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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 17:38:49 GMT
Last year's Shipley candidates. I think it's the same Waqas Ali Khan.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 18:40:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 21:57:17 GMT
The Waqas Ali Khan guy is real enough. He's one of my facebook 'friends'. And it is the same guy who stood in Shipley.
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Post by mondialito on Jul 21, 2016 21:59:49 GMT
So, is this UKIP putting up a candidate by proxy?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 22:04:29 GMT
So, is this UKIP putting up a candidate by proxy? Doubt it. Philip Davies is about the most UKIPy of Tory MPs. My theory is that this Waqas was selected as the person least likely to damage Davies' chances of getting reelected. |
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Post by greenchristian on Jul 21, 2016 22:39:33 GMT
So, is this UKIP putting up a candidate by proxy? Doubt it. Philip Davies is about the most UKIPy of Tory MPs. My theory is that this Waqas was selected as the person least likely to damage Davies' chances of getting reelected. We're talking about him being candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election... |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jul 21, 2016 22:48:29 GMT
Batley and Spen Why not go back all the way to 1983? Because he's an idiot who has no understanding of psephology, despite it being his main (through lack of alternatives) hobby. His new constituencies are a work of art. 'I love this designing constituencies game. I know Lancashire so well, as I've never left it. Oh fûck, I have some random wards left over that won't fit into any of the Lancashire constituencies I've created. Help, what do I do? Smoke some pot, of course' |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 23:24:00 GMT
Doubt it. Philip Davies is about the most UKIPy of Tory MPs. My theory is that this Waqas was selected as the person least likely to damage Davies' chances of getting reelected. We're talking about him being candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election... I was explaining why I thought he'd been selected for Shipley (uselessness). Now, I was asked whether he was the UKIP candidate by proxy (in Batley and Spen). If UKIP regard him as 'useless' he's hardly going to be their proxy candidate. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 11:55:09 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 22, 2016 15:52:09 GMT
He sounds as much of a dickhead as he looks. If I had voted in Shipley at the last election I would have voted for Philip Davies. I wouldn't vote for him here either
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 16:26:00 GMT
Why carp when one can do it oneself?  Your colours are a bit out but other than that....  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 20:34:16 GMT
I used to think to myself: if UKIP put up a candidate in my constituency, they'll be putting one up everywhere.
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Post by john07 on Jul 23, 2016 23:22:22 GMT
So, is this UKIP putting up a candidate by proxy? As opposed to putting up a poxy candidate? |
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Post by Yorkie on Jul 24, 2016 19:51:40 GMT
Khan seemed like a nice enough chap through a brief interaction with him up in Shipley before the GE last year, but there were rumours the kippers viewed him as a weak candidate and had chosen him to do minimum damage to Davies' reelection prospects.
Having met him, I could easily imagine that to be true.
It makes it all the stranger that he's going for this, though - as if Ukip wanted to put up a proxy candidate to get a bit of traction, you'd imagine they'd pick someone competent?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2016 21:41:33 GMT
Khan seemed like a nice enough chap through a brief interaction with him up in Shipley before the GE last year, but there were rumours the kippers viewed him as a weak candidate and had chosen him to do minimum damage to Davies' reelection prospects. Having met him, I could easily imagine that to be true. It makes it all the stranger that he's going for this, though - as if Ukip wanted to put up a proxy candidate to get a bit of traction, you'd imagine they'd pick someone competent? Do you know if Yorkshire First are putting up a candidate? |
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Post by Yorkie on Jul 25, 2016 6:43:05 GMT
Khan seemed like a nice enough chap through a brief interaction with him up in Shipley before the GE last year, but there were rumours the kippers viewed him as a weak candidate and had chosen him to do minimum damage to Davies' reelection prospects. Having met him, I could easily imagine that to be true. It makes it all the stranger that he's going for this, though - as if Ukip wanted to put up a proxy candidate to get a bit of traction, you'd imagine they'd pick someone competent? Do you know if Yorkshire First are putting up a candidate? There's an internal debate going on. On one hand, we reckon we could have a realistic shot at coming second, given the calibre of the candidates who've been put up so far. A pro-regional devolution party coming second in a by-election could push the devolution debate right up the agenda, and at least give us momentum to take on to local authority seat wins. On the other, taking Haltemprice and Howden as an example, coming second (or third) in a by-election held under abnormal circumstances didn't seem to do those parties any long term good at all. And what would be the moral cost of standing in Batley and Spen? So who knows? Either way though, I doubt you'll see 'Yorkshire First' on the ballot paper again - our party referendum on renaming to the 'Yorkshire Party' closes today, and I'd be surprised if it isn't quite easily passed. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 25, 2016 9:20:37 GMT
I'm not convinced there is much of a "moral cost" to standing, given the widespread view (as in our own poll) that this contest should be proceeding as normal anyway.
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Post by Yorkie on Jul 25, 2016 9:58:30 GMT
Perhaps - however by not contesting the seat, haven't the Tories, LDs, Ukip and the Greens made it a moral issue? I'm not convinced that it should be, but you could see it as a question of what company you want to keep: those parties, or the English Democrats and Liberty GB?
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Post by greenchristian on Jul 25, 2016 19:09:49 GMT
Perhaps - however by not contesting the seat, haven't the Tories, LDs, Ukip and the Greens made it a moral issue? I'm not convinced that it should be, but you could see it as a question of what company you want to keep: those parties, or the English Democrats and Liberty GB? I seriously doubt the public will see it that way. If anything, standing here gives you a chance to show why you're not like those parties. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 21:36:23 GMT
Considering the current state of affair within the Labour party it makes you wonder if there will be a Momentum Labour candidate and A progressive Labour candidate.
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