Martin Bell and Terry Waite plan candidate list to target discredited MPs

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Martin Bell and Terry Waite are marshalling a network of anti-sleaze independent candidates to target the seats of MPs discredited by their expense claims, including the shadow leader of the commons, Alan Duncan.

Bell, a former war reporter and independent MP, is teaming up with former Beirut hostage Waite to organise as many as 25 independent candidates around the country to campaign for a return to what Bell calls "honest politics".

Though Bell was an independent MP for four years after standing in 1997 against Neil Hamilton in Tatton when Hamilton was found guilty of accepting cash for questions, Bell has not yet decided whether he himself will stand this time.

Bell is currently involved with community groups in Salford, the constituency of the cabinet minister Hazel Blears, who resigned from the cabinet after she was found to have avoided paying over £13,000 in capital gains tax. However, he has told them he would prefer them to find a "local hero" to run against Blears.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/16/martin-bell-terry-waite-independents?CMP=AFCYAH

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1. Sounds like it might be an idea for them to get together with Jury Team

http://www.juryteam.org/about.php