Labour's Richmond Park candidate: Every hour that Corbyn does not resign means another hour of lost opportunity

Labour held its selection meeting for the Richmond Park by-election this morning. Reports say many present wanted to discuss the idea of standing down in favour of the Liberal Democrats, but the meeting was not allowed to vote on this option.

The candidate chosen was the author and jouralist Christian Wolmar. What policy positions you get from a Labour candidate these days is a bit of a lottery, but he appears to have been against Brexit and to be against a third runway at Heathrow.

He has also been a vocal critic of Jeremy Corbyn, having sent many tweets saying he should not be the party's leader.

I retweeted several of these this afternoon: now I find they have disappeared down Labour's memory hole.

But this one survived:

I'm afraid @jeremycorbyn , your time is up. For the sake of the party you have to resign and not stand again. Yes politics is dirty, but...

— Wolmar for Richmond (@wolmarforlondon) June 28, 2016

And Steve Cooke took the precaution of tweeting screen captures, so here they are:

 

One unique Wolmar policy has survived the purge:

New post: Time to ban toilet paper https://t.co/09MvtZyOrI

— Christian Wolmar (@christianwolmar) September 15, 2016