HALTEMPRICE AND HOWDEN
Who said politics is boring?
On a point of principle, apparently influenced by Shami Chakrabarti, David Davis has resigned as the MP for Haltemprice and Howden in order to force a by-election in which he will stand.
David Davis is making a stand over Labour's intention to ram a bill through parliament enabling the government, with certain caveats and conditions, to hold terrorist suspects in prison for up to 42 days without charge.
The Liberal Democrats have assured David Davis that they will not stand against him, and it seems that Labour are tempted to refuse to dignify the by-election with a candidate of their own. Without a Lib Dem candidate David Davis is assured of victory - unless there is a major upset.
The English Rights Campaign is aware that the English Democrats are preparing to fight their own campaign in this by-election. In the Tranby ward in Haltemprice and Howden in the local elections last year, the English Democrats beat one of the Tory candidates and were only 6 votes short of beating the other, despite the swing to the Tories in East Yorkshire in that election. In adjoining constituencies in Hull this year, the English Democrats contested 4 wards and beat the Tories in 3 of those wards and were only 6 votes short of beating them in the fourth.
The English Rights Campaign looks forward to the English Democrats contesting this by-election.
On a point of principle, apparently influenced by Shami Chakrabarti, David Davis has resigned as the MP for Haltemprice and Howden in order to force a by-election in which he will stand.
David Davis is making a stand over Labour's intention to ram a bill through parliament enabling the government, with certain caveats and conditions, to hold terrorist suspects in prison for up to 42 days without charge.
The Liberal Democrats have assured David Davis that they will not stand against him, and it seems that Labour are tempted to refuse to dignify the by-election with a candidate of their own. Without a Lib Dem candidate David Davis is assured of victory - unless there is a major upset.
The English Rights Campaign is aware that the English Democrats are preparing to fight their own campaign in this by-election. In the Tranby ward in Haltemprice and Howden in the local elections last year, the English Democrats beat one of the Tory candidates and were only 6 votes short of beating the other, despite the swing to the Tories in East Yorkshire in that election. In adjoining constituencies in Hull this year, the English Democrats contested 4 wards and beat the Tories in 3 of those wards and were only 6 votes short of beating them in the fourth.
The English Rights Campaign looks forward to the English Democrats contesting this by-election.
posted by erc @ 9:32 pm
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