“Gaffe Prone” Labour Candidate Trips Up
A few weeks ago Reading Labour Party selected Naz Sarkar, a Councillor from the London Borough of Waltham Forest, to contest the next General Election in Reading West. Having spurned several more local people, Reading West voters might expect their new Labour candidate to bring fantastic qualities of communication and persuasion to the task.
However, on the day that serious trouble in the Waltham Forest Labour Party surfaced with a deselected Councillor defecting to the Lib Dems, I have been sent a fascinating interview that Andrew Peach of BBC Radio Berkshire conducted with newly selected Sarkar. What is amazing is not so much Sarkar’s robotic continual attempt to parrot the line he has been given but his clear lack of local knowledge.
He tries to emphasise his local credentials but to the clear amusement of the interviewer he does not even know what IDR stands for. Any person with any pedigree in Reading would know that the IDR is the “Inner Distribution Road” but the initials frequently baffle outsiders. Sarkar resorts time and again to his mantra of “10% cuts” and earns the mockery of the interviewer. Anyway have a listen and see if you think this man should be Reading West’s next MP.
Perhaps this was how Labour conducted its selection procedure:
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Richard is a Conservative Councillor on Reading Borough Council representing Peppard ward since 2007, having been re-elected in May 2011. He previously represented Thames ward from 2001 to 2004. He is currently the Conservative Shadow Cabinet Member for Transport on Reading Borough Council. 
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Good grief, that interview is hilarious. I have heard sixth form debaters do a better job than Sarkar managed. He needs to go on some media training pronto.
Doodlebug, forget sixth formers – my 11 year old daughter would come across better and more knowledgeable about Reading than Sarkar.
The interview is hysterically funny with the BBC’s Andrew Peach reduced to a giggling wreck by Sarkar’s sheer incompetence!
Just read in the paper about former Cllr Helen Hathaway, saying they only select officers for the association from inside the constituency. (The week before she was saying Alok Sharma lives outside the constituency, which is completely false).
They are beginning to realise there own mistake of selecting outsiders in Dodds and Sarkar!
To not know what the IDR is just about sums it up!!!
You may be able to sign the letters that someone writes for you to put in the paper Naz——but you are going to find it very hard to get a ‘stand in’ to do the interviews with any credibility.
Should have stayed in London fella!
What a great spot Richard – hilarious!