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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Sun Apr 23, 2017, 01:37 PM Apr 2017

General election 2017: Women's Equality Party leader to challenge MP Philip Davies

General election 2017: Women's Equality Party leader to challenge MP Philip Davies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39683982

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General election 2017: Women's Equality Party leader to challenge MP Philip Davies (Original Post) shenmue Apr 2017 OP

Good: Philip Davies is possibly the worst MP in Parliament, against much competition LeftishBrit Apr 2017 #1

LeftishBrit

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1. Good: Philip Davies is possibly the worst MP in Parliament, against much competition

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Sun Apr 23, 2017, 02:05 PM

Apr 2017

He is nominally a Tory. However, his father was a frankly far-right ('English Democrat', then RW Independent) Mayor of Doncaster; and it is hard not to suspect that the younger Davies would not also have stood for a far-right party if he could have easily got into Parliament that way.

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