Campaign Launch
PRESS INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Reg Keys, founder member of Military Families Against the War, launched his
campaign to contest the Sedgefield constituency in the forthcoming general
election today, 6 April 2005, in Ferryhill, Co Durham.
Introducing Reg Keys, Bob Clay, former Labour MP for Sunderland North who is
acting as agent, said:
'We will be running a serious campaign with a full voter canvass. I believe
Reg Keys has a real chance of winning this constituency from Blair and I
consider it an honour to support him.'
Martin Bell, former Independent MP for Tatton, said:
'What an independent campaign needs in order to succeed is firstly a good
candidate, secondly a good cause and finally an unpopular and discredited
sitting MP. In this case we have all three. Reg keys is not a politician but
he is exactly what a politician should be, straightforward, decent,
intelligent, caring and industrious.'
Musician Brian Eno said:
'I sense a process going on in government, led by Blair himself, of the
gradual dismemberment of democracy. I regard Reg Keysç´ campaign as a way of
halting this process and of separating off the Blair tendency from the
Labour Party itself.'
Reg Keys said:
'Tony Blair led this country into an illegal war on the basis of weapons of
mass destruction which did not exist, and he asks us, with his schoolboy
grin, to put this behind us. I'm sorry Mr Blair, but there has to be
accountability - you cannot just walk away from this with impunity. I am
here to hold you to account for the human and material costs of this war.'
On Thursday 6 April Reg Keys will be at Sedgefield Common at 10.30 where he
will begin the full house-to-house canvass of the constituency. On Friday 7
April he will be at Ferryhill market, again at 10.30.
ENDS
Note to Editors:
If you would like Reg Keys to write an article for your publication please
contact Jane Mayes on 07748 640 183.
CONTACT:
Keys for Sedgefield Campaign
Jane Mayes
07748 640 183
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