I see that the good burghers of Crewe and Nantwich punished the pernicious campaign run by the morally bankrupt Labour party with the drubbing it so truly deserved.
The Conservatives have achieved their first by-election gain in 26 years, taking Crewe and Nantwich from Labour.
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
It was, frankly, a despicable campaign conducted by the local Labour party; playing as they did both the class hatred card and the xenophobic racism one. They deserve nothing less than opprobrium for their behaviour. And, fortunately, the electors of Crewe and Nantwich were not fooled by it. With nearly half the vote, the Tories have a well deserved win. Well done them and may Labour rot in hell for their despicable betrayal of any decent roots they once had.
This, then, is notice served to a government that is clinging on to power, unwanted, unloved and undeserving. It is too much to hope that they will give the rest of us an opportunity to pass judgement on their decade of mismanagement and corruption. We will have to wait for two years before they are forced to concede those reigns of power. Like John Major before, I fully expect them to hang on to the very last moment before holding an election.
When power is finally wrested from the grasp of the new nasty party, may it never be given back. It would be appropriate at this point for a new, decent party to rise from the vacuum they hopefully leave. We desperately need more choice for the electorate, greater accountability of those elected once they take their seats in the house, and, what we really, really need is an end to the party whip system. These people are elected to represent their constituents – it’s about bloody time they did just that, not what the party wants them to do.
I remain ever an optimist. Those embers of optimism have been fanned just a little by the people of Crewe and Nantwich this morning.
LR
Like you I’m more cheerful this morning. However, there’s just one small cloud on my horizon. In a by-election where the issue was not a new government but a painless comment on the existing administration (and the way it chose to fight this election) no less that 12,600 adults voted Labour. Why would anyone with two brain cells do this? There was no danger to Gordon’s client vote of benefit claimants, “new British” and those on the public payroll (not all mutually exclusive). I can only assume that these voters actually like the country as it has become: sad for them – possibly tragic for the rest of us.
It’s not just the class envy and racism, it’s the ‘inherited privilage’ attitude “This was my mum’s seat, so now give it to me on a plate, please” that stinks. |Good riddance!
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I used to think that the Whip system should only be aplied to manifesto pledges, but as we Gordon has addmited in court these aren’t a promise I’m inclined to think it should be scrapped.
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