+++ UKIP’s Farage : “I’ll Stand Against Bercow” +++
In what was one of the safest Tory seats in the country UKIP plan to mount a challenge. Speaking about Bercow, the controversial Labour-backed Speaker, Nigel Farage told the Telegraph
“He is not a Conservative and yet he is sitting in one of the safest Conservative seats in the country. It means the people of Buckingham cannot vote for a Conservative even if they want to. This is a part of England where we did very well in the European elections and local elections. We are very well organised and strong and I intend to fight this very hard to become the MP.”
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative John Bercow 27,748 57.4 +3.7 Labour David Greene 9,619 19.9 −4.3 Liberal Democrat Luke Croydon 9,508 19.7 −0.3 UKIP David Williams 1,432 3.0 +0.9
This could be fun…
UPDATE : ConservativeHome’s Tim Montgomerie says what a lot of Tories will be thinking “I’d be tempted to vote UKIP if I lived in Buckingham”. Dizzy thinks he “… would happily campaign/vote for Farage over Bercow.”
This man would have my vote after his destruction of Mr Brown with Dan Hannan .
OT but…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/02/cia-usa
Joseph Mengele anyone. Not the most honourable of friends
lol grauniad
Considering the Palace of Westminster really is the Pink Palace. Then the confusion as to what Political Ideology you belong too is a bit irrelevant. The Political Whores that stalk its corridors have destroyed eveything that was decent about our Pseudo Democracy. These self serving autonomous jetsom have marginalized big thinkers and controversial thought. Destroying any path way out of this mire we are now in. No dissent Politics has destroyed our way of doing things, in case some breast feeding MP may get upset by the Malevolence of the spectacle. I am sure if a bit more Cut and Thrust was exhibited it might frighten the lily livered excuses we have for Politicians we see today. Frightened to go to the Shops without Police escort. I would laugh but the cost to our society is that it has bankrupt us.
FFS, I like that piece of bile.
Sorry FCs.
/sarcasm on
FFS – you have to make sure you keep the fuckers alive and relatively sane while waterboarding them – that’s hardly ‘medical experimentation’, is it?
Regardless of the merits of torture as an information gathering technique, all these doctors were doing was to help the interrogation subjects, and if by gathering a bit of data they could then produce ‘best practice’ guidelines for the Gestapo, then that’s surely OK, isn’t it?
After all, we are in a war on terror, with all the known unknowns, unknown unknowns and other unknowables that that entails, surely?
God, you bloody liberal pinkos exasperate me sometimes – we’re doing it for your own good!
/sarcasm off
Anyone seen Bercow on youtube-lovely bloke:
No, not a lovely bloke at all. Not only a cross-camper but a very devious Zionist to boot; in other words one of the ‘Creative Destructionism’ mob now robbing the entire planet blind.
UKIP? What’s the point? Just another permutation from the fascist mindset. Why not take a look at something totally different? A party with some surprising and refreshing policies*:-
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk
* • Reform copyright and patent law. We want to legalise non-commercial file sharing and reduce the excessive length of copyright protection, while ensuring that when creative works are sold, it’s the artists who benefit, not monopoly rights holders. We want a patent system that doesn’t stifle innovation or make life saving drugs so expensive that patients die.
• End the excessive surveillance, profiling, tracking and monitoring of innocent people by Government and big businesses.
• Ensure that everyone has real freedom of speech and real freedom to enjoy and participate in our shared culture.
And pigs are already flying.
Fun – do not make me laugh.
The word you are looking for is ‘ego-trip’
He’ll have a job,…..good luck to him!
He’s a nasty little shit isn’t he.
Yes well done Mr Farage…who despite wearing a UKIP rosette is a proper job Conservative.
Wow, fantasy election victory league. UKIP are going to suddenly jump from 1,400 votes to 28,000 votes are they? What’s next I wonder, Farage telling his loyal heads-down-for-the-gravy-train-to-Strasbourg Euro UKIP’s (Motto: “We’re only here for the expenses, we deplore a European Parliament”) to ‘go back to your troughs and prepare for government?
Bunch of self-serving tossers – like all politicians.
Julian 84- Good luck to ukip and the expenses. They need all the cash they can get. It’s a tough job but some patriot has got to do it. What people like you forget is he and UKIP are standing to eradicate their own jobs which is rather unique isn’t it? Elected to eradicate their own job in Europe!! If they are succesful that is what true patriots want FFS.
