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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 4, 2015 12:19:56 GMT
To be filed under "rubbish celebrity candidates irritated that they are no longer treated as celebrities". All donations to the Kilroy-Silk Retirement Home, Andreasen Way, Dummy-Out-The-Pram, Leics. She was a "celebrity"?? I need to pay more attention to ... something ... obviously. Don't forget that "celebrity candidate" is a pretty low threshold to achieve. You need to have been a loudmouth or an irritant once on a narrow subject, and then you're a celebrity candidate over whom parties will fawn. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jan 4, 2015 12:28:07 GMT
Love it. She had to be the most embarrassingly inept candidate for many a by-election, and clearly didn't think she was going to be offered another winnable seat I am sure Nigel will oblige I think wotshername in Rochester was worse. One suspects that a fair few Tories will be hoping that she is next..... |
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Post by Merseymike on Jan 4, 2015 12:45:52 GMT
I think wotshername in Rochester was worse. One suspects that a fair few Tories will be hoping that she is next..... Though she wasn't an identikit right-winger unlike Hutchings - witness her support for the Palestinians. She didn't strike me as particularly socially conservative either - the anti-abortionists wanted reckless to win. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jan 4, 2015 12:52:42 GMT
UKIP has a sizeable faction that is pro-Palestinian and generally "populist" on foreign policy, though.
They aren't all staunchly pro-Israel neoliberals by any means......
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 12:54:50 GMT
I think wotshername in Rochester was worse. One suspects that a fair few Tories will be hoping that she is next..... She was merely lightweight. Hutchings was all over the shop - she looked and sounded more like the UKIP candidate than Diane James. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 13:22:56 GMT
One suspects that a fair few Tories will be hoping that she is next..... Though she wasn't an identikit right-winger unlike Hutchings - witness her support for the Palestinians. She didn't strike me as particularly socially conservative either - the anti-abortionists wanted reckless to win. This one didn't. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jan 4, 2015 15:05:28 GMT
Maria Hutchings, Conservative candidate in Eastleigh, to 'non aligned leaning UKIP', as explained by her in a series of tweets. To be filed under "rubbish celebrity candidates irritated that they are no longer treated as celebrities". All donations to the Kilroy-Silk Retirement Home, Andreasen Way, Dummy-Out-The-Pram, Leics. Isn't Dummy out the pram twinned with D'fection sur deselection? |
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Post by thirdchill on Jan 4, 2015 15:34:24 GMT
One suspects that a fair few Tories will be hoping that she is next..... She was merely lightweight. Hutchings was all over the shop - she looked and sounded more like the UKIP candidate than Diane James. Didn't help us that Diane James sounded like a far more credible candidate to be the MP. |
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Post by thirdchill on Jan 4, 2015 15:43:21 GMT
She was a "celebrity"?? I need to pay more attention to ... something ... obviously. Don't forget that "celebrity candidate" is a pretty low threshold to achieve. You need to have been a loudmouth or an irritant once on a narrow subject, and then you're a celebrity candidate over whom parties will fawn. On that basis, Katie Hopkins is qualified to be a candidate. Would make Marian Hutchings look plausible by comparison. |
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Post by Merseymike on Jan 4, 2015 17:11:20 GMT
Though she wasn't an identikit right-winger unlike Hutchings - witness her support for the Palestinians. She didn't strike me as particularly socially conservative either - the anti-abortionists wanted reckless to win. This one didn't. I appreciate that! Unfortunately SPUC seem to have been taken over by some very far right individuals - and they were supporting Hutchings which is odd given that Reckless was chair of the all party pro life group However, he is also in favour of same sex marriage - actually he has quite a good record on gay rights |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 20:30:07 GMT
I appreciate that! Unfortunately SPUC seem to have been taken over by some very far right individuals - and they were supporting Hutchings which is odd given that Reckless was chair of the all party pro life group However, he is also in favour of same sex marriage - actually he has quite a good record on gay rights SPUC has always been run by right-wingers. They wouldn't back Jim Dobbin in Bury North in 1992 and he, as we all know, went on to be the leader of the All-party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group. I always linked myself with the less partisan Life group. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 5, 2015 11:28:01 GMT
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Post by anthony on Jan 5, 2015 11:51:05 GMT
2 of the 4 labour candidates for Thamesfield ward, Wandsworth in 2010 and 2011 are now members of the Conservative Party. Which 2 (and there weren't elections in 2011, although there was a by-election)? |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 5, 2015 12:00:11 GMT
The by-election candidate has defected twitter.com/christianklapp (as was obvious otherwise presumably Joe would have said 2 of the 3 2010 candidates) |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 5, 2015 12:23:04 GMT
The by-election candidate has defected twitter.com/christianklapp (as was obvious otherwise presumably Joe would have said 2 of the 3 2010 candidates) Christian Klapp seems to have defected very quickly. At the end of April 2014 he's retweeting the Labour leader of Southwark, and on 4 May he tweets that he is now a Conservative. |
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Post by mrhell on Jan 5, 2015 14:21:29 GMT
I'm not defending his comments but it's amazing that the Conservative council leader thinks he should be thrown out of the council. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 5, 2015 16:38:17 GMT
Who hasn't said something similar at some time. Yes, it is off-colour and a bit out of order, but it is not a misdemeanour let alone any sort of crime, so frankly the authorities should never be involved and certainly not the police. An employer or a political party obviously has the right to consider the old 'bringing into disrepute' or breach of rules or terms and conditions of service. But this constant policing of each others utterences has just got to stop or public life for many people will become far too difficult to sustain. Do we really want only well managed party hacks on message and never speaking out of turn as our sole representatives? I certainly don't.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 5, 2015 17:42:47 GMT
I'm not defending his comments but it's amazing that the Conservative council leader thinks he should be thrown out of the council. Same sentiments as yours. Tasteless and inappropriate, of course, but a case to be thrown out of the council? No. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2015 18:00:10 GMT
The by-election candidate has defected twitter.com/christianklapp (as was obvious otherwise presumably Joe would have said 2 of the 3 2010 candidates) Christian Klapp seems to have defected very quickly. At the end of April 2014 he's retweeting the Labour leader of Southwark, and on 4 May he tweets that he is now a Conservative. Kalsoom Qureshi is the 2010 (re)defector. |
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Post by casualobserver on Jan 6, 2015 3:37:42 GMT
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