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Dom Joly
Dom Joly, the Spoof Politician
Head of The Teddy Bear Alliance
Majority	218 (.6%)

Born	15 November 1968^[1] Beirut, Lebanon
Political party	The Teddy Bear Alliance

In the 1997 UK general election Dom Joly formed the Teddy Bear Alliance for Kensington and Chelsea and changed his name to Edward 'Teddy' Bear. Hiring out hundreds of teddy bear costumes, he staged mock protests in Westminster and received 218 votes.

1 Life
2 Dom Joly's Political CV
- 2.1 Political Jobs
- 2.2 Political Interviewees
3 Results
4 Sources

[edit] Life

Dom Joly (born 15 November 1968^[1] in Beirut, Lebanon; full name Dominic John Joly) is a British television comedian. He is best known as the star of Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera show, and Dom Joly's Happy hour, where he explored the drinking habits of other cultures.

Joly was born in Beirut, Lebanon and speaks Arabic and French in addition to English. While in Lebanon he attended Brummana High School in Brummana. When his parents divorced in 1987, he moved to England with his mother. Joly then attended The Dragon School in Oxford (where he had his shrapnel collection confiscated).

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[edit] Dom Joly's Political CV

[edit] Political Jobs

Dom went to SOAS (School of Oriental & African Studies) and gained a BA in International Relations.

Following university his work included:

A year as a diplomat in Prague for the European Commission
A year as Political Researcher for Around Westminster (BBC Political Programme)
A year as Political Researcher for the New Statesman and Roth's Parliamentary Profiles
Two years as Producer on ITN's House to House programme (political programme on Channel 4)

Dom stood for Kensington and Chelsea in the 1997 General Election representing the Teddy Bear Alliance Party and came a respectable fifth.

[edit] Political Interviewees

Neil Kinnock: Labour Party leader 1983-1992
Lord Howe: Chancellor of the Exchequer 1979-1983, Foreign Secretary 1983-1989, Leader of the HOC 1989 - 1990
Lord Hurd: Northern Ireland Secretary 1984-1985, Home Secretary 1985-89, Foreign Secretary 1989-1995
Kenneth Clarke: Health Secretary 1988-90, Education Secretary 1990-92, Home Secretary 1992-93, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1993-97
Tony Benn: former labour MP
Sir Bernard Ingham: PM’s press secretary 1979-1990
Lord Parkinson: Conservative Party Chairman 1981-1983, Trade and Industry Secretary 1983, Energy Secretary 1987-1989, Transport Secretary 1989-1990
Lord Powell: PM’s Private Secretary 1984-1991
Lord Tebbit: Employment Secretary 1981-1983, Trade and Industry Secretary 1983-1985, Party Chairman 1985-1987
Grigory Yavlinsky: Gorbachev’s Economic Advisor 1990-1992
Boris Berezovsky: Oligarch
Anatoly Chernyaev: Gorbachev’s foreign policy advisor 1985-1991
General Valentin Varennikov: Coup leader
Nikolay Ryzhkov: Gorbachev’s prime minister 1985-1991

[edit] Results

Name	Votes	Share %
Alan Clark, Conservative	19,887	53.6
Robert Atkinson, Labour	10,368	28.0
Robert Woodthorpe Browne, Liberal Democrat	5,668	15.3
A Ellis-Jones, UK Independent	540	1.5
E Bear, Teddy Bear Alliance Party	218	0.6
G Oliver, UK Pensioners Party	176	0.5
Mrs S Hamza, Natural Law Party	122	0.3
P Sullivan, Rainbow Dream Ticket	65	0.2
P Parliament, Heart?	44	0.1