Politics
In May 2007, Van Day stood as a Conservative candidate for Brighton & Hove city council in the East Brighton ward but neither he or the other two Conservative candidates were successful in gaining a seat. He is a staunch supporter of the party and at the 2010 general election stated: "I was the panto villain in the jungle but Gordon Brown is far worse than I was."
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“The word “revolution” itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the “revolution” of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the “revolving door” of a politics which has “liberated” women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)