Batley and Spen by-election

[magneze]

What? "Change"

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Imagine standing for an election yet not being allowed to mention any policies

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Betfred

Cons 1/2
Labour 13/8

 

[PR1Berske]

The English Democrats are standing here. Their candidate (leader, I think?) pictured dressed as the St George's Cross.


(Screenshot, rather than link, I know Urban probably doesn't need that)

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Imagine standing for an election yet not being allowed to mention any policies

a focus group must have decided that floating voters don't like anything radical like policies...

 

[kenny g]

Could possibly be regarded as a little policy light?

Would love to hear some of those "challenging conversations". Probably begin with an f and end with an off.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

a focus group must have decided that floating voters don't like anything radical like policies...

I think the problem is Labour DO actually have some policies, it’s just that they’re shit, so they can’t discuss them.

 

[TopCat]

An English Independence party that opposes Scottish independence?
That's obviously been thought through carefully.

I think they want an independent England to subjugate the Scots.

 

[brogdale]

I think they want an independent England to subjugate the Scots.

Even the Romans thought fukdat

 

[JTG]

I think they want an independent England to subjugate the Scots.

The spirit of Longshanks lives on

 

[TopCat]

Even the Romans thought fukdat

We could send a load of self selected plucky Englishmen north, Farage at the fore, to do what is right in their hearts. We would never see them again.

 

[JTG]

We could send a load of self selected plucky Englishmen north, Farage at the fore, to do what is right in their hearts. We would never see them again.

Perhaps they could disappear into the mists like Brigadoon, to reappear on Question Time only occasionally (maybe only every other month for example) in future

 

[TopCat]

Just as the mists envelope them, a harsh guttural cry of “Tongs ya bas” is clearly heard.

 

[Sue]

Even the Romans thought fukdat

Hadrian's Wall was apparently viewed as one of the worst postings in the Roman Empire because of the weather and hostile natives.

(Yes, I know it's in England. I suspect the Antonine Wall wasn't much liked either but that didn't last very long.)

 

[JTG]

Hadrian's Wall was apparently viewed as one of the worst postings in the Roman Empire because of the weather and hostile natives.

(Yes, I know it's in England. I suspect the Antonine Wall wasn't much liked either but that didn't last very long.)

Having visited Wallsend once, I can't blame them tbh

 

[PR1Berske]

Green Party candidate withdraws/withdrawn after Tweets were discovered from him when he was 19 that were, shall we say, unsavoury.

Source Green Party to replace Batley and Spen by-election candidate | The Green Party

 

[brogdale]

Green Party candidate withdraws/withdrawn after Tweets were discovered from him when he was 19 that were, shall we say, unsavoury.

Source Green Party to replace Batley and Spen by-election candidate | The Green Party

Unlikely to be playing in the next Test, either.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Having visited Wallsend once, I can't blame them tbh

A year in Wallsend convinced me to move 18000km away

 

[Serge Forward]

A year in Wallsend convinced me to move 18000km away

On Wallsend, according to Wikpedia:

Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin worked at Swan Hunter in 1916–17, and used it as background for his great anti-utopian work We which was a major influence on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

 

[PR1Berske]

Kirkless Council has just published the Statement of Persons Nominated.


Paul Bickerdike (Christian People's Alliance)
Mike Davies (Alliance for Green Socialism)
Jayda Fransen (Independent)
George Galloway (Workers Party)
Thomas Gordon (Lib Dem)
Thérèse Hirst (Eng Dem)
Howling Laud Hope (OMRLP)
Susan Laird (Heritage Party)
Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
Oliver Purser (SDP)
Corey Robinson (Yorkshire Party)
Andrew Smith (Rejoin EU)
Ryan Stephenson (Con)
Jack Thomson (UKIP)
Jonathan Tilt (Freedom Alliance)
Anne Marie Waters (For Britain)

 

[belboid]

good to hear Mike Davies is still around.

 

[Serge Forward]

What happened to that Northern Independence Party?

 

[Argonia]

Kirkless Council has just published the Statement of Persons Nominated.


Paul Bickerdike (Christian People's Alliance)
Mike Davies (Alliance for Green Socialism)
Jayda Fransen (Independent)
George Galloway (Workers Party)
Thomas Gordon (Lib Dem)
Thérèse Hirst (Eng Dem)
Howling Laud Hope (OMRLP)
Susan Laird (Heritage Party)
Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
Oliver Purser (SDP)
Corey Robinson (Yorkshire Party)
Andrew Smith (Rejoin EU)
Ryan Stephenson (Con)
Jack Thomson (UKIP)
Jonathan Tilt (Freedom Alliance)
Anne Marie Waters (For Britain)

Christ that's a lot

 

[belboid]

What happened to that Northern Independence Party?

They don't really exist.

I'm a bit surprised at the lack of ReformUK or Heavy Woollen Independents.

 

[PR1Berske]

Christ that's a lot

Not the record (that was 26(!!)) but yeah, quite the ballot for a FPTP by election in a moderately safe Labour seat.

 

[belboid]

a moderately safe Labour seat.

where the tories are now clear favourites to win

 

[Argonia]

I'd be tempted by the Alliance for Green Socialism there, though I don't know much about them or the candidate

 

[PR1Berske]

They don't really exist.

I'm a bit surprised at the lack of ReformUK or Heavy Woollen Independents.

I posted earlier a FB post from the Heavy Woollen bloke standing with Lozza Fox. I suspect that any potential link between them is why they aren't standing.

 

[steeplejack]

Christ that's a lot

By my reckoning 8/16 candidates are far-right (including the Tory Party).

depressing times.

 

[killer b]

Halloran has a (very) long statement on his FB about why he's not standing, and will instead contest the next GE as a candidate for Fox's vanity party.

Post is here if you want to check it out...