T'party for t' workin' man

[cromwell]

Is at it again.

Linda Riordan, Labour MP for Halifax is not going to stand in the forthcoming general election. Unfortunately, as she has decided this at a very late stage the National Labour party in London says there isn't time for the local party to organise candidates so they, the London Labour party, will provide a list of candidates for them.

How kind!

This is exactly the same stunt that Labour pulled in 2010, when they parachuted Tristram Hunt into Stoke. The secretary of the local party was so upset he stood against jolly old Trissers in the election.

So! Who are the lucky people of Halifax going to get as their Labour candidate?

Honest Cromwell, the bookie you can trust has come up with some odds!

1. Whoever it is they will be some nice middle class person from outside the area who no one locally has ever heard of, who went to public school and whose children will be educated privately as well. NO BETS TAKEN.

2. Some bloke called Tarquin. 5-1.

3. A London councillor. 7-1.

4. A candidate from an all women shortlist. Evens.

5. A local person who is anti-eu and anti-immigration. 1000-1

Or will Milibean and his mates release that everyone knows this trick has been spotted and - gasp - have an all-local person shortlist? (No.)

[Suff]

You forgot the refugees from Scottish wrath. 3-1

[Aggers]

To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all the bullsh that is now being churned out
in the run-up to the general election. I just wish that none of the three 'major'
parties get in this time. We need more genuine independent people to put up.
It would serve the beggars right if UKIP take over.

This is my message to voters.....

SOD THE EU
VOTE UKIP

[TheOstrich]

LOL, Cromwell, excellent bookmaking skills there ..... you only missed out the odds for a gay candidate, but we better not go there ....

This is my message to voters.....

SOD THE EU
VOTE UKIP

Aggers, I think I'd amend it to:

VOTE UKIP
SOD THE REST!

[Aggers]

I'll settle for that.

[Workingman]

I bet it goes to a shortlisted middle class gay woman from Royal Tunbridge Wells who went to public school and whose children (she only discovered she was gay when her husband left her) are in private education.

She was shocked at being chosen to represent Halifax as she didn't think WWII bombers were constituencies, but if it will get her a cushy job in Westminster and the chance of putting her kiddies' education on expenses, then why not?

[cruiser2]

She was shocked at being chosen to represent Halifax as she didn't think WWII bombers were constituencies, but if it will get her a cushy job in Westminster and the chance of putting her kiddies' education on expenses, then why not?[/quote]

MP's don't know there has been WW11 or that there were Halifax bombers. They think this is a fashion accessory.