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General election - candidates

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:27:44 GMT

Nominations for the General Election on Thursday have now closed.

Sky have produced an online list of all the candidates for all the constituencies - see here

As in previous elections, there are amusing "political parties" and funny candidates standing...

which might lighten the mood of the voters and the country

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Anonymous — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:18:33 GMT

I’m all for lightening the mood, but I’d be overjoyed with a decent alternative to the main parties..
(Big yay for the ‘Yorkshire Party’ !!! )

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Mi-Amigo — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:01:14 GMT

Check out the Independent candidates standing against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and Ruislip South -

here

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jonsie — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:02:51 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Check out the Independent candidates standing against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and Ruislip South -
here

Lord Buckethead....thought that was Boris!

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Anonymous — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:42:35 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I’m all for lightening the mood, but I’d be overjoyed with a decent alternative to the main parties..
(Big yay for the ‘Yorkshire Party’ !!! )

Yes, @Anonymous

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sheepdog — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:46:59 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Check out the Independent candidates standing against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and Ruislip South -
here

You thought the 2017 Theresa May podium was surreal:

the results podium for Boris will be the photo of the election

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Mi-Amigo — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:37:18 GMT

Thanks @sheepdog

General election 2017: Maidenhead

Conservative	Theresa May	37,718	64.8	−1.0
Labour	Patrick McDonald	11,261	19.3	+7.4
Liberal Democrats	Tony Hill	6,540	11.2	+1.3
Green	Derek Wall	907	1.6	−2.0
UKIP	Gerard Batten	871	1.5	−6.9
Animal Welfare	Andrew Knight	282	0.5	N/A
Gremloids	Lord Buckethead	249	0.4	N/A
Independent	Grant Smith	152	0.3	N/A
Monster Raving Loony	Howling Laud Hope	119	0.2	N/A
Christian Peoples	Edmonds Victor	69	0.1	N/A
The Just Political Party	Julian Reid	52	0.1	N/A
Independent	Yemi Hailemariam	16	0.0	N/A
Give Me Back My Elmo	Bobby Smith	3	0.0	N/A

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Cleoriff — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:41:41 GMT

Monster Raving Loony Party : Howling Lord Hope. (I remember the days of Screaming Lord Sutch!)

Give me back my Elmo?

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Mi-Amigo — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:55:01 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Monster Raving Loony Party : Howling Lord Hope. (I remember the days of Screaming Lord Sutch!)
Give me back my Elmo?

David "Screaming Lord" Sutch forme the "Teenage Party"and stood as its candidate in 1963 - advocating votes at 18 [which became law years later]. In 1983, David Sutch formed the Monster Raving Loony Party which contested the 1983 election. Sadly, David committed suicide in 1999. Later that year, OMRL party members selected Howling Lord Hope as leader.

As for Give me back my Elmo, he got three [3] votes in Maidenhead in 2017 - less than the number of supporters required on the nomination form to stand as candidate

Re: General election - candidates

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:40:26 GMT

Polling Stations are open...

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Mi-Amigo — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:09:18 GMT

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Anonymous — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:09:17 GMT

If only..

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Mi-Amigo — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:01:38 GMT

Boris has been to vote - but hasn`t voted for himself

No, I`m not making this up and is not fake news...

Scottish Daily Record [online] has reported:

Boris Johnson didn't vote for himself

Boris Johnson has not voted for himself on polling day after registering to vote in Westminster rather than his own marginal London constituency.

The Prime Minister broke with a tradition set by his recent predecessors and voted at Methodist Central Hall, near Downing Street, at around 8.15am. Incumbents of Number 10 have in the past voted in the constituency they lived in while serving as an MP.

He opted to vote in central London despite a heavy tactical voting campaign to oust him from his own Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat.

Johnson took the seat with a 5,034 majority at the snap election two years ago but pro-European Union campaigners have urged Remainers to unite behind Labour’s Ali Milani in a bid to topple the former London mayor this time round.

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Cleoriff — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:29:05 GMT

If the exit polls are anything to go by, this will be a landslide for the Conservatives and the worst result for Labour In 50+ years!!

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jonsie — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:29:44 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
If the exit polls are anything to go by, this will be a landslide for the Conservatives and the worst result for Labour In 50+ years!!

As expected...

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Cleoriff — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:43:22 GMT

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50765773

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Anonymous — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:49:02 GMT

We’re like frogs in boiling water..

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jonsie — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:50:14 GMT

Exit polls?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50716626

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Cleoriff — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:39:45 GMT

Well the Tories have taken Blyth Valley which has been a Labour stronghold since 1950!!

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jonsie — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:56:59 GMT

The Corbyn factor or a YES community