Just imagine if the cops followed all the election candidates around in order to intimidate them. Today in Purley a small band of Class War agitators were out and about supporting me in my legitimate electioneering. Constantly followed by four uniformed cops on foot and a van with approximately eight more they numbered more than we did. In fact there were two vans when we started our campaigning outside Tesco. What was our crime?
We were giving out leaflets. OK the leaflets had “Class War” written on them and my mugshot which might have been a danger to public order but they were just leaflets. When Chris Philp or Emily Benn hand out leaflets do they get followed like this? What can it mean other than intimidation?
What do the authorities fear so much about me standing in the election that they feel the need to get so many officers involved? As the Sergeant said to me part way through our campaigning, “How much longer do you think you’ll be? It’s just that I’ve got my officers on rotation.” What? Yes, they had more officers on standby ready to plough into Purley in case our leafletting got out of control.
Croydon’s Borough Commander should explain this total waste of resources and detail whether they try to intimidate other candidates during the election campaign. The message to me seems to be clear. If you’re a Tory candidate, representing a party that is waging a very real class war on ordinary people you get police protection. If you stand for a party called Class War and you oppose the Tory cuts and austerity programme you get police intimidation.
Trade Onion by Jon Bigger 
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This one of the pieces by Jonathan Bigger to which Tom Pride linked in his piece about the police following Mr Bigger as he campaigned for Class War in Croydon. It does show how the rozzers view Class War as violent enemies of the established order, and are afraid they’ll stir up yet another riot in their grand plan to bring about a revolution.
It also seems to be little short of farcical. Bigger says that there were more police around him than there were of him and his companions. It gets even funnier when the cops actually ask him how long he’s going to be, as they’ve got other places they’ve got to go to. It almost reads like an Ealing comedy or ‘Carry On’ film. Carry On Revolting, perhaps, with Sid James as Bigger, and Kenneth Williams as Police Sergeant. Oooo, Matron, No!
You can laugh now. While the police were protecting posh people from Class War they didn’t have enough officers to stop their diamonds being stolen.
If you want rid of Tory IAIN DUNCAN SMITH
Chingford and Wood Green (London)
Tories won with 22,734 votes in 2010
21,725 did not vote in 2010
9,780 votes wasted on Labour in 2010
7,242 votes wasted on Lib Dems in 2010
VOTE CLASS WAR
Liza McKenzie
Fellow (Professor) London School of Economics.
If you want rid of THERESA MAY
Voting area Maidenhead
31,937 Tory win in 2010
19,124 did not vote in 2010
3,795 votes wasted on Labour in 2010
15,168 votes wasted on Lib Dems in 2010
VOTE MAIDENHEAD – CLASS WAR
Class War
Joe Wilcox
If you want rid of the Tory MP
Sir Richard Ottaway (standing down this election, so better to win against as not going agaisnt sitting Tory MP but a new Tory MP Chris Philip
Background – yet another Oxford university graduate after private school education –
co-founder and Partner of Pluto Capital which has offices in Serbia, Montenegro and London, which is a financial investor and asset manager specialising in providing funding for the construction sector in the UK and SE Europe.
Make of that as you will – source Wikipaedia).
SE Europe has a construction industry. Pull the other one. The whole region is dirt poor!
voting area CROYDON CENTRAL
19,567 votes Tory win
26,682 did not vote.
16,688 votes wasted on Labour
6,553 votes wasted on Lib Dems
VOTE CLASS WAR
Jon Bigger
CITY OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER
Tory Mark Field
Educated Oxford university.
In October 2011, Field voiced opposition to Occupy London protestors camped in his constituency.
19,264 Tory win
29,918 did not vote
8,188 votes wasted on Lbour
7,574 votes wasted on Lib Dems
VOTE
CLASS WAR
Adam Clifford
NOW UNFAIR AND UNEQUAL
Little CLASS WAR gets all this free publicity with only about a dozen MP candidates nationally.
POLICE SHOULD BE FOLLOWING ALL THESE AS WELL TO GIVE
MEDIA COVERAGE EQUALITY NOT GETTING AT ALL NOW
– TUSC -135 MP candidates – 1000 councillor candidates
– SOCIALIST GB – 10 CANDIDATES
– THE LEFT UNITY PARTY – 10 CANDIDATES
– MEBYON KERNOW – ALL 6 VOTING AREAS OF CORNWALL
CLASS WAR
A support and confidence type of coalition, where each party keeps its own ideity, sole way to form a 400 MP secure anti austerity majority UK parliament.
Yougov April 9 prediction for May
277 Labour MPs
264 Tories
28 Lib Dems left
326 MPs minimum threshold for a single party to rule UK parliament.
If SNP win all 59 seats in Scotland
If Plaid Cymru win all 40 seats in Wales
190 odd Labour MPs left.
Either way, Labour is a fill in to reach the threshold of 326 MPs.
The London School of Economics as you know, but your readers might not have read the London School of Economics blog, says small parties can directly negotiate with each other in government, not just with Labour, when in UK government.
Good luck.
Just demand the police start following all the above parties as well,
please.
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