Colin Bloom » election http://colinbloom.co.uk Your Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Erith and Thamesmead Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MP’s to debate having a General Election now http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/post-test-1/ http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/post-test-1/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:08:43 +0000 Colin Bloom http://colinbloom.co.uk/?p=4 MPs are to debate a call for the immediate dissolution of Parliament and a subsequent general election in response to the expenses scandal.

The SNP and Plaid Cymru have tabled a motion calling for dissolution, saying the government has lost authority and an election is needed to regain trust.

The Conservatives and Lib Dems, who both want an immediate election, have signalled they will vote in favour.

But the motion is set to be defeated by Labour MPs in an early evening vote.

Read the full story here.

We can only hope that there are enough brave Labour MP’s who will do the right thing. However, given that they gave Brown a standing ovation at their PLP meeting on Monday night, they are extremely unlikely to.

UPDATE: The motion was rejected by 340 votes to 268.

No surprises there then!

]]> http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/post-test-1/feed/ 0 White Supremacists win 2 seats in the European Parliament http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/white-supremacists-win-2-seats-in-the-european-parliament/ http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/white-supremacists-win-2-seats-in-the-european-parliament/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:49:20 +0000 Colin Bloom http://colinbloom.co.uk/?p=31 Like most other people I was saddened to see that the BNP won two seats in the European Election.

The BNP are a racist, white supremacist party, who will not allow non-whites to join their party.

This comes after the BNP had come very close to winning a council seat in Bexley, indeed they came within 8 votes of taking East Wickham, in a by-election earlier this year.
We know that the BNP activists are working in Erith & Thamesmead spreading their racist dogma. They try and give simple answers to complex problems by blaming people with a different skin colour.
However, I don’t believe that the majority of the people that voted for the BNP actually agree with their racist ideology. It will be up to the Teresa Pearce and myself to set out our stalls to persuade people to to support a mainstream non-racist party instead.
Watch this space…
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