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I'm not sure we need a source to describe someone who has made two serious bids for Parliament as a politician; as I see it, that's what the word means. If Fred has a red nose, enormous trousers, sits in a car with ten friends, and stuffs custard pies in their faces (and these facts are beyond dispute), we don't need a source to say Fred is a clown, because the known facts establish it (in effect, the sources re his nose etc _do_ say that he is a clown whether or not they use the word explicitly).
_However_, "former parliamentary candidate" resolves the question nicely. Thank you. Pinkbeast (talk) 11:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[]
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