Go gettem girl
That's all.
The citizens of Tunbridge Wells may not have been disgusted, but a few will quite possibly have been spluttering into their cornflakes Friday morning at the news that a well-known director of adult films will be standing as a parliamentary candidate for a nearby Kent constituency. Anna Arrowsmith – better known to …
They sell it thru Anne Summers, and the missus fancied seeing some, because of the "female-friendly" labels tagged on to it.
It was imaginative in terms of scenario, but, tbh, neither of us found it particularly erotic - more amusing because of the absurdity of the scenarios being played out.
Meh, good luck to her anyway - be nice if someone with a streak of personality and drive got into Westminster. Especially someone who has, as El Reg puts it, "a commitment to following through", fnar fnar...!
....and from the clips there it didn't actually look very different from most male-oriented porn. I know that there is a certain lack of possible things you can do with two people of the opposite sex, but I suppose that women would prefer to avoid the classic facial/bukkake thing. I didn't notice the lack of that though.
So... Kent is the California of UK by the look of it.
At the elections won by the Governator there were a couple of such "alternative" candidates. One was Larry Flint. His credentials both political and "non-political" are considerably more hard-core than the credentials of this lady. Another one was Mary Carey which coined what should probably be the best slogan of all times: "But unlike one of the presidential primary contenders, I’m actually a politician you’d want to get screwed by!"
Hm... really food for thought... Probably Mary is right - the people from this business _ARE_ the right people for us to be screwed by...
Good on you girl. A little bit of honesty could (perhaps) go a long way in politics. I think ( and actually, hope ) that the Lib Dems have as much chance of making a significant political impact as a fart in a thunderstorm, But I wish you well and hope you make a real impact on politics. All the very best to a real champion.
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As 'Anna Span', she's even been on "Woman's Hour" talking about her work, so she's almost 'respectable' already. Fair play to the Lib Dems for being brave enough to let her stand, although I have a nagging doubt about whether they'd have let her stand if they thought they had a chance of winning.
In the unlikely event she is elected I have a suggestion for what she might address first. Nothing nasty you understand. There is some bloke keeps walking around the British Isles naked, and is the target of chronic oppression from Plod and Jack the Straw's department. In Germany it would not be newsworthy on any day of the year. She would be in a position to make this persecution look silly - perhaps by having her actors dress up as policemen, scarecrows, pigs, fuzz, etc. She says her pr0n is political, and it would be an opportunity to demonstrate to her constituency whether she is merely parroting the fashionable line on de Sade, whether she means business, or whether she is just putting her mouth where the money shot is.
Almost 20 years ago the porn start Ilona Staller won election to the Italian parliament. I regret to say that she shortly after fell into disreputable company, marrying the American "artist" Jeff Koons. (He has since made an honest woman of her, assuming that the divorce means that she is no longer involved with his artistic endeavors.) The moral of the story, if there is one, probably is to stay away from parliaments lest your standards be impaired.
It's because you need to have lived in a constituancy for a certain number of years before you're allowed to run.
I want my "vote of no confidence in the system of government" checkbox, surely it should be a human right to wish for such a change if the current system is perceived as not working and simply changing ruling party won't solve the situation.
Sadly, the government is no longer the embodyment of the will of the people and is just a way of making money for your corporate friends.
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It's because you need to have lived in a constituancy for a certain number of years before you're allowed to run.
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I wish it were so. Just look at the way MPs are parachuted into safe seats when their old constituency starts to look a bit wobbly for proof that it isn't.
"spluttering into their cornflakes Friday morning"
ON Friday morning!
Whilst I recognise that the Reg readership is international, I see no reason whatsoever for the crass Americanisation of copy for what is a very English-centric article on a UK-based website.
3/10 - See me.
Her answer to the Question Time question today was as bigoted and closed-minded as one can get:
"Do you think former directors of porn films should be in Parliament?" "No no no no!"
I'm *very* glad that Ms Widdecome is standing down this time - she's now proven herself to be a bigot. There should be no space in Parliament for people who discard others *out of hand* without even talking to them or reading what they have to say, merely based on newspaper reports of their job description. (Unfortunately, given the childish mess that is PMQs I'm not surprised.)
Sorry Ms Widdecome, I hate to say this - but you are being bigoted and prejudicial. I used to respect you (if not agree with you), but now I most definitely do not.
Ms Arrowsmith's adult films were and remain completely legal, despite the excessively harsh and vague legal framework recently pushed through to the dismay of most.
If she wants to stand, then she should stand and be proud.
I am however very disappointed that none of the media or politicians have paid any attention to her as a person - what are her views? What does *she* stand for?
..... just probably not where she'd stick 'em in one of her films! At least, as she says, she is a successful businesswoman in a male-dominated industry, and she has done so through hard work rather than simply toeing the dominant, male line. Whatever you think of her "work", it is legal and highly competitive, so she can't be thick. I suspect this is actually a quite shrewd move by the Libs as she does compare very favourably to many of the vacuous "Blair's Babes" that NuLuddite stuffed their party with just to try and grab the female vote. Looks like poor Adam Holloway will actually have a real battle on his hands, though she may end up stealing votes from dissatisfied Labour voters tired of Broooon the Goon and keeping Holloway in the seat.
And I thought everyone knew feminine ejaculation existed?
Never once before this have I ever seen any feminist in favour of pornography. Their view on it to date is that it is exploiting women and portraying them as sex objects. It has nothing to do with *them* enjoying sex or not, just that they never liked the idea of commoditising it in that fashion.
And no, I don't make the mistake of confusing feminists with lesbians. In fact, I don't make the mistake of confusing feminists with *women*. Because most of the most obnoxious feminists I've dealt with have actually been men, while some of our staunchest supporters in our various campaigns against the feminists have been women themselves. Let me guess: you're male, right?
Go and have a look at www.mensrights.com.au. Not only will it show you some of the more egregious excesses of feminism, you'll also note that its founder and managing director is a woman.
Probably this is a good idea. Perhaps someone could field another la Cicciolina, and we really could do with copying the Australian 'sex party'. Labour - with its lies and other twisting of the statistical tail until it broke - has proved to be about as backward as Victorian England, with its dislike of faces on the fabric of chair covers; curve fitting or 'bending' is not uncommon in science, but Whacky Jacqui, her descendents and some of her colleagues (e.g. Harriet Harperson) have grabbed the scientific metre, put it across their scabrous knees, and have broken it. So please, more candidates from the sex industry to take on these vile, hypocritical, lying, venal, twisted throwbacks with their personalised view of how the world should be.
What happened to economists, (real) engineers, industrialists ?
I have nothing against he candidate per se' [in all likelihood she is better than the existing lot]... but this shows that as a society we take censorship more seriously than re-building the economy or tackling global warming.
Why are we (errr...) hung up on issues which take our focus away from real ones. And while we can hurrah her personal achievements in the 'prawn' industry [no doubt impressive], do we really need fashion designers, makeup artistes and film directors to run our ship ? IMO NO, we want them to entertain us - not lead us.
Leaders can come from any corner yes, but I am not sure if this is a case of natural leader caught in an irrelevant job. This is a case of political opportunity due to a raging issue - which by itself is of not much importance compared to real issues.