<b>From our Hampshire Correspondent</b>

Barack Obama is to stand in the General Election in Hampshire - and if successful, the county would become the 51st State of the USA.

Reporters on both sides of the Atlantic have described the shock announcement as “possibly one of the biggest political developments in the whole of April”.

President Obama was seen alighting Air Force 1 at 10pm yesterday. Keen to keep his cards close to his chest, he chose to land and refuel at Upham Airfield rather than Southampton International Airport.

Local chicken farmer Richard Emery confirmed: “We was all given free hats and American flags and told not to say nowt to no-one.”

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The USA’s influence on the worldwide political stage has been in steady decline since the rapid rise of the booming economies in the East began. This has led not only an exponential expansion into Western markets but also unreadable advertisements on football pitch ad boards.
 
It is believed that the President's decision to run for Parliament in the Eastleigh seat of the forthcoming General Election will be the first of many high-­profile immigrants making the most of the UK’s lax border control measures before Nigel Farage and UKIP make their almost­ certain clean sweep of Parliamentary seats across the country.

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Farage’s spokesman said: “Just because America has more money, more people, wins more medals at the Olympics, and has more land and more influence in the world than us, that does not mean that foreign workers should have the right to come over here and steal the limelight from us in the first election that people knew our leader’s name.”

Names that are now known to us that will also soon be announced to run in Hampshire include Seth MacFarlane, who plays Peter Griffin in Family Guy. He will run in Meon Valley.

Meanwhile, Colonel Sanders expects his military background to give him the upper hand as he competes for the Green Jacket Regimental Home of Winchester.

Sources close to the White House have confirmed that, if they are elected, Hampshire will indeed be renamed New­-New Hampshire.

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