Local councillor who trounced Labour in last year’s local elections will contest Commons seat against Labour

The Liverpool Community Independents (LCI) party of left-wing former Labour members who quit the party in disgust at the local council’s cuts to services for the city’s most vulnerable, has selected local councillor Sam Gorst to stand against Labour right MP Maria Eagle in the next parliamentary election.

Gorst is the former Labour councillor who trounced Labour in the previously strong Labour Garston ward last May, along with LCI colleague Lucy Williams, despite a disgusting sewer-campaign by Labour targeting him. Both Gorst and Williams have gained even more popularity with Garstonians for leading the fight against a literal ‘time bomb’ chemical processing works the Labour-run council has rubber-stamped to be built right next to houses in Liverpool village.

The newly-configured Garston constituency will replace the existing Garston and Halewood seat in which Eagle is the incumbent.

LCI has launched a crowdfunder to raise money for the costs of its campaign. Labour is said to be rightly worried given the scale of Garston’s rejection of the Starmeroid party in the locals.

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