It’s certainly a big majority to overturn but not as impossible as you make out.
Who, exactly, is going to bother to turn out to vote for Bercow?
Ultra wet tories? Labour voters who think he is really one of them? Conservatives who haven’t heard about his expenses claims and former plans to defect to Labour.
UKIP may only have got 1,400 votes at the last general election but their natural vote is certainly a good deal higher than that, as evidenced at the European elections (ie when they had a chance of winning a seat).
Unlike the last general election, Labour and the Lib Dems will not be standing and Bercow could hardly be more disliked by most true conservatives.
Knowing that he is likely to be labelled a turncoat and faced with his own sleazy expenses claims, I don’t think Bercow is going to be sleeping easy in the run up to election time. So at least Farage has achieved something good.
Bercow? Is he the little fellow who sits in a big green chair and looks like Ronnie corbett?
Finally someone to get that Labour sycophant speaker out!
The choice between a lizard and a pillock – you lucky people of Buckingham.
Vote labour then you traitor
If you would like me to extend the metaphor then – the choice between a lizard, a pillock and an also ran – and by the way they’re the traitors, not me pal.
Good luck, Farage.
Shame the Conservatives can’t stand against the foul piece of distended NuLabia rectum that currently passes for our speaker
YEEEEEE HAAAA !!! Stand against Bercow ?? Most people tower above him.
I am Bercow, and I told you Tories who hate me to be quiet, the Labour party are speaking now, and they have to get their tagline out for the BBC 6pm news!
which is why he fulfils a most useful function – he is George Osbornes Mini-Me.
Expressing your pleasure in that manner serves only to demonstrate its contrivance and doubt on the face of it. Compare the correct manner with impeccable pedigree in Post 4 by the fellow with the Black Porsche (in his name at any rate) – the part after the Toad of Toad Hall impersonation.
I have been searching google and cannot find one reference to another realease of a Scottish Prisoner on compassionate grounds – is this information in the public domain?
The Government LOGOF scheme ended. Let one go one free. (the first was Biggs but he wasn’t scottish I know but then the other one wasn’t either).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_re_eu/lockerbie
According to that article (don’t know how reliable it is, but no reason to think they made it up) 24 Scottish prisoners have been released on compassionate grounds in the last decade.
Go for it Nigel. Woot, woot. hip hip hooray. A true patriot, what a man.
…he’s also a massive twat.
are you trying to give twats a bad name?
A true patriot would not brag at receiving £2,000,000 in expenses over the last ten years.
Yawn.
Perhaps you would be more interested if he wasn’t a traitor.
good lad nigel. you have my full support.
I will provide cover fire.
tat – I agree
praise the Lord!
TaT is one of us which is remarkable as in kind
From what I hear tat, your support is not very full.
Zzzzzzzzz
Posts coming thick and fast Guido. How many opinions do you think I’ve got for gods sake.
Bercow, he is that little fella in a big green chair right?
The chair is not that big but he is very,very small.
Very small in comparison to Bernard weatherall. The last REAL Speaker of the House.
As soon as Betty got the chair I thought ‘Oh well,there goes the neighbourhood’.
ah, Dame Bernard, a man of impeccable taste.
Betty at least used to slap down all MPs regardless of party, and managed to do so with humour and grace, unlike the useless Jock tit that replaced her.
Bercow’s just a nothing – how he even became an MP let alone Speaker is a mystery to me, but good luck to Farrago for standing against him, even if Farrago is a slimy oily spiv.
Now, now! No need for shortarseism!
Not big enough for his gigantic ego, that’s for sure.
A two-twat election, then.
No; Dame Nigella Farago counts as a double twat.
If you don’t like the UK then why come here?
My dear German friend, two points; first of all it is you who have come here, not those of us born here. I appreciate the concept of non-German territory is difficult for you to grasp. Secondly it is the birthright of the true Englishman to recognise twats of all persuasions and take the piss mercilessly. Admittedly Farrago does make the sport rather easy.
Good to see someone try and stick it to Bercow. Shame it has to be a Government stooge who has plundered 2 million quid in expenses from the EU, the organisation he was elected to withdraw from. One toss-pot for another.
