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I get to vote for a GC woman in the Euros!

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Freespeecher · 09/05/2019 12:13

And as Claire Fox tops the Brexit Party list in the North West she should be a shoo-in.

Thing is, apart from her, I can't think of any other candidates who meet the description.

What a crazy world we're living in now. Maybe it'll take a huge political shakeup (of which the Euros will be a part) to wipe some parties out (Change UK? Lib Dems? I'd say the Greens but it's not impossible that they become the main party of the Left if enough disaffected Labour types move across to them) so that others can rise in their place that look out for minority interests in a common-sense way without losing themselves down an ideologically woke blind alley.

(Well that's the hope but the timing isn't the best - Corbyn's just announced Labour will fight the Euros on the fields of Social Justice).

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ErrolTheDragon · 09/05/2019 13:27

I'm not convinced that UKIP are actually gender critical. They're just old fashioned sexists as far as I can see.

Yup

Ah, but Claire Fox is Brexit Party.

Is there a significant difference apart from less embarrassing baggage?

I said on another thread, I see the EU election as a single-issue matter, and that spoiling ballots is an own goal. I intend to vote for the most clearly Remainer candidate available.

I live in the Northwest and am not at all pleased by the distinct prospect that Fox may become my elected representative.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fox

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 09/05/2019 13:23

Yeah I felt like a bit of a nutter banging away with my pencil in the voting booth to write my slogan!

Maybe I’ll purchase some stickers from posie on Saturday

Not voting for Farages shower, regardless of their GC stance

They are no friends to women, or indeed anyone but themselves

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Freespeecher · 09/05/2019 12:58

Ah, but Claire Fox is Brexit Party.

Might I suggest a rollerball pen? Silent, and no risk of falling off the ballot paper (or, heaven forfend, being removed).

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TheInebriati · 09/05/2019 12:53

I'm going in with a sticker this time, the local elections were embarrassing with me scratching away in the booth. Those pencils are noisy.

I'm not convinced that UKIP are actually gender critical. They're just old fashioned sexists as far as I can see.

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Freespeecher · 09/05/2019 12:52

She was also part of the RCP in the 80s which made unwise comments about the Brighton bombing which she should (and will) be asked about, but I like her work on the Moral Maze and on Spiked.

(It'll all be character assassination between now and the elections though as it's easier to do that than argue in favour of an increasingly federal Europe).

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JamB4cream · 09/05/2019 12:49

I'm definitely going to spoil my ballot for the euro elections with gc slogans, I couldn't bring myself to do it for the locals, but there's nothing to lose in the euros

Lichtie · 09/05/2019 12:45

Isn't she the one that stood up for Gary Glitters 'right' to download child porn... And you think voting for this person is a good idea?

BettyDuMonde · 09/05/2019 12:32

I wouldn’t touch a Farage-party with someone else’s barge pole.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-nhs-might-have-to-be-replaced-by-private-health-insurance-9988904.html

Nige’s vision for the NHS would have left me with a dead 6 year old daughter - or facing homelessness due to medical bankruptcy.
Possibly both, seeing as death doesn’t necessarily clear a medical debt.

TheInebriati · 09/05/2019 12:23