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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 12, 2024 10:32:57 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 12, 2024 10:54:00 GMT
It took two 'journalists' as well to write that non-story. Whether he is a member of the party or not, what does it matter? Is the BBC under some strange impression that only party members are allowed to campaign for that party in an election?
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 12, 2024 11:10:45 GMT
It took two 'journalists' as well to write that non-story. Whether he is a member of the party or not, what does it matter? Is the BBC under some strange impression that only party members are allowed to campaign for that party in an election? It tastes like an attempted "gotcha" with those flash photos and overheard doorstep quote. Not the Beeb's finest moment. |
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Post by uthacalthing on Jan 12, 2024 12:42:29 GMT
The circumstances are nowhere nearly as Tory favourable as Uxbridge, but I suspect that sympathy for Peter Bone will exceed sympathy for any of the other outgoing Tory MPs and with his successor having his approval the Tory vote may hold up better than expected Sympathy for Peter Bone? Yes Personally I dont share it, but I comprehend it. The fact that many people active in politics do not comprehend it is a small part of our wider societal problem colloquially known as the culture wars. This, on a minescule scale, is the Trump issue. |
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Post by greenhert on Jan 13, 2024 10:04:47 GMT
How many candidates will end up standing in this by election? We already know of 6.
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Post by manchesterman on Jan 15, 2024 13:45:19 GMT
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Post by batman on Jan 15, 2024 14:50:29 GMT
Savage Gunn is quite a violent surname. Was she in an armed response unit when she was a police officer?
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Post by manchesterman on Jan 15, 2024 14:54:12 GMT
Nominative determinism again?
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 15, 2024 16:14:28 GMT
Savage Gunn is quite a violent surname. Was she in an armed response unit when she was a police officer? The article actually says she was It says much about the modern Police service that there are two ex-filth standing in this by-election and they're both leftists |
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Post by John Chanin on Jan 15, 2024 16:39:02 GMT
Savage Gunn is quite a violent surname. Was she in an armed response unit when she was a police officer? The article actually says she was It says much about the modern Police service that there are two ex-filth standing in this by-election and they're both leftists It also says quite a lot about the Conservative government which has managed to piss off so many of the police. |
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Post by uthacalthing on Jan 15, 2024 19:40:58 GMT
Neither Pete nor I would disagree that the Tory Government is woeful but that is not what is at play here. Almost the opposite. It is a measure of the success of the long march through the institutions, that the higher ranks of the Police are now dominated by those who can spout the accepted dogma with greater or lesser levels of sincerity. Those who go on to politics are almost invariably drawn not from the beat but from the upper floors of the HQ. Further to this, their mission as with their colleagues in HR, has been to rid the Police of those who practice wrong think and replace them with uniformity of thought that looks more diverse.
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Post by minionofmidas on Jan 15, 2024 21:39:17 GMT
Honestly it's most damning not for the peelers nor for the Tories but for what passes as Left (/ducks, hides)
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 18, 2024 12:15:42 GMT
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 19, 2024 18:20:10 GMT
How many candidates will end up standing in this by election? We already know of 6. Now we know Kingswood is just six I wonder if there's little chance of there being many more here. |
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Post by greenhert on Jan 19, 2024 18:45:31 GMT
How many candidates will end up standing in this by election? We already know of 6. Now we know Kingswood is just six I wonder if there's little chance of there being many more here. Given the attention this one has received compared to Kingswood I expect the candidate total in this by-election to be at least double that of Kingswood's, especially with the latter seat already confirmed as being abolished come this year's general election. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 22, 2024 17:58:46 GMT
Alex Merola has been selected here for Britain First.
His X/Twitter bio reads:
"Italian blood, English heart. Nationalist. Distributionist. Orthodox Christianity ☦️. Proud Britain First candidate in Wellingborough by-election"
The emoji "☦️" is the Orthodox Cross, if it doesn't appear on your screen.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 22, 2024 18:03:58 GMT
I hadn't thought Orthodox Christianity would have much of a following in Italy (Wikipedia tells me there are almost a million adherents in Italy but I should imagine these are primarily migrants from Romania and the like rather than those of 'Italian blood')
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Post by uthacalthing on Jan 22, 2024 21:34:23 GMT
Why do these racist outfits have so many Johnny Foreigners?
"Distributionist". In other words, left-wing
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Post by iainbhx on Jan 22, 2024 23:24:34 GMT
I hadn't thought Orthodox Christianity would have much of a following in Italy (Wikipedia tells me there are almost a million adherents in Italy but I should imagine these are primarily migrants from Romania and the like rather than those of 'Italian blood') It appears to be the latest pose for edgy but respectable young men for whom being a Catholic on teetering on the abyss of sedevacationism just isn't edgy enough*. Also churchy Anglicans who dislike Catholics and women priests tend to end up heading towards Byzantium. * This road ends up with Neo-Hellenism and the thing called Bronze Age Pervert. |
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Post by london(ex)tory on Jan 23, 2024 17:19:17 GMT
Not sure if the SOPN is online yet but I've just been emailed it - 11 candidates in total
Con, Lab, LD, Reform, Green, Britain First, OMRLP and 4 Inds (including Ankit Love)
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