When Brian May quizzed Russell Brand about his revolution at a screening earlier this month, the Queen guitarist mentioned that he had launched his own campaign, called Common Decency. The scheme supports ‘decent candidates’ irrespective of their party:
‘We’ve been asking for feedback on who is actually a decent candidate and who would listen, genuinely act for the interests of their constituents, whichever party they are from.’
May says the aim is to try and ‘unseat MPs in all these safe seats’ where ‘often the percentage of people who didn’t vote is greater than those who voted for one party’.
Since May previously identified himself as a Tory it may come as some surprise to his local Conservative candidate Victoria Borwick that Kensington is one of the safe seats he is targeting. Speaking with the Labour candidate Dr Rod Abouharb last night, the Queen guitarist says that his group will be backing Abouharb as ‘Kensington sorely needs a change’:
Indeed if Lady Borwick, who was drafted into the safe seat after Sir Malcolm Rifkind resigned following a cash-for-access scandal, is elected on Thursday as predicted, she won’t be much of a change for the Tories.
Although Borwick would help David Cameron with his women problem, she is also a fellow Old Etonian. Borwick was one of a select number of girls who were allowed to attend the prestigious boys’ school as part of an experiment during the 1970s. This would make her the eighth Old Etonian standing for a London constituency in this election. Well, some things never change.
When Brian May quizzed Russell Brand about his revolution at a screening earlier this month, the Queen guitarist mentioned that he had launched his own campaign, called Common Decency. The scheme supports ‘decent candidates’ irrespective of their party: ‘We’ve been asking for feedback on who is actually a decent candidate and who would listen, genuinely act for the
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