David Davis in 24 to 1 - A new game show's in town!

A record number of candidates. David Davis is up against Ronnie Carroll and David Icke amongst others. Roses are not red in Howden and neither are they in New Labour. A rosy shade of pink hangs over this contest.

I am all in favour of David Davis' campaign against the creeping control freakery of New Labour, or tarnished Labour as it now is. But I am getting the feeling that this won't help much. The only real contest here is between the minor parties and who can save their deposit first.

The English Democrats are joined in the fray by the Green Party, Socialist Equality Party, Monster Raving Loony Party, National Front (still trundling along), the New Party (new as in New Forest), the Christian Party, and the Church of the Militant Elvis Party. Ronnie Carroll is standing for making politicians history. Kind of self-defeating if he gets elected. Oh, and the Generalist Party didn't make the numbers.

These are the serious candidates -

David Davis - Conservative
David Pinder - New Party
Shan Oakes - Green Party
Joanne Robinson - English Democrats

The wild cards (for getting a decent vote!) are David Icke, Jill Saward, Walter Sweeney (former Tory MP) and Mad Cow Girl.

This by-election will put all other elections in the shade!

A Generalist approach to EU life!

The candidates list in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election is due out soon. The Generalist Party is standing. They have some things to say which may be of interest. However, their information on the European Union is pithy and to the point.

The section designated for the EU simply says -

The European Union!
UNDER CONSTRUCTION, PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON!

That seems to be what the Irish understood. They more or less know that they will have to check back soon.

Murdoch's Man versus Freedom & Liberty?

Whatever else Rupert Murdoch is he certainly isn't a man who likes to take his hand off the control button. He is the control freak's control freak. Kelvin Mackenzie, "former editor of the Sun", is one of his bagmen and apologist-in-chief. Mackenzie says he will stand against David Davis in the forthcoming by-election in Haltemprice and Howden if Labour bottle out. Let him! He's a mouthy type, who doesn't care much for others' liberties. Mackenzie, who backs Labour on 42 days, says he is "90%" likely to stand on behalf of the Sun. "I have been associated with The Sun for 30 years. The Sun is very, very hostile to David Davis because of his 28 day stance and The Sun has always been very up for 42 days and perhaps even 420 days." 420 days! Really? The man is an utter gutter-type attracter. I doubt he got bothered in the slightest over the Forest Gate cock-up. He probably thinks Guantanamo Bay is a great place for "terrorists". And let him not imply that those of us campaigning against this anti-freedom policy are soft on terrorism. No way. This attack on freedom only plays into the hands of terrorists and it also weakens us. If we are not free, who is the winner? Us or Alky Ada (the Prime Minister's new replacement for Prudence)?

On the radio this morning Mackenzie was leading the "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about" brigade with gusto. These types are just so intellectually challenged. How many times over the last 10 years, under the Blair regime and now under this Brown sauce collective, have we seen a total mismanagement of freedoms and liberty? Has Mackenzie ever heard of identity theft? Of the police knocking on the wrong door? With so many computer discs going astray from government offices, the day he gets woken up at 6am, to be told he knocked over somebody in Tesco, is fast approaching!!!

Gordon Brown is running a government that has only 20% support from the total electorate. That means a whopping 80% either voted for other parties or stayed away from the polls last time.Yes, 80% did not give their support to New Labour. Yet the obnoxious McNulty, that Home Office minister, seems to think his anti-libertarian stance has the backing of the public. McNulty says Davis is off-beam. I'd give David Davis high marks for integrity. With McNulty, I'd show him the door of the Spinners' and Deceivers' room!

Yes this will be an extraordinary by-election. It will be all those in favour of freedom and civil liberty pitted against the control freaks. History doesn't change much, but as David Davis says, I too don't want to live in a country where anyone can be just pulled of the street and flung into jail without blinking an eyelid!

David Davis on the highwire!

A shock move at Westminster means that there will be yet another by-election. Just when we thought there wouldn't be any, three come along at once. A bit like London buses (and the No.6 in Birmingham!). David Davis has resigned as an MP. He feels he ought to fight a by-election to prove a point. The point being that Gordon Brown's government is busily eroding our freedoms.

My view is that Davis is wrong in his calculations. The British public have never liked unnecessary by-elections. He will win big, because this attack on the Government's illiberal activities appears to be a joint venture with the LibDems. However, it is risky. If it is a low poll it will give the part-time MP job-sharing with an MSP, who also doubles up as the Prime Minister, every reason to gloat. As I have mentioned before, Wilson tried to force an election in Leyton in 1965 and got the two-finger treatment. Later, in Mitcham & Morden, Bruce Douglas-Mann resigned, on a point of principle, and lost. He'd joined the SDP and felt his constituents needed a vote. The one case where it turned out OK was Dick Taverne's by-election in Lincoln in 1973, when he stood as Democratic Labour. In the main, however, it is always a risky policy. The electorate won't be voting on the 42 day proposal but on whatever takes their fancy on the day.

I hope he doesn't come a cropper. I think Davis is a principled man. Not so the woman from Redditch, who needs a whopping great Redditch needle to prick her conscience!

New Labour is a bad joke. Yesterday Brown said that the Home Secretary could come to the Commons with a letter describing the need for 42 days if she was told there was a threat. Of course, the pending case could not be discussed. So the House of Commons would have to take her at her word. She'd be flapping about like Neville Chamberlain. If I were there, I just couldn't believe her. Sorry, but it would be true. They all have a track record of out-talking the smartest weasel alive!

So, Haltemprice and Howden By-election here we come!