By-Elections - 19th/20th December 2012

[tricky]

Dec 18, 2012 15:33:55 GMT arnieetc said:

For fuck's sake.

That is a rather pithy summation of the views your PR guys are taking on Twitter right now.

[tricky]

Dec 18, 2012 15:42:10 GMT AdminSTB said:

Does UKIP actually have any form of candidate testing or approval? If so, I presume it's not particularly rigorous...

Geoffrey doesn't think it is rigorous enough clearly:

I am a Kentishman, born in Dartford, a chartered accountant, Protestant married to a Catholic, a ‘baby boomer’ aged 66.

Population, immigration and threats to Britain’s Green Belt are the three linked issues closest to my heart. I am also concerned to improve the party’s image and in particular the candidate selection procedure. I am proactively opposed to Same Sex Marriage, which is an abhorrence.

Still, as long as Pimp is happy to be promoting this guy, that's ok.

[Pimpernal]

Dec 18, 2012 16:40:36 GMT tricky said:

Still, as long as Pimp is happy to be promoting this guy, that's ok.

Obviously not.
I was totally unaware of these views - he's obviously been on his best behaviour whilst the team were around, as he's said nothing remotely controversial or abhorrent.

I have been discussing this with the Party all afternoon and am pleased we haven't fudged this is any way, but took decisive action.

I hope this will be the case in future such revelations as well.

[stepney]

Dec 18, 2012 17:52:06 GMT Pimpernal said:

I have been discussing this with the Party all afternoon and am pleased we haven't fudged this is any way, but took decisive action.

As in any party, our members have a range of views and opinions which may not always accord with party policy... Geoff is a hard-working local activist who would make an excellent councillor.

Decisive action ye say?

[greatkingrat]

Apparently he has now been suspended from the party

www.gravesendreporter.co.uk/news/ukip_suspends_geoffrey_clark_from_party_over_manifesto_1_1746650

[Pete Whitehead]

I have posted my predictions for tomorrow's elections but had held off on the two on thursday, which I'm rather pleased about. I had worked out predictions which will now undergo some revisions. Incidentally, I don;t see the comments attributed to Mr Tingle as remotely comparable

[AdminSTB]

I didn't mean to insinuate that Tingle's words were in the same league, just that UKIP candidates seem to have an uncanny frequency in going off-message in some way.

[iainbhx]

Pimp will be happy to know that this little stoush in Meopham even made it over here in Australia this morning.

[East Anglian Lefty]

There was also a brief article in the Telegraph, somewhere around page 10 or thereabouts. No mention of the suspension of the candidate from the party was given, nor was the UKIP response particularly decisive.

[Pete Whitehead]

Are we going to get any of these tonight?

[greatkingrat]

richard_kaputt - Shit, I didn't even get a chance tonight to do a ballot box klaxon... Crome and Nelson Norwich City Council count tomorrow morning

[iainbhx]

Dec 19, 2012 23:44:27 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Are we going to get any of these tonight?

I dunno, a rare occasion when I'm actually up and awake for the by-election results and they don't appear to be coming.

[Pete Whitehead]

Dec 19, 2012 23:46:23 GMT greatkingrat said:

richard_kaputt - Shit, I didn't even get a chance tonight to do a ballot box klaxon... Crome and Nelson Norwich City Council count tomorrow morning

What about Spelthorne then I wonder. If they are counting tonight they'd better hurry up as I have to drive almost to that damn borough rather early in the morning

[Robert Waller]

Dec 19, 2012 23:46:37 GMT iainbhx said:

Dec 19, 2012 23:44:27 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Are we going to get any of these tonight?

I dunno, a rare occasion when I'm actually up and awake for the by-election results and they don't appear to be coming.

Ditto. One of the very few election nights in the year when I can stay up with a clear conscience.

[Pete Whitehead]

The count does appear to be tonight in Spelthorne. Shouldn't take long in a compact ward with one assumes a low turnout and we're not expecting it to be close

[greatkingrat]

Chris_caulfield - How often do the Conservatives come 4th in a Surrey election? Sunbury Common results Lib Dem 46.3% UKIP 23.2% Lab 16.1% Tory 14.3%

[Arthur Figgis]

They didn't yesterday. Sunbury is in Middlesex, my fellow-Hertfordshire resident.

[Pete Whitehead]

;D Exalt"!

[nick10]

Middlesex was abolished in 1965, Sunbury has been in Surrey since then.

[Arthur Figgis]

Middlesex County Council might have been, Middlesex most certainly wasn't.

Speaking as someone who was born in Paddington, Middlesex, brought up mainly in Balham, Surrey, and watches his cricket in Kennington, Surrey and football in Mitcham, Surrey.
(and resides in a village split down the middle by the Herts/Bucks border- but don't get me started on that one!)