What a goon you are. He is the only one who wants to withdraw from the EU! Are you retarded!
The only party who offers an oppertunity for the british working man, no immagration, no EU and you slander him!
There are many videos on youtube where he answers his expenses quite clearly and frankly! Do a little research first!
Not slander at all – he is a trougher.
I’d trough for the UK. Good luck to him and so say all of us.
There is a real alternative my friend that would properly remove us from the evils of the illumnati federalist agenda – that’s why the state fights so hard to destroy it.
Pray what kind of beast is an English viking?
Bob @ 30
If by ‘research’ you mean watching tosh on You-tube and reading the Daily Mail, I am not surprised that you think that Farage is a decent chap. Slander is spoken, so it may be that you are in fact ‘a goon’. Libel is written, and what I said would only be slanderous if it was untrue. Ask yourself why he has never sued anyone in the Press, public or TV for writing or saying what I have. Perhaps it’s because it’s true? If he hates the EU so much, why does he co-operate so willingly with its usurping of British sovereignty. If UKIP are whiter than white, why have 2 of their MEP’s been convicted of expenses fraud?
H G @ 91
An English Viking is an Englishman of Nordic descent (quite a lot of Englishmen are, thanks to all the raping and pillaging) who thinks that traitors should be dealt with in true Viking fashion, Spread-Eagle them. Google it for the real meaning of the phrase, in all it’s awful detail.
english viking do you mean blood eagle???????????????????
@ 140
The Spread Eagle is the rather more, shall we say…. interesting version, of the far more common practice of the Blood Eagle punishment. It was reserved for traitors and cowards in battle.
Mr Fawkes , Would this mean he would have to stand down from the EU parliment thus force a by election ?
He cant serve in both places at the same time ?
Why not? Others do. Alex Salmond for one. I believe thre are a few who manage a triple trough; MP, euro MP and national assembly. I think they are members of the minor partys though.
I think he would stand down as an MEP. and his seat would go to the next choice on the UKIP party list from the 2009 euro elections.
Is that right?
It is possible, the man with the largest collection of electoral represetation titles was The Rev Dr Ian Paisley, who amassed a massive income from the eu and Westminster I believe.
Brilliant.
Isn’t it the Ber Cow that’s responsible for increased bovine flatulence and the subsequent damage to the ozone layer – caused by a large increase in hot air and bull shit?
Sorry Nige
Little Lord Fondleboy is already first in the queue for that position., preferably standing from behind.
By Farage standing does that mean that the cosy “didn’t stand against the speaker” can still be maintained by the main parties?
Excellent politics, as the fallout will not reflect upon them, and the voters get the opportunity to boot him out
The Conservatives then get to select someone new too
win-win
Farage? what kind of a supid name is that?
is it pronounced like garage or .. err … garage?
It’s “garage“, arsely.
It comes from the same source as ‘farrago’, literally, a heap of noodles.
Thanks for that…
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/farrago
“Latin farrg, mixed fodder” ie the stuff that goes in the trough.
and straight back out of it
Farage is a lieing theiving git, not better than Bercow.
said the cripple.
and this from the man with a less than full support…….
TaT has full support on patriotism mate.
from Oberfuhrer Dick Sniffin and the granny bashers?
you have not even got the wit to think up a pseudonym.
you dim crippled troll!
I see I have hit a sensitive point……the truth can be painful.
schmuck!
That should read no better
1. Gets free thinker into Parliament 2. Gets rid of Tory irritant (damned by faint praise during election campaign from CCO). 3.New Speaker.
Hmmm. Farage for Speaker? That would be fun….
Not really. Dame Nigella loves the sound of his own voice more than anyone since the Welsh Windbag. He would take the title of Speaker literally and refuse to let anyone else get a word in edgeways.
So the convention is that no one stands against the speaker,so what is the point of voting in that constituency in the first place? The speaker can’t vote (and in Gorbals Micks case can’t talk either) and would not seem to bat for his constituents in any event… Total Horlicks
Traditionally, the Speaker gets their own way re constituency matters. In that sense, their electorate have the most effective M.P.
However, we now have a bell-end for a Speaker, so tradition may not matter so much.
Considering what New Labour have done to House of Commons and House of Lords traditions, I don’t think they are in any position to complain about that piece of New Labour sh1t Bercow being contested for speaker.
