Tories take C&N with 17% swing
Tory candidate Edward Timpson won 7,860 more votes than his Labour rival, overturning a 7,000 Labour majority at the general election – a 17.6% swing…
Tory candidate Edward Timpson won 7,860 more votes than his Labour rival, overturning a 7,000 Labour majority at the general election – a 17.6% swing.
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Mr Timpson, a 34-year-old barrister, took 20,549 votes. The Labour candidate, Mrs Dunwoody’s daughter Tamsin Dunwoody, was second on 12,679, with Liberal Democrat Elizabeth Shenton third on 6,040. Turnout was 58.2%, which is very high for a by-election, but was down slightly from 60% at the 2005 general election.For Labour, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said voters had “decided to send us a pretty powerful message but the last thing they want is the Labour Party to turn on itself and be obsessed with our own affairs and not what the public want”.
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Trust the egregiously ineffable Hazel Blears to know what the public wants. What this member of the public wants is never to see, hear or read anything about Hazel Blears ever again. Fat hope!
Blears is the most irritating of an increasingly unpopular bunch. If Brown had a grain of sense he would remind her of Attlee’s rebuke to Harold Laski: “A period of silence from you would be welcome.”
Trust the egregiously ineffable Hazel Blears to know what the public wants. What this member of the public wants is never to see, hear or read anything about Hazel Blears ever again. Fat hope!
Oh anticant my dear friend, wasn’t she was awful on QT last night?
I put it to the cabinet that they are like an Egyptian fish. Living in denial.*
Joke credit James Richardson, Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast
I can’t stand Blears, that’s not political analysis just personality politics, she comes across like a fucking robot and utterly insincere.
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