Prospective Candidates For The Next General Election
In November 2010 Sal Brinton, the Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2005 and 2010 elections, was appointed to the House of Lords as a working peer.
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Famous quotes containing the words candidates, general and/or election:
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)