Reg Keys, father of a solider killed in Iraq, launched his election campaign today in Sedgefield confident that he can unseat Tony Blair.
PRESS INFORMATION
EMBARGOED UNTIL ANNOUNCEMENT OF GENERAL ELECTION
CONTACT:
Keys for Sedgefield Campaign
Jane Mayes
07748 640 183
Reg Keys, founder member of Military Families Against the War, will formally begin his campaign to contest the Sedgefield constituency in the forthcoming general election at a press conference at 12.30 on Wednesday 6 April 2005 at the Eldon Arms, Ferryhill, Co Durham, UK.
This will be preceded by his first meeting with voters outside Tesco's supermarket in Newton Aycliffe town centre at 11am.
Reg Keys will be standing as an independent candidate on a 'truth and trust' programme calling for a full accounting from the Prime Minister for the war in Iraq in which his son Tom was killed.
"I want to hold Tony Blair to account for his deceit," he says. "My son Tom believed what he was told, but Blair lied to him, and to all those other soldiers who came home in coffins after fighting in a war that was illegal and immoral.
"The people of Sedgefield need an MP they can trust to speak and act honestly on their behalf. It is time to bring accountability back into politics."
Also present at the press conference and canvassing will be Brian Eno, musician and impresario, Martin Bell, former independent MP for Tatton and agent Bob Clay, former Labour MP for Sunderland North.
We need your support. Please contact us if you want to help in anyway.
ENDS
Directions:
Ferryhill is 3 miles from Junction 60 of the A1(M). The Eldon Arms is on a small roundabout in the Ferryhill Station area of the town.
Newton Aycliffe can be reached from J60 of the A1(M) but is nearer to J59. Tesco's supermarket is in the town centre.
EMBARGOED UNTIL ANNOUNCEMENT OF GENERAL ELECTION
CONTACT:
Keys for Sedgefield Campaign
Jane Mayes
07748 640 183
Reg Keys, founder member of Military Families Against the War, will formally begin his campaign to contest the Sedgefield constituency in the forthcoming general election at a press conference at 12.30 on Wednesday 6 April 2005 at the Eldon Arms, Ferryhill, Co Durham, UK.
This will be preceded by his first meeting with voters outside Tesco's supermarket in Newton Aycliffe town centre at 11am.
Reg Keys will be standing as an independent candidate on a 'truth and trust' programme calling for a full accounting from the Prime Minister for the war in Iraq in which his son Tom was killed.
"I want to hold Tony Blair to account for his deceit," he says. "My son Tom believed what he was told, but Blair lied to him, and to all those other soldiers who came home in coffins after fighting in a war that was illegal and immoral.
"The people of Sedgefield need an MP they can trust to speak and act honestly on their behalf. It is time to bring accountability back into politics."
Also present at the press conference and canvassing will be Brian Eno, musician and impresario, Martin Bell, former independent MP for Tatton and agent Bob Clay, former Labour MP for Sunderland North.
We need your support. Please contact us if you want to help in anyway.
ENDS
Directions:
Ferryhill is 3 miles from Junction 60 of the A1(M). The Eldon Arms is on a small roundabout in the Ferryhill Station area of the town.
Newton Aycliffe can be reached from J60 of the A1(M) but is nearer to J59. Tesco's supermarket is in the town centre.
Comments
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Martin Bell
06.04.2005 12:59
vern
Thick Vern
06.04.2005 15:33
Are you trying to say that we shouldn't support Reg Keys because someone who supports him used to work for the BBC and they have a licence fee, which is like the Nazis, so...its...um...really bad and stuff.
What bollocks. Grow up ya divvy!
wot?
mailing address
06.04.2005 17:57
I would even make a (undisclosed!) small donation if there was a bank post office number or something similar....
anything to get rid of that Thatcher Phoenix Phoney Bliar
spike
I judge
07.04.2005 11:13
vern
Your reasoning is infantile, Vern
08.04.2005 10:46
By your logic everyone who works for any institution is either a sinister agent of The State or a lackey of capitalism. Great way to make friends, Vern.
And sweet frickin' Jesus, the licence fee is not a "poll tax". If you don't want to pay it then don't buy a TV!
By the same token if you don't want publically-funded hospitals, rubbish collection and street lighting then fuck off and live in a cave, get off the internet and stop wasting our time with your prep school pseudo-anarch posturing.
ohforfuckssake
Public funding
09.04.2005 13:11
Publically funded hospitals - yes.
Publically funded schools - yes.
Publically funded TV programs like Mr Blobby - not for me thank you.
I do want to watch TV. I don't want to pay for the BBC because I don't want it. I just watch commercial channels. Martin Bell has some of my money in his pocket because I had to pay him before I watched any TV. I didn't want the state to jail or fine me, like it does to thousands of poor people a year for not paying the BBC.
By the way, what is a prep school? You're not one of those posh people who knows what is good for everyone else are you? Pro BBC types are like the pro Empire people of old - out of date and authoritarian. Remember as you read this, some poor woman is festering in a prison cell for not paying the BBC poll tax.
vern