The Haltemprice and Howden by-election
If I were able to vote in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, I would vote for Shan Oakes, the Green Party candidate and I encourage anyone who lives in the constituency to vote for Shan. Her blog is here; her party website is here; her Facebook is here; and her Wikipedia entry is here.
Mr Davis has forced this election to discuss a single issue – forty-two days’ detention. As I have said before, this may set an unfortunate precedent for challenges to contest a by-election over an issue. Even if not, choosing a representative for Parliament on the basis of a single issue is foolish; many issues will be debated.
If, though, we accept Mr Davis’ premise (and we are forced to do so as he took the Chiltern Hundreds), we see that there is another candidate standing with a similar policy on 42 days. We must look for other ways in which to differentiate them. Consider Davis’ voting record and the policies of the Conservative Party against the policies of the Green Party and it is clear that the best option in this case is a vote for the Greens.
xD.
PS – The full list of candidates is below the fold.
Here is the full list of candidates:
Grace Christine Astley – Independent
David Laurence Bishop – Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Ronnie Carroll – Make Politicians History
Mad Cow-Girl – The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
David Craig – Independent
Herbert Winford Crossman – Independent
Tess Culnane – National Front Britain for the British
Thomas Faithful Darwood – Independent
David Michael Davis – Conservative
Tony Farnon – Independent
Eamonn “Fitzy” Fitzpatrick – Independent
Christopher Mark Foren – Independent
Gemma Dawn Garrett – Miss Great Britain Party
George Hargreaves – Christian Party
Hamish Howitt – Freedom 4 Choice
David Icke – No party listed
John Nicholson – Independent
Shan Oakes – Green Party
David Pinder – The New Party
Joanne Robinson – English Democrats: Putting England First
Jill Saward – Independent
Norman Scarth – Independent
Walter Edward Sweeney – Independent
Christopher John Talbot – Socialist Equality Party
John Randle Upex – Independent
Greg Wood – Independent
June 28th, 2008 at 1:37 am
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June 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Hi Dave,
Great blog! Shan Oakes, the Green candidate, has already confronted Davis on Iraq, 28 days and the death penalty. Hopefully there will be public debates that force him to defend his views in the media glare.
My post on what’s going on in Shan’s campaign is here – http://aleddilwynfisher.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/radical-politics-in-action-shan-oakes-for-haltemprice-and-howden-mp-update/
Cheers,
Aled:)
July 1st, 2008 at 12:49 am
As I said, I dislike single-issue elections and I’m glad that Shan Oakes is challenging him on his entire record and not allowing him to stand on that one, totemic issue.
I feel rather strongly that progressives/liberals/lefties/’various people against nasty things’ should support the Greens in this instance. I disagree (no surprise) with Tony Benn’s stance of supporting Davis as; backing him for two years’ worth of votes on a single issue in a potentially tight parliament is bad enough, but doing so when there is another candidate who agrees with Davis and Benn on 42 days but is very much closer to Benn (I should think) on just about everything else is, frankly, cuckoo.
xD.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Dear Dave,
Wonderful to hear of your support – your help is urgently requested!
Rebecca
…
FINAL PUSH: 10 WAYS TO HELP SHAN OAKES TO BECOME ELECTED AS BRITAIN’S FIRST GREEN MP, HALTEMPRICE AND HOWDEN BY-ELECTION, 10TH JULY 2008
See:
http://shanoakes.typepad.com
http://shanoakes.blogspot.com
Contact:
Tel. 01482 862085 OR 01482 471467
email. shan@voice-international.net
Join:
Shan Oakes Facebook group -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33635377720
July 9th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Nice blog,i will come back here everyday, greetings
August 1st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
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August 3rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Cool. It took almost a day to find this info. Thanks! Good job.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
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October 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
What happens in the case of a tied election result ?
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Coin toss, I believe. However, with a target constituency size of 70,000, it’s unlikely to happen.
xD.