Did I miss a meeting or something? I received a letter from the Labour party today. Nothing unusual about that: once you get on those mailing lists you can look forward to a lifetime of emails and as a parliamentary candidate you get even more. I was expecting that. What I was not expecting, as candidate in true-blue Horsham, was a copy of something called “Marginal Seats Bulletin October ’08″.  Have the opinion polls improved to an unfeasible extent while I wasn’t looking?
The Impossible Dream
October 30th, 2008 · Posted by Skuds in Politics · 6 Comments · Politics
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I was going to post a very sarky comment but looking at my desk and the amount of c**p I send/get from the Lib Dems I think on this occasion I’ll decline……
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And I still can’t believe the amount of emails (very green) and post (not so good) that co-ordinating a Friends of the Earth group generates… Although I then pass most of the emails on to the whole group – share the love I say!
Well, it’s a damn shame it isn’t a marginal seat. I bet if you’d been the MP, Skuds, you would have turned out to vote for the Climate Change Bill, unlike Francis Maude who was busy elsewhere.
Oh, and the Chichester Tory MP voted against it. Vote Blue, Go Green, anyone?
I heard that only three MPs voted against – Chichester, Shipley (Tory) and one other. Any ideas who?
On the other hand to feel that the whole issue wasn’t even important enough to turn up and vote for is a bit rich. When you start campaigning it might be worth asking your local Friends of the Earth group to ‘remind’ voters of this kind of attitude.
Including tellers, five Tories voted in the no lobby: Philip Davies, Christopher Chope, Peter Lilley, Andrew Tyrie and Ann Widdecombe.
Ian: in the unlikely event I was an MP I would be turning up to vote for most things. That is what the job is. I would certainly turn more often than Francis Maude (not difficult) by following the cunning plan of not taking on half a dozen other jobs.