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Rainbow George Weiss (born 13th October 1940) son of a diamond merchant, is a fringe UK politician who stood in 13 constituencies at the 2005 General Election. He founded his own parties from the proceeds of the sale of a house in Hampstead, North London which he moved into in 1969 but stopped paying rent in 1984; remaining there as a squatter. He made a profit of £710,000 on the sale of the house in 2004 after HM Land Registry awarded him ownership of the property. He is proposing a "preferendum" where voters choose individual policies from amongst those offered by each of the major parties. He was for many years the neighbour of comedian Peter Cook and released an album of some of his personal home recordings featuring Cook under the title ''Over At Rainbows'' after Cook's death in 1995. The recording features a few of the notorious phone conversations between LBC radio's Clive Bull and Peter Cook under the guise of a Norwegian fisherman called Sven, many of which were made from George's home. In July 2006, Weiss disclosed on the Clive Bull radio show that he had about £50,000 remaining from the windfall, however by February 2007 he was giving the more ambiguous description of "somewhere under £50,000". Also during February of that year, Weiss announced he was standing as a candidate in the local Belfast by-elections and was subsequently banned from appearing on the Clive Bull show until they were over. ==Politics== He has founded his own political party, the "Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket", and stood in the 2001 General Election for the Belfast East constituency where he won a total of 91 votes (0.2% of those cast). Weiss has spent considerable time and money organising an unofficial postal referendum to ask the people of Belfast whether they would like the city to be renamed "Best City", a name inspired by the late Northern Ireland football player George Best. With the celebrity endorsement of former professional snooker player Alex Higgins, the referendum took place in 2006 at an estimated cost (to Weiss) of £100,000. Only 2000 votes were returned, which means George effectively paid £50 for each vote he got. Weiss was a candidate at the Brent East by-election standing for the www.xat.org party in 2003, won by Liberal Democrat Sarah Teather, where he came bottom of a list of 16 candidates with just eleven votes. While this vote was considerably low. lower votes had previously been registered, for example in the 1988 by-election in Kensington a candidate had polled just five votes.〔(Kensington election results )〕 The ''Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket'' election record was also "surpassed" at the 2005 General election when British model Catherine Taylor-Dawson stood for the party in Cardiff North and achieved a single vote, though not from Taylor-Dawson herself, who wasn't eligible to vote in that constituency. Weiss himself set a new election record by simultaneously standing in 12 constituencies, beating Tom Keen of the Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain's previous record of 10. He stood in all four Belfast constituencies during the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election. Standing for his Make Politicians History Party, he came third last in South Belfast and last in the three other constituencies with a total of 221 first preference votes. Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams gave him a sixth preference vote in West Belfast.〔(BBC News election results )〕〔(''Belfast Telegraph )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rainbow George Weiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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