Amjad Bashir: The Tories' New Party Animal

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The Tory Party has welcomed a new MEP to the fold this weekend, as UKIP MEP Amjad Bashir joined the Conservatives.

Party Hard: Amjad Bashir

 
However, as defectors go Bashir might not be the catch he once seemed. That's because it turns out that claiming his support is a little like having slept with Russell Brand. Initially impressive until you think about how many people can probably say the same. It turns out that as well as being a UKIP bigwig, Bashir has also been a member of George Galloway's ultra-leftist Respect Party, and it turns out Labour too.

Does Bashir's love of parties stop there though? As these pictures show, Mr Bashir's love of a party doesn't stop there.

 

Bashir was a stalwart in The People's Front of Judea...

  His defection to the Bolshevik Party was hailed as a 'major coup' for Lenin, although he was little known due to Stalin editing him out of pictures and official documents.

 

The 'Gang of Four' who began the SDP were originally the Gang of Five - but Amjad's principles led to him shunning publicity...

  And after his defection to the Monster Raving Loony Party he became Amjad The Flying Biscuit Tin Pocahontas Barley Water Bashir...

Although, not even as big a party animal as Amjad would turn up at the wake presided over by Nick Clegg...

 

101 Days To Go...

I’m starting this blog because like many I will be following the run-up to the general election with the eye of the political anorak, and know others will as well. As such I thought I'd rather like to have an outlet for my thoughts on each day of the long campaign in what could be one of the most bizarre and close general elections in history.

It may be a pithy observation on the day’s events, a picture or video- or sometimes a comprehensive explanation of my view on the day’s electoral sparring and what it means for the election.

I am a left of centre Labour supporter, which of course will colour my view slightly, however I hope that doesn’t mean that I suspend my critical faculties and will be looking at the facts beneath the bluster and won’t hold back on aiming to capture what might be happening – even if that is contrary to the way I’ll ultimately vote on May 7^th.

It’s my view that many of the memes and slogans you hear from all parties are inevitably often caricatures and gross exaggerations (including those parties which cast themselves as outsiders and innocents), so I shall generally write from a sceptical point of view and try to be explicative, humourous and interesting where possible.

Because if all we have to read watch and listen to for the next 101 days is claim and counter-claim, dodgy dossier followed by rebuttal and muddy argument – it’s going to feel like an absolute eternity.