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The S Telegraph story on defection of UKIP MEP Amjad Bashir to CON http://t.co/LZEqNbimos pic.twitter.com/zk7B8nq5BC
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I hope the Tory party have done all the appropriate due diligence.
But Luke 15:7 applies here
Nick Clegg on the other hand....
UKIP have supposedly handed evidence over to the police. It better be something serious as they will come across as spiteful if it amounts to nothing.
Homophobes, racists and criminals with political ambitions should surely elect to go Tory or Labour as they have far more chance of still being in office after they have been found out.
Isn't that the chap who jumped ship to the Tories to avoid losing his seat as a Lib Dem? There was some obscure rule which prevented the Tories from getting rid of him and are now stuck with him?
"Their born corrupt"
I emotionally break down at some people's appalling lack of knowledge when it comes to the English language.
Good to see Scottish government did not grovel like UK ....
http://www.kaleidoscot.com/scotland-not-fly-flag-half-mast-king-abdullah-2379
With regards to TSE's post below, I don't know anything about the selection process but I really hope he wasn't selected because of his ethnicity/faith. Positive discrimination is something that should be left to the likes of the Labour Party.
I can kind of understand why Ukip want to push the likes of Suzanne Evans and Diane James, as it might help them attract more women voters. But they're actually very articulate and capable politicians so they're where they are on merit. That Louise Bours on the other hand really irritates me!
Im surprised more hasn't been made of ukip sacking two BAMEs in a week!
The Sunday times scoop is prob a lot worse than the Bashir story I'm guessing
Mike Smithson
In other words you are saying that the Tories bribed him to defect. Successfully, it seems.
'Apparently Sajjam Karim isn't too bright.'
He qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1997 and rose to becoming an equity partner very quickly specialising in cases of serious fraud defence work.
What's the point in trying to smear him it just looks idiotic.
Ah good old Malcolm --- ''Good to see Scottish government did not grovel like UK ....
http://www.kaleidoscot.com/scotland-not-fly-flag-half-mast-king-abdullah-2379''
Yes - who wants to grovel to the man who put a firework up the backside of what passed for poor Wee Ecks economic policy.
http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-ukip-managed-to-lose-45-of-their-meps-36404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bours
Interestingly when canvassing today, I came across 4 hoouseholds saying UKIP as soon as I spoke. I explored it in a bit further detail. In the end they themselves said they have no policies and they probably won't end up voting for them.
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Looks like a rather pathetic smear to me.
It is a very good thing that they are finished. It's a shame that the AMS will stop them being removed completely from Scottish politics - at least for a few more years.
The defection is thought to have been brokered by another Tory MEP, the heavily Eurosceptic Daniel Hannan.
There are already rumours that at least one other UKIP MEP is considering their position following Mr Bashir's resignation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30967633
Amjad Bashir met with a banned terrorist organisation.
Well done Dave, quite the political coup.
http://youtu.be/Cir05JyEsV0
This won't register at all with the average voter, unless it's the pebble starting an avalanche, or there's something nefarious.
Greek election tomorrow. Any ETA for results?
Could be Mike. Crosby knows every trick in the book. You don't take on - and defeat - as monstrous and as ruthless a political machine as the Australian Labor Party without considerable guile. UKIP could be a hollowed-out and smouldering husk by the time Crosby's finished with them. They'll be cries of foul play from the Kippers, of course, but by then they'll be shrieks of broken men in the wilderness, and no one will much care.
But they are different in my views because they want out of europe, openly criticise mass immigration and multiculturalism, and favour grammar schools... And it's policies that matter to me not party politics
I bet it gets a vast audience.
I see Labour supporters are getting in on the Smearathon too.
immigration
multiculturism
grammar schools
Would the Tories be wise for taking in someone even the Kippers think is "dodgy"?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/253620071/Bradford-selection-UKIP
I cannot remember where I read it but I am sure I read that he refused to turn up to a meeting to explain himself on Tuesday. He met Cameron on Friday and defected today. It may be that he jumped before he pushed but I am sure all will become apparent over the coming days.
Exciting times. Especially with the Greek election tomorrow.
Remember "Tyson Homosexual"?
That was a weird one.
Oh and people don't really care about MEPs in general.
Multiculturalism... I was alright with although never have made any concessions to anyone in account of race or religion which I thought, well still think, is patronising
I still think it would be great if mass immigration and multiculturalism worked, but I just don't think they do, and actually think they create problems rather than are just neutral
Grammar schools.. I had bpnever really thought about them. I went to a comp and there were no grammar schools on offer... When I thought about them they made sense to me
To be honest I voted labour because my family did and I never thought much about politics. Sounds glib, but it was only when I grew up a bit and started really analysing politics, policies etc that I stopped voting for them
With just over 100 days before polling, the rise of the Greens is causing serious anxiety in Labour’s high command, as worries grow that many left-leaning voters, particularly students and first-time voters, are rejecting Miliband’s agenda in favour of a more radical leftwing offering. With the SNP already threatening Labour in at least 20 of its traditional strongholds in Scotland, the Green surge means Labour is facing a second, largely unexpected, challenge from the left, which has made the election result even more difficult to call.
A big concern for Miliband’s election team is that Labour had been banking on many who voted Lib Dem in 2010 to return to the party. But these voters could be turning instead to the Greens, weakening Labour’s bid for power in university cities and other, mainly urban, areas.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/24/green-party-surge-labour-threat-election
How many can name them, if they knew what sort of animal an MEP was ?
The Tory policy of free schools allows heads and governors to establish a similar academic focus and rigour if they so wish. They are not allowed to select on academic merit only, but equally there are ways around this: I prefer setting personally, but it can be complicated, so many schools go for streaming instead
So: not grammar schools in name, but the flexibility for schools to pursue that route if they wish.
UKIP did hand over evidence to the police, so this may be it. I am not sure if what has gone on is illegal.
Put it this way, I was a shorter price than him to be next UKIPs leader with Ladbrokes
Bit harsh to set him an unachievable hurdle
Oh, yes ! A speech on global warming always helps.
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I was broadly supportive of Cameron and the Tories up until about 2012 as I thought it was important that we kept Labour out of office. But now I simply don't care as I don't think there's any difference between the main parties.
The issue of grammar schools is important to me. It's not so much because I'm desperate to go back to the grammar school system, but because I think Labour dumbed down the top of our education system. They hate any notion that some people are more intelligent than others. They hate aspiration. They hate the notion that some people are more likely to succeed than others.
I went to a comp and there were 37 of us in my Year 11 maths class. The reason is simple, we were all going to get A/A* grades and the current system encourages schools to focus on getting as many kids to get 5 A to C grades.
That's fine, but the smarter kids in the comp system are then put at a disadvantage when up against kids at private schools where they really stretch them.
I fully admit that my faculties may not be in perfect order when it comes to discussing Mark Reckless.
They are the militant tendency in a green cover.
Ouch!
Con 32, Lab 32, LibDem 7, UKIP 15, Green 7
Who will be next leader of Tory party? Boris Johnson 23%, Theresa May 12% Osborne 4% David Davis 4%, Sajid Javid 2%
Who will be next Labour leader? David Miliband 18% Ed Balls 7% Andy Burnham 6% Harriet Harman 6%
Who will be next libdem leader? Vince Cable 15%, Danny Alexander 10% Tim Farron 3%. Libdem voters push Farron up to 10%
What this demonstrates, again, is firstly what a crap system Euro Elections are held under and secondly what a crap bunch of human beings aspire to be Euro MPs.
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/05/21/the-25-worst-best-spelling-mistakes-on-twitter/