Little Parndon and Hare Street

BACK in 2012, in what was a very good year for Harlow Labour, Jon Clempner won by 578 votes with a massive 63% of the vote. Since then cllr Clempner has become the leader of Harlow Council and become a talisman for Labour in the town. He seems to understand campaigning better than most and so may well look after his own ward as well as many others.

Even in the “UKIP year” of 2014, Labour still maintained a healthy lead of 199 (43%). In 2015, they won by 568 votes (47%).

Cllr Clempner has two very keen rivals. Peter Lamb stood last year and has been out and about in the ward as well as being very supportive of the Harlow Conservatives. A nice man who we hope keeps in with local politics as we are sure he can make a key contribution.

UKIP’s Richard Richardson is also a keen campaigner and it was a pleasure to interview him last year. UKIP may feel we are being a little harsh on them but we just think they are past their peak in Harlow. On our sister site, we are predicting that they may end up with 17 councillors! South Essex man has not finished with UKIP yet.

Who knows, maybe Europe has come up a lot more on the doorstep than we have given credit.

YH prediction: Lab hold

Jon CLEMPNER Labour Party
Peter LAMB The Conservative Party Candidate
Richard RICHARDSON UK Independence Party (UKIP)