Turnip soup=turnip holocaust

If by the guy that wants equal rights for turnips you mean a fascist race baiter, then yes, even they polled higher than Labour. Note that Henley has an average house price of about $800,000 ($900k last year), so Labour doing badly there is not really all that unexpected.

God bless the Canadian `Rhino' party!

Thats great and all, but how did Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel do?

"So, the human was lying there, terribly injured, with that, err, blood I think it is they call it, gushing out..."

"Correct you are sir, blather on."

"Right, well, his final words were 'Get me to a doc', which we took to mean 'doctor', although he was unable to finish the sentence, having died. Thus, we took him at his word, andp romptly dumped him at the marina, where his body was eaten by seagulls".

I'm paraphrasing, as I can't remember the exact wording. You get the jist of it.

well, the guy with the turnips was rather convincing. Cunning as a fox he was....

Sorry to tell you, Hack Patooey, but he polled no votes at all. Not a sausage. Bugger all.

It's beginning to look like a Silly landslide, with 5 more years of Silly government facing us....

Well, it *is* a rotten burrough. Just ask Penn, the younger.

xnecron: It's beginning to look like a Silly landslide, with 5 more years of Silly government facing us....

Let's not count out Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable Arthur Norman Michael Featherstone Smith Northgot Edwards Harris Mason Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert 'We'll keep a welcome in the' Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin Tiger-draws Pratt Thompson 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering Smith.

Very Silly still has a serious shot.

Dorf11: xnecron: It's beginning to look like a Silly landslide, with 5 more years of Silly government facing us....

Let's not count out Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable Arthur Norman Michael Featherstone Smith Northgot Edwards Harris Mason Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert 'We'll keep a welcome in the' Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin Tiger-draws Pratt Thompson 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering Smith.

Very Silly still has a serious shot.

you win one (1) internets.

Nestea Plunge: Dunny-on-the-World is a tuppenny- ha'penny place. Half an acre of sodden marshland in the Suffolk Fens with an empty town hall on it. Population: three rather mangy cows, a dachshund named `Colin', and a small hen in its late forties.

It is also a rubber-button, er robber-baton, er rotten borough.

Dorf11
Very Silly still has a serious shot.

Pretty impressive, considering the candidate's unofficial (and encased in a block of concrete.)

what about the guy who just wants to talk about teletubbies and oasis?

Was it this guy?

In other news, Kevin Philips Bong polled no votes at all.

Not a sausage.

Bugger on.

rufus-t-firefly: In other news, Kevin Philips Bong polled no votes at all.

Not a sausage.

Bugger on all.


/dammit
//sorry

All Blackadder and Monster Raving Looney Party jokes aside, did anyone else notice that the BNP beat Labour? For the Ameritards amongst us, the BNP are as close to a Facist Party in the U.K (although, and I'm not kidding, they're closer to the American Republican Party than they are the British Conservative Party).

Henley was a wonderful place to go visit as an Oxford student. The bars are full of bored Scandinavian au pairs.

/Need I say more?

Harry Bear of the Fur Play Party finished last with 73 votes.

The UKIP is to the BNP as Pat Buchanan is to David Duke (somewhat sane far-right figure and complete raving racist.) Or so it seems.

The UKIP had been getting ~3% in past elections, but the two combined got 6% this year.

Given that this seat is pretty blue, a Tory hold is not exactly unexpected. In fact, it has remained in Tory hands since 1910. In 1997, the combined Labour/Lib Dem vote was about equal to Michael Heseltine's vote. Labour got 14.7% in 2005.

I thought they fixed things in the UK so the Cabinet members all run from ultra-safe districts for their party.

Tenebreux
If you'd place the American Republican Party to the right of the BNP, you seem to have lost perspective.

Rule 34. Now.

Tenebreux: All Blackadder and Monster Raving Looney Party jokes aside, did anyone else notice that the BNP beat Labour? For the Ameritards amongst us, the BNP are as close to a Facist Party in the U.K (although, and I'm not kidding, they're closer to the American Republican Party than they are the British Conservative Party).

