Video Interview with David Yates
Newbury Weekly News film of Apolitical Candidate for Newbury, Dave Yates answering questions sent in by the public ahead of #GE17 The following questions were chosen and asked in this order, so you can jump to the questions that most interest you. · What do you think is the biggest issue affecting West Berkshire and what would you do to tackle it? · What will the best Brexit deal look like? · What would your party do to protect...
Thatcham Hustings
Dave Yates is answering questions from the public at Thatcham Baptist Church today Tuesday, from 7.15pm for a 7.45pm start. Free parking will be available in the Burdwood Centre car park. http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/21492/question-time-for-newbury-candidates.html...
Apolitical Parliamentary Candidate for Newbury 2017
David Yates will be standing as the Apolitical candidate in the coming General Election. Many of our supporters will be aware that Dave has stood for us before, in the 2010 General Election and in local elections since 2007. As Apoliticals, we regret the calling of this snap election as an expensive and cynical party political act. However in the light of the worldwide trend in which citizens are rejecting the failed tribalism...
About Apolitical Democracy
‘Apolitical’ describes a convention of impartiality amongst people active in politics, like the Speaker of the Commons, the Cross-Benchers in the Lords or most parish councillors, who are not subject to the party ‘whip’ or told what to think by a political party. Apolitical offers a different way. We are a local group of independents with differing points of view but who share a belief in collaboration not...
Post General Election 2010
In many respects we have moved closer to our ideal of an apolitical democracy. The country has chosen not to wholly endorse any of the three tired old tribes and yet the parties continue to scrabble amongst the rubble in an entirely undemocratic process of ‘king making’.
Apolitical Election Day Joke
‘Welcome to heaven,’ says St. Peter.
‘Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.’
