What a great result for Chloe Smith in Norwich North .
From the small sample of people that I met when up there canvassing and when calling from Conservative HQ I felt that a good result was on the cards but didn't want to jinks Chloe but shouting about it.
A majority of 7,348 votes represents a powerful mandate for Chloe and an even more powerful message to Gordon Brown. I suspect that Chloe Smith MP will be representing Norwich North for many years to come.
Here are the top three:
Conservatives: 13,591
Labour: 6,243
Lib Dems: 4,803
Well done to her, the local campaign team and all the volunteers that helped.
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Is the message to Gordon Brown: "Standing governments quite often lose in by-elections and council elections."? If it is, I suspect he would already know that. As would Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Jim Callaghan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, etc. Why do so many other politicians seem ignorant of this 'phenomenon' and go all gooey when it happens?
Good result and a clear message.
But if the Conservatives (or Lib Dems, just
for the sake of imagination) won an election
tomorrow, in six months time they would be losing
by elections. What would the clear message be
in that case? I am intrigued as to how people
who are 'very interested' in politics lose
sight of what actually happens out in the world
they seek to manage for us.
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