They are officially a Neo-fascist party. By that I mean their leadership reject old-style fascism not because they are against fascism but because it wouldn't work in today's society. They're shtick is that they are modern fascists. Most of their membership wouldn't be so subtle about it. There activists tend to be old-school, reactionary, anti-immigration, working class racists. There voters tend to be people who feel disenfranchised and come from working class areas that are being used as dumping grounds for immigrants. They're comically badly organised and have no power or influence whatever. They have strange manifesto promises the two best are: a commitment to rip-down every modernist building in the UK and a commitment to ensure every school child is given one piece of green fruit a day.

Depends on how you define right, stpickrell. The BNP supports universal health care; the Republicans do not. The BNP is certainly to the Republicans' left, but they're also less liberal in their outlook. One dimensional lines don't capture subtleties like that and might very well put the BNP to the left of the Republicans.

There... Their... ooops.

I'm suprised no one's looked closer at the 'Miss Great Britain Party'.

Classic:

Edmund: Sir Talbot represented the constituency of Dunny-on-the-Wold, and, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, it is a rotten borough.

George: Really! Is it! Well, lucky-lucky us. Lucky-lucky-luck.(as a chicken) Luck-luck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK.

Edmund: You don't know what a rotten borough is, do you, sir.

George: No.

Edmund: So what was the chicken impression in aid of?

George: Well, I just didn't want to hurt your feelings. Erm, so, what is a robber button?

Edmund: *Rotten borough*.

George: Oh, yes, you're right.

Edmund: A rotten borough, sir, is a constituency where the owner of the land corruptly controls the both the voters and the MP.

George: Good, yes...and a robber button is...?

Edmund: Could we leave that for a moment? Dunny-on-the-Wold is a tuppenny- ha'penny place. Half an acre of sodden marshland in the Suffolk Fens with an empty town hall on it. Population: three rather mangy cows, a dachshund named `Colin', and a small hen in its late forties.

George: So, no people at all, then? apart from Colin...

Edmund: Colin is a dog, sir.

George: Well, yes, yes, yes...

Verrai: Depends on how you define right, stpickrell. The BNP supports universal health care; the Republicans do not. The BNP is certainly to the Republicans' left, but they're also less liberal in their outlook. One dimensional lines don't capture subtleties like that and might very well put the BNP to the left of the Republicans.

Their commitment to the NHS is a populist stance. They have no love for it. They see it as a bastion of socialism. A BNP government would dismantle the NHS. It and its workers, who are committed to care for all, would oppose their racist policies. In spite of what Americans think the British love the NHS and view it as success (8 out of 10 people are pleased or very pleased with the service they get from it). No party that openly said they would dismantle it would get elected. Ever. British people can choose to go private any time they want and get a tax refund if they do. Almost nobody ever does.

The BNP are miles to the right of the Republicans in every respect. Unless I am unaware of a genuinely fascist wing of the the Republican party.

Just wait until the 26 candidate by-election for David Davis' seat next month. Labour, the LDs, and UKIP aren't even running there.

It's a battle between the Conservatives, Greens, Christian Party, Church of the Militant Elvis, Make Politicians History, National Front, Miss Great Britain, Socialist Equality, Official Monster Raving Loony, and David Icke.

Seriously.

RobbieFal
National Front

Splitters!

submitter: and that guy in the zebra-print catsuit who wants equal rights for turnips

slightly silly candidate
/MP overload

xnecron: RobbieFal
National Front

Splitters!

I'm sure they're backing 42 days for minorities, but opposing it for white people. While the BNP only opposes 42 days and minorities living in Britain.

David Icke's campaign has to tell us if David Davis is or isn't a reptilean humanoid. It's an important issue. Also, they should try to see if David Davis was really born in Hawaii in 1961, or if he was born in Kenya.

David Davis should STFU, pack this politicking in and work on getting "World of Sport" back on the telly.

DA!-DA!-DA!

First-up cliff-diving from Portugal and then, at 12, we go to Hull town hall for the wrestling.

Any news from North Minehead yet?

Might I take this moment to say that this is the first time I've ever appeared on television?

BMulligan: Any news from North Minehead yet?

I believe the National Bocialists are gaining ground...

No, I'm sorry, The Great Gazoo, there isn't time.

The Third Man: Henley was a wonderful place to go visit as an Oxford student. The bars are full of bored Scandinavian au pairs.

/Need I say more?

Used to go there for the boat races when I stayed at my Uncle Jimmy's in Abingdon. Beautiful place.