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And the Lib Dems think she's a high flyer

2004-09-15T13:15:00.000-07:00

Jody Dunn has come forward with this awesome revealation:

Clearly it is up to the people of Hartlepool to decide who is the best person to be their next MP

Err, yes. Was there ever a suggestion otherwise?

Clearly Mrs Dunn is hurt by Labour's ruthless assault on her for describing those people she canvassed as drunk - so much so that her blog has been filled up with messages from Lib Dems wishing her good luck - including one that purported to be from her husband (though that one mysteriously disappeared - anybody got a copy of it, I cannot remember it saying anything damaging, but maybe panic has seized them?).

The one thing the poll for Channel Four News showed was just how important it is for the parties of the right in Hartlepool to get their act together. Combined the Tories and UKIP are polling just as much as the Lib Dems, but they seem unable to make an impact and neither is acting as a clear rallying point for their natural supporters. Cannot see many of their voters backing Jody though.

Where is Jody Dunn living?

2004-09-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

Along with UKIP's campaign manager Piers Merchant, Jody Dunn claims to have been living at the Marina.

Yet she has also gone on repeatedly (and here) about her cat and all her other pets.

Well, the thing is, my sources say that she is unlikely to be allowed to keep pets at the Marina.

Jody Dunn and hunting

2004-09-10T09:38:00.000-07:00

Jody Dunn aspires to be elected as an MP on 30th September. Presumably, then, she has a view on hunting she will let us all know?

The collected poetic works of Jody Dunn

2004-09-05T03:24:00.000-07:00

Jodie Dunn/Jody Beveridge's works can be read here. You can read the Sunday Times's review of her workhere.

Mrs Dunn and anti-science

2004-09-02T00:34:00.000-07:00

Jody Dunn has decided to consort with an extreme 'Animal Rights' organisation called Uncaged.

Uncaged oppose all animal experiementation. Is Mrs Dunn now going to tour Hartlepool's hospital and explain to the many patients there who have benefitted from animal-based experimentation that she thinks they should have continued to suffer? Or was her visit just a sham to imply support?

Where does she stand on genetic research? Does she think that should be banned too?

And does her liberalism extend to banning hunting?

Ve haf vays of making you vote Lib Dem

2004-09-01T03:27:00.000-07:00

Jody Dunn so wants British industry to succeed that she appears to host her website in Germany...

Anyone care to deny it? (Visit http://www.pureserver.info and see what you think.)

traceroute to www.jodydunn.org.uk (82.165.40.25), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 * * * 2.517 ms 1.535 ms 0.575 ms
2 * * * 32.755 ms 32.888 ms 31.767 ms
3 217.47.197.33 (217.47.197.33) 39.092 ms 217.47.197.34 (217.47.197.34) 30.924 ms 217.47.197.1 (217.47.197.1) 31.056 ms
4 217.47.197.110 (217.47.197.110) 32.999 ms 217.47.197.106 (217.47.197.106) 32.980 ms 33.258 ms
5 inh3cs02-500.imsnet3.btopenworld.com (213.1.119.62) 35.174 ms 32.977 ms 33.451 ms
6 btfl04-gig8-7.imsnet3.btopenworld.com (213.1.119.157) 33.470 ms 36.943 ms 31.747 ms
7 core1-pos6-2.ealing.ukcore.bt.net (194.72.9.249) 33.813 ms 34.776 ms 31.509 ms
8 core1-pos4-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (194.74.65.113) 31.454 ms 33.060 ms 33.464 ms
9 linx.gw-backbone-a.lon.schlund.net (195.66.224.98) 35.167 ms 32.949 ms 33.415 ms
10 so-7000.gw-backbone-a.bs.ka.schlund.net (212.227.120.0) 49.196 ms 48.783 ms 45.287 ms
11 a0kac2a.gw-distp-a.bs.ka.schlund.net (212.227.121.210) 47.239 ms 48.698 ms 45.286 ms
12 pkad1.gw-prtr-r10-a.bs.ka.schlund.net (212.227.34.198) 47.304 ms 48.730 ms 51.249 ms
13 p15158618.pureserver.info (82.165.40.25) 47.623 ms 48.937 ms 47.377 ms

Brussels, Gainford, Hartlepool - they're all great places

2004-08-28T04:53:00.000-07:00

The Liberal Democrats are desperately trying to present Jody Dunn as a Hartlepudlian - she is always referred to as a "local barrister", when in fact she lives in Gainford, to the west of Darlington.

