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One of the side-shows of May 7th is the Pub Landlord’s campaign in South Thanet, where Farage is seeking to win. It’s a tough three way marginal but the latest from Survation had him with a comfortable lead.
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If you are going to be suspended it might have been for something worthwhile. No top gear this week though
:-(
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-03-10/top-gear-series-postponed-after-jeremy-clarkson-punches-producer
And that was before Clarkson.
Firstly, there is no realistic danger of voter confusion.Secondly, and more importantly, being seen as pompous and humourless is fatal; particularly for a leader trading on "bloke down the pub" appeal.
As for what Murray wants, it's perfectly easy to see what Murray wants. He wants publicity, and to rile, with amusing effect, a man whose approach he parodies. Job done.
However, the Electoral Commission have refused to register the emblem for campaigning purposes as they have ruled that it is too similar to UKIP’s registered logo."
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/03/nigel-farage-calls-for-electoral-commission-to-be-closed/
Does that mean the logo can appear on the voting form or not?
Responding to nonsense like this is a rare mistake by Farage.
EXCLUSIVE: Winston McKenzie dropped as Commonwealth spokesman
The former boxer organised party's disastrous 'carnival of colour' last year
Mr McKenzie also called Croydon a 'dump' while being the candidate there
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988526/Flamboyant-Ukip-spokesman-compared-Nigel-Farage-Jesus-sacked-series-gaffes.html
JC looks old fat and well past his sell by date,maybe he is cashing in his pension.
However I am sure he will be back.
Also, during the Euros, they allowed Britain First to tag themselves with the line "Remember Lee Rigby" on the ballot paper.
The failure of "An Independence from Europe" to garner many votes rather suggests the Electoral Commission judged the risk of confusion correctly.
So their systems messed up
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/mar/10/john-inverdale-x-rated-comment-cheltenham-festival
http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/news
It's just noise and even if he gains more than a handful of votes its impossible to prove whether they would have made any difference to Farage. For all we know he could distract some of the less establishment anti-UKIP vote from the Tories or Labour.
In any case, I'm sure Murray will make even more of a prize tit of himself before the end of the campaign than he has already.
As for the Electoral Commission, their systemic conflicted dysfunction is just more evidence of the establishment crumbling....
I think Mr Farage called for the Electoral Commission to be shut down after the EU Parliament election.
It'll be nice to see Mick Pork posting again.
Do you even understand what the Clarkson brand represents?
The day no-one is ever allowed to be "insensitive", is the day we become like North Korea.
May it never happen.
I don't know who is quite more satirical, you David- (rare mistake by Farage) or the pub landlord.
BTW- someone told me Farage is only 50. Farage, 50. Scarcely believing it, I had to rush to Google to make sure. And sure enough he's 50. He doesn't just belong to another generation, he belongs to another era. He looks old, he's antiquated (not in an endearing way). Farage would compliment a Carry on Movie- and they're all dead.
Is anyone really surprised that Farage gets the hump with the pub landlord? Farage is to modernity what my dear old Italian in laws are to the Internet. I think he could get Babs Windsor bending over in a gym slip, or dear Sid James in Love Thy Neighbour, but the Pub Landlord...not quite. Straight over the bloke's head.
I seem to recall the Libdems getting very upset when someone stood in a Euro election in the Southwest as a Literal Democrat and the Libdems narrowly lost a few years back.
I wonder how Mr Clegg would respond if a party with enough members to fill a phone box called the Liberal Demokunnts was allowed to stand in Sheffield Hallam?
All in all though it reinforces the suspicion that a worried establishment are willing to bend the rules to do UKIP down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31822703
Also, as you sort of suggest, unlikely to be an MP in a few weeks time. What was the name of that other short lived turncoat UKIPer that no-one remembers? :-)
They are comparing Freedom United Kingdom which is somewhat different to United Kingdom Independence Party.
Being follicularly challenged has become a bad look in the modern presidential age.
It's a bit of a burger, because some of our best prime ministers have been no oil paintings.
Funny thing is that we are getting lots of pictures of hand chopping and gory public executions etc. to show how awful ISIS undoubtably are. Funny though how the same gory practices have been going on for decades in the vast desert oil rich country allied to the west next door to Iraq and we hear not a peep, let alone the slightest sanctions against them....
Vote Constapative!, we are full of sh*t.......?
