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well now we've got a byelection and a

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general election the former on the 4th

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of May the latter on the 8th of June or

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do we there seems to be a state of utter

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confusion in Manchester Town Hall and

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indeed at 10 Downing Street the Prime

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Minister spokesman said that the

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byelection would go ahead as planned but

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they've also said that Parliament will

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be dissolved on the thir third of May

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and as the election is on the 4th of May

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I would be being elected to a parliament

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that no longer existed if that were so

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it seems a bit unfair I'd have to do it

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all again four weeks later for the 8th

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of June and not just me I'm financially

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much more hard pressed than the big

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parties are obviously and that goes for

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the greens and other independent

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candidates it seems very disadvantage to

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us and therefore democracy for us to

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have to fight two elections so we either

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go ahead with the one on the fourth and

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call that the early general election in

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Manchester Gorton or we're forced to

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fight twice of course we'll deal with

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whatever comes our way and I hope that

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people will now weigh in financially to

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help us do that if that's what we have

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to do but it all smacks a bit of dollar

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democracy rather than democracy itself

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so what I'm saying to the authorities is

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let's go ahead with the 4th of May and

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count that as the uh election uh that is

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going to take place elsewhere in the

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country on the 8th of June after all I

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wouldn't be able to take my seat if I

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won on the 4th of May because Parliament

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would no longer exist it would have been

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dissolved it's all a constitutional

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conundrum I understand and in fact act I

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think it's entirely

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unprecedented but I hope that wisdom and

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democracy will be the watch in whoever

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is making this decision although whoever

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is making it they haven't spoken up

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yet