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Bez begins election campaign

By | Published on Wednesday 14 January 2015

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Bez has kicked off his campaign to become Salford’s new MP, with a billboard advert and some free beer.

As previously reported, the former Happy Mondays dancer is standing in this year’s General Election as a candidate for independent anti-fracking party Reality, which launched in March last year.

According to The Guardian, at an event to unveil his election advert bearing the slogan “join the revolution”, where he handed out bottles of “frack-free” beer, Bez said that “Labour has let everyone in Salford down. The Labour Party was supposed to defend the people and be for the working class, but now they only have ever-so-slightly different polices from the Conservatives”.

He apparently added that as well as campaigning for the banning of fracking, he will call for “a global democracy with free food (with the help of bees)”, where “all the spare land what’s going about” would be turned into a permaculture. Bez is, of course, a noted bee fan, despite once accidentally filling his pants with them.

Whether Bez can gain enough popularity to gain the safe Labour seat remains to be seen. A poll carried out last year showed that the public weren’t entirely convinced of his abilities as a politician.



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