Davis has 25 by-election rivals

[emad]

* Grace Christine Astley - Independent
* David Laurence Bishop - Church of the Militant Elvis Party
* Ronnie Carroll - Make Politicians History
* Mad Cow-Girl - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
* David Craig - Independent
* Herbert Winford Crossman - Independent
* Tess Culnane - National Front Britain for the British
* Thomas Faithful Darwood - Independent
* David Michael Davis - Conservative
* Tony Farnon - Independent
* Eamonn "Fitzy" Fitzpatrick - Independent
* Christopher Mark Foren - Independent
* Gemma Dawn Garrett - Miss Great Britain Party
* George Hargreaves - Christian Party
* Hamish Howitt - Freedom 4 Choice
* David Icke - No party listed
* John Nicholson - Independent
* Shan Oakes - Green Party
* David Pinder - The New Party
* Joanne Robinson - English Democrats: Putting England First
* Jill Saward - Independent
* Norman Scarth - Independent
* Walter Edward Sweeney - Independent
* Christopher John Talbot - Socialist Equality Party
* John Randle Upex - Independent
* Greg Wood - Independent

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7476255.stm


OK.

Mad Cow-Girl - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party: Why not, good bet.

Gemma Dawn Garrett - Miss Great Britain Party: Ditto.

David Icke - No party listed: The What a Discredited Tosser Party might back him this time.

[non sociopath skin]

1. Who says British democracy is a farce?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Actually, it will be interesting to see how the Green Candidate does.

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. What is the 'Miss Great Britain Party' thing?

And why were there 2 of them standing today in Henley?

# Chris Adams, UK Independence Party
# Derek Allpass, English Democrats
# Harry Bear, The Fur Play Party
# Louise Cole - Independent (Miss Great Britain Party)
# Amanda Harrington - Independent (Miss Great Britain Party)
# John Howell - Conservatives
# Stephen Kearney - Liberal Democrats
# Richard McKenzie - Labour
# Bananaman Owen - Monster Raving Loony Party
# Timothy Rait - British National Party
# Dick Rodgers - The Common Good
# Mark Stevenson - Greens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7473834.stm

[non sociopath skin]

4. Here’s the website ...

http://www.miss-gb.co.uk/byelectionitem.asp?id=12

and these are the fearless champions of democracy who are promoting them

http://www.ianmonk.com/

Adds a touch of gravitas to these important exemplars of democracy in action, eh?

And some potential as coalition partners for a future Tory government.

Better put some bromide in Boris Johnson’s champers, though ….

The Skin

[mrfrapp]

3. David Icke

David Icke? The snooker commentator? I do suppose the miserable sport needs a kick up the arse but contesting a by-election to draw attention is a bit much by my reckoning.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "oohh, and that's a bad miss ..."

:evilgrin:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. Well, he is "son of the God-head" after all

[WritersBlock]

7. The Church of the Militant Elvis Party?

Parts of their manifesto are interesting:

http://lordbiro.wordpress.com/howden-manifesto/

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. They could get my vote for this:

If elected our candidate would like to see Abu Hamza sent to Ulster instead of the USA, so he can build a mosque next to Ian Paisley’s house, then they can rant at each other to their heart’s content.

[LeftishBrit]

10. I'm beginning to think that the Militant Elvis-ites might be more attractive and sane than some

of the other possibilities!


'Our candidate if elected will do his best to stop Ayatollah Brown terrorising Magna Carta, single mothers and the disabled.

.....

If elected our candidate would like to see Abu Hamza sent to Ulster instead of the USA, so he can build a mosque next to Ian Paisley’s house, then they can rant at each other to their heart’s content.'


Hmmm, both sound like good ideas!

And I like the poetry, especially 'Donald Rumsfeld had a war':

....

onald Rumsfeld had a war
E-I-E-I-O

And in that war there was a Blair
E-I-E-I-O

With a Blair - Blair here
And a Blair - Blair there
Butt licking, French kicking
Never trust a Blair - Blair....

Donald Rumsfeld had a war
E-I-E-I-O

And in that war there was a Bush
E-I-E-I-O

With a Bush - Bush here
And a Bush - Bush there
Vote robbing, draft dodging
Stick him in the Chain gang

Donald Rumsfeld had a war
E-I-E-I-O

And in that war there were some Lies
E-I-E-I-O

With some Lies - Lies here
And some Lies - Lies there
Big Lies, Wapping Lies
Everywhere Lies - Lies'....

[LeftishBrit]

9. I was recently reading Martin Bell's 'An Accidental MP'...

where he describes his victory over Neil Hamilton in Tatton. The Labour and LibDem parties had chosen not to put up candidates, but there were seven other independent candidates, of whome the most colourful was an eccentric seven-foot transvestite going by the name of Miss Moneypenny, who insisted on discussing silk underwear with Christine Hamilton while waiting for the count to be declared!

[T_i_B]

11. The results

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7501046.stm

David Michael Davis - Conservative Party 17,113 votes
Shan Oakes - Green Party 1,758
Joanne Robinson - English Democrats 1,714
Tess Culnane - National Front Britain for the British 544
Gemma Dawn Garrett - Miss Great Britain Party 521
Jill Saward - Independent 492
Mad Cow-Girl - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party 412
Walter Edward Sweeney - Independent 238
John Nicholson - Independent 162
David Craig - Independent 135
David Pinder - The New Party 135
David Icke - No party listed 110
Hamish Howitt - Freedom 4 Choice 91
Christopher John Talbot - Socialist Equality Party 84
Grace Christine Astley - Independent 77
George Hargreaves - Christian Party 76
David Laurence Bishop - Church of the Militant Elvis Party 44
John Randle Upex - Independent 38
Greg Wood - Independent 32
Eamonn Fitzpatrick - Independent 31
Ronnie Carroll - Make Politicians History 29
Thomas Faithful Darwood - Independent 25
Christopher Mark Foren - Independent 23
Herbert Winford Crossman - Independent 11
Tony Farnon - Independent 8
Norman Scarth - Independent 8

Difficult to see what David Davis actually achieved with this by-election.

[non sociopath skin]

12. Self-Publicity?

The Skin

[emad]

13. what David Davis actually achieved?

Powerful allies in Eliza Manningham Buller (ex MI5 chief), Lord Goldsmith (ex Attorney General), Lord Falconer (ex Lord Chancellor). Lord Stevens (ex Met chief), Lord Strathclyde (Tory leader in the Lords) etc etc.

I reckon a Tory leadership bid is imminent.

Bullingdon Club tossers David Cameron and Boris Johnson have sleepwalked their way into a nightmare of their own making.

A Tory general election win would need a radical pruning out of all Thatcher sycophants.

Davis has shown himself to be a pretty shrewd poker player.

He's also remained steadfastly mute about being awarded one of the country's top military decorations, circa 1991, no mention of which has ever been placed in the public domain - at his own request.

Publication of the accompanying citation could be one of the ultimate horrors for the Thatcher/Reagan-Bush1 era cabal that invented New Labour on the back of the Gulf War.