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What bothers me is that my vote won't matter anyway. My MP had 50% of the vote in 2005. I find it highly unlikely that Labour could lose that much... could they???
You're probably the same - unless Respect can repeat their success, which I find unlikey.
Brad | 06.04.10 - 2:23 p.m. | #
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Hate Galloway.
Mat | Homepage | 06.04.10 - 3:21 p.m. | #
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At least George Galloway is not allowed to host his chat show on TalkSport radio for the duration of the election campaign. Let's hope he stays off the air for good.
John | 06.04.10 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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i don't mind the west coast of ireland... what's all the fuss???
tim... | 06.04.10 - 7:29 p.m. | #
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"And I shall also smile, for no other reason than that George Galloway can't possibly be my MP for much longer. However bad it gets, it's not all bad."
Are you moving? :)
chairwoman | Homepage | 06.04.10 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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No, George is moving. He's trying his luck across the A11 in Poplar and Limehouse.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.04.10 - 7:35 p.m. | #
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The boundary between Bethnal Green & Bow and Poplar & Limehouse (still known as Poplar and Canning Town, for another month) is changing a little too - the latter is going to take in Wapping and St Katherine's Docks. If you can put up with the horrible interface, the OS's election maps show the changes.
Coincidentally, it means that the Sun's offices are going to be in a Tory target.
martin | Homepage | 06.04.10 - 11:29 p.m. | #
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oh, and I have a couple of friends who moved from Glasgow Kelvin (as was) to Bethnal Green & Bow in 2005, and were rather disappointed to find George Galloaway had followed them as an MP. As far as I know, none of them have since moved to Poplar (or worse, stayed in the same place and found themselves in Poplar without actually moving)
martin | Homepage | 06.04.10 - 11:31 p.m. | #
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Is there anywhere I can go to avoid all this election stuff for the next four weeks? I turn to programmes I normally watch on TV and find politicians yabbering. Tonight I've found a huge [blue] sign disfiguring the nearby country lane.
It's not as if people didn't know what was going to happen today...
Pop artist | 06.04.10 - 11:44 p.m. | #
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Yeah, but he might be my MP!
I shall vote Tory if needbe to keep him and "Respect" out. Plus "No" to the Mayoral ballot.
Kim | 07.04.10 - 12:35 a.m. | #
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Ah... You must be one of those that voted for Brewster in "Brewster's Millions" - where he changed his name to "None Of The Above". A brilliant political comment in an otherwise non-memorable film.
Dave | 07.04.10 - 6:16 a.m. | #
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@Tim: I think you mean the west of Scotland (strictly the South-West). Galloway is the area corresponding to the historic counties of Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire, i.e. the extreme south-west of Scotland between Dumfriesshire and the Irish Sea, since 1975 bundled up as 'Dumfries and Galloway'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloway
I think you were thinking of Galway, which is somewhere else entirely. I used to have a friend who lived in Galloway, and he always said, in the days when counties mattered in addresses: "put 'Dumfries & Galloway' or 'D&G' or else the post will go via Galway".
kenromford | 07.04.10 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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@kenromford - and when you live in Swaziland, make sure your post address has 'Southern Africa' otherwise your parcels can come via Zurich...
disgruntled | Homepage | 07.04.10 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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To everyone who reckons that having 50% of the vote last time is a forgone conclusion and therefore it's not work voting:
(1) Bethnal Green & Bow: Labour had 50.4% of the vote in 2001, only to lose in 2005.
(2) Glasgow East - Labour had 60.7% of the vote in 2005, only to lose in 2008 by-election.
It is *always* worth voting.
Ollie | 08.04.10 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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