From the Windsor Observer:
A LEADING Conservative councillor has accused his party leadership of costing his party victory in a by-election.
Leader of the Royal Borough, Cllr David Burbage, made the remarks following a narrow win for Liberal Democrat Cllr Simon Werner in the Pinkneys Green by-election held on Thursday last week.
Cllr Werner beat Conservative candidate Catherine Hollingsworth to the seat by eight votes- 839 to 831 - with UKIP candidate George Chamberlaine finishing third with 152 votes.
Cllr Burbage said: "It is unfortunate that, largely thanks to the party leadership, many of the residents of Pinkneys Green decided that they'd rather vote UKIP. The last thing that people who voted UKIP would have wanted would be to vote for a party that's turned its back on them and chosen to be a fag paper's width away from the rest."
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7 comments:
Nice one.
AV might have helped in this situation? Not a great system but definitely better than FPTP IMHO
Totally.
Conservative means no change, dealing with the superficial. Radical means going to the root.
Maybe YPP should rename itself the Radical Party.
Just kidding
Totally.
Conservative means no change, dealing with the superficial. Radical means going to the root.
Maybe YPP should rename itself the Radical Party.
Just kidding
Totally.
Conservative means no change, dealing with the superficial. Radical means going to the root.
Maybe YPP should rename itself the Radical Party.
Just kidding
mombers,
The Conservatives were lying, devious scum over electoral reform, so I'm looking forward to them being hoisted by their own petard at the next election.
Bayard,
The reasons they didn't do well in previous elections was because they were facing about the best leader Labour has had, during a very good economy with some mostly not particularly good candidates.
Cameron was facing an uncharismatic PM, with a failed economy and had some charm about him, but couldn't manage a win.
And it was down to one thing: when Cameron and Osborne took the reins, they did nothing to criticise Labour's handling of the economy. They picked the fashion of the moment (keep spending) rather than the one that was coming. When the bank collapse happened and all talk turned to overspending, the Conservatives had no credibility.
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