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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 1:46:04 GMT
Angus and Perthshire Glens
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Post by stb12 on Apr 11, 2024 15:52:23 GMT
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Apr 11, 2024 16:16:57 GMT
Oh good god, I reached my limit for badly written drivel and I still haven't seen anything resembling an actual policy there... |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 11, 2024 16:28:51 GMT
Oh good god, I reached my limit for badly written drivel and I still haven't seen anything resembling an actual policy there... Please tell me that's a spoof. Or a piece of performance art.* Or something. * This is the first (and almost certainly the last) time I have ever viewed performance art as a preference ... |
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Post by john07 on Apr 11, 2024 18:26:18 GMT
Oh good god, I reached my limit for badly written drivel and I still haven't seen anything resembling an actual policy there... Very Trumpian. |
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Post by markgoodair on Apr 11, 2024 18:37:57 GMT
If he is an American surely he isn't a valid candidate for a British General Election? |
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Post by Crimson King on Apr 11, 2024 18:43:22 GMT
If he is an American surely he isn't a valid candidate for a British General Election? don’t you mean electio n |
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Post by Merseymike on Apr 11, 2024 18:46:00 GMT
If he is an American surely he isn't a valid candidate for a British General Election? "On October 12, 2021, Dan became a UK citizen, while also maintaining his US citizenship. He had also announced that day that he would be opening an exploratory committee to ascertain the probability of him attaining UK public office" |
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Post by nobodyimportant on Apr 11, 2024 18:48:21 GMT
Are there any actual policy positions in there?
And no, I do not count 'running for Angus and Perthshire Glens' as a policy position.
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 6, 2024 6:31:53 GMT
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on May 6, 2024 7:00:44 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then.
If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 6, 2024 7:21:12 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then.
If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
I would describe myself as a "nationalist unionist/unionist nationalist", yes. That's one of the reasons why my party name has been "Scottish Conservative" for donkey's years. That's not why I object though. I object because this is a candidate who refuses to say whether she'll be in the constituency to campaign, who has no connection to the constituency and, other than maybe her selection meeting, I'm not sure has ever been to the seat. Indeed, her main connection to Angus seems to be that she lived down in Edinburgh for a couple of years twenty years ago. Well, I'm sorry but that's not good enough. I get that she's doing this for her CV so that she can point to it at other selection meetings and processes elsewhere, I get how this works. But she needs to put in at least a little hard work, and in refusing to talk to the Dundee Courier, the main paper in these parts, to answer these questions she's failed the first test. |
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Post by Merseymike on May 6, 2024 7:44:38 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then. If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
I would describe myself as a "nationalist unionist/unionist nationalist", yes. That's one of the reasons why my party name has been "Scottish Conservative" for donkey's years. That's not why I object though. I object because this is a candidate who refuses to say whether she'll be in the constituency to campaign, who has no connection to the constituency and, other than maybe her selection meeting, I'm not sure has ever been to the seat. Indeed, her main connection to Angus seems to be that she lived down in Edinburgh for a couple of years twenty years ago. Well, I'm sorry but that's not good enough. I get that she's doing this for her CV so that she can point to it at other selection meetings and processes elsewhere, I get how this works. But she needs to put in at least a little hard work, and in refusing to talk to the Dundee Courier, the main paper in these parts, to answer these questions she's failed the first test. In my constituency the Tories do nothing. Perhaps they turn up for the count! Usually they live elsewhere. The only winner was an MEP (2017-2019) when he lost in Bootle in 1997, and was at first a Kingston councillor. Labour are doing the same. The best they can do would be third. |
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Post by No Offence Alan on May 6, 2024 9:49:20 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then. If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
I would describe myself as a "nationalist unionist/unionist nationalist", yes. That's one of the reasons why my party name has been "Scottish Conservative" for donkey's years. That's not why I object though. I object because this is a candidate who refuses to say whether she'll be in the constituency to campaign, who has no connection to the constituency and, other than maybe her selection meeting, I'm not sure has ever been to the seat. Indeed, her main connection to Angus seems to be that she lived down in Edinburgh for a couple of years twenty years ago. Well, I'm sorry but that's not good enough. I get that she's doing this for her CV so that she can point to it at other selection meetings and processes elsewhere, I get how this works. But she needs to put in at least a little hard work, and in refusing to talk to the Dundee Courier, the main paper in these parts, to answer these questions she's failed the first test. Have you never heard of the concept of a "paperless" candidate? |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 6, 2024 10:02:40 GMT
I would describe myself as a "nationalist unionist/unionist nationalist", yes. That's one of the reasons why my party name has been "Scottish Conservative" for donkey's years. That's not why I object though. I object because this is a candidate who refuses to say whether she'll be in the constituency to campaign, who has no connection to the constituency and, other than maybe her selection meeting, I'm not sure has ever been to the seat. Indeed, her main connection to Angus seems to be that she lived down in Edinburgh for a couple of years twenty years ago. Well, I'm sorry but that's not good enough. I get that she's doing this for her CV so that she can point to it at other selection meetings and processes elsewhere, I get how this works. But she needs to put in at least a little hard work, and in refusing to talk to the Dundee Courier, the main paper in these parts, to answer these questions she's failed the first test. Have you never heard of the concept of a "paperless" candidate? Really? Yes, I have heard of a paper candidate, as you read. Whether it should be made so bleedingly insultingly obvious though is a different matter. |
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Post by carlton43 on May 6, 2024 10:19:49 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then.