Funny bit of news , Farrage should stand a good chance , I havent quite made my mind up on Mr Speaker , hes better than speaker martin but that doesnt say a lot .
Does he actually think he can win?
If so, he’d have to give up all those MEP perks wouldnt he?
Should’ve made enough already.
No
Yes, exactly.
John Bercow is Conservative to the core and will easily brush off such a ludicrous challenge.
Dave, as you’ve been selected to be Britain’s next PM by the moneymen can you tell me why gold has gone up so much in the last 24 hrs?
The price of gold is inversely proportional to the distance between the shit and the fan.
Too true. Precious metal values increase when cash is at risk of severe devaluation.
Are you saying that the shit hasn’t actually reached the fan yet?
Cos if d=0 price of gold = infinity
If you measure the cost of gold in pounds, then it could indeed become infinite, provided you remove the physical value of the currency from the equation.
I’ve got 3 million marks somewhere in the attic, left in the gutter after the wheelbarrow was nicked.
If it can happen once, it can happen again. Especially with Gordon “in charge”.
Never mind gold – you seen silver today? Pow!
Farage must know he hasn’t a chance, otherwise he wouldn’t stand. He is carving out a career for himself as the “official opposition” in the European Parliament, the only proper job he ever had, and is unlikely to give it up lightly. As an MP, he would be exposed as politically illiterate, and would stand little chance of being more than a one trem MP at best.
“the only proper job he ever had”
Illiterate and ill informed, ZaNuLab by any chance?
Oh joy! Just heard it on the radio. I look forward to a farrago of tosh on the hustings. Both of them can give as good as they get. If those are less than serious comments… so be it.
It is right and proper that Bercow be tested.
Farage would be very popular and a great many conservatives would support him. It will take a massive campaign and I would urge Ukip to concentrate on just a handful of seats, where they stand a chance, so that they can pour all their resources into those few seats.
Far far better to have five or six MP’s singing the Ukip line and thus making life very uncomfortable for the government of the day- than all candidates losing due to lack of resources.
My advice to Farage would be, think of Hartlepool and ensure Steve has a place on the strategy table.
Absolutely correct, half a dozen would be enough, to start to tear down the LabLibConspiracy and the rotten politics of consensus, that all the leaderships peddle these days.
There once was a Speaker from Buckingham
Whose take on reforms was “Keep ducking ‘em”
When a fellow named Farage
Began to disparage
The Tories – he wants to start…….
There once was a speaker called martin
who just seemed to be drawing the money and fartin
when they got rid
The house did see fit
To elect a man much like the governing party
If Farage won, could he be an MP and an MEP at the same time?
Double troughing, as it were?
Sir i belive he would have to stand down thus there would be a EU by-election
Since the EU elections were a curious form of PR – voting for a “party”, as opposed to a “person” – they cannot hold a by-election. Certainly not without re-electing ALL the menbers of the same group/ward. I think that the party – UKIP – just put someone into the slot until the next election.
It is quite possible that this eventuality was not even considered when Labour came up with the party list system.
its within the rules ?
Ian Paisley and John Hume certainly were both MP and MEP.
Labour may have changed the rules to let a few more of the party faithful have a turn at the trough – particularly as their space at the trough will be somewhat limited after the next election. Might keep a few more Labourites off the dole.
Berwickshire Roxburgh and Selkirk…….give me a tinkle.
http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com/
This is a great article on ‘The Golden Generations’ comparing those fighting in Ww2 with current engagement in Afghanistan!!!
CW is not quite sure what to make of B&P news that they will have to open up there membership to all colours , i wouldnt have thought it was that clever an idea for the CEHR to pursue although they seem to have some sort of case .
If the B&P dont lose there arguments politically , then doesnt it just add to the feeling that goverment is corrupting the system so that it doesnt want a fair fight of the issues on peoples minds ??
what ever happened to free asscoiation ??
next thing they will be putting a gagging order on HMRC for publishing figures likely to affect the governments position in an election
So true,the CEHR is the best recruiting sergeant the B&P have.
What gives us British the shits most is not skin colour but a feeling of injustice.
A hate crime tag added to whatever offence commited will probably result in a custodial sentence.
