The Lawyers Gunning for Election
A legal career just hasn’t made them unpopular enough…
So these brave legal souls are hoping to become MPs after the people of Britain have had their vote tomorrow.
According to the Gazette, the Law Society has identified more than 20 constituencies which are likely to elect a new solicitor MP at the general election. The political hopefulls come from a variety of firms including Field Fisher Waterhouse, Herbert Smith and Travers Smith, Halliwells and Wragge & Co. The masochists candidates are listed as follows:
Steve Barclay, Conservative, East Cambridgeshire
Jake Berry, Conservative, Rossendale and Darwen
Norsheen Bhatti, Conservative, Stoke-on-Trent Central
Kevin Bonavia, Labour, Rochford & Southend East
Bambos Charalambous, Labour, Enfield, Southgate
Laura Edge, Liberal Democrats, Finchley and Golders Green
Charlie Elphicke, Conservative, Dover
Jonathan Evans, Conservative, Cardiff North
Kevin Foster, Conservative, Coventry South
Helen Grant, Conservative, Maidstone and The Weald
Jamie Hanley, Labour, Pudsey
Trevor Ivory, Conservative, North Norfolk
Robert Jenrick, Conservative, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Gareth Johnson, Conservative, Dartford
Maryam Khan, Labour, Bury North
Nicky Morgan, Conservative, Loughborough
Anne Marie Morris, Conservative, Newton Abbot
Edwin Northover, Conservative, Leyton and Wanstead
David Nuttall, Conservative, Bury North
Dominic Raab, Conservative, Esher and Walton
Mark Reckless, Conservative, Rochester and Strood
John Stevenson, Conservative, Carlisle
Chuka Umunna, Labour, Streatham
James Wharton, Conservative, Stockton South
Hamish Sandison, Labour, Monmouth
Serena Tierney, Liberal Democrats, Mid Sussex
Good luck to them all.










May 5, 2010
the mess this country’s in they will need more than good luck