NFU Hustings at
Ottery St Mary Cricket Club
Date Wednesday, 27th November 2019
Time 14:00
Hosted by the National Farmers’ Union at Ottery St Mary Cricket Club.
Category Archives: General Election
Jupp quickly deleting comments on his Facebook page – they have now returned!
(Tory) -though that isn’t mentioned – Simon Jupp for East Devon Facebook page appears to be deleting most comments on most posts quite quuckly – currently you can see who made them but not what they said ….!
Owl is SO tired of “binary politics”!
No need to read newspapers or watch TV – one knows exactly what they will say about whom and about what. Each side says the other is 100% wrong and stupid and their side is 100% right and clever.
We HAVE to do things differently – we have to start electing people such as Claire Wright – local people who thoroughly understand local issues and are not subject to party whipping.
Proportional representation too! First-past-the-post usually means that someone with less than 50% of the votes ends up representing 100% of the people.
Claire Wright: “doing politics differently”
Now Lib Dems publish “fake” newspaper
A vote for anyone other than Claire Wright (Independent) is a vote for Tories.
Hot on the heels of East Devon Tories:
National Lib Dems try same (dirty) trick
Jew Miriam Margolys sticks up for Corbyn – explains difference between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism
Anti-semitism is hating Jews.
Anti-Zionism is being against the State of Israel.
Miriam Margolys is a Jew who is an anti-Zionist.
The Chief Rabbi has said that anyone who is pro-Palestine is an anti-semite.
However, many, many Jewish people recognise the right for Palestine to exist.
Anyone (Jewish or not) who is pro-Palestine is not an anti-Semite and may or may not be anti-Zionist (for or against a state of Israel).
How Owl wishes people could understand the difference – including the Chief Rabbi!
Johnson has hissy fit – refuses to debate climate change because one participant is a Leader, not an candidate
Johnson has previously refused to appear with Sturgeon – he really IS afraid of her! Sturgeon, although not a candidate IS the person who takes the big decisions in Scotland.
“Boris Johnson is refusing to take part in the first ever election leader’s debate focusing on the climate crisis, with Channel 4 threatening to leave an empty chair if the prime minister does not attend.
The broadcaster said Mr Johnson had yet to respond to a request to attend the hour-long Emergency On Planet Earth debate on Thursday.
It came hours after the UN published a report warning that countries would need to increase their carbon-cutting efforts five fold to avoid climate chaos.
Channel 4 has invited six party leaders to its climate debate, but so far only the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Scottish First Minister National party leader Nicola Sturgeon, the Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson, and the co-leader of the Green party Sian Berry, have agreed to take part.
It is understood that the prime minister is not willing to debate with Ms Sturgeon because she is not a candidate at the election, and it is not clear if a replacement will be sent.”
“Boris Johnson’s pledge to recruit 50,000 new nurses is based on lies and is an insult to the NHS”
“Boris Johnson has promised an extra 50,000 NHS nurses by 2025. Part of the package is a return to providing bursaries for nursing students, to support them while they gain vital professional qualifications. This might seem like a welcome proposal, until you realise the entire policy is built on sand, propped up with deception and lies, and amounts to an insult to the brilliant and hardworking staff of the NHS.
Bursaries were axed at the insistence of the Tories in 2016, despite clear warnings from health unions, professional associations, and nurses themselves that this would be detrimental to the recruitment and retention of nurses.
Figures released by UCAS show that the number of people applying to study nursing in England has fallen by more than 13,000 since the bursary was scrapped. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) points out that the numbers of mature students applying has also fallen by 41%. They say there are about 40,000 nursing vacancies in England. The prime minister’s pledge to reinstate the bursary is welcome, but merely rights a wrong, and does nothing to plug a three-year gap in recruitment.
Then there is the prime minister’s flagship Brexit plan. The uncertainty and threat of economic chaos has already meant the NHS has lost 5,000 nurses from other EU nations. There has been a huge fall in the numbers of nurses from other EU countries coming to the UK to work for the NHS. This is hardly a surprise given the toxic political culture and sense that they are unwelcome.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-nurses-nhs-pledge-numbers-a9218446.html
East Devon’s parachuted Tory candidate …
… seems to be rushing around the constituency trying to get as many photos as possible taken of himself by road signs.
Has anyone actually had a meaningful conversation with him (ie a question honestly answered?). Just so you recognise him, he may or may not have a beard and may or not call himself Simon Jupp!
On his Simon Jupp for East Devon Facebook page he looks like this:
on a Facebook page oddly called only “Simon James” (no mention of Jupp) he looked like this until recently:
Youhave until midnight …
Hugh Grant “threatens” young people who haven’t registered to vote!
So where did the money we saved during austerity go?
Despite 9 years of austerity, The Tory government has added more to the national debt (£800 billion) since 2010 than every single previous Labour government combined (£500 billion).
