Hartlepool By-Election, 16 Candidates and a National Socialist in the Northern Independence Party

 

Photo: By Steve Daniels, CC

The forthcoming Hartlepool by-election promises to be interesting even if only for te number of candidates vying for the vote. Currently a Labour held seat a recent poll has put the Conservative Party on target for picking up the seat. In that quest the Tories have found unlikely allies in the for of former Labour MP Thelma Walker and her Corbyn supporting friends who are setting out to prove Keir Starmer unelectable.

According to the local paper Walker is standing as an "Independent" candidate rather than a Norther Independence Party which the comrades have formed to bring a new nationalism into the political mix as they have run out of other ways to attract attention for their ches-thumping socialism.  There was a problem with the new party being "nipped" in the bud as they didn't even manage to fill in the registration form properly when applying to the Electoral Commission.

The full slate of candidates announced in The Northern Echo are

David Bettney, Social Democratic Party; The Incredible Flying Brick, Monster Raving Loony Party; Hilton Dawson, The North East Party; Gemma Evans, Women's Equality Party; Rachel Featherstone, The Green Party; Adam Gaines, Independent; Andrew Hagon, Liberal Democrat; Steve Jack, Freedom Alliance; Chris Killick; Sam Lee, Independent; Claire Martin, Heritage Party; Jill Mortimer, Conservative Party; John Prescott, Reform UK; Thelma Walker, Independent; W. Ralph Ward-Jackson, Independent; and Paul Williams, Labour Party.

One disturbing little feature about the Norther Indpendence Party which simply crows old failed Corbyn policies such as boycotting Israel and Trans-rights which must be the two most important issues facing Hartlepool and Norther voters) is their Press/Media Officer:

 

Nassour seems to have changed his Twitter profile since originally published as someone probably told him to lose the descriptor National Socialist. Now he describes himself as:

I'm Maher Nassour. I was born in England to 2 Syrians, An English identity and a Syrian identity. I am a Ba'athist, Bennite, and a Republican.

Nassour also thinks : "Syria is the only progressive country in the Middle East". 

Tell that to the victims of Assad eh comrades. Ba'athism is he Arab version of Stalinism as practised by Assad and Saddam Hussein. 

Oh and the charming National Socialist has been deleting dodgy tweets about erm guess who..... I wonder what he has to hide?

Nassour lives Battersea by the way...... capital of the North it would seem!