Comedy terrorist stands in Brent East
The nutter who gatecrashed Prince William's birthday party, dressed up as Osama Bin Laden, is standing as a candidate for the vacant parliamentary seat here in Brent East. Here is the full list of candidates:
Robert Evans (Labour)
Uma Fernandes (Conservative)
Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrats)
Harold Immanuel (Independent Labour)
Kelly McBride (Independent)
Winston McKenzie (Independent)
Noel Lynch (Green)
Neil Walsh (Independent)
Alan Howling Lord Hope (Monster Raving Loony Party)
Jiten Bardwaj (No description)
Khidori Fawzi Ibrahim (Public Services Not War)
Brian Butterworth (Socialist Alliance)
Iris Cremer (Socialist Labour Party)
Brian Hall (UK Independence Party)
Rainbow George Weiss (WWW.XAT.ORG)
Aaron Barschack (Comedy Terrorist)
At the 2001 general election, the late Paul Daisley won with 63.21% of the vote, with the Tories second with 18.21% of votes cast and the Liberal Democrats picking up 10.57%. Mr Daisley, a former leader of Brent Council in north London, took over the seat from Ken Livingstone, now Mayor of London. (ref: BBC Online article.) The election will take place next Thursday, September 18th.
Notice: Feargal Mooney is dropping out of the campaign and advising his thousands of supporters to switch their vote to Howling Lord Hope, whose party also supports an amnesty on all personal debt.
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What a roster! As the province of Ontario, in Canada, gears up for an October election; as Canadian cities gear up for municipal elections in November; and as a national election looms on the 2004 horizon, it is extremely interesting to read the goings-on in Brent East. Such acute differences in candidate rosters! Your colourful array of independent candidates shames the lack-lustre offerings here: we have choices of oatmeal with white sugar and oatmeal with brown sugar. There is an abysmal lack of difference among candidates and parties.
A question keeps surfacing, no matter how hard I try to ignore it. What are the necessary candidacy credentials for elected public office? Should one not be able to demonstrate a high level of intelligence, good judgment, altruism, morality and problem-solving capabilities? Or is it simply sufficient to be able to pay for glossy brochures?
Since we always have complaints about the quality of our elected representatives, it would appear that we tend to vote for people based on their campaign promises. This hardly serves the purpose! Time for track records to be scrutinised, as a job candidate's c.v. would be by a prospective employer.
We expect good candidates and good elected representatives without defending the minimum requirements for public office.
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