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Post by Pimpernal on Jan 23, 2014 19:39:23 GMT
good spot! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 19:41:15 GMT
Is it me or is Pimps leftwingeryness slowly but surely being eaten away? He sounds closer to the UKIP standard than he did a year or even 6 months ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 19:41:38 GMT
I doubt we would ever want the support of a self-righteous, arrogant, self-deluded auto-response robotwat though, so don't worry yourself on our behalf. Thats a relief. I think your party is scum and no better than the BNP Oh deary me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 19:59:19 GMT
Is it me or is Pimps leftwingeryness slowly but surely being eaten away? He sounds closer to the UKIP standard than he did a year or even 6 months ago. Must be awful in a group where you agree with everyone on one issue, an issue that is not really needed in local politics. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 20:13:09 GMT
Daniel Critchlow has been selected for the Conservatives.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 20:21:01 GMT
He is a local vicar -
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 21:18:07 GMT
should a vicar be involved at this level with a political party
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 21:20:50 GMT
should a vicar be involved at this level with a political party Given that the archbishop of Canterbury spends most of his time slagging off the conservatives I don't see why not. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 21:26:47 GMT
should a vicar be involved at this level with a political party Why shouldn't he be? The Rev Ian Paisley was the leader of his. |
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Post by greenchristian on Jan 23, 2014 22:01:18 GMT
should a vicar be involved at this level with a political party I don't see why not. As long as he isn't going to claim that his party has God's support, and he maintains a clear distinction between his party political activity and his pastoral duties (should his parish be in the constituency) his current occupation makes no difference. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 23, 2014 22:29:39 GMT
should a vicar be involved at this level with a political party Got to be more suitable than taking crystal meth and running a bank! |
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Post by finsobruce on Jan 23, 2014 22:34:22 GMT
Ministers of religion are involved with all political parties and pretty much always have been. I can't recall many Tories at an elected level recently but that's probably because they just don't come to mind.
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Post by timokane on Jan 23, 2014 23:03:39 GMT
Businessman John Bickley named as UKIP candidate.
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Post by kevinlarkin on Jan 23, 2014 23:06:38 GMT
Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy were ineligible to sit in the House of Commons until the passing of the House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act 2001. As the disqualifications also applied to ex-clergy, Chris Bryant would otherwise have been unable to take his seat after being elected for Rhondda later that year.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 23, 2014 23:12:49 GMT
Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy were ineligible to sit in the House of Commons until the passing of the House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act 2001. As the disqualifications also applied to ex-clergy, Chris Bryant would otherwise have been unable to take his seat after being elected for Rhondda later that year. No, not so. The disqualification never applied to clergy who had resigned their living and left holy orders. Bryant was Labour candidate for Wycombe in 1997 before the change in the law. The problem which prompted the Act was that only protestantism allowed clergy to leave holy orders; someone who had been ordained according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, and remained in communion with it, could stop working as priests but could not remove their disqualification unless they left the Church. And in 2000, David Cairns was selected for Labour in the Labour-held seat of Inverclyde. That was what forced the change in the law. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 23:18:47 GMT
Businessman John Bickley named as UKIP candidate. Two days ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2014 9:24:46 GMT
And will come second. Still if people want to waste their cash...
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Post by johnr on Jan 24, 2014 9:28:43 GMT
Guido Fawkes seems to be worried that he cant find out anything on the internet about Mr Bickley.
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Post by Pimpernal on Jan 24, 2014 15:47:20 GMT
Is it me or is Pimps leftwingeryness slowly but surely being eaten away? He sounds closer to the UKIP standard than he did a year or even 6 months ago. Must be awful in a group where you agree with everyone on one issue, an issue that is not really needed in local politics. Ian, I understand you instantly reject any notion that fails to fit with your preconceived concepts of truth, but as I've pointed out more times than I care to remember, I am in a group with which I am in far more agreement than on just one issue, and we were elected on a manifesto in Kent that I was very happy with... Not sure quite where my leftwingeryness has been eaten away, but that is worrying because the way things are going that could leave me to the right of my party!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2014 17:56:39 GMT
I think we've got a "live one" here, folks  |
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