European candidates for the #devonelection

By PRSD, on Friday, May 8, 2009

The candidates for the next European Election, on Thurday, June 4, have been names and we have the full run down. We hope to get each candidate’s Twitter manifesto – that’s just 140 characters people, and let’s get the #devonelection bandwagon roling. Of course there is also a county council election on that day, too. Your European Parliamentary candidates are…

… in alphabetical order by party (shucks)

British National Party: Jeremy Edward Wotherspoon; Barry John Sinclair Bennett; Adrian Llewellyn Romilly; Sean Derrick Twitchin; Lawrence Reginald West; Peryn Walter Parsons.

Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship”: William Patrick Capstick; Katherine Susan Mills; Diana Ama Ofori; Larna Jane Martin; Peter Vickers; Adenike Williams.

Conservative Party: Giles Bryan Chichester; Julie McCulloch Girling; Ashley Peter Fox; Michael John Edward Dolley; Donald John Collier; Syeda Zehra Zaidi.
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English Democrats Party: Michael John Turner; Sara Shelley Box; Keith Robert Riley; Stephen Michael Wright; Raymond Christopher Carr; Lee Pickering.

Fair Pay Fair Trade Party: David Michael; Judy Foster.

Jury Team: Sally Dorothea Smith; Martin Thomas Paley; Michael Andrew Clayton; Brian Gordon Underwood; Roger Whitfield; William Christopher Barnett.

Liberal Democrats: Graham Robert Watson; Kay Barnard; Justine McGuinness; Humphrey Peter Neville Temperley; Paul Stephen Massey; Jonathan Stagnetto.

Mebyon Kernow, The Party for Cornwall: Dick Cole; Conan James Trevenen Jenkin; Loveday Elizabeth Trevenen Jenkin; Simon John Reed; Glenn Renshaw; Joanie Mary Anne Willett.

No2EU — Yes to Democracy: Alexander Fraser Gordon; Roger Alexander Davey; Rachael Lynch; Nicholas James David Quirk; John Howard Chambers; Paul Charles Dyer.

Pensioners Party: Jonathan McQueen; Barry Hodgson; Derek Francis Wharton; Roger Leslie Edwards; Stuart Baker; Barry Reginald Egerton.

Pro Democracy Libertas.eu: Robin Charles Matthews; Peter Charles Albert Morgan-Barnes; Chloe Gwynne; Christopher Charnock; Nicholas Carlton Collingwood Sherman; Nicholas Charles Sacheverell Coke.

Socialist Labour Party: Robert James Hawkins; Brian Andrew Corbett; Alison Mary Entwistle; David Terence Marchesi; Robert Oliver Hawkins; James William Bannister.

The Green Party: Richard Antony Knight; Roger Michael Creagh-Osborne; David Ronald Moore Taylor; Sarah Margaret Scott-Cato; Chloe Alice Somers; Richard Hugh Lawson.

The Labour Party: James Glyn Ford; Isabel Martha Owen; Keir Dhillon; Dorothea Hodge; Dafydd Emlyn Williams; Elizabeth Susan Lisgo.

United Kingdom Independence Party: Bernard Trevor Colman Westerly; William Dartmouth Whiteway; Gawain Howard Wilkinson Towler; Julia Reid; Alan Stephen Wood; Stephanie McWilliam.

WAI D Your Decision: Nicola Guagliardo; Joy Margaret Skey.

Katie Olivia Hopkins — Independent: Katie Olivia Hopkins.

Got any opinions? Twitter #devonelection or leave a comment

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Kevin

Despite its public stance, I would still define Libertas as part of the Anti-EU/Euro Sceptic fringe. Its UK party leader Robin Mathews said about voting Libertas:

"It sends a very clear message to those unelected elites and bureaucrats, who seek to daily interfere in our lives more closely, that this cannot go on without proper accountability. The EU needs to change. Libertas believes in a strong Europe but also believes unless democracy is at the heart of that we'll never be able to deliver".

Libertas, following its anti-federalist policy, said it would continue to send a "clear message" that the Lisbon Treaty was unacceptable.

I guess that, while most people support the idea of "more democracy in the EU", we need to know exactly what that means. From their track record of opposing the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland, their sometimes questionable tactics in doing so, and the current targeting of their recruitment and publicity at UKIP rather than the supporters of the main parties, their political orientation suggests the right, rather than the left.

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Chris Palmer

Kevin, I'm not sure where you get the idea that Libertas are an 'anti-EU' party. Libertas are, quite unashamedly, in favour of the European Union and its candidates and leaders have said so on numerous occasions.

PRSD

News about the unraveling "moderate" facade of the BNP from the Guardian.

Further causing a potential split in the fringe vote could be the "Katie Olivia Hopkins Independent" party, the sole candidate being... Katie Hopkins.

This is the same Katie who got to the final three in BBC1's 'The Apprentice' in 2007, and who went on to briefly appear in 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here'. Her political views on the European Union aren't clear at this stage, though from her past comments she has clear opinions on viewers of TV shopping channels, maternity leave, the overweight and people called Mavis or Derek. Katie is able to find the time to go campaigning, as in 2007 she was dismissed from her Met Office job as she didn't meet the required standards to complete her probationary period - her confessions about her private life being a factor.

The anti-European bloc does seem to have splintered more than usual with (on the Left) No2EU, and (on the Right) the BNP, UKIP, & Libertas.

The Christian Party may also further fragment the conservative vote with their platform which includes: a "Mind Pollution Levy" on 18 Certificate Films, DVDs, CDs, video games and naughty magazines; changes to the Welsh flag to remove the red dragon (it's a satanic symbol); a science curriculum which should "reflect the evidence of creation/design" in the universe; and discouragement of the practice of addressing women as Ms.

Ironically, in view of the Party's view that sexual relations should be the preserve of married heterosexuals, their leader, the Revd George Hargreaves, wrote and produced 'So Macho' for Sinitta, which was very popular in the gay club scene.