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…
The
Times Online. A terrible night for Science…
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
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