APP Election Victory
Saturday, 8 May, 2010 9:59
From: "keith mann"
To: undisclosed-recipients
Dr Evan Harris stood on the podium five years
ago and romped home with a 7,683-seat majority. A safe seat for the Big
Pharma front man and useful to them to help peddle their potions.
These are all tested on animals, passed as ‘safe’ and often go on to do
people harm or lead to more drugs which are tested on animals and so on.
At around 4.00am yesterday morning following a number of tense recounts of
the Oxford West votes, Evan Harris took the platform for the result along
with Keith Mann but was rather less buoyant than previously. Let us not
forget we don’t ask for votes for the Animal Protection Party instead we ask
for voters to tick any box other than the target, for example Evan Harris.
And they did, wiping out his majority!
Let us also remember that
this defender of great evil has been prominent in inciting the savagery
inflicted on our companions inside the windowless chambers of Oxford
University. Remember Tipu Aziz brain damaging little Felix and the others
for TV? Harris and Aziz marched with placards through the streets of
Oxford alongside the vivisectors and assorted chums demanding more of this
terrible, misguided exploitation of our fellow earthlings! How much of human
society really wants more animals to be used in this way? We believe that
most people have evolved beyond this and view children in a similar way to
animals and as Evan Harris hasn’t we joined up some dots for his
constituents and forged allies to achieve our stated aim.
Harris
couldn’t hold back from moaning to the audience during his losers’ speech of
the “dirty” nature of the Animal Protection Party campaign and told of his
hopes that this approach wouldn’t become a regular feature of British
politics. It only added insult to his injury when we reiterated that this is
exactly what we intend to do!
“Science lost one of its strongest
parliamentary supporters with the surprise defeat of Evan Harris, Professor
David Nutt, who resigned as chairman of the Government's drugs advisory
committee, said that it was a sad day for science and the Government.”
The Independent
To further strengthen this important step forward we
have established connections with people who once might have had less
respect for our kind of thinking than they now do. Many of who have
expressed their admiration for our efforts, one Oxford candidate, a Green,
was big enough to state that he believed that we had a greater case for
standing than he did. And it’s perhaps worth noting that the personable
Nicola Blackwood, the Conservative who has replaced Evan Harris, is against
repealing the Hunting Act. Harris however voted very strongly against the
ban. What a gem!
Vauxhall proved a difficult territory to
infiltrate despite the inspired efforts of Jim and the team. Here we focused
on Hoey’s ties to hunting and her constituency failings but other issues won
the day there. We none the less positively communicated with a great deal of
people.
In Hampshire we exposed the sickening brutality they call
‘essential medical research’ killing 70,000 animals a year in Wickham
Laboratories to test Botox and Sarah Coats pulled 255 rural votes, beating
the Independent candidate Graham Quar, Wickham Laboratories solicitor.
It’s another no-go area for the progressive campaigner but we went to
Huntingdon, one of the Tory's safest seats. Jonathan Djanogly suffered a
surprise 2,000 cut to his majority and Carrie Holliman was given 181 of the
votes and a lot of friends from people who were pleased that we directly
challenged the Conservative on both HLS and his excessive expenses.
We have laid the foundations for the future. This was our first time out
and no doubt mistakes were made. However, we will learn from them so that we
can be even more effective in the future. There will always be those who
will work obsessively to undermine initiative, but they are weak and are
swimming against the tide. Everyone else can feel proud of what we have
achieved here. We know we are.
Keith on Radio Oxford before the
count…
http://www.fromdusktildawn.org.uk/News/2010/
april/keith_talks_to_oxford_radio.html
Oxford Mail after the
count…
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/general_election_2010/
oxwest/8152627.ELECTION__Conservative_topples_Lib_Dem_Harris/
The Times Online. A terrible night for Science…
http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/05/election-2010-a-terrible-night-for-science.html
The Independent…
Science lost one of its strongest
parliamentary supporters with the surprise defeat of Evan Harris, Professor
David Nutt, who resigned as chairman of the Government's drugs advisory
committee, said that it was a sad day for science and the Government
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/time-for-a-rethink-for-science-lobby-1968210.html
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