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2:12pm Wednesday 21st April 2010 in News
By Matt Smith, Politics and business reporter
SOUTHAMPTON independent candidate Kim Rose, above, has abandoned his campaign after a little over a week and endorsed his Tory rival.
He is urging his followers in the Itchen constituency to vote for fellow Eurosceptic and “local man” Royston Smith.
Mr Rose, a former socialist and latterly UK Independence party candidate who attracted 1,623 votes in 2005, said he was won over by Conservative plans to give “more power to the people”.
He launched his campaign by attacking Gordon Brown for costing the country an estimated £7 billion by selling off the nation’s gold reserves at rock bottom prices a decade ago.
He has run a series of newspaper adverts urging voters to pick a candidate who will “serve the people rather than his own bank account” and “health warnings” over plans to add fluoride to water supplies in the city.
Mr Rose, a jeweller, claimed Labour Cabinet minister John Denham, Itchen MP since 1992, had become remote from local issues. “Labour has had a long time to change things and not a lot has been,” he said.
Mr Smith said: “He’s a well known local chap. I’m grateful for his endorsement.”
Mr Denham declined to comment on the switch.
Lib Dem candidate David Goodall said: “I don’t think it’s of any significance really”.
Comments(23)
Bartonian
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2:24pm Wed 21 Apr 10
southy wrote:Any sign of your socialist candidates and their predicted surge in the polls yet Southy?
one joker for another joker things must be really bad for smith, are the normal tory voters backing to liberals in the itchen has well. if they are then the liberals will walk away with it.
Lone Ranger
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2:28pm Wed 21 Apr 10
damien thorn
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2:35pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Bartonian
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2:43pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Walter Kurtz
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2:48pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Bartonian wrote:Any sign of the alien life who walk among us or brainwashed "chipped" followers of the New World Order eh Bartonian? I suppose we are all entitled to our wild beliefs.....
southy wrote: one joker for another joker things must be really bad for smith, are the normal tory voters backing to liberals in the itchen has well. if they are then the liberals will walk away with it.Any sign of your socialist candidates and their predicted surge in the polls yet Southy?
Condor Man
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2:53pm Wed 21 Apr 10
H0ckeyd
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3:25pm Wed 21 Apr 10
southy
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3:30pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Bartonian wrote:it was to swop gold for bonds, the bonds have made us loads more money that the gold would off just sitting there doing nothing, to equal the amount that the bonds have earned this country gold would need to be at lest double the price at its best.
Being a jeweller, Mr Rose should have ample knowledge of the gold situation. For example, these so-called cash for gold websites are the result of the economic crisis. I believe that Mr Brown ws told from those above to sell the gold, as part of the drive in reducing the power of the nation-state.
Condor Man
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4:25pm Wed 21 Apr 10
southy
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4:33pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Condor Man wrote:and thats is why bonds have made more money for the uk than sitting on gold and waiting for the prices to up, and when they did go up at its peak it still could not bring in half has much has the bonds have done.
Bonds are just bundled debts, we've got plenty of those already.
stay local
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6:13pm Wed 21 Apr 10
southy wrote:Come on Southy surely you remember that Kim Rose stood at a previous election as the representative of Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party. So is he not just one of your disillusioned socialists he was the candidate for Southampton Itchen in 1997 and got 628 votes or 1.2%. Or has Thatcher also wiped your memory?
one joker for another joker things must be really bad for smith, are the normal tory voters backing to liberals in the itchen has well. if they are then the liberals will walk away with it.
warness
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7:15pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Saint Cope
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8:08pm Wed 21 Apr 10
southy
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8:26pm Wed 21 Apr 10
stay local wrote:humm tim cutter TUSC / CNWP :-) do your home work boy, in total there 84 candidates standing around the country and are expecting at lest 2 of them to be voted into government. with luck there will be more. note the words that TUSC stands for. Trade Unions & Socialist Coalition, that give you some idea what is going on out there, some are standing under the TUSC banner while others are standing under there own party banner.
southy wrote:Come on Southy surely you remember that Kim Rose stood at a previous election as the representative of Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party. So is he not just one of your disillusioned socialists he was the candidate for Southampton Itchen in 1997 and got 628 votes or 1.2%. Or has Thatcher also wiped your memory?
one joker for another joker things must be really bad for smith, are the normal tory voters backing to liberals in the itchen has well. if they are then the liberals will walk away with it.
How is the coming revolution when even your star candidates from a few years ago are now supporting the Conservative party?
