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Chess man’s political move
11:10am Monday 12th November 2007
Comments (16)AN international chess player has been chosen as the UK Independence Party's candidate to contest the Bolton West constituency at the next General Election.
Harry Lamb will take on sitting Labour MP Ruth Kelly.
Susan Williams, the Trafford Council leader, has been chosen as the Tory candidate, while the Liberal Democrats have yet to make their choice.
Mr Lamb, aged 65, is the chairman of Bolton Chess Club and has competed in the British championships. Although he has not appeared in the World Chess Championship, he once trained former British number one Nigel Short, who has played Garry Kasparov in the world final.
Mr Lamb competes in international competitions, and was most recently in Germany, but that is where his affinity with Europe ends.
A former Conservative, he backs UKIP's policy of withdrawing from the European Union and said he had joined the party because he was appalled by what he sees as dictatorship and financial fraud coming from Brussels and the behaviour of the two main parties at home.
Mr Lamb, who said he opposed the congestion charge currently being considered for Greater Manchester by Ms Kelly's department for transport, added: "I do not think Bolton is being represented in Parliament at the moment.
"The Labour parliamentary candidates have no interest in the town and are only interested in their political careers. If politicians are not interested in voters, why should voters be interested in politics?
"Having been a Boltonian all my life I want to represent the town and look after the interests of local people in parliament."
Of the EU, he said: "An unelected commission dictates our laws. The accounts have not been approved for several years, but the EU does not care.
"The leaders of the commission are unelected. There is no democratic pressure on them."
A Wanderers season ticket holder, Mr Lamb grew up in Halliwell and now lives in Junction Road, Deane, and is a widower with two sons.
He is the managing director of a Hong Kong company manufacturing zirconium chemicals.
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JoePublic, Bolton says...
11:48am Mon 12 Nov 07
tom3465, farnworth says...
11:53am Mon 12 Nov 07
Jethro Tull, Bolton says...
12:06pm Mon 12 Nov 07
Personally, I wish him well. It would be good to have something different from the 3 main political (lying) parties. Getting us out of the EU would benefit us all.
JoePublic, Bolton says...
1:15pm Mon 12 Nov 07
Jethro Tull, Bolton says...
1:19pm Mon 12 Nov 07
JoePublic wrote:none could be madder than those who would vote Liebour now !
I always thought UKIP was made up of those too mad for the Tory party.
JoePublic, Bolton says...
1:22pm Mon 12 Nov 07
tom3465, farnworth says...
1:43pm Mon 12 Nov 07
don060541, devon says...
5:58pm Mon 12 Nov 07
Why cant he retire like normal pepole instead of wanting to run other pepoles lives.
Also how is he going to manage a company with a job as a MP.
David Lonsdale, Spain says...
7:07pm Mon 12 Nov 07
Furthermore, EU regulation costs industry 60 billion per year.
Of most concern is the fact that 85 per cent of our laws are made in Brussells and our own MPs have no power to override them. This is dictatorship. Britain must leave the EU if it is to prosper as a free nation and if the party of Mr Lamb is the only party willing to say so, then he should get our vote.
As for UKIP being another Tory party, Tony Benn also thinks we should leave the EU. Does that make him a Tory?
King Eric, . says...
7:32pm Mon 12 Nov 07
He said its members were
"fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly"
King Eric, . says...
7:38pm Mon 12 Nov 07
Meet John Pratt, a United Kingdom Independence Party member for 5 years and a Welsh black cattle farmer. Mr Pratt has made the news after being elected Welsh chairman of UKIP. John Pratt, from Llanfilo near Brecon, is a party candidate in the Welsh assembly election in May.
We at UKIP@ HOME do wonder how much EU farm subsidies Mr Pratt receives? And as he hates the European Union and everything it stands for he wouldn't be a complete hypocrite and accept large sums of cash in the form of EU farm subsidies would he? We look forward to Mr Pratt putting his money where his mouth is, standing by his anti-EU principles and refusing to accept any more cash from the nasty EU.
john, bolton says...
9:33pm Mon 12 Nov 07
King Eric wrote:I agree, UKIP are a 'one-trick pony' whose simple-minded nostrums inspire no one except the above mentioned.
I couldn't put in any better than David Cameron about UKIP. He said its members were"fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly"
wakeupandsmelltheros
es, Deane says...
11:33pm Mon 12 Nov 07
King Eric, ******************** says...
11:44pm Mon 12 Nov 07
and if the pubic of Bolton West
So that's what the Tories think about us ?
You had my vote until this outrage.
Simon, Kearsley says...
8:17am Tue 13 Nov 07
john wrote:Don't know about one trick Pony. They are adamant they will sort immigration, create new Grammar Schools, build more prisons, keep more control of our laws in the UK and dismantle much of the political correctness that stifles our Town Halls.
King Eric wrote:I agree, UKIP are a 'one-trick pony' whose simple-minded nostrums inspire no one except the above mentioned.
I couldn't put in any better than David Cameron about UKIP. He said its members were"fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly"
A vote for any of the three main Parties is a continuation of the same nonsense we have had for years. They deserve a chance, good luck.
YOUR MOVE: Harry Lamb, UKIP's candidate for Bolton West in the next General Election
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11:17am Mon 12 Nov 07