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Loughborough, Hastings on Charnwood Result: Labour 554 (61%), Conservative 127 (14%), UKIP 111 (12%), British Democrats 85 (9%), Liberal Democrats 26 (3%) Labour HOLD Shepshed West on Charnwood Result: Labour 683 (48%), Conservative 560 (39%), Liberal Democrat 178 (13%) Labour GAIN from Conservative Waterloo on Havant (% Change on 2012 election) Result: Conservative 693 (44% -16%), Liberal Democrat 446 (29% +13%), UKIP 296 (19%), Labour 129 (8% -16%) Conservative HOLD Swing: 15% from Con to Lib Dem Bovey on Teignbridge…

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Result of the Scottish Parliament in 2011: SNP 69, Lab 37, Con 15, Lib Dem 5, Green 2, Ind 1 (SNP overall majority of 9) Result of constituency at last election: SNP 11,010 (38%), Lab 10,420 (36%), Lib Dem 5,776 (20%), Con 2,093 (7%) SNP GAIN from Lib Dem Candidates duly nominated: Peter Adams (UKIP), John Black (Scottish Jacobite Party), Cara Hilton (Lab), Zara Kitson (Green), Susan Leslie (Lib Dem), James Reekie (Con), Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP) Dunfermline (and Dunfermline West)…

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Loughborough, Hastings on Charnwood (Lab Defence) and Shepshed West (Con Defence) Last Local Election (2011): Con 33, Lab 16, BNP 1, Lib Dem 1, Ind 1 (Con overall majority of 14) Loughborough, Hastings Result of last election (2011): (emboldened denotes elected) Labour 1,163, 1,104 Conservative 612, 492 Candidates duly nominated: Simon Atkins (Lib Dem), Sarah Maynard Smith (Lab), Andy McWilliam (UKIP), Judith Spence (Con), Kevan Stafford (British Democrats, Stop Immigration, Leave EU) Shepshed West Result of last election (2011): (emboldened…

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Marf’s really on form today Have a drink on SeanT: Dirty Dicks, November 20th 6.30 pm Thanks once again to Fat Steve for making the arrangements. The next PB gathering will be at the Dirty Dicks pub just across the road from Liverpool Street Station in London from 1830 on Wednesday November 20th. These have become very much a tradition and a good time is generally had by all. SeanT has generously offered to make a contribution to the evening…

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If green taxes are to be axed then it might be smart for the Tories to quietly change this first pic.twitter.com/rH73zWZAnC — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 23, 2013 This was very much Cameron’s thing It hasn’t really been touched on yet but one of the problems facing the Conservative leadership on rolling back green taxes is that it goes against much of what David Cameron was trying to achieve in his early days as leader and how he was trying…

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Final week campaign poster – May 2010 All parties will be campaigning for change In recent weeks there have been a number of GE2015 projections all based on one common idea – that incumbents governments recover in the final period leading up to polling day. Certainly that happened in 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2010, but we didn’t see that effect in 2005. Looking forward to May 2015 one big ingredient is missing – there is no incumbent government to be…

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Will the Tory strengths trump the LAB ones or vice-versa? The chart above shows the latest YouGov best party on specific issues tracker. Today’s figures are not remarkable but I thought it useful to post as a reference point. It it perhaps worth pointing out that in the first year of this parliament the Tories regularly led on education and there was a poll where they were in the lead on the NHS. The CON best issues remain the economy,…

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