Voters in the new Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency will have a choice of eight candidates when they go the polls on Thursday 6th May. Previously announced Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green, UKIP and BNP candidates have now been joined by Ruth Johnson of The Christian Party and ‘Mr Vote Zero-None-Of-The-Above‘ (formerly known as Eric Mutch). The Electoral Register closed
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Candidates of the three main political parties are to be quized later this week at an Election Forum organised by local churches. The Stokes and Patchway Churches group has organised the event to allow local Christians to meet the General Election candidates and “listen to them answer questions on key policy areas”. Members of each Church have been asked to
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Peter Tyzack, Liberal Democrat candidate for Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS), called into town on Saturday on a charity walk spanning the breadth of the constituency that he hopes to represent in the next parliament. The event, ambitiously titled ‘Walk to Westminster’, saw Mr Tyzack set off from Severn Beach at 9am and arrive at Staple Hill by 2:40pm –
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A Bristol man who recently changed his name by deed poll to ‘None of the Above Zero’ says he plans to stand as a candidate in the Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) constituency at the General Election. Bristol 24-7 reported last week that Mr Zero, formerly known as Eric Mutch, intended to stand as a candidate in Bristol South, where
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With an announcement of the date of the General Election seemingly just days away, The Journal takes a look at how the main political parties have been building up their campaigns in the fight for the new Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) constituency. The last few days have seen the first election leaflets dropping on doormats in Bradley Stoke. In
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The Journal is pleased to announce that our Filton and Bradley Stoke 2010 General Election page is now carrying automatically updated news alerts from the local candidates of all three major party candidates. Following a request from The Journal, Conservative candidate Jack Lopresti has now fixed the RSS feed on his jacklopresti.com website, which enables us to automatically grab his
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The British National Party (BNP) has announced that it is to contest the Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) parliamentary seat at the upcoming General Election. The news, which the BNP claims will “shock the party’s opponents”, was revealed in a posting on the far-right party’s website on Saturday (13th March). The article names “lifelong Bristol resident” David Scott as the
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Conservative candidate Ernie Brown has been declared the winner of yesterday’s by-election in the Meadowbank parish ward of Bradley Stoke. Mr Brown gained 31 more votes than his only rival, Liberal Democrat Sachin Singhal. The result leaves the political composition of Bradley Stoke Town Council unchanged, with the Conservatives having twelve seats against the the Liberal Democrats’ two (one further
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Local party activists have been busy campaigning for the Meadowbank by-election, which takes place on Thursday this week (26th November). Liberal Democrat candidate Sachin Singhal attended last week’s meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council, where he made use of the “questions from the public” session to confront Councillors with a query about healthcare provision in the town. According to Mr
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Campaigning for the upcoming by-election in Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbank parish ward is now under way, with the first party political leaflets being delivered to homes in the area. The by-election, which takes place on Thursday 26th November, sees one candidate from each of the local Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties battling for a seat that became vacant after David Skeet
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