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Related: About this forumTories seem to have already conceded Corby!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9480226/Tories-will-lose-Corby-by-election-says-Lord-Ashcroft.htmlnon sociopath skin
(4,972 posts).. heaven only knows how they intend to win really tight marginals in a General Election.
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oldironside
(1,248 posts)... but I can imagine the bullshit. "Mid term blues, protest vote, only to be expected, natural Labour seat, symptomatic of progress in this region, two steps forward one step back, win it back at the General Election..."
Crap. You didn't win the last election, even against a Labour government that was exhausted, and you've only proved since then that you haven't got a fucking clue. Gideon? Sod off back to towel folding, you pathetic little prick.
T_i_B
(14,747 posts)Looks like they will have James Delingpole standing as an anti-wind farm candidate.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/issues/8-september-2012/5e3d1db7-0a75-4fac-9580-a107724ad117
Personally if I were building a wind farm I'd want it to be as close to James Delingpole as possible, given how much hot air he produces.
Probably the looniest colummist in the right-wing press, and that takes a LOT of doing! So loony is Delingpole that I usually end up wondering if he is a left wing double agent put there to discredit the right wing whenever I have the misfortune to read and of his screeds.
I'll award Delingpole with the Order of Lenin myself.
T_i_B
(14,747 posts)The same blind adherance to ideological dogma, the same belief that a theory in a textbook trumps experience in the real world, the same tendency to judge others on the basis of ideologial purity above all else.
If you've ever had the misfortune to hear Delingpole's performances as a talking head on the radio you'll know that he tends to regard pretty much everyone to the left of Iain Duncan-Smith as a communist. Truth is it's actually him who displays many of the very worst traits of the far left.
Anarcho-Socialist
(9,601 posts)I know some Leninists, many of whom are open, analytical, empirical and sceptical yet I know others who treat Marx and Lenin as scripture and are trapped within a circular dogmatic logic.
T_i_B
(14,747 posts)Chris Heaton-Harris, who is campaign manager for the Tories in Corby, was recorded saying he encouraged an anti-wind farm candidate to join the election race against the Tories, adding: "Please don't tell anybody ever."
The footage, covertly recorded by the environmental group Greenpeace, captures the MP saying the independent anti-wind farm candidate, James Delingpole, had announced his candidacy as part of a "plan" to "cause some hassle" and drive the wind issue up the political agenda. He is also filmed claiming he helped Delingpole by providing him with "a handful of people who will sort him out", including the deputy chairman of his own constituency party, who had stood down and then became the anti-wind candidate's campaign agent.
Delingpole, a Telegraph writer and climate change sceptic, withdrew from the race two weeks ago the day after the energy minister, John Hayes, gave a controversial interview to the Daily Mail in which he said the development of onshore wind farms in Britain should be reined in. Asked by the Guardian whether his comments to the Daily Mail were timed to coincide with Delingpole withdrawing his candidacy, Hayes said: "James Delingpole was never a candidate in this byelection." He did not deny he had been communicating with Delingpole via Heaton-Harris.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)... even the witterings of that prize clown, Delingpole.
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T_i_B
(14,747 posts)It's what John Hayes and especially Chris Heaton-Harris are playing at. If I were David Cameron I'd be furious about this stunt.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)Afraid. Frightened. Frit.
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tjwmason
(14,819 posts)Tories and LibDems fell dramatically (the latter lost their deposit) - Labour winning with a decent margin.
Andy Sawford (Lab) 17,267 (48.41%, +9.71%)
Christine Emmett (C) 9,476 (26.57%, -15.63%)
Margot Parker (UKIP) 5,108 (14.32%)
Jill Hope (LD) 1,770 (4.96%, -9.48%)
Gordon Riddell (BNP) 614 (1.72%, -2.93%)
David Wickham (Eng Dem) 432 (1.21%)
Jonathan Hornett (Green) 378 (1.06%)
Ian Gillman (Ind) 212 (0.59%)
Peter Reynolds (Cannabis) 137 (0.38%)
David Bishop (Elvis) 99 (0.28%)
Mr Mozzarella (Ind) 73 (0.20%)
Dr Rohen Kapur (Young) 39 (0.11%)
Adam Lotun (Dem 2015) 35 (0.10%)
Chris Scotton (UPP) 25 (0.07%)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20345196
fedsron2us
(2,863 posts)They will nearly all be Conservative protest voters. If UKIP hang onto just half of them at a General Election then the Tories are probably out of office.
tjwmason
(14,819 posts)I do wonder how soft the protest votes were - people who knew that they could give Cameron et al a well-deserved kick in the nuts, but who don't want the Tories out of government...but if UKIP were to poll anything like 14% at the next general the Tories wouldn't have a chance.