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UK - December 2019 General Election

GlennB said:
300k? Nice return for little effort. And the money is going to a limited company so can be paid out as directors' fees and suchlike?
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Plus donations, from the Great British public, shady offshore businessmen and of course Russia ;)
 
He's not a candidate or a member of a political party.
Brexit Party is a ltd company, not a political party.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Nigel Farage told Eddie Mair "of course" he will not refund the dropped Brexit Party candidates, after deciding not to stand his party against the Conservatives in 317 seats.

Grifters gonna grift.
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Only last week Mrs Analyst - muddling her way through being the local Green Party election agent - wondered aloud as to how Brexit Ltd. could afford the deposits for candidates in "every" constituency. I said that they were probably counting on the candidates paying that themselves, as well as any other expenses they may incur, rather than the "party" covering them. Seems I was right.
 
Information Analyst said:
BBC News: General Election 2019: Voters should back Johnson - ex Labour MP

Having just seen Austin on BBC Breakfast, I have to say that he came across as staggeringly insincere, and his delivery seemed more like an actor playing the part. He also accused Corbyn directly of saying and doing racist things (which may or may not be actionable), but seemed OK in urging people to vote for a party led by serial racist Boris Johnson.

On a related note, my attention was recently drawn to a Jewish press report trumpeting the fact that so many Jewish Labour voters had switched to the Lib-Dems. Apart from the fact that they'd misinterpreted the poll data in the most basic way, it actually showed that it was something 55% had switched to other parties in general, so not markedly more than the 47% other polling shows across the general population. It's also the case that only 11% of Jewish voters supported Labour in 2017, anyway.
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Wow, an apology for racism followed by a “racism isn’t a big deal because we don’t need that minority’s votes anyway, there’s too few of them”.
 
Giz said:
Wow, an apology for racism followed by a “racism isn’t a big deal because we don’t need that minority’s votes anyway, there’s too few of them”.
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Yeah except there was no apology for racism there at all. And the second part wasn't true either.

Still 0% true is probably the average for this election so far from Tories.
 
This election is so depressing. I think that I will ignore all news about it.
 
A friend told me that she was in the library in Peebles and chatting to some woman (not sure if she knew her or not) who said, yeah, well, I have voted SNP in the past but not this time. I'm voting Conservative. I like Boris. I think he's great.

Yes, my friend was quite depressed about that.
 
Rolfe said:
A friend told me that she was in the library in Peebles and chatting to some woman (not sure if she knew her or not) who said, yeah, well, I have voted SNP in the past but not this time. I'm voting Conservative. I like Boris. I think he's great.

Yes, my friend was quite depressed about that.
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Parties underestimate the British public's fondness for the BoJo character at their cost :(

I don't get it myself, but then again I don't "get" The X Factor, Dominos Pizza, Ford Focuses and WKD and they are all popular too.
 
The Don said:
Parties underestimate the British public's fondness for the BoJo character at their cost :(

I don't get it myself, but then again I don't "get" The X Factor, Dominos Pizza, Ford Focuses and WKD and they are all popular too.
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There are an awful lot of people who view Politics as part of the entertainment industry.
 
Rod Liddle suggested that the election should be on a day when Muslims can't vote (or do anything without going to Hell, "there must be one") and parents should drug their University aged children, lock them in their rooms for the day or pay them to prevent them voting. He also had a dig at Rosie Duffield for having been a victim of domestic abuse.
 
As far as the Brexit party goes I expect this grand gesture to devolve into shambles as individual Brexit party candidates refuse to play ball and the number of seats to be contested contracts to nothing but a few Labour marginals. The big problem is that as soon as the GE campaign kicked off Brexit went to the back of list of topics for discussion and, as usual, the economy and the NHS has come to the fore.
 
Information Analyst said:
Only last week Mrs Analyst - muddling her way through being the local Green Party election agent - wondered aloud as to how Brexit Ltd. could afford the deposits for candidates in "every" constituency. I said that they were probably counting on the candidates paying that themselves, as well as any other expenses they may incur, rather than the "party" covering them. Seems I was right.
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Good luck to Mrs Analyst, that's quite an undertaking.

On that same note I had a call from Amanda Burgdauer's election agent last night, would I be in if he came round this morning so I could sign her nomination papers. I said sure, but wondered why he was driving 15 miles or more to a country village when there is a socking big town in the way full of party members and activists.

When he showed up he explained. Apparently the nominating voters have to provide their number on the electoral register. The returning officer decided last week to re-compile the electoral register for a few wards, including the wards in the town. Thus nobody's number on the register matched their number on the party's software. So the agent had to come out to the village to get people who weren't affected by the number change to sign the papers.

He's been doing this for decades. He has some really cool stories, like the time a polling station was issued with the wrong ballot papers and the police had to track down about 20 voters and get them to go back and vote again. Or the time a polling clerk scored off the wrong name on the register when someone in a hourehold voted, so that when that person showed up they were told they had already voted.

All sorts of complications. And as soon as a complication occurs, who do you call? The election agent of course. Maybe as there aren't so many Green voters it won't be as hairy.
 
High quality candidate from the Tories:

A former MP who lost his seat after he was convicted of a false expenses claim has been selected by the Conservatives to stand in the general election.

Chris Davies lost his Brecon and Radnorshire seat after 10,005 people signed a recall petition.

He stood again but lost a by-election to the Liberal Democrats and will now contest the Anglesey seat of Ynys Mon.

Welsh Conservative chairman Byron Davies said Mr Davies "must now be allowed to move on".
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-50396788

UK party of Trump IMO
 
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