Green Party 2024 General Election Candidate Neil Kelly Refuses Questions from Southampton Itchen

Neil Kelly Southampton Itchen Candidate
Image: Screenshot of website

We would like to tell you about Neil Kelly, but there is little information available.

Southampton Independents is interviewing the candidates for the 2024 General Election. We are holding them to account and informing Southampton residents. Candidates are answering our questions.

But not all of them. The Green Party Candidate Neil Kelly has refused to be interviewed. 

Questions were sent to him, as they have been sent to other candidates, but none of them have been answered by the Green Party Candidate for Southampton Itchen. This is odd, considering that the Southampton and District Green Party website asks for questions to be sent. 

That is exactly what we have done. Yet, they have refused to answer.

So who is Neil Kelly? We would like to show a photo of him, but the Green Party has not sent us a photo, although we have asked for that, too. So the above image is a screenshot of the website. The local Green Party website is pretty much the total of material that is available about this candidate, apart from a rather amateurish Facebook account.

Amongst social media, there only appears to be this Facebook account for Mr Kelly's candidacy and nothing else. This is in stark contrast to other candidates who use social media to campaign.

Neil Kelly has stood as a council candidate over many years for Southampton City Council, and many times, but has never been elected.

Kelly has stood for:

• Labour
• Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
  
• Green Party

We have offered Mr Kelly a right of reply to the other information that we have discovered.

Mr Kelly has been asked why he thinks he was not elected. He has also been asked about the lack of social media for him, despite being a candidate for public office. And he has also been asked about Green Party candidates being dropped after probes into online posts.

We waited some time for a response from Mr Kelly or Southampton and District Green Party, but only received refusals.

Why Southampton Independents Is Covering the 2024 General Election

Southampton Independents recommends no particular candidate in the 2024 General Election. We publish this information and the information about the other candidates to help inform Southampton residents for their vote, or for them to choose not to vote or to positively spoil their ballot by writing "none of the above". It's your choice.

The other candidates for Southampton Itchen, with their answers to our questions, are here.