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Batley & Spen By-electionAs Tracy Brabin, the Remain supporting former actress
Labour MP, has now been elected as the Mayor of West Yorkshire, she
has had to stand down as an MP because the mayoralty in West Yorkshire
includes the West Yorkshire Police Commissionership.
Labour now has the discretion of when to call their
By-election, so we do not know exactly when that By-election will take
place, but we can be certain that there will be a By-Election in
Batley & Spen.
Last time there was a By-election in Batley & Spen we
came second and we put out this press release
afterwards:-
“The English Democrats are pleased to announce that our
candidate, Therese Hirst, came second in Batley and Spen which is a
constituency where the English Democrats have never previously stood.
Despite this we easily beat the BNP which had previously stood on many
occasions and even once had two councillors in the
constituency.
By contrast Labour had hundreds of activists canvassing and campaigning for weeks. They pulled in many of their high profile figures, including Jeremy Corbyn. They even had their Scottish Leader, Kezia Dugdale, come down from Glasgow with a coach load of activists! Labour also spent up to the maximum permitted by-election spend of £100,000, paying up to £5.71 per vote! Even so they had a dramatically reduced vote, despite also their established brand and their longstanding political dominance in Kirklees. Robin Tilbrook, the Chairman of the English Democrats said:- “I heartily congratulate Therese Hirst on the campaign and on her coming second in the Batley and Spen by-election. It often seemed that the media were resolutely hostile to the English Democrats and to the English Cause, but Therese rose magnificently to the occasion. I was also very pleased that Therese’s response to the election results was to mimic Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous film comment of “I’ll be back!” I am looking forward to seeing whether we can beat Labour next time in the General Election when the boundary changes reduce their incumbency advantage and also when their spending is limited to the General Election’s £10,000 maximum!” Batley & Spen is a constituency divided into, as the
name sounds, two halves.
 Batley is heavily Pakistani/Muslim and was the scene of the
demonstrations against the Batley school and of threats to life of the
Religious Education teacher who had dared to show a cartoon of
Mohammed in a lesson about blasphemy. This is the area in which
multi-culturalists Labour does well.
Spen, on the other hand and the surrounding countryside,
are strongly English and were over 80% identifying as “English only”
in the 2021 National Census. We therefore hope we could do very well
with these voters.
We do however desperately need help with funds for the £500
deposit, £2,000 to use the Royal Mail service to deliver free leaflets
to addresses in the constituency. We also want to do posters around
the constituency. Will you help us?
Our last candidate was Therese Hirst and she is willing to
stand again, despite the dirty tactics of the Mainstream Media in
ignoring or attacking us to try to undermine our vote and also
Labour’s refusal to debate at any hustings with us. Therese knows that
being attacked by opponents shows that they think that you are a
threat!
In politics we want our supporters to love us but our
opponents to hate us!
Do you care?
Donate todayYours sincerely
Robin Tilbrook Party Chairman |
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English Democrats Party · PO Box 1066,
Norwich NR14 6ZJ,
United Kingdom
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