2008 By-Election

22 May

 

Crewe & Nantwich - The by-election followed the death of Gwyneth Dunwoody on 17th April 2008.
Conservative gain

Edward Timpson	Conservative	20,539	49.49%
Tamsin Dunwoody	Labour	12,679	30.55%
Elizabeth Shenton	Liberal Democrat	6,040	14.55%
Mike Nattrass	UKIP	922	2.22%
Robert Smith	Green	359	0.87%
David Roberts	English Democrats	275	0.66%
The Flying Brick	Official Monster Raving Loony Party	236	0.57%
Mark Walklate	Independent	217	0.52%
Paul Thorogood	Cut Tax on Petrol and Diesel	118	0.28%
Gemma Garrett	Independent	113	0.27%

Total valid votes: 41,498; 67 rejected ballot papers
Electorate: 71,963; Turnout: 57.67% (valid votes as % of electorate);
Majority: 7,860 (18.94%); swing from Lab to Cons: 17.6%

27 June

 

Henley - The by-election followed the resignation of Boris Johnson, on being elected Mayor of London.
Conservative hold

John Howell	Conservative	19,796	56.95%
Stephen Kearney	Liberal Democrat	9,680	27.85%
Mark Stevenson	Green	1,321	3.80%
Timothy Rait	BNP	1,243	3.58%
Richard McKenzie	Labour	1,066	3.07%
Chris Adams	UKIP	843	2.43%
Bananaman Owen	Official Monster Raving Loony Party	242	0.70%
Derek Allpass	English Democrats	157	0.45%
Amanda Harrington	Independent (Miss Great Britain Party)	128	0.37%
Dick Rodgers	The Common Good	121	0.35%
Louise Cole	Independent (Miss Great Britain Party)	91	0.26%
Harry Bear	The Fur Play Party	73	0.21%

Electorate: 69,092; Total vote: 34,761; Turnout: 50.31%;
Majority: 10,116 (29.10%)

10 July

 

Haltemprice & Howden - The by-election followed the resignation of David Davis after the Government's narrow win on the issue of 42 day detention without trial.
Conservative hold

David Michael Davis	Conservative	17,113	71.57%
Shan Oakes	Green	1,758	7.35%
Joanne Robinson	English Democrats: Putting England First	1,714	7.17%
Tess Culnane	National Front Britain For the British	544	2.28%
Gemma Dawn Garrett	Miss Great Britain Party	521	2.18%
Jill Saward	Ind	492	2.06%
Mad Cow-Girl	Official Monster Raving Loony Party	412	1.72%
Walter Edward Sweeney	Ind	238	1.00%
John Nicholson	Ind	162	0.68%
David Craig	Ind	135	0.56%
David Pinder	The New Party	135	0.56%
David Icke	Ind	110	0.46%
Hamish Howitt	Freedom 4 Choice	91	0.38%
Christopher John Talbot	Socialist Equality Party	84	0.35%
Grace Christine Astley	Ind	77	0.32%
George Hargreaves	Christian Party	76	0.32%
David Laurence Bishop	Church of the Militant Elvis Party	44	0.18%
John Randle Upex	Ind	38	0.16%
Greg Wood	Ind	32	0.13%
Eamonn "Fitzy" Fitzpatrick	Ind	31	0.13%
Ronnie Carroll	Make Politicians History	29	0.12%
Thomas Faithful Darwood	Ind	25	0.10%
Christopher Mark Foren	Ind	23	0.10%
Herbert Winford Crossman	Ind	11	0.05%
Tony Farnon	Ind	8	0.03%
Norman Scarth	Ind	8	0.03%

Electorate: 70,226; Total vote: 23,911; Turnout: 34.05%;
Majority: 15,355 (64.22%)

 

 Haltemprice & Howden By-election Candidates:

