Internet Party Candidates announced…

… and what a cool looking bunch!

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left to right: Chris Yong (Party list 2), Miriam Pierard (Party list 3), Laila Harré (Party list 1), Beverley Ballantine (Party list 5), David Currin (Party list 4)

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The Internet Party today released their candidates list. Definitely a cosmopolitan, 21st Century-looking group.

In fact, they kinda remind me of another group of adventurous young people, from the BBC fantasy-sf series, Torchwood;

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Part of the introductory voice-over narrative of Torchwood could easily be a mission-statement for a modern, 21st Century social democratic, people’s-internet party;

The twenty-first century is when everything changes. And you’ve got to be ready.

What better changes could there be, than the  modernisation of socialism, and the formation  of a newer, sophisticated, more adaptive Left wing?

“ Everything changes…”

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References

The Daily Blog:  UPDATE – The Internet MANA Party list

Wikipedia: Torchwood

Additional

Scoop media: Internet Party Candidates Online to Reboot Government

Party Lists – Election 2014

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Above image acknowledgment: Francis Owen/Lurch Left Memes

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