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01-09-2019, 11:09 PM
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Just curious. Is that normal, two conservative candidates running in the same constituency?

Bercow isn't a conservative candidate.
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01-09-2019, 11:32 PM
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Bercow isn't a conservative candidate.
You're right. Bercow won in his constituency as a conservative candidate, and upon his election as speaker continues to represent his constituency in Parliament. Like any other Member of Parliament, the Speaker deals with issues raised by constituents and attempts to address their concerns.
If the current speaker decides to contest a general election, he/she does not stand under a party label, but is entitled to describe himself/herself on the ballot as "The Speaker seeking re-election", under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act. In the past, the Speaker could sometimes be returned unopposed; this has not happened in the last few decades, but they have sometimes faced opposition only from fringe candidates. As at the 2010 general election when speaker John Bercow faced ten opponents, including Nigel Farage, former leader of UKIP, who obtained 17.4% of the vote.
Bercow won with 47% of the vote.
You surmised that I found this information on wikipedia.
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02-09-2019, 08:05 AM
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Well something very telling happened earlier outside parliament remainers burning a union jack , to me that says all anyone needs to know about these protests.
SNP, I guess.
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02-09-2019, 08:08 AM
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SNP, I guess.
'Momentum' I guess who organised the protests in many places.
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02-09-2019, 08:13 AM
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'Momentum' I guess who organised the protests in many places.

Probably the civil service is my guess
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02-09-2019, 08:27 AM
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I've just googled this flag burning and it's in the DM. Readers are suggesting it was staged by the DM.
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02-09-2019, 09:03 AM
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SNP, I guess.
Evidence?
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02-09-2019, 09:17 AM
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I'm not guessing it was just that it happened and no one seemed to protest caught my eye, when Muslims do it the outrage is rightly loud but this was done and I didn't see any outrage about it.
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02-09-2019, 10:44 AM
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Here's another https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDXnvl3X...jpg&name=large
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02-09-2019, 12:41 PM
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Here's another https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDXnvl3X...jpg&name=large
It unfortunately looks as if an illegal immigrant is holding
the flag Julie

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