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Bucks Fizz singer set to stand as Brexit Party MP
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 28 August 2019
Former Bucks Fizz member Jay Aston – now one third of the lost-trademark-battle-tastic The Fizz – is to stand as a candidate for The Brexit Party if and when Prime Minister ‘Boris’ Johnson calls a snap General Election (which in turn assumes he doesn’t just abolish Parliament entirely next week).
Aston will stand in the London borough of Kensington, currently held by Labour, and is one of 635 “approved candidates” unveiled by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage yesterday.
“I want to stand for the Brexit Party and fight to uphold democracy for the sake of the people”, she says. “As an MP, I will work to rebuild trust and help the Brexit Party make the necessary reforms to unite the country after we break free of the European Union”.
Quite how she plans to do all that reforming and uniting via a party with no actual policies and which stands for just one thing – something at least half the country opposes – remains unclear. Sing them a nice song? That said, given how much success Farage has had to date without having any concrete plans about anything, maybe she’ll win in a landslide. I mean, in London it’s unlikely. Except nothing is unlikely in British politics anymore.
Bucks Fizz – or The Fizz, rather – have an association with Brexit that dates back to before the referendum. Then going by the name Formerly Of Bucks Fizz, Aston – along with Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan – were one of the few groups willing to be associated with pro-Brexit pop concert B Pop Live. An event that was cancelled because it wasn’t possible to find enough acts willing to be associated with it (they did manage to book an Elvis impersonator though).
The UK, of course, is currently scheduled to plop out of the European Union for reasons no one can quite remember on 31 Oct – with Johnson now planning to shut down parliament for a bit so that no one can do anything about it.
When there might be a General Election for Aston to stand in remains unknown. Some think it may be as early as 1 Nov, which could be a problem for her, as she’s got tour dates with The Fizz booked in from next month until May next year. Still, her buddy Farage has made a career out of cashing the cheques while not really doing much actual work as a politician, so perhaps that’s her plan too.
