Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
No, I haven't changed parties (!) but I thought others might be interested in the fact that the Reform Party Conference is being live streamed on You Tube 20/9 & 21/9.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
Highlight speeches of the day.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Seems as though an experienced DIYer tried to widen the Overton window, only to have several established contractors join forces to brick it up again.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Being a "proper" political party, in Parliament, is significantly more challenging than shouting from the sidelines. They need to bridge that gap to make further progress and I will be interested to see if they can do that.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Neil Moors wrote:Being a "proper" political party, in Parliament, is significantly more challenging than shouting from the sidelines.
Good heavens, is it? I was under the impression that the very essence of our traditionally yah-boo politics was to shout from and, indeed, to the sidelines!
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Given what the 'proper' political parties have done to this country over the last several decades, I can't imagine anyone with any sanity left who would want to be associated with anything resembling one.
Jan Higgins and Reginald Barrington like this
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
What else can we expect when our present lot of politicians put their careers and finances above what is best for the rest of us, sadly I do not think anything will change for a long time.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Sadly many are being taken in by reform
Thinking they will solve immigration overnight (even with no policy!!)
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
In which 'our' Nigel throws the toys out of the pram at the thought of losing his KCC basic annual allowance (£17,123.06) AS WELL AS his winter heating allowance!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/dumped-and-hurt-tory-councillor-vows-to-stand-as-indie-322363/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
I had his blurb through the post the other day , it went into the recycle bin unread.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
It does look like reform will probably do well in KCC elections, but no sure they will win enough seats to control council
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
'Independent' = substituting a red nose and multi-coloured wig for oversized shoes and a slapstick and hoping nobody notices.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Don't worry, Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf will sort this.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
Fun Fact - of 230 council by-elections since the General Election, just 13 seats won for Reform UK.
Ross Miller likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
I wish Nigel would stop adding to my recycling pile, I received my 2nd letter through the post today.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Going to be interesting who controls council after election .
Strange that to busy , James Defriend who resigned from town council has a firm belief that political parties should not stand in local elections ! Campaigned on it !
Yes, you guessed it , he's standing as a political party candidate . Double standard or what !!
In the slightest of chances of his being elected , let's hope h e lasts longer than a year
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