Happy Mondays dancer Bez has launched his campaign to run for a seat in Westminster by handing our free beer and and unveiling a “join the revolution” billboard poster.
The former winner of Celebrity Big Brother, 50, is to stand in his home city of Salford as a Reality party candidate – an anti-fracking party that launched in March last year.
At his billboard launch in Salford in Greater Manchester, Bez – whose real name is Mark Berry – posed on top of a ladder wearing a hardhat and handed out bottles of ale to his supporters.
Bez held a “join the revolution” placard and said in a statement before the event that “Labour has let everyone in Salford down”.
“The Labour party was supposed to defend the people and be for the working class, but now they only have ever-so-slightly different polices from the Conservatives,” he said.
He added that as well as opposing fracking, his vision was for ”a global democracy with free food (with the help of bees)“.
“If people come together, and if you look at all the spare land what’s going about, we could turn every bit of land into a permaculture. That’s my dream,” Bez said.
Other policies of the Reality party include free public transport and free drinking water.
Bez called the prime minister, David Cameron, a “puppet” of big business corporations and bankers.
He attacked banks and said: “We don’t want to get dictated to by corporate bankers who have formed the Fourth Reich. My granddad didn’t die in the war for fuck all”.
In a previous comment piece for the Guardian Bez said: “I’ve been calling myself a revolutionary as I have given up all personal ownership, have started living a certain way and have been shouting about changing things.
He added: “But then I realised it’s not a revolution I need: I should contribute.”
The Salford seat is currently held by Hazel Blears, a former Labour government minister, who is to step down from Westminster in May.
Solicitor Rebecca Long-Bailey has been selected to be Labour’s next candidate for the safe seat, which had a majority of 5,725 in 2010.
The Reality party is also fielding pub landlord Nigel Askew as a candidate in the east Kent constituency of South Thanet, where the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, is standing.
Bez said: “I think Farage is another piece of social engineering. Ukip is a party what’s purposefully been set up by the bankers.”
