Today she launched her campaign for the nomination on twitter with links to a pretty slick campaign website LINK and announced backers including David Lammy MP.
She will find herself in the strange situation where she will be standing for a local Labour Party that has campaigned against the Liberal Democrat Watford Mayor on the basis of the building of tower blocks in the area. They even call them 'Taylor's Towers'. In Brent of course in her role as Lead Member for Regeneration Shama Tatler has strongly supported the building of tower blocks in Alperton, Wembley, Stonebridge and South Kilburn earning herself the nickname 'Towerblock Tatler.'
These are examples of the Labour campaign in Watford:
The image is hard to read so this is it says:
- The Liberal Democrats have taken their eyes off the ball here in Watford and have spectacularly failed to reduce the housing targets for our town.
- They shamelessly blame everyone else for their disastrous decisions which are all of their own making. They've allowed these towers
- UNLIKE neighbouring Three Rivers Council, the Lib Dems here have failed to bring in policies that prevent high developments, but we get more and more Taylor's Towers springing up here, there and everywhere.
- The Liberal Democrat's biggest failure yet is a 24 storey tower block. That's just the start if they get in again. They'll be yet more and more ever higher and higher 'Taylor's Towers.
IS THAT WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?
You can have some fun substituting Labour for Liberal Democrats, and Brent for Watford and Tatler's Towers for Taylor's Towers and see if it makes sense.
It will be an interesting selection meeting. Perhaps they should invite Peter Taylor to be a guest panellist?
On her website Cllr Tatler highlights her 6 years' experience as Cabinet member for Regeneration, Property and Planning and includes an image of South Kilburn but not any tower blocks...
