Penn Ward

by Kashmire Hawker • 05 May, 2023

I am utterly gutted, to have come just 46 votes away, from being Elected a member of City of Wolverhampton Council for the ward of Penn. I of course give my warm congratulations and best personal wishes, to Celia Hibbert, Stephanie Haynes and Paul Singh on there Re-Elections; not least to Paul of who now begins what will be a one year term. I want to thank everyone in the Labour team across the City - not least my agent Henry Parry whose first Election helped signficiantly contribute towards our partal success with Celia topping the poll. And most of all, I want to thank the 1,550 residents of Penn for placing there trust in me yesterday. It is a truly humbling feeling to have gained such support, but to be blunt I am heartbroken that it wasn't enough to be there champion in the Council Chamber. For the record and for information, I declined the option of a recount or partal retallying, as a result of the length of time this would have taken - particuarly for the outstanding Counting team who spared a day to support our democratic processes and with 46 votes being a substanial enough tally not to be overturned. I will have much more to say about my campaign in Penn, my views on a hugely encourging set of Elections for my party and my thinking for May 2nd 2024, when I feel ready in the coming few weeks after such a narrow loss which has almost litterally kung-fu kicked me in the gut. But in the words of the wonderful Jacqui Smith, after her defeat in Redditch at the 2010 General Election: "It's a good thing in politics, to take part in an election where you fear you're going to lose, but you hope you're going to win." Such a quote sums up my overriding feeling and with it, I again give congratulations to the Councillors on there Re-Election and my wholehearted thanks to the 1,550 residents of Penn who wanted me to serve them. For that, I am forever grateful.