predecessor successor death_date birth_place constituency_mp death_place nationality party profession birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
george albert pargiter piara khabra 25 may 1997 southall , middlesex , united kingdom ealing southall , previously southall london british labour politician 14 january 1917 31 march 1966 daphne peart syd bidwell
 9 april 1992 sydney bidwell mp
syd bidwell

sydney james bidwell -lrb- 14 january 1917 -- 25 may 1997 -rrb- was a british labour politician .
bidwell was a railway worker on the great western railway and became a tutor and organiser for the national council of labour colleges .
he went on to become the london regional education officer for the tuc .
having joined the labour party in his youth , in the 1940s he was also a member of the trotskyist revolutionary communist party .
he was a councillor on southall borough council 1951-55 .
bidwell contested east hertfordshire in 1959 and south west hertfordshire in 1964 .
he was elected as member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- for southall at the 1966 general election , and was elected for the largely similar seat of ealing southall in 1983 .
whilst in parliament , he saw through a bill to exclude sikhs from being forced to wear crash helmets on motorbikes .
before the 1992 general election , bidwell was de-selected as a candidate at the age of 75 .
when his appeal to the labour national executive committee failed , he decided to stand as a `` true labour '' candidate , but finished third behind the official labour candidate piara khabra , with 9 % of the vote .
