Feltham & Heston By-election Candidates

Feltham - First place off the plane!

Nominations closed today for candidates in the forthcoming by-election in Feltham and Heston constituency. Seems rather unseemly the speed of the by-election. Alan Keen has only just died. Labour might have waited a bit longer, but that's modern politics for you.

There are nine candidates standing. No loonies as such but some odd ones none the less!

David Bishop - Bus-Pass Elvis Party
Mark Bowen - Conservative
Andrew Charalambous - UKIP
Roger Cooper - English Democrats
Roger Crouch - Liberal Democrats
David Furness - BNP
Daniel Goldsmith - Green Party
George Hallam - London People Before Profit
Seema Malhotra - Labour

The election will be held on Thursday, 15th December between the hours of 07:00 and 22:00.

I see that the English Democrats and Liberal Democrats are next to each other on the ballot paper with both candidates called Roger. May be confusing, but with logos now on it may not be so.

Seema Malhotra is favourite to win I suppose, but who knows. Smaller parties offer a good place to place a protest vote.

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Candidate Jack Davis in fisticuffs fight with GOP tracker

Jack Davis before the mayhem started

Jack Davis is a Republican candidate running in the special election to replace former Rep. Chris Lee for New York's 26th district congressional seat. In a very odd moment he was involved in a videotaped scuffle with a Republican volunteer questioning why he was not participating in a debate. Instead of telling the man why not, he got a tad mad and tried to lunge at him and land a few punches. This is all a bit reminiscent of the Deputy Prime Minister that was, namely John Lord Prescott. He famously punched a bating bystander, a good wallop it was too.

One of Davis' team said, "You have an operative from an opposing campaign harassing and assaulting a candidate for federal office. This person was pushing a camera in Jack's face, preventing him from getting in his car. Standing in his way, trying to antagonize him and trying to get video that would look like far more than what actually happened." Harassing and assaulting? It all depends on whether you support Mr. Davis or the other guy, I suppose.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20062273-503544.html#ixzz1MFoWIjJ6

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The Henley By-election line-up

Today was closing day for nominations in the Henley By-election. Boris has gone, make way for, well, one of these!

In alphabetical order -

Chris Adams - UK Independence Party
Derek Allpass - English Democrats
Louise Cole - Independent (Miss Great Britain Party)
Amanda Harrington - Independent (Miss Great Britain Party)
John Howell - Conservatives
Stephen Kearney - Liberal Democrats
Richard McKenzie - Labour
Bananaman Owen - Monster Raving Loony Party
Timothy Rait - British National Party
Dick Rodgers - The Common Good
Mark Stevenson - Green Party
Harry Bear - The Fur Play Party

The Fur Play Party? Sounds like Cilla Black's needed!

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