Nominations for the European Elections were announced today. A quick scan down the candidates threw up something that caught my eye.
The Tories have (like everyone else in Wales) four candidates. Three of them live in England. The top three.
Sometimes, for good reason, people find it hard to be in an area. But all three of them is at best a bit unfortunate for the Tories. After all how can you be a Welsh party when you stand a majority of candidates who don’t live in Wales?
I’m hoping the nominations will appear on Pembrokeshire CC website shortly..
EDIT: Monmouthshire beat them to it.
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I know this is a bit of a “cheap political point” but why did “Alan Andrew Shaile Butt Phillip” choose to use his full name and not just one or two of them?
I think it takes your name as it is on the register which is one of those documents which people tend to use their full name for. Most candidates I know (and have stood against) have the same thing.
And hey, if they didn’t work like that you’d never have had that joyous moment of “Portillo, Michael Denzil Xavier…”
Still, if we’re going to go on the names, how about the UKIP No.1 really being called Bufton? Surely he should be running for MP of Lymeswold…
I think the law changed recently so that you can for most elections now stand under a simplified version of your name. I’m doing that as a candidate for a county council seat in England this time – such that my name will be printed on the ballot as “Chris Nelson” instead of my full name “Christopher Robert Nelson” – but for some reason this doesn’t seem to apply to EU Parliament elections.
Does anyone know why?!?