But she hasn't been there very long either - until quite recently she was actually living in Vlaams, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, just outside Brussels.

And she loved it:

“Brussels is one of the most vibrant cities I have ever visited.”
(Middlesbrough Evening Gazette 28/10/03)

“Autumn here has been spectacular, and we've joined in the Belgian tradition”
(Evening Gazette 28/10/03)

“I'll certainly shed a few tears when we leave!”
(Evening Gazette 28/10/03)

“Hasta Luego from sunny Brussels!”
(Evening Gazette 14/10/03)

It seems the Tories are alive after all!

2004-08-26T02:31:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Mrs Dunn's blog we know that the Tories do have an office here.
Just no candidate.

Her blog is remarkable for a simple thing: it contains no politicial comment whatsoever - except for the usual liberal bleating on behalf of drug abusers:

I felt very strongly by the end that the 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' brigade could do well to find out a little more about the issues involved before putting out such a simplistic and misguided message.

The problem for Mrs Dunn is that the vast majority of the people of this town are members of that very brigade.

Tories dead? Over to UKIP?

2004-08-21T02:18:00.000-07:00

It seems the Tories are finished - at least Mrs Dunn thinks they are.

So the real choice for right wing voters in Hartlepool - and there are a lot of them - will be between UKIP and the Lib Dems.

Personally, can see no reason why a right wing, anti-Labour voter would want to back the likes of Jody Dunn - given her fanatical pro-EU views.

The politics of Islington

2004-08-16T02:58:00.000-07:00

According to local gossip Jodie resents being labelled a Quaker fan because, in fact, she supports Islington's finest - Arsenal.

How very appropriate.

Although we are all conditioned to think of Islington as Blairville, these days it has a Lib Dem controlled council as the trendy lefties of North London have rather gone off Mr B's robust approach to foreign policy and cracking down on yobs.

Not only that, but all these taxes to pay for the tax credits mean that it is rather difficult for Charles and Jennifer to pay for Jocasta's school fees and the pony.

In step the Lib Dems - the perfect blend of soft Tory populism and vaccuous leftism.

Sounds quite like our Jodie in fact. If you wanted a clinching piece of evidence then this is it: Jody is a veggie, the sine qua non of North London vaccuity.

It is not so long ago the Lib Dems were attacking people for being vegetarians so I doubt they'll be drawing attaention to Jody's views on eating meat - so I guess I'll have to do it instead.

Jody Dunn wants an EU marrage law

2004-08-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

Fancy letting the bureaucrats of Brussels decide whether you are married? Want the Germans to decide if you are divorced? Judy Dunn does.

Jody Beveridge/Dunn has written an article entitled, “Is it time for couples to be joined in European harmony?” (Times 9/12/03)

Jody has written approvingly of Nina Dethloff’s (of Bonn University) idea of a ‘European marriage’, offering the same protection to couples involved in marriages which cross borders, overcoming religious, moral and cultural problems.

‘Harmonising divorce legislation across Europe is not a current option because of the huge religious, moral and cultural problems this would pose. So what is the solution? One suggestion I've heard recently is to adopt a "European Marriage" which would offer the same protection wherever the couple lived within the EU.Of course the very idea of such a thing is bound to invoke fury in Euro-sceptics"
Jody Beveridge/Dunn, Evening Gazette, Oct 14th 2003

“Ideally, children should have contact with their fathers, but the way to achieve it is not always obvious. Perhaps it would be worth considering the European scheme where a divorce will not be granted until arrangements on the contract are agreed. The threat of staying married to an “ex” may be the one thing that would persuade even the angriest mother to rethink her stance on contact” (Jody Beveridge/Dunn, The Times, 7/11/03)

“This week I’m writing to you from Finland [where her family are from], a country that most think is covered in snow all year round, but at the moment is enjoying better weather than Spain! [In Finland] the arrangement is that the children stay living in one home all the time, and it’s Mum and Dad who move in and out for contact, usually for about a week at a time” (Jody Beveridge/Dunn, Evening Gazette, 22/7/03)

“There are lessons to be learnt from European legislation” (Jody Beveridge/Dunn The Times 9/12/03).