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So far, no BBC coverage of Hugh Grant in Sidmouth to support Claire Wright
Why not when Jupp got coverage for Johnson and Hancock visits?
Actor Hugh Grant to join East Devon Independent Claire Wright for canvassing in Sidmouth
PRESS RELEASE
“Hugh Grant has backed the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for East Devon Claire Wright and will join her on the campaign trail on Monday morning (December 9).
The actor is encouraging people to vote tactically at the polls next Thursday to stop a Conservative majority and has been out campaigning alongside Labour and Liberal Democrat hopefuls.
He is supporting Wright, whose 21,000 votes at the 2017 general election make her the only candidate with any realistic chance of taking the seat from the Conservatives.
It is the seventh constituency the actor has targeted during the election campaign.
Mr Grant will go door knocking with Wright’s canvassing team. He will rally canvassers and supporters at Sidmouth seafront around 11.15am.
You are free to follow the canvassing team around the town and to film and record the event. Hugh is happy to talk to local and regional media but time will be tight and there will not be any time for extended one-to-one interviews.”
Why should business owners vote for Claire Wright?
Why should first-time voters vote for Claire Wright?
Why vote for Claire Wright?
Frit Jupp shuts down comments on his Facebook page – and where IS he?
REMEMBER: a vote for any candidate other than Claire Wright is a vote for this elusive chap who doesn’t answer questions and who always seems to tell us where he has been and not where he is – a la Swire and Johnson!
Oh dear – thin skin. There were rather a lot of comments from people who had some very tricky questions for him on his Jupp for East Devon Facebook page – none of which he answered as he never engaged on the page at all.
People can’t even ask him questions, let alone get any answers as he’s either:
(a) Christmas shopping instead of attending a hustings he promised to attend (Sidmouth)
or
(b) surrounded by so many Tory minders as he takes his selfies at various town and village road signs that there is no opportunity to ask him anything at all
or
(c) only posting where he has BEEN rather than where he’s GOING!
Well looks like he’s wanting to be a Swire-clone MP (Swire 649th worst constituency MP out of 650 according to change.com!).
Vote Tory if you don’t care about the young or the old
A VOTE FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN CLAIRE WRIGHT IN EAST DEVON MEANS YOU HANDED YOUR VOTE TO CONSERVATIVES WHICHEVER PARTY YOU VOTED FOR – ONLY CLARE WRIGHT CAN DEFEAT THEM – VOTE TACTICALLY UF YOU DO NOT WANT JUPP TO RETAIN SWIRE’S SEAT
“The Great NHS Heist”
Essential watching before making your election choice on Thursday. For those of you who can, please circulate as widely as possible.
REMEMBER – VOTING FOR ANYONE BUT TIRELESS NHS CAMPAIGNER CLAIRE WRIGHT WILL BE A VOTE FOR FURTHER KILLING OFF OF THE NHS – AND US:
Claire Wright – campaign update
A VOTE FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN CLAIRE WRIGHT IS A VOTE GIVEN TO THE CONSERVATIVES
Claire Wright on NHS
A VOTE FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN CLAIRE WRIGHT IS A VOTE FOR CONSERVATIVES
“Boris Johnson said female suffrage only happened after cars invented ‘because men realised women could run them down’ “
An accompanying video shows Johnson speaking these words. Obviously a guy with a BIG problem with women!
“Boris Johnson said female suffrage only happened because men realised women could “run them down” with cars, in a video which has resurfaced on social media.
Mr Johnson made the bizarre comment to Sir Drummond Bone in an interview for Voices From Oxford in 2013 after he was asked about his 2007 book on cars, Life in the Fast Lane.
“I think that women’s liberation – female suffrage – probably wouldn’t have happened, if it hadn’t been for the motorcar,” the prime minister, who was then-Mayor of London, said.
“Basically because men realised that women were at the wheel of a machine that could run them down.” …
… “They were so hostile to women on bicycles that they would hang bicycles from trees to indicate their displeasure that women were being able to use these liberating pieces of technology,” he added.
“But of course, when the combustion engine allowed women to travel at many miles an hour and to be in a position of command, I think the game was up.”
Johnson advocating NHS privatisation – in his own words
A Christmas Pantomime for 2019
From a correspondent (thank you!)