	Mad Cow-Girl (Official Monster Raving Loony)  Real name Rosalyn Warner. Born 1961, Harwich. Registered nurse. Contested Sunderland South 2001, 2005
	David Davis (Conservative) Shadow home secretary until his shock resignation from the Commons over the issue of 42 day detention.
	Shan Oakes (Green) Educated at Plympton Grammar School and Leicester University. Former English teacher and LEA officer.
	Joanne Robinson (English Democrats) born 1957. Office manager. Contested Haltemprice and Howden 2001 for UKIP.
	Chris Talbot (Socialist Equality) born Runcorn. Engineering mathematics lecturer at Huddersfield University. Contested South Wales Central list in 2007 Welsh elections.
	Gemma Garrett (Miss Great Britain) Miss Great Britain for the year 2008, having been runner up in the previous year’s competition. Contested Crewe and Nantwich by-election 2008.
	Ronnie Carroll (Make Politicans History) born 1934, Belfast. Singer and entertainer. British entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1963. Having previously moved into management released several comeback records after Contested Hampstead and Highgate 1997, Uxbridge by-election 1997, Hartlepool by-election 2004.
	Hamish Howitt (Freedom 4 Choice) Blackpool publican who in 2007 was the first to be prosecuted for continuing to allow smoking in his pub. Will contest Blackpool South at the next general election.
	David Craig (Independent) real name Neil Glass. Educated at Fettes and Cambridge University. Former management consultant turned author and campaigner against government waste.
	Jill Saward (Independent) born 1965, Liverpool. Educated at Lady Margaret School. Victim of the Ealing Vicarage Rape in 1986, she later went public, authored a book called “Rape: My Story” and has campaigned on behalf of rape victims.
	David Icke (No description) born 1952, Leicester. Former professional footballer, forced to retire early through ill health he became a television sports presenter. He became a national media spokesman for the Green party, but in 1990 believes he received a message from the spirit world which lead to him infamously appearing on the Wogan chatshow, dressed in turquoise, to declare that he was a son of God with a message from the Godhead. He has subsequently pursued a career as a new age philosopher, speaker and author of conspiracy books, expressing his beliefs about the apocalypse, illuminanti and that prominent world leaders are reptilian shape-shifters. Is contesting the seat on an abstentionist platform.
	Eamonn Fitzpatrick (Independent) Fruit and veg market trader. Contested Northampton South 2005.
	George Hargreaves (Christian Party) born George Jackman in 1958. Educated at Woolverstone Hall School and Oxford University. Former songwriter, most famously penning Sinitta’s “So Macho”, now Pastor of the Hephizibah Christian Centre, Hackney. Contested Walthamstow for the Referendum Party in 1997. Contested 2004 Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election for Operation Christian Vote. Contested Scotland in 2004 European elections for Operation Christian Vote. Contested Na h-Eileanan an Lar 2005, Dunfermline and West Fife by-election 2006.
	Norman Scarth (Independent) born 1925. Retired stud farmer. Gaoled for six years in 2001 for wounding with intent after attacking a baliff with a chainsaw. Contested Chesterfield in 1997 as an Independent Old Age Pensioner, Sedgefield by-election 2007 as an anti-crime candidate.
	Walter Sweeney (Independent) born 1949. Educated at Lawrence Sheriff School and Cambridge and Hull Universities. Solicitor. Bedfordshire county councillor 1981-1989. Contested Machester Stretford 1983. Conservative MP for Vale of Glamorgan 1992-1997.
	Tess Culnane (National Front) Contested 2004 GLA election and European election for the BNP. Contested Greenwich and Lewisham in 2008 London elections.
	Grace Astley (Independent) Educated at Darwen Vale High School and Royal Holloway. Supply teacher.
	David Bishop (Church of the Militant Elvis) Painter, decorator and poet - writing under the pen name of Lord Biro. Contested Tatton 1997, Brentwood and Ongar 2001, Erewash 2005.
	Herbert Crossman (Independent) Former Liberal Democrat councillor in Harrow. Contested Harrow West for the Referendum Party in 1997. Member of the Conservative party 1998-1999.
	Thomas Darwood (Independent) religious publisher. Claims to be the true Archbishop of Canterbury, Pope and heir to the throne.
	Tony Farnon (Independent) Promoting an anti-smoking website.
	Christopher Foren (Independent) Retired crown prosecutor. Standing on a platform of putting the environment ahead of economic growth and limiting population growth.
	John Nicholson (Independent) publisher of a early years education system.
	David Pinder (New Party) Former soldier, civil servant and Chamber of Commerce chief executive.
	John Upex (Independent) born Leeds. Businessman, running a manufacturing company. Contested Wakefield 2005 for UKIP.
	Greg Wood (Independent) Former Royal Navy medical officer.

 

 

A vote for the Mad Cow-Girl is a vote for a return to real law & order. I may be a Loony, but I'm not mad enough to want dangerous people walking free in the name of political correctness.

• Suspected terrorists should be held until proved safe.
• Sex offenders should be held in asylums until considered safe (if ever).
• Antisocial yobs can rot in prison if they can't be sociable.

Why don't decent citizens have a "Human Right" not to be assaulted, blown up or harassed, when the criminals can scream human rights if their handcuffs hurt?

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