Now that Fathers 4 Justice have chosen to hang up their capes, you may have been forced to reluctantly conclude that the era of endearingly unhinged single-issue parties was drawing to a close. Not so! The latest bunch of have-a-go hero(ines) railing against the evil spectre of political correctness are Mum’s Army, a political party set up by best-selling women’s weekly Take a Break.With plans afoot to enter 54 candidates in local council elections on a platform of zero tolerance towards anti-social behaviour, violent video games and ‘swarthy Eastern European sorts with hairy palms’, the Tunbridge Wells vote is already seemingly in the bag. Only problem is, caught up in the self-righteous fervour of it all, it seems no-one has actually bothered to check whether there’s an election taking place. See this quote from the Guardian:
“Random calls to two of the four candidates put forward for interview by Take a Break reveals that planning may have been a bit slack. One of the candidates is based in Dyfed, where there are no local elections this year.
The other is a well-intentioned widowed father of seven living in Cambridgeshire, where again, no local elections are due. One hazards a guess at how many other candidates are likely to bewilder local residents as they canvass for a non-existent local election.
Yet another example of the metropolitan elite conspiring to drown out the voice of the ordinary people of Great Britain?
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