well now we've got a byelection and a
general election the former on the 4th
of May the latter on the 8th of June or
do we there seems to be a state of utter
confusion in Manchester Town Hall and
indeed at 10 Downing Street the Prime
Minister spokesman said that the
byelection would go ahead as planned but
they've also said that Parliament will
be dissolved on the thir third of May
and as the election is on the 4th of May
I would be being elected to a parliament
that no longer existed if that were so
it seems a bit unfair I'd have to do it
all again four weeks later for the 8th
of June and not just me I'm financially
much more hard pressed than the big
parties are obviously and that goes for
the greens and other independent
candidates it seems very disadvantage to
us and therefore democracy for us to
have to fight two elections so we either
go ahead with the one on the fourth and
call that the early general election in
Manchester Gorton or we're forced to
fight twice of course we'll deal with
whatever comes our way and I hope that
people will now weigh in financially to
help us do that if that's what we have
to do but it all smacks a bit of dollar
democracy rather than democracy itself
so what I'm saying to the authorities is
let's go ahead with the 4th of May and
count that as the uh election uh that is
going to take place elsewhere in the
country on the 8th of June after all I
wouldn't be able to take my seat if I
won on the 4th of May because Parliament
would no longer exist it would have been
dissolved it's all a constitutional
conundrum I understand and in fact act I
think it's entirely
unprecedented but I hope that wisdom and
democracy will be the watch in whoever
is making this decision although whoever
is making it they haven't spoken up
yet