Tory votes falls 50% in Farnley and Wortley (Leeds) by-election
September 19, 2008
The Tories have hit the magic 50% this week nationally, but in Leeds they’ve hit it for all the wrong reasons.
In the Farnley and Wortley by-election last night their vote halved, falling from the 800s to the 400s.
The Green vote also halved although they held on and took the seat. Labour’s vote did fall but marginally compared to the other two parties. The major gains were made by the Lib Dems, possibly because of their conference being in the news and people not wanting to vote Labour but also not wanting to vote Tory or Green.
Always nice to see places still doing anything to avoid voting Tory though, even if it means voting Lib Dem!
David Davis resigns as MP!
June 12, 2008
Well nobody saw that coming!
Supposedly he told David Cameron on Wednesday evening, so we can presume he decided he’d do it before the vote, if the vote went the governments way. Unless he did have an argument with David Cameron, which is a rumour Nick Robinson has mentioned.
Following the election blog in Crewe & Nantwich yesterday, which was relatively pointless given the sporadic updates, I made a comment about the Tories and to my surprise Andrew Sparrow replied! Not only that but he agreed with my point (to a degree). So I replied to him and got another reply.
