David Davis and bye-election

11/07/2008 by Aileen.

We live in the Howden ad Haltenprice constituency so should have voted yesterday. We intended to cycle round to the village hall to vote, but didn’t get round to it.

I’m not a political creature. My first reaction was good for David Davis for taking a moral stand. I usually think the best of people. Then of course, I heard all about ulterior motives and got confused. Not that I’ve ever voted Conservative in my life. Mind you, it was a foregone conclusion. There were 26 candidates.

There was

Freedom 4 Choice,, whose candidate said (if I got to represent Yorkshire folk) I would be the happiest bloke in the world, and had at least two apostrophes misplaced.

Miss Great Britain Party. Enough said.

Christian Party, whose headline read ‘26 Candidtates’ (sic)

Tom Darwood, a carpenter from Essex (not Nazareth) and claims he could be future king and is to become the ‘true’ Archbishop of Canterbury and ‘true’ Pope.

David Icke (enough said)

Monster Raving Loony Party (enough said)

Someone who stated he didn’t actually want to be elected. (!)

and several others.

England really is an interesting place to live in!

Maybe I should have voted for DD after all.

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