For months you have been crying that we would see the rise of the CNWP but it has no candidates, even in your own area there is no candidate, when you could have represented the socialist ideals, instead you yourself have gone from saying you will not vote to supporting a candidate form another party.
You have no credibility.
Condor Man
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10:21pm Wed 21 Apr 10
Saint Cope wrote:I know one of the Tory boys, he is very highly regarded in Thornhill for his hard work as a councillor in the area. Don't judge everyone on appearances.
Both candidates were at Bitterne Market last Wednesday. Royston was campaigning outside Natwest Bank with a bunch of teenage, spotty Tory Boys. Mr Rose was a couple of stalls away flogging dodgy looking gold. I caught them having a 'chat' and suspected something like this to be announced. Wouldn't trust any of them....
stay local
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12:19am Thu 22 Apr 10
warness wrote:Alas like Southy your rhetoric is somewhat lacking, no I have not experienced dormitory life perhaps you would like to expand upon your experiences that leads you to this conclusion.
Stay local -V- Southy Neither has nominated a credible party, but if it comes to a streetfight, my vote goes to southy. SL has a very immature stance, I suspect previously bullied in the dormitory. Don't worry staylocal, one day guns will be legal, then you can MAKE THOSE BIG BOYS PAY!!
Bartonian
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9:07am Thu 22 Apr 10
Walter Kurtz wrote:You catch on quick Walter. We are entitled to our own opinions. Hate to disappoint you but I don't do aliens or look out for them. Like you said, if you want to think about the world in your own way, that is entirely your right.
Bartonian wrote:Any sign of the alien life who walk among us or brainwashed "chipped" followers of the New World Order eh Bartonian? I suppose we are all entitled to our wild beliefs.....southy wrote: one joker for another joker things must be really bad for smith, are the normal tory voters backing to liberals in the itchen has well. if they are then the liberals will walk away with it.Any sign of your socialist candidates and their predicted surge in the polls yet Southy?
Bartonian
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9:13am Thu 22 Apr 10
southy wrote:Really Southy? Considering gold prices have increased four-fold since that time, I don't think it was a good move at all. In fact, if you look back, he turned the gold into Euros. Look what has happened there? TRhe Euro exchange rate has achieved equal parity on occasions with Sterling, whilst your foes, the investment bankers have reaped the benefits. This gold would have gone up in value, not just sitting there doing nothing. Bit like you sitting in front of your computer, doing nothing other than making vacuous comments.
Bartonian wrote: Being a jeweller, Mr Rose should have ample knowledge of the gold situation. For example, these so-called cash for gold websites are the result of the economic crisis. I believe that Mr Brown ws told from those above to sell the gold, as part of the drive in reducing the power of the nation-state.it was to swop gold for bonds, the bonds have made us loads more money that the gold would off just sitting there doing nothing, to equal the amount that the bonds have earned this country gold would need to be at lest double the price at its best. so it was a very good move at the time and the right one.
southy
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3:54pm Thu 22 Apr 10
Bartonian wrote:it was the bonds that the gold paid for not the euro, and it was the bonds that made more than twice the amount if they just sat on the gold. gold dont gain you interest money, where has the bonds do, and gold gaining 4 times the amount then those bonds have earned 8 times the amount in interest money alone. let alone what you will get on them if they was to be sold now, because the bonds have gain in great value to.
southy wrote:Really Southy? Considering gold prices have increased four-fold since that time, I don't think it was a good move at all. In fact, if you look back, he turned the gold into Euros. Look what has happened there? TRhe Euro exchange rate has achieved equal parity on occasions with Sterling, whilst your foes, the investment bankers have reaped the benefits. This gold would have gone up in value, not just sitting there doing nothing. Bit like you sitting in front of your computer, doing nothing other than making vacuous comments.
Bartonian wrote: Being a jeweller, Mr Rose should have ample knowledge of the gold situation. For example, these so-called cash for gold websites are the result of the economic crisis. I believe that Mr Brown ws told from those above to sell the gold, as part of the drive in reducing the power of the nation-state.it was to swop gold for bonds, the bonds have made us loads more money that the gold would off just sitting there doing nothing, to equal the amount that the bonds have earned this country gold would need to be at lest double the price at its best. so it was a very good move at the time and the right one.
Odd Man Out
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8:49am Fri 30 Apr 10
freemantlegirl2
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10:08am Sat 1 May 10
freemantlegirl2
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10:08am Sat 1 May 10
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southy says...
2:18pm Wed 21 Apr 10