If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
The Scots and Welsh are touchy like that. Many of them carpet constituencies in England and always have done, but if obvious English people go into their petty nations to stand they wail and curse and gnash their little teeth. |
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Post by carlton43 on May 6, 2024 10:45:20 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then.
If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
I would describe myself as a "nationalist unionist/unionist nationalist", yes. That's one of the reasons why my party name has been "Scottish Conservative" for donkey's years. That's not why I object though. I object because this is a candidate who refuses to say whether she'll be in the constituency to campaign, who has no connection to the constituency and, other than maybe her selection meeting, I'm not sure has ever been to the seat. Indeed, her main connection to Angus seems to be that she lived down in Edinburgh for a couple of years twenty years ago. Well, I'm sorry but that's not good enough. I get that she's doing this for her CV so that she can point to it at other selection meetings and processes elsewhere, I get how this works. But she needs to put in at least a little hard work, and in refusing to talk to the Dundee Courier, the main paper in these parts, to answer these questions she's failed the first test. That is amazingly small-minded and parochial of you, but no surprise at all. Both the majors have done this for 200-years by blooding good young candidates in the middle of 'enemy territory and an unfamiliar area. It gives them experience of an entirely different locale and political circumstance. It gives the lucky constituency a probable rising star of high quality with verve and new ideas, instead of some boring middle-aged, time- serving plonker, to hold the flag. |
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Post by batman on May 6, 2024 11:34:59 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then.
If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
I would describe myself as a "nationalist unionist/unionist nationalist", yes. That's one of the reasons why my party name has been "Scottish Conservative" for donkey's years. That's not why I object though. I object because this is a candidate who refuses to say whether she'll be in the constituency to campaign, who has no connection to the constituency and, other than maybe her selection meeting, I'm not sure has ever been to the seat. Indeed, her main connection to Angus seems to be that she lived down in Edinburgh for a couple of years twenty years ago. Well, I'm sorry but that's not good enough. I get that she's doing this for her CV so that she can point to it at other selection meetings and processes elsewhere, I get how this works. But she needs to put in at least a little hard work, and in refusing to talk to the Dundee Courier, the main paper in these parts, to answer these questions she's failed the first test. thankfully, whatever the shortcomings of the Labour Party's selection procedures may be, we haven't yet reached the point that our candidates can be vetoed by members of the Conservative Party. |
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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2024 11:35:52 GMT
Back in 1997 the Labour candidate in West Aberdeenshire etc was an (Asian) councillor in E London, no significant Scottish links AFAIK.
This sort of thing is pretty common in seats the respective party knows they aren't going to win even in a landslide, Tories very much included here.
(and for a Tory example in a Scottish seat for 1997, look no further than JRM!)
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Post by batman on May 6, 2024 11:36:42 GMT
So you are a Scottish Nationalist then.
If she's a good candidate it doesn't matter where she's from!
My MP is from Leeds originally for fucks sake, and I've accepted that!
The Scots and Welsh are touchy like that. Many of them carpet constituencies in England and always have done, but if obvious English people go into their petty nations to stand they wail and curse and gnash their little teeth. fair point to some extent but I'm not sure that either Jim Callaghan or Michael Foot attracted much opprobrium when they sought & won Welsh seats. |
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