“Once upon a time in a land far, far away from the Palace of Westminster, there lived a woman of courage who was famous for her noble qualities and outstanding achievements.
She lived in the Shire of East Devon and worked tirelessly trying to improve the lives of the local inhabitants. She was admired by the folk of the Shire, who thought that she was the ‘Wright’ sort of person to fully understand their fears, hopes and dreams, having lived alongside them in their community for many years.
The townsfolk and villagers had long been ruled by local, affluent land-owning Barons, who had failed to consider their less prosperous neighbours’ viewpoints and beliefs. However, as the Barons continued to amass great wealth, many people in the Shire became poorer, some even having to resort to begging on the streets or visiting food banks to ensure their families were fed!
The wealthy Barons also encouraged voracious Development Dragons to roam the land, devouring the Shire’s green fields, ravaging the countryside and exhaling clouds of pollutants into the environment. However, the Dragons were tolerated by the Barons because these giant monsters agreed to leave sizeable pots of gold to the Barons in compensation for the destruction that had been caused by their huge appetites and consequently the pots of gold allowed the Barons to grow even richer and fatter!
The Palace of Westminster feared all challenges from the Shires and so the Sheriff sent forth a ‘last minute’ Champion on the very long, arduous journey from Westminster to East Devon to do battle to ‘Juppardise’ any chances of independence for the Shire.
It was proposed that a Jousting Tournament should take place on Thursday 12th December 2019 from dawn to dusk, with the overall winner gaining control of the Shire. The Palace was able to supply big-budget lances for the Joust and such an arsenal may prove difficult to overcome and the odds seem stacked against the diminutive figure of the Shire’s heroine.
However Goliaths can be toppled and she has always been able to rely on support from numerous Magical Otters with phenomenal powers beyond belief and they all intend standing shoulder to shoulder with her in this special battle. As the time for the Jousting Tournament approaches there are very large numbers of Shire folk preparing to make the journey to support her in their droves.
Will there be ‘A Happily Ever After’ ending to this Fairytale?
That part of the Story is yet to be written. …”
Where Jupp goes Johnson follows as he refuses to attend his own constituency’s hustings!
A VOTE FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN CLAIRE WRIGHT IS A VOTE FOR JUPP AND JOHNSON.
Jupp (East Devon, Tory) preferred to go late night shopping rather than attend Sidmouth hustings. Johnson preferred to shop at Dart’s Farm rather than attend the Channel 4 climate change debate. Now Johnson has also refused to attend his own hustings.
Japp and Johnson – total non-believers in the democratic process.
“Organisers had initially rearranged to accommodate the Conservative candidate after the event clashed with Mr Johnson’s debate with Jeremy Corbyn on the BBC, but the PM declined nonetheless.
Labour candidate Ali Milani, who did attend the debate, wrote on Facebook afterwards: “Local hustings are a pillar of local democracy. Every local resident should have the right to ask all their candidates questions and hear their views. …”
Funny old place Britain
“Falling asleep in front of Question Time the week before last I was jolted awake by a question I’d given up writing in my notebook. “Why,” a woman in the audience asked the panel of politicians and commentators, “do you lie all the time? Wouldn’t it be better if you just told us the truth?”
Reporting from Lancashire, Yorkshire and Teesside earlier in the campaign, I’d come across this plea and its close cousins many times over. “You can’t trust any of them.” “They’re all the same.” “They’re all in it for themselves.” “It doesn’t matter who you vote for, or if you vote at all, it doesn’t make any difference.” “I don’t believe a word they say.”
And so forth. On the road, vox-popping the electorate, you soon learn that to secure any quotable opinions that express a preference for one party or another you first have to wade through and discard all of the above remarks. This doesn’t only apply in the north. My colleagues Patrick Kidd (southwest), Hugo Rifkind (Scotland) and Damian Whitworth (Midlands) tell a similar story.
And that’s not counting the voters — or non-voters — who say they are too busy or cold or “bored of the whole thing” to stop and talk. Or the guy in Batley who politely explained that he didn’t vote “because I’m a member of the occult”. Or the well-spoken woman in Oldham who offered the excuse: “I’m sorry, sweet, I just know f*** all about any of it.” Or the 79-year-old chap in Accrington who didn’t have much to say about matters political but was keen to show me his tobacco tin with “I Love Pussy” emblazoned on the lid. He also had “Pure Evil” tattooed across his knuckles. A 79-year-old! It truly is a funny old place, Britain.”
