Remember "Tony Wants"? Well, Harriet Harman has now announced that, since David Davis wants to be MP for Haltemprice and Howden, no Labour candidate will be put up against him. I want to be an MEP for the North East next year, and an MP eventually. Will any Labour candidate will be put up against me? If so, why?
Presumably because that candidate would not agree with me politically. Whereas the duly selected Labour candidate in Haltemprice and Howden is opposed to 42-day detention without charge.
Since Davis has, according to Martha Kearney, "resigned from the Conservative Party" in order to make his stand, will that party, controlled as it is by people whom he despises and who despise him, put up a candidate against him? If not, why not? Just because he wants to be the MP, and so must have it?
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I'm sure a Labour candidate will be put up against you if you stand in a normal election - so far as I know, they contest every seat outside Northern Ireland except in exceptional circumstances (Martin Bell v Neil Hamilton springs to mind). They may not stand if you unnecessarily stand down as an MP and then restand immediately, as part of a pointless stunt. But, to be fair to you, you don't currently hold a seat, so you won't be in a position to do that.
ReplyDelete"A pointless stunt"? You still don't get it, do you? Thus speaks the bunker.
ReplyDeleteYou dont seriously think that the voters in his constituency would go to the ballot box and vote according to their views on 42 day detention? It is a safe tory seat and it would be (a) a waste of the labour party's money and (b) condoning such a blatant waste of taxpayer's money to massage Davis' ego. As Yoda once famously said "David, a muppet you are". Now I know you have all this inside knowledge far above the level of the mere mortal roaming the streets and will come back with some unnecassary threat or insult but it will just wash over my head so we should just agree to disagree...safe in the knowledge taht you are wrong.
ReplyDeleteNo, safe in the knowledge that you are afraid of the electorate (at least if it is ever given a proper choice, admittedly a very rare event these days), and that you don't really believe in elections anyway. But we knew those things already.
ReplyDeleteA majority of five thousand constitutes a safe seat? Since when?
If you want to be elected as the libertarian, terrorist-hugging hippy stooge of an ultra-leftwing Government (whose candidate would almost certainly have lost anyway) then you'd certainly be in with a chance.
ReplyDeleteThe overwhelming majority of people in this country (and probably Haltemprice) are in favour of locking up suspected terrorists for a good deal longer than 42 days. If democracy had any meaning nowadays the MRLP would now be looking forward to its first MP. Unfortunately the loonies would seem to be in Parliament already, under the banner of "Liberal Conservatism".
Well, we shall see, when the votes come in.
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