Politics
Copeland by election
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The UKIP effort will be all be about Stoke now with Nuttall standing. I saw the poll re the NHS, but I'm not sure that would be true up there....
The Tories may well win, but the odds make Labour a bet. |
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1.63 now
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From the Conservative home site...
Published: January 25, 2017 Trudy Harrison is selected as Conservative candidate for Copeland Paul Goodman By Paul Goodman Last updated: January 25, 2017 at 9:28 pm HARRISON Trudy Harrison lives in Bootle, is 40, has four daughters – and CCHQ’s statement is somewhat unforthcoming about what she is doing at the moment, describing her as “a local champion with a track record of delivering for her community”. It says that “her commitment to her home area has seen more than £4 million invested there since 2010”, a claim that is sure to be probed closely. As CCHQ confirms, Harrison was, not all that long ago, a “Copeland Borough Council locality officer for South Copeland”. “Mrs Harrison,” the North-West Evening Mail has reported, “led the way on the Bootle Community Plan, which has seen funding secured for a BMX track in the village along with gaining the Lake District National Park Authority’s support for two housing developments”. She has also worked at Sellafield. Here’s a Q & A from the same source: “My favourite place in the world to eat is the Byre Tea Rooms in Bootle, nutritious and very delicious but if we are looking for something in the evening I would really be torn between Da Vinci’s or something a bit hot from Curry Spice.” Her husband Keith is “a welder who works in the nuclear industry”. That will come in useful in Copeland. Jack Brereton has been selected candidate for Stoke-On-Trent Central. He became one of the party’s youngest councillors when elected at the age of 19 in 2011. |
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you can see what's happening here without it actually been said.
the tories are going to all but ignore stoke and put a kid up so as to cut his teeth and leave UKIP a clear run. in return UKIP will all but ignore copeland concentrating on stoke. without saying they will be asking tories in stoke to go UKIP and kippers in copeland to go tory. i would expect this message to get out quickly on social media. not sure if corbyn could survive if he lost both |
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Yes, fair comment. I feel sorry for the young fella in Stoke. He was one of the youngest councillors elected (at 19) and deserves more support than he's likely to get there. Best of luck to him and his day might be still to come.
I couldn't at the time and still don't understand why there was significant betting support today for the UKIP candidate in Copeland. Nuttall will have their full resources aimed at Stoke. As the Tory candidate list and selection in Copeland was secret I'm not sure what options were available to them but I'm sure Mrs Harrison is going to be in for a very tough fight. |
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Ms Harrison may have the support of her " locals" , but Bootle is a rural village with perhaps a population of 500, she may come across as a posh tory.
Gillian Troughton has a much bigger catchment of area of local support given where she is located in the engine room of the constituency. |
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Shadder,
I must admit that was the first thing that went through my mind when I was reading her profile last night. |
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The Labour candidate is from & lives in the constituency, the Tory candidate has a link, but not to the same extent.
I think the majority of UKIP voters in Copeland were protesting ex Labour voters, whether they would go to the dark side and vote Tory is very debateable I think. We'll see though! |
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With the tories now putting a very young candidate up in Stoke this signals to everybody that they and Ukip are now basically the same thing as they always have been , Labour voters should take notice of this and not be deceived by this right- wing brotherhood which is the current flavour of the month.
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They only need to realise that by voting for Nutall they sre voting for a man that wants to privatise the NHS completely
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Only people like you believe in that.
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He has tried to backtrack on it but most people can see through his double-speak
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it's all they have left. some speech from back in the day.
they cannot talk about brexit they cannot talk about immigration. they cannot talk about the economy. they cannot talk about sovereignty and control. and they don't want to talk about the chaos within the labour party. their problem of course is that's what the electorate want to talk about. as we have seen with brexit, trump, the rise of wilders and the potential of le pen ignoring the people aint a good idea. |
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weaponising the NHS didn't work very well for red ed
they know that. but they have absolutely nothing else they can talk about. pitiful. |
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There is plenty to bring the Tory-Ukip pact to book , the tories shameful record on privatization which has allowed the rip off energy companies to rob the British People for the last 30 years ,their abdication of responsibility on social care , as for Ukip do these clowns really believe that by saying we love our country that it makes everything live ever happily after
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anxious I like to see those around me happy so I've decided to buy you a one way ticket to North Korea so you can live in total
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Happiness
 PS just remember all the animals are equal but some are more equal than others ! |
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You might be needing to save up your BUPA tokens dan
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And that's the crux mate you practice the politics of envy
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No my friend the Politics of Reality
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What reality ?
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The Reality that people will be paying for their healthcare which will happen very soon if the likes of the Tories or Nutall are in control.
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anxious we already DO pay for the NHS it's called Natinal insurance. If as a nation we are or paying enough then it has to be raised, simple as. Now a lot of the problem is bed blocking by older patients as there is no after care being adequately provided by the local authorities who plead poverty. Funny though if you looked at most local councils they have reserve funds for a rainy day, well that day has come "It's p1ssing down"
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Dan I don't think you seem to understand , your tory government has reduced the amount it gives to local councils because they refused to raise council tax , the problems in Social care are directly the fault of One Nation Theresa and her cohorts
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anxious up and down the country local councils have money stashed away. My first point was that WE should pay more if need be
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Ukip Copeland By-Election Candidate Fiona Mills Claims ‘Hitler Was A Socialist’
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ukip-candidate-fiona-mills-claims-hitler-socialist_uk_58983f9de4b0505b1f58f7ae |
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disagree with mills or huff post ?
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you think he was ?
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To clarify Hitler was a nazi agreed ?
In the second world war the acronym nazi was used to describe the political party Hitler led 'National Socialist Party' . |