I am always happy that Clarkson has such a high profile because he openly and proudly displays the oafish, ignorant stupidity of the right wing Tories. We know they ALL do it behind our backs- I mean ALL of them in their gentlemen's clubs, their soireees, their smug dinner parties. Tory policies reek of the self satisfied, conceited disdain of the plebs from tax cuts, to free schools to bedroom taxes, but very few (aka Clarkson) are prepared to articulate their vile views publicly. Boris Johnson would fit into this category, but he still harbours ambitions. In the future, if BJ's plans fail, expect to see him driving a sports car in Top Gear and slagging off plebs.
Dan Hannan's look would probably work, for example: clean cut, good suits, knows how to wear it.
Reckless otoh just has too much of the overgrown Billy Bunter about him. What was the lovely sobriquet DC was using at the last conference? It stuck because it struck a cord...
From the top:
"One eyed moron", was it? - Yes insulting. Doubtful whether sackworthy. They'd have to sack every politician in Holyrood.
Eeny-meeny etc. Firstly, Clarkson didn't say it. Secondly, it wasn't broadcast. This was just an outrage-trolling exercise by Guardianistas-Mirrorites dredging the archives more than a year later. Surprised any thinking people fell for it.
"Slope on that bridge". This is only derogatory in American, not in EngIish. Pretty minor imo.
I've never heard a proven account of this. Given the continued actions and declarations of the Argentine government about this country, I don't give a hoot whether they are offended or not.
Begging bowl out to Blair and Campbell for his cash. That;s not going to go down too well - the question is will the utility of the £1000 be greater than the presumed negative publicity of the money. In fact that's a question that could be asked for all Labour MPs in marginals.
Farage mishandling it, obviously. For a start he should have seen it coming after AIFE.
It quotes the Electoral Commission as follows:
"We concluded that this party name, if used on a ballot paper, was not likely to lead to electors confusing it with another registered party. At the same time we refused to register the emblem that the Free United Kingdom Party is currently using for campaigning purposes. This is clearly similar to UKIP’s registered emblem and as a result we judged that there was a clear risk of voter confusion. The party may use this emblem in other contexts but it may not use it on ballot papers. The acronym FUKP will also not appear on the ballot paper."
Sufficient for you? And if not, why not I wonder?
Edit - and my "if not, why not" was directed at the electoral comission not comparing FUKP to UKIP, not toward Dair (who is no slouch when it comes to these things).
2 things stand out in the Guardian article:
Mr & Mrs Ed apparently talk about "vested interests" at home. Do these people actually have a life?
Best part is the Guardian edit comment at the end where they say:
"This article was amended on 10 March 2015. The original references to Justine Thornton have been changed to reflect Labour’s statement that she wished to use the surname Miliband in political life."
Obviously some Labour staffer realised that an article about family life didn't come across all that well without the family name.
Remember this is a couple who only got married once he became party leader and didn't bother putting his name on his son's birth certificate. Very Odd Ed and Odd Justine.
Surely should be suspended from the party for campaigning for Labour:
http://order-order.com/2015/03/10/lord-oakeshott-wears-a-red-rosette/
Welcome to PB, and well said.
Dare I assume you are interested in Scottish politics, like some of us?
"The last time I checked we weren't living in the USSR"
We might be before the year is out?
After your silly little sneer I think you owe it to us to disclose the exact height of literacy from which you are sneering.
You wrote a very thoughtful response to my post on a previous thread. I do not really disagree with its substance. Your argument is that there are people who dislike Muslims as a category and tar all of them with the same extremist brush and that this is wrong. I agree.
But this is not Islamophobia. Islamophobia is a term coined by those who want to stop any criticism of Islam, including criticisms by believing Muslims such as Maajid Nawaz, and who use the understandable desire not to accuse all Muslims regardless of who they are as individuals as extremists as cover for preventing criticism of extremism as an ideology and the people who promote it and act it out.
They use anti-racism as a way of preventing criticism of ideas. And this is what Islamophobia has come to mean.
Wrong in my view.
So I'm not having the debate on the extremists' terms.
But I hope I will never be accused of insulting Muslims as individuals.
Might as well also sign her up for the England one day team too...
Tricky for the Beeb though as they will sorely miss the ~£300M that the show raises.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/575419303886995456
It might be handy having her around during the election.
Isn't she a typist in a legal office?
Evening all, for anyone that would like to play, the Israel election game is available below, entries close 7pm next Monday:
http://www.electiongame.co.uk/israel15/
Many thanks!
DC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/11462193/Irish-court-accidentally-makes-drugs-legal.html
Just as Muslim and Arab aren't synonymous [80% of Muslims aren't Arabs] nor are Israeli and Jew.