Blur’s Dave Rowntree chosen as Labour candidate
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree will stand as a Labour candidate on the subsequent normal election.
Introduced on Wednesday, Rowntree will stand in Mid Sussex. The constituency consists of Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath and the Mid Sussex villages.
In an announcement, per The Guardian, Rowntree mentioned of his candidacy: “I’m delighted to have the chance to turn into Labour’s first Mid Sussex MP. Residents have their finest likelihood in a era to make their vote rely and return a Labour MP to parliament.”
He continued: “The Tories have run out of concepts, and the Lib Dems have run out of steam. I’m working for parliament to supply the vitality and imaginative and prescient the realm so desperately wants.”
Rowntree mentioned on X (previously Twitter): I’m completely thrilled to have been chosen because the UK Labour candidate for Mid Sussex! Now the work begins.”
I am completely thrilled to have been chosen because the @UKLabour candidate for Mid Sussex!
Now the work begins.#Labour pic.twitter.com/RGMm1vWbAX— Dave Rowntree (@DaveRowntree) March 6, 2024
In 2010, Rowntree misplaced a bid to turn into a Labour MP representing the cities of London and Westminster. He served as councillor for the College ward in Norwich from 2017 till 2021.
Discussing Wednesday’s finances, Rowntree wrote on X: “That is the weirdest finances ever. A bunch of minor coverage bulletins. Is there a flourish on the finish?”
That is the weirdest finances ever. A bunch of minor coverage bulletins. Is there a flourish on the finish? #Budget2024
— Dave Rowntree (@DaveRowntree) March 6, 2024
He added: “What a waste of an hour. Tiny coverage bulletins. Fidgeting with the tax system. Bogus productiveness financial savings fairly than correct funding. AI fixing all issues.”
What a waste of an hour. Tiny coverage bulletins. Fidgeting with the tax system. Bogus productiveness financial savings fairly than correct funding. AI fixing all issues. #Budget2024
— Dave Rowntree (@DaveRowntree) March 6, 2024
Rowntree is now the most recent musician to be named a Labour candidate. In December, Gomez guitarist and Chair of the Ivors Academy Tom Grey beat Eddie Izzard within the bid to be Brighton Pavilion’s Labour candidate on the subsequent UK normal election.
Blur’s newest launch was 2023’s ‘The Ballad Of Darren’. In a four-star assessment of the LP, NME wrote: “In contrast to a lot of their friends, there has by no means been a timelessness to a Blur album – that’s a very good factor. Whenever you take heed to ‘Fashionable Life Is Garbage’ now, you may really feel disdain for the tradition that surrounded them, or the uncooked confusion of heartbreak on 1999’s ‘13’; they’ve a manner of transporting you to a exact second or emotion.”
The band are resulting from launch a brand new documentary and live performance movie charting their large 2023 reunion later this 12 months, and can acting at Coachella this April.