Tag: West Yorkshire

Brownie-gate

brownie cartoon

As it’s our council leader Denise Jeffery’s birthday, I couldn’t resist a homemade birthday brownie cartoon. Congratulations too to Tracy Brabin, M.P., who celebrated her birthday yesterday by becoming West Yorkshire’s first elected mayor. By the way, her ‘vote Labour’ brownies turned out to be perfectly legal.

And commiserations to a talented bunch of runners up. What a shame that all seven couldn’t get together like the mismatched heroes of a comic book series to pool their superpowers, perhaps mentored by a wise old leader, played by former Dewsbury Reporter journalist, Patrick Stewart, to ‘promote ideals of tolerance and equality for all’ in West Yorkshire, just like he does in Marvel’s X-Men movies.

West Yorkshire Mayoral Election

candidates

You couldn’t ask for a better bunch of candidates for the final line-up for next month’s West Yorkshire mayoral election, my only regret is that we can’t be in an alternative universe where Tracy Brabin’s predecessor in the Batley and Spen constituency, the ebullient Jo Cox, could also have a crack at it.

Therese Hirst

Therese Hirst

Therese Hirst is our candidate for the English Democrats.

Waj Ali, Bob Buxton

Waj Ali
Waj Ali

Two more mayoral election candidates: Waj Ali, standing for Reform UK, looks rather formal in his studio portrait, so I’ve drawn him on location too, in a selfie taken at the Hepworth.

Bob Buxton

No studio portrait for the Yorkshire Party: they decided the best place to launch their candidate, Bob Buxton a parish councillor in Rawdon, would be a windswept moor.

West Yorkshire Mayor

Tracy Brabin

We’re spoilt for choice in next month’s elections for our first ever mayor for West Yorkshire so here, in alphabetical order to avoid political bias, are our candidates from the three main parties (the other four contenders to follow). Tracy Brabin, MP for Batley and Spen, is standing for the Labour Party.

Stewart Golton

Stewart Golton, a councillor for Rothwell on Leeds City Council is standing for the Liberal Democrats.

Matt Robinson, the Conservative Party candidate, is drawn from a photograph taken before his post-lockdown haircut, so you won’t recognise him now.