2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election website he stands for liberating "ourselves from the governing classes, those lords of misrule" The Miss Great Britain Party candidate was Gemma Garrett, following her last place, as an Independent, at the earlier Crewe and Nantwich by-election. The party registered with the Electoral Commission after that election. Garrett expressed opposition to David Davis, declaring herself "happy to be locked up for 42 days if I am a suspect". Tess Culnane was the National Front candidate; she was a 2004 London Assembly election candidate for the British National Party. and a London Assembly election, 2008 candidate for the NF. David Pinder
2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election remarked "I may be a loony but I'm not mad enough to want dangerous people to be walking the streets" She has previously stood in Sunderland South in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. The Socialist Equality Party stood Chris Talbot as its candidate on a programme of "genuine" socialism with a particular emphasis on a defence of "democratic rights". He is a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and contested South Wales Central in the 2007 National Assembly for Wales election. David Icke said he would stand for election under the slogan "Big Brother - the "Big" Picture", but