Posts Tagged ‘By-elections’

Quote of the day

“Ian Gibson clearly didn’t deserve to be railroaded out of the party. The leadership clearly wanted to make an example of someone, and Ian was bounced out. I think it was an appalling thing to do to him. People are not stupid. They have looked at what the reality is and measured what Ian did [...]

Haltemprice and Howden looks harsh compared to Henley

Dear David Davis,
I fear that the worst is yet to come.  After the Conservatives put in a wonderful performance in Henley yesterday, your own by-election could undo some of the good work put in recently against Labour and the Lib Dems.  I had the dubious pleasure of reading through the list of candidates that you [...]

The Henley by-election in colour, courtesy of Microsoft Excel

In case you can’t really see it, the little speck of red at the top of the pie chart is the Labour Party.  Labour received fewer votes than the Green Party and the BNP and were only 200 votes ahead of UKIP - and I don’t remember any of those rival parties being at the top of the political agenda [...]

Crewe and Nantwich campaign turns Labour into the ‘nasty party’

Dear Labour idiots in C&N,
I almost take it as a compliment that you idiots have been so desperate to prevent a Conservative victory in C&N that you have tried to reignite visions of ‘Tory toffs’ in an attempt to turn voters away from delivering a crushing defeat to Labour.  Amazingly, the Lib Dems have also [...]