What REALLY happens when Boris Johnson visits a hospital
as reported by DCC Independent Councillor Martin Shaw:
What really happens when Boris Johnson visits a hospital, by a doctor
The boss of the East Devon Tory candidate in East Devon behaves appallingly at hustings
Owl has found it difficult to find evidence that East Devon’s Toey hopeful (Simon Jupp) IS an aide to Dominic Raab (he is shown as aide to a Treasury MP on the parliamentary list of 5 November 2019) but as he and Swire say he is – it must be so, must it not?
Jupp is said to be a communications expert in the Tory Party – wonder what advice he gave Raab about this?
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Dominic Raab was called a “coward” by the friends and family of Harry Dunn as they were left outside of a hustings in his constituency.
The 19-year-old died in a crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to the suspect leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.
His family had hoped to put pressure on the foreign secretary who attended the event at a packed church in Surrey.
A member of staff at the church said they were kept out due to fire safety.
The Conservative Party has been approached for comment. …”
Stormzy creates massive spike in voter registration
If you don’t know who Stormzy is you are out of touch with the young people to whom this election is massively important!
If you do know who Stormzy is, you like what he says but you haven’t registered to vote – do it now at:
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
“Voter registration saw a 236 per cent spike on the day Stormzy tweeted in support of Labour (Monday 25 November).
The grime star wrote that he believed Boris Johnson to be a “sinister man” with a “long record of lying and policies that have absolutely no regard for the people that our government should be committed to helping and empowering”.
According to a performance breakdown on the GOV.UK website, 366,000 people registered to vote on Monday, compared to 109,000 the day before.
Some 150,000 of those registration applications were from people under the age of 25, while 114,000 were from those aged 25 to 34. …”
“Farmers convert land back to wildflower meadows in bid to cut carbon” (not East Devon’s Green candidate who has optioned some of his farming land to Persimmon!
What a contrast!
“Matthew Cooke, the Wildflower Farmer, believes a change is urgently needed to counter the influence of supermarkets and processors that demand more for less from the farming community, pressures that drive prices and negatively affect wildlife and the countryside.
With that, the Cooke family has taken the first act to convert their land to wildflower meadow. The family hope this act will be a catalyst for other farmers to return to wildflower meadows to help protect and benefit the environment. …”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/farmers-convert-land-back-wildflower-3575277
and
Vote anything other than VERY GREEN Claire Wright and get Tory.
Last day to register to vote – under 25s lead the way
Voters by age to date (from a very useful website showing how many people have recently registered to vote):
https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote
Tory National Insurance promise has very nasty sting in its tail for low paid
“… There are, though, tax cuts in the form of a rise in the threshold for national insurance contributions (NICs) from £8,632 to £9,500. This will equate to a saving of around £100 a year for 31 million workers who earn above that amount.
Longer term, the Conservative Party describes rising the NICs threshold to £12,500 as its “ultimate ambition”. This would result in a tax cut of £500 for workers who earn more than £12,500.
There may be unintended consequences for some, points out Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon. He notes: “This will be welcomed by many as a boost to take-home pay.
However, under current rules, those not paying any NI lose out on credits towards their state pension. Individuals need 35 years of qualifying NICs to receive the full state pension with those with fewer qualifying years seeing a reduction and receive none if they have fewer than 10 years of credits.”
“Tory election materials put through East Devon doors have been made to look like a newspaper, with one resident saying he thought it was a council publication”
FAKE FAKE FAKE
DIRTY TRICK DIRTY TRICK DIRTY TRICK
“The booklet is titled ‘East Devon Future’ and although it appears to have the imprints required by electoral law, the party’s name is not prominently displayed on the front.
Conservative HQ came under fire last week for changing its Twitter branding to ‘factcheckUK’ during the ITV leaders’ debate.
Dr Martyn Cutmore, who lives in Sidmouth, said the ‘fake newspaper’ arrived at his address on Monday (November 25) and likened it to the Twitter controversy.
Dr Cutmore said he initially thought it was a publication by the district council.
“It’s not what I would call fair electioneering practices,” he said.
“If you study it minutely you might find in 1mm-high white-on-red background details of the provenance.
“The reader is not intended to find this without careful scrutiny and most people will accept this document on face value as an official East Devon communication.”
He said it is misleading and described it as going ‘under the radar’.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “This type of literature is commonly used by parties up and down the country and meets all the relevant laws and guidelines.
“It’s a useful way to highlight our excellent East Devon candidate, Simon Jupp, and update local residents on our plans to get Brexit done and focus on people’s priorities like the NHS, schools and policing.”
The material features articles by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and East Devon Conservative candidate Simon Jupp.
An East Devon District Council spokesman said: “As far as we can tell from the copy we have seen there is an imprint explaining who the document is printed and published by, so it is for recipients to make their own judgement on the document.
“It does not appear to contravene electoral requirements and is not an official East Devon District Council document.”
The full list of East Devon Parlimentary Candidates is: Peter Faithfull (Independent), Henry Gent (Green Party), Simon Jupp (The Conservative Party), Eleanor Rylance (Liberal Democrats – To stop Brexit) Dan Wilson (The Labour Party candidate) and Claire Wright (Independent).”
Spot the fake
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