Beady eye alert: By-election campaign underway (britain)

legin

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Wed Sep-17-03 01:38 PM
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Beady eye alert: By-election campaign underway (britain)

Edited on Wed Sep-17-03 01:40 PM by legin

There is a bye-election tommorow (18th sept) in britain, maybe worth watching to see if blair is taking a hit in the polls.

There is a proviso that sitting governments tend not to do too well in bye-elections that occur while a government is in power.

Brent East should be pretty solidly Labour.

the story is dated 9th september:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3093624.stm

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tnlefty

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Wed Sep-17-03 02:03 PM
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1. What is the Monster Raving Loony Party?

I'll be interested to know of any indicators of how Blair is fairing, but I got tickled when I read that.

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legin

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Wed Sep-17-03 05:13 PM
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2. It was a party started by Screaming Lord Sutch

Edited on Wed Sep-17-03 05:16 PM by legin

an eccentric ex rock star. They have been around for years. Probably on name recognition our 4th party (lol).

Sadly Lord Sutch committed suicide a few years ago, which was a shame because he had a lot of fun appeal.

They always fail to make their deposit, although they did have some historical importance a few years ago when the SDP, an important party that broke away from the Labour Party (led by Lord Owen), got less votes than they did in a by-election. Lord Sutch offered to form a Monster Raving Loony - SDP coalition party, the SDP promptly merged with the Liberal party to form our now Lib-Dems.

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