Source: Times (pay wall)
“I am the only candidate who can win this seat from the Conservatives”, Claire Wright tells packed hall at Sidmouth hustings
From a correspondent:
The popular Independent candidate’s opening statement of this obvious fact was greeted with warm applause tonight by the large audience who attended the hustings at All Saints Church Hall, organised by the Vision Group for Sidmouth.
Six candidates were present: Henry Gent (Green Party); Eleanor Rylance (Liberal Democrat); Peter Faithfull (Independent ); Dan Wilson (Labour), and Claire Wright (Independent).
The Tory candidate, Simon Jupp, had agreed to be there, but withdrew at the last minute, citing an alternative commitment to appearances at late-night shopping events at Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton that evening. Mr Jupp’s agent’s letter, courteously read out by Vision Group’s Peter Murphy,who Chaired the meeting, prompted loud guffaws from the floor.
All candidates acquitted themselves well, but a vote for any except Claire Wright would simply play into Boris Johnson’s hands. Only Claire Wright, with her decade of dedicated service as first a District, and now a County Councillor, could claim to have the “knowledge, experience, and contacts on the ground” to seriously challenge the Tory hold in East Devon.
Boris Johnson cancels speech as 5 protesters show up – security worried people knew where the PM was!
“Boris Johnson has cancelled a speech to members of the public in Rochester after a small number of protesters turned up.
The prime minister was due to give a stump address to Tory supporters near the Ye Arrow pub in the Kent town.
A small number of protesters – which The Independent counted at five – also arrived holding signs which read “Tories out”, “Austerity killed over 130,000, the blood is on your hands” and “No to racism, no to Boris Johnson”.
Conservative officials claimed the speech had been cancelled on police advice after the late running of the event prompted security concerns.
They said “security officials” had voiced worries about some members of the crowd, and were wary of members of the public being aware of the prime minister’s planned location so far in advance of his arrival. …”
“Senior British diplomat in US quits with tirade over Brexit ‘half-truths’ “
Not seen this in any British newspaper.
“… In her resignation letter, addressed to deputy ambassador Michael Tatham and which Hall Hall [correct name] shared widely with colleagues in the diplomatic service, she said that her departure had nothing to do with being “for or against Brexit, per se,” but instead was an expression of frustration about how the policy was being carried out.
Hall Hall, a 33-year veteran of the UK foreign service, and a former ambassador to Georgia, said UK institutions had been undermined and the reputation of British democracy abroad had been imperiled.
“I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves; the use of misleading or disingenuous arguments about the implications of the various options before us; and some behaviour towards our institutions, which, were it happening in another country, we would almost certainly as diplomats have received instructions to register our concern,” she wrote in her letter, dated December 3.
“It makes our job to promote democracy and the rule of law that much harder, if we are not seen to be upholding these core values at home.”
Delivering Brexit has been impossible. Stopping it will be even harder
Hall Hall said she could no longer reconcile her commitment to the job with the demands made of her. “I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust,” she wrote in the letter.
Though Hall Hall did not refer to Johnson or any other UK leader by name in her letter, she expressed concern about the divisive rhetoric that has characterized British politics since the Brexit referendum.
Johnson’s comments have hardened in recent months. He has attacked attempts to prevent a no-deal Brexit as “surrendering” to Brussels and dismissed fears that his language encourages supporters to abuse his opponents.
Johnson has defended his rhetoric, telling the BBC after a particularly rancorous parliamentary debate in September that avoiding such terms risked “impoverishing the language and diminishing parliamentary debate”.
Much of the blame for the strategy has been pinned on Johnson’s lead adviser, Dominic Cummings, who ran the Vote Leave campaign in the Brexit referendum of 2016 and is credited with creating the “Take Back Control” slogan. Cummings has been unrepentant over his tactics. …”
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/06/uk/top-british-diplomat-quits-brexit-intl/index.html
Wright v Jupp at hustings (highlights)
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