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Scroat
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This catchy little acronym stands for Twat of the Week Apart from George Osborne. I think he's a given, so needs to be specifically excluded.
I'd like to nominate Maria Hutchings, Conservative candidate at Beastleigh. Not the most inspiring campaign, and she was "bundled away" to avoid contact with the press after the results were announced.
But so many to choose from!
Sinnick
offlineMember
How on earth did she manage to lose against the unpopular LibDems & the extremist UKIP ? A few years ago it was a safe Conservative seat.
I suppose a large number of folk told themselves "The Conservatives & Libdems are messing things up, being dishonest, etc and I'm not voting Labour, so ..."
A worrying trend.
beau-jolly
offlineMember
You can get bogged down in statistics.
In a non-election year Libs managed to retain a seat they had previously won with a good majority. Not much of a story there.
Conservatives dropped 13% when the turn-out was 17% down. Make of that what you will.
UKIP saw an increase in votes during a period of scaremongering about a new flood of welfare tourism from Romanian.
Increase in people who couldn't be arsed to vote: 6,908.
Increase in people voting for Labour candidate: 9
TWAGO? The bloke who did this!
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