We don't get anything like that and that is because my constituency is Labour. Very much Labour, more than likely never budging except for an act of God or someone campaigning really REALLY well. Keir Hardie was the first socialist MP and he was our MP. The last general election, Labour won with
It's kind of silly I guess because in a place like that you kind of can say only this party is going to win but obviously you don't because everyone knows!
I hit the wrong button and then got talking to Edgar, this is the rest of this comment but basically, yeah, they don't bother, which is sort of sadmaking. I'd probably vote Labour anyway but I don't really get a choice. I have to vote for the sane people so the less sane people don't get in.
We don't get anything like that and that is because my constituency is Labour. Very much Labour, more than likely never budging except for an act of God or someone campaigning really REALLY well. Keir Hardie was the first socialist MP and he was our MP. The last general election, Labour won with 51% and the runners up were Respect with 19.5%. My vote is worth 0.32 of a vote (if a vote is 1) because my constituency is SO Labour. As much as people may be swayed by shiny shiny Nick Clegg, I suspect he won't have swayed enough people to win my constituency (they got 10.9% last time) but you never know!
It was really interesting being in Norfolk this weekend, lots of people had placards up in their front gardens, Conservative, Lib Dem, a couple of Green party posters up in windows. I saw two different UKIP campaign vans. Not a single, solitary poster or placard or ANYTHING for Labour. I mean, I wasn't really surprised when I thought about it but... yeah.
I am a bit surprised (and scared) that I haven't seen a single Labour poster in Cambridge yet...or anywhere come to think of it. Cambridge has just LD, Essex was all Tory.
You know, I used to live in a very safe Tory seat. So safe was it that the heir apparent to the leadership of the Conservative Party was my MP.
Until 1997.
The MP's name is Michael Portillo.
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It was one of the seminal moments of the 1997 election when Portillo lost his seat and who knows what will happen this time.
Never say never.
Although you may of course be very happy that you're in a Labour constituency etc my point is that even safe seats can tumble if there's a big enough swing.
Oh I danced so much at that point - couldn't believe it when it appeared on tv. I was eighteen in 1997 and I'd been campaigning for years. Happy days...
*g* I'm one of the 20,000 or so voters that you have to thank for that moment.
I still remember that it was a beautiful day and free ice creams were being offered outside the polling station. I went in thinking I was wasting my vote only to be very pleasantly surprised later on that night.
That said, Portillo did gain my respect for being so gracious in defeat.
Goonies never say die! I mean, yes! Never say never! it's been 5 years since the last one and people are fickle and have very short term memories and the constituency/borough have changed quite a lot in those 5 years, stranger things have happened! I don't mind so much, between the top 3, I just don't want UKIP or Respect or the Christian People's Alliance lol
Eek! God forbid! It's much more likely though that one of the Big 3 will get it - surely that aren't that many deluded voters left who would vote for the others?
I can merely point to West Ham's last general election outcome, where Labour won by a comfortable 25% or so and Respect were the runners up. I suspect George Galloway was the main reason Respect got in in Hackney but still. *shakes head* I do so worry.
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We don't get anything like that and that is because my constituency is Labour. Very much Labour, more than likely never budging except for an act of God or someone campaigning really REALLY well. Keir Hardie was the first socialist MP and he was our MP. The last general election, Labour won with 51% and the runners up were Respect with 19.5%. My vote is worth 0.32 of a vote (if a vote is 1) because my constituency is SO Labour. As much as people may be swayed by shiny shiny Nick Clegg, I suspect he won't have swayed enough people to win my constituency (they got 10.9% last time) but you never know!
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Until 1997.
The MP's name is Michael Portillo.
*g*
It was one of the seminal moments of the 1997 election when Portillo lost his seat and who knows what will happen this time.
Never say never.
Although you may of course be very happy that you're in a Labour constituency etc my point is that even safe seats can tumble if there's a big enough swing.
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I still remember that it was a beautiful day and free ice creams were being offered outside the polling station. I went in thinking I was wasting my vote only to be very pleasantly surprised later on that night.
That said, Portillo did gain my respect for being so gracious in defeat.
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