number of candidates?

cassie · 13-04-2008, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Kentishman
We'll done all those English Nationalist who are standing up for England - what ever Flavour of English Nationalism you represent.

John Prescott, eat your heart out [or perhaps I should have said: eat you're heart out!

]

Sorry Independent UKIP!

Couldn't resist. 'Nuff said.

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brian lee · 13-04-2008, 11:19 AM

Further to my last posting; the important fact is not that 'Independent UKIP' or anybody else on this forum knows who is standing, but that the electorate in the relevant areas knows and that the candidates and their supporters are doing their best to win.

I'm sure that for the star gazers there will be another posting soon with an up to date list, so keep watching!

Populist Lee · 30-04-2008, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Independent UKIP

Make a joke out of it if you wish. Any very distant day your party has the potential to be credible is the day the electronic, then print and then broadcast media will make this topic on this forum a very serious issue.

It didn't take so long . . .

In the East London Advertiser of 25th April, Matt O'Connor gave as his reason for quitting this *understanding* the EDP has with the EFP.

Populist Lee · 30-04-2008, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Englander 1

There is nothing to distance myself from...so what is your point?

Ha Ha Ha.
Tell that to Matt O'Connor.

KeyStage2 · 30-04-2008, 11:28 PM

It's becoming obvious that Matt O'Connor antics were predetermined.

Another party has engineered this, his behaviour is not normal.

KeyStage2 · 30-04-2008, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Populist Lee

It didn't take so long . . .

In the East London Advertiser of 25th April, Matt O'Connor gave as his reason for quitting this *understanding* the EDP has with the EFP.

We (English Democrats) are getting attacked because we are a threat.

We (English Democrats) will bide our time, and resolve the issues raised.

Populist Lee · 30-04-2008, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kentishman

We (English Democrats) are getting attacked because we are a threat.

We (English Democrats) will bide our time, and resolve the issues raised.

As far as the England First party are concerned, don't you think your party has been a teeny-weeny bit careless in what has been said; Hostage to Fortune wise?

Populist Lee · 30-04-2008, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Kentishman

It's becoming obvious that Matt O'Connor antics were predetermined.

Another party has engineered this, his behaviour is not normal.

I'd like to know who wrote his script.
That he was once prominent in the anti-Apartheid campaign means he has *friends* who watch parties like the EFP like hawks.

Ea of Dune · 01-05-2008, 02:40 AM

For a start those England First folks do sound pretty bloody nasty judging from their manifesto

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I'd recommend the EDP distance themselves from them personally as they sound like trouble.
As for O'Connor, read this link:

East London Advertiser - O'Connor accuses English Democrats of BNP link after quitting race for Mayor

Quoted for you below:

Quote:

CONTROVERSIAL dads' campaigner Matt O'Connor pulled out of the race for London mayor, just six days before polling, after accusing the English Democrats he was standing for of links with the BNP.

The man who founded Fathers 4 Justice with its 'direct action' protests, halted his bid to be mayor after falling out with the party leadership, charging them with 'racism.'

But Matt O'Connor's name will still appear on ballot papers which have already been printed, while many postal votes have also been cast.

O’Connor says he had uncovered a ‘menacing far-right underbelly’ to the party at the 11th hour.

In the circumstances he had "no alternative but resign."

He discovered the party had met the right wing extremist group ‘England First’ whose founding members came from the BNP.

They had agreed not to stand against each other at next year’s European elections and the next General Election, and start working together.

His own historical role as an anti-apartheid campaigner was ‘ridiculed’ and “was only being used to give the party a veneer of respectability for political reasons.”

O’Connor says he has since been the target of a ‘hate’ campaign.

“I had already had a ‘run in’ with the BNP at a hustings meeting,” he reveals.

“I realised the English Democrats were working with ‘England First’ and had no choice other than to resign there and then.

“They try to present themselves as respectable ‘Middle England’ with leading members being solicitors and housewives.

“But the reality is something far different.

“Social events run by the party brought out the real feelings of key members and it was very uncomfortable for me and the people I had innocently invited along, many of whom advised me to leave after what they had seen and heard.”

O’Connor is keeping a copy of all emails, text messages and records of telephone calls, which include some sent to members of his family and staff who have found them distressing.

This week he is calling for his supporters to switch parties to the Christian Choice candidate for Mayor, Alan Craig.

"We decided after discussing it with my family that we would be voting with our consciences," he added.

"That meant the Christian Alliance. They have our 1st Choice for London Mayor and our Assembly Party Lists as well.

"The political establishment needs to re-focus on families.

"That was the only reason I agreed to stand in the first place, to bring attention to the fact that families have been routinely let down by this government."

Ironically, O'Connor's name is still on the English Democrats' Party List.

But with five per cent of the overall vote needed to gaining even one seat, he has little chance of getting onto the London Assembly through the back door. He is at the bottom of the party's List, number 23.

"I was flattered to be asked," O'Connor adds.

"But with hindsight, I probably should not have stood for them. I should have checked them out a bit more."

He said in a campaign statement which appeared on this website two weeks ago: "I will set the election alight with inflammatory rhetoric about the £13.5 billion of 'Tartan Taxes' this Scottish-run Labour government siphons from London every year."

O'Connor promised voters to "expect the unexpected."

He didn't quite mean quitting the race with just days to go.

Populist Lee · 01-05-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea of Dune

Quoted for you below:

Thanks for saving me the effort [really].

>> He [O'Connor] discovered the party had met the right wing extremist group 'England First' . . . <<

Is it true they met?

AND

Who told O'Connor?

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13-04-2008, 11:19 AM	#42 (permalink)
brian lee Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: South Essex Posts: 611	Further to my last posting; the important fact is not that 'Independent UKIP' or anybody else on this forum knows who is standing, but that the electorate in the relevant areas knows and that the candidates and their supporters are doing their best to win. I'm sure that for the star gazers there will be another posting soon with an up to date list, so keep watching!

30-04-2008, 11:28 PM	#45 (permalink)
KeyStage2 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,914	It's becoming obvious that Matt O'Connor antics were predetermined. Another party has engineered this, his behaviour is not normal.