Robert Halfon, agent of a foreign and essentially enemy power which recently stole the identities and forged the passports of several of our citizens, would do well to keep his own counsel on New Labour's links to Gaddafi, leaving that matter to those of us in any fit state to comment about the fact that the Brother Leader not only coined the phrase "the Third Way", but has always remained a key player both in its theoretical development and in its practical application. Halfon is of course a supporter, both of a Party Leader and Prime Minister produced by and for that development and application, and of a state even more central to them.
Even without AV, every seat next time will be a new seat, and there will be fewer of them to fill than at present. Halfon and the rest of the hundred Likud MPs who have defrauded their electors by pretending to be Tories can expect to be among the casualties, as can the like-minded remnant across the way. And as can that hugely overlapping category, the silly little Sloane boys and their silly little Sloane girlfriends whom Blair and Cameron have given seats as graduation presents. On the Conservative side, it will vary by locality exactly who wields the knife. On the Labour side, the only variation will be as to which union does so in order to insist on one of its own serious, grown-up figures instead.
That said, there will be places where the battle is between two serious, grown-up figures. Will it be Pat Glass, or Kevan Jones? All I can say to that is that standing in the same AV or STV election as someone else is not necessarily standing against them, since it is perfectly possible to vote for both. It can and would be, Kevan Jones. But it is not necessarily, Pat Glass.
Provided we could keep you from being eliminated on first preferences, and a BNP or EDL candidate will take care of that, then you would be very well placed indeed to win a new Derwentside-based seat on second and third preferences. Especially in 2015, when you will be a lot better known not only locally but nationally and internationally. Neither of us might enjoy watching you pip Pat Glass at the post, but you know full well that that's politics. We would both enjoy enormously watching you pip Kevan Jones at the post and so would an awful lot of other people, as nobody knows better than you do. Go for it.
ReplyDeleteThe British agents captured in Libya were carrying the passports of other nations. So we're as bad as Israel, yes?
ReplyDeleteNo. I dealt with that at the time. Those will have been their own, Irish or Commonwealth, passports. That's the British Armed Forces for you.
ReplyDeleteAV is made for someone like you, especially in a seat like this. First or second preference of half of voters anywhere and two thirds somewhere like here. First, second or third of two thirds anywhere and three quarters somewhere like here. As long as we can keep you in after round one, and there should be nutter candidates to do that. We can arrange them if need be, not that they would be bright enough to know that we were doing it. Naturally I know that you know all this.
ReplyDeletePat will be past the age at which most of her circle retire in 2015, she is as good as there now. She owes you for getting her the gig, Labour bans practising Catholics from women only shortlists and their whole purpose is to stop local candidates, certainly local candidates whose only political experience was two years on a Parish Council. The idea is to keep out the sort of people who see any point in Parish Councils and that sort of thing. But they thought that you would be fit and well by then, they knew that all your old lapsed Labour mates in the ex-Derwentside hierarchy would have backed you, they feared a Liberal gain as a result, and the rest is history. Will you be fit and well by 2015? That is the question. Plus nothing would give either them or Pat greater pleasure than to see you kick Kevan Jones out of Parliament thanks to the complications of AV.
ReplyDeleteThe very powerful godfather of that particular mafia is a member of the 2020 Vision group, so it looks like you are still his consigliere after all. There was also an underboss, a staunch Catholic in addition to holding all of your more conventionally political views, and still a very powerful figure locally. But he too is now half in and half out of the Labour party. AV suits people like that, like you, down to the ground.
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