Brexit Party pays pre-European Elections visit to county
A full-time mum from Gunby who shops in Skegness - Annunziata Rees-Mogg - is leading the local campaign as candidate the Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.
Ms Rees-Mogg and four other Brexit Party candidates for the region - Jonathan Bullock MEP, Matthew Patten, Tracy Knowles, Dr Anna Bailey - brought their street fight to Lumley Road on Bank Holiday Monday, handing out leaflets and talking to the public.
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Hide AdOnly two months old, the Party expected anger from a disillusioned public but received many pledges of support as your reporter interviewed Ms Rees-Mogg live on Facebook.
The former journalist, whose brother Jacob Rees-Mogg is a high profile Conservative MP, said: “I am standing to fight for the true Brexit that all of us voted for in the referendum of 2016, with a clear majority in this area that said they wanted to leave, but have been failed by our politicians who have given up and succumbed to EU wishes for us to be trapped.
“We believe in Brexit - we want to fight for a clean process to leave the EU as quickly as possible and return certainty to our business and employers, and to also show that our democracy is upheld.
“Our Prime Minister told us that we would leave on March 29 this year - we have not. She told us no deal was better than a bad deal and is trying to put through a terrible deal that would not give the British people the best outcome.
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Hide Ad“There is a really positive future for our country if we leave cleanly, quickly and restore faith in our democracy.
“It’s talking to my neighbours here in Lincolnshire that has stopped me being a full-time mum and stand up and fight.
“Skegness is where I do my shopping and the people here are worried what might happen if their votes are not listened to.
“We are not a dictatorship, we are a democracy - but we have to make sure our politicians enact what we voted for,”
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Hide AdFrom Skegness the party moved on to Boston, with other dates set ahead of the European Elections on May 23. There will be a big Brexit Party rally this Friday at 7pm at the Epic Centre at Lincolnshire Showground, which Nigel Farage is expected to attend.
Other candidates standard are:
CHANGE UK
Kate Godfrey
Joan Pons Laplana
Narinder Sharma
Pankajkumar Gulab
Emma Manley
CONSERVATIVE
Emma McClarkin
Rupert Matthews
Tony Harper
Brendan Clarke-Smith
Thomas Randall
GREEN
Kat Boettge
Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
Liam McClelland
Daniel Wimberley
Simon Tooke
INDEPENDENT NETWORK
Nick Byatt
Marianne Overton
Daniel Simpson
Pearl Clarke
Nikki Dillon
LABOUR
Rory Palmer
Leonie Mathers
Tony Tinley
Nicolle Ndiweni
Gary Godden
Liberal Democrats
Bill Newton Dunn
Michael Mullaney
Lucy Care
Suzanna Austin
Caroline Kenyon
UKIP
Alan Graves
Marietta King
Anil Bhatti
Fran Loi
John Evans
INDEPENDENT
Simon Rood