When that silly cow from Girls aloud got done for assault on a black toilet attendant she was sweating on the racial aspect of her offence not the assault itself.
Result,she was only found guilty of the assault and allowed to carry on with her lucrative career.If the racialy aggravated aspect of the offence had been proved,she would have been fucked.
Assault is assault in my book. Why should one blokes smack in the gob be more serious than another.
What has happened is that the CEHR has illustrated it absolute power above and beyond the rule of English law. The effect the court action was intended to achieve was to bleed the party out of funds necessary to fight the general election. The bias against the bn p shown by the court is unnerving, they have been forced to pay for the action today in court before any outcome is arrived at. The CEHR has merely indicated its wishes and the rule of law has withered before its common purpose mandate. No agency has that power – not even the inland revenue.
We are all free, and if you choose not to be free – then we’ll force you – for the common good!
That Parliament is rotten to the core is accepted by the majority of posters I’ve read on Guido’s blog as proved, done and dusted.
Yet still that stubborn penny refuses to drop.
My enemy’s enemy is my friend. You can chew that saying up into little pieces and spit it out, but in this case it’s true.
The party that we can’t even name on here is this nation’s last and best hope of redemption.
fuck off albacore you wanker.
this country defeated hitler’s fascism yet you want to vote for the fascist british nazi party?
you must be a fucking lunatic as well as a traitor.
if hitler had successfully invaded this country the first thing he would have ordered his troops to do would have been to grab hold of our monarch and throw them on a bonfire; after they had been sliced from neck to navel, ofcourse.
the truth is that the british nazi party are anti-royalist scum.
anti-Queen is anti-Country.
innit.
I’m a Tory but I’d vote for Farage over Bercow if I lived there. I really do hope that Farage wins!
The true heir to Blair is Gordon Brown and not David Cameron.
Erm, except that CMD actually refers to himself as “Bliars heir”. Google it.
I’d chip in a few quid for Farage. And I’m also a Tory.
Seconded
Yes, – like Gorgon, we’ve all done some more jobbys, and our heads feel clearer and better with every one we do.
All that Bliarist crap really does get you down doesn’t it?
Anyway, we’ll all be out for Mr Farage. He’s the one that hopefully will get us back on course.
Speak for yourself. Even the ukipers admit he ain’t up to much, and bercow will be a lot less relevant once brown is history. But we really don’t need distractions from the main priority, which is ensuring that labour are reduced to a tiny cabal of infighting hard left loonies.
All well and good, however they are already past the point of no return and by some margin.
I suspect also, that a large portion of the invective from ZaNuLab towards a certain party that cannot be named, is largely due to the fact that they look likely to slice the ZaNu vote, in their once impregnable northern heartlands.
Whatever inroads Farage and UKIP make in any Tory seats, will look as nothing compared to ZaNuLab`s fate, in there own.
The parteh is well and truly over and they know it too.
How much money is being wasted by Brown’s peripetetic Cabinet Meetings?
Can’t we find a credible candidate rather than Dame Nigella Farago. I think there are nearly 61 million more credible candidates in the country.
Does this mean Andy Griffin will be standing in Alan Duncan’s seat
Assuming Farage won, who would make a good speaker? Will CMD go for a useful idiot as Blair did with Martin? It would be handy for him to have a patsy agreeing with the government, closing down debate and allowing parliament to be ignored. But would it be good for democracy?
I’ll have a go. As long as I get an AK-47 as part of the deal with a tripod that aims it squarely at Jonah’s forehead so I can ‘insist’ he answers a single sodding question he ever gets asked at PMQ’s.
Come to think of it, an auto-aim funtion for Toenails and most of the Beeboids would be good too.
Plus immunity from prosecution for Murder.
It wouldn’t be murder. It would be self-defence.
Not totally off-topic and interesting anyhow.
Did you know that the UK Government recognises polygamous marriage and pays additional state benefits to what it calls “additional spouses” in such a marriage? Think I am joking? Check out the top of page 12 from the following document via the link to the Department for Work and Pensions website, which sets outs the new benefits rates for 2009/10:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/newbenefitrates.pdf
“Amount for claimant and first spouse in polygamous marriage
189.35
198.45
Additional amount for additional spouse
65.30
68.45″
Now all I need to do is to find me another 20 wives and I am quids in. Any takers please contact me at wife-hunter@googlemail.com. Must include a picture – obviously £68.45 per week is not enough to compensate for any really dire mingers.
Will Dave have the balls to deselect Bercow to put up a credible option to Farage.
Open the list Dave, let the voters speak.
Which will be the greatest embarassment, Bercow being deselcted or Farage carping
“Will Dave have the balls to deselect Bercow to put up a credible option to Farage.”
Like a real Tory? In a word, no.
This is all a front. Dame Nigella is really Ann Milton in a suit (and I must admit she looks more feminine in a suit).
Go back to traitor list
Is Traitorliszt Dick Sniffins training camp near Auschwitz?
Game on.
Well done Nigel.
Now, will the real Conservative Party please stand up?
What exactly do they plan to conserve – apart from the pay and conditions of mps.
The inalienable right of every Tory to have at least 2 butlers and for the title of world projectile vomiting champion to be hereditary within the Bullingdon Club.
Nothing I like better than seeing UKIP and the Tories bashing seven shades of shit out of each other.
Bercow is a Tory? You do have a rather perverse imagination.
Whatever next, the EU is a vibrant force for freedom, individual liberty and democracy?
Good move from Farage. Standing against Bercow will make him look more palatable than he does otherwise – I’ll certainly vote for him, just to see Bercow pushed off his personal gravy-train.
Will the monster raving loony party be standing as well? Should make it an interesting 3-way contest.
No point. With Dame Nigella there will be 2 loony candidates already.
I;d vote for Nige if I lived in the berk’s constituency!
I think I’d make a brilliant Speaker.
It would be interesting to see what the reaction of Bercows local Tories is. Id love to know.Maybe the Guardian could prove who is the least popular.
I think the B&P said that they would put up a candidate in Bercow’s constituency first, so UKIP clearly thought it was a good idea – and it is.
Is it possible that Hinge & Bracket have been reincarnated as Fondlebum & Farrago? The physical similarities are striking as is the prissy righteousness.
Consign the LabLibConspiracy to the place where it most belongs, the dustbin of history.
Get out of the corrupt and corrupting influence of the EU and rebuild Britain as a free, independent and just society.
Start with the slimey creep Bercow, you know it makes sense.
Well done Farage.Alot of Tories are thinking what TM over at ConHome is thinking!
No – I am sorry – the conjunction of Tories and thinking is just too bizarre for me to follow.
By removing these crooks from Buckingham: http://eotp.wordpress.com/category/conservative-party/ and instead installing these crooks: http://eotp.wordpress.com/category/ukip/ the electorate is actively participating in the merry-go-round of corrupt government.
DO NOT ENCOURAGE THEM. ABSTAIN.
If we all abstain at the next election we’ll have a government elected by a tiny minority of political groupies, nerds and fanatics – because you can be sure as shit is shit that they won’t abstain. How is that an improvement on what we have now?
“…a government elected by a tiny minority of political groupies, nerds and fanatics…”
“How is that an improvement on what we have now?”
That is a REFLECTION of what we have now.
To clarify, abstain from the Establishment/guilty parties.
You are correct Sir, but you must also know deep down that you are wasting your breath, unfortunately.
My comment @ 153 was directed to Mr Tyler.
It comes as no surprise that a well known politician or personality is going to challenge John Bercow at the next election, given the expenses scandal and the information revealed by the Daily Telegraph regarding their allegations of ‘house flipping’, unpaid capital gains tax and significant private income from a company registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven.
I consider my politics to be traditional conservative and I can say John Bercow’s change in his core beliefs from right wing conservative to trendy liberal, friend of new labour, did not impress me or many other Conservatives both locally and nationally.
Only a handful of Conservatives MPs supported him in his election to be Speaker but his new labour friends and the lib-dems voted for ‘their man’ on masse; to spite David Cameron and Conservative MPs perhaps? They knew John Bercow had very little support in his own party. Only a handful of Conservative MPs clapped when the final result was announced, most kept their hands folded. The many solemn faces on the Conservative benches said it all, as John was dragged to the seat by his liberal supporters.
John Bercow should of done the decent thing years ago, and crossed the floor, to join his new labour chums, instead he had another long standing plan; that we didn’t know of; to be elected Speaker of the House of Commons. He certainly will not welcome the news that a well known right of centre politician, like Nigel Farage is going to stand against him. The big question will be: Will traditional Conservative voters of the Buckingham constituency support the official Conservative candidate John Bercow; who actually was much closer to New labour and the Liberal Democrats in recent years or will they break the habit of a life time and vote for a well known UKIP candidate; who actually holds far more conservative views and beliefs than the official Conservative candidate.It will certainly be very interesting contest!
It’s a pity Aston Clinton will not be in the Buckingham constituency at the next election, as a traditional conservative, I certainly would not vote for John Bercow having watched him closely over the years and followed his liberal/ new labour voting record in the House of Commons. However, I will be happy to support David Lidington in the Aylesbury constituency. I am just so pleased that liberal opportunist John Bercow will no longer be the Conservative candidate for Aston Clinton.
Conservative Home Poll Result: When 1095 Conservative members were asked who would you vote if you lived in the Buckingham constituency; given the choice? John Bercow, Nigel Farage or Neither. 64% said Nigel Farage and only 25% said John Bercow. ( 11% said neither).
It looks like Speaker John Bercow hasn’t fooled as many Conservatives has he thought. If this little poll is anything to go by. The trouble is, I don’t think the Buckingham Conservatives know the ‘real parlimentary John Bercow’ as well as the people taking part in this poll; who are perhaps more interested in national politics than local issues. In my opinion so long as his name has the official blue Conservative party endorsement on the ballot paper or he has the backing of the Buckingham Conservative Executive Committee, they will be sure to put their cross in his box. But then they would probably do the same if Ronald Biggs the great train robber; had the ‘true blue’ endorsement! (The great train robbery was in the Buckingham constituency).
Unfortunately it seems the character of the person or his true politics or core beliefs doesn’t matter a jot, so long as he/she is the ‘true blue’ candidate; he/she will be elected by a large majority. Anyone standing against John Bercow at the next election would do well to remember this; if they are to stand any chance of winning. It is also worth remembering in a public poll just before the Speaker election, asked, who do you think will be the next Speaker? Only 1% of those polled said John Bercow. So please don’t count your chickens just yet Mr Farage or Mr Phillips or anyone else who decides to challenge Mr Bercow.
What Conservatives members think nationally is irrelevant to the unique conservatives voters living in the Buckingham constituency.
Conservative Home Poll Result and Debate 04.09.09
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/09/nearly-twothirds-of-tory-members-would-back-nigel-farage-against-john-bercow.html#comment-6a00d83451b31c69e20120a5a21c6f970c
What I didn’t understand though is why he had to step down as party leader to mount a challenge to Bercow (who I am imbarresed to say was lead to the speakers chair by my MP and told him it should have been Widdecombe should should he have remained in Maidstone where he is MEP would he have not automatically been able to challenge her seat as she retires at the Election next June?
Guido Fawkes said on Conservative Home: Farage is a conservative- What does Bercow believe?
Simon’s reply:
Himself of course! John loves John very much!
This could be John’s plea in front of the mirror:
‘Look at me! Hear me! Listen to me! Be impressed by me! Love me! I am so clever and feel so happy with myself and my superior intelligence! Please don’t hate me, instead give me constant attention because I’m John Bercow the self loving, cama, cama, chameleon; a man without conviction.’
‘I am a self seeking opportunist and disloyal I know, but please don’t hate me for it’ I can be all things to all people depending on who I am talking to or which way the most favourable wind is blowing.’ Don’t you think I have all the characteristics necessary to be Speaker of the House? ‘No!’ ‘Well my new labour and liberal friends thought I would be perfect in the chair of a future Conservative govenment. So that’s good enough for me’ I did notice one or two of them sniggering though after the election result’. But it couldn’t of been about me, could it?’
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/09/those-tories-backing-nigel-farage-in-buckingham-are-being-drawn-into-a-political-stunt.html#comment-6a00d83451b31c69e20120a54ea078970b
You should be aware that a third party has already declared an interest in standing for the Buckingham seat. Retired Sheriff Patrick Philips who descibes himself in the Daily Mail as a ” conservatively minded independent”.
Perhaps Buckingham Conservatives will choose Mr Philips as the Official Conservative candidate?
Sorry that should read Patrick